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Al-'Anbiyā’

Al Anbiyā’

The Prophets

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iqtaraba li-n-nāsi ḥisābuhum wa-hum fī ghaflatin muʿriḍūna

Mankind’s reckoning has drawn near to them, yet they are disregardful in [their] obliviousness.

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā yaʾtīhim min dhikrin min rabbihim muḥdathin ʾillā stamaʿūhu wa-hum yalʿabūna

There does not come to them any new reminder from their Lord but they listen to it as they play around,

— Ali Quli Qarai

lāhiyatan qulūbuhum wa-ʾasarrū n-najwā lladhīna ẓalamū hal hādhā ʾillā basharun mithlukum ʾa-fa-taʾtūna s-siḥra wa-ʾantum tubṣirūna

their hearts set on diversions. The wrongdoers secretly whisper together, [saying], ‘Is this [man] not a human being like yourselves? Will you give in to magic with open eyes?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla rabbī yaʿlamu l-qawla fī s-samāʾi wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-huwa s-samīʿu l-ʿalīmu

He said, ‘My Lord knows every word [spoken] in the sky and on the earth, and He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

bal qālū ʾaḍghāthu ʾaḥlāmin bali ftarāhu bal huwa shāʿirun fa-l-yaʾtinā bi-ʾāyatin ka-mā ʾursila l-ʾawwalūna

But they said, ‘[They are] muddled dreams!’ ‘Indeed, he has fabricated it!’ ‘Indeed, he is a poet!’ ‘Let him bring us a sign, like those sent to the former generations.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā ʾāmanat qablahum min qaryatin ʾahlaknāhā ʾa-fa-hum yuʾminūna

No town that We destroyed before them believed. Will these then have faith [if they are sent signs]?

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā ʾarsalnā qablaka ʾillā rijālan nūḥī ʾilayhim fa-sʾalū ʾahla dh-dhikri ʾin kuntum lā taʿlamūna

We did not send [any apostles] before you except as men to whom We revealed. Ask the People of the Reminder if you do not know.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā jaʿalnāhum jasadan lā yaʾkulūna ṭ-ṭaʿāma wa-mā kānū khālidīna

We did not make them bodies that did not eat food, nor were they immortal.

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma ṣadaqnāhumu l-waʿda fa-ʾanjaynāhum wa-man nashāʾu wa-ʾahlaknā l-musrifīna

Then We fulfilled Our promise to them, and We delivered them and whomever We wished, and We destroyed the transgressors.

— Ali Quli Qarai

la-qad ʾanzalnā ʾilaykum kitāban fīhi dhikrukum ʾa-fa-lā taʿqilūna

Certainly We have sent down to you a Book in which there is an admonition for you. Do you not exercise your reason?

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-kam qaṣamnā min qaryatin kānat ẓālimatan wa-ʾanshaʾnā baʿdahā qawman ʾākharīna

How many a town We have smashed that had been wrongdoing, and We brought forth another people after it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-lammā ʾaḥassū baʾsanā ʾidhā hum minhā yarkuḍūna

So when they sighted Our punishment, behold, they ran away from it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā tarkuḍū wa-rjiʿū ʾilā mā ʾutriftum fīhi wa-masākinikum laʿallakum tusʾalūna

‘Do not run away! Return to the opulence you were given to enjoy and to your dwellings so that you may be questioned!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū yā-waylanā ʾinnā kunnā ẓālimīna

They said, ‘Woe to us! We have indeed been wrongdoers!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-mā zālat tilka daʿwāhum ḥattā jaʿalnāhum ḥaṣīdan khāmidīna

That remained their cry until We turned them into a mown field, stilled [like burnt ashes].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā khalaqnā s-samāʾa wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā lāʿibīna

We did not create the sky and the earth and whatever is between them for play.

— Ali Quli Qarai

law ʾaradnā ʾan nattakhidha lahwan la-ttakhadhnāhu min ladunnā ʾin kunnā fāʿilīna

Had We desired to take up some diversion We would have taken it up with Ourselves, were We to do [so].

