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a-l-m (ʾalif lām mīm)

Alif, Lam, Meem.

— Ali Quli Qarai

tilka ʾāyātu l-kitābi l-ḥakīmi

These are the signs of the wise Book,

— Ali Quli Qarai

hudan wa-raḥmatan li-l-muḥsinīna

a guidance and mercy for the virtuous,

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhīna yuqīmūna ṣ-ṣalāta wa-yuʾtūna z-zakāta wa-hum bi-l-ʾākhirati hum yūqinūna

who maintain the prayer, pay the zakat, and are certain of the Hereafter.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾulāʾika ʿalā hudan min rabbihim wa-ʾulāʾika humu l-mufliḥūna

Those follow their Lord’s guidance, and it is they who are the felicitous.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mina n-nāsi man yashtarī lahwa l-ḥadīthi li-yuḍilla ʿan sabīli llāhi bi-ghayri ʿilmin wa-yattakhidhahā huzuwan ʾulāʾika lahum ʿadhābun muhīnun

Among the people is he who buys diversionary talk that he may lead [people] astray from Allah’s way without any knowledge, and he takes it in derision. For such there is a humiliating punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidhā tutlā ʿalayhi ʾāyātunā wallā mustakbiran ka-ʾan lam yasmaʿhā ka-ʾanna fī ʾudhunayhi waqran fa-bashshirhu bi-ʿadhābin ʾalīmin

When Our signs are recited to him he turns away disdainfully, as if he had not heard them [at all], as if there were a deafness in his ears. So inform him of a painful punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti lahum jannātu n-naʿīmi

As for those who have faith and do righteous deeds, for them will be gardens of bliss,

— Ali Quli Qarai

khālidīna fīhā waʿda llāhi ḥaqqan wa-huwa l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu

to remain in them [forever]—a true promise of Allah, and He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.

— Ali Quli Qarai

khalaqa s-samāwāti bi-ghayri ʿamadin tarawnahā wa-ʾalqā fī l-ʾarḍi rawāsiya ʾan tamīda bikum wa-baththa fīhā min kulli dābbatin wa-ʾanzalnā mina s-samāʾi māʾan fa-ʾanbatnā fīhā min kulli zawjin karīmin

He created the heavens without any pillars that you may see, and cast firm mountains in the earth lest it should shake with you, and He has scattered in it every kind of animal. And We sent down water from the sky and caused every splendid kind [of plant] to grow in it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

hādhā khalqu llāhi fa-ʾarūnī mādhā khalaqa lladhīna min dūnihī bali ẓ-ẓālimūna fī ḍalālin mubīnin

This is the creation of Allah. Now show Me what others besides Him have created. Indeed, the wrongdoers are in manifest error!

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-la-qad ʾātaynā luqmāna l-ḥikmata ʾani shkur li-llāhi wa-man yashkur fa-ʾinnamā yashkuru li-nafsihī wa-man kafara fa-ʾinna llāha ghaniyyun ḥamīdun

Certainly We gave Luqman wisdom, saying, ‘Give thanks to Allah; and whoever gives thanks, gives thanks only for his own sake. And whoever is ungrateful, [let him know that] Allah is indeed all-sufficient, all-laudable.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidh qāla luqmānu li-bnihī wa-huwa yaʿiẓuhū yā-bunayya lā tushrik bi-llāhi ʾinna sh-shirka la-ẓulmun ʿaẓīmun

When Luqman said to his son, as he advised him: ‘O my son! Do not ascribe any partners to Allah. Polytheism is indeed a great injustice.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-waṣṣaynā l-ʾinsāna bi-wālidayhi ḥamalathu ʾummuhū wahnan ʿalā wahnin wa-fiṣāluhū fī ʿāmayni ʾani shkur lī wa-li-wālidayka ʾilayya l-maṣīru

