Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
115 He has forbidden you only carrion,
blood, the flesh of the swine,
and that which has been offered to other than Allah.
But should someone be compelled,
without being rebellious or aggressive,
indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.1
116 Do not say,
asserting falsely with your tongues,
‘This is lawful, and this is unlawful,’
to fabricate lies against Allah.
Indeed those who fabricate lies against Allah
will not be felicitous.
117 A trifling enjoyment,
and there will be a painful punishment for them.
118 We forbade to the Jews
what We have recounted to you earlier,
and We did not wrong them,
but they used to wrong themselves.
119 Then indeed your Lord,
to those who commit evil out of ignorance
and then repent after that, and reform
—indeed, after that, your Lord
will surely be all-forgiving, all-merciful.
120 Indeed Abraham was a nation
obedient to Allah,
a ḥanīf,
and he was not one of the polytheists.
121 Grateful [as he was] for His blessings,
