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

as regrets for themselves,
and they shall not leave the Fire.
168 O mankind!
Eat of what is lawful and pure in the earth,
and do not follow in Satan’s steps.
Indeed he is your manifest enemy.
169 He only prompts you to [commit] evil
and indecent acts,
and that you attribute to Allah
what you do not know.
170 When they are told,
‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’
they say, ‘We will rather follow
what we have found our fathers following.’
What, even if their fathers neither applied any reason
nor were guided?!
171 The parable of the faithless
is that of someone who shouts after that which
does not hear [anything]
except a call and cry:
deaf, dumb, and blind,
they do not apply reason.

172 O you who have faith!
Eat of the good things We have provided you,
and thank Allah,
if it is Him that you worship.
173 He has forbidden you only carrion,
blood, the flesh of the swine,

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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 05 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=68