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

17 Indeed the faithful,
the Jews, the Sabaeans,
the Christians, the Magians
and the polytheists
— Allah will indeed judge between them
on the Day of Resurrection.
Indeed Allah is witness to all things.

18 Have you not regarded that to Allah prostrates
whoever is in the heavens
and whoever is on the earth,
and the sun, the moon, and the stars,
the mountains, the trees, and the animals
and many of mankind?
And for many the punishment has become due.
Whomever Allah humiliates
will find no one who may bring him honour.
Indeed Allah does whatever He wishes.

19 These two contenders contend
concerning their Lord.
As for those who are faithless,
cloaks of fire will be cut out for them,
and boiling water will be poured over their heads,
20 with which their skins and entrails will be fused,
21 and there will be clubs of iron for them.
22 Whenever they desire
to leave it out of anguish,
they will be turned back into it
[and told]: ‘Taste the punishment of the burning!’

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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 07 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=497