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tabāraka lladhī nazzala l-furqāna ʿalā ʿabdihī li-yakūna li-l-ʿālamīna nadhīran-i

Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion to His servant that he may be a warner to all the nations.

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhī lahū mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-lam yattakhidh waladan wa-lam yakun lahū sharīkun fī l-mulki wa-khalaqa kulla shayʾin fa-qaddarahū taqdīran

He, to whom belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, and who did not take any offspring, nor has He any partner in sovereignty, and He created everything and determined it in a precise measure.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-ttakhadhū min dūnihī ʾālihatan lā yakhluqūna shayʾan wa-hum yukhlaqūna wa-lā yamlikūna li-ʾanfusihim ḍarran wa-lā nafʿan wa-lā yamlikūna mawtan wa-lā ḥayātan wa-lā nushūran

Yet they have taken gods besides Him who create nothing and have themselves been created, and who have no control over their own harm or benefit and have no control over [their own] death, life, or resurrection.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qāla lladhīna kafarū ʾin hādhā ʾillā ʾifkun-i ftarāhu wa-ʾaʿānahū ʿalayhi qawmun ʾākharūna fa-qad jāʾū ẓulman wa-zūran

The faithless say, ‘This is nothing but a lie that he has fabricated, and other people have abetted him in it.’ Thus they have certainly come out with wrongdoing and falsehood.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qālū ʾasāṭīru l-ʾawwalīna ktatabahā fa-hiya tumlā ʿalayhi bukratan wa-ʾaṣīlan

They say, ‘He has taken down myths of the ancients, and they are dictated to him morning and evening.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul ʾanzalahu lladhī yaʿlamu s-sirra fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi ʾinnahū kāna ghafūran raḥīman

Say, ‘It has been sent down by Him who knows the hidden in the heavens and the earth. Indeed He is all-forgiving, all-merciful.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qālū mā-li hādhā r-rasūli yaʾkulu ṭ-ṭaʿāma wa-yamshī fī l-ʾaswāqi law-lā ʾunzila ʾilayhi malakun fa-yakūna maʿahū nadhīran

And they say, ‘What sort of apostle is this who eats food and walks in the marketplaces? Why has not an angel been sent down to him so as to be a warner along with him?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾaw yulqā ʾilayhi kanzun ʾaw takūnu lahū jannatun yaʾkulu minhā wa-qāla ẓ-ẓālimūna ʾin tattabiʿūna ʾillā rajulan masḥūran-i

Or, ‘[Why is not] a treasure thrown to him, or [why does] he [not] have a garden from which he may eat?’ And the wrongdoers say, ‘You are just following a bewitched man.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

unẓur kayfa ḍarabū laka l-ʾamthāla fa-ḍallū fa-lā yastaṭīʿūna sabīlan

Look, how they coin epithets for you; so they go astray, and cannot find the way.

— Ali Quli Qarai

tabāraka lladhī ʾin shāʾa jaʿala laka khayran min dhālika jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru wa-yajʿal laka quṣūran

Blessed is He who will grant you better than that if He wishes—gardens with streams running in them, and He will make for you palaces.

— Ali Quli Qarai

bal kadhdhabū bi-s-sāʿati wa-ʾaʿtadnā li-man kadhdhaba bi-s-sāʿati saʿīran

Indeed, they deny the Hour, and We have prepared a Blaze for those who deny the Hour.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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ʾidhā raʾathum min makānin baʿīdin samiʿū lahā taghayyuẓan wa-zafīran

When it sights them from a distant place, they will hear it raging and roaring.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidhā ʾulqū minhā makānan ḍayyiqan muqarranīna daʿaw hunālika thubūran

And when they are cast into a narrow place in it, bound together [in chains], they will pray for [their own] annihilation.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā tadʿū l-yawma thubūran wāḥidan wa-dʿū thubūran kathīran

[They will be told:] ‘Do not pray for a single annihilation today, but pray for many annihilations!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul ʾa-dhālika khayrun ʾam jannatu l-khuldi llatī wuʿida l-muttaqūna kānat lahum jazāʾan wa-maṣīran

