Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
Indeed Allah is all-attentive, all-aware.
17 O my son!
Maintain the prayer
and bid what is right
and forbid what is wrong,
and be patient through whatever may visit you.
That is indeed the steadiest of courses.
18 Do not turn your cheek disdainfully from the people,
and do not walk exultantly on the earth.
Indeed Allah does not like any swaggering braggart.
19 Be modest in your bearing,
and lower your voice.
Indeed the ungainliest of voices is the donkey’s voice.’
20 Do you not see that Allah has disposed for you
whatever there is in the heavens
and whatever there is in the earth
and He has showered upon you His blessings,
the outward and the inward?
Yet among the people are those
who dispute concerning Allah
without any knowledge
or guidance
or an illuminating scripture.
21 When they are told,
‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’
they say, ‘We will rather follow
what we found our fathers following.’
What! Even if Satan be calling them
to the punishment of the Blaze?