Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
and his wives are their mothers.
The blood relatives
are more entitled to inherit from one another
in the Book of Allah 1
than the [other] faithful and Emigrants,2
barring any favour you may do your comrades.3
This has been written in the Book.
7 [Recall] when We took a pledge from the prophets,
and from you
and from Noah and Abraham
and Moses and Jesus son of Mary,
and We took from them a solemn pledge,
8 so that He may question the truthful
concerning their truthfulness.
And He has prepared for the faithless
a painful punishment.
9 O you who have faith!
Remember Allah’s blessing upon you
when the hosts came at you,
and We sent against them a gale
and hosts whom you did not see.
And Allah sees best what you do.
10 When they came at you
from above and below you,4
1 That is, with respect to the right of inheritance.
2 Or ‘The blood relations have a greater right to inherit from one another than the rest of the faithful and Emigrants.’
3 That is, by making a bequest in their favour.
4 That is, from the higher side of the valley, to the east of Madinah, and from the lower side of it towards the west.