Say, ‘Is that better, or the everlasting paradise promised to the Godwary, which will be their reward and destination?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

lahum fīhā mā yashāʾūna khālidīna kāna ʿalā rabbika waʿdan masʾūlan

There they will have whatever they wish, abiding [forever]—a promise [much] besought, [binding] on your Lord.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-yawma yaḥshuruhum wa-mā yaʿbudūna min dūni llāhi fa-yaqūlu ʾa-ʾantum ʾaḍlaltum ʿibādī hāʾulāʾi ʾam hum ḍallū s-sabīla

On the day that He will muster them and those whom they worship besides Allah, He will say, ‘Was it you who led astray these servants of Mine, or did they themselves stray from the way?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū subḥānaka mā kāna yanbaghī lanā ʾan nattakhidha min dūnika min ʾawliyāʾa wa-lākin mattaʿtahum wa-ʾābāʾahum ḥattā nasū dh-dhikra wa-kānū qawman būran

They will say, ‘Immaculate are You! It does not behoove us to take any wali in Your stead! But You provided for them and their fathers until they forgot the Reminder, and they were a ruined lot.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-qad kadhdhabūkum bi-mā taqūlūna fa-mā tastaṭīʿūna ṣarfan wa-lā naṣran wa-man yaẓlim minkum nudhiqhu ʿadhāban kabīran

So they will certainly impugn you in what you say, and you will neither be able to circumvent [punishment] nor find help, and whoever of you does wrong, We shall make him taste a terrible punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā ʾarsalnā qablaka mina l-mursalīna ʾillā ʾinnahum la-yaʾkulūna ṭ-ṭaʿāma wa-yamshūna fī l-ʾaswāqi wa-jaʿalnā baʿḍakum li-baʿḍin fitnatan ʾa-taṣbirūna wa-kāna rabbuka baṣīran

We did not send any apostles before you but that they indeed ate food and walked in marketplaces. We have made you a [means of] test for one another, [to see] if you will be patient and steadfast, and your Lord is all-seeing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-qāla lladhīna lā yarjūna liqāʾanā law-lā ʾunzila ʿalaynā l-malāʾikatu ʾaw narā rabbanā la-qadi stakbarū fī ʾanfusihim wa-ʿataw ʿutuwwan kabīran

Those who do not expect to encounter Us say, ‘Why have angels not been sent down to us, or why do we not see our Lord?’ Certainly, they are full of arrogance within their souls and have become terribly defiant.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yawma yarawna l-malāʾikata lā bushrā yawmaʾidhin li-l-mujrimīna wa-yaqūlūna ḥijran maḥjūran

The day they will see the angels, there will be no good news for the guilty on that day, and they will say, ‘Keep off [from paradise]!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qadimnā ʾilā mā ʿamilū min ʿamalin fa-jaʿalnāhu habāʾan manthūran

Then We shall attend to the works they have done and then turn them into scattered dust.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾaṣḥābu l-jannati yawmaʾidhin khayrun mustaqarran wa-ʾaḥsanu maqīlan

On that day the inhabitants of paradise will be in the best abode and an excellent resting place.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-yawma tashaqqaqu s-samāʾu bi-l-ghamāmi wa-nuzzila l-malāʾikatu tanzīlan-i

The day when the sky with its clouds will be split open, and the angels will be sent down [in a majestic] descent,

— Ali Quli Qarai

al-mulku yawmaʾidhin-i l-ḥaqqu li-r-raḥmāni wa-kāna yawman ʿalā l-kāfirīna ʿasīran

on that day true sovereignty will belong to the All-beneficent, and it will be a hard day for the faithless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-yawma yaʿaḍḍu ẓ-ẓālimu ʿalā yadayhi yaqūlu yā-laytanī ttakhadhtu maʿa r-rasūli sabīlan

It will be a day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, saying, ‘I wish I had followed the Apostle’s way!

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-waylatā laytanī lam ʾattakhidh fulānan khalīlan

Woe to me! I wish I had not taken so and so as a friend!