— Ali Quli Qarai

bal naqdhifu bi-l-ḥaqqi ʿalā l-bāṭili fa-yadmaghuhū fa-ʾidhā huwa zāhiqun wa-lakumu l-waylu mimmā taṣifūna

Indeed, We hurl the truth against falsehood, and it crushes its head, and behold, falsehood vanishes! And woe to you for what you allege [about Allah].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lahū man fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-man ʿindahū lā yastakbirūna ʿan ʿibādatihī wa-lā yastaḥsirūna

To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth, and those who are near Him do not disdain to worship Him, nor do they become weary.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yusabbiḥūna l-layla wa-n-nahāra lā yafturūna

They glorify [Him] night and day, and they do not flag.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾami ttakhadhū ʾālihatan mina l-ʾarḍi hum yunshirūna

Have they taken gods from the earth who raise [the dead]?

— Ali Quli Qarai

law kāna fīhimā ʾālihatun ʾillā llāhu la-fasadatā fa-subḥāna llāhi rabbi l-ʿarshi ʿammā yaṣifūna

Had there been any gods in them other than Allah, they would surely have fallen apart. Clear is Allah, the Lord of the Throne, of what they allege [concerning Him].

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā yusʾalu ʿammā yafʿalu wa-hum yusʾalūna

He is not questioned concerning what He does, but they are questioned.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾami ttakhadhū min dūnihī ʾālihatan qul hātū burhānakum hādhā dhikru man maʿiya wa-dhikru man qablī bal ʾaktharuhum lā yaʿlamūna l-ḥaqqa fa-hum muʿriḍūna

Have they taken gods besides Him? Say, ‘Produce your evidence! This is a precept of those who are with me, and a precept of those [who went] before me.’ But most of them do not know the truth, and so they are disregardful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-mā ʾarsalnā min qablika min rasūlin ʾillā nūḥī ʾilayhi ʾannahū lā ʾilāha ʾillā ʾana fa-ʿbudūni

We did not send any apostle before you but that We revealed to him that ‘There is no god except Me; so worship Me.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qālū ttakhadha r-raḥmānu waladan subḥānahū bal ʿibādun mukramūna

They say, ‘The All-beneficent has taken offsprings.’ Immaculate is He! Indeed, they are [His] honoured servants.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā yasbiqūnahū bi-l-qawli wa-hum bi-ʾamrihī yaʿmalūna

They do not venture to speak ahead of Him, and they act by His command.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yaʿlamu mā bayna ʾaydīhim wa-mā khalfahum wa-lā yashfaʿūna ʾillā li-mani rtaḍā wa-hum min khashyatihī mushfiqūna

He knows that which is before them and that which is behind them, and they do not intercede except for someone He approves of, and they are apprehensive for the fear of Him.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-man yaqul minhum ʾinnī ʾilāhun min dūnihī fa-dhālika najzīhi jahannama ka-dhālika najzī ẓ-ẓālimīna

Should any of them say, ‘I am a god besides Him,’ We will requite him with hell. Thus do We requite the wrongdoers.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-wa-lam yara lladhīna kafarū ʾanna s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa kānatā ratqan fa-fataqnāhumā wa-jaʿalnā mina l-māʾi kulla shayʾin ḥayyin ʾa-fa-lā yuʾminūna

Have the faithless not regarded that the heavens and the earth were interwoven and We unravelled them, and We made every living thing out of water? Will they not then have faith?

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-jaʿalnā fī l-ʾarḍi rawāsiya ʾan tamīda bihim wa-jaʿalnā fīhā fijājan subulan laʿallahum yahtadūna

We set firm mountains in the earth lest it should shake with them, and We made broad ways in them so that they may be guided [to their destinations].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-jaʿalnā s-samāʾa saqfan maḥfūẓan wa-hum ʿan ʾāyātihā muʿriḍūna

We made the sky a preserved roof and yet they are disregardful of its signs.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-huwa lladhī khalaqa l-layla wa-n-nahāra wa-sh-shamsa wa-l-qamara kullun fī falakin yasbaḥūna

It is He who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon, each swimming in an orbit.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā jaʿalnā li-basharin min qablika l-khulda ʾa-fa-ʾin mitta fa-humu l-khālidūna

We did not give immortality to any human before you. If you are fated to die, will they live on forever?

