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

you are absolved of what I do
and I am absolved of what you do.’
42 There are some of them who prick up their ears at you.
But can you make the deaf hear
even if they do not apply reason?
43 And there are some of them who observe you.
But can you guide the blind
even if they do not perceive?
44 Indeed Allah does not wrong people in the least;
rather it is people who wrong themselves.
45 On the day He will gather them
[it will be] as if they had not remained [in the world]
except for an hour of the day
getting acquainted with one another.
They are certainly losers who deny
the encounter with Allah,
and they are not guided.
46 Whether We show you
a part of what We promise them,
or take you away [before that],
[in any case] their return will be to Us.
Then Allah will be witness to what they do.

47 There is an apostle 1 for every nation;
so when their apostle comes,
judgement is made between them with justice,
and they are not wronged.
48 They say, ‘When will this promise be fulfilled,
should you be truthful?’

1 Or ‘There is a messenger.’

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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 19 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=321