Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
27 He said,
‘Indeed I desire to marry you
to one of these two daughters of mine,
on condition that you hire yourself to me
for eight years.
And if you complete ten,
that will be up to you,
and I do not want to be hard on you.
God willing, you will find me to be
one of the righteous.’
28 He said,
‘This will be [by consent] between you and me.
Whichever of the two terms I complete,
there shall be no reprisal against me,1
and Allah is witness over what we say.’
29 So when Moses completed the term
and set out with his family,
he descried a fire on the side of the mountain.
He said to his family, ‘Wait!
Indeed I descry a fire!
Maybe I will bring you some news from it,
or a brand of fire
so that you may warm yourselves.’
30 When he approached it,
he was called from the right bank of the valley
at the blessed spot
from the tree:
‘Moses!
Indeed I am Allah, the Lord of all the worlds!’
1 Or ‘it shall be no unfairness toward me.’
