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sabbaḥa li-llāhi mā fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-huwa l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu

Whatever there is in the heavens and [whatever there is on] the earth glorifies Allah and He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lahū mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi yuḥyī wa-yumītu wa-huwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun

To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth: He gives life and brings death, and He has power over all things.

— Ali Quli Qarai

huwa l-ʾawwalu wa-l-ʾākhiru wa-ẓ-ẓāhiru wa-l-bāṭinu wa-huwa bi-kulli shayʾin ʿalīmun

He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden, and He has knowledge of all things.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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huwa lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa fī sittati ʾayyāmin thumma stawā ʿalā l-ʿarshi yaʿlamu mā yaliju fī l-ʾarḍi wa-mā yakhruju minhā wa-mā yanzilu mina s-samāʾi wa-mā yaʿruju fīhā wa-huwa maʿakum ʾayna mā kuntum wa-llāhu bi-mā taʿmalūna baṣīrun

It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days; then settled on the Throne. He knows whatever enters the earth and whatever emerges from it and whatever descends from the sky and whatever ascends to it, and He is with you wherever you may be, and Allah watches what you do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lahū mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-ʾilā llāhi turjaʿu l-ʾumūru

To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and to Allah all matters are returned.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yūliju l-layla fī n-nahāri wa-yūliju n-nahāra fī l-layli wa-huwa ʿalīmun bi-dhāti ṣ-ṣudūri

He makes the night pass into the day and makes the day pass into the night, and He knows best what is in the breasts.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾāminū bi-llāhi wa-rasūlihī wa-ʾanfiqū mimmā jaʿalakum mustakhlafīna fīhi fa-lladhīna ʾāmanū minkum wa-ʾanfaqū lahum ʾajrun kabīrun

Have faith in Allah and His Apostle, and spend out of that of which He has made you heirs. There is a great reward for those of you who have faith and spend [in Allah’s way].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā lakum lā tuʾminūna bi-llāhi wa-r-rasūlu yadʿūkum li-tuʾminū bi-rabbikum wa-qad ʾakhadha mīthāqakum ʾin kuntum muʾminīna

Why should you not have faith in Allah when the Apostle invites you to have faith in your Lord, and He has certainly made a covenant with you, if you are [genuinely] faithful?

— Ali Quli Qarai

huwa lladhī yunazzilu ʿalā ʿabdihī ʾāyātin bayyinātin li-yukhrijakum mina ẓ-ẓulumāti ʾilā n-nūri wa-ʾinna llāha bikum la-raʾūfun raḥīmun

It is He who sends down manifest signs to His servant that He may bring you out of darkness into light, and indeed Allah is most kind and merciful to you.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā lakum ʾallā tunfiqū fī sabīli llāhi wa-li-llāhi mīrāthu s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi lā yastawī minkum man ʾanfaqa min qabli l-fatḥi wa-qātala ʾulāʾika ʾaʿẓamu darajatan mina lladhīna ʾanfaqū min baʿdu wa-qātalū wa-kullan waʿada llāhu l-ḥusnā wa-llāhu bi-mā taʿmalūna khabīrun

Why should you not spend in the way of Allah, when to Allah belongs the heritage of the heavens and the earth? Those of you who spent [their means] and fought before the victory are not equal [to others]. They are greater in rank than those who have spent and fought afterwards. Yet Allah has promised the best reward to each and Allah is well aware of what you do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

man dhā lladhī yuqriḍu llāha qarḍan ḥasanan fa-yuḍāʿifahū lahū wa-lahū ʾajrun karīmun

Who is it that will lend Allah a good loan, that He may multiply it for him and [that] there may be a noble reward for him?

— Ali Quli Qarai

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yawma tarā l-muʾminīna wa-l-muʾmināti yasʿā nūruhum bayna ʾaydīhim wa-bi-ʾaymānihim bushrākumu l-yawma jannātun tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru khālidīna fīhā dhālika huwa l-fawzu l-ʿaẓīmu

The day you will see the faithful, men and women, with their light moving swiftly in front of them and on their right, [and they are greeted with the words:] ‘There is good news for you today! Gardens with streams running in them, to remain in them [forever]. That is the great success.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

yawma yaqūlu l-munāfiqūna wa-l-munāfiqātu li-lladhīna ʾāmanū nẓurūnā naqtabis min nūrikum qīla rjiʿū warāʾakum fa-ltamisū nūran fa-ḍuriba baynahum bi-sūrin lahū bābun bāṭinuhū fīhi r-raḥmatu wa-ẓāhiruhū min qibalihi l-ʿadhābu

