CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 1.  PART I

                                                                                                   
IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, THE CREATOR
AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  THIS IS THE BOOK, IN IT IS GUIDANCE SURELY
WITHOUT DOUBT FOR THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY

3  WHO BELIEVE IN THE UNSEEN AND PRAY REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY

4  WHO BELIEVE IN THE REVELATION SENT TO YOU
AND BELIEVE IN THE REVELATIONS SENT BEFORE YOU
AND IN THEIR HEARTS THEY ARE SURE OF THE HEREAFTER TOO

5  THEY ARE ON TRUE GUIDANCE FROM THEIR MAKER
AND IT IS THEY WHO WILL PROSPER

6  AS TO THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH IT IS THE SAME TO THEM 
THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE WHETHER YOU WARN THEM 
OR WHETHER YOU DO NOT WARN THEM 

7  GOD HAS SEALED THEIR HEARTS AND THEIR HEARING
AND OVER THEIR EYES IS A COVERING
AND GREAT IS THE PENALTY THEY WILL BE INCURRING

     

1
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 2.  PART I

8  OF THE PEOPLE THERE ARE SOME WHO SAY 
WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY 
BUT NOT REAL BELIEVERS ARE THEY

9  THEY SEEK TO DECEIVE GOD AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND IT IS ONLY THEMSELVES THEY DECEIVE 
BUT THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE

10  IN THEIR HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
GOD INCREASES THEIR DISEASE 
GRIEVOUS IS THEIR PENALTY 
BECAUSE OF THEIR FALSITY

11  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, MAKE NOT MISCHIEF ON THE EARTH
THEY SAY, WE ONLY WANT TO MAKE PEACE ON THE EARTH

12  THE ONES WHO MAKE MISCHIEF ARE THEY
BUT NOT IN REALIZATION OF THIS ARE THEY 

13  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, BELIEVE AS THE OTHERS BELIEVE 
THEY SAY, SHOULD WE BELIEVE AS THE FOOLS BELIEVE?
THEY ARE THE FOOLS BUT THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE

14  WHEN THEY MEET THOSE WHO BELIEVE THEY SAY, WE BELIEVE
WHEN THEY ARE ALONE WITH THEIR DEVILS THEY SAY SECRETLY
WE ARE WITH YOU REALLY WE WERE ONLY MAKING MOCKERY

15  GOD WILL PAY THEM BACK THEIR MOCKERY
LEAVING THEM ALONE IN THEIR INORDINANCY
WANDERING TO AND FRO BLINDLY

16  THESE ARE THEY WHO HAVE TRADED ERROR FOR GUIDANCE
THEIR BARGAIN IS FUTILE AND THEY HAVE LOST TRUE GUIDANCE

17  THEY ARE LIKE ONE WHO LIGHTS A FIRE 
WHEN IT LIGHTS AROUND HIM AND BECOMES BRIGHTER

GOD TAKES AWAY THEIR LIGHT
AND LEAVES THEM IN DARKNESS WITHOUT SIGHT

18  DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND AND WITHOUT LIGHT
AND THEY WILL NOT RETURN TO RIGHT 

19  A RAIN-LADEN CLOUD IS A LIKENESS OF ANOTHER  
IN IT IS DARKNESS AND LIGHTNING AND THUNDER
INTO THEIR EARS THEY PRESS THEIR FINGERS 
TO KEEP OUT THE STUNNING THUNDER
ALL THE WHILE THEY ARE IN TERROR 
BUT GOD ENCOMPASSES THE REJECTERS 

20  THEIR SIGHT IS ALMOST SNATCHED AWAY BY THE LIGHTNING
AND EVERY TIME THEY ARE HELPED BY ITS BRIGHTENING  
THEY WALK IN IT STANDING STILL IN ITS DARKENING
IF THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER WAS SO WILLING
HE WOULD TAKE AWAY THEIR HEARING AND SEEING 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

2
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 3.  PART I

21  ADORE YOUR LORD WHO CREATED YOU 
AND WHO CREATED THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE YOU 
THAT THE CHANCE TO LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS MAY BE GIVEN TO YOU
 
22  HE MADE THE EARTH A RESTING PLACE FOR YOU
AND MADE THE HEAVENS A CANOPY FOR YOU
AND SENT DOWN RAIN FROM THE HEAVENS FOR YOU
AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUITS FOR SUSTENANCE FOR YOU 
THEN SET NOT UP RIVALS TO GOD WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT IS TRUE

23  AND IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT AS TO THE SCRIPTURES
WHICH WE HAVE REVEALED TO OUR MESSENGER 
THEN TRY TO PRODUCE LIKE IT ONE CHAPTER 
AND CALL YOUR WITNESSES OR HELPERS 
BESIDES GOD IF YOU ARE SINCERE

24  BUT IF YOU CANNOT AND YOU CANNOT FOR SURE
THEN BE ON YOUR GUARD AGAINST THE FIRE 
WHOSE FUEL IS MEN AND STONES WHICH IS PREPARED 
FOR THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS

25  GIVE GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHO DO GOOD AND ARE BELIEVERS
THAT THEIR PORTION IS GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
EVERY TIME THEY ARE FED WITH FRUITS FROM THERE
THEY SAY, WE WERE FED WITH FRUITS LIKE IT PRIOR
FOR THEY ARE GIVEN THINGS SIMILAR
AND THEY HAVE IN THEM COMPANIONS HOLY AND PURE
AND THEY WILL ABIDE IN PARADISE FOREVER

26  THERE IS NO RELUCTANCE BY THE CREATOR 
TO USE THE LIKENESS OF THINGS LOWER
AS WELL AS THINGS THAT ARE HIGHER 
AND THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
KNOW THAT IT IS THE TRUTH FROM THEIR MAKER
BUT IT IS SAID BY THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS
BY THIS PARABLE WHAT DOES GOD MEAN TO CONFER?
AND BY IT HE ALLOWS MANY TO ERR
AND BY IT HE LEADS MANY TO THE RIGHT MANNER
BUT HE ONLY ALLOWS TO ERR
THOSE WHO REJECT THE RIGHT MANNER

27  THOSE WHO BREAK THE ORDERS OF THE CREATOR
AFTER THEY HAVE TO THEM BEEN MADE CLEAR
WHO SEVER WHAT HE ORDERS TO BE JOINED TOGETHER
AND ARE THEMSELVES MISCHIEF MAKERS
THESE IT IS THAT ARE THE LOSERS

28  HOW CAN YOU REJECT FAITH IN GOD IN YOUR LIFE
SEEING THAT YOU WERE WITHOUT LIFE AND HE GAVE YOU LIFE?  
GOD WILL CAUSE YOU TO DIE AND WILL AGAIN RAISE YOU TO LIFE  
AND AGAIN YOU WILL RETURN TO GOD AFTER LIFE

29  IT IS HE WHO MADE FOR YOU IN HIS CREATION 
ALL THINGS THAT ARE ON EARTH AND HIS COMPREHENSION 
DESIGNED THE HEAVENS FOR HE GAVE ORDER AND PERFECTION 
TO THE SEVEN HEAVENS AND HE KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

3
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 4.  PART I

30  GOD SAID TO THE ANGELS, I WILL CREATE ON EARTH A RULER  
THE ANGELS SAID, WILL YOU PLACE IN IT A MISCHIEF MAKER
AND ONE WHO IS A BLOOD SHEDDER
WHILE WE GLORIFY YOU AND GIVE YOU PRAISE AND HONOR?
HE SAID, I KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW NOT AND I AM THE BEST KNOWER

31  HE TAUGHT ADAM THE NAMES OF ALL THINGS
THEN HE PRESENTED THEM BEFORE THE ANGELIC BEINGS
AND SAID, TELL ME IF YOU KNOW THE NAMES OF THESE THINGS 

32  THEY SAID, GLORY TO YOU 
WE ONLY KNOW WHAT WAS TAUGHT TO US BY YOU
AND YOU ARE PERFECT IN KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND TRUTH

33  HE SAID, OH ADAM, TELL THEM THEIR NAMES 
AND WHEN HE HAD TOLD THEM THEIR NAMES

GOD SAID, I TOLD YOU I KNOW THE SECRETS OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND I KNOW WHAT YOU REVEAL AND WHAT YOU KEEP HIDDEN

34  WE SAID TO THE ANGELS, BOW DOWN TO ADAM
AND THEY ALL BOWED DOWN ALL EXCEPT SATAN
HE REFUSED AND WAS FILLED WITH OPPOSITION
AND WAS OF THOSE WHO WERE IN REJECTION

35  WE SAID, OH ADAM, DWELL IN THE GARDEN 
WITH YOUR WIFE AND EAT OF THE GOOD THINGS THEREIN
BUT APPROACH NOT THIS TREE OR YOU WILL BE IN TRANSGRESSION 

36  THEN SATAN MADE THEM SLIP FROM THE GARDEN 
AND GOT THEM OUT OF THE STATE THEY HAD BEEN IN
WE SAID, GET OUT ALL OF YOU FROM THE GARDEN
SOME OF YOU ARE ENEMIES TO OTHERS WITHIN
AND THE EARTH WILL BE YOUR PLACE TO DWELL IN
AND YOUR MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD FOR A TERM PREDESTINED

37  THEN ADAM LEARNED FROM HIS LORD WORDS OF INSPIRATION
AND HIS LORD TURNED TO HIM FOR HE IS FULL OF COMPASSION

38  WE SAID, GET OUT AND THERE WILL COME TO YOU GUIDANCE  
AND THEN WHOEVER WILL FOLLOW MY GUIDANCE
WILL HAVE NO FEAR NOR GRIEVANCE

39  THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH AND ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEY WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE 
AND THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOREVER

4
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 5.  PART I

40  OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BE MINDFUL OF MY FAVOR TO YOU
FULFILL YOUR COVENANT WITH ME AS I FULFILL MINE TO YOU
AND LET NONE BE FEARED BUT ME BY YOU

41  AND BELIEVE IN WHAT I REVEAL TO YOU
CONFIRMING THE REVELATION WHICH IS WITH YOU
AND BE NOT THE FIRST TO REJECT THE TRUTH 
NOR LET MY MESSAGES BE SOLD BY YOU
AND KEEP YOUR DUTY AND BE FIRM AND TRUE
AND LET NO ONE BE FEARED BUT ME BY YOU 
 
42  AND MIX NOT FALSEHOOD WITH TRUTH 
NOR CONCEAL THE TRUTH WHEN YOU KNOW  THE TRUTH

43  AND PRAY REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
BOW DOWN WITH THOSE WHO BOW DOWN SUBMISSIVELY

44  DO YOU ENJOIN RIGHT CONDUCT ON OTHERS
AND DO NOT PRACTICE IT YOURSELVES WHILE YOU READ THE SCRIPTURES 
DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER?

45  SEEK GOD'S HELP THROUGH PRAYER AND PATIENCE 
AND IT IS EASY FOR THOSE WITH A HUMBLE ESSENCE 

46  THOSE WHO ARE CERTAIN THAT THEY WILL MEET THEIR LORD
AND THAT THEY ARE GOING TO RETURN TO THEIR LORD

5
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 6.  PART I

47  OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, CALL TO MIND THE SPECIAL FAVOR 
WHICH I BESTOWED UPON YOU AND THAT I DID PREFER
YOU FOR MY MESSAGE TO ALL OTHERS

48  THEN GUARD AGAINST A DAY WHEN ONE PERSON
WILL NOT AVAIL ANOTHER PERSON
NOR WILL THEY HAVE ANY INTERCESSION  
NOR CAN THEY MAKE ANY COMPENSATION  
AND NOR WILL THEY BE HELPED BY ANYONE 

49  REMEMBER WE DELIVERED YOU FROM PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
WHO SUBJECTED YOU TO HARD TASKS AND TRIALS
AND KILLED YOUR MALES AND KEPT ALIVE YOUR FEMALES
AND THESE WERE FROM YOUR LORD TREMENDOUS TRIALS 

50  REMEMBER WE DIVIDED THE SEA FOR YOU AND SAVED YOU
AND DROWNED PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WITHIN THE VERY SIGHT OF YOU

51  AND REMEMBER WE APPOINTED FORTY NIGHTS FOR MOSES
AND YOU TOOK THE CALF FOR A GOD IN HIS ABSENCE
AND ACTED IN A MANNER MOST GRIEVOUS

52  AFTER THAT WE DID FORGIVE YOU AND TO YOU WE WERE MERCIFUL
THERE WAS A CHANCE EVEN THEN FOR YOU TO BE GRATEFUL

53  REMEMBER WE GAVE MOSES THE LIGHT
AND THE CRITERION BETWEEN WRONG AND RIGHT
AND THERE AGAIN WAS A CHANCE FOR YOU TO BE GUIDED ARIGHT 

54  MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, YOU HAVE BEEN WRONG DOERS
BY BEING CALF WORSHIPPERS 
SO TURN IN REPENTANCE TO YOUR MAKER
AND KILL THE WRONG-DOERS, FOR YOU THAT WILL BE BETTER 
IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
THEN GOD FORGAVE YOU FOR HE IS EVER
THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

