Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
No female conceives or delivers
except with His knowledge,
and no elderly person advances in years,
nor is anything diminished of his life,
but it is [recorded] in a Book.
That is indeed easy for Allah.
12 Not alike are the two seas:1
this one sweet and agreeable, pleasant to drink,
and that one briny and bitter,
and from each you eat fresh meat
and obtain ornaments which you wear.
And you see the ships plowing through them,
that you may seek of His grace,
and so that you may give thanks.
13 He makes the night pass into the day
and makes the day pass into the night,
and He has disposed the sun and the moon,
each moving for a specified term.
That is Allah, your Lord;
to Him belongs all sovereignty.
As for those whom you invoke besides Him,
they do not control so much as the husk of a date stone.
14 If you invoke them they will not hear your invocation,
and even if they heard they cannot respond to you,
and on the Day of Resurrection
they will forswear your polytheism,
and none can inform you like the One who is all-aware.
