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

If you enumerate Allah’s blessings,
you will not be able to count them.
Indeed man is most unfair and ungrateful!

35 When Abraham said,
‘My Lord! Make this city a sanctuary,
and save me and my children
from worshiping idols.
36 My Lord! Indeed they have misled many people.
So whoever follows me indeed belongs to me,
and as for someone who disobeys me,
well, You are indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.
37 Our Lord!
I have settled part of my descendants
in a barren valley,
by Your sacred House, our Lord,
that they may maintain the prayer.
So make the hearts of a part of the people
fond of them,
and provide them with fruits,
so that they may give thanks.
38 Our Lord!
Indeed You know whatever we hide
and whatever we disclose,
and nothing is hidden from Allah
on the earth
or in the sky.
39 All praise belongs to Allah,
who, despite [my] old age, gave me
Ishmael and Isaac.

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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 29 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=389