Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
14 So supplicate Allah, putting exclusive faith in Him,
though the faithless should be averse.
15 Raiser of ranks, Lord of the Throne,
He casts the Spirit of His command
upon whomever of His servants that He wishes,
that he may warn [people] of the Day of Encounter.
16 The day when they will emerge [from their graves],
nothing about them will be hidden from Allah.
‘To whom does the sovereignty belong today?’
‘To Allah, the One, the All-paramount!’
17 ‘Today every soul shall be requited
for what it has earned.
There will be no injustice today.
Indeed Allah is swift at reckoning.’
18 Warn them of the Imminent Day 1
when the hearts will be at the throats,
choking with suppressed agony,
[and] the wrongdoers will have no sympathizer,
nor any intercessor who might be heard.
19 He knows the treachery of the eyes,2
and what the breasts hide.
20 Allah judges with justice,3
while those whom they invoke besides Him
do not judge by anything.
Indeed it is Allah who is the All-hearing,
the All-seeing.
21 Have they not traveled over the land
1 Cf. ‘the Imminent [Hour]’ (53:57).
2 That is, the sins committed with the eyes.
3 Or ‘judges justly.’