55  YOU SAID TO MOSES, WE WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING
UNTIL WE SEE GOD MANIFESTLY, AND WHILE YOU STOOD LOOKING
YOU WERE SEIZED WITH THUNDER AND LIGHTNING 

56 THEN AFTER YOUR DEATH WE RAISED YOU
THEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO SHOW GRATITUDE

57  WE GAVE THE SHADE OF CLOUDS TO YOU 
AND WE SENT DOWN MANNA AND QUAILS TO YOU
AND SAID, EAT OF THE THINGS WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOU
BUT THEY REBELLED AND NO HARM TO US DID THEY DO
BUT HARM TO THEIR OWN SOULS THEY DID DO 

58  WE SAID, ENTER THIS TOWN AND EAT PLENTIFULLY 
BUT ENTER THE GATE WITH HUMILITY 
IN POSTURE AND IN WORDS AND WE WILL SURELY
FORGIVE YOU YOUR FAULTS AND INCREASE GREATLY
THE REWARD OF THOSE OF YOU WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

59  THE WRONG DOERS CHANGED THE WORD WE GAVE THEM
TO OTHER WORDS SO WE SENT PLAGUES ON THEM
FOR OUR ORDERS WERE DISOBEYED BY THEM

6
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 7.  PART I

60  REMEMBER WHEN MOSES PRAYED FOR HIS PEOPLE FOR WATER 
AND WE SAID, WITH YOUR STAFF STRIKE THE ROCK AS WE ORDER
THEN FROM THE ROCK TWELVE SPRINGS GUSHED FORTH WATER 
AND EACH GROUP KNEW ITS OWN PLACE FOR WATER 
EAT AND DRINK OF THE PROVISIONS FROM YOUR MAKER
AND DO NO EVIL ON THE EARTH NOR BE MISCHIEF MAKERS

61  AND REMEMBER 
YOU SAID, OH MOSES, WE CANNOT ENDURE 
ONE KIND OF FOOD FOREVER
SO ASK YOUR LORD TO BE OUR PROVIDER
OF WHAT THE EARTH GROWS OF ITS CUCUMBERS
AND GARLIC AND LENTILS AND ONIONS AND POT HERBS
AND HE SAID, WOULD YOU RATHER 
THAT WHICH IS WORSE TO THAT WHICH IS BETTER? 
THEN ENTER ANY CITY AND YOU WILL FIND WHAT YOU DESIRE
SO WITH SHAME AND MISERY THEY WERE COVERED
AND THE WRATH OF GOD THEY DID INCUR
BECAUSE THEY CONTINUED BEING REJECTERS
AND UNJUSTLY KILLING GOD'S MESSENGERS 
AND THEY WERE DISOBEDIENT TRANSGRESSORS

7
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 8.  PART I

62  THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES
AND THE CHRISTIANS AND THE SABIANS AND WHOEVER
BELIEVES IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY AND ARE RIGHT DOERS
THEY WILL HAVE THEIR REWARD WITH THEIR MAKER
AND THEY WILL NOT FEAR OR GRIEVE EITHER

63  REMEMBER WE TOOK YOUR COVENANT FROM YOU
AND RAISED THE MOUNTAIN ABOVE YOU 
HOLD FIRMLY TO WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN YOU 
AND LET WHAT IS IN IT BE REMEMBERED BY YOU 
THAT YOU MAY FEAR GOD AND KEEP EVIL FROM YOU

64  BUT THEN YOU DID TURN BACK THEREAFTER 
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE MERCY OF YOUR MAKER
YOU WOULD HAVE SURELY BEEN AMONG THE LOSERS 

65  AND THE SABBATH BY THOSE AMONG YOU WAS VIOLATED
SO WE SAID TO THEM, BE YOU AS APES DESPISED AND REJECTED

66  SO WE MADE IT AN EXAMPLE CLEARLY
IN THEIR OWN TIME AND TO THEIR POSTERITY 
AND A LESSON TO THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY

67  MOSES SAID TO HIS FOLLOWERS
GOD COMMANDS THAT YOU SACRIFICE A HEIFER 
THEY SAID, WITH THIS STORY ARE YOU BEING A RIDICULER?
HE SAID, OH MY LORD, SAVE ME FROM ACTING IN ERROR

68  THEY SAID, ASK ON OUR BEHALF FOR US
FOR GOD TO MAKE PLAIN TO US 
WHAT HEIFER IT IS TO US

HE SAID, GOD SAYS THE HEIFER 
SHOULD BE NEITHER TOO OLD NOR TOO YOUNG EITHER 
BUT OF MIDDLE AGE SO NOW DO WHAT YOU ARE ORDERED

69  THEY SAID, ASK ON OUR BEHALF FOR US
FOR GOD TO MAKE PLAIN TO US 
WHAT HER COLOR IS TO US

HE SAID, GOD SAYS HER COLOR 
IS A BRIGHT YELLOW-COLORED HEIFER 
RICH IN TONE AND PLEASING TO THE BEHOLDERS

70  THEY SAID, ASK GOD ON OUR BEHALF FOR US
TO MAKE WHAT HEIFER IT IS PLAIN TO US 
FOR ALL HEIFERS ARE ALIKE TO US 
WE WISH FOR GOD TO GUIDE US

71  HE SAID, GOD SAYS SHE IS A HEIFER 
NOT TRAINED TO TILL THE SOIL OR TO WATER 
THE FIELD, SOUND AND WITHOUT BLEMISH IN HER
THEY SAID,  NOW YOU HAVE BROUGHT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
ALTHOUGH THEY DID NOT WANT TO DO IT THEY SACRIFICED HER

8
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 9.  PART I

72  AND WHEN YOU KILLED A MAN AND DISAGREED ABOUT IT 
BUT GOD BROUGHT IT FORTH WHILE YOU TRIED TO HIDE IT

73  SO WE SAID, STRIKE HIM WITH IT PARTIALLY
SO DOES GOD BRING THE DEAD TO LIFE IN ORDER THAT HE
MAY SHOW YOU HIS SIGNS AND GIVE YOU KNOWLEDGE CLEARLY

74  THEN WERE YOUR HEARTS HARDENED LIKE ROCKS EVEN HARDER
FOR THERE ARE SOME ROCKS FROM WHICH GUSH FORTH RIVERS  
OTHERS WHICH WHEN SPLIT ASUNDER SEND FORTH WATER 
OTHERS FALL DOWN FOR FEAR OF THE CREATOR
AND OF WHAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER

75  DO YOU HOPE THAT YOU WILL BE BELIEVED BY THEM
SEEING THAT GOD'S WORD WAS HEARD BY THEM 
AND WAS KNOWINGLY PERVERTED BY THEM
AFTER IT WAS UNDERSTOOD BY THEM?

76  WHEN THEY MEET BELIEVERS THEY SAY, WE BELIEVE WITH YOU 
BUT THEY SAY WHEN THEY MEET BEHIND THE BACKS OF YOU
WILL YOU TELL THEM WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED TO YOU 
SO THEY MAY ARGUE ABOUT IT BEFORE GOD WITH YOU 
IS THEIR AIM NOT UNDERSTOOD BY YOU?

77  DO THEY NOT KNOW THAT GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY CONCEAL
AND THAT GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY REVEAL?

78  AND THERE ARE AMONG THEM PEOPLE WHO ARE UNLETTERED
WHO KNOW NOT THE BOOK BUT SEE IN IT THEIR OWN DESIRES 
AND THEY DO NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE

79  THEN CURSED ARE THEY 
WHO WRITE THE BOOK WITH THEIR OWN HANDS AND SAY 
THIS IS FROM GOD, SO THAT THEY MAY
SELL IT FOR A MISERABLE PRICE, CURSED ARE THEY
FOR WHAT THEY WRITE AND FOR THEIR GAINS THAT ARE  MADE 

80  THEY SAY, FOR A FEW DAYS THE FIRE WILL NOT TOUCH US  
SAY TO THEM, HAS GOD GIVEN TO YOU A PROMISE?
FOR HE NEVER BREAKS HIS PROMISE
OR DO YOU SAY THAT OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE?

81  WHOEVER SINS AND THEIR SINS BESET THEM ON EVERY SIDE
THEY ARE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE AND IN IT THEY WILL ABIDE 

82  BUT THOSE WHO WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ARE BELIEVERS
ARE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN THEY WILL LIVE IN IT FOREVER

9
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                              SECTION 10.  PART I

83  FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WE MADE THESE DECREES
WORSHIP NONE BUT GOD AND BE KIND TO YOUR FAMILIES 
AND ORPHANS AND WAYFARERS AND THOSE IN NEED
SPEAK FAIR TO PEOPLE AND PRAY REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY
AND THOSE WHO ADHERED WERE NOT MANY
AND EVEN NOW YOU BACKSLIDE A LARGE DEGREE

84  WE TOOK A COVENANT FROM YOU SAYING THIS
SHED NO BLOOD AMONG YOU AND YOU PROMISED THIS
NOT TO TURN OUT YOUR PEOPLE AND YOU BEAR WITNESS TO THIS

85  AFTER THIS IT IS YOU THE SAME PEOPLE 
WHO KILL PEOPLE AMONG YOUR OWN PEOPLE
AND BANISH A PARTY OF YOU FROM WHERE THEY DWELL

AND YOU ASSIST THEIR ENEMIES AGAINST THEM  
IF THEY COME TO YOU AS CAPTIVES YOU RANSOM THEM
ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO BANISH THEM

IS IT ONLY PART OF THE BOOK YOU BELIEVE IN
THEN AS TO THE REST OF IT ARE YOU IN REJECTION?
BUT FOR YOU WHO DO THIS WHAT IS YOUR COMPENSATION
BUT DISGRACE IN THIS LIFE?  AND ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
YOUR CHASTISEMENT SURELY WILL BE A PAINFUL ONE
FOR GOD HAS YOU UNDER FULL OBSERVATION 

86  THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE BUYERS 
OF THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD AT THE PRICE OF THE HEREAFTER 
THEIR PENALTY WILL NOT BE MADE LIGHTER
NOR WILL THEY FIND ANY HELPER

10
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 11.  PART I

87  WE GAVE MOSES THE BOOK AND SUCCEEDED HIM
WITH A SUCCESSION OF MESSENGERS WHO CAME AFTER HIM
CHRIST JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, WE GAVE CLEAR SIGNS TO HIM
AND WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WE STRENGTHENED HIM 

WHEN THERE COMES TO YOU A MESSENGER
SAYING TO YOU THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT DESIRE 
YOU ARE FILLED WITH PRIDE AND SOME YOU CALL IMPOSTORS 
AND YOU EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO MURDER OTHERS

88  AND THEY SAY THAT THEIR HEARTS ARE REPOSITORIES 
GOD'S CURSE IS ON THEM FOR THEIR BLASPHEMIES 
AND LITTLE IS IT THAT THEY BELIEVE

89  AND WHEN A BOOK FROM GOD COMES TO THEM 
CONFIRMING THE SCRIPTURES THAT ARE WITH THEM 
ALTHOUGH BEFORE THEY PRAYED TO COME TO THEM
A VICTORY AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS AMONG THEM 
BUT THEN WHEN CLEAR MESSAGES DO COME TO THEM
WHICH THEN SHOULD HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED BY THEM
THEN THE CLEAR MESSAGES ARE NOT BELIEVED BY THEM
BUT FOR THE DISBELIEVERS THE CURSE OF GOD IS ON THEM

90  THEY HAVE SOLD THEIR SOULS FRIVOLOUSLY
FOR THEY DENY GOD'S REVELATION OUT OF ENVY
THAT GOD SHOULD SEND IT DOWN FROM HIS MERCY 
TO ANY OF HIS SERVANTS AS HE DOES DECREE
SO THEY HAVE DRAWN ON THEMSELVES GOD'S FURY
FOR THE REJECTERS OF GOD IS A HUMILIATING PENALTY

91  AND WHEN THEY ARE TOLD TO BELIEVE IN GOD'S REVELATIONS  
THEY SAY, WE BELIEVE IN WHAT WE RECEIVED OF REVELATIONS 
YET OF ALL BESIDES THEY ARE IN REJECTION
 EVEN IF IT IS TO WHAT IS WITH THEM A CONFIRMATION
SAY, WHY THEN HAVE YOU KILLED GOD'S CHOSEN ONES 
IF YOU BELIEVED IN GOD AND HIS REVELATIONS?

