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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, THE CREATOR
AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, THE LIVING
THE ETERNAL, THE SELF-SUBSISTING

3  GOD SENT DOWN THE BOOK IN TRUTH TO YOU
CONFIRMING WHAT WAS SENT BEFORE YOU

AND HE SENT DOWN THE LAW OF MOSES  
AND THE CRITERION AND THE GOSPEL OF JESUS 

4  THEN THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
IN THE MESSAGES OF THE CREATOR

WILL SUFFER THE SEVEREST PENALTY 
GOD IS LORD OF RETRIBUTION AND ALL MIGHTY

5  FROM GOD NOTHING IS HIDDEN 
ON EARTH OR IN THE HEAVENS

6  HE SHAPES YOU IN THE WOMBS OF YOUR MOTHERS
 THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE AND THERE IS NO OTHER
AND HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXALTED IN POWER

7  HE IT IS WHO HAS SENT DOWN TO YOU THE REVELATION 
SOME OF ITS VERSES ARE BASIC, THEY ARE ITS FOUNDATION 
OTHERS ARE ALLEGORICAL BUT THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS PERVERSION
GIVE THE ALLEGORIES THEIR OWN INTERPRETATIONS
SEEKING TO MISLEAD AND ONLY GOD KNOWS THEIR INTERPRETATIONS

AND SAY THOSE WHO ARE FIRMLY GROUNDED IN INSTRUCTION 
WE BELIEVE IN THE BOOK, IT IS FROM THE LORD OF ALL CREATION 
THE MESSAGE WILL BE GRASPED ONLY BY THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION

8  AND THEY SAY, OUR LORD, NOW AFTER 
YOU HAVE GUIDED US LET NOT OUR HEARTS ALTER
BUT GRANT TO US MERCY FROM YOUR GOOD PLEASURE
FOR YOU ARE THE GRANTOR OF BOUNTIES WITHOUT MEASURE

9  OUR LORD, YOU ARE HE THAT WILL GATHER MANKIND TOGETHER 
ON A DAY ABOUT WHICH THERE IS NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER 
FOR GOD NEVER FAILS IN HIS PROMISES EVER

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10  THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
NEITHER THEIR CHILDREN OR THEIR WEALTH EITHER
WILL AVAIL THEM AGAINST THEIR LORD AND SUSTAINER 
AND SURELY THEY ARE THEMSELVES BUT FUEL FOR THE FIRE

11  THEIR PLIGHT WILL BE NO BETTER 
THAN PHARAOH AND HIS PREDECESSORS 
THEY DENIED THE MESSAGE AND WERE REJECTERS
AND THEY WERE CALLED TO ACCOUNT BY THE CREATOR
FOR GOD IS THE SUPREME PUNISHER

12  SAY TO THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS
YOU WILL BE VANQUISHED AND GATHERED TOGETHER 
AND THROWN INTO HELL, AN EVIL PLACE FOR THE DWELLERS

13  THERE WAS A SIGN FOR YOU IN THE MEETING OF TWO ARMIES  
ONE FIGHTING IN THE CAUSE OF GOD, THE OTHER CONTRARY  
THESE SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES TWICE THEIR MILITARY
BUT GOD SUPPORTS WITH HIS AID WHOM HE DECREES 
AND IN THIS IS A WARNING FOR ALL TO SEE

14  FAIR IN MEN'S EYES IS THE LOVE OF COVETOUS THINGS 
WOMEN AND SONS AND HEAPED UP HOARDINGS 
OF GOLD, SILVER, CATTLE, HORSES AND DWELLINGS
THESE ARE ONLY POSSESSIONS OF THIS WORLD'S THINGS 
BUT NEARNESS TO YOUR LORD IS THE BEST ACCOMPLISHING

15  SAY, SHALL I GIVE YOU GLAD TIDINGS OF THINGS FAR BETTER?
FOR THE RIGHTEOUS ARE GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS  
AND THEY ARE IN NEARNESS TO THE CREATOR
WITH COMPANIONS HOLY AND PURE 
FOR GOD OF ALL OF HIS SERVANTS IS THE SEER

16  THOSE WHO SAY, OUR LORD, WE ARE BELIEVERS 
FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND SAVE US FROM THE FIRE

17  THOSE WHO SHOW PATIENCE FIRMLY 
WHO ARE TRUE IN WORD AND DEED 
AND WHO WORSHIP DEVOUTLY
AND WHO SPEND IN THE WAY OF GOD FREELY
AND PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS REGULARLY
IN THE MORNING HOURS EARLY