— Ali Quli Qarai

la-qad ʾaḍallanī ʿani dh-dhikri baʿda ʾidh jāʾanī wa-kāna sh-shayṭānu li-l-ʾinsāni khadhūlan

Certainly he led me astray from the Reminder after it had come to me, and Satan is a deserter of man.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qāla r-rasūlu yā-rabbi ʾinna qawmī ttakhadhū hādhā l-qurʾāna mahjūran

And the Apostle will say, ‘O my Lord! Indeed my people consigned this Quran to oblivion.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ka-dhālika jaʿalnā li-kulli nabiyyin ʿaduwwan mina l-mujrimīna wa-kafā bi-rabbika hādiyan wa-naṣīran

That is how for every prophet We assigned an enemy from among the guilty, and your Lord suffices as helper and guide.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qāla lladhīna kafarū law-lā nuzzila ʿalayhi l-qurʾānu jumlatan wāḥidatan ka-dhālika li-nuthabbita bihī fuʾādaka wa-rattalnāhu tartīlan

The faithless say, ‘Why has not the Quran been sent down to him all at once?’ So it was, that We may strengthen your heart with it, and We have recited it [to you] in a measured tone.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-lā yaʾtūnaka bi-mathalin ʾillā jiʾnāka bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-ʾaḥsana tafsīran-i

They do not bring you any representation but that We bring you the truth [in reply to them] and the best exposition.

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhīna yuḥsharūna ʿalā wujūhihim ʾilā jahannama ʾulāʾika sharrun makānan wa-ʾaḍallu sabīlan

Those who will be mustered [fallen] on their faces toward hell, they are the worse situated and further astray from the [right] way.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ʾātaynā mūsā l-kitāba wa-jaʿalnā maʿahū ʾakhāhu hārūna wazīran

Certainly We gave Moses the Book and We made Aaron, his brother, accompany him as a minister.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-qulnā dhhabā ʾilā l-qawmi lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā fa-dammarnāhum tadmīran

Then We said, ‘Let the two of you go to the people who have denied Our signs.’ Then We destroyed them utterly.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qawma nūḥin lammā kadhdhabū r-rusula ʾaghraqnāhum wa-jaʿalnāhum li-n-nāsi ʾāyatan wa-ʾaʿtadnā li-ẓ-ẓālimīna ʿadhāban ʾalīman

And Noah’s people, We drowned them when they impugned the apostles, and We made them a sign for mankind, and We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʿādan wa-thamūda wa-ʾaṣḥāba r-rassi wa-qurūnan bayna dhālika kathīran

And ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of Rass, and many generations between them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-kullan ḍarabnā lahu l-ʾamthāla wa-kullan tabbarnā tatbīran

For each of them We drew examples, and each We destroyed utterly.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ʾataw ʿalā l-qaryati llatī ʾumṭirat maṭara s-sawʾi ʾa-fa-lam yakūnū yarawnahā bal kānū lā yarjūna nushūran

Certainly they must have passed the town on which an evil shower was rained. Have they not seen it? Rather, they did not expect resurrection [to happen].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidhā raʾawka ʾin yattakhidhūnaka ʾillā huzuwan ʾa-hādhā lladhī baʿatha llāhu rasūlan

When they see you they just take you in derision: ‘Is this the one whom Allah has sent as an apostle!?

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾin kāda la-yuḍillunā ʿan ʾālihatinā law-lā ʾan ṣabarnā ʿalayhā wa-sawfa yaʿlamūna ḥīna yarawna l-ʿadhāba man ʾaḍallu sabīlan

Indeed he was about to lead us astray from our gods, had we not stood firm by them.’ Soon they will know, when they sight the punishment, who is further astray from the [right] way.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-raʾayta mani ttakhadha ʾilāhahū hawāhu ʾa-fa-ʾanta takūnu ʿalayhi wakīlan

Have you seen him who has taken his desire to be his god? Is it your duty to watch over him?

