Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
who slay their children foolishly
without knowledge,
and forbid what Allah has provided them,
fabricating a lie against Allah.
Certainly, they have gone astray and are not guided.
141 It is He who produces gardens
trellised and without trellises,
and palm-trees and crops of diverse produce,
olives and pomegranates,
similar and dissimilar.
Eat of its fruits when it fructifies,
and give its due on the day of harvest,
and do not be wasteful;
indeed He does not like the wasteful.
142 Of the cattle [some] are for burden
and [some] for slaughter.
Eat of what Allah has provided you
and do not follow in Satan’s footsteps;
he is indeed your manifest enemy.
143 Eight mates:1
two of sheep,
and two of goats.
Say, ‘Is it the two males that He has forbidden
or the two females,
or what is contained
in the wombs of the two females?
Inform me with knowledge, should you be truthful.’
144 And two of camels and two of oxen.
Say, ‘Is it the two males that He has forbidden
1 Cf. 39:6.