18  GOD BEARS WITNESS THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE
SO DO HIS ANGELS AND THOSE ENDUED WITH CLARITY  
STANDING ON JUSTICE THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE
EXALTED IN POWER AND ALL WISE IS HE

19  ENTIRE SUBMISSION TO HIS WILL IS GOD'S RELIGION TRULY 
AND THOSE WHO WERE GIVEN THE BOOK DIFFERED ONLY
AFTER KNOWLEDGE HAD COME TO THEM OUT OF ENVY 
AMONG THEMSELVES, AND WHOEVER DISBELIEVES 
IN HIS MESSAGE HE CALLS TO ACCOUNT SWIFTLY

20  SO IF WITH YOU THEY ARE DISPUTERS 
SAY TO THEM, TO GOD I AM A SUBMITTER
AND MY FOLLOWERS ARE ALSO SUBMITTERS
AND SAY TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
AND THE UNLEARNED PEOPLE, ALSO BE SUBMITTERS 
AND IF THEY DO SUBMIT THEN THEY ARE RIGHT DOERS
BUT IF THEY TURN AWAY YOUR DUTY IS ONLY TO DELIVER
THE MESSAGE FROM GOD, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
AND OF ALL OF HIS SERVANTS GOD IS THE SEER

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21  AS TO THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE IN THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AND IN DEFIANCE OF RIGHT KILL THE PROPHETS OF GOD

AND KILL THOSE WHO TEACH JUST DEALING WITH MANKIND 
ANNOUNCE TO THEM A PENALTY OF A GRIEVOUS KIND

22  THEY ARE OF THOSE WHOSE WORKS WILL BEAR 
NO FRUIT IN THIS WORLD OR IN THE HEREAFTER 
NOR WILL THEY HAVE ANYONE AS HELPERS

23  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION 
TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GIVEN REVELATIONS? 
AND THEY ARE INVITED TO COME TO GOD'S REVELATIONS 
IN ORDER FOR THEM TO SETTLE THEIR DISPUTATIONS
BUT A PARTY OF THEM TURN BACK IN AVERSION
AND THEY DECLINE THE ARBITRATION

24  THIS IS BECAUSE THEY SAY 
THE FIRE WILL NOT TOUCH US FOR A FEW DAYS 

AS TO THEIR OWN RELIGION 
THEY ARE DECEIVED BY THEIR FABRICATIONS

25  BUT HOW WILL THEY TURN OUT WHEN WE GATHER THEM TOGETHER 
AGAINST A DAY ABOUT WHICH THERE IS NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER
AND EACH SOUL WILL BE PAID ITS EARNINGS WITHOUT FAVOR

26  SAY, OH CREATOR
LORD OF RULE AND POWER 
TO WHOM YOU PLEASE YOU GIVE POWER 
AND FROM WHOM YOU PLEASE YOU STRIP OFF POWER 
AND THOSE WHOM YOU PLEASE YOU ENDUE WITH HONOR 
AND WHOMEVER YOU PLEASE YOU DISHONOR
AND IN YOUR HAND IS ALL THAT IS PROPER
AND OVER ALL THINGS YOU HAVE POWER

27  YOU CAUSE THE NIGHT
TO GAIN ON THE DAY AND THE DAY TO GAIN ON THE NIGHT 

OUT OF THE DEAD YOU BRING THE LIVING
AND YOU BRING THE DEAD OUT OF THE LIVING 

AND YOU ARE THE GRANTOR 
OF SUSTENANCE TO WHOM YOU PLEASE WITHOUT MEASURE

28  LET NOT THE BELIEVERS TAKE FOR FRIENDS OR HELPERS 
DISBELIEVERS RATHER THAN BELIEVERS 
IF ANY DO THEY WILL NOT HAVE GOD AS A HELPER
AND GOD CAUTIONS YOU AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS
SO YOU MAY GUARD YOURSELVES FROM THEIR ERRORS
AND GOD CAUTIONS THAT HIM YOU SHOULD REMEMBER 
FOR THE FINAL GOAL IS TO YOUR LORD IN THE HEREAFTER

29  WHETHER YOU HIDE WHAT IS IN YOUR HEARTS OR REVEAL IT 
GOD KNOWS IT AND WHAT IS IN THE HEAVENS HE KNOWS IT 
AND WHATEVER IS ON THE EARTH GOD KNOWS IT
AND OF ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER OVER IT

