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

We shall muster them,
and We will not leave out anyone of them.
48 They will be presented before your Lord in ranks:
‘Certainly you have come to Us
just as We created you the first time.
Rather you maintained
that We shall not appoint a tryst for you.’
49 The Book will be setup.
Then you will see the guilty
apprehensive of what is in it.
They will say, ‘Woe to us!
What a book is this!
It omits nothing, big or small,
without enumerating it.’
They will find present whatever they had done,
and your Lord does not wrong anyone.

50 When We said to the angels,
‘Prostrate before Adam,’
they prostrated, but not Iblis.
He was one of the jinn,
so he transgressed against his Lord’s command.
Will you then take him and his offspring for guardians
in My stead,
though they are your enemies?
How evil a substitute for the wrongdoers!
51 I did not make them a witness to the creation
of the heavens and the earth,
nor to their own creation,
nor do I take those who mislead as assistants.

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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 19 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=446