92  THERE CAME TO YOU MOSES WITH CLEAR SIGNS
YET YOU WORSHIPPED THE CALF EVEN AFTER THE SIGNS
AND THEN YOU BEHAVED WRONGFULLY MOST OF THE TIME

93  AND WE TOOK YOUR COVENANT FROM YOU FAITHFULLY
AND WE THEN RAISED THE MOUNTAIN ABOVE YOU HIGHLY
TO WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN TO YOU HOLD TO IT FIRMLY
AND WE GAVE YOU THE LAW TO ACT OBEDIENTLY
THEY SAID, WE HEAR AND WE WILL ACT DISOBEDIENTLY 
SO THEY HAD TO ABSORB DUE TO THEIR LACK OF BELIEF
THE LOVE OF THE CALF.  SAY, VILE IS YOUR BELIEF 
IF YOU DO EVEN HAVE ANY BELIEF

94  SAY, IF THE LAST HOME WITH GOD IS JUST FOR YOU
NOT FOR ANY OTHER PEOPLE OTHER THAN YOU 
SEEK FOR DEATH IF WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE

95  BUT DEATH THEY WILL NEVER SEEK FOR
BECAUSE OF THE SINS THEY HAVE SENT ON BEFORE 
AND GOD IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE WRONG-DOERS

96  YOU WILL FIND THEM FOR LIFE MOST GREEDY   
AND EVEN MORE THAN THE PRACTICERS OF IDOLATRY 
EACH ONE OF THEM WISHES HE COULD BE GIVEN A DECREE 
OF A LIFE OF A THOUSAND YEARS, BUT GRANTING SUCH A DECREE
WILL NOT SAVE ANY OF THEM FROM THE DUE PENALTY
FOR ALL THAT THEY DO GOD SEES CLEARLY

11
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 12.  PART I

97  SAY, WHOEVER IS AN ENEMY TO GABRIEL
FOR HE BRINGS DOWN WHAT WE REVEAL
TO YOUR HEART BY GOD'S WILL
VERIFYING WHAT WAS FORMERLY REVEALED
AND GUIDANCE AND GOOD NEWS FOR THE FAITHFUL

98  AND WHOEVER IS AN ENEMY TO GOD AND HIS APOSTLES 
AND TO HIS ANGELS AND TO GABRIEL AND TO MICHAEL
THEN GOD IS AN ENEMY TO THE UNFAITHFUL

99  AND WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU CLEAR MESSAGES
AND NONE REJECT THEM EXCEPT HE WHO TRANSGRESSES

100  IS IT NOT THE CASE WITH THEM
THAT EVERY TIME A COVENANT IS MADE WITH THEM
IT IS THROWN ASIDE BY A PARTY OF THEM?
THEY ARE FAITHLESS MOST OF THEM

101  THEN WHEN A MESSENGER FROM GOD CAME TO THEM 
CONFIRMING THE REVELATIONS THAT WERE WITH THEM
THEY THEN THREW GOD'S BOOK BEHIND THEM 
AS IF IT HAD BEEN UNKNOWN TO THEM

102  AND THEY ALSO FOLLOWED WHAT THE EVIL ONES
FABRICATED AGAINST THE POWER OF SOLOMON
BUT SOLOMON WAS NOT A DISBELIEVING ONE
BUT THE DEVILS WERE DISBELIEVING ONES
AND TEACHERS OF ILLUSION
BUT THERE CAME NO REVELATION
TO THE TWO ANGELS AT BABYLON   
HARUT AND MARUT, NOR DID EITHER ONE
OF THESE TEACH SUCH THINGS TO ANYONE
WITHOUT GIVING THEM THE CLEAR DISTINCTION
THAT WE ARE ONLY FOR TRIAL SO BE NOT BLASPHEMOUS ONES
AND THEY LEARNED FROM THEM THE MEANS TO SOW DISSENSION
BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS WIFE BUT THEY COULD NOT HARM ANYONE
EXCEPT BY GOD'S PERMISSION
THEY LEARNED HARMFUL NOT PROFITABLE LESSONS
THEY KNEW THAT THE BUYERS OF IT WOULD HAVE NONE
OF THE HAPPINESS IN THE HEREAFTER FOR WHAT THEY HAD DONE
SELLING THEIR SOULS WAS EVIL HAD THEY KNOWN THE LESSONS

103  IF THEY HAD KEPT THEIR FAITH AND FROM EVIL BEEN ON GUARD
IF THEY ONLY KNEW THEY WOULD HAVE RECEIVED A REWARD
FAR BETTER AND GREATER FROM THEIR LORD

12
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 13.  PART I

104  DO NOT SPEAK AMBIGUOUSLY  
BUT  LISTEN AND SPEAK RESPECTFULLY
FOR THOSE WITHOUT FAITH IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

105  IT IS NEVER THE WISH OF THE DISBELIEVERS
AMONG PAGANS NOR OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
THAT ANY GOOD SHOULD COME TO YOU FROM THE CREATOR
BUT YOUR LORD CHOOSES WHOM HE PLEASES FOR HIS PLEASURE
SURELY HE IS THE GRANTOR OF SUSTENANCE WITHOUT MEASURE

106  NONE OF OUR REVELATIONS
DO WE ABROGATE OR CAUSE TO BE FORGOTTEN
WITHOUT GIVING A BETTER OR A SIMILAR SUBSTITUTION
AND SURELY YOUR LORD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

107  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION
OF EVERYTHING ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
AND BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO HELPER OR PATRON

108  AND WOULD YOU QUESTION 
YOUR MESSENGER AS MOSES WAS QUESTIONED?
BUT WHOEVER CHANGES FROM FAITH TO REJECTION
HAS STRAYED WITHOUT DOUBT FROM THE RIGHT DIRECTION

109  QUITE A NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
WISH THEY COULD TURN YOU BACK TO DISBELIEVERS
AFTER YOU HAVE BECOME BELIEVERS
FROM SELFISH ENVY AFTER THE TRUTH HAS BECOME CLEAR
BUT OVERLOOK THEM UNTIL GOD'S WORK IS OVER
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER 

110  AND BE STEADFAST IN PRAYER AND REGULAR IN CHARITY
WHATEVER GOOD YOU SEND FORTH FOR YOUR SOULS SINCERELY
YOU WILL FIND IT WITH GOD, FOR ALL YOU DO GOD SEES CLEARLY

111  THEY SAY, ONLY JEWS OR CHRISTIANS WILL ENTER HEAVEN
BUT THOSE ARE ONLY THEIR VAIN ASPIRATIONS 
SAY, PRODUCE PROOF OF YOUR ASSERTIONS

112  WHOEVER SUBMITS HIS ENTIRE SELF TO HIS LORD
AND DOES GOOD HE WILL GET HIS REWARD FROM HIS LORD 
AND HE WILL NEVER HAVE ANYTHING TO FEAR FROM HIS LORD

13
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 14.  PART I

113  THE CHRISTIANS SAY, THE JEWS HAVE NOTHING TO STAND UPON
THE JEWS SAY, THE  CHRISTIANS HAVE NOTHING TO STAND UPON
YET THEY STUDY THE SAME REVELATIONS
BUT LIKE WHAT THEY SAY IS WHAT SAY THE ONES
WHO DO NOT KNOW, BUT ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
GOD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM IN THEIR DISPUTATIONS

114  WHO DOES MORE INJUSTICE THAN ONE OF THEM
WHO FORBIDS THAT PLACES FOR GOD'S WORSHIP THAT IN THEM
THAT GOD'S NAME AND HIS GRACES SHOULD BE CELEBRATED IN THEM
AND WHOSE AIM IS IN FACT TO RUIN THEM 
AND IT WAS NOT FITTING FOR THEM
THAT EXCEPT IN FEAR SHOULD THEY ENTER THEM 
THERE IS NOTHING BUT DISGRACE IN THIS WORLD FOR THEM 
AND NOTHING BUT TORMENT IN THE COMING WORLD FOR THEM

115  THE EAST AND THE WEST BELONG TO GOD 
WHEREVER YOU TURN THERE IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD 
FOR SURELY ALL-PERVADING AND ALL-KNOWING IS GOD

116  THEY SAY, GOD HAS BEGOTTEN A SON, NO, GLORY BE TO HIM
ALL THAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND ON EARTH BELONG TO HIM
EVERYTHING RENDERS WORSHIP TO HIM

117  THE PRIMAL ORIGIN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH IS HIS
WHEN HE DECREES A MATTER ALL THAT HAPPENS IS
HE ONLY SAYS TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

118  WHY DOES NOT GOD SPEAK TO US?  SAY THE DISBELIEVERS
OR WHY DOES NOT A SIGN COME TO US THAT IS CLEAR?
SO SAID THE PEOPLE BEFORE THEM WORDS SIMILAR 
THEIR HEARTS ARE ALIKE, GOD HAS MADE CLEAR 
HIS SIGNS TO ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

119  WE HAVE SENT YOU IN TRUTH AS A WARNER 
AND AS A GOOD NEWS BEARER 
BUT NO QUESTION WILL BE INQUIRED
OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE BLAZING FIRE

120  NEVER WILL THE JEWS OR THE CHRISTIANS 
BE SATISFIED WITH YOU UNLESS YOU FOLLOW THEIR RELIGION 
SAY TO THEM, GOD'S RELIGION IS THE ONLY RELIGION
AND WERE YOU TO FOLLOW THEIR ASPIRATIONS
AFTER THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH HAS COME INTO YOUR POSSESSION
YOU WOULD FIND AGAINST GOD NO PROTECTION

121  THOSE TO WHOM WE HAVE SENT THE BOOK STUDY IT 
AS IT SHOULD BE STUDIED, THEY ARE THE ONES THAT BELIEVE IN IT 
BUT THEY ARE LOST WHO ARE REJECTERS OF IT

14
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 15.  PART I

122  OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, CALL TO MIND THE SPECIAL FAVOR 
WHICH I BESTOWED UPON YOU PREFERRING YOU TO ALL OTHERS

123  BE ON YOUR GUARD AGAINST A DAY WHEN ONE PERSON
WILL NOT AVAIL ANOTHER PERSON
NOR WILL HE BE ABLE TO MAKE ANY COMPENSATION 
NOR WILL HE HAVE ANY INTERCESSION 
NOR WILL HE BE HELPED BY ANYONE

124  ABRAHAM WAS TRIED WITH COMMANDS BY THE CREATOR 
AND GOD SAID, I WILL TO THE NATIONS MAKE YOU A LEADER
AND HE PLEADED, AND FROM MY OFFSPRING ALSO LEADERS 
AND THIS WAS HIS ANSWER FROM THE CREATOR
BUT MY PROMISE IS NOT WITHIN THE REACH OF EVIL-DOERS

125  WE MADE THE SACRED HOUSE A PLACE TO GATHER
AND A PLACE OF SAFETY AND A PLACE OF PRAYER
SO TAKE THE STATION OF ABRAHAM AS A PLACE OF PRAYER  
AND WE COVENANTED WITH ISHMAEL AND ABRAHAM TOGETHER

THAT MY HOUSE THEY SHOULD SANCTIFY IT
FOR ALL THOSE WHO CIRCLE AROUND IT 
OR USE IT AS A RETREAT OR BOW IN IT
OR PROSTRATE OR PRAY IN IT

126  REMEMBER ABRAHAM SAID, OH CREATOR
MAKE THIS A CITY OF PEACE, OH LORD AND CHERISHER
AND FEED ITS PEOPLE WITH FRUITS THEY WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY.  GOD SAID, YES AND THE DISBELIEVERS
FOR A WHILE I WILL GRANT THEM THEIR PLEASURES
BUT I WILL SOON DRIVE THEM TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRE 
IT IS THE EVIL DESTINATION FOR THE WRONG DOERS

127   ABRAHAM AND ISHMAEL RAISED THE FOUNDATION 
OF THE SACRED HOUSE WITH THIS PRAYER IN CELEBRATION
ACCEPT THIS SERVICE FROM US, OH HOLY ONE
FOR YOU ARE THE ALL-HEARING, THE ALL-KNOWING ONE

128  OUR LORD MAKE SUBMITTERS OF US
AND OUR DESCENDANTS AFTER US AND OUR PLACES SHOW US 
FOR THE CELEBRATION OF DUE RITES AND BESTOW MERCY UPON US 
FOR YOU ARE OFTEN RETURNING AND MOST MERCIFUL TO US

129  OUR LORD, SEND AN APOSTLE OF THEIR OWN AMONG THEM 
ONE WHO WILL RECITE YOUR MESSAGES TO THEM 
AND INSTRUCT THEM IN SCRIPTURE AND SANCTIFY THEM 
FOR YOU ARE ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN MIGHT OVER THEM

15
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 16.  PART I

130  WHOEVER TURNS AWAY FROM ABRAHAM'S RELIGION 
IS ONE WHO MAKES HIMSELF A FOOLISH ONE 
FOR IN THIS WORLD WE DID MAKE A HIM PURE ONE 
IN THE HEREAFTER HE WILL BE OF THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

131  HIS LORD SAID TO HIM, BOW YOUR WILL TO ME 
HE SAID, I BOW MY WILL TO YOU LORD COMPLETELY

132  THIS WAS THE LEGACY ABRAHAM LEFT TO HIS SONS 
AND SO DID JACOB SAY TO HIS SONS, OH MY SONS
GOD HAS CHOSEN FOR YOU ENTIRE SUBMISSION
TO HIS WILL AS YOUR RELIGION 
SO DO NOT DIE EXCEPT IN THIS RELIGION 

133  WERE YOU WITNESSES WHEN TO JACOB DEATH DID APPEAR
AND WHEN HE SAID TO HIS SONS, AFTER ME WHAT WILL YOU SERVE?
THEY SAID, WE WILL SERVE YOUR GOD AND THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS
ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL AND ISAAC AND WE ARE SUBMITTERS

134  THOSE WERE PEOPLE WHO PASSED AWAY BEFORE YOU
THEY WILL REAP THE FRUIT OF WHAT THEY DID AND YOU OF WHAT YOU DO
AND NO QUESTION AS TO WHAT THEY DID WILL BE ASKED OF YOU

135  THEY SAY, BECOME JEWS OR CHRISTIANS 
IF YOU WOULD BE GUIDED TO SALVATION 
SAY, NO I WOULD RATHER THE RELIGION 
OF ABRAHAM THE TRUE ONE 
HE WORSHIPPED ONE GOD AND ONLY ONE 

136  SAY, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE MESSAGE GIVEN TO US               
AND GIVEN TO ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL, ISAAC AND MOSES
AND TO JACOB AND THE TRIBES AND TO JESUS
AND ALL PROPHETS FROM OUR LORD SENT TO US
AND NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM IS MADE BY US
AND GOD IS BOWED DOWN TO AND SUBMITTED TO BY US

137  SO IF THEY BELIEVE AS YOU BELIEVE 
THEY ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH INDEED 
BUT IF THEY TURN BACK THEY ARE OPPOSERS SURELY
GOD WILL AID YOU AGAINST THEM SUFFICIENTLY
FOR ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING IS HE

138  OUR RELIGION IS THE BAPTISM OF GOD 
WHO CAN BAPTIZE BETTER THAN GOD? 
AND WE ARE WORSHIPPERS OF GOD

139  SAY, ABOUT GOD WILL YOU ENGAGE WITH US IN DISPUTING
WHEN HE IS OUR GOD AND YOUR GOD AND SEEING
THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR DOINGS 
AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DOINGS 
AND THAT WE ARE SINCERE TO HIM IN OUR BELIEVING?

