Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
nor shall they enter paradise
until the camel passes through the needle’s eye,1
and thus do We requite the guilty.
41 They shall have hell for their resting place,
and over them shall be sheets [of fire],
and thus do We requite the wrongdoers.
42 As for those who have faith
and do righteous deeds
— We task no soul
except according to its capacity —
they shall be the inhabitants of paradise,
and they shall remain in it [forever].
43 We will remove
whatever rancour there is in their breasts,
and streams will run for them.
They will say, ‘All praise belongs to Allah,
who guided us to this.
We would have never been guided
had not Allah guided us.
Our Lord’s apostles had certainly brought the truth.’
And the call would be made to them:
‘This is paradise, which you have been given to inherit
because of what you used to do!’
44 The inhabitants of paradise will call out
to the inmates of the Fire,
‘We found what our Lord promised us to be true;
did you find what your Lord promised you to be true?’
‘Yes,’ they will say.
Then a caller will announce in their midst,
1 Or, ‘until the cable passes through the needle’s eye.’
