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

and Allah is indeed able to help them.
40 — Those who were expelled from their homes
unjustly,
only because they said, ‘Allah is our Lord.’
Had not Allah repulsed the people
from one another,
ruin would have befallen the monasteries, churches,
synagogues and mosques
in which Allah’s Name is mentioned greatly.
Allah will surely help those who help Him.
Indeed Allah is all-strong, all-mighty.
41 Those who, if We granted them power in the land,
maintain the prayer,
give the zakāt,
and bid what is right
and forbid what is wrong.
And with Allah rests the outcome of all matters.

42 If they impugn you,
the people of Noah have impugned before them
and ‘Ād and Thamūd
43 [as well as] the people of Abraham
and the people of Lot,
44 and the inhabitants of Midian,
and Moses was also impugned.
But I gave the faithless a respite,
then I seized them
and how was My rebuttal!
45 How many towns We have destroyed
while they were wrongdoers!

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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 15 Jan. 2025: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=501