— Ali Quli Qarai

kullu nafsin dhāʾiqatu l-mawti wa-nablūkum bi-sh-sharri wa-l-khayri fitnatan wa-ʾilaynā turjaʿūna

Every soul shall taste death, and We will test you with good and ill by way of test, and to Us you will be brought back.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-ʾidhā raʾāka lladhīna kafarū ʾin yattakhidhūnaka ʾillā huzuwan ʾa-hādhā lladhī yadhkuru ʾālihatakum wa-hum bi-dhikri r-raḥmāni hum kāfirūna

Whenever the faithless see you they only take you in derision: ‘Is this the one who remembers your gods?’ while they remain defiant towards the remembrance of the All-beneficent.

— Ali Quli Qarai

khuliqa l-ʾinsānu min ʿajalin sa-ʾurīkum ʾāyātī fa-lā tastaʿjilūni

Man is a creature of haste. Soon I will show you My signs. So do not ask Me to hasten.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-yaqūlūna matā hādhā l-waʿdu ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

And they say, ‘When will this promise be fulfilled, if you are truthful?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

law yaʿlamu lladhīna kafarū ḥīna lā yakuffūna ʿan wujūhihimu n-nāra wa-lā ʿan ẓuhūrihim wa-lā hum yunṣarūna

If only the faithless knew about the time when they will not be able to keep the Fire off their faces and their backs, nor will they be helped!

— Ali Quli Qarai

bal taʾtīhim baghtatan fa-tabhatuhum fa-lā yastaṭīʿūna raddahā wa-lā hum yunẓarūna

Indeed, it will overtake them suddenly, dumbfounding them. So they will neither be able to avert it, nor will they be granted any respite.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qadi stuhziʾa bi-rusulin min qablika fa-ḥāqa bi-lladhīna sakhirū minhum mā kānū bihī yastahziʾūna

Apostles were certainly derided before you; but those who ridiculed them were besieged by what they had been deriding.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul man yaklaʾukum bi-l-layli wa-n-nahāri mina r-raḥmāni bal hum ʿan dhikri rabbihim muʿriḍūna

Say, ‘Who can guard you, day and night, against [the punishment of] the All-beneficent [should He want to punish you]?’ Indeed, they are disregardful of their Lord’s remembrance.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾam lahum ʾālihatun tamnaʿuhum min dūninā lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣra ʾanfusihim wa-lā hum minnā yuṣḥabūna

Do they have gods besides Us to defend them? Neither can they help themselves, nor can they shield [the idolaters] from Us.

— Ali Quli Qarai

bal mattaʿnā hāʾulāʾi wa-ʾābāʾahum ḥattā ṭāla ʿalayhimu l-ʿumuru ʾa-fa-lā yarawna ʾannā naʾtī l-ʾarḍa nanquṣuhā min ʾaṭrāfihā ʾa-fa-humu l-ghālibūna

Indeed, We have provided for them and their fathers until they lived on for long years. Do they not see how We visit the land diminishing it at its edges? Are they the ones who will prevail?

