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a-l-r (ʾalif lām rā) kitābun ʾuḥkimat ʾāyātuhū thumma fuṣṣilat min ladun ḥakīmin khabīrin

Alif, Lam Ra. [This is] a Book, whose signs have been made definitive and then elaborated, from One [who is] all-wise, all-aware,

— Ali Quli Qarai

11:2

ʾallā taʿbudū ʾillā llāha ʾinnanī lakum minhu nadhīrun wa-bashīrun

declaring: ‘Worship no one but Allah. I am indeed a warner to you from Him and a bearer of good news.

— Ali Quli Qarai

11:3

wa-ʾani staghfirū rabbakum thumma tūbū ʾilayhi yumattiʿkum matāʿan ḥasanan ʾilā ʾajalin musamman wa-yuʾti kulla dhī faḍlin faḍlahū wa-ʾin tawallaw fa-ʾinnī ʾakhāfu ʿalaykum ʿadhāba yawmin kabīrin

Plead with your Lord for forgiveness, then turn to Him penitently. He will provide you with a good provision for a specified term and grant His grace to every meritorious person. But if you turn your backs [on Him], indeed I fear for you the punishment of a terrible day.

— Ali Quli Qarai

11:4

ʾilā llāhi marjiʿukum wa-huwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun

To Allah will be your return, and He has power over all things.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

11:5

ʾa-lā ʾinnahum yathnūna ṣudūrahum li-yastakhfū minhu ʾa-lā ḥīna yastaghshūna thiyābahum yaʿlamu mā yusirrūna wa-mā yuʿlinūna ʾinnahū ʿalīmun bi-dhāti ṣ-ṣudūri

Look! They fold up their breasts to hide [their secret feelings] from Him. Look! When they draw their cloaks over their heads, He knows whatever they keep secret and whatever they disclose. Indeed, He knows best whatever is in the breasts.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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11:6

wa-mā min dābbatin fī l-ʾarḍi ʾillā ʿalā llāhi rizquhā wa-yaʿlamu mustaqarrahā wa-mustawdaʿahā kullun fī kitābin mubīnin

There is no animal on the earth, but that its sustenance lies with Allah, and He knows its [enduring] abode and its temporary place of lodging. Everything is in a manifest Book.

— Ali Quli Qarai

11:7

wa-huwa lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa fī sittati ʾayyāmin wa-kāna ʿarshuhū ʿalā l-māʾi li-yabluwakum ʾayyukum ʾaḥsanu ʿamalan wa-la-ʾin qulta ʾinnakum mabʿūthūna min baʿdi l-mawti la-yaqūlanna lladhīna kafarū ʾin hādhā ʾillā siḥrun mubīnun

It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days—and His Throne was [then] upon the waters—that He may test you [to see] which of you is best in conduct. Yet if you say, ‘You will indeed be raised up after death,’ the faithless will surely say, ‘This is nothing but plain magic.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

11:8

wa-la-ʾin ʾakhkharnā ʿanhumu l-ʿadhāba ʾilā ʾummatin maʿdūdatin la-yaqūlunna mā yaḥbisuhū ʾa-lā yawma yaʾtīhim laysa maṣrūfan ʿanhum wa-ḥāqa bihim mā kānū bihī yastahziʾūna

And if We defer their punishment until a certain time, they will surely say, ‘What holds it back?’ Look! On the day it overtakes them it shall not be turned away from them, and they will be besieged by what they used to deride.

— Ali Quli Qarai

11:9

wa-la-ʾin ʾadhaqnā l-ʾinsāna minnā raḥmatan thumma nazaʿnāhā minhu ʾinnahū la-yaʾūsun kafūrun

If We let man taste a mercy from Us, and then withdraw it from him, he becomes despondent, ungrateful.

— Ali Quli Qarai