P:  Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land.  That is comfort of the life of the world.  Allah!  With Him is a more excellent abode.

S:  The love of desires, of women and sons and hoarded treasures of gold and silver and well bred horses and cattle and tilth, is made to seem fair to men; this is the provision of the life of this world; and Allah is He with Whom is the good goal (of life).

003.015 Y:  Say:  Shall I give you glad tidings of things Far better than those?  For the righteous are Gardens in nearness to their Lord, with rivers flowing beneath; therein is their eternal home; with companions pure (and holy); and the good pleasure of Allah.  For in Allah’s sight are (all) His servants,-

P:  Say:  Shall I inform you of something better than that?  For those who keep from evil, with their Lord, are Gardens underneath which rivers flow wherein they will abide, and pure companions, and contentment from Allah.  Allah is Seer of His bondmen,

S:  Say:  Shall I tell you what is better than these?  For those who guard (against evil) are gardens with their Lord, beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them, and pure mates and Allah’s pleasure; and Allah sees the servants.

003.016 Y:  (Namely), those who say:  “Our Lord! we have indeed believed:  forgive us, then, our sins, and save us from the agony of the Fire;"-

P:  Those who say:  Our Lord!  Lo! we believe.  So forgive us our sins and guard us from the punishment of Fire;

S:  Those who say:  Our Lord! surely we believe, therefore forgive us our faults and save us from the chastisement of the fire.

003.017 Y:  Those who show patience, Firmness and self-control; who are true (in word and deed); who worship devoutly; who spend (in the way of Allah); and who pray for forgiveness in the early hours of the morning.

P:  The steadfast, and the truthful, and the obedient, those who spend (and hoard not), those who pray for pardon in the watches of the night.

S:  The patient, and the truthful, and the obedient, and those who spend (benevolently) and those who ask forgiveness in the morning times.

003.018 Y:  There is no god but He:  That is the witness of Allah, His angels, and those endued with knowledge, standing firm on justice.  There is no god but He, the Exalted in Power, the Wise.

P:  Allah (Himself) is Witness that there is no God save Him.  And the angels and the men of learning (too are witness).  Maintaining His creation in justice, there is no God save Him the Almighty, the Wise.

S:  Allah bears witness that there is no god but He, and (so do) the angels and those possessed of knowledge, maintaining His creation with justice; there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise.

003.019 Y:  The Religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His Will):  Nor did the People of the Book dissent therefrom except through envy of each other, after knowledge had come to them.  But if any deny the Signs of Allah, Allah is swift in calling to account.