The day the hypocrites, men and women, will say to the faithful, ‘Please wait, that we may glean something from your light!’ They will be told: ‘Go back and grope for light!’ Then there will be set up between them a wall with a gate, with mercy within and punishment without.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yunādūnahum ʾa-lam nakun maʿakum qālū balā wa-lākinnakum fatantum ʾanfusakum wa-tarabbaṣtum wa-rtabtum wa-gharratkumu l-ʾamāniyyu ḥattā jāʾa ʾamru llāhi wa-gharrakum bi-llāhi l-gharūru

They will call out to them, ‘Did we not use to be with you?’ They will say, ‘Yes! But you cast yourselves into perdition. You awaited and were skeptical, and [false] hopes deceived you until the edict of Allah came, and the Deceiver deceived you concerning Allah.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-l-yawma lā yuʾkhadhu minkum fidyatun wa-lā mina lladhīna kafarū maʾwākumu n-nāru hiya mawlākum wa-biʾsa l-maṣīru

So today no ransom shall be taken from you or the faithless. The Fire will be your abode: it is your [ultimate] refuge and an evil destination.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-lam yaʾni li-lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾan takhshaʿa qulūbuhum li-dhikri llāhi wa-mā nazala mina l-ḥaqqi wa-lā yakūnū ka-lladhīna ʾūtū l-kitāba min qablu fa-ṭāla ʿalayhimu l-ʾamadu fa-qasat qulūbuhum wa-kathīrun minhum fāsiqūna

Is it not time yet for those who have faith that their hearts should be humbled for Allah’s remembrance and toward the truth which has come down [to them], and to be not like those who were given the Book before? Time took its toll on them and so their hearts were hardened, and many of them are transgressors.

— Ali Quli Qarai

iʿlamū ʾanna llāha yuḥyi l-ʾarḍa baʿda mawtihā qad bayyannā lakumu l-ʾāyāti laʿallakum taʿqilūna

Know that Allah revives the earth after its death. We have certainly made the signs clear for you, so that you may exercise your reason.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna l-muṣṣaddiqīna wa-l-muṣṣaddiqāti wa-ʾaqraḍū llāha qarḍan ḥasanan yuḍāʿafu lahum wa-lahum ʾajrun karīmun

Indeed the charitable men and women and those who lend Allah a good loan—it shall be multiplied for them, and there will be a noble reward for them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū bi-llāhi wa-rusulihī ʾulāʾika humu ṣ-ṣiddīqūna wa-sh-shuhadāʾu ʿinda rabbihim lahum ʾajruhum wa-nūruhum wa-lladhīna kafarū wa-kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā ʾulāʾika ʾaṣḥābu l-jaḥīmi

Those who have faith in Allah and His apostles—it is they who are the truthful and witnesses with their Lord; they shall have their reward and their light. But as for those who are faithless and deny Our signs, they shall be the inmates of hell.

— Ali Quli Qarai

iʿlamū ʾannamā l-ḥayātu d-dunyā laʿibun wa-lahwun wa-zīnatun wa-tafākhurun baynakum wa-takāthurun fī l-ʾamwāli wa-l-ʾawlādi ka-mathali ghaythin ʾaʿjaba l-kuffāra nabātuhū thumma yahīju fa-tarāhu muṣfarran thumma yakūnu ḥuṭāman wa-fī l-ʾākhirati ʿadhābun shadīdun wa-maghfiratun mina llāhi wa-riḍwānun wa-mā l-ḥayātu d-dunyā ʾillā matāʿu l-ghurūri

Know that the life of this world is mere diversion and play, glamour and mutual vainglory among you and rivalry for wealth and children—like rain, whose growth impresses the farmer. Then it withers and you see it turn yellow, then it becomes chaff. Whereas in the Hereafter there is forgiveness from Allah and His approval and a severe punishment. The life of this world is nothing but the wares of delusion.

— Ali Quli Qarai

sābiqū ʾilā maghfiratin min rabbikum wa-jannatin ʿarḍuhā ka-ʿarḍi s-samāʾi wa-l-ʾarḍi ʾuʿiddat li-lladhīna ʾāmanū bi-llāhi wa-rusulihī dhālika faḍlu llāhi yuʾtīhi man yashāʾu wa-llāhu dhū l-faḍli l-ʿaẓīmi

Take the lead towards forgiveness from your Lord and a paradise as vast as the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who have faith in Allah and His apostles. That is Allah’s grace, which He grants to whomever He wishes, and Allah is dispenser of a great grace.

