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alladhīna kafarū wa-ṣaddū ʿan sabīli llāhi ʾaḍalla ʾaʿmālahum

Those who are [themselves] faithless and bar [others] from the way of Allah—He has rendered their works fruitless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti wa-ʾāmanū bi-mā nuzzila ʿalā muḥammadin wa-huwa l-ḥaqqu min rabbihim kaffara ʿanhum sayyiʾātihim wa-ʾaṣlaḥa bālahum

But those who have faith and do righteous deeds and believe in what has been sent down to Muhammad—and it is the truth from their Lord—He shall absolve them of their misdeeds and set right their affairs.

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālika bi-ʾanna lladhīna kafarū ttabaʿū l-bāṭila wa-ʾanna lladhīna ʾāmanū ttabaʿū l-ḥaqqa min rabbihim ka-dhālika yaḍribu llāhu li-n-nāsi ʾamthālahum

That is because the faithless follow falsehood, and the faithful follow the truth from their Lord. That is how Allah draws comparisons for mankind.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾidhā laqītumu lladhīna kafarū fa-ḍarba r-riqābi ḥattā ʾidhā ʾathkhantumūhum fa-shuddū l-wathāqa fa-ʾimmā mannan baʿdu wa-ʾimmā fidāʾan ḥattā taḍaʿa l-ḥarbu ʾawzārahā dhālika wa-law yashāʾu llāhu la-ntaṣara minhum wa-lākin li-yabluwa baʿḍakum bi-baʿḍin wa-lladhīna qutilū fī sabīli llāhi fa-lan yuḍilla ʾaʿmālahum

When you meet the faithless in battle, strike their necks. When you have thoroughly decimated them, bind the captives firmly. Thereafter either oblige them [by setting them free] or take ransom, until the war lays down its burdens. That [is Allah’s ordinance]. Had Allah wished He could have taken vengeance on them, but that He may test some of you by means of others. As for those who were slain in the way of Allah, He will not let their works go fruitless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

sa-yahdīhim wa-yuṣliḥu bālahum

He will guide them and set right their affairs,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-yudkhiluhumu l-jannata ʿarrafahā lahum

and admit them into paradise, with which He has acquainted them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾin tanṣurū llāha yanṣurkum wa-yuthabbit ʾaqdāmakum

O you who have faith! If you help Allah, He will help you and make your feet steady.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lladhīna kafarū fa-taʿsan lahum wa-ʾaḍalla ʾaʿmālahum

As for the faithless, their lot will be to fall [into ruin], and He will render their works fruitless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālika bi-ʾannahum karihū mā ʾanzala llāhu fa-ʾaḥbaṭa ʾaʿmālahum

That is because they loathed what Allah has sent down, so He made their works fail.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-fa-lam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fa-yanẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu lladhīna min qablihim dammara llāhu ʿalayhim wa-li-l-kāfirīna ʾamthāluhā

Have they not travelled through the land so that they may observe how was the fate of those who were before them? Allah destroyed them, and a similar [fate] awaits these faithless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālika bi-ʾanna llāha mawlā lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʾanna l-kāfirīna lā mawlā lahum

That is because Allah is the protector of the faithful, and because the faithless have no protector.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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ʾinna llāha yudkhilu lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru wa-lladhīna kafarū yatamattaʿūna wa-yaʾkulūna ka-mā taʾkulu l-ʾanʿāmu wa-n-nāru mathwan lahum

Indeed Allah will admit those who have faith and do righteous deeds into gardens with streams running in them. As for the faithless, they enjoy and eat like the cattle do, and the Fire will be their [final] abode.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ka-ʾayyin min qaryatin hiya ʾashaddu quwwatan min qaryatika llatī ʾakhrajatka ʾahlaknāhum fa-lā nāṣira lahum

How many a town We have destroyed which was more powerful than your town which expelled you, and they had no helper.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-fa-man kāna ʿalā bayyinatin min rabbihī ka-man zuyyina lahū sūʾu ʿamalihī wa-ttabaʿū ʾahwāʾahum

Is he who stands on a manifest proof from his Lord like those to whom the evil of their conduct is made to seem decorous and who follow their desires?