30  ON THE DAY WHEN EVERY PERSON
WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH ALL THE GOOD HE HAS DONE 
AND HE WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH ALL THE EVIL HE HAS DONE 

HE WILL WISH THERE WERE A GREAT DISTANCE BETWEEN HIS EVIL AND HIM  
BUT YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER CAUTIONS YOU TO REMEMBER HIM 
AND GOD IS FULL OF KINDNESS TO THOSE THAT SERVE HIM

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31  SAY, IF YOU LOVE GOD FOLLOW ME AND GOD WILL LOVE YOU 
AND FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS FOR GOD IS FORGIVING TO YOU

32  SAY, OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
BUT IF THEY TURN BACK GOD LOVES NOT DISBELIEVERS

33  GOD CHOSE ADAM AND NOAH AND ABRAHAM'S FAMILY 
AND THE FAMILY OF AMRAN ABOVE ALL OF HUMANITY

34  OFFSPRING ONE OF THE OTHER, AND GOD IS ALL HEARING
AND HE IS ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

35  A WOMAN OF AMRAN SAID, OH CREATOR
WHAT IS IN MY WOMB TO YOU I OFFER
ACCEPT THIS OF ME, MY LORD AND CHERISHER
FOR YOU ARE THE HEARER AND THE BEST KNOWER

36  WHEN SHE WAS DELIVERED 
SHE SAID, OH MY LORD, A FEMALE CHILD HAVE I DELIVERED 
AND GOD KNEW BEST WHAT SHE DELIVERED 
AND THE MALE IS NOT LIKE THE FEMALE FOR SURE 
AND I HAVE NAMED HER MARY AND I COMMEND HER 
AND HER PROGENY TO YOUR PROTECTION FROM THE EVIL REJECTER 

37  RIGHT GRACIOUSLY DID HER LORD ACCEPT HER 
HE MADE HER GROW BEAUTIFULLY AND PURE
AND ASSIGNED HER TO ZAKARIYA'S CARE 
EVERY TIME HE ENTERED HER CHAMBER TO SEE HER 
HE FOUND HER SUPPLIED WITH FOOD AND HE SAID TO HER
OH MARY, HOW DID THIS COME TO YOU HERE?  
SHE ANSWERED, FROM GOD, FOR GOD IS THE PROVIDER
OF SUSTENANCE TO WHOM HE PLEASES WITHOUT MEASURE 

38  THERE DID ZAKARIYA PRAY TO HIS LORD SOLEMNLY
SAYING, OH MY LORD, GRANT TO ME A PURE PROGENY 
FOR YOU ARE THE HEARER OF PRAYERS ASSUREDLY

39  WHILE HE WAS PRAYING IN THE CHAMBER
THE ANGELS SAID TO HIM, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
GIVES YOU GLAD TIDINGS OF JOHN, A WITNESS BEARER 
OF THE TRUTH OF A WORD FROM YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
AND NOBLE AND CHASTE AND A PROPHET AND A MESSENGER
AND A MEMBER OF THE GOOD COMPANY OF RIGHTEOUS DOERS

40  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, HOW CAN I HAVE A SON
SEEING THAT I AM VERY OLD AND MY WIFE IS BARREN? 
THE ANSWER WAS, GOD DOES WHAT HE WILLS TO BE DONE

41  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, GIVE A SIGN TO ME 
THE ANSWER WAS, SURELY YOUR SIGN WILL BE 
THAT YOU WILL NOT SPEAK TO ANY MEN DIRECTLY
FOR THREE DAYS EXCEPT WITH SIGNALS AND THEN SOLEMNLY 
CELEBRATE THE PRAISES OF YOUR LORD, MOST HIGH, REPEATEDLY
AND GLORIFY HIM IN THE EVENING AND MORNING CONTINUOUSLY

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42  THE ANGELS SAID, OH MARY, GOD HAS CHOSEN AND PURIFIED YOU 
AND ABOVE ALL WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS HE HAS CHOSEN YOU

43  OH MARY, WORSHIP YOUR LORD WITH SINCERE DEVOTION 
PROSTRATE IN PRAYER AND BOW DOWN IN SUBMISSION 
ALONG WITH THOSE WHO BOW IN SUBMISSION

44  THIS IS OF THE UNSEEN EXPOSITIONS
WHICH WE REVEAL TO YOU BY INSPIRATION
AND YOU WERE NOT IN THEIR CONGREGATION
WHEN THEY CAST LOTS TO SEE WHICH ONE 
SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH MARY’S DISPOSITION 
NOR WERE YOU WITH THEM DURING THEIR DISPUTATIONS

