Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
The day when some of your Lord’s signs do come,
faith shall not benefit any soul
that had not believed beforehand
and had not earned some goodness in its faith.
Say, ‘Wait! We too are waiting!’
159 Indeed those who split up their religion
and became sects,
you will not have anything to do with them.
Their matter rests only with Allah;
then He will inform them
concerning what they used to do.
160 Whoever brings virtue
shall receive ten times its like;
but whoever brings vice
shall not be requited except with its like,
and they will not be wronged.1
161 Say, ‘Indeed my Lord has guided me
to a straight path,
the upright religion,
the creed of Abraham, a ḥanīf,
and he was not one of the polytheists.’
162 Say, ‘Indeed my prayer and my worship,
my life and my death
are for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.
163 He has no partner,
and this [creed] I have been commanded [to follow],
and I am the first of those who submit [to Allah].’
164 Say, ‘Shall I seek a Lord other than Allah,
while He is the Lord of all things?’
