Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)

61. And lo! verily there is knowledge of the Hour. So doubt ye not concerning it, but follow Me. This is the right path.

62. And let not Satan turn you aside. Lo! he is an open enemy for you.

63. When Jesus came with clear proofs (of Allah’s sovereignty), he said: I have come unto you with wisdom, and to make plain some of that concerning which ye differ. So keep your duty to Allah, and obey me.

64. Lo! Allah, He is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him. This is a right path.

65. But the factions among them differed. Then woe unto those who do wrong from the doom of a painful day.

66. Await they aught save the Hour, that it shall come upon them suddenly, when they know not?

67. Friends on that day will be foes one to another, save those who kept their duty (to Allah).

68. O My slaves! For you there is no fear this day, nor is it ye who grieve;

69. (Ye) who believed Our revelations and were selfsurrendered,

70. Enter the Garden, ye and your wives, to be made glad.

71. Therein are brought round for them trays of gold and goblets, and therein is all that souls desire and eyes find sweet. And ye are immortal therein.

72. This is the Garden which ye are made to inherit because of what ye used to do.

73. Therein for you is fruit in plenty whence to eat.

74. Lo! the guilty are immortal in hell’s torment.

75. It is not relaxed for them, and they despair therein.

76. We wronged them not, but they it was who did the wrong.

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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 06 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/marmaduke-pickthall/1930?page=513