Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
if they can.
And whoever of you turns away from his religion
and dies faithless
— they are the ones whose works have failed
in this world and the Hereafter.
They shall be the inmates of the Fire,
and they shall remain in it [forever].
218 Indeed those who have become faithful
and those who have migrated
and waged jihād in the way of Allah
— it is they who expect Allah’s mercy,
and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.
219 They ask you concerning wine and gambling.
Say, ‘There is a great sin in both of them,
and some profits for the people,
but their sinfulness outweighs their profit.’
And they ask you as to what they should spend.
Say, ‘All that is surplus.’
Thus does Allah clarify His signs for you
so that you may reflect
220 about the world and the Hereafter.
And they ask you concerning the orphans.
Say, ‘It is better to set right their affairs,1
and if you intermingle with them,
they are of course your brothers:
Allah knows the one who causes corruption
from the one who brings about reform,
1 That is, it is better to manage their affairs than to stand aloof due to the fear of mishandling them. Cf. 4:2.
