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

[anything] of that
over which Allah’s Name has not been mentioned,
and that is indeed transgression.
Indeed the satans inspire their friends
to dispute with you;
and if you obey them,
you will indeed be polytheists.
122 Is he who was lifeless, then We gave him life
and provided him with a light
by which he walks among the people,
like one who dwells in a manifold darkness
which he cannot leave?
To the faithless is thus presented as decorous
what they have been doing.
123 Thus have We installed in every town
its major criminals
that they may plot therein.
Yet they do not plot except against their own souls,
but they are not aware.
124 And when a sign comes to them, they say,
‘We will not believe until we are given
the like of what was given to Allah’s apostles.’
Allah knows best where to place His apostleship!
Soon the guilty will be visited by
a degradation before Allah
and a severe punishment
because of the plots they used to devise.
125 Whomever Allah desires to guide,
He opens his breast to Islam,
and whomever He desires to lead astray,