Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)
after the clear proofs had come unto them. For such there is an awful doom,
106. On the day when (some) faces will be whitened and (some) faces will be blackened; and as for those whose faces have been blackened, it will be said unto them: Disbelieved ye after your (profession of) belief? Then taste the punishment for that ye disbelieved.
107. And as for those whose faces have been whitened, lo! in the mercy of Allah they dwell for ever.
108. These are revelations of Allah. We recite them unto thee in truth. Allah willeth no injustice to (His) creatures.
109. Unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; and unto Allah all things are returned.
110. Ye are the best community that hath been raised up for mankind. Ye enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency; and ye believe in Allah. And if the People of the Scripture had believed it had been better for them. Some of them are believers; but most of them are evil-livers.
111. They will not harm you save a trifling hurt, and if they fight against you they will turn and flee. And afterward they will not be helped.
112. Ignominy shall be their portion wheresoever they are found save (where they grasp) a rope from Allah and a rope from men.1 They have incurred anger from their Lord, and wretchedness is laid upon them. That is because they used to disbelieve the revelations of Allah, and slew the Prophets wrongfully. That is because they were rebellious and used to transgress.
113. They are not all alike. Of the People of the Scripture there is a staunch community who recite the revelations of Allah in the night season, falling prostrate (before Him).
1 i.e. when they keep the covenant which the Prophet had made with the Jews of Al-Madînah.