45  THE ANGELS SAID, OH MARY HERE IS GOOD NEWS FROM THE CREATOR
HIS NAME WILL BE CHRIST JESUS, SON OF MARY, HELD IN HONOR 
IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND OF THE COMPANY OF THOSE NEAREST TO THE CREATOR

46  HE WILL SPEAK TO PEOPLE IN CHILDHOOD AND IN MATURITY
HE WILL BE OF THE COMPANY OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

47  SHE SAID, OH MY LORD, HOW WILL IT BE
FOR ME TO HAVE A SON WHEN NO MAN HAS TOUCHED ME?
HE ANSWERED, EVEN SO GOD DOES CREATE WHAT HE DECREES

AND WHEN HE HAS DECREED A PLAN ALL THAT HAPPENS IS 
HE ONLY SAYS TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

48  GOD WILL TEACH HIM THE BOOK, THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL

49  AND HE WILL SEND HIM AS AN APOSTLE 
WITH THIS MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 

I HAVE COME TO YOU WITH A SIGN BY GOD’S PERMISSION
IN THAT I MAKE FOR YOU OUT OF CLAY BY GOD’S PERMISSION
THE FIGURE OF A BIRD BY GOD’S PERMISSION
AND I BREATHE INTO IT BY GOD’S PERMISSION
AND IT BECOMES A BIRD BY GOD'S PERMISSION
I HEAL THOSE BORN BLIND BY GOD’S PERMISSION
AND I HEAL THE LEPERS BY GOD’S PERMISSION 
AND I RAISE THE DEAD BY GOD'S PERMISSION
AND I DECLARE TO YOU WHAT TO EAT BY GOD’S PERMISSION
WHAT TO STORE IN YOUR HOUSES BY GOD’S PERMISSION
AND THIS IS A SIGN TO THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION

50  I HAVE COME TO YOU CONFIRMING TO YOU
THE LAW AND TO MAKE LAWFUL TO YOU 
WHAT WAS BEFORE FORBIDDEN TO YOU 

AND I HAVE COME TO YOU WITH A SIGN FROM YOUR LORD
SO OBEY ME AND KEEP YOUR DUTY TO YOUR LORD

51  SURELY GOD IS MY LORD AND YOUR LORD 
SO SERVE HIM, THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY WITH YOUR LORD

52  WHEN JESUS FOUND THEM TO BE DISBELIEVERS 
HE SAID, WHO OF YOU WILL BE MY HELPERS 
TO DO THE WORK OF THE CREATOR
THE DISCIPLES SAID, WE ARE GOD'S HELPERS 
WE BELIEVE IN HIM SO BEAR WITNESS WE ARE SUBMITTERS

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53  OUR LORD, WE ARE BELIEVERS 
IN WHAT YOU HAVE REVEALED OF SCRIPTURES
AND WE DO SINCERELY FOLLOW THE MESSENGER
THEN WRITE US DOWN AMONG THE WITNESS BEARERS

54  AND THE DISBELIEVERS PLOTTED AND PLANNED 
AND YOUR LORD TOO PLOTTED AND PLANNED
AND GOD IS THE BEST OF THOSE WHO PLAN

SECTION 6

55  YOUR LORD SAID, OH JESUS, I WILL TAKE YOU AND CLEAR YOU 
OF THE FALSEHOODS OF THOSE WHO BLASPHEME AGAINST YOU
AND I WILL MAKE THOSE WHO FOLLOW YOU 
SUPERIOR TO THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH IN YOU
TO THE DAY OF RESURRECTION, THEN SHALL YOU 
ALL RETURN TO ME AND I WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOU 
IN THE MATTERS OF WHICH YOU DISPUTE AMONG YOU

56  AND I WILL PUNISH THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
WITH AGONY IN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER 
NOR WILL THEY HAVE ANY ONE AS HELPERS

57  AND TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
GOD WILL ASSURELDY PAY THEM THEIR REWARD FULLY
BUT GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

