Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
10 ‘That is because of what your hands have sent ahead,1
and because Allah is not tyrannical to the servants.’
11 And among the people are those who worship Allah
on the [very] fringe:
if good fortune befalls him, he is content with it;
but if an ordeal visits him
he makes a turnabout,
to become a loser in the world and the Hereafter.
That is the manifest loss.
12 He invokes besides Allah
that which can bring him neither benefit nor harm.
That is extreme error.
13 He invokes someone whose harm is surely
likelier than his benefit.
Surely an evil ally and an evil companion!
14 Allah will indeed admit those who have faith
and do righteous deeds
into gardenswith streams running in them.
Indeed Allah does whatever He desires.
15 Whoever thinks
that Allah will not help him
in this world and the Hereafter,
let him extend a rope to the ceiling
and hang himself,
and see
if his artifice would remove his rage.
16 Thus have We sent it down as manifest signs,
and indeed Allah guides whomever He desires.
1 Or ‘prepared,’ or ‘committed.’
