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a-l-r (ʾalif lām rā) tilka ʾāyātu l-kitābi wa-qurʾānin mubīnin

Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the signs of the Book and a manifest Quran.

— Ali Quli Qarai

rubamā yawaddu lladhīna kafarū law kānū muslimīna

Much will the faithless wish that they had been Muslims.

— Ali Quli Qarai

dharhum yaʾkulū wa-yatamattaʿū wa-yulhihimu l-ʿamalu fa-sawfa yaʿlamūna

Leave them to eat and enjoy and to be diverted by longings. Soon they will know.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā ʾahlaknā min qaryatin ʾillā wa-lahā kitābun maʿlūmun

We did not destroy any town but that it had a known term.

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā tasbiqu min ʾummatin ʾajalahā wa-mā yastaʾkhirūna

No nation can advance its time nor can it defer it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qālū yā-ʾayyuhā lladhī nuzzila ʿalayhi dh-dhikru ʾinnaka la-majnūnun

They said, ‘O you, to whom the Reminder has been sent down, you are indeed crazy.

— Ali Quli Qarai

law mā taʾtīnā bi-l-malāʾikati ʾin kunta mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna

Why do you not bring us the angels should you be truthful?!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā nunazzilu l-malāʾikata ʾillā bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-mā kānū ʾidhan munẓarīna

We do not send down the angels except with due reason, and then they will not be granted any respite.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnā naḥnu nazzalnā dh-dhikra wa-ʾinnā lahū la-ḥāfiẓūna

Indeed We have sent down the Reminder, and indeed We will preserve it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ʾarsalnā min qablika fī shiyaʿi l-ʾawwalīna

Certainly We sent [apostles] before you to former communities,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā yaʾtīhim min rasūlin ʾillā kānū bihī yastahziʾūna

and there did not come to them any apostle but that they used to deride him.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ka-dhālika naslukuhū fī qulūbi l-mujrimīna

That is how We let it pass through the hearts of the guilty:

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā yuʾminūna bihī wa-qad khalat sunnatu l-ʾawwalīna

they do not believe in it, and the precedent of the ancients has already passed.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-law fataḥnā ʿalayhim bāban mina s-samāʾi fa-ẓallū fīhi yaʿrujūna

Were We to open for them a gate of the sky, so that they could go on ascending through it,

— Ali Quli Qarai

la-qālū ʾinnamā sukkirat ʾabṣārunā bal naḥnu qawmun masḥūrūna

they would surely say, ‘Indeed a spell has been cast on our eyes; indeed, we are a bewitched lot.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-la-qad jaʿalnā fī s-samāʾi burūjan wa-zayyannāhā li-n-nāẓirīna

Certainly We have appointed houses in the sky and adorned them for the onlookers,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ḥafiẓnāhā min kulli shayṭānin rajīmin

and We have guarded them from every outcast Satan,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾillā mani staraqa s-samʿa fa-ʾatbaʿahū shihābun mubīnun

except someone who may eavesdrop, whereat there pursues him a manifest flame.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-l-ʾarḍa madadnāhā wa-ʾalqaynā fīhā rawāsiya wa-ʾanbatnā fīhā min kulli shayʾin mawzūnin

And We spread out the earth, and cast in it firm mountains, and We grew in it every kind of balanced thing,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-jaʿalnā lakum fīhā maʿāyisha wa-man lastum lahū bi-rāziqīna

and made in it [various] means of livelihood for you and for those whom you do not provide for.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾin min shayʾin ʾillā ʿindanā khazāʾinuhū wa-mā nunazziluhū ʾillā bi-qadarin maʿlūmin

There is not a thing but that its sources are with Us, and We do not send it down except in a known measure.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾarsalnā r-riyāḥa lawāqiḥa fa-ʾanzalnā mina s-samāʾi māʾan fa-ʾasqaynākumūhu wa-mā ʾantum lahū bi-khāzinīna