58  THIS IS WHAT WE RECITE TO YOU 
OF THE MESSAGES OF WISDOM TO YOU

59  THE LIKENESS OF ADAM WITH GOD IS LIKE THAT OF JESUS
HE CREATED HIM FROM DUST THEN SAID TO HIM, BE, AND HE WAS

60  THE TRUTH COMES FROM GOD ALONE SO ABOUT IT
BE NOT ONE OF THOSE WHO DOUBT IT

61  IF ANYONE DISPUSTES IN THIS MATTER WITH YOU
NOW AFTER FULL KNOWLEDGE HAS COME TO YOU 

SAY, COME LET US GATHER TOGETHER OUR SONS 
AND YOUR SONS 

AND OUR WOMEN 
AND YOUR WOMEN 

AND OURSELVES 
AND YOURSELVES 

THEN LET US BE EARNEST IN PRAYER
AND INVOKE THE CURSE OF GOD ON THE LIARS

62  THIS IS THE TRUE ACCOUNT, THERE IS NO GOD EXCEPT GOD
AND ALL MIGHTY AND ALL WISE IS GOD

63  BUT IF THEY TURN BACK, GOD IS THE KNOWER
OF THOSE WHO ARE THE MISCHIEF MAKERS

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64  SAY, OH PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
COME TO TERMS WITH US THAT WE WORSHIP NONE OTHER
BUT GOD, AND THAT WE ASSOCIATE WITH HIM NO PARTNERS 
AND THAT WE ERECT NOT FROM AMONG US PROTECTORS 
AND PATRONS OTHER THAN OUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
IF THEY TURN BACK SAY, WE ARE WITNESS BEARERS
THAT WE BOW TO GOD'S WILL AS SUBMITTERS

65  OH YOU PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
WHY ABOUT ABRAHAM ARE YOU DISPUTERS

WHEN THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL HAD NOT ITS REVEALING
UNTIL AFTER HIM, HAVE YOU NO UNDERSTANDING?

66  IT IS YOU WHO DISPUTE IN MATTERS OF WHICH YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE
BUT WHY DISPUTE IN MATTERS OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE?  
IT IS GOD WHO KNOWS ALL AND YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE 

67  ABRAHAM WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN OR A JEW
HE WAS A SUBMITTER TO GOD UPRIGHT AND TRUE 

HE BOWED HIS WILL TO GOD'S WILL COMPLETEY
AND HE JOINED NOT GODS WITH GOD IN DEITY

68  THE NEAREST OF KIN TO ABRAHAM ARE HIS FOLLOWERS
ALSO THIS MESSENGER AND THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND GOD IS THE PROTECTOR OF THE BELIEVERS

69  THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK WISH THEY COULD LEAD YOU ASTRAY 
BUT THEY WILL NOT BY ANY MEANS LEAD YOU ASTRAY 
THEY WILL ONLY LEAD THEMSELVES ASTRAY

70  YOU PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, WHY DO YOU REJECT GOD'S MESSAGES
OF WHICH YOU ARE YOURSELVES WITNESSES?

71  YOU PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, WHY DO YOU CLOTHE TRUTH 
WITH FALSEHOOD AND YOU CONCEAL THE TRUTH 
WHILE YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

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72  THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK SAY, BELIEVE IN THE MORNING 
WHAT IS REVEALED TO THE BELIEVERS BUT REJECT IT IN THE EVENING
PERCHANCE THAT THEY MIGHT THEMSELVES TURN AWAY DISBELIEVING

73  AND BELIEVE IN NO ONE 
UNLESS HE FOLLOWS YOUR RELIGION 
SAY, TRUE SUBMISSION IS GOD'S RELIGION 
UNLESS THERE BE SENT A REVELATION  
TO SOMEONE ELSE LIKE YOUR REVELATION 
OR THAT THOSE RECEIVING SUCH REVELATION
SHOULD HAVE YOU ENGAGING IN DISPUTATIONS
SAY TO THEM, ALL BOUNTIES ARE IN GOD’S DOMINION
HE GRANTS THEM TO WHOM HE PLEASES AT HIS DISCRETION  
 
74  HE SPECIALLY CHOOSES WHOM HE PLEASES FOR HIS MERCIES
FOR GOD IS THE LORD OF UNBOUNDED BOUNTIES 

75  AND AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
ARE SOME WHO IF YOU TRUSTED WITH A HOARD OF TREASURES
WILL DEFINITELY PAY IT BACK TO YOU AND THEN THERE ARE OTHERS
WHO WILL NOT REPAY YOU IF TRUSTED WITH A SINGLE COIN OF SILVER 
UNLESS YOU CONSTANTLY STOOD DEMANDING IT AFTER
BECAUSE THEY SAY, WE DO NOT HAVE TO BE FAIR
WITH THESE IGNORANT PAGANS, BUT THEY DECLARE
A LIE AGAINST GOD AND OF IT THEY ARE WELL AWARE