— Ali Quli Qarai

mathalu l-jannati llatī wuʿida l-muttaqūna fīhā ʾanhārun min māʾin ghayri ʾāsinin wa-ʾanhārun min labanin lam yataghayyar ṭaʿmuhū wa-ʾanhārun min khamrin ladhdhatin li-sh-shāribīna wa-ʾanhārun min ʿasalin muṣaffan wa-lahum fīhā min kulli th-thamarāti wa-maghfiratun min rabbihim ka-man huwa khālidun fī n-nāri wa-suqū māʾan ḥamīman fa-qaṭṭaʿa ʾamʿāʾahum

A description of the paradise promised to the Godwary: therein are streams of unstaling water and streams of milk unchanging in flavour, and streams of wine delicious to the drinkers, and streams of purified honey; there will be every kind of fruit in it for them, and forgiveness from their Lord. [Are such ones] like those who abide in the Fire and are given to drink boiling water which cuts up their bowels?

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-minhum man yastamiʿu ʾilayka ḥattā ʾidhā kharajū min ʿindika qālū li-lladhīna ʾūtū l-ʿilma mādhā qāla ʾānifan ʾulāʾika lladhīna ṭabaʿa llāhu ʿalā qulūbihim wa-ttabaʿū ʾahwāʾahum

There are some among them who prick up their ears at you. But when they go out from your presence, they say to those who have been given knowledge, ‘What did he say just now?’ They are the ones on whose hearts Allah has set a seal, and they follow their own desires.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lladhīna htadaw zādahum hudan wa-ʾātāhum taqwāhum

As for those who are [rightly] guided, He enhances their guidance and invests them with their Godwariness.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-hal yanẓurūna ʾillā s-sāʿata ʾan taʾtiyahum baghtatan fa-qad jāʾa ʾashrāṭuhā fa-ʾannā lahum ʾidhā jāʾathum dhikrāhum

Do they await anything except that the Hour should overtake them suddenly? Its portents have already come. When it overtakes them of what avail will the admonitions they were given?

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʿlam ʾannahū lā ʾilāha ʾillā llāhu wa-staghfir li-dhanbika wa-li-l-muʾminīna wa-l-muʾmināti wa-llāhu yaʿlamu mutaqallabakum wa-mathwākum

Know that there is no god except Allah, and plead [to Allah] for forgiveness of your sin and for the faithful, men and women. Allah knows your itinerary and your [final] abode.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-yaqūlu lladhīna ʾāmanū law-lā nuzzilat sūratun fa-ʾidhā ʾunzilat sūratun muḥkamatun wa-dhukira fīhā l-qitālu raʾayta lladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun yanẓurūna ʾilayka naẓara l-maghshiyyi ʿalayhi mina l-mawti fa-ʾawlā lahum

The faithful say, ‘If only a surah were sent down!’ But when a conclusive surah is sent down and war is mentioned in it, you see those in whose hearts is a sickness looking upon you with the look of someone fainting at death. So woe to them!

— Ali Quli Qarai

ṭāʿatun wa-qawlun maʿrūfun fa-ʾidhā ʿazama l-ʾamru fa-law ṣadaqū llāha la-kāna khayran lahum

Obedience and upright speech.... So when the matter has been resolved upon [concerning going to war], if they remain true to Allah that will surely be better for them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-hal ʿasaytum ʾin tawallaytum ʾan tufsidū fī l-ʾarḍi wa-tuqaṭṭiʿū ʾarḥāmakum

May it not be that if you were to wield authority you would cause corruption in the land and ill-treat your blood relations?

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾulāʾika lladhīna laʿanahumu llāhu fa-ʾaṣammahum wa-ʾaʿmā ʾabṣārahum

They are the ones whom Allah has cursed, so He made them deaf, and blinded their sight.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-fa-lā yatadabbarūna l-qurʾāna ʾam ʿalā qulūbin ʾaqfāluhā

Do they not contemplate the Quran, or are there locks on the hearts?

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna lladhīna rtaddū ʿalā ʾadbārihim min baʿdi mā tabayyana lahumu l-hudā sh-shayṭānu sawwala lahum wa-ʾamlā lahum

Indeed those who turned their backs after the guidance had become clear to them, it was Satan who had seduced them, and he had given them [far-flung] hopes.

