Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
concerning what you used to do.
106 [There are] others waiting Allah’s edict:
either He shall punish them,
or turn to them clemently,
and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise.
107 As for those who took to a mosque for sabotage
and for defiance,
and to cause division among the faithful,
and for the purpose of ambush
[used] by those who have fought Allah
and His Apostle before
— they will surely swear:
‘We desired nothing but good,’
and Allah bears witness that they are indeed liars.
108 Do not stand in it ever!
A mosque founded on Godwariness
from the [very] first day
is worthier that you stand in it [for prayer].
Therein are men who love to keep pure,
and Allah loves those who keep pure.
109 Is he who founds his building
on Godwariness
and [the pursuit of Allah’s] pleasure
better-off
or he who founds his building
on the brink of a collapsing bank
which collapses with him into the fire of hell?
And Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.
110 The building they have built will never cease