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

or something of what Allah has provided you.’
They will say,
‘Allah has indeed forbidden these two
to the faithless!’
51 Those who took their religion for diversion and play
and whom the life of the world had deceived.
So today We will forget them
as they forgot the encounter of this day of theirs,
and as they used to impugn Our signs.

52 Certainly We have brought them a Book,
which We have elaborated with knowledge,
as a guidance and mercy
for a people who have faith.
53 Do they await anything but its fulfillment?
The day when its fulfillment comes,
those who had forgotten it before will say,
‘Our Lord’s apostles had certainly brought the truth.
If only we had some intercessors to intercede for us,
or we would be returned,
so that we may do differently from what we did!’
They have certainly ruined their souls,
and what they used to fabricate has forsaken them.

54 Indeed your Lord is Allah,
who created the heavens and the earth
in six days,
and then settled on the Throne.
He draws the night’s cover over the day,
which pursues it swiftly,

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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 07 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=245