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālika bi-ʾannahum qālū li-lladhīna karihū mā nazzala llāhu sa-nuṭīʿukum fī baʿḍi l-ʾamri wa-llāhu yaʿlamu ʾisrārahum

That is because they said to those who loathed what Allah had sent down: ‘We shall obey you in some matters,’ and Allah knows their secret dealings.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-kayfa ʾidhā tawaffathumu l-malāʾikatu yaḍribūna wujūhahum wa-ʾadbārahum

But how will it be [with them] when the angels take them away, striking their faces and their backs?!

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālika bi-ʾannahumu ttabaʿū mā ʾaskhaṭa llāha wa-karihū riḍwānahū fa-ʾaḥbaṭa ʾaʿmālahum

That, because they pursued what displeased Allah, and loathed His pleasure. So He has made their works fail.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾam ḥasiba lladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun ʾan lan yukhrija llāhu ʾaḍghānahum

Do those in whose hearts is a sickness suppose that Allah will not expose their spite?

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-law nashāʾu la-ʾaraynākahum fa-la-ʿaraftahum bi-sīmāhum wa-la-taʿrifannahum fī laḥni l-qawli wa-llāhu yaʿlamu ʾaʿmālakum

If We wish, We will show them to you so that you recognize them by their mark. Yet you will recognize them by their tone of speech, and Allah knows your deeds.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-nabluwannakum ḥattā naʿlama l-mujāhidīna minkum wa-ṣ-ṣābirīna wa-nabluwa ʾakhbārakum

We will surely test you until We ascertain those of you who wage jihad and those who are steadfast, and We shall appraise your record.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna lladhīna kafarū wa-ṣaddū ʿan sabīli llāhi wa-shāqqū r-rasūla min baʿdi mā tabayyana lahumu l-hudā lan yaḍurrū llāha shayʾan wa-sa-yuḥbiṭu ʾaʿmālahum

Indeed those who are faithless and bar from the way of Allah and defy the Apostle after guidance has become clear to them, they will not hurt Allah in the least, and He shall make their works fail.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾaṭīʿū llāha wa-ʾaṭīʿū r-rasūla wa-lā tubṭilū ʾaʿmālakum

O you who have faith! Obey Allah and obey the Apostle, and do not render your works void.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna lladhīna kafarū wa-ṣaddū ʿan sabīli llāhi thumma mātū wa-hum kuffārun fa-lan yaghfira llāhu lahum

Indeed those who are faithless and bar from the way of Allah and then die faithless, Allah will never forgive them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-lā tahinū wa-tadʿū ʾilā s-salmi wa-ʾantumu l-ʾaʿlawna wa-llāhu maʿakum wa-lan yatirakum ʾaʿmālakum

So do not slacken and [do not] call for peace when you have the upper hand and Allah is with you, and He will not stint [the reward of] your works.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnamā l-ḥayātu d-dunyā laʿibun wa-lahwun wa-ʾin tuʾminū wa-tattaqū yuʾtikum ʾujūrakum wa-lā yasʾalkum ʾamwālakum

The life of the world is just play and diversion, but if you are faithful and Godwary, He will give you your rewards, and will not ask your wealth [in return] from you.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾin yasʾalkumūhā fa-yuḥfikum tabkhalū wa-yukhrij ʾaḍghānakum

Should He ask it from you and press you, you will be stingy, and He will expose your spite.

— Ali Quli Qarai

hā-ʾantum hāʾulāʾi tudʿawna li-tunfiqū fī sabīli llāhi fa-minkum man yabkhalu wa-man yabkhal fa-ʾinnamā yabkhalu ʿan nafsihī wa-llāhu l-ghaniyyu wa-ʾantumu l-fuqarāʾu wa-ʾin tatawallaw yastabdil qawman ghayrakum thumma lā yakūnū ʾamthālakum

Ah! There you are, being invited to spend in the way of Allah; yet among you there are those who are stingy; and whoever is stingy is stingy only to himself. Allah is the All-sufficient, and you are all-needy, and if you turn away He will replace you with another people, and they will not be like you.

— Ali Quli Qarai