Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
211 Ask the Children of Israel
how many a manifest sign We had given them.
And whoever changes Allah’s blessing
after it has come to him,
indeed Allah is severe in retribution.
212 Worldly life has been glamorized for the faithless,
and they ridicule the faithful.
But those who are Godwary
shall be above them on the Day of Resurrection,
and Allah provides for whomever He wishes
without any reckoning.
213 Mankind were a single community;
then Allah sent the prophets
as bearers of good news and as warners,
and He sent down with them the Book with the truth,
that it 1 may judge between the people
concerning that about which they differed,
and none differed in it
except those who had been given it,
after the manifest proofs had come to them,
out of envy among themselves.
Then Allah guided those who had faith
to the truth of what they differed in, by His will,
and Allah guides whomever He wishes
to a straight path.
214 Do you suppose that you shall enter paradise
though there has not yet come to you
the like of [what befell]those who went before you?
1 That is the Book.
