Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
We will recompense them fully for their works therein,
and they shall not be underpaid in it.
16 They are the ones for whom there shall be nothing
in the Hereafter
but Fire:
what they had accomplished in the world has failed,
and their works have come to naught.
17 Is he who stands on a manifest proof from his Lord,
and whom a witness of his own [family] follows?1
And before him 2 there was the Book of Moses,
a guide and mercy.
It is they who have faith in it,
and whoever defies him from among the factions,
the Fire is their tryst.
So do not be in doubt about it;
it is the truth from your Lord,
but most people do not have faith.
18 And who is a greater wrongdoer than him
who fabricates a lie against Allah?
They shall be presented before their Lord,
and the witnesses will say,
‘It is these who lied against their Lord.’
Look! The curse of Allah is upon the wrongdoers
19 — those who bar [others] from the way of Allah,
and seek to make it crooked,
and disbelieve in the Hereafter.
20 They cannot thwart [Allah]
1 Ellipsis. That is, is such a person like someone who is not such? Or, can such a one be deterred by the denial of the ignorant?
2 Or ‘before it,’ that is, the Qur’ān.
