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

When you meet a host [in battle],
then stand firm, and remember Allah greatly
so that you may be felicitous.
46 And obey Allah and His Apostle,
and do not dispute,
or you will lose heart and your power will be gone.
And be patient;
indeed Allah is with the patient.
47 Do not be
like those who left their homes
vainly and to show off to the people,
and to bar [other people] from the way of Allah,
and Allah comprehends what they do.
48 When Satan made their deeds seem decorous to them,
and said, ‘No one shall overcome you today
from among all mankind,
and I will stand by you.’
But when the two hosts sighted each other,
he took to his heels, saying,
‘Indeed I am quit of you.
I see what you do not see.
Indeed I fear Allah,
and Allah is severe in retribution.’
49 When the hypocrites said,
and [also] those in whose hearts is a sickness,
‘Their religion has deceived them.’
But whoever puts his trust in Allah,
then Allah is indeed all-mighty, all-wise.
50 Were you to see
when the angels take away the faithless,

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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 26 Apr. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=280