140  OR IS IT THAT YOU DO ASCRIBE
THAT ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL, ISAAC, JACOB AND THE  TRIBES

THAT THEY WERE CHRISTIANS OR JEWS 
BUT WHO KNOWS BETTER, GOD OR YOU? 
AND WHO IS MORE UNJUST AMONG YOU
THAN HE WHO CONCEALS THE TRUTH AMONG YOU?
BUT YOUR LORD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF WHAT YOU DO 

141  THOSE WERE PEOPLE THAT PASSED AWAY BEFORE YOU
THEY WILL REAP THE FRUIT OF WHAT THEY DID AND YOU OF WHAT YOU DO
AND NO QUESTION AS TO WHAT THEY DID WILL BE ASKED OF YOU

16
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 17.  PART II

PART II

142  THE FOOLS AMONG THE PEOPLE WILL SAY 
FROM THE DIRECTION THEY HAD WHAT HAS TURNED THEM AWAY? 

SAY TO THEM, TO GOD BELONGS BOTH EAST AND WEST
AND HE GUIDES WHOM HE WILLS TO THE WAY THAT IS BEST

143  AND WE HAVE MADE YOU AN EXALTED NATION 
SO THAT YOU MIGHT BE WITNESSES TO THE NATIONS 
AND THE MESSENGER A WITNESS TO YOUR NATION
AND WE APPOINTED THE DIRECTION 
TO WHICH YOU WERE USED TO ONLY TO MAKE A CLEAR DISTINCTION 
FROM THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THE MESSENGER WITH CONVICTION
FROM THOSE WHO WOULD TURN ON THEIR HEELS IN REJECTION 
IT WAS A HARD TEST EXCEPT FOR THOSE GUIDED WITH CONVICTION
AND NEVER WOULD GOD MAKE OF NO EFFECT YOUR RELIGION
FOR GOD IS TO ALL PEOPLE FULL OF COMPASSION

144  WE SEE YOU NOW TURNING YOUR FACE TO THE HEAVENS 
NOW WE WILL TURN YOU TO A PLEASING DIRECTION 
SO TURN YOUR FACE IN THE DIRECTION 
OF THE SACRED MOSQUE AND FROM WHATEVER DIRECTION
YOU MAY BE IN, TURN YOUR FACE IN THAT DIRECTION 
THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK KNOW FOR CERTAIN 
THAT IT IS THE TRUTH FROM THE LORD OF ALL CREATION
AND GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU DO FOR CERTAIN

145  IF YOU BROUGHT TO THOSE TO WHOM THE BOOK HAS BEEN GIVEN
ALL THE SIGNS THEY WOULD NOT FOLLOW YOUR DIRECTION 
NOR ARE YOU GOING TO FOLLOW THEIR DIRECTION 
AND NEITHER WILL THEY FOLLOW EACH OTHERS DIRECTION 
IF AFTER THE KNOWLEDGE HAS COME INTO YOUR POSSESSION
WERE YOU TO FOLLOW THEIR DIRECTION 
WITHOUT QUESTION YOU WOULD BE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

146  THOSE TO WHOM WE HAVE GIVEN REVELATION
THEY KNOW THIS AS THEY KNOW THEIR OWN SONS
BUT THEN SOME OF THEM CONCEAL THE REVELATIONS

147  THE TRUTH IS FROM THE LORD OF ALL CREATION 
SO BE NOT IN DOUBT ABOUT THIS REVELATION

17
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 18.  PART II

148  TO EACH GOD GIVES A GOAL, SO STRIVE TOGETHER 
TOWARDS ALL THAT IS PROPER 
AND WHEREVER YOU ARE GOD WILL BRING YOU TOGETHER 
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER 

149  WHEREVER YOU ARE, TURN YOUR FACE IN THE DIRECTION 
OF THE SACRED MOSQUE IN THE SACRED REGION
THAT IS FROM GOD THE TRUE INSTRUCTION 
AND GOD IS AWARE OF YOUR ACTIONS 
 
150  SO THEN FROM WHEREVER YOU START FORTH DEVOTEDLY
TURN YOUR FACE TO THE SACRED MOSQUE REPEATEDLY 
AND TURN TOWARDS IT WHEREVER YOU MAY BE 
SO NO DISPUTE AGAINST YOU MAY THERE BE
WITH EXCEPTION TO THOSE WHO ACT WICKEDLY
BUT DO NOT FEAR THEM BUT FEAR ONLY ME 
THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE FAVOR FROM ME
AND THAT YOU MAY ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

151  AND SO SIMILARLY WE HAVE SENT AMONG YOU A MESSENGER
FROM AMONG YOURSELVES RECITING TO YOU OUR SCRIPTURES
AND PURIFYING YOU AND INSTRUCTING YOU IN SCRIPTURE 
AND TEACHING YOU WISDOM YOU DID NOT KNOW PRIOR

152  THEREFORE REMEMBER ME AND IF YOU DO
THEN SURELY I WILL REMEMBER YOU 

SO BE GRATEFUL TO ME 
AND DO NOT REJECT FAITH IN ME

18
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 19.  PART II

153  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, SEEK HELP BY BEING PATIENT 
AND PRAY, FOR GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO ARE PATIENT 

154  OF THOSE WHO ARE KILLED IN GOD'S WAY, SAY NOT
THAT THEY ARE DEAD, NO INDEED THEY ARE NOT
THEY LIVE ALTHOUGH YOU PERCEIVE IT NOT

155  BE SURE WE WILL TEST YOU WITH FEAR AND HUNGER
AND LOSS IN GOODS OR LIVES OR THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR
BUT GIVE GLAD TIDINGS TO THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE

156  WHO SAY WHEN AFFLICTED WITH CALAMITY 
WE BELONG TO GOD AND OUR RETURN IS TO GOD SURELY

157  THEY ARE ON WHO DESCEND BLESSINGS FROM GOD 
AND THEY ARE THE ONES THAT RECEIVE GUIDANCE FROM GOD

158  SAFA AND MARWA ARE AMONG GOD'S SIGNS
THOSE WHO VISIT THE HOUSE IN SEASON OR OTHER TIMES

IF THEY CIRCLE THEM THEY ARE HELD BLAMELESSLY 
AND IF ANY ONE DOES GOOD SPONTANEOUSLY 
GOD IS REWARDING AND IS FULL OF BOUNTY

159  THOSE WHO CONCEAL THE MESSAGES THAT WE HAVE SENT 
AND THE GUIDANCE AFTER WE HAVE MADE IT EVIDENT

SURELY ON THEM WILL BE GOD'S CURSE 
AND THE CURSE OF THOSE ENTITLED TO CURSE

160  EXCEPT THOSE WHO REPENT TO GOD SINCERELY
AND DECLARE THE TRUTH OPENLY AND HONESTLY
SURELY GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

161  THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH AND DIE IN REJECTION, ON THEM 
IS GOD'S CURSE AND THE CURSE OF THE ANGELS IS ON THEM
AND THE CURSE OF MANKIND ALL COMBINED IS ON THEM

162  AND THE HELL FIRE THEY WILL SURELY ABIDE IN IT
THEIR PENALTY WILL NOT BE LIGHTENED IN IT
NOR WILL THEY BE RESPITED

163  YOUR GOD IS ONE GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
MOST GRACIOUS AND MOST MERCIFUL IS HE

19
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 20.  PART II

164  AND IN THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND IN THE NIGHT AND THE DAY IN THEIR ALTERNATION 
IN THE SAILING OF THE SHIPS THROUGH THE OCEAN 
FOR THE PROFIT OF AND THE SUSTAINING OF MEN
AND IN THE RAIN WHICH GOD SENDS FROM THE HEAVENS
AND THE LIFE TO A DEAD EARTH WHICH HE HAS THEN GIVEN 
AND IN THE BEASTS OF ALL KINDS THAT HE SCATTERS WITHIN
AND IN THE CHANGING OF THE WINDS 
AND THE CLOUDS BETWEEN EARTH AND HEAVEN
IN THESE THINGS THERE ARE SIGNS FOR MINDFUL MEN

165  YET THERE ARE MEN WHO TAKE FOR WORSHIP OTHER GODS
BESIDES GOD AS EQUALS WITH GOD 
THEY LOVE THEM AS THEY SHOULD LOVE GOD
BUT THE FAITHFUL OVERFLOW IN THEIR LOVE FOR GOD 

IF THE UNRIGHTEOUS COULD SEE
WHEN THEY WILL THEN SEE THE PENALTY 
AND THAT TO GOD BELONGS ALL POWER INDEED
AND THAT GOD WILL STRONGLY ENFORCE THE PENALTY

166  THEN THOSE WHO WERE FOLLOWED WILL SURELY
DENY THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THEM WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY
AND ALL THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THEM WILL BE CUT OF COMPLETELY
  
167  IT WILL BE SAID BY THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THEM
IF WE COULD WE WOULD DENY THEM
AS THEY DENIED US, SO WILL GOD SHOW THEM 
THE FRUITS OF THEIR DEEDS AS REGRETS TO THEM
NOR WILL THERE BE A WAY OUT OF THE FIRE FOR THEM

20
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 21.  PART II

168  OH YOU PEOPLE, EAT WHAT IS LAWFUL AND GOODLY
AND FOLLOW NOT SATAN'S FOOTSTEPS FOR SURELY
HE IS TO YOU AN AVOWED ENEMY

169  FOR HE COMMANDS YOU WHAT IS EVIL AND SHAMEFUL
AND TO SAY OF GOD THAT WHICH YOU ARE UNKNOWLEDGEABLE

170  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, FOLLOW YOUR LORD'S SCRIPTURES
THEY SAY, NO WE FOLLOW THE WAYS OF OUR FATHERS
AND THEY SAY THIS EVEN THOUGH THEIR FATHERS 
WERE VOID OF WISDOM ALL TOGETHER

171  AND THE PARABLE OF THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
IS AS IF ONE WERE TO SHOUT LIKE A GOAT-HERDER
TO THINGS THAT LISTEN ONLY TO CRIES AND CLAMOR 
DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND WITH NO WISDOM WHATSOEVER

172  SO EAT OF THE GOOD THINGS 
THAT WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOUR SUSTAINING
AND BE GRATEFUL TO GOD IF IT IS HE YOU ARE SERVING

173  HE HAS ONLY FORBIDDEN YOU TO EAT
THE FLESH OF SWINE, BLOOD AND DEAD MEAT 
AND THAT ON WHICH ANY NAME HAS BEEN BESEECHED 
BESIDES GOD'S NAME, BUT IF ONE IS FORCED BY NECESSITY 
WITHOUT BEING DISOBEDIENT WILLFULLY
AND WITHOUT TRANSGRESSING LIMITS THEN GUILTLESS IS HE 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

174  THOSE WHO CONCEAL GOD'S SCRIPTURES
THEN SELL THEM TO INCREASE THEIR TREASURES
THEY SWALLOW NOTHING INTO THEMSELVES BUT FIRE 
AND THEIR LORD WILL NOT ADDRESS THEM IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND THEIRS WILL BE THE PENALTY OF THE HELL FIRE

175  THEY ARE THOSE WHO BUY ERROR INSTEAD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND WHO TRADE TORMENT IN PLACE OF FORGIVENESS 
THEY SHOW FOR THE FIRE SUCH BOLDNESS

