Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
Moses said to them,
‘Throw down what you have to throw.’
81 So when they threw down [their sticks and ropes],
Moses said, ‘What you have produced is magic.
Indeed Allah will bring it to naught presently.
Indeed Allah does not foster the efforts
of those who cause corruption.
82 Allah will confirm the truth with His words,
though the guilty should be averse.’
83 But none believed in Moses
except some youths from among his people,
for the fear of Pharaoh and his elite
that he would persecute them.
For Pharaoh was indeed a tyrant in the land,
and indeed he was an unrestrained [despot].
84 And Moses said, ‘O my people!
If you have faith in Allah, put your trust in Him,
if you have submitted [to Him].’
85 Whereat they said, ‘In Allah we have put our trust.’
‘Our Lord!
Do not make us a [means of] test
for the wrongdoing lot,
86 and deliver us by Your mercy
from the faithless lot.’
87 We revealed to Moses and his brother
[saying], ‘Settle your people in the city,1
and let your houses face each other,2
1 That is, Bayt al-Maqdis, in accordance with a tradition of Imam al-Ṣādiq (‘a) (Tafsīr al-Qummī). Alternatively, ‘Provide houses for your people in Egypt.’
2 Or ‘Make your homes places of worship.’
