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

20 But as for those who are wary of their Lord,
for them there will be lofty abodes
with [other] lofty abodes built above them,
with streams running beneath them
— a promise of Allah.
Allah does not break His promise.
21 Have you not seen
that Allah sends down water from the sky,
then He conducts it through the ground as springs.
Then with it He brings forth crops
of diverse hues.
Then they wither and you see them turn yellow.
Then He turns them into chaff.
There is indeed an admonition in that
for those who possess intellect.
22 Is someone whose breast Allah has opened to Islam
so that he follows a light from His Lord?1
So woe to those whose hearts have been hardened
to the remembrance of Allah.
They are in manifest error.
23 Allah has sent down the best of discourses,
a scripture [composed] of similar2 motifs,
whereat quiver
the skins of those who fear their Lord,
then their skins and hearts soften
to Allah’s remembrance.
That is Allah’s guidance,
by which He guides whomever He wishes;

1 Ellipsis. The omitted phrase is, ‘like someone who is not such?’

2 Or ‘parallel motifs.

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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 15 Jan. 2025: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=680