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

86 and drive the guilty
as a thirsty herd towards hell.
87 No one will have the power to intercede [with Allah],
except for him who has taken
a covenant with the All-beneficent.

88 They say, ‘The All-beneficent has taken a son!’
89 You have certainly advanced something hideous!
90 The heavens are about to be rent apart at it,
the earth to split open,
and the mountains to collapse into bits,
91 that they should ascribe a son to the All-beneficent!
92 It does not behoove the All-beneficent
to take a son.
93 There is none in the heavens and the earth
but he comes to the All-beneficent as a servant.
94 Certainly He has counted them [all]
and numbered them precisely,
and each of them will come to Him
alone on the Day of Resurrection.
96 Indeed those who have faith and do righteous deeds
— the All-beneficent will endear them [to His creation].
97 Indeed We have made it simple in your language
so that you may give good news thereby to the Godwary
and warn with it a disputatious lot.
98 How many a generation We have destroyed before them!
Can you descry any one of them,
or hear from them so much as a murmur?

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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 26 Apr. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=465