176  THEIR DOOM IS BECAUSE GOD SENT DOWN THE BOOK IN TRUTH
BUT THOSE WHO SEEK IN THE BOOK CAUSES OF DISPUTE  
THEY ARE IN OPPOSITION TO THE TRUTH

21
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 22.  PART II

177  IT IS NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT YOU TURN YOUR FACES 
TO THE EAST OR TO THE WEST BUT IT IS RIGHTEOUSNESS 

TO BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY AND THE ANGELS
AND THE BOOK AND THE MESSENGERS AND BE CHARITABLE

AND SPEND YOUR SUBSTANCE OUT OF LOVE FOR YOUR CREATOR 
AND FOR YOUR KIN AND FOR ORPHANS AND THE WAYFARER

AND FOR THOSE WHO ASK AND FOR THE NEEDY
AND FOR THE RANSOM OF SLAVES AND PRAY REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND FULFILL THE CONTRACTS WHICH YOU MAKE FAITHFULLY
AND BE FIRM AND PATIENT IN PAIN AND ADVERSITY
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ACT TRUTHFULLY
AND THESE ARE THE ONES THAT KEEP THEIR DUTY

178  OH YOU, WHO ARE BELIEVING ONES
PRESCRIBED FOR MURDER IS RETALIATION
THE FREE FOR THE FREE, THE WOMAN FOR THE WOMAN
THE SLAVE FOR THE SLAVE, BUT IF REMISSION 
IS MADE BY THE BROTHER OF THE SLAIN PERSON
HE SHOULD BE GIVEN REASONABLE COMPENSATION 
THIS IS FROM GOD A MERCY AND A CONCESSION  
AND WHOEVER EXCEEDS THE LIMITATION
WILL BE IN GRAVE PENALIZATION 

179  AND IN THE LAW OF EQUALITY THERE IS THE SAVING 
OF LIFE TO YOU, OH YOU MEN OF UNDERSTANDING 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY BE SELF RESTRAINING

180  AND IT IS PRESCRIBED WHEN DEATH APPROACHES ANY OF YOU
IF HE LEAVES GOODS FOR PARENTS AND NEAR OF KIN IT IS DUE
THAT HE MAKE A BEQUEST ACCORDING TO REASONABLE USE

181  AND IF ANYONE CHANGES THE BEQUEST AFTER HEARING 
THE GUILT WILL BE ON THOSE WHO DO THE CHANGING
FOR GOD HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS

182  BUT IF ANYONE FEARS WRONG DOING OR PARTIALITY
ON THE PART OF THE TESTATOR AND PEACEFULLY
BRINGS RECONCILIATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES
THEN HE IS NOT WRONG IN THE LEAST DEGREE 
GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

22
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 23.  PART II

183  FASTING IS PRESCRIBED TO YOU 
AS IT WAS PRESCRIBED TO THOSE BEFORE YOU 
SO THAT SELF-RESTRAINT MAY BE LEARNED BY YOU

184  FASTING FOR DAYS OF A FIXED NUMBER 
BUT IF ANY ONE IS ILL OR ON A JOURNEY THEN THE NUMBER 
SHOULD BE MADE UP BY YOU FROM DAYS LATER 
FOR THOSE WHO FIND THIS TO BE HARDER
MAY EFFECT REDEMPTION BY FEEDING ONE WHO IS POOR
BUT HE THAT DOES GOOD SPONTANEOUSLY IT IS BETTER 
AND THAT YOU FAST IF YOU ONLY KNEW IT IS BETTER 

185  THE MONTH OF RAMADAN IS IN WHICH THE QURAN WAS SENT  
AS A GUIDE AND CLEAR SIGNS FOR GUIDANCE AND JUDGMENT 
BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG, SO EVERYONE WHO IS PRESENT
AT HIS HOME DURING THAT MONTH THEN HIS ASSIGNMENT
IS THAT IN FASTING IT SHOULD BE SPENT

BUT IF ANY IS ILL OR ON A JOURNEY 
THE PRESCRIBED PERIOD SHOULD BE MADE UP BELATEDLY
FOR GOD INTENDS FOR YOU EVERY FACILITY  
HE DOES NOT WANT TO PUT YOU TO DIFFICULTIES 
BUT HE WANTS YOU TO COMPLETE THE PERIOD EASILY
AND TO GLORIFY HIM IN THAT HE  HAS GUIDED YOU RIGHTLY
AND SO THAT YOU MAY ACT GRATEFULLY

186  WHEN MY SERVANTS ASK YOU CONCERNING ME 
I AM CLOSE TO THEM AND I LISTEN CLEARLY
TO THE PRAYER OF EVERY CALLER WHO CALLS ON ME 
SO LET THEM ALSO WHEN I CALL LISTEN TO ME
AND BELIEVE IN ME THAT THEY MAY ACT RIGHTEOUSLY 

187  ON THE NIGHT OF THE FAST YOU ARE PERMITTED 
TO APPROACH YOUR WIVES AS GOD HAS COMMANDED

THEY ARE YOUR GARMENTS
AND YOU ARE THEIR GARMENTS  

AND GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU USED TO SECRETLY DO 
BUT HE TURNED TO YOU AND HE FORGAVE YOU

SO ASSOCIATE WITH THEM
AND SEEK WHAT GOD HAS ORDAINED FOR YOU WITH THEM

AND EAT AND DRINK UNTIL THE DAWN'S WHITE THREAD 
APPEARS TO YOU DISTINCT FROM ITS BLACK THREAD 

THEN COMPLETE YOUR FAST UNTIL NIGHTFALL 
BUT DO NOT ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR WIVES AT ALL

WHILE YOU ARE IN THE MOSQUES CONFINING YOURSELVES
THOSE ARE LIMITS SET BY GOD FOR YOURSELVES

SO APPROACH THEM NOT, SO DOES GOD MAKE PLAIN
THE SIGNS TO MEN THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO RESTRAIN

188  DO NOT EAT UP YOUR PROPERTY 
AMONG YOU FOR THE PURPOSES OF VANITY 
NOR USE IT AS BAIT FOR THE JUDGES INTENTIONALLY
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY EAT UP WRONGFULLY
A LITTLE OF OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY

23
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 24.  PART II

189  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING THE MOON'S QUARTERS
SAY, THEY ARE SIGNS USED AS TIME MEASURES
AND FOR PILGRIMAGE AND IT IS NO VIRTUE IF YOU ENTER 
YOUR HOUSES FROM THE BACK BUT IT IS VIRTUE IF YOU ENTER 
HOUSES THROUGH THE DOORS THAT ARE PROPER
AND FEAR GOD THAT YOU MAY PROSPER

190  AND IN GOD'S CAUSE BE FIGHTERS
AGAINST THOSE WHO AGAINST YOU ARE FIGHTERS
BUT DO NOT BE TRANSGRESSORS 
FOR GOD LOVES NOT TRANSGRESSORS

190  AND KILL THEM WHEREVER YOU CATCH THEM 
AND FROM WHERE THEY TURN YOU OUT DO THE SAME TO THEM
PERSECUTION IS WORSE THAN SLAUGHTER, BUT DO NOT FIGHT THEM 
AT THE SACRED MOSQUE UNLESS THEY FIGHT YOU, BUT KILL THEM  
IF THEY DO FIGHT YOU, THIS IS THE REWARD FOR THEM

192  BUT IF THEY CEASE FIGHTING
GOD IS MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING

193  FIGHT THEM UNTIL THERE IS NO MORE OPPRESSION
AND FAITH IN GOD PREVAILS AND THE TRUE RELIGION
BUT IF THEY CEASE LET THERE BE NO AGGRESSION
EXCEPT TO THOSE WHO PRACTICE OPPRESSION 

194  THE PROHIBITED MONTH 
FOR THE PROHIBITED MONTH 

THERE IS THE LAW OF EQUALITY FOR ALL PROHIBITIONS
IF AGAINST YOU ANY ONE TRANSGRESSES THE PROHIBITION 

TRANSGRESS AGAINST THEM BUT FEAR GOD
FOR WITH THOSE WHO RESTRAIN THEMSELVES IS GOD 

195  SPEND OF YOUR SUBSTANCE IN GOD'S CAUSE 
AND MAKE NOT YOUR OWN HANDS BE YOUR CAUSE 
OF YOU TO CONTRIBUTE TO A SELF DESTRUCTIVE CAUSE 
FOR YOUR LORD LOVES THOSE WHO DO GOOD IN HIS CAUSE

196  IN THE SERVICE OF GOD IS THE COMPLETING 
OF THE PILGRIMAGE AND THE VISIT BUT IF FROM ITS COMPLETING  
YOU ARE PREVENTED THEN FOR SACRIFICE SEND AN OFFERING 
SUCH AS YOU MAY FIND AND DO NO SHAVING 
TO YOUR HEADS UNTIL YOUR OFFERING 
REACHES THE PLACE OF SACRIFICING 
AND IF ANY OF YOU IS ILL OR HAS AN AILING
IN HIS SCALP NECESSITATING SHAVING 
HE SHOULD COMPENSATE EITHER BY FASTING 
OR FEEDING THE POOR OR A SACRIFICE OFFERING 
WHEN YOU ARE AGAIN IN PEACEFUL SURROUNDINGS
IF ANY ONE OF YOU WISHES TO CONTINUE THE VISITING
ON TO THE PILGRIMAGE THEN HE MUST MAKE AN OFFERING 
THAT IS WITHIN HIS AFFORDING
BUT IF HE CANNOT AFFORD IT HE SHOULD SPEND IN FASTING
FOR THREE DAYS DURING THE PILGRIMAGE AND SEVEN ON RETURNING
MAKING TEN DAYS AND THIS IS FOR THOSE WHOSE HOUSING
IS NOT IN THE PRECINCTS OF THE SACRED REGIONING
AND FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS STRICT IN PUNISHING

24
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 25.  PART II

197  FOR THE PILGRIMAGE THE MONTHS ARE DECREED 
IF ANY OF YOU UNDERTAKES THAT DUTY
IN IT LET THERE BE NO OBSCENITY 
NOR WRANGLING OR ACTING WICKEDLY
AND WHATEVER GOOD YOU DO GOD KNOWS IT SURELY
AND TAKE  PROVISIONS WITH YOU FOR THE JOURNEY
BUT THE BEST PROVISION IS TO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
SO FEAR GOD, OH YOU WHO BELIEVE SINCERELY

198  AND IT IS NO CRIME IF YOU SEEK OF THE BOUNTY OF YOUR LORD 
DURING PILGRIMAGE, THEN WHEN FROM MOUNT ARAFAT YOU POUR 
OBSERVE THE PRAISES OF YOUR LORD
AT THE SACRED MONUMENT AND PRAISE YOUR LORD 
THE WAY YOU WERE DIRECTED BY YOUR LORD
EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE IN ERROR BEFORE 

199  THEN PASS ON AT QUICK PACES 
WHERE THE MULTITUDES HASTEN ON FROM THE PLACES 
WHEN IT IS USUAL TO DO SO, AND ASK FOR GOD'S FORGIVENESS
FOR GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

200  AND PRAISE GOD WHEN YOU HAVE PERFORMED YOUR DEVOTIONS 
AS YOU USED TO PRAISE YOUR FATHERS BUT WITH MORE DEVOTION
AND THERE ARE MEN WHO SAY, OUR LORD GIVE US OUR PORTION
IN THIS WORLD BUT IN THE HEREAFTER THEY HAVE NO PORTION

201  BUT THERE ARE MEN WHO SAY, GIVE US OH CREATOR 
IN THIS WORLD AND GIVE US GOOD IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND DEFEND US FROM THE TORMENT OF THE FIRE

202  TO THESE WILL BE ALLOTTED ON ACCOUNT
OF WHAT THEY HAVE EARNED AND GOD QUICKLY TAKES ACCOUNT

203  CELEBRATE THE PRAISES OF GOD DURING THE APPOINTED DAYS 
BUT IF ANY ONE HASTENS TO LEAVE IN TWO DAYS 
THERE IS NO BLAME ON HIM AND IF ANY ONE STAYS 
ON HIM THERE IS NO BLAME IF HE ACTS IN THE RIGHT WAY 
AND TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY DURING YOUR STAY
YOU WILL BE GATHERED TO GOD ON JUDGMENT DAY

204  THERE IS THE TYPE OF MAN WHOSE SPEECH 
ABOUT THIS WORLD'S LIFE MAY DAZZLE YOU INDEED
AND HE CALLS GOD TO WITNESS ABOUT WHAT HE DECREES
FROM HIS HEART, YET HE IS THE MOST CONTENTIOUS OF ENEMIES

205  WHEN HE TURNS HIS BACK HIS AIM IN CHIEF
IS TO EVERYWHERE THROUGH THE EARTH SPREAD MISCHIEF 
AND DESTROY CROPS AND CATTLE., BUT GOD LOVES NOT MISCHIEF

