Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side eBook

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Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,833 pages of information about Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side.

P:  (And it will be said unto those therein):  Eat and drink at ease for that which ye sent on before you in past days.

S:  Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by.

069.025 Y:  And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say:  “Ah!  Would that my Record had not been given to me!”

P:  But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say:  Oh, would that I had not been given my book

S:  And as for him who is given his book in his left hand he shall say:  O would that my book had never been given me: 

069.026 Y:  “And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!”

P:  And knew not what my reckoning!

S:  And I had not known what my account was: 

069.027 Y:  “Ah!  Would that (Death) had made an end of me!”

P:  Oh, would that it had been death!

S:  O would that it had made an end (of me): 

069.028 Y:  “Of no profit to me has been my wealth!”

P:  My wealth hath not availed me,

S:  My wealth has availed me nothing: 

069.029 Y:  “My power has perished from me!"...

P:  My power hath gone from me.

S:  My authority is gone away from me.

069.030 Y:  (The stern command will say):  “Seize ye him, and bind ye him,”

P:  (It will be said):  Take him and fetter him

S:  Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,

069.031 Y:  “And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.”

P:  And then expose him to hell-fire

S:  Then cast him into the burning fire,

069.032 Y:  “Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!”

P:  And then insert him in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits.

S:  Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.

069.033 Y:  “This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.”

P:  Lo!  He used not to believe in Allah the Tremendous,

S:  Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,

069.034 Y:  “And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!”

P:  And urged not on the feeding of the wretched.

S:  Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.

069.035 Y:  “So no friend hath he here this Day.”

P:  Therefor hath he no lover here this day,

S:  Therefore he has not here today a true friend,

069.036 Y:  “Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,”

P:  Nor any food save filth

S:  Nor any food except refuse,

069.037 Y:  “Which none do eat but those in sin.”

P:  Which none but sinners eat.

S:  Which none but the wrongdoers eat.

069.038 Y:  So I do call to witness what ye see,

P:  But nay!  I swear by all that ye see

S:  But nay!  I swear by that which you see,

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