Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
13 Had We wished
We would have given every soul its guidance,
but My word became due [against the defiant]:
‘Surely I will fill hell
with all the [guilty] jinn and humans.’1
14 So taste [the punishment] for your having forgotten
the encounter of this day of yours.
We [too] have forgotten you.
Taste the everlasting punishment
because of what you used to do.
15 Only those believe in Our signs who,
when they are reminded of them,
fall down in prostration
and celebrate the praise of their Lord,
and they are not arrogant.
16 Their sides vacate their beds 2
to supplicate their Lord in fear and hope,
and they spend out of what We have provided them.
17 No one knows
what has been kept hidden for them of comfort
as a reward for what they used to do.
18 Is someone who is faithful
like someone who is a transgressor?
They are not equal.
19 As for those who have faith