206  WHEN KEEP YOUR DUTY IS SAID TO HIM
MORE SIN IS THEN COMMITTED BY HIM 
HELL IS SURELY ENOUGH FOR HIM 
AN EVIL BED TO LIE ON FOR HIM

207  THERE IS THE TYPE OF MAN WHO GIVES HIS LIFE TO GOD
IN AN EFFORT TO EARN THE GOOD PLEASURES OF GOD 
AND FULL OF KINDNESS TO HIS DEVOTEES IS GOD

25
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                      SECTION 25 (CONT'D). PART I1

208  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, ENTER INTO SUBMISSION WHOLE-HEARTEDLY 
AND FOLLOW NOT THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE DEVIL FOOLISHLY
FOR HE IS TO YOU AN AVOWED ENEMY

209  IF YOU BACKSLIDE AFTER THE CLEAR SIGNS HAVE COME TO YOU 
GOD IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER OVER YOU

210  THEY WAIT FOR GOD'S COMING ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION  
IN CANOPIES OF CLOUDS WITH THE ANGELS IN DESCENSION
AND THEN COMPLETELY SETTLED WILL BE THE QUESTION 
TO GOD DO ALL QUESTIONS GO BACK FOR DECISION

SECTION 26

211  ASK THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HOW MANY SIGNS WE SENT 
IF ANY OF YOU AFTER TO HIM GOD'S SIGNS HAVE BEEN SENT
THEN SUBSTITUTES SOMETHING DIFFERENT
GOD IS STRICT IN PUNISHMENT

212  THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS ALLURING TO THE DISBELIEVERS
AND THEY SCOFF AT THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
BUT ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS
WILL BE ABOVE THEM, FOR GOD BESTOWS HIS TREASURES
UPON WHOM HE PLEASES WITHOUT MEASURE

213  MAN WAS ONE SINGLE NATION AND GOD SENT MESSENGERS 
WITH GOOD NEWS AND AS WARNERS 
AND HE SENT WITH THEM THE BOOK IN TRUTH TO JUDGE MATTERS 
WHEREIN THEY DIFFERED, BUT THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
AFTER CLEAR SIGNS HAD COME TO THEM DID NOT DIFFER 
AMONG THEMSELVES EXCEPT FOR SELFISH CONTRIVERS 
BUT GOD BY HIS GRACE GUIDED THE BELIEVERS 
TO THE TRUTH OF THAT IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED 
FOR SURELY GOD GUIDES THOSE OF HIS PLEASURE
INTO THE STRAIGHT WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

214  OR DO YOU THINK THAT THE GARDEN YOU WILL ENTER  
WITHOUT COMING TO YOU SUCH TRIALS AS CAME PRIOR
TO THE MEN WHO PASSED AWAY FORMER? 
FOR THEY WERE SO SHAKEN IN SPIRIT THAT THE MESSENGER
AND OF THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM OF THE BELIEVERS
CRIED, WHEN WILL COME THE HELP OF THE CREATOR?
SURELY GOD'S HELP IS ALWAYS NEAR 

215  AND THEY ASK YOU WHAT THEY SHOULD SPEND OF THEIR TREASURES  
SAY, WHATEVER THAT IS GOOD FOR KIN, PARENTS AND WAYFARERS 
AND ORPHANS AND FOR THOSE IN WANT AND WHATEVER 
YOU DO THAT IS GOOD GOD IS THE KNOWER

216  FIGHTING IS PRESCRIBED FOR YOU 
AND YOU DISLIKE IT BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOU 
DISLIKE A THING WHICH IS GOOD FOR YOU 
AND THAT YOU LOVE A THING WHICH IS BAD FOR YOU 
BUT GOD KNOWS WHAT IS NOT KNOWN TO YOU

26
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 27.  PART II

217  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING FIGHTING IN THE PROHIBITED MONTH.  
SAY, FIGHTING IS A GRAVE OFFENSE IN THE PROHIBITED MONTH

BUT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IT IS GRAVER TO HINDER 
MEN FROM GOD'S PATH AND TO DENY HIM AND HINDER
MEN FROM THE SACRED MOSQUE AND DRIVE OUT ITS MEMBERS 
AND PERSECUTION AND OPPRESSION ARE WORSE THAN SLAUGHTER 
NOR WILL THEY CEASE FIGHTING YOU UNTIL THEY RENDER
YOU BACK TO DISBELIEF AFTER BEING A BELIEVER
AND IF ANY OF YOU TURN BACK FROM BEING A BELIEVER 
AND THEN DIES AFTER AS A DISBELIEVER
NO FRUIT IN THIS LIFE WILL THEIR WORKS BEAR  
AND IN THE HEREAFTER THEY WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE 
AND THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOREVER

218  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVED AND THOSE WHO SUFFERED
AND FOUGHT AND WERE EXILED AND WERE STRUGGLERS
IN THE WAY OF THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER 
THEY HAVE THE HOPE OF THE MERCY OF THEIR MAKER 
AND GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

219  CONCERNING WINE AND GAMBLING, THEY ASK YOU ABOUT IT
SAY, IN IT IS GREAT SIN FOR MEN AND SOME PROFIT 
BUT THE SIN IS GREATER THAN THE PROFIT 

THEY ASK YOU HOW MUCH THEY ARE TO SPEND IN CHARITY
SAY TO THEM, WHAT IS BEYOND YOUR NEEDS

GOD MAKES CLEAR TO YOU HIS SIGNS IN ORDER 
THAT YOU MAY CONSIDER-

220  ON THIS LIFE AND THE HEREAFTER 

AND THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING THE ORPHANS AFFAIRS
SAY, DO WHAT IS WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THEIR AFFAIRS
AND IF YOU MIX YOUR AFFAIRS WITH THEIRS 
REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE IN FAITH YOUR BROTHERS 
BUT GOD KNOWS THE MAN WHO MEANS TO BE FAIR
FROM THE MAN WHO MEANS NOT TO BE FAIR 
IF GOD WISHED HE COULD PUT YOU INTO DESPAIR 
FOR YOUR LORD IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER

221  DO NOT MARRY WOMEN WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
UNTIL THEY BECOME BELIEVERS  
A SLAVE WOMAN WHO IS A BELIEVER 
IS BETTER THAN A WOMAN WHO IS A DISBELIEVER
EVEN THOUGH SHE ALLURES YOU TO HER FAVOR 
NOR MARRY YOUR GIRLS TO DISBELIEVERS 
UNTIL THEY BECOME BELIEVERS 
SURELY A MAN SLAVE WHO IS A BELIEVER 
IS BETTER THAN A MAN THAT IS A DISBELIEVER
EVEN THOUGH HE DOES ALLURE YOU TO HIS FAVOR 
DISBELIEVERS DO BUT BECKON YOU TO THE FIRE 
BUT GOD INVITES YOU TO PARADISE FOREVER
AND GOD MAKES HIS MESSAGES CLEAR
THAT MEN MAY GIVE HIM PRAISE AND HONOR

27
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 28.  PART II

222  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING WOMEN'S MENSTRUATION                      
SAY TO THEM, THEY ARE INDEED A HURT AND A POLLUTION
SO KEEP AWAY FROM WOMEN DURING MENSTRUATION

AND UNTIL THEY ARE CLEAN DO NOT APPROACH THEM 
BUT WHEN THEY HAVE PURIFIED THEMSELVES YOU MAY GO INTO THEM 
AS ORDAINED BY GOD CONCERNING THEM

GOD LOVES THOSE WHO TURN TO HIM CONSTANTLY
AND HE LOVES THOSE WHO ASCRIBE TO PURITY

223  YOUR WIVES ARE AS FERTILE EARTH TO YOU 
SO APPROACH THEM WHEN IT PLEASES YOU
BUT SEND SOME GOOD ACT BEFORE YOU
AND FEAR GOD AND KNOW THAT YOU

ARE TO MEET WITH GOD IN THE HEREAFTER
AND GIVE GOOD NEWS TO THE BELIEVERS

224  AND MAKE NOT GOD A REASON FOR EXCUSING YOU FROM MAKING 
PEACE BETWEEN PERSONS OR DOING GOOD OR PROPERLY ACTING  
FOR GOD IS ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

225  GOD WILL NOT CALL YOU 
TO ACCOUNT FOR THE VAIN OATHS OF YOU
BUT FOR THE INTENTION IN THE HEARTS OF YOU
GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND FORBEARING TO YOU 

226  AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO TAKE AN OATH OF ABSTAINING
FROM THEIR WIVES, A PERIOD OF FOUR MONTHS OF WAITING 
IS ORDAINED, IF THEN THEY CONSENT TO RETURNING 
GOD IS MOST MERCIFUL AND MOST FORGIVING

227  BUT IF THEIR INTENTION IS FIRM FOR DIVORCING 
GOD IS ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

228  DIVORCED WOMEN MUST WAIT A PERIOD
OF THREE MONTHLY PERIODS 

AND NEITHER IS IT LAWFUL FOR THEM TO HIDE AWAY
WHAT GOD HAS CREATED IN THEIR WOMBS IF THEY 
HAVE FAITH IN GOD AND IN THE LAST DAY

AND THEIR SPOUSES DO HAVE THE RIGHT OF REASON
TO TAKE THEM BACK AFTER THEIR COURSES ARE DONE
IF THEY DO WISH FOR RECONCILIATION

AND THE RIGHTS OF THE WOMEN 
WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE RIGHTS OF MEN
BUT MEN HAVE A DEGREE OF ADVANTAGE OVER WOMEN
AND YOUR LORD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION 

28
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 29.  PART II

229  A DIVORCE IS PERMISSIBLE TWICE ONLY, THEN AFTER 
THE TWO PARTIES SHOULD EITHER SEPARATE OR HOLD TOGETHER 
AND IT IS NOT LAWFUL TO TAKE FROM HER
ANY OF YOUR GIFTS YOU HAVE GIVEN TO HER
EXCEPT WHEN BOTH PARTIES DO FEAR
THAT THEY WOULD BE UNABLE TO ADHERE 
TO THE LIMITS THAT ARE ORDAINED BY THEIR MAKER
THEREFORE IF YOU JUDGES DO FEAR
THAT THEY WOULD BE UNABLE TO ADHERE 
TO THE LIMITS THAT ARE ORDAINED BY THEIR MAKER
THERE IS NO BLAME ON EITHER IF SHE GIVES SOMETHING TO FREE HER 
AND THESE ARE THE LIMITS ORDAINED BY THE CREATOR
SO DO NOT TRANSGRESS THE LIMITS ORDAINED BY YOUR MAKER
ANY  PERSONS WHO OF THESE ARE TRANSGRESSORS
WRONG THEMSELVES AS WELL AS OTHERS 

230  SO IF A HUSBAND DIVORCES HIS WIFE THE THIRD TIME
THEY CANNOT REMARRY AFTER THAT TIME

UNTIL SHE MARRIES ANOTHER HUSBAND AND HE DIVORCES HER 
THEN THERE IS NO BLAME IF THEY DO RETURN TO EACH OTHER
IF THEY CAN KEEP THE LIMITS ORDAINED BY THE CREATOR
AND THESE ARE THE LIMITS ORDAINED BY YOUR MAKER
WHICH IS PLAIN TO THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

231  WHEN YOU DIVORCE WOMEN AND THEY FULFILL THEIR TERMS 
EITHER TAKE THEM BACK ON EQUITABLE TERMS
OR SET THEM FREE ON EQUITABLE TERMS 

BUT DO NOT TAKE THEM BACK TO INJURE THEM 
OR TO TAKE UNDUE ADVANTAGE OF THEM

IF ANY ONE DOES THAT HE WRONGS HIS OWN SOUL GREATLY 
AND DO NOT TREAT GOD'S MESSAGES LIGHTLY 
BUT REHEARSE GOD'S FAVORS SINCERELY 

AND THE FACT THAT HE SENT DOWN TO YOU BY INSPIRATION
THE BOOK AND WISDOM FOR YOUR INSTRUCTION
AND GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

29
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 30.  PART II

232  AND WHEN YOU DIVORCE WOMEN AND THEY COMPLETELY
FULFILL THEIR TERMS DO NOT PREVENT THEM IF THEY AGREE
TO RETURN TO THEIR FORMER HUSBANDS AND REMARRY
THIS INSTRUCTION IS FOR ALL OF YOU WHO BELIEVE 
THAT IS THE COURSE MAKING FOR MOST PURITY 
GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU KNOW NOT SURELY

233  CHILDREN WILL BE NURSED BY THEIR MOTHERS 
FOR TWO WHOLE YEARS IF THE FATHER 
DESIRES COMPLETING THE TERM, BUT HE WILL BEAR 
ON EQUITABLE TERMS THE COST OF THEIR CARE
AND NO SOUL WILL BEAR
A BURDEN LAID ON IT GREATER THAT IT CAN BEAR 
NO MOTHER WILL BECAUSE OF HER CHILD BE TREATED UNFAIR 
NO FATHER BECAUSE OF HIS CHILD WILL BE TREATED UNFAIR
IN THE SAME WAY AN HEIR WILL BE HELD TO ANSWER 
IF THEY BOTH CONSENT ON WEANING TOGETHER 
THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU IF YOU DECIDE ON A FOSTER MOTHER
FOR YOUR OFFSPRING PROVIDED YOU PAY THE MOTHER 
ON EQUITABLE TERMS WHAT YOU OFFERED
KEEP YOUR DUTY FOR YOU ARE SEEN BY YOUR MAKER 

