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

with whatever torment you may inflict upon us,
and in Allah let all the trusting put their trust.’
13 But the faithless said to their apostles,
‘Surely we will expel you from our land,
or you should revert to our creed.’
Thereat their Lord revealed to them:
‘We will surely destroy the wrongdoers,
14 and surely We will settle you in the land
after them.
This [promise] is for someone
who is awed to stand before Me
and fears My threat.’
15 They 1 prayed for victory 2 [against the infidels],
and every obdurate tyrant has failed,
16 with hell lying ahead of him,3
[where] he shall be given to drink
of a purulent fluid,
17 gulping it down,
but hardly swallowing it:
death will assail him from every side,
but he will not die,
and there is [yet] a harsh punishment ahead of him.
18 A parable of those who defy their Lord:
their deeds are like ashes
over which the wind blows hard
on a tempestuous day:
they have no power over anything they have earned.

1 That is, the apostles.

2 Or ‘verdict;’ that is, the verdict of Allah against the unbelievers.

3 That is, with hell waiting for him.

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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 28 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=385