Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
— there is a painful punishment for them
in the world and the Hereafter,
and Allah knows and you do not know.
20 Were it not for Allah’s grace and His mercy upon you,
and that Allah is all-kind, all-merciful.
21 O you who have faith!
Do not follow in Satan’s steps.
Whoever follows in Satan’s steps [should know that]
he indeed prompts [you to commit] indecent acts
and wrong.
Were it not for Allah’s grace and His mercy upon you,
not one of you would ever be pure.
But Allah purifies whomever He wishes,
and Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing.
22 Let the well-off and the opulent among you not vow 1
not to give to the relatives and the needy,
and to those who have migrated in the way of Allah,
and let them excuse and forbear.
Do you not love that Allah should forgive you?
And Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.
23 Indeed those who accuse
honourable and unwary faithful women
shall be cursed in this world and the Hereafter,
and there shall be a great punishment for them
24 on the day when witness shall be given against them
by their tongues, their hands, and their feet
concerning what they used to do.
25 On that day Allah will pay them in full
1 Or ‘Let the well-to-do and the opulent among you not fail to give.…’