76  THOSE THAT KEEP THEIR FAITH AND ACT RIGHT 
SURELY GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ACT RIGHT

77  AS FOR THOSE WHO SELL THE FAITH THAT THEY OWE TO GOD
FOR A SMALL PRICE THEY WILL HAVE NO PORTION WITH GOD
IN THE HEREAFTER NOR WILL THEY BE SPOKEN TO BY GOD
NOR WILL THEY BE SEEN ON JUDGMENT DAY BY GOD
NOR WILL THEY BE CLEANSED BY GOD 
THEY WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY FROM GOD

78  THERE IS AMONG THEM A PARTY WHO DISTORT THE BOOK
AND YOU WOULD THINK IT IS PART OF THE BOOK 
BUT IT IS REALLY NOT PART OF THE BOOK 

THEY SAY THAT IT IS FROM GOD, BUT IT IS NOT FROM GOD
BUT IT IS THEY WHO TELL A LIE AGAINST GOD

79  AND IT IS NOT POSSIBLE THAT A MAN WHO IS GIVEN SCRIPTURE 
AND WISDOM AND PROPHETHOOD SAY TO GOD'S FOLLOWERS
BE MY WORSHIPPERS RATHER THAN THE CREATOR
HE WOULD SAY, BE WORSHIPPERS OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
FOR MOST ASSUREDLY YOU HAVE TAUGHT THE SCRIPTURES 
AND YOU STUDY IT EARNESTLY AND SINCERE

80  NOR WOULD HE TELL YOU TO TAKE ANGELS FOR GODS
OR TO TAKE PROPHETS FOR GODS
WOULD HE BID YOU TO UNBELIEF IN GOD 
AFTER YOU HAVE BOWED YOUR WILL TO GOD? 

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81  GOD TOOK THE COVENANT ALL OF THE PROPHETS ALL TOGETHER
SAYING, I GIVE YOU SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM, THEN A MESSENGER 
COMFIRMING WHAT IS WITH YOU WILL COME TO YOU AFTER
WILL YOU BELIEVE IN HIM AND HELP HIM AND FURTHER 
DO YOU AGREE AND TAKE MY COVENANT AS SINCERE? 
AND THEY SAID, WE ALL AGREE ALL TOGETHER
AND HE SAID, THEN BE WITNESS BEARERS
AND I AM  AMONG YOU AS A WITNESS BEARER

82  IF ANY TURN BACK AFTER 
THEY ARE PERVERTED TRANSGRESSORS

83  DO THEY SEEK FOR OTHER THAN GOD'S RELIGION 
WHILE ALL CREATURES ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
WILLINGLY OR UNWILLINGLY BOW TO HIM IN SUBMISSION?
TO HIM THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BACK FOR THE FINAL DECISION

84  SAY, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND BELIEVE IN WHAT IS REVEALED TO US
AND WHAT WAS REVEALED TO ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL AND TO MOSES
AND TO ISAAC AND  JACOB AND THE TRIBES, AND TO JESUS 
AND ALL OF THE PROPHETS FROM GOD SENT TO US
AND NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THEM IS MADE BY US
AND TO GOD DO WE OFFER COMPLETE SUBMISSION FROM US

IF ANYONE DESIRES A RELIGION OTHER 
THAN SUBMISSION TO THE WILL OF THE CREATOR
IT WILL IN NO WAY AT ALL BE ACCEPTED FROM HIM EVER
AND IN THE HEREAFTER HE WILL BE IN THE RANKS OF THE LOSERS

86  AND HOW SHALL GOD GUIDE THOSE WHO BECAME DISBELIEVERS 
AFTER BEING BELIEVERS AND BORE WITNESS THAT THE MESSENGER
WAS TRUE AND MESSAGES HAD COME TO THEM THAT WERE CLEAR 
BUT UNJUST PEOPLE ARE NOT GUIDED BY THE CREATOR

87  AS FOR THESE THEIR REWARD IS FOR THEM 
GOD'S CURSE AND THE CURSE OF HIS ANGELS IS ON THEM
AND THE CURSE OF ALL MANKIND ALL COMBINED IS UPON THEM

88  IN THAT WILL THEY DWELL NOR WILL THEIR PENALTY
BE LIGHTENED NOR RESPITED WILL THEY BE 

89  EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT REPENT SINCERELY
AND MAKE AMENDS, FOR GOD IS SURELY 
OFTEN RETURNING TO MERCY

