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

We have sent down the Book to you
as a clarification of all things
and as a guidance and mercy
and good news for the muslims.
90 Indeed Allah enjoins justice and kindness
and generosity towards relatives,
and He forbids indecency, wrong,
and aggression.
He advises you,
so that you may take admonition.
91 Fulfill Allah’s covenant when you pledge,
and do not break [your] oaths
after pledging them solemnly
and having made Allah a witness over yourselves.
Indeed Allah knows what you do.
92 Do not be like her who would undo her yarn,
breaking it up after [spinning it to] strength,
by making your oaths a means of [mutual] deceit
among yourselves,
so that one community may become more affluent
than another community.1
Allah only tests you thereby,
and He will surely clarify for you
on the Day of Resurrection
what you used to differ about.
93 Had Allah wished,
He would have made you one community,
but He leads astray whomever He wishes

1 Or ‘for one community may be more numerous (or more affluent) than another community.’

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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=414