We have enjoined man concerning his parents: His mother carried him through weakness upon weakness, and his weaning takes two years. Give thanks to Me and to your parents. To Me is the return.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾin jāhadāka ʿalā ʾan tushrika bī mā laysa laka bihī ʿilmun fa-lā tuṭiʿhumā wa-ṣāḥibhumā fī d-dunyā maʿrūfan wa-ttabiʿ sabīla man ʾanāba ʾilayya thumma ʾilayya marjiʿukum fa-ʾunabbiʾukum bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna

But if they urge you to ascribe to Me as partner that of which you have no knowledge, then do not obey them. Keep their company honourably in this world and follow the way of those who turn to Me penitently. Then to Me will be your return, whereat I will inform you concerning what you used to do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-bunayya ʾinnahā ʾin taku mithqāla ḥabbatin min khardalin fa-takun fī ṣakhratin ʾaw fī s-samāwāti ʾaw fī l-ʾarḍi yaʾti bihā llāhu ʾinna llāha laṭīfun khabīrun

‘O my son! Even if it should be the weight of a mustard seed, and [even though] it should be in a rock, or in the heavens, or in the earth, Allah will produce it. Indeed Allah is all-attentive, all-aware.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-bunayya ʾaqimi ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾmur bi-l-maʿrūfi wa-nha ʿani l-munkari wa-ṣbir ʿalā mā ʾaṣābaka ʾinna dhālika min ʿazmi l-ʾumūri

O my son! Maintain the prayer and bid what is right and forbid what is wrong, and be patient through whatever may befall you. That is indeed the steadiest of courses.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lā tuṣaʿʿir khaddaka li-n-nāsi wa-lā tamshi fī l-ʾarḍi maraḥan ʾinna llāha lā yuḥibbu kulla mukhtālin fakhūrin

Do not turn your cheek away disdainfully from the people, and do not walk exultantly on the earth. Indeed Allah does not like any swaggering braggart.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qṣid fī mashyika wa-ghḍuḍ min ṣawtika ʾinna ʾankara l-ʾaṣwāti la-ṣawtu l-ḥamīri

Be modest in your bearing, and lower your voice. Indeed the ungainliest of voices is the donkey’s voice.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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ʾa-lam taraw ʾanna llāha sakhkhara lakum mā fī s-samāwāti wa-mā fī l-ʾarḍi wa-ʾasbagha ʿalaykum niʿamahū ẓāhiratan wa-bāṭinatan wa-mina n-nāsi man yujādilu fī llāhi bi-ghayri ʿilmin wa-lā hudan wa-lā kitābin munīrin

Do you not see that Allah has disposed for you whatever there is in the heavens and whatever there is in the earth and He has showered upon you His blessings, the outward, and the inward? Yet among the people are those who dispute concerning Allah without any knowledge or guidance or an illuminating scripture.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidhā qīla lahumu ttabiʿū mā ʾanzala llāhu qālū bal nattabiʿu mā wajadnā ʿalayhi ʾābāʾanā ʾa-wa-law kāna sh-shayṭānu yadʿūhum ʾilā ʿadhābi s-saʿīri

When they are told, ‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’ they say, ‘No, we will follow what we found our fathers following.’ What! Even if Satan be calling them to the punishment of the Blaze?

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-man yuslim wajhahū ʾilā llāhi wa-huwa muḥsinun fa-qadi stamsaka bi-l-ʿurwati l-wuthqā wa-ʾilā llāhi ʿāqibatu l-ʾumūri

Whoever surrenders his heart to Allah and is virtuous, has certainly held fast to the firmest handle, and with Allah lies the outcome of all matters.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-man kafara fa-lā yaḥzunka kufruhū ʾilaynā marjiʿuhum fa-nunabbiʾuhum bi-mā ʿamilū ʾinna llāha ʿalīmun bi-dhāti ṣ-ṣudūri

As for those who are faithless, let their faithlessness not grieve you. To Us will be their return, and We will inform them about what they have done. Indeed Allah knows best what is in the breasts.

