Hashim Amir-Ali, The Message of the Qur’an: Presented in Perspective (1974)

109 Who then is more secure one who has built through cautious effort, inspired by Allah, through His grace, or one who has erected upon a crumbling precipice prone to slide him into hell? Verily, Allah guideth not a people who transgress!

110 Never cease the quivers in the hearts of those who base their edifice like this until they burst them! Allah is the Knower and the Wise!

111 Verily, Allah hath bartered with the Faithful, their persons and all that they possess: promised them is Paradise — (Hence) fight they in the way of Allah, slaying (where they have to) and (willing to be) slain — a price of selflessness confirmed, indeed, in the Taurat, the Injil and the Qur’an. And who can fulfil better a covenant than Allah? Therefore, felicitate them on their bargain — O ye who made a deal with Him, yours has been success supreme!

112 (O ye!) ready to acknowledge faults, willing servants (of Allah), reverently obeisant (to His will), used to the rigours of travel and of thirst; prayerful, kneeling and prostrating; encouragers of what is good, annullers of evil, custodians of the limits set by Allah — herald thou: the Faithful!

113 Behoveth not the Prophet nor the Faithful to ask forgiveness for those disloyal to Allah — even if they are of kin — when once it has been clarified that they are bound for hell.

114 Even Ibrahim would not have asked forgiveness for his father, had it not been for a promise he had promised him. But, as soon as he had been convinced that his father would not cease to be an avowed enemy of Allah, he disowned him… thus — even though Ibrahim was tender-hearted, able to endure.