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

we will surely give the zakāt
and we will surely be among the righteous.’
76 But when He gave them out of His grace,
they begrudged it
and turned away, being disregardful.
77 So He caused hypocrisy to ensue in their hearts
until the day they will encounter Him,
because of their going back
on what they had promised Allah
and because of the lies they used to tell.
78 Do they not know that Allah knows
their secret [thoughts] and [hears] their secret talks,
and that Allah is knower of all that is Unseen?
79 Those who blame the voluntary donors
from among the faithful
concerning the charities —
and as for those who do not find
[anything] except [what] their means [permit],
they ridicule them —
Allah shall put them to ridicule,
and there is a painful punishment for them.
80 Whether you plead forgiveness for them
or do not plead forgiveness for them,
even if you plead forgiveness for them
seventy times,
Allah shall never forgive them
because they defied Allah and His Apostle;
and Allah does not guide the transgressing lot.
81 Those who were left behind 1 exulted

1 That is, those who were kept from participating in jihād with the Prophet (). Cf. verse 46.

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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 16 Jan. 2025: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=301