— Ali Quli Qarai

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qul ʾinnamā ʾundhirukum bi-l-waḥyi wa-lā yasmaʿu ṣ-ṣummu d-duʿāʾa ʾidhā mā yundharūna

Say, ‘I indeed warn you by the means of revelation.’ But the deaf do not hear the call when they are warned.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-ʾin massathum nafḥatun min ʿadhābi rabbika la-yaqūlunna yā-waylanā ʾinnā kunnā ẓālimīna

Should a whiff of your Lord’s punishment touch them, they will surely say, ‘Woe to us! We have indeed been wrongdoers!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-naḍaʿu l-mawāzīna l-qisṭa li-yawmi l-qiyāmati fa-lā tuẓlamu nafsun shayʾan wa-ʾin kāna mithqāla ḥabbatin min khardalin ʾataynā bihā wa-kafā binā ḥāsibīna

We shall set up just scales on the Day of Resurrection, and no soul will be wronged in the least. Even if it be the weight of a mustard seed We shall produce it and We suffice as reckoners.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ʾātaynā mūsā wa-hārūna l-furqāna wa-ḍiyāʾan wa-dhikran li-l-muttaqīna

Certainly We gave Moses and Aaron the Criterion, a light and reminder for the Godwary

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhīna yakhshawna rabbahum bi-l-ghaybi wa-hum mina s-sāʿati mushfiqūna

—those who fear their Lord in secret, and who are apprehensive of the Hour.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-hādhā dhikrun mubārakun ʾanzalnāhu ʾa-fa-ʾantum lahū munkirūna

This [too] is a blessed reminder, which We have sent down. Will you then deny it?

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ʾātaynā ʾibrāhīma rushdahū min qablu wa-kunnā bihī ʿālimīna

Certainly We had given Abraham his probity before, and We knew him

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh qāla li-ʾabīhi wa-qawmihī mā hādhihi t-tamāthīlu llatī ʾantum lahā ʿākifūna

when he said to his father and his people, ‘What are these images to which you keep on clinging?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū wajadnā ʾābāʾanā lahā ʿābidīna

They said, ‘We found our fathers worshipping them.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla la-qad kuntum ʾantum wa-ʾābāʾukum fī ḍalālin mubīnin

He said, ‘Certainly you and your fathers have been in manifest error.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū ʾa-jiʾtanā bi-l-ḥaqqi ʾam ʾanta mina l-lāʿibīna

They said, ‘Are you telling the truth, or are you [just] kidding?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla bal rabbukum rabbu s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi lladhī faṭarahunna wa-ʾana ʿalā dhālikum mina sh-shāhidīna

He said, ‘Indeed, your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, who originated them, and I affirm that.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ta-llāhi la-ʾakīdanna ʾaṣnāmakum baʿda ʾan tuwallū mudbirīna

By Allah, I will devise a stratagem against your idols after you have gone away.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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fa-jaʿalahum judhādhan ʾillā kabīran lahum laʿallahum ʾilayhi yarjiʿūna

So he broke them into pieces—all except the biggest of them—so that they might come back to it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū man faʿala hādhā bi-ʾālihatinā ʾinnahū la-mina ẓ-ẓālimīna

They said, ‘Whoever has done this to Our gods?! He is indeed a wrongdoer!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū samiʿnā fatan yadhkuruhum yuqālu lahū ʾibrāhīmu

They said, ‘We heard a young man mentioning them. He is called ‘‘Abraham.’’ ’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū fa-ʾtū bihī ʿalā ʾaʿyuni n-nāsi laʿallahum yashhadūna

They said, ‘Bring him before the people’s eyes so that they may bear witness [against him].’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū ʾa-ʾanta faʿalta hādhā bi-ʾālihatinā yā-ʾibrāhīmu

They said, ‘Was it you who did this to our gods, O Abraham?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla bal faʿalahū kabīruhum hādhā fa-sʾalūhum ʾin kānū yanṭiqūna

He said, ‘No, it was this biggest one of them who did it! Ask them, if they can speak.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-rajaʿū ʾilā ʾanfusihim fa-qālū ʾinnakum ʾantumu ẓ-ẓālimūna

Thereat they came to themselves and said [to one another], ‘Indeed it is you who are the wrongdoers!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma nukisū ʿalā ruʾūsihim la-qad ʿalimta mā hāʾulāʾi yanṭiqūna

Then they hung their heads. [However, they said,] ‘You certainly know that they cannot speak.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla ʾa-fa-taʿbudūna min dūni llāhi mā lā yanfaʿukum shayʾan wa-lā yaḍurrukum

He said, ‘Then, do you worship besides Allah that which cannot cause you any benefit or harm?

