وَلَقَدْ مَنَنَّا عَلَىٰ مُوسَىٰ وَهَٰرُونَ
Certainly We favoured Moses and Aaron,
وَنَجَّيْنَٰهُمَا وَقَوْمَهُمَا مِنَ ٱلْكَرْبِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
and delivered them and their people from their great distress,
وَنَصَرْنَٰهُمْ فَكَانُوا۟ هُمُ ٱلْغَٰلِبِينَ
and We helped them so that they became the victors.
وَءَاتَيْنَٰهُمَا ٱلْكِتَٰبَ ٱلْمُسْتَبِينَ
We gave them the illuminating scripture
وَهَدَيْنَٰهُمَا ٱلصِّرَٰطَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ
and guided them to the straight path,
وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِمَا فِى ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ
and left for them a good name in posterity.
سَلَٰمٌ عَلَىٰ مُوسَىٰ وَهَٰرُونَ
‘Peace be to Moses and Aaron!’
إِنَّا كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ
Thus indeed do We reward the virtuous.
إِنَّهُمَا مِنْ عِبَادِنَا ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
They are indeed among Our faithful servants.
وَإِنَّ إِلْيَاسَ لَمِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ
Indeed Ilyas was one of the apostles.
إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ
When he said to his people, ‘Will you not be Godwary?
أَتَدْعُونَ بَعْلًۭا وَتَذَرُونَ أَحْسَنَ ٱلْخَٰلِقِينَ
Do you invoke Baal and abandon the best of creators,
ٱللَّهَ رَبَّكُمْ وَرَبَّ ءَابَآئِكُمُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
Allah, your Lord and Lord of your forefathers?,’
فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَإِنَّهُمْ لَمُحْضَرُونَ
they impugned him. So they will indeed be mustered [in hell]
إِلَّا عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُخْلَصِينَ
—[all] except Allah’s exclusive servants.
وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ فِى ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ
We left for him a good name in posterity.
سَلَٰمٌ عَلَىٰٓ إِلْ يَاسِينَ
‘Peace be to Ilyas!’
إِنَّا كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ
Thus indeed do We reward the virtuous.
إِنَّهُۥ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
He is indeed one of Our faithful servants.
وَإِنَّ لُوطًۭا لَّمِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ
Indeed Lot was one of the apostles.
إِذْ نَجَّيْنَٰهُ وَأَهْلَهُۥٓ أَجْمَعِينَ
When We delivered him and all his family,
إِلَّا عَجُوزًۭا فِى ٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ
excepting an old woman among those who remained behind,
ثُمَّ دَمَّرْنَا ٱلْءَاخَرِينَ
We destroyed the rest.
وَإِنَّكُمْ لَتَمُرُّونَ عَلَيْهِم مُّصْبِحِينَ
Indeed you pass by them at dawn
وَبِٱلَّيْلِ ۗ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
and at night. Do you not exercise your reason?
English translation: Ali Quli Qarai
What the passage says. God recalls His favour upon Moses and Aaron: He delivered them and their people from the great distress, aided them to victory, gave them "the clarifying Book," guided them on the straight path, and left a lasting salutation upon them (vv. 114–122). Then Elias, who called his people from the idol "Baʿl" to "the best of creators, God your Lord and the Lord of your first fathers"; they belied him — save the sincere — and God left upon him too a salutation, "peace be upon Ilyāsīn" (vv. 123–132). Then Lot, saved with all his family but "an old woman among those who lingered," his people annihilated — ruins the Arabs "pass by, morning and night" (vv. 133–138); the roll continues into Jonah in the next passage.
How the present sources read it. On Moses and Aaron, al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī notes a fine ordering — deliverance named before victory — because "victory" presupposes some strength completed by aid (fitting the Israelites at the exodus), while their rescue from bondage, when they were powerless, suits "deliverance" alone. All four Arabic sources gloss "the clarifying Book" as the Torah and "the straight path" as the road to truth (Qatāda: al-islām).
On Elias, the sources debate his identity (Idrīs, per Ibn Masʿūd and Qatāda; or of Aaron's line, sent to Baʿlabakk) and gloss "Baʿl" as an idol — al-Qummī preserving the Bedouin anecdote that the word itself means "owner/lord." al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī recounts the long legend of Elias (from Wahb and al-Thaʿlabī) but flatly judges it weak, and reads Elias's summons as a compact proof that the Creator is also the Governor, and Lord of all peoples alike. The passage's most distinctive reading is "peace be upon Ilyāsīn." al-Qummī, al-Baḥrānī and al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī all carry the Imāmī gloss — from al-Ṣādiq, al-Riḍā, Ibn ʿAbbās, al-Suddī and the reading of ʿUmar ("Āl Yāsīn") — that Yā-Sīn is Muḥammad and Āl Yāsīn is the Family of Muḥammad; al-Baḥrānī gives al-Riḍā's full argument before al-Maʾmūn (God salutes prophets by name, but here salutes a "family," namely Muḥammad's), and even al-Bāqir's Syriac prayer of Elias in prostration. al-Ṭūsī notes the same construct-reading ("āl Yāsīn") alongside al-Jubbāʾī's "people of the Qurʾān," and treats the plural reading "Ilyāsīn" (Elias and his followers). Every one of these readings is given strictly as its source attributes it.
On Lot, the four sources agree the spared "old woman" is his wife, left among the doomed, and that "you pass by them morning and night" addresses the Meccans who traverse the ruined towns on the Syria road — al-Baḥrānī adding al-Ṣādiq's reading that one "passes by them in the Qurʾān" whenever their story is recited. al-Mīzān's units here are coarse (114–132 and 133–148); the second runs into Jonah, whose treatment is carried into passage 5.