Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
from the promptings of devils;
and I seek Your protection, my Lord,
from their presence near me.’
99 When death comes to one of them,
he says, ‘My Lord!
Take me back,
100 that I may act righteously in what I have left behind.’
‘By no means!
These are mere words that he says.’
And ahead of them is a barrier
until the day they will be resurrected
101 And when the Trumpet is blown,
there will be no ties between them on that day,
nor will they ask [about] each other.1
102 Then those whose deeds weigh heavy in the scales
— it is they who are the felicitous.
103 As for those whose deeds weigh light in the scales,
— they will be the ones who have ruined their souls,
[and] they will remain in hell [forever].
104 The Fire will scorch their faces,
and they will be morose in it.
105 ‘Was it not that My signs were recited to you
but you would deny them?’
106 They will say, ‘Our Lord!
Our wretchedness overcame us,
and we were an astray lot.
107 Our Lord! Bring us out of this!
Then, if we revert, we will indeed be wrongdoers.’
1 Cf. 70:10.
