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

they would be your enemies,
and would stretch out against you their hands
and their tongues
with evil [intentions],
and they are eager that you should be faithless.
3 Your relatives and your children will not avail you
on the Day of Resurrection:
He will separate you [from one another],
and Allah sees best what you do.
4 There is certainly a good exemplar for you
in Abraham
and those who were with him,
when they said to their own people,
‘Indeed we repudiate you
and whatever you worship besides Allah.
We disavow you,
and between you and us there has appeared
enmity and hate for ever,
unless you come to have faith in Allah alone,’
except for Abraham’s saying to his father,
‘I will surely plead forgiveness for you,
though I cannot avail you anything against Allah.’

‘Our Lord! In You do we put our trust,
and to You do we turn penitently,
and toward You is the destination.
5 Our Lord!
Do not make us a trial for the faithless, and forgive us.
Our Lord!

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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 27 Apr. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=813