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā ʾaṣāba min muṣībatin fī l-ʾarḍi wa-lā fī ʾanfusikum ʾillā fī kitābin min qabli ʾan nabraʾahā ʾinna dhālika ʿalā llāhi yasīrun

No affliction visits the land or yourselves but it is in a Book before We bring it about—that is indeed easy for Allah—

— Ali Quli Qarai

li-kay-lā taʾsaw ʿalā mā fātakum wa-lā tafraḥū bi-mā ʾātākum wa-llāhu lā yuḥibbu kulla mukhtālin fakhūrin-i

so that you may not grieve for what escapes you, nor boast for what comes your way, and Allah does not like any swaggering braggart.

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhīna yabkhalūna wa-yaʾmurūna n-nāsa bi-l-bukhli wa-man yatawalla fa-ʾinna llāha huwa l-ghaniyyu l-ḥamīdu

Such as are [themselves] stingy and bid [other] people to be stingy. And whoever refuses to comply [should know that] indeed Allah is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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la-qad ʾarsalnā rusulanā bi-l-bayyināti wa-ʾanzalnā maʿahumu l-kitāba wa-l-mīzāna li-yaqūma n-nāsu bi-l-qisṭi wa-ʾanzalnā l-ḥadīda fīhi baʾsun shadīdun wa-manāfiʿu li-n-nāsi wa-li-yaʿlama llāhu man yanṣuruhū wa-rusulahū bi-l-ghaybi ʾinna llāha qawiyyun ʿazīzun

Certainly We sent Our apostles with manifest proofs, and We sent down with them the Book and the Balance, so that mankind may maintain justice; and We sent down iron, in which there is great might and uses for mankind, and so that Allah may know those who help Him and His apostles [with faith] in the Unseen. Indeed Allah is all-strong, all-mighty.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ʾarsalnā nūḥan wa-ʾibrāhīma wa-jaʿalnā fī dhurriyyatihimā n-nubuwwata wa-l-kitāba fa-minhum muhtadin wa-kathīrun minhum fāsiqūna

Certainly We sent Noah and Abraham and We ordained among their descendants prophethood and the Book. Some of them are [rightly] guided, and many of them are transgressors.

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma qaffaynā ʿalā ʾāthārihim bi-rusulinā wa-qaffaynā bi-ʿīsā bni maryama wa-ʾātaynāhu l-ʾinjīla wa-jaʿalnā fī qulūbi lladhīna ttabaʿūhu raʾfatan wa-raḥmatan wa-rahbāniyyatan-i btadaʿūhā mā katabnāhā ʿalayhim ʾillā btighāʾa riḍwāni llāhi fa-mā raʿawhā ḥaqqa riʿāyatihā fa-ʾātaynā lladhīna ʾāmanū minhum ʾajrahum wa-kathīrun minhum fāsiqūna

Then We followed them up with Our apostles and We followed [them] with Jesus son of Mary, and We gave him the Evangel, and We put kindness and mercy into the hearts of those who followed him. But as for monasticism, they innovated it—We had not prescribed it for them—only seeking Allah’s pleasure. Yet they did not observe it with due observance. So We gave to the faithful among them their [due] reward, but many of them are transgressors.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ttaqū llāha wa-ʾāminū bi-rasūlihī yuʾtikum kiflayni min raḥmatihī wa-yajʿal lakum nūran tamshūna bihī wa-yaghfir lakum wa-llāhu ghafūrun raḥīmun

O you who have faith! Be wary of Allah and have faith in His Apostle. He will grant you a double share of His mercy and a light to walk by, and He will forgive you, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful;

— Ali Quli Qarai

li-ʾallā yaʿlama ʾahlu l-kitābi ʾallā yaqdirūna ʿalā shayʾin min faḍli llāhi wa-ʾanna l-faḍla bi-yadi llāhi yuʾtīhi man yashāʾu wa-llāhu dhū l-faḍli l-ʿaẓīmi

so that the People of the Book may know that they do not control Allah grace in any wise and that in Allah’s hand is all grace, which He grants to whomever He wishes and Allah is dispenser of a mighty grace.

— Ali Quli Qarai