— Ali Quli Qarai

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ʾam taḥsabu ʾanna ʾaktharahum yasmaʿūna ʾaw yaʿqilūna ʾin hum ʾillā ka-l-ʾanʿāmi bal hum ʾaḍallu sabīlan

Do you suppose that most of them listen or exercise their reason? They are just like cattle; indeed, they are further astray from the way.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-lam tara ʾilā rabbika kayfa madda ẓ-ẓilla wa-law shāʾa la-jaʿalahū sākinan thumma jaʿalnā sh-shamsa ʿalayhi dalīlan

Have you not regarded how your Lord spreads the twilight? (Had He wished He would have made it stand still.) Then We made the sun a beacon for it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma qabaḍnāhu ʾilaynā qabḍan yasīran

Then We retract it toward Ourselves, with a gentle retracting.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-huwa lladhī jaʿala lakumu l-layla libāsan wa-n-nawma subātan wa-jaʿala n-nahāra nushūran

It is He who made for you the night as a covering and sleep for rest and He made the day a recall to life.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-huwa lladhī ʾarsala r-riyāḥa bushran bayna yaday raḥmatihī wa-ʾanzalnā mina s-samāʾi māʾan ṭahūran

And it is He who sends the winds as harbingers of His mercy, and We send down from the sky purifying water,

— Ali Quli Qarai

li-nuḥyiya bihī baldatan maytan wa-nusqiyahū mimmā khalaqnā ʾanʿāman wa-ʾanāsiyya kathīran

with which We revive a dead country and provide water to many of the cattle and humans We have created.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ṣarrafnāhu baynahum li-yadhdhakkarū fa-ʾabā ʾaktharu n-nāsi ʾillā kufūran

Certainly We distribute it among them so that they may take admonition. But most people are only intent on ingratitude.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-law shiʾnā la-baʿathnā fī kulli qaryatin nadhīran

Had We wished, We would have sent a warner to every town.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-lā tuṭiʿi l-kāfirīna wa-jāhidhum bihī jihādan kabīran

So do not obey the faithless, but wage a great jihad against them with it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-huwa lladhī maraja l-baḥrayni hādhā ʿadhbun furātun wa-hādhā milḥun ʾujājun wa-jaʿala baynahumā barzakhan wa-ḥijran maḥjūran

It is He who merged the two seas: this one sweet and agreeable, and that one briny and bitter, and between the two He set a barrier and a forbidding hindrance.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-huwa lladhī khalaqa mina l-māʾi basharan fa-jaʿalahū nasaban wa-ṣihran wa-kāna rabbuka qadīran

It is He who created the human being from water, then invested him with ties of blood and marriage, and your Lord is all-powerful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-yaʿbudūna min dūni llāhi mā lā yanfaʿuhum wa-lā yaḍurruhum wa-kāna l-kāfiru ʿalā rabbihī ẓahīran

They worship besides Allah that which neither brings them any benefit nor causes them any harm, and the faithless one is ever an abettor against his Lord.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-mā ʾarsalnāka ʾillā mubashshiran wa-nadhīran

We did not send you except as a bearer of good news and as a warner.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul mā ʾasʾalukum ʿalayhi min ʾajrin ʾillā man shāʾa ʾan yattakhidha ʾilā rabbihī sabīlan

Say, ‘I do not ask you any reward for it, except that anyone who wishes should take the way to his Lord.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-tawakkal ʿalā l-ḥayyi lladhī lā yamūtu wa-sabbiḥ bi-ḥamdihī wa-kafā bihī bi-dhunūbi ʿibādihī khabīran-i

Put your trust in the Living One who does not die, and celebrate His praise. He suffices as one all-aware of the sins of His servants.

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā fī sittati ʾayyāmin thumma stawā ʿalā l-ʿarshi r-raḥmānu fa-sʾal bihī khabīran

He, who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days, and then settled on the Throne, the All-beneficent; so ask someone who is well aware about Him.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidhā qīla lahumu sjudū li-r-raḥmāni qālū wa-mā r-raḥmānu ʾa-nasjudu li-mā taʾmurunā wa-zādahum nufūran

When they are told: ‘Prostrate yourselves before the All-beneficent,’ they say, ‘What is ‘‘the All-beneficent’’? Shall we prostrate ourselves before whatever you bid us?’ And it increases their aversion.

