Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
That is better for you and purer.
But if you cannot afford [to make the offering],
then Allah is indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.
13 Were you apprehensive of offering
charities before your secret talks?
So, as you did not do it,
and Allah was clement to you,
maintain the prayer and pay the zakāt,
and obey Allah and His Apostle.
And Allah is well aware of what you do.
14 Have you not regarded
those who befriend a people 1
at whom Allah is wrathful?
They neither belong to you, nor to them,
and they swear false oaths [that they are with you]
and they know.
15 Allah has prepared a severe punishment for them.
Evil indeed is what they used to do.
16 They make a shield of their oaths
and bar [people] from the way of Allah;
so there is a humiliating punishment for them.
17 Their possessions and children will not avail them
in any way against Allah.
They shall be the inmates of the Fire
and they shall remain in it [forever].
18 The day when Allah will raise them all together,
they will swear to Him,
just like they swear to you [now],
1 That is, the Jews, with whom the hypocrites amongst Muslims were on intimate terms.
