Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)
your sins. Whosoever obeyeth Allah and His messenger, he verily hath gained a signal victory.
72. Lo! We offered the trust unto the heavens and the earth and the hills, but they shrank from bearing it and were afraid of it. And man assumed it. Lo! he hath proved a tyrant and a fool.
73. So Allah punisheth hypocritical men and hypocritical women, and idolatrous men and idolatrous women. But Allah pardoneth believing men and believing women, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
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Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation,
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 10 May. 2025:
http://quran-archive.org/explorer/marmaduke-pickthall/1930?page=443