Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
He makes his breast narrow and straitened
as if he were climbing to a height.1
Thus does Allah lay [spiritual] defilement
on those who do not have faith.
126 This is the straight path of your Lord.
We have already elaborated the signs
for a people who take admonition.
127 For them shall be
the abode of peace near their Lord
and He will be their guardian
because of what they used to do.
128 On the day He will gather them all together,
[He will say], ‘O company of jinn!
You claimed many of the humans.’
Their friends from among the humans will say,
‘Our Lord, we used each other,
and we completed our term
which You had appointed for us.’
He will say, ‘The Fire is your abode,
to remain in it [forever],
except what Allah may wish.’
Indeed your Lord is all-wise, all-knowing.
129 That is how
We make the wrongdoers one another’s friends
because of what they used to earn.
130 ‘O company of jinn and humans!
Did there not come to you apostles from yourselves,
recounting to you My signs
and warning you of the encounter of this Day?’
1 That is, makes his spiritual and intellectual capacities shrink.