90  BUT FOR THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH AFTER THEY HAVE ACCEPTED 
AND GO ON DEFYING, THEIR REPENTANCE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
FOR THEY ARE THOSE WHO HAVE PURPOSELY REJECTED

91  AS TO THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION WHEN DEATH COMES TO THEM
ALL THE GOLD THE EARTH HOLDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM THEM 
THOUGH THEY SHOULD OFFER IT GLADLY TO RANSOM THEM
AND A GRIEVOUS PENALTY IS IN STORE FOR THEM  
AND THEY WILL FIND NO ONE TO HELP THEM

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PART IV

92  BY NO MEANS WILL YOU ATTAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS
UNLESS YOU GIVE FREELY OF THAT WHICH YOU POSSESS 
AND GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU DO GIVE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
 
93  TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ALL FOOD WAS LAWFUL
EXCEPT WHAT ISRAEL MADE FOR ITSELF UNLAWFUL 
BEFORE MOSES'S LAW WAS REVEALED
SAY, BRING THE LAW AND STUDY IT IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL 

94  IF ANY INVENT A LIE AND ATTRIBUTE IT TO GOD AFTER
THEY ARE INDEED UNJUST WRONG-DOERS

95  SAY, GOD SPEAKS THE TRUTH, SO FOLLOW ABRAHAM'S RELIGION 
THE TRUE IN FAITH AND HE WAS NOT ONE OF THE PAGANS

96  THE FIRST HOUSE APPOINTED FOR WORSHIPPING
WAS THAT AT MECCA FULL OF BLESSINGS 
AND GUIDANCE FOR ALL BEINGS

97  THERE ARE SIGNS THAT ARE CLEAR IN IT
THE STATION OF ABRAHAM, WHOEVER ENTERS IT
ATTAINS SECURITY AND PILGRIMAGE TO IT 
IS A DUTY MEN OWE TO GOD FOR THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD IT 
BUT FAITH IN GOD, ANY WHO DENY IT
AS TO NEED OF HIS CREATURES GOD IS ABOVE IT

98  SAY, OH PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
WHY DO YOU REJECT THE SIGNS OF YOUR CREATOR
WHEN YOUR LORD IS WITNESS TO ALL YOUR ENDEAVORS?

99  SAY, OH YOU PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
WHY DO YOU OBSTRUCT THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FROM THE PATH OF GOD, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER?

SEEKING TO CAUSE IT TO BE BENT 
WHILE YOU WERE WITNESSES TO GOD'S COVENANT?  
BUT YOUR LORD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF YOUR INTENT

100  AND IF YOU DO LISTEN, OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
TO A PARTY AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
THEY WOULD RENDER YOU AS DISBELIEVERS
AFTER YOU HAVE BEEN BELIEVERS

101  AND HOW WOULD YOU DENY FAITH IN GOD
WHILE TO YOU ARE RECITED THE MESSAGES OF GOD
AND WHEN AMONG YOU LIVES THE MESSENGER OF GOD 
AND WHOEVER AMONG YOU HOLDS FIRMLY TO GOD
WILL BE SHOWN THE STRAIGHT WAY BY GOD

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102  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
FEAR GOD AND DIE NOT EXCEPT AS A SUBMITTER 

103  HOLD FAST BY THE ROPE GOD STRETCHES OUT FOR YOU 
AND DO NOT BE DIVIDED AMONG YOU 
AND REMEMBER WITH GRATITUDE GOD'S FAVOR TO YOU
WHEN YOU WERE ENEMIES AND HE JOINED LOVE BETWEEN YOU 
AND BY HIS MIGHTY GRACE HE MADE BROTHERS OF YOU 
WHEN ON THE BRINK OF THE PIT OF FIRE WERE YOU
YOUR LORD MOST GRACIOUS SAVED YOU
SO DOES GOD MAKE HIS SIGNS CLEAR TO YOU 
IN ORDER THAT HE MAY GIVE GUIDANCE TO YOU

104  LET THERE ARISE OUT OF YOU A BAND OF PEOPLE 
ENJOINING WHAT IS RIGHT AND FORBIDDING EVIL
THEY ARE THE ONES THAT WILL BE SUCCESSFUL

105  BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO HAD DISAGREEMENTS 
AFTER THEY HAD RECEIVED CLEAR ARGUMENTS
FOR THEM IS A GRIEVOUS CHASTISEMENT