And We send the fertilizing winds and send down water from the sky providing it for you to drink and you are not maintainers of its resources.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾinnā la-naḥnu nuḥyī wa-numītu wa-naḥnu l-wārithūna

Indeed it is We who give life and bring death and We are the inheritors.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ʿalimnā l-mustaqdimīna minkum wa-la-qad ʿalimnā l-mustaʾkhirīna

Certainly We know the predecessors among you and certainly We know the successors,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾinna rabbaka huwa yaḥshuruhum ʾinnahū ḥakīmun ʿalīmun

and indeed it is your Lord who will resurrect them. Indeed, He is all-wise, all-knowing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad khalaqnā l-ʾinsāna min ṣalṣālin min ḥamaʾin masnūnin

Certainly We created man out of a dry clay [drawn] from an aging mud,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-l-jānna khalaqnāhu min qablu min nāri s-samūmi

and We created the jinn earlier, out of a piercing fire.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidh qāla rabbuka li-l-malāʾikati ʾinnī khāliqun basharan min ṣalṣālin min ḥamaʾin masnūnin

When your Lord said to the angels, ‘Indeed I am going to create a human out of a dry clay [drawn] from an aging mud.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾidhā sawwaytuhū wa-nafakhtu fīhi min rūḥī fa-qaʿū lahū sājidīna

So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down in prostration before him.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-sajada l-malāʾikatu kulluhum ʾajmaʿūna

Thereat the angels prostrated, all of them together,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾillā ʾiblīsa ʾabā ʾan yakūna maʿa s-sājidīna

but not Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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qāla yā-ʾiblīsu mā laka ʾallā takūna maʿa s-sājidīna

He said, ‘O Iblis! What kept you from being among those who have prostrated?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla lam ʾakun li-ʾasjuda li-basharin khalaqtahū min ṣalṣālin min ḥamaʾin masnūnin

Said he, ‘I will not prostrate before a human whom You have created out of a dry clay [drawn] from an aging mud.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla fa-khruj minhā fa-ʾinnaka rajīmun

He said, ‘Begone hence, for you are indeed an outcast,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾinna ʿalayka l-laʿnata ʾilā yawmi d-dīni

and indeed the curse shall lie on you until the Day of Retribution.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla rabbi fa-ʾanẓirnī ʾilā yawmi yubʿathūna

He said, ‘My Lord! Respite me till the day they will be resurrected.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla fa-ʾinnaka mina l-munẓarīna

Said He, ‘You are indeed among the reprieved

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾilā yawmi l-waqti l-maʿlūmi

until the day of the known time.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla rabbi bi-mā ʾaghwaytanī la-ʾuzayyinanna lahum fī l-ʾarḍi wa-la-ʾughwiyannahum ʾajmaʿīna

He said, ‘My Lord! As You have consigned me to perversity, I will surely glamorize [evil] for them on the earth, and I will surely pervert them, all

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾillā ʿibādaka minhumu l-mukhlaṣīna

except Your dedicated servants among them.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla hādhā ṣirāṭun ʿalayya mustaqīmun

He said, ‘This is the path [leading] straight to Me.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna ʿibādī laysa laka ʿalayhim sulṭānun ʾillā mani ttabaʿaka mina l-ghāwīna

Indeed, as for My servants you do not have any authority over them, except the perverse who follow you,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾinna jahannama la-mawʿiduhum ʾajmaʿīna

and indeed hell is the tryst of them all.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lahā sabʿatu ʾabwābin li-kulli bābin minhum juzʾun maqsūmun

It has seven gates, and to each gate belongs a separate portion of them.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna l-muttaqīna fī jannātin wa-ʿuyūnin-i

Indeed the Godwary will be amid gardens and springs.

