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

and follow the light
that has been sent down with him,1
they are the felicitous.’
158 Say, ‘O mankind!
I am the Apostle of Allah to you all, [of Him]
to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens
and the earth.
There is no god except Him.
He gives life and brings death.’
So have faith in Allah and His Apostle,
the uninstructed prophet,
who has faith in Allah and His words,
and follow him so that you may be guided.
159 Among the people of Moses is a nation
who guide [the people] by the truth
and do justice thereby.
160 We split them up into twelve tribal communities,
and We revealed to Moses,
when his people asked him for water,
[saying], ‘Strike the rock with your staff,’
whereat twelve fountains gushed forth from it.
Every tribe came to know its drinking-place.
And We shaded them with clouds,
and We sent down to them manna and quails:
‘Eat of the good things We have provided you.’
And they did not wrong Us,
but they used to wrong [only] themselves.
161 And when they were told,
‘Settle in this town

1 Cf. 4:174.

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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=263