234  IF ANY OF YOU DIE AND LEAVE WIDOWS BEHIND
THEY MUST WAIT FOUR MONTHS AND TEN DAYS RESIGNED

AND WHEN THEY HAVE FULFILLED THEIR OBLIGATIONS
THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU IF THEY OF THEIR OWN DECISION

DISPOSE OF THEMSELVES IN A REASONABLE MANNER
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER 

235  AND THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU IF YOU MAKE A BETROTHAL
OR YOU HOLD IT IN YOUR HEARTS FOR YOUR LORD IS MINDFUL
THAT YOU LOVE THEM, BUT DO NOT MAKE SECRET COUNCIL
WITH THEM EXCEPT IN TERMS THAT ARE HONORABLE  
NOR RESOLVE ON THE TIE OF MARRIAGE UNTIL 
THE PRESCRIBED TERM HAS BEEN FULFILLED
 
AND WHAT IS IN YOUR HEARTS GOD IS ALL KNOWING
AND TAKE HEED OF HIM FOR HE IS FORGIVING 
AND YOUR LORD IS MOST FORBEARING

30
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 31.  PART II

236  THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU IF YOU DIVORCE WOMEN 
BEFORE CONSUMMATION OF THE DOWER'S FIXATION 

BUT BESTOW ON THEM 
A SUITABLE GIFT FOR THEM

THE WEALTHY ACCORDING TO HIS MEANS 
AND THE POOR ACCORDING TO HIS MEANS 

A GIFT OF A REASONABLE AMOUNT IS OWING
FROM THOSE WHO WISH TO DO THE RIGHT THING

237  AND IF YOU DIVORCE THEM BEFORE CONSUMMATION 
BUT AFTER THE DOWER'S FIXATION
 
THEN HALF OF THE DOWER IS DUE TO THEM UNLESS THEY REMIT IT 
OR UNLESS THE MAN'S HALF IS REMITTED 

BY HIM IN WHOSE HANDS IS THE MARRIAGE TIE
THE REMISSION OF THE MAN'S HALF IS NEAREST TO RIGHT  

AND DO NOT FORGET LIBERALITY
FOR ALL THAT YOU DO GOD SEES CLEARLY

238  GUARD STRICTLY YOUR HABIT OF PRAYERS 
ESPECIALLY THE MIDDLE PRAYER 
AND STAND BEFORE GOD DEVOUTLY IN PRAYER

239  IF YOU FEAR AN ENEMY 
PRAY ON FOOT OR RIDING CONVENIENTLY
BUT THEN WHEN YOU ARE AGAIN IN SECURITY 
PRAY IN THE MANNER GOD HAS TAUGHT YOU PROPERLY
WHICH WAS NOT KNOWN TO YOU PREVIOUSLY

240  THOSE OF YOU WHO DIE AND LEAVE WIDOWS 
SHOULD BEQUEATH FOR THEIR WIDOWS 

A YEAR'S MAINTENANCE AND RESIDENCE 
BUT IF THEY LEAVE THE RESIDENCE 
 
 YOU ARE NOT BLAMEABLE
FOR WHAT THEY DO PROVIDED IT IS REASONABLE 
AND GOD IS EXALTED IN POWER AND KNOWLEDGEABLE

241  FOR DIVORCED WOMEN MAINTENANCE SHOULD BE 
PROVIDED ON A REASONABLE SCALE, THIS IS A DUTY 
ON THOSE OF YOU WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

242  SO DOES GOD MAKE CLEAR HIS MESSAGES TO YOU
IN ORDER TO GIVE UNDERSTANDING TO YOU

31
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 32.  PART II

243  DID YOU NOT SEE THOSE WHO ABANDONED WHERE THEY DWELLED 
THOUGH THEIR NUMBERS WERE THOUSANDS FOR FEAR OF BEING KILLED  
AND GOD SAID TO THEM, DIE, AND THEN HE RESTORED THEM BY HIS WILL?
FOR YOUR LORD IS TO MAN GRACEFUL BUT MOST MEN ARE UNGRATEFUL

244  THEN FIGHT IN THE CAUSE OF GOD 
AND KNOW THAT ALL THINGS ARE KNOWN BY GOD

245  WHO IS HE THAT WILL LOAN A BEAUTIFUL LOAN TO GOD 
WHICH WILL BE DOUBLED TO HIS CREDIT AND MULTIPLIED BY GOD? 
HE GIVES YOU WANT OR PLENTY AND YOUR FINAL DESTINY IS TO GOD

246  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION TO THE PRINCIPALS 
AFTER THE TIME OF MOSES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 

WHEN THEY SAID TO THEIR PROPHET, APPOINT US A KING 
SO THAT IN THE CAUSE OF GOD WE MAY ENGAGE IN FIGHTING 
HE SAID, IS IT NOT POSSIBLE IF YOU WERE COMMANDED FIGHTING 
THAT MAYBE YOU WOULD REFRAIN FROM FIGHTING? 
THEY SAID, HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY REFUSE FIGHTING 
SEEING THAT WE HAVE BEEN TURNED OUT OF OUR DWELLINGS?   

BUT WHEN THE COMMAND TO FIGHT WAS GIVEN TO THEM
THEY TURNED BACK EXCEPT A SMALL BAND AMONG THEM
YOUR LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO DO WRONG AMONG THEM

249  AND THEIR PROPHET SAID TO THEM
THAT GOD APPOINTED SAUL AS KING OVER THEM

THEY SAID, HOW CAN HE OVER US EXERCISE AUTHORITY 
WHEN WE ARE MUCH BETTER SUITED THAN HE 
NOR DOES HE EVEN HAVE WEALTH ABUNDANTLY?
HE SAID, GOD HAS CHOSEN HIM ABOVE YOU SURELY
AND HAS GIFTED HIM WITH KNOWLEDGE ABUNDANTLY
AND GOD GRANTS TO WHOM HE PLEASES AUTHORITY 
AND ALL CARING AND ALL KNOWING IS HE 

248  FURTHER THEIR PROPHET SAID TO THEM, ADDITIONALLY
THERE WILL COME TO YOU AS A CLEAR SIGN OF HIS AUTHORITY  
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT WITH YOUR LORD'S ASSURETY   
AND THE RELICS LEFT BY MOSES AND AARON'S FAMILY 

CARRIED BY ANGELS 
FOR YOU THIS IS A SYMBOL 
IF YOU ARE  FAITHFUL

32
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                 SECTION 33.  PART II, III

249  AND SAUL SAID TO THEM WHEN HE SET FORTH WITH THE ARMY
WHEN YOU COME TO THE STREAM YOU WILL BE TESTED SURELY
ANY WHO DRINKS OF ITS WATER GOES NOT WITH MY ARMY 
ONLY THOSE WHO TASTE NOT OF IT GO WITH ME 

A MERE SIP OF THE HAND IS EXCUSED
BUT THEY ALL DRANK OF IT EXCEPT A FEW

AND WHEN THEY CROSSED THE RIVER
IT WAS SAID BY THE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS
WE CANNOT COPE WITH GOLIATH AND HIS SOLDIERS
BUT THOSE WHO KNEW THAT THEY MUST MEET THE CREATOR
SAID, HOW OFTEN BY THE WILL OF OUR MAKER
HAS A SMALL FORCE DEFEATED ONE THAT WAS GREATER? 
SURELY GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO CONSTANTLY PERSEVERE 

250  WHEN THEY ADVANCED TO MEET GOLIATH AND HIS FORCES 
THEY PRAYED, OUR LORD, POUR OUT CONSTANCY ON US 
AND MAKE OUR STEPS FIRM AND HELP US 
AGAINST THE DISBELIEVING FORCES

251  THEY PUT THEM TO FLIGHT BY THE WILL OF THE CREATOR
AND DAVID SLEW GOLIATH BY GOD'S POWER
AND TO DAVID GOD GAVE WISDOM AND POWER
AND HE TAUGHT HIM WHATEVER ELSE HE DESIRED
AND DID NOT GOD CHECK ONE PEOPLE BY ANOTHER 
THE EARTH WOULD BE FILLED UP OF MISCHIEF MAKERS
YOUR LORD IS THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISER

252  THESE ARE THE MESSAGES OF THE CREATOR  
WE RECITE THEM TO YOU TRUTHFULLY AND CLEAR
FOR YOU OH PROPHET, ARE ONE OF THE MESSENGERS

PART III

253  WE ENDOWED THOSE MESSENGERS WITH TREASURES
WE ENDOWED SOME WITH MORE THAN OTHERS 
TO ONE OF THEM GOD SPOKE AND OTHERS
HE RAISED TO DEGREES OF HONOR 
AND TO JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, WE GAVE PURE SCRIPTURE
AND WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WE GAVE HIM POWER
AND IF IT HAD BEEN THE CREATOR'S DESIRE 
SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS WOULD HAVE NEVER
FOUGHT AMONG EACH OTHER AFTER RECEIVING SIGNS CLEAR 
SOME CHOSE TO BE BELIEVERS OTHERS CHOSE TO BE REJECTERS 
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE FOUGHT EACH OTHER HAD GOD SO ORDERED
BUT YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER DOES WHATEVER HE DESIRES

33
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                      SECTION 34.  PART III

254  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
SPEND FREELY OUT OF THE TREASURES 
WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOUR PLEASURE 
BEFORE THE DAY COMES WHEN NO BARTER
WILL AVAIL YOU NOR FRIENDS NOR INTERCESSORS 
THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH THEY ARE THE WRONG DOERS

255  GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, THE LIVING 
THE ETERNAL, THE SELF-SUBSISTING
NO SLUMBERING CAN SEIZE HIM NOR SLEEPING
AND TO HIM BELONG ALL THINGS 
IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH AND WHAT BEINGS
CAN INTERCEDE IN HIS PRESIDING?
HE KNOWS WHAT APPEARS TO HIS BEINGS
BEFORE OR BEHIND THEM OR DURING 
NOR OF HIS KNOWLEDGE WILL THEY COMPASS ANYTHING 
EXCEPT BY HIS ORDERING AND CHOOSING
OVER HEAVEN AND EARTH IS HIS THRONE'S EXTENDING
HE FEELS NO FATIGUE IN THEIR GUARDING OR PRESERVING
FOR HE HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

256  LET THERE BE NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION EVER
TRUTH STANDS OUT CLEAR FROM ERROR
AND WHOEVER REJECTS EVIL AND IS A BELIEVER
HAS GRASPED THE HANDHOLD THAT BREAKS NEVER 
AND GOD IS ALL HEARING AND HE IS THE BEST KNOWER

257  THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH, GOD IS THE PROTECTOR OF THEM
FROM THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT HE WILL LEAD THEM 
AND FOR THE REJECTERS, THE DEVILS ARE THE PATRONIZERS OF THEM
AND FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS INTO DARKNESS THEY WILL LEAD THEM
AND THE FIRE WILL BE THE DWELLING PLACE FOR ALL OF THEM

34
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 35.  PART III

258  HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OF THE ONE WHO WAS A DISPUTER 
WITH ABRAHAM ABOUT GOD BECAUSE GOD GRANTED HIM POWER?  
AND ABRAHAM SAID, LIFE AND DEATH ARE CAUSED BY THE CREATOR
HE SAID, BUT I TOO AM A LIFE GIVER AND A DEATH CAUSER 
ABRAHAM SAID, THE SUN RISES FROM THE EAST BY GOD'S POWER 
CAN YOU CAUSE IT TO RISE FROM THE WEST BY YOUR POWER?
SO HE WAS CONFOUNDED, HE WHO WAS A REJECTER 
NOR DOES GOD GIVE TO UNJUST PEOPLE FAVOR 

259  LIKE HIM WHO PASSED BY A TOWN ALL SHATTERED
AND ALL OF ITS ROOFS HAD ALL FALLEN OVER
HE SAID, HOW WILL GOD BRING IT TO LIFE AFTER 
BUT GOD CAUSED HIM TO DIE FOR A HUNDRED YEARS 
AND THEN RAISED HIM UP AGAIN TO LIFE AFTER
GOD SAID, HOW LONG DID YOU STAY OVER? 
HE SAID, PERHAPS A DAY OR MAYBE SHORTER 
GOD SAID, YOU HAVE STAYED A HUNDRED YEARS
BUT LOOK AT YOUR FOOD AND YOUR WATER
THEY DO NOT SHOW SIGNS OF AGE EITHER
AND AT YOUR MULE LOOK FURTHER
SO DO WE  MAKE YOU A SIGN AND LOOK FURTHER 
AT THE BONES HOW WE BRING THEM TOGETHER
AND WITH FLESH WE CLOTHE THEM OVER 
WHEN THESE THINGS WERE SHOWN TO HIM CLEAR
HE SAID, I KNOW THAT OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER 

