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

‘It is not for you to be arrogant therein.
Begone!
You are indeed among the degraded ones.’
14 He said,
‘Respite me till the day they will be resurrected.’
15 Said He, ‘You are indeed among the reprieved.’
16 ‘As You have consigned me to perversity, ’he said,
‘I will surely lie in wait for them
on Your straight path.
17 Then I will come at them from their front
and from their rear,
and from their right and their left,
and You will not find most of them to be grateful.’
18 Said He, ‘Begone hence, blameful, banished!
Whoever of them follows you,
I will surely fill hell with you all.’
19 [Then He said to Adam,] ‘O Adam,
dwell with your mate in paradise,
and eat thereof whence you wish;
but do not approach this tree,
lest you should be among the wrongdoers.’
20 Then Satan tempted them,
to expose to them
what was hidden from them of their nakedness,
and he said,
‘Your Lord has only forbidden you from this tree
lest you should become angels,
or lest you become immortal.’
21 And he swore to them,
‘I am indeed your well-wisher.’

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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 28 Apr. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=238