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

any helper against Us.
76 They were about to hound you out of the land,
to expel you from it,
but then they would not have stayed after you
but a little.

77 A precedent of those We have sent
from among Our apostles before you,
and you will not find any change in Our precedent.

78 Maintain the prayer from the sun’s decline ¹
till the darkness of the night,
and [observe particularly] the dawn recital.
Indeed the dawn recital is attended [by angels].
79 And keep vigil for a part of the night,
as a supererogatory [devotion] for you.
It may be that your Lord will raise you
to a praiseworthy station.
80 And say, ‘My Lord!
‘Admit me with a worthy entrance,
and bring me out with a worthy departure,
and render me
a favourable authority from Yourself.’
81 And say, ‘The truth has come,
and falsehood has vanished.
Indeed falsehood is bound to vanish.’
82 We send down in the Qur’ān
that which is a cure and mercy for the faithful;
and it increases the wrongdoers only in loss.