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

I took a handful [of dust] from the messenger’s trail
and threw it.
That is how my soul prompted me.’
97 He said, ‘Begone!
It shall be your [lot] throughout life to say,
“Do not touch me!”
Indeed there is a tryst for you
which you will not fail to keep!
Now look at your god
to whom you went on clinging.
We will burn it down
and then scatter it[s ashes] into the sea.
98 Indeed your God is Allah.
There is no god except Him.
He embraces all things in [His] knowledge.’

99 Thus do We relate to you
some accounts of what is past.
Certainly We have given you
a Reminder from Ourselves.
100 Whoever disregards it
shall bear its onus on the Day of Resurrection,
101 remaining in it [forever].
Evil is their burden on the Day of Resurrection
102 — the day the Trumpet will be blown —
on that day We shall muster the guilty
with blind eyes.¹
103 They will whisper to one another:
‘You have stayed only for ten [days].’