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

and it is an evil resting place.
19 Is someone who knows
that what has been sent down to you from your Lord
is the truth,
like someone who is blind?
Only those who possess intellect take admonition
20 — those who fulfill Allah’s covenant
and do not break the pledge solemnly made,
21 and those who join
what Allah has commanded to be joined,
and fear their Lord,
and are afraid of an adverse reckoning
22 — those who are patient
for the sake of their Lord’s pleasure,
maintain the prayer,
and spend out of what We have provided them,
secretly and openly,
and repel evil [conduct] with good.
For such will be the reward of the [ultimate] abode:
23 the Gardens of Eden,
which they will enter
along with whoever is righteous
from among their forebears,
their spouses, and their descendants,
and the angels will call on them
from every door:
24 ‘Peace be to you, for your patience.’
How excellent is the reward of the [ultimate] abode!
25 But as for those who break Allah’s compact
after having pledged it solemnly,

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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 15 Jan. 2025: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=377