Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
37 so that Allah may separate the bad ones
from the good,
and place the bad on one another,
and pile them up together,
and cast them into hell.
It is they who are the losers.
38 Say to the faithless,
if they relinquish [faithlessness],
what is already past shall be forgiven them.
But if they revert [to faithlessness],
then the precedent of the ancients has already passed.
39 Fight them until faithlessness 1 is no more,
and religion becomes exclusively for Allah.
But if they relinquish,
Allah indeed sees best what they do.
40 And if they turn away,
then know that Allah is your master:
an excellent master and an excellent helper!
41 Know that whatever thing you may come by,
a fifth of it is for Allah and the Apostle,
for the relatives and the orphans,
for the needy and the traveller,
if you have faith in Allah
and what We sent down to Our servant
on the Day of Separation,2
the day when the two hosts met;
and Allah has power over all things.
1 Or ‘polytheism.’ Cf. 2:193.
1 That is, the day on which the Battle of Badr took place.
