Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
You are immaculate!
I have indeed been among the wrongdoers!’
88 So We answered his prayer
and delivered him from the agony;
and thus do We deliver the faithful.
89 And Zechariah, when he cried out to his Lord,
‘My Lord!
Do not leave me without an heir,
and You are the best of inheritors.’
90 So We answered his prayer,
and gave him John,
and remedied his wife[’s infertility] for him.
Indeed they were active
in [performing] good works,
and they would supplicate Us
with eagerness and awe
and were humble before Us.
91 And her who guarded her chastity,
so We breathed into her Our spirit,1
and made her and her son a sign for all the nations.
92 Indeed this community of yours is one community,
and I am your Lord.
So worship Me.
93 They 2 have fragmented their religion among themselves.
Everyone of them will return to Us.
94 Whoever does righteous deeds,
1 Or ‘of Our spirit.’
2 That is, the earlier religious communities, such as Jews and Christians. Cf. 23:53
