Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

They are the ones who perish
because of what they have earned;
they shall have boiling water for drink
and a painful punishment
because of what they used to defy.
71 Say, ‘Shall we invoke besides Allah
that which can neither benefit us nor harm us,
and turn back on our heels after Allah has guided us,
like someone seduced by the devils
and bewildered on the earth,
who has companions that invite him to guidance,
[saying,] “Come to us!”?’
Say, ‘Indeed it is the guidance of Allah
which is [true] guidance.
and we have been commanded to submit
to the Lord of all the worlds,
72 and that “Maintain the prayer and be wary of Him,
and it is He toward whom you will be gathered.” ’
73 It is He who created the heavens and the earth
with reason,
and the day He says [to something], ‘Be!’ it is.
His word is the truth, and to Him belongs all sovereignty
on the day when the Trumpet will be blown.
Knower of the sensible and the Unseen,
He is the All-wise, the All-aware.

74 When Abraham said to Azar, his father,
‘Do you take idols for gods?
Indeed I see you and your people in manifest error.’
75 Thus did We show Abraham

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 29 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=216