Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
the affluent among them ask you for leave,
and say, ‘Let us remain with those who sit back.’
87 They are pleased to be with those who stay back,1
and their hearts have been sealed.
So they do not understand.
88 But the Apostle and the faithful who are with him
wage jihād with their possessions and persons,
and to such belong all the blessings,
and it is they who are the felicitous.
89 Allah has prepared for them gardens
with streams running in them,
to remain in them [forever].
That is the great success.
90 Some of the Bedouins who sought to be excused came
so that they may be granted leave [to stay back];
while those who lied to Allah and His Apostle sat back.
Soon there shall visit the faithless among them
a painful punishment.
91 There is no blame on the weak,
nor on the sick,
nor on those
who do not find anything to spend,
so long as they are sincere to Allah
and His Apostle.
There is no [cause for] blaming the virtuous,
and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.
92 Nor [is there any blame] on those to whom,
when they came to you to provide them with a mount,
you said, ‘I do not find any mount for you,’
1 That is, along with women and children, the invalid and the decrepit.