260  ABRAHAM SAID
MY LORD, SHOW ME HOW YOU GIVE LIFE TO THE DEAD 
AND GOD SAID, DO YOU NOT BELIEVE?  THEN HE SAID
YES, BUT FOR THE CLEARING OF MY OWN HEAD 

SO GOD SAID, TAKE FOUR BIRDS AND TAME THEM TO TURN TO YOU
PUT A PORTION OF THEM ON EVERY HILL AND CALL THEM TO YOU 
AND THEN THEY WILL COME FLYING WITH SPEED TO YOU
THEN KNOW THAT GOD HAS ALL POWER OVER YOU

35
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 36.  PART III

261  HE WHO SPENDS IN THE WAY OF HIS LORD AND CHERISHER
IS LIKE A GRAIN OF CORN GROWING SEVEN EARS 
WITH A HUNDRED GRAINS IN EACH EAR
AND GOD GIVES INCREASES IN MEASURE
TO WHOM HE CHOOSES OF HIS PLEASURE
GOD CARES FOR ALL AND HE IS THE BEST KNOWER 

262  THOSE WHO SPEND IN THE CAUSE OF GOD SINCERELY
AND FOLLOW NOT UP THEIR GIFTS WITH INJURY
OR REMINDERS OF THEIR GENEROSITY
THEIR REWARD IS WITH THEIR LORD ASSUREDLY
AND THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE NOR LIVE FEARFULLY 

263  KIND WORDS AND COVERING OF DEFICIENCIES
ARE BETTER THAN CHARITY FOLLOWED WITH INJURIES 
GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND MOST FORBEARING IS HE 

264  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, DO NOT CANCEL YOUR CHARITY 
BY REMINDERS OF YOUR GENEROSITY OR BY INJURY 
LIKE THOSE WHO SPEND OF THEIR BOUNTY
TO BE SEEN OF MEN BUT DO NOT BELIEVE REALLY
IN GOD NOR IN THE LAST DAY AND SIMILARLY 
THEY ARE LIKE A HARD ROCK THAT IS DRY AND DUSTY 
WHICH HAS A LITTLE SOIL ON IT LIGHTLY
THEN RAIN FALLS UPON IT HEAVILY
WHICH LEAVES IT JUST A BARE STONE LIFELESSLY
THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO NOTHING WITH THEIR BOUNTY 
AND YOUR LORD DOES NOT GUIDE THOSE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY 

265  THE LIKENESS OF THOSE WHO SPEND THEIR SUBSTANCE
SEEKING TO PLEASE GOD AND TO STRENGTHEN 
THEIR SOULS IS LIKE A GARDEN 

THAT IS HIGH AND FERTILE AND WHEN HEAVY RAIN FALLS ON IT 
IT YIELDS A DOUBLE INCREASE OF HARVEST AND EVEN IF IT 
RECEIVES NOT HEAVY RAIN LIGHT MOISTURE SUFFICES IT  
AND WHATEVER YOU DO GOD SURELY SEES IT

264  WHO AMONG YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE A GARDEN
WITH DATE-PALMS AND VINES AND STREAMS FLOWING WITHIN
WITH FRUITS OF ALL KINDS WHILE WITH OLD AGE HE IS STRICKEN?  

AND HIS CHILDREN ARE TOO YOUNG TO TEND TO THEIR OWN CARE
AND IT SHOULD BE CAUGHT AND BURNED IN A WHIRLWIND OF FIRE 
SO DOES GOD MAKE HIS MESSAGES CLEAR THAT YOU MAY CONSIDER

36
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 37.  PART III

267  BELIEVERS, GIVE OF THE GOOD THINGS WHICH YOU EARN HONORABLY 
OF THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH WHICH WE PRODUCE FOR YOU AMPLY 
AND DO NOT AIM AT GETTING ANYTHING DISHONORABLY
SO THAT OUT OF IT YOU MAY GIVE AWAY SOMETHING CHARITABLY
THAT YOU YOURSELVES WOULD NOT RECEIVE WILLINGLY 
AND GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY 

268  THE DEVIL THREATENS YOU WITH POVERTY 
AND BIDS YOU TO CONDUCT UNSEEMLY 
BUT GOD PROMISES YOU HIS FORGIVENESS AND BOUNTY 
AND GOD IS ALL CARING AND ALL KNOWING IS HE

269  TO WHOM HE PLEASES GOD GRANTS WISDOM GRACIOUSLY
AND HE TO WHOM IS GRANTED WISDOM RECEIVES INDEED 
A BENEFIT OVERFLOWING BUT NONE WILL TAKE HEED
TO THE MESSAGE EXCEPT THOSE WHO PERCEIVE  

270  AND WHATEVER YOU SPEND IN CHARITY OR DEVOTION BE SURE 
GOD KNOWS IT ALL BUT THE WRONG-DOERS HAVE NO HELPERS

271  IF YOU DISCLOSE ACTS OF CHARITY IT IS WELL INDEED
BUT CONCEAL THEM AND MAKE THEM REACH THOSE REALLY IN NEED 
THAT IS BEST FOR YOU AND IT WILL REMOVE SOME OF YOUR INIQUITIES 
AND GOD IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

272  TO SET THEM ON THE RIGHT PATH IS NOT REQUIRED OF YOU
BUT GOD GUIDES WHOM HE PLEASES TO THE TRUTH
AND WHATEVER OF GOOD IS GIVEN BY YOU
BENEFITS THE SOULS OF YOU
ONLY SEEKING GOD'S GRACE WILL IT BE DONE BY YOU 
AND WHATEVER GOOD THAT IS GIVEN BY YOU  
WILL MOST SURELY BE GIVEN BACK TO YOU
AND NO INJUSTICE WILL BE DONE TO YOU

273  CHARITY IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED 
WHO IN GOD'S CAUSE ARE INDEED
RESTRICTED FROM BEING FREE
TO SEEK TRADE OR WORK FREELY 
BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE IGNORANTLY  
THINK THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR MODESTY 
THAT THEY ARE FREE FROM BEING NEEDY 
BUT YOU WILL KNOW THEM CLEARLY
FOR THEY BEG NOT IMPORTUNATELY 
WHATEVER GOOD YOU GIVE GOD KNOWS IT SURELY

37
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 38.  PART III

274  THOSE WHO SPEND OF THEIR GOODS IN CHARITY 
NIGHT AND DAY, SECRETLY AND PUBLICLY
HAVE THEIR REWARD WITH THEIR LORD GRACIOUSLY
THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE NOR LIVE FEARFULLY

275  THOSE WHO DEVOUR USURY 
WILL NOT STAND EXCEPT HE WHO SURELY
THE DEVIL BY HIS TOUCH HAS DRIVEN TO INSANITY
THAT IS BECAUSE THEY SAY THAT TRADE IS LIKE USURY 
BUT GOD HAS PERMITTED TRADE AND FORBIDDEN USURY 

THOSE WHO RECEIVE DIRECTION AND DESIST THEREAFTER 
THEN THEIR LORD WILL PARDON THEIR PAST THEREAFTER 
THEIR CASE WILL BE JUDGED BY THEIR LORD THEREAFTER
BUT THOSE WHO REPEAT THE OFFENSE AFTER
THEY ARE THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE
THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOR EVER

276  GOD WILL DEPRIVE ALL BLESSINGS FROM USURY 
BUT WILL SURELY GIVE INCREASE FOR DEEDS OF CHARITY 
HE LOVES NOT UNGRATEFUL CREATURES WHO ACT WICKEDLY

277  THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS AND REGULAR CHARITY 
WILL HAVE THEIR REWARD WITH THEIR LORD JUSTLY
THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE NOR LIVE FEARFULLY

278  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FEAR GOD AND GIVE UP THE REMAINDERS
OF YOUR DEMAND FOR USURY IF YOU ARE BELIEVERS

279  IF YOU DO IT NOT, TAKE NOTICE OF WAR 
FROM GOD AND HIS MESSENGER

BUT IF YOU REPENT YOU WILL SURELY
HAVE YOUR CAPITAL SUMS JUSTLY
AND DO NOT DEAL UNJUSTLY
AND YOU WILL NOT BE DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY

280  IF THE DEBTOR IS IN A DIFFICULTY 
GRANT HIM TIME UNTIL REPAYMENT FOR HIM IS EASY 
BUT IF YOU REMIT IT BY WAY OF CHARITY
THAT IS BEST FOR YOU IF YOU ONLY KNEW TRULY

281  AND FEAR THE DAY WHEN YOU WILL BE 
BROUGHT BACK TO GOD, THEN EVERY SOUL WILL BE 
PAID WHAT IT EARNED AND NONE WILL BE 
DEALT WITH THE LEAST UNJUSTLY

38
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 39.  PART III

282  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WHEN YOU DEAL WITH EACH OTHER 
INVOLVING OBLIGATIONS OF THE FUTURE 
REDUCE THEM TO WRITING BY A TRANSCRIBER
AND LET THERE BE NO REFUSAL TO WRITE BY THE TRANSCRIBER  
SO LET HIM WRITE AS HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT BY THE CREATOR
AND LET HIM WHO INCURS THE DEBT BE THE DICTATOR
LET HIM NOT DIMINISH ANYTHING OF THE DEBT HE HAS INCURRED
BUT IF THE PARTY LIABLE IS WEAK OR IS MENTALLY DISTURBED
OR UNABLE TO DICTATE, LET HIS GUARDIAN BE THE DICTATOR 
AND GET TWO OF YOUR OWN MEN AS WITNESS BEARERS
OR A MAN AND TWO WOMEN AS WITNESS BEARERS 
SO IF ONE OF THEM MAKES AN ERROR THE OTHER CAN REMIND HER 
AND THE WITNESSES SHOULD REFUSE NOT WHEN CALLED AS TESTATORS 
SO DO NOT REFUSE TO WRITE YOUR CONTRACT FOR THE FUTURE 
WHETHER IT BE SMALL OR LARGE IN GOD'S SIGHT IT IS JUSTER 
AND MORE SUITABLE AS EVIDENCE AND MORE BETTER 
TO PREVENT DOUBTS AMONG EACH OTHER
A TRANSACTION WHICH YOU CARRY OUT ON THE SPOT TOGETHER
IF YOU DO NOT WRITE IT DOWN IT DOES NOT MATTER 
BUT WHEN YOU MAKE A CONTRACT TAKE WITNESS BEARERS
LET NO HARM BE SUFFERED BY EITHER WITNESS OR TRANSCRIBER 
AND IF YOU DO SUCH HARM IT WOULD BE IN ERROR 
SO FEAR GOD FROM WHOM YOU RECEIVE YOUR FAVORS
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER

283  IF YOU ARE ON A JOURNEY AND CANNOT FIND A TRANSCRIBER
THEN A SECURITY MAY BE TAKEN IN TENURE 
IF ONE OF YOU DEPOSITS A THING ON TRUST WITH ANOTHER 
LET THE TRUSTEE DISCHARGE HIS TRUST WITH CARE
AND LET HIM FEAR HIS LORD AND CHERISHER
AND DO NOT CONCEAL EVIDENCE FOR WHOEVER 
AMONG YOU CONCEALS EVIDENCE IS A WRONG DOER 
AND OF ALL THINGS THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE KNOWER

39
CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 40.  PART III

284  TO GOD BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND WHETHER YOU SHOW WHAT IS IN YOUR MINDS OR KEEP IT HIDDEN 
HE CALLS YOU TO ACCOUNT FOR IT AND WHOM HE PLEASES IS FORGIVEN 
AND WHOM HE CHOOSES TO RECEIVES PENALIZATION
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

285  IT IS BELIEVED BY THE APOSTLE 
THAT WHICH TO HIM HAS BEEN REVEALED 
AND SO DO THOSE WITH HIM WHO ARE FAITHFUL 
EACH ONE OF THEM BELIEVES IN GOD AND HIS ANGELS 
AND IN ALL OF HIS SCRIPTURES AND IN ALL OF HIS APOSTLES 
AND MAKE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN ANY OF GOD'S APOSTLES 
THEY SAY, WE HEAR AND OBEY GOD'S WILL
AND WE SEEK FOR GOD TO US TO BE MERCIFUL
AND TO HIM IS THE DESTINATION THAT IS FINAL

286  GOD DOES NOT PLACE A GREATER BURDEN 
BEYOND THE SCOPE OF ANY PERSON 
EACH GETS EVERY GOOD THAT HE HAS DONE
AND HE SUFFERS EVERY ILL THAT HE HAS DONE 

PRAY, OUR LORD, DO NOT CONDEMN US 
IF WE FALL INTO ERROR OUR LORD AND LAY NOT ON US 
A BURDEN LIKE THAT WHICH YOU DID LAY ON THOSE BEFORE US
OUR LORD, LAY NOT A GREATER BURDEN ON US  
THAN WE HAVE STRENGTH TO BEAR, BLOT OUT OUR SINS FROM US
AND GRANT FORGIVENESS TO US AND HAVE MERCY ON US 
FOR SURELY YOU ARE THE PROTECTOR OF US
SO AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS HELP US

40