Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
‘This is indeed a plain magician.’
3 Indeed your Lord is Allah,
who created the heavens
and the earth
in six days,
and then settled on the Throne,
directing the command.1
There is no intercessor, except by His leave.
That is Allah, your Lord! So worship Him.
Will you not then take admonition?
4 To Him will be there turn of you all
— [that is] Allah’s true promise.
Indeed He originates the creation,
then He will bring it back
that He may reward those who have faith
and do righteous deeds
with justice.
As for the faithless,
they shall have boiling water for drink,
and a painful punishment
because of what they used to defy.
5 It is He who made the sun a radiance
and the moon a light,
and ordained its phases
that you might know the number of years
and the calculation [of time].
Allah did not create all that except with reason.
He elaborates the signs
for a people who have knowledge.
