This is an old (1930’s) but respected translation of the Koran/Qur’an by A. J. Arberry, - & the only complete translation I could find on-line – at http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm. Excerpted by Rev. Robert C. Swain
2:50 ….And when We gave to Moses the Book and the Salvation, that haply you should be guided. And when Moses said to his people, ‘My people, you have done wrong against yourselves by your taking the Calf; now turn to your Creator and slay one another (the transgressors). That will be better for you in your Creator’s sight, and He will turn to you; truly He turns, and is All-compassionate.’ And when you said, ‘Moses, we will not believe thee till we see God openly’; and the thunderbolt took you while you were beholding.
Then We raised you up after you were dead, that haply you should be thankful. And We outspread the cloud to overshadow you, and We sent down manna and quails upon you: ‘Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you. And they worked no wrong upon Us, but themselves they wronged.
2:55 And when We said, ‘Enter this township, and eat easefully of it wherever you will, and enter in at the gate, prostrating, and say, Unburdening; We will forgive you your transgressions, and increase the good-doers.’ Then the evildoers substituted a saying other than that which had been said to them; so We sent down upon the evildoers wrath out of heaven for their ungodliness. And when Moses sought water for his people, so We said, ‘Strike with thy staff the rock’; and there gushed forth from it twelve fountains; all the people knew now their drinking-place. ‘Eat and drink of God’s providing, and mischief not in the earth, doing corruption.’ And when you said, ‘Moses, we will not endure one sort of food; pray to thy Lord for us, that He may bring forth for us of that the earth produces — green herbs, cucumbers, corn, lentils, onions.’
He said, ‘Would you have in exchange what is meaner for what is better? Get you down to Egypt; you shall have there that you demanded.’ And abasement and poverty were pitched upon them, and they were laden with the burden of God’s anger; that, because they had disbelieved the signs of God and slain the Prophets unrightfully….
And when Moses said to his people, ‘God commands you to sacrifice a cow.’ They said, ‘Dost thou take us in mockery?’ He said, ‘I take refuge with God, lest I should be one of the ignorant.’ They said, ‘Pray to thy Lord for us, that He may make clear to us what she may be.’ He said, ‘He says she is a cow neither old, nor virgin, middling between the two; so do that you are bidden.’
2:65 They said, ‘Pray to thy Lord for us, that He make clear to us what her colour may be.’ He said, ‘He says she shall be a golden cow, bright her colour, gladdening the beholders.’ They said, ‘Pray to thy Lord for us, that He make clear to us what she may be; cows are much alike to us; and, if God will, we shall then be guided.’ He said, ‘He says she shall be a cow not broken to plough the earth or to water the tillage, one kept secure, with no blemish on her.’
They said, ‘Now thou hast brought the truth’; and therefore they sacrificed her, a thing they had scarcely done. And when you killed a living soul, and disputed thereon — and God disclosed what you were hiding — so We said, ‘Smite him with part of it’; even so God brings to life the dead, and He shows you His signs, that haply you may have understanding. Then your hearts became hardened thereafter and are like stones….
2:105 And they say, ‘None shall enter Paradise except that they be Jews or Christians.’ Such are their fancies. Say: ‘Produce your proof, if you speak truly.’
Nay, but whosoever submits his will to God, being a good-doer, his wage is with his Lord, and no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.
The Jews say, ‘The Christians stand not on anything’; the Christians say, ‘The Jews stand not on anything’; yet they recite the Book. So too the ignorant say the like of them. God shall decide between them on the Day of Resurrection touching their differences. And who does greater evil than he who bars God’s places of worship, so that His Name be not rehearsed in them, and strives to destroy them? Such men might never enter them, save in fear….
Those who conceal the clear signs and the guidance that We have sent down, after We have shown them clearly in the Book — they shall be cursed by God and the cursers,
2:155 save such as repent and make amends, and show clearly — towards them I shall turn; I turn, All-compassionate. But those who disbelieve, and die disbelieving — upon them shall rest the curse of God and the angels, and of men altogether, therein dwelling forever; the chastisement shall not be lightened for them; no respite shall be given them.
Your God is One God; there is no god but He, the All-merciful, the All-compassionate.
Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of night and day and the ship that runs in the sea with profit to men, and the water God sends down from heaven therewith reviving the earth after it is dead and His scattering abroad in it all manner of crawling thing, and the turning about of the winds and the clouds compelled between heaven and earth — surely there are signs for a people having understanding.….
17:15 ….‘Read thy book! Thy soul suffices thee this day as a reckoner against thee.’ Whosoever is guided, is only guided to his own gain, and whosoever goes astray, it is only to his own loss; no soul laden bears the load of another. We never chastise, until We send forth a Messenger.
And when We desire to destroy a city, We command its men who live at ease, and they commit ungodliness therein, then the Word is realized against it, and We destroy it utterly….
21:25 ….And We sent never a Messenger before thee except that We revealed to him, saying, ‘There is no god but I; so serve Me.’
They say:’ ‘The All-merciful has taken to Him a son.’ Glory be to Him! Nay, but they are honoured servants that outstrip Him not in speech, and perform as He commands. He knows what is before them and behind them, and they intercede not save for him with whom He is well-pleased, and they tremble in awe of Him.
21:30 If any of them says, ‘I am a god apart from Him’, such a one We recompense with Gehenna; even so We recompense the evildoers.
Have not the unbelievers then beheld that the heavens and the earth were a mass all sewn up, and then We unstitched them and of water fashioned every living thing? Will they not believe? And We set in the earth firm mountains lest it should shake with them, and We set in it ravines to serve as ways, that haply so they may be guided; and We set up the heaven as a roof well-protected; yet still from Our signs they are turning away.
It is He who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon, each swimming in a sky.
We have not assigned to any mortal before thee to live forever; therefore, if thou diest, will they live forever? Every soul shall taste of death; and We try you with evil and good for a testing, then unto Us you shall be returned….
24:30 ….Say to the believers, that they cast down their eyes and guard their private parts; that is purer for them. God is aware of the things they work.
And say to the believing women, that they cast down their eyes and guard their private parts, and reveal not their adornment save such as is outward; and let them cast their veils over their bosoms, and not reveal their adornment save to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons, or their husbands’ sons, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or what their right hands own, or such men as attend them, not having sexual desire, or children who have not yet attained knowledge of women’s private parts….
But when you enter houses, greet one another with a greeting from God, blessed and good. So God makes clear to you the signs; haply you will understand.
Those only are believers, who believe in God and His Messenger and who, when they are with him upon a common matter, go not away until they ask his leave….
….O believers, eschew much suspicion; some suspicion is a sin. And do not spy, neither backbite one another; would any of you like to eat the flesh of his brother dead? You would abominate it. And fear you God; assuredly God turns, and He is All-compassionate.
O mankind, We have created you male and female, and appointed you races and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the noblest among you in the sight of God is the most godfearing of you. God is All-knowing, All-aware.
The Bedouins say, ‘We believe.’ Say: ‘You do not believe; rather say, “We surrender”; for belief has not yet entered your hearts. If you obey God and His Messenger, He will not diminish you anything of your works. God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.’
49:15 The believers are those who believe in God and His Messenger, then have not doubted, and have struggled with their possessions and their selves in the way of God; those — they are the truthful ones. Say: ‘What, would you teach God what your religion is, and God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth? And God has knowledge of everything.’
They count it as a favour to thee that they have surrendered! Say: ‘Do not count your surrendering as a favour to me; nay, but rather God confers a favour upon you, in that He has guided you to belief, if it be that you are truthful. God knows the Unseen of the heavens and of the earth; and God sees the things you do.’….