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

Allah shall not be reconciled
to the transgressing lot.
97 The Bedouins are more obdurate in unfaith
and hypocrisy,
and more apt to be ignorant of the precepts
that Allah has sent down to His Apostle,
and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise.
98 Among the Bedouins are those who regard
what they spend as a loss,
and they watch for a reversal of your fortunes.
Theirs shall be an adverse turn of fortune,
and Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing.
99 Yet among the Bedouins are [also]
those who believe in Allah and the Last Day,
and regard what they spend
as [a means of attaining] nearness to Allah
and the blessings of the Apostle.
Look! It shall indeed bring them nearness,
and Allah will admit them into His mercy.
Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

100 The early vanguard
of the Emigrants and the Helpers
and those who followed them in virtue,
— Allah is pleased with them
and they are pleased with Him,
and He has prepared for them gardens
with streams running in them,
to remain in them forever.
That is the great success.

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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 15 Jan. 2025: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=305