106  THE DAY WHEN SOME FACES WILL BE LIT UP WITH LIGHT 
AND SOME FACES ON THAT DAY WILL BE VOID OF LIGHT 
AND TO THOSE WHOSE FACES WILL BE VOID OF LIGHT

IT WILL BE SAID, DID YOU REJECT FAITH 
EVEN AFTER YOU HAD ACCEPTED THE FAITH?  
THEN TASTE THE PENALTY FOR REJECTING FAITH

107  BUT THOSE WHOSE FACES WILL BE LIT UP BRIGHTLY
THEY WILL BE IN THE LIGHT OF GOD'S MERCY
THERE THEY WILL DWELL FOR ETERNITY

108  THESE ARE THE MESSAGES OF GOD THE CREATOR 
WE RECITE THEM TO YOU IN TRUTH WITHOUT ERROR
AND GOD DESIRES NO INJUSTICE TO HIS CREATURES 

109  TO GOD BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
AND TO HIM DO ALL QUESTIONS GO BACK FOR DECISION

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110  YOU ARE THE BEST OF PEOPLE EVOLVED FOR MANKIND INDEED
YOU ENJOIN WHAT IS RIGHT, FORBID WHAT IS WRONG AND BELIEVE
IF ONLY THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK HAD BELIEVED

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEST FOR THEM 
BUT THEN SOME HAVE FAITH AMONG THEM 
BUT THEY ARE TRANSGRESSORS MOST OF THEM

111  NO HARM WILL THEY DO TO YOU 
BARRING A TRIFLING ANNOYANCE TO YOU
AND IF THEY COME OUT TO FIGHT AGAINST YOU 
NO HELP WILL THEY GET AND THEY WILL SHOW THEIR BACKS TO YOU

112  AND UPON THEM SHAME IS PITCHED OVER THEM LIKE A TENT 
WHEREVER THEY ARE EXCEPT WHEN UNDER A COVENANT 
FROM MEN AND FROM GOD'S COVENANT 

THEY DRAW ON THEMSELVES GOD'S WRATH AND HUMILIATION 
AND PITCHED OVER THEM IS THE TENT OF DESTITUTION 
THIS IS BECAUSE THEY WERE IN REJECTION 

OF THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AND IN DEFIANCE OF RIGHT KILLED THE PROPHETS OF GOD
AND BECAUSE THEY TRANSGRESSED AND REBELLED AGAINST GOD 

113  OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK NOT ALL OF THEM ARE ALIKE                                                                    
FOR THERE IS A PORTION OF THEM THAT DO STAND FOR RIGHT 
AND THEY ADORE GOD AND RECITE HIS MESSAGES ALL NIGHT 

114  AND THEY DO BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE RESURRECTION 
THEY ENJOIN WHAT IS RIGHT AND FORBID CORRUPTION
AND THEY HASTEN TO GOOD WORKS IN EMULATION 
THEY ARE THOSE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

115  THE GOOD THEY DO WILL NOT BE REJECTED OF THEM 
FOR GOD KNOWS WELL THOSE THAT DO RIGHT AMONG THEM

116  THOSE WHO WILLFULLY REJECT GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS
NEITHER THEIR CHILDREN OR ALL THEIR POSSESSIONS
WILL AVAIL THEM AGAINST GOD'S DESTRUCTION
AND THEY WILL BE THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 
AND IT IS AN EVIL DESTINATION 

117  WHAT THEY SPEND 
IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD MAY BE LIKENED TO A WIND 
WHICH BRINGS A NIPPING FROST THEN IT STRIKES AND THEN 

IT DESTROYS THE HARVEST OF MEN WHO HAVE WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS 
IT IS NOT GOD THAT HAS WRONGED THEIR SOULS
BUT THEY HAVE THEMSELVES WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS

118  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
TAKE NOT INTO YOUR INTIMACY DISBELIEVERS
FOR THEY WILL CORRUPT YOU AND THEIR DESIRE
IS TO RUIN YOU, AND RANK HATRED HAS APPEARED 
FROM THEIR MOUTHS ALREADY AND WHAT THEIR HEARTS HARBOR
IS FAR WORSE AND WE HAVE MADE THE MESSAGES CLEAR 
IF YOU HAVE ANY WISDOM WHATSOEVER

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119  YOU ARE THOSE WHO LOVE THEM SINCERE                                                                   
BUT THEY DO NOT LOVE YOU AND YOU BELIEVE IN THE SCRIPTURES 
AND WHEN THEY MEET YOU THEY SAY, WE ARE BELIEVERS 
BUT WHEN THEY