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

for a people who have faith.
38 Give the relative his right,
and the needy and the traveller [as well].
That is better for those who seek Allah’s pleasure,
and it is they who are the felicitous.
39 That which you give in usury
in order that it may increase people’s wealth
does not increase with Allah.
But what you pay as zakāt
seeking Allah’s pleasure
— it is they who will be given a manifold increase.
40 It is Allah who created you
and then He provided for you,
then He makes you die, then He will bring you to life.
Is there anyone among your partners
who does anything of that kind?
Immaculate is He and exalted
above [having] any partners that they ascribe [to Him]!

41 Corruption has appeared in land and sea
because of the doings of the people’s hands,
that He may make them taste
something of what they have done,
so that they may come back.
42 Say, ‘Travel over the land
and then observe
how was the fate of those who were before [you],
most of whom were polytheists.’
43 So set your heart on the upright religion,
before there comes a day irrevocable