— Ali Quli Qarai

udkhulūhā bi-salāmin ʾāminīna

‘‘Enter it in peace and safety!’’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-nazaʿnā mā fī ṣudūrihim min ghillin ʾikhwānan ʿalā sururin mutaqābilīna

We will remove whatever rancour there is in their breasts; [intimate like] brothers, [they will be reclining] on couches, facing one another.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā yamassuhum fīhā naṣabun wa-mā hum minhā bi-mukhrajīna

Therein neither weariness shall touch them, nor will they [ever] be expelled from it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

nabbiʾ ʿibādī ʾannī ʾana l-ghafūru r-raḥīmu

Inform my servants that I am indeed the All-forgiving, the All-merciful,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾanna ʿadhābī huwa l-ʿadhābu l-ʾalīmu

and that My punishment is a painful punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-nabbiʾhum ʿan ḍayfi ʾibrāhīma

And inform them about the guests of Abraham,

— Ali Quli Qarai

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ʾidh dakhalū ʿalayhi fa-qālū salāman qāla ʾinnā minkum wajilūna

when they entered into his presence and said, ‘Peace!’ He said, ‘We are indeed afraid of you.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū lā tawjal ʾinnā nubashshiruka bi-ghulāmin ʿalīmin

They said, ‘Do not be afraid. Indeed we give you the good news of a wise son.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla ʾa-bashshartumūnī ʿalā ʾan massaniya l-kibaru fa-bi-ma tubashshirūna

He said, ‘Do you give me good news though old age has befallen me? What is the good news that you bring me?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū bashsharnāka bi-l-ḥaqqi fa-lā takun mina l-qāniṭīna

They said, ‘We bring you good news in truth; so do not be despondent.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla wa-man yaqnaṭu min raḥmati rabbihī ʾillā ḍ-ḍāllūna

He said, ‘Who despairs of his Lord’s mercy except the astray?!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla fa-mā khaṭbukum ʾayyuhā l-mursalūna

He said, ‘O messengers, what is now your errand?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū ʾinnā ʾursilnā ʾilā qawmin mujrimīna

They said, ‘We have been sent toward a guilty people,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾillā ʾāla lūṭin ʾinnā la-munajjūhum ʾajmaʿīna

[who shall perish] except the family of Lot. We will indeed deliver all of them,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾillā mraʾatahū qaddarnā ʾinnahā la-mina l-ghābirīna

except his wife, [who], We have ordained, will indeed be among those who remain behind.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-lammā jāʾa ʾāla lūṭin-i l-mursalūna

So when the messengers came to Lot’s family,

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla ʾinnakum qawmun munkarūna

he said, ‘You are indeed strangers [to me].’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū bal jiʾnāka bi-mā kānū fīhi yamtarūna

They said, ‘Indeed, we bring you what they used to doubt.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾataynāka bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-ʾinnā la-ṣādiqūna

We bring you the truth, and indeed, we speak truly.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾasri bi-ʾahlika bi-qiṭʿin mina l-layli wa-ttabiʿ ʾadbārahum wa-lā yaltafit minkum ʾaḥadun wa-mḍū ḥaythu tuʾmarūna

Take your family in a watch of the night; and follow in their rear, and none of you should turn round, and proceed as you are bidden.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qaḍaynā ʾilayhi dhālika l-ʾamra ʾanna dābira hāʾulāʾi maqṭūʿun muṣbiḥīna

We apprised him of the matter that these will be rooted out by dawn.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-jāʾa ʾahlu l-madīnati yastabshirūna

The people of the city came, rejoicing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla ʾinna hāʾulāʾi ḍayfī fa-lā tafḍaḥūni

He said, ‘These are indeed my guests. Do not bring dishonour on me.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ttaqū llāha wa-lā tukhzūni

Be wary of Allah and do not humiliate me.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū ʾa-wa-lam nanhaka ʿani l-ʿālamīna

They said, ‘Did we not forbid you from [defending ] strangers?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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qāla hāʾulāʾi banātī ʾin kuntum fāʿilīna

He said, ‘These are my daughters, [marry them] if you should do anything.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

la-ʿamruka ʾinnahum la-fī sakratihim yaʿmahūna

By your life, they were bewildered in their drunkenness.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾakhadhathumu ṣ-ṣayḥatu mushriqīna

