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

138 and at night.
So do you not apply reason?

139 And indeed Jonah was one of the apostles,
140 when he absconded toward the laden ship.
141 Then he drew lots with them
and he was the one to be refuted.
142 Then the fish swallowed him
while he was blameworthy.
143 And had he not been
one of those who celebrate Allah’s glory,
144 he would have surely remained in its belly
till the day they will be resurrected.
145 Then We cast him on a bare shore,
and he was sick.
146 So We made a gourd plant grow above him.
147 We sent him
to a [community of] hundred thousand or more,
148 and they believed [in him].
So We provided for them for a while.
149 Ask them, are daughters to be for your Lord
while sons are to be for them?1
150 Did We create the angels females
while they were present?2
151 Look! It is indeed out of their mendacity
that they say,
152 ‘Allah has begotten,’
and they indeed speak a falsehood.

1 Cf. 6:100; 16:57; 17:40; 43:16; 52:39.

2 Or ‘while they were witnesses.’

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 29 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=664