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾuffin lakum wa-li-mā taʿbudūna min dūni llāhi ʾa-fa-lā taʿqilūna

Fie on you and what you worship besides Allah! Do you not exercise your reason?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū ḥarriqūhu wa-nṣurū ʾālihatakum ʾin kuntum fāʿilīna

They said, ‘Burn him, and help your gods, if you are to do anything!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qulnā yā-nāru kūnī bardan wa-salāman ʿalā ʾibrāhīma

We said, ‘O fire! Be cool and safe for Abraham!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾarādū bihī kaydan fa-jaʿalnāhumu l-ʾakhsarīna

They plotted to harm him, but We made them the biggest losers.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-najjaynāhu wa-lūṭan ʾilā l-ʾarḍi llatī bāraknā fīhā li-l-ʿālamīna

We delivered him and Lot toward the land, which We have blessed for all nations.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-wahabnā lahū ʾisḥāqa wa-yaʿqūba nāfilatan wa-kullan jaʿalnā ṣāliḥīna

And We gave him Isaac, and Jacob as well for a grandson, and each of them We made righteous.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-jaʿalnāhum ʾaʾimmatan yahdūna bi-ʾamrinā wa-ʾawḥaynā ʾilayhim fiʿla l-khayrāti wa-ʾiqāma ṣ-ṣalāti wa-ʾītāʾa z-zakāti wa-kānū lanā ʿābidīna

We made them imams, guiding by Our command, and We revealed to them [concerning] the performance of good deeds, the maintenance of prayers, and the giving of zakat, and they used to worship Us.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lūṭan ʾātaynāhu ḥukman wa-ʿilman wa-najjaynāhu mina l-qaryati llatī kānat taʿmalu l-khabāʾitha ʾinnahum kānū qawma sawʾin fāsiqīna

We gave judgement and knowledge to Lot, and We delivered him from the town which used to commit vicious acts. Indeed, they were an evil and depraved lot.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾadkhalnāhu fī raḥmatinā ʾinnahū mina ṣ-ṣāliḥīna

And We admitted him into Our mercy. Indeed, he was one of the righteous.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-nūḥan ʾidh nādā min qablu fa-stajabnā lahū fa-najjaynāhu wa-ʾahlahū mina l-karbi l-ʿaẓīmi

And before that Noah, when he called out, We responded to him and delivered him and his family from the great agony.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-naṣarnāhu mina l-qawmi lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā ʾinnahum kānū qawma sawʾin fa-ʾaghraqnāhum ʾajmaʿīna

And We helped him against the people who denied Our signs. They were indeed an evil lot; so We drowned them all.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-dāwūda wa-sulaymāna ʾidh yaḥkumāni fī l-ḥarthi ʾidh nafashat fīhi ghanamu l-qawmi wa-kunnā li-ḥukmihim shāhidīna

And [remember] David and Solomon when they gave judgement concerning the tillage when the sheep of some people strayed into it by night, and We were witness to their judgement.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-fahhamnāhā sulaymāna wa-kullan ʾātaynā ḥukman wa-ʿilman wa-sakhkharnā maʿa dāwūda l-jibāla yusabbiḥna wa-ṭ-ṭayra wa-kunnā fāʿilīna

We gave its understanding to Solomon, and to each We gave judgement and knowledge. We disposed the mountains and the birds to glorify [Us] with David, and We have been the doer [of these things].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʿallamnāhu ṣanʿata labūsin lakum li-tuḥṣinakum min baʾsikum fa-hal ʾantum shākirūna

We taught him the making of coats of mail for you, to protect you from your [own] violence. Will you then be grateful?