So the Cry seized them at sunrise,

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-jaʿalnā ʿāliyahā sāfilahā wa-ʾamṭarnā ʿalayhim ḥijāratan min sijjīlin

and We made its topmost part its nethermost, and rained on them stones of shale.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyātin li-l-mutawassimīna

There are indeed signs in that for the percipient.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾinnahā la-bi-sabīlin muqīmin

Indeed it is on a standing road,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyatan li-l-muʾminīna

and there is indeed a sign in that for the faithful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾin kāna ʾaṣḥābu l-ʾaykati la-ẓālimīna

Indeed the inhabitants of Aykah were [also] wrongdoers.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ntaqamnā minhum wa-ʾinnahumā la-bi-ʾimāmin mubīnin

So We took vengeance on them, and indeed the two of them are on an open highway.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad kadhdhaba ʾaṣḥābu l-ḥijri l-mursalīna

Certainly the inhabitants of Hijr denied the apostles.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾātaynāhum ʾāyātinā fa-kānū ʿanhā muʿriḍīna

We had given them Our signs but they disregarded them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-kānū yanḥitūna mina l-jibāli buyūtan ʾāminīna

They used to hew out dwellings from mountains feeling secure.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾakhadhathumu ṣ-ṣayḥatu muṣbiḥīna

So the Cry seized them at dawn,

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-mā ʾaghnā ʿanhum mā kānū yaksibūna

and what they used to earn did not avail them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā khalaqnā s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā ʾillā bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-ʾinna s-sāʿata la-ʾātiyatun fa-ṣfaḥi ṣ-ṣafḥa l-jamīla

We did not create the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them except with consummate wisdom, and indeed the Hour is bound to come. So forbear with a graceful forbearance.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna rabbaka huwa l-khallāqu l-ʿalīmu

Indeed your Lord is the All-creator, the All-knowing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ʾātaynāka sabʿan mina l-mathānī wa-l-qurʾāna l-ʿaẓīma

Certainly We have given you [the surah of] the seven oft-repeated verses and the great Quran.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā tamuddanna ʿaynayka ʾilā mā mattaʿnā bihī ʾazwājan minhum wa-lā taḥzan ʿalayhim wa-khfiḍ janāḥaka li-l-muʾminīna

Do not extend your glance toward what We have provided to certain groups of them, and do not grieve for them, and lower your wing to the faithful,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qul ʾinnī ʾana n-nadhīru l-mubīnu

and say, ‘I am indeed a manifest warner [of punishment from God],’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ka-mā ʾanzalnā ʿalā l-muqtasimīna

like that We sent down upon those who split into bands,

— Ali Quli Qarai

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alladhīna jaʿalū l-qurʿāna ʿiḍīna

who represented the Quran as magic.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-wa-rabbika la-nasʾalannahum ʾajmaʿīna

By your Lord, We will question them all

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʿammā kānū yaʿmalūna

concerning what they used to do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ṣdaʿ bi-mā tuʾmaru wa-ʾaʿriḍ ʿani l-mushrikīna

So proclaim what you have been commanded, and turn away from the polytheists.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnā kafaynāka l-mustahziʾīna

Indeed We will suffice you against the deriders

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhīna yajʿalūna maʿa llāhi ʾilāhan ʾākhara fa-sawfa yaʿlamūna

—those who set up another deity besides Allah. Soon they will know!

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad naʿlamu ʾannaka yaḍīqu ṣadruka bi-mā yaqūlūna

Certainly We know that you become upset because of what they say.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-sabbiḥ bi-ḥamdi rabbika wa-kun mina s-sājidīna

So celebrate the praise of your Lord and be among those who prostrate,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʿbud rabbaka ḥattā yaʾtiyaka l-yaqīnu

and worship your Lord until certainty comes to you.

— Ali Quli Qarai