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

and Allah provides for whomever He wishes
without any reckoning.
39 As for the faithless,
their works are like a mirage in a plain,
which the thirsty man supposes to be water.
When he comes to it,
he finds it to be nothing;
but there he finds Allah,
who will pay him his full account,
and Allah is swift at reckoning.
40 Or like the manifold darkness in a deep sea,
covered by billow upon billow,
overcast by clouds,
manifold [layers of] darkness,
one on top of another:
when he brings out his hand,
he can hardly see it,
and one whom Allah has not granted any light
has no light.
41 Have you not regarded
that Allah is glorified by everyone in the heavens
and the earth,
and the birds spreading their wings.
Each knows his prayer and glorification,
and Allah knows best what they do.
42 To Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens
and the earth,
and toward Allah is the destination.
43 Have you not regarded that Allah drives the clouds,
then He composes them,

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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=527