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-li-sulaymāna r-rīḥa ʿāṣifatan tajrī bi-ʾamrihī ʾilā l-ʾarḍi llatī bāraknā fīhā wa-kunnā bi-kulli shayʾin ʿālimīna

And [We disposed] for Solomon the tempestuous wind which blew by his command toward the land which We have blessed, and We have knowledge of all things.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-mina sh-shayāṭīni man yaghūṣūna lahū wa-yaʿmalūna ʿamalan dūna dhālika wa-kunnā lahum ḥāfiẓīna

Among the devils were some who dived for him and performed tasks other than that, and We were watchful over them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾayyūba ʾidh nādā rabbahū ʾannī massaniya ḍ-ḍurru wa-ʾanta ʾarḥamu r-rāḥimīna

And [remember] Job, when he called out to his Lord, ‘Indeed distress has befallen me, and You are the most merciful of the merciful.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-stajabnā lahū fa-kashafnā mā bihī min ḍurrin wa-ʾātaynāhu ʾahlahū wa-mithlahum maʿahum raḥmatan min ʿindinā wa-dhikrā li-l-ʿābidīna

So We answered his prayer and removed his distress, and We gave him [back] his family along with others like them, as a mercy from Us and an admonition for the devout.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾismāʿīla wa-ʾidrīsa wa-dhā l-kifli kullun mina ṣ-ṣābirīna

And [remember] Ishmael, Idris, and Dhul-Kifl—each of them was among the patient.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾadkhalnāhum fī raḥmatinā ʾinnahum mina ṣ-ṣāliḥīna

We admitted them into Our mercy. Indeed, they were among the righteous.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-dhā n-nūni ʾidh dhahaba mughāḍiban fa-ẓanna ʾan lan naqdira ʿalayhi fa-nādā fī ẓ-ẓulumāti ʾan lā ʾilāha ʾillā ʾanta subḥānaka ʾinnī kuntu mina ẓ-ẓālimīna

And [remember] the Man of the Fish, when he left in a rage, thinking that We would not put him to hardship. Then he cried out in the darkness, ‘There is no god except You! You are immaculate! I have indeed been among the wrongdoers!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-stajabnā lahū wa-najjaynāhu mina l-ghammi wa-ka-dhālika nunjī l-muʾminīna

So We answered his prayer and delivered him from the agony; and thus do We deliver the faithful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-zakariyyā ʾidh nādā rabbahū rabbi lā tadharnī fardan wa-ʾanta khayru l-wārithīna

And [remember] Zechariah, when he cried out to his Lord, ‘My Lord! Do not leave me without an heir, and You are the best of inheritors.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-stajabnā lahū wa-wahabnā lahū yaḥyā wa-ʾaṣlaḥnā lahū zawjahū ʾinnahum kānū yusāriʿūna fī l-khayrāti wa-yadʿūnanā raghaban wa-rahaban wa-kānū lanā khāshiʿīna

So We answered his prayer, and gave him John, and cured for him his wife [of infertility]. Indeed, they were active in [performing] good works, and they would supplicate Us with eagerness and awe and were humble before Us.

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wa-llatī ʾaḥṣanat farjahā fa-nafakhnā fīhā min rūḥinā wa-jaʿalnāhā wa-bnahā ʾāyatan li-l-ʿālamīna

And [remember] her who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her Our spirit, and made her and her son a sign for all the nations.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna hādhihī ʾummatukum ʾummatan wāḥidatan wa-ʾana rabbukum fa-ʿbudūni

Indeed this community of yours is one community, and I am your Lord. So worship Me.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-taqaṭṭaʿū ʾamrahum baynahum kullun ʾilaynā rājiʿūna

They have fragmented their religion among themselves, but everyone of them will return to Us.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-man yaʿmal mina ṣ-ṣāliḥāti wa-huwa muʾminun fa-lā kufrāna li-saʿyihī wa-ʾinnā lahū kātibūna

Whoever is faithful and does righteous deeds, his endeavour shall not go unappreciated, and We will indeed record it for him.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ḥarāmun ʿalā qaryatin ʾahlaknāhā ʾannahum lā yarjiʿūna

