Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)
12. Say (O Muhammad) unto those who disbelieve: Ye shall be overcome and gathered unto Hell, an evil restingplace.
13. There was a token for you in two hosts which met:1 one army fighting in the way of Allah, and another disbelieving, whom they saw as twice their number, clearly, with their very eyes. Thus Allah strengtheneth with His succour whom He will. Lo! herein verily is a lesson for those who have eyes.
14. Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring, and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode.
15. Say: Shall I inform you of something better than that? For those who keep from evil, with their Lord, are Gardens underneath which rivers flow, and pure companions, and contentment from Allah. Allah is Seer of His bondmen,
16. Those who say: Our Lord! Lo! we believe. So forgive us our sins and guard us from the punishment of Fire;
17. The stedfast, and the truthful, and the obedient, those who spend (and hoard not), those who pray for pardon in the watches of the night.
18. Allah (Himself) is witness that there is no God save Him. And the angels and the men of learning (too are witness). Maintaining His creation in justice, there is no God save Him, the Almighty, the Wise.
19. Lo! religion with Allah (is) The Surrender 2 (to His will and guidance). Those who (formerly) received the Scripture differed only after knowledge came unto them, through transgression among themselves. Whoso disbelieveth the
1 The reference is to the battle of Badr.
2 Ar. Al-Islâm.
