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

of it or impatient of it is all one for you. Ye are only being paid for what ye used to do.

17. Loi those who kept their duty dwell in gardens and delight,

18. Happy because of what their Lord hath given them, and (because) their Lord hath warded off from them the torment of hell-fire.

19. (And it is said unto them): Eat and drink in health (as a reward) for what ye used to do,

20. Reclining on ranged couches. And We wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes.

21. And they who believe and whose seed follow them in faith, We cause their seed to join them (there), and We deprive them of nought of their (life’s) work. Every man is a pledge for that which he hath earned.

22. And We provide them with fruit and meat such as they desire.

23. There they pass from hand to hand a cup wherein is neither vanity nor cause of sin.

24. And there go round, waiting on them menservants of their own, as they were hidden
pearls.
25. And some of them draw near unto others, questioning,

26. Saying: Loi of old, when we were with our families, we were ever anxious;

27. But Allah hath been gracious unto us and hath reserved us from the torment of the breath of Fire.

28. Lo! we used to pray unto Him of old. Lo! He is the Benign, the Merciful.

29. Therefor warn (men, O Muhammad). By the grace of Allah thou art neither soothsayer nor madman.

30. Or say they: (he is) a poet, (one) for whom we may expect the accident of time?

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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 29 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/marmaduke-pickthall/1930?page=551