It is forbidden for [the people of] any town that We have destroyed [to return to the world]: they shall not return,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ḥattā ʾidhā futiḥat yaʾjūju wa-maʾjūju wa-hum min kulli ḥadabin yansilūna

until when Gog and Magog are let loose, and they race down from every slope,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qtaraba l-waʿdu l-ḥaqqu fa-ʾidhā hiya shākhiṣatun ʾabṣāru lladhīna kafarū yā-waylanā qad kunnā fī ghaflatin min hādhā bal kunnā ẓālimīna

and the true promise draws near [to its fulfillment], behold, the faithless will look on with a fixed gaze: ‘Woe to us! We have certainly been oblivious of this! Indeed, we have been wrongdoers!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnakum wa-mā taʿbudūna min dūni llāhi ḥaṣabu jahannama ʾantum lahā wāridūna

Indeed you and what [idols] you worship besides Allah shall be fuel for hell, and you will enter it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

law kāna hāʾulāʾi ʾālihatan mā waradūhā wa-kullun fīhā khālidūna

Had they been gods, they would not have entered it, and they will all remain in it [forever].

— Ali Quli Qarai

lahum fīhā zafīrun wa-hum fīhā lā yasmaʿūna

Their lot therein will be groaning, and they will not hear anything in it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna lladhīna sabaqat lahum minnā l-ḥusnā ʾulāʾika ʿanhā mubʿadūna

Indeed those to whom there has gone beforehand [the promise of] the best reward from Us will be kept away from it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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lā yasmaʿūna ḥasīsahā wa-hum fī mā shtahat ʾanfusuhum khālidūna

They will not hear even its faint sound and they will remain [forever] in what their souls desire.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā yaḥzunuhumu l-fazaʿu l-ʾakbaru wa-tatalaqqāhumu l-malāʾikatu hādhā yawmukumu lladhī kuntum tūʿadūna

The Great Terror will not upset them, and the angels will receive them [saying]: ‘This is your day which you were promised.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

yawma naṭwī s-samāʾa ka-ṭayyi s-sijilli li-l-kutubi ka-mā badaʾnā ʾawwala khalqin nuʿīduhū waʿdan ʿalaynā ʾinnā kunnā fāʿilīna

The day We shall roll up the heaven, like rolling of the scrolls [meant] for writings. We will bring it back just as We began the first creation—a promise [binding] on Us. [That] indeed We will do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad katabnā fī z-zabūri min baʿdi dh-dhikri ʾanna l-ʾarḍa yarithuhā ʿibādiya ṣ-ṣāliḥūna

Certainly We wrote in the Psalms, after the Torah: ‘Indeed My righteous servants shall inherit the earth.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna fī hādhā la-balāghan li-qawmin ʿābidīna

There is indeed in this a proclamation for a devout people.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā ʾarsalnāka ʾillā raḥmatan li-l-ʿālamīna

We did not send you but as a mercy to all the nations.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul ʾinnamā yūḥā ʾilayya ʾannamā ʾilāhukum ʾilāhun wāḥidun fa-hal ʾantum muslimūna

Say, ‘It has been revealed to me that your God is the One God. So will you submit?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾin tawallaw fa-qul ʾādhantukum ʿalā sawāʾin wa-ʾin ʾadrī ʾa-qarībun ʾam baʿīdun mā tūʿadūna

But if they turn away, say, ‘I have proclaimed to you all alike, and I do not know whether what you have been promised is far or near.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnahū yaʿlamu l-jahra mina l-qawli wa-yaʿlamu mā taktumūna

Indeed He knows whatever is spoken aloud, and He knows whatever you conceal.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾin ʾadrī laʿallahū fitnatun lakum wa-matāʿun ʾilā ḥīnin

I do not know—maybe it is a trial for you and an enjoyment for a while.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla rabbi ḥkum bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-rabbunā r-raḥmānu l-mustaʿānu ʿalā mā taṣifūna

He said, ‘My Lord! Judge [between us and the polytheists] with justice.’ ‘Our Lord is the All-beneficent; [He is our] resort against what you allege.’

— Ali Quli Qarai