SURAH
AL-MUMTAHANA
Allah in the name of The Most Affectionate, the Merciful.
1. 'O believers! Take not for friends My and your enemies,
you deliver the news to them in friendship, while they are deniers
of the truth that has come to you, and drive out the Messenger
and yourselves from homes because you believe in Allah, your
Lord. If you have come out in my path to struggle and to seek
My pleasure, take them not for friends; you send them secret
message of love, while I know well what you conceal and what
you reveal. And whoever of you does so, has, undoubtedly, gone
astray from the straight path.
2. If they get hold of you, they will be your enemies and
will stretch forth their hands and their tongues towards you
with evil, and they desire that you should anyhow become disbelievers.
3. Never will profit you, neither your kind-red nor your
children on the Day of Judgement. He shall separate you from
them. And Allah is seeing your doings.
4. Undoubtedly, there was a good example to follow for you
in Ibrahim and his companions, when they said to their people,
'undoubtedly' we are quit of you and that you worship beside
Allah, we deny you', and there has appeared enmity and hatred
between us and you for ever; until you believe in one Allah,
but the saying of Ibrahim to his father 'I will surely ask forgiveness
for you, and I have no authority for your any favour against
Allah. O our Lord! In You do we put our trust and to You do
we turn, and to You is the final return.
5. 'O our Lord! Put not us in a trial of those who disbelieve,
and forgive us our Lord, undoubtedly You are the Esteemed one,
Wise.
6. Undoubtedly, there was a good example in them for you
for him who has hope in Allah and the Last Day. And whosoever
turns away, then undoubtedly Allah is self-sufficient, All-Praised.
7. It is near that Allah may create friendship between you
and those of them who are your enemies. And Allah is All Powerful,
and Forgiving, Merciful.
8. Allah forbids you not regarding those who have not fought
against you in religion and expelled you not from your homes,
that you may show favour to them and act justly towards them.
Undoubtedly, the just are loved by Allah.
9. Allah only forbids you regarding those who have fought
against you in religion or expelled you from your homes or have
helped others in driving you out, that you should take them
for friends, and whosoever takes them for friends, they are
the oppressors.
10. 'O believers! When muslim women come to you from pagan
territory leaving their homes, test them. Allah knows better
as to their faith, then if you know them to be believing women,
return them not to the infidels. Neither those women are lawful
to them nor they are lawful to them. And give their unbeliever
husbands what they have spent, and there is no blame on you
if you marry them when you pay them their dowries. And have
not firm hold to the matrimonial ties with the unbelieving women
and ask back what you have spent and the infidels should ask
for what they have spent. This is the order of Allah. He judges
between you. And Allah is All Knowing, Wise.
11. And if some women go away from the custody of muslims
to the disbelievers, then you punish the disbelievers, and give
from the spoils to those whose women have gone away the like
of that which they had spent. And fear Allah in Whom you believe.
12. 'O Prophet! When muslim women come to you for taking
oath of allegiance at your hands, that they will not associate
anything with Allah, and they will not commit theft, and will
not commit adultery and nor kill their children, and nor will
bring a calumny forging it between their hands and feet (regarding
birth) and will not disobey you in anything good, then accept
their allegiance and beg Allah to forgive them. Undoubtedly
Allah is Forgiving. Merciful.
13. 'O believers! Take not as friends those upon whom is
Allah's wrath. They are indeed despaired of the Hereafter as
the infidels are despaired of the inmate of the graves.
|