— Ali Quli Qarai

numattiʿuhum qalīlan thumma naḍṭarruhum ʾilā ʿadhābin ghalīẓin

We will provide for them for a short time, then We will shove them toward a harsh punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-ʾin saʾaltahum man khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa la-yaqūlunna llāhu quli l-ḥamdu li-llāhi bal ʾaktharuhum lā yaʿlamūna

If you ask them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’ they will surely say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘All praise belongs to Allah!’ But most of them do not know.

— Ali Quli Qarai

li-llāhi mā fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi ʾinna llāha huwa l-ghaniyyu l-ḥamīdu

To Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. Indeed Allah is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-law ʾannamā fī l-ʾarḍi min shajaratin ʾaqlāmun wa-l-baḥru yamudduhū min baʿdihī sabʿatu ʾabḥurin mā nafidat kalimātu llāhi ʾinna llāha ʿazīzun ḥakīmun

If all the trees on the earth were pens, and the sea replenished with seven more seas [were ink], the words of Allah would not be spent. Indeed Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā khalqukum wa-lā baʿthukum ʾillā ka-nafsin wāḥidatin ʾinna llāha samīʿun baṣīrun

Your creation and your resurrection are not but as of a single soul. Indeed Allah is all-hearing, all-seeing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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ʾa-lam tara ʾanna llāha yūliju l-layla fī n-nahāri wa-yūliju n-nahāra fī l-layli wa-sakhkhara sh-shamsa wa-l-qamara kullun yajrī ʾilā ʾajalin musamman wa-ʾanna llāha bi-mā taʿmalūna khabīrun

Have you not regarded that Allah makes the night pass into the day and makes the day pass into the night; and He has disposed the sun and the moon, each moving for a specified term, and that Allah is well aware of what you do?

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālika bi-ʾanna llāha huwa l-ḥaqqu wa-ʾanna mā yadʿūna min dūnihi l-bāṭilu wa-ʾanna llāha huwa l-ʿaliyyu l-kabīru

That is because Allah is the Reality, and whatever they invoke besides Him is nullity, and because Allah is the All-exalted, the All-great.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-lam tara ʾanna l-fulka tajrī fī l-baḥri bi-niʿmati llāhi li-yuriyakum min ʾāyātihī ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyātin li-kulli ṣabbārin shakūrin

Have you not regarded that the ships sail at sea with Allah’s blessing, that He may show you some of His signs? There are indeed signs in that for every patient and grateful [servant].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidhā ghashiyahum mawjun ka-ẓ-ẓulali daʿawu llāha mukhliṣīna lahu d-dīna fa-lammā najjāhum ʾilā l-barri fa-minhum muqtaṣidun wa-mā yajḥadu bi-ʾāyātinā ʾillā kullu khattārin kafūrin

When waves cover them like awnings; they invoke Allah, putting exclusive faith in Him. But when He delivers them towards land, [only] some of them remain unswerving. No one will impugn Our signs except an ungrateful traitor.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā n-nāsu ttaqū rabbakum wa-khshaw yawman lā yajzī wālidun ʿan waladihī wa-lā mawlūdun huwa jāzin ʿan wālidihī shayʾan ʾinna waʿda llāhi ḥaqqun fa-lā taghurrannakumu l-ḥayātu d-dunyā wa-lā yaghurrannakum bi-llāhi l-gharūru

O mankind! Be wary of your Lord and fear the day when a father will not atone for his child, nor the child will atone for its father in any wise. Indeed Allah’s promise is true. So do not let the life of the world deceive you, nor let the Deceiver deceive you concerning Allah.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna llāha ʿindahū ʿilmu s-sāʿati wa-yunazzilu l-ghaytha wa-yaʿlamu mā fī l-ʾarḥāmi wa-mā tadrī nafsun mādhā taksibu ghadan wa-mā tadrī nafsun bi-ʾayyi ʾarḍin tamūtu ʾinna llāha ʿalīmun khabīrun

Indeed the knowledge of the Hour is with Allah. He sends down the rain, and He knows what is in the wombs. No soul knows what it will earn tomorrow, and no soul knows in what land it will die. Indeed Allah is all-knowing, all-aware.

— Ali Quli Qarai