Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
31 Do not kill your children
for the fear of penury:
We will provide for them and for you.
Killing them is indeed a great iniquity.
32 Do not approach fornication.
It is indeed an indecency and an evil way.
33 Do not kill a soul
[whose life] Allah has made inviolable,
except with due cause,
and whoever is killed wrongfully,
We have certainly given his heir an authority.
But let him not commit any excess in killing,1
for he enjoys the support [of law].
34 Do not approach the orphan’s property
except in the best manner
until he comes of age.
And fulfill the covenants;
indeed all covenants are accountable.
35 When you measure, observe fully the measure,
[and] weigh with an even balance.
That is better and fairer in outcome.
36 Do not follow that of which you have no knowledge.
Indeed the hearing, the eyesight, and the heart
— all of these are accountable.
37 Do not walk exultantly on the earth.
Indeed you will neither pierce the earth,
nor reach the mountains in height.
38 The evil of all these is
1 Such as mutilating the body of the murderer, or killing someone other than the guilty person for the sake of vengeance.