— Ali Quli Qarai

tabāraka lladhī jaʿala fī s-samāʾi burūjan wa-jaʿala fīhā sirājan wa-qamaran munīran

Blessed is He who appointed houses in the sky and set in it a lamp and a shining moon.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-huwa lladhī jaʿala l-layla wa-n-nahāra khilfatan li-man ʾarāda ʾan yadhdhakkara ʾaw ʾarāda shukūran

It is He who made the night and the day alternate for someone who desires to take admonition, or desires to give thanks.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʿibādu r-raḥmāni lladhīna yamshūna ʿalā l-ʾarḍi hawnan wa-ʾidhā khāṭabahumu l-jāhilūna qālū salāman

The servants of the All-beneficent are those who walk humbly on the earth, and when the ignorant address them, say, ‘Peace!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lladhīna yabītūna li-rabbihim sujjadan wa-qiyāman

Those who spend the night for their Lord, prostrating and standing [in worship].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lladhīna yaqūlūna rabbanā ṣrif ʿannā ʿadhāba jahannama ʾinna ʿadhābahā kāna gharāman

Those who say, ‘Our Lord! Turn away from us the punishment of hell. Indeed its punishment is enduring.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnahā sāʾat mustaqarran wa-muqāman

Indeed it is an evil station and abode.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lladhīna ʾidhā ʾanfaqū lam yusrifū wa-lam yaqturū wa-kāna bayna dhālika qawāman

Those who are neither wasteful nor tightfisted when spending, but balanced between these [two extremes].

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-lladhīna lā yadʿūna maʿa llāhi ʾilāhan ʾākhara wa-lā yaqtulūna n-nafsa llatī ḥarrama llāhu ʾillā bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-lā yaznūna wa-man yafʿal dhālika yalqa ʾathāman

Those who do not invoke another deity besides Allah, and do not kill a soul [whose life] Allah has made inviolable, except with due cause, and do not commit fornication. (Whoever does that shall encounter its retribution,

— Ali Quli Qarai

yuḍāʿaf lahu l-ʿadhābu yawma l-qiyāmati wa-yakhlud fīhi muhānan

the punishment being doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection. In it he will abide in humiliation forever,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾillā man tāba wa-ʾāmana wa-ʿamila ʿamalan ṣāliḥan fa-ʾulāʾika yubaddilu llāhu sayyiʾātihim ḥasanātin wa-kāna llāhu ghafūran raḥīman

except those who repent, attain faith, and act righteously. For such, Allah will replace their misdeeds with good deeds, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-man tāba wa-ʿamila ṣāliḥan fa-ʾinnahū yatūbu ʾilā llāhi matāban

And whoever repents and acts righteously indeed turns to Allah with due penitence).

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lladhīna lā yashhadūna z-zūra wa-ʾidhā marrū bi-l-laghwi marrū kirāman

Those who do not give false testimony, and when they come upon frivolity, pass by with dignity.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lladhīna ʾidhā dhukkirū bi-ʾāyāti rabbihim lam yakhirrū ʿalayhā ṣumman wa-ʿumyānan

Those who, when reminded of the signs of their Lord, do not turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lladhīna yaqūlūna rabbanā hab lanā min ʾazwājinā wa-dhurriyyātinā qurrata ʾaʿyunin wa-jʿalnā li-l-muttaqīna ʾimāman

And those who say, ‘Our Lord! Give us joy and comfort in our spouses and offspring, and make us imams of the Godwary.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾulāʾika yujzawna l-ghurfata bi-mā ṣabarū wa-yulaqqawna fīhā taḥiyyatan wa-salāman

Those shall be rewarded with sublime abodes for their patience and steadfastness, and they shall be met there with greetings and ‘Peace,’

— Ali Quli Qarai

khālidīna fīhā ḥasunat mustaqarran wa-muqāman

to abide in them [forever], an excellent station and abode.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul mā yaʿbaʾu bikum rabbī law-lā duʿāʾukum fa-qad kadhdhabtum fa-sawfa yakūnu lizāman

Say, ‘Were it not for the sake of summoning you [to faith], what store my Lord would have set by you? But you impugned [me and my summons], so it will soon follow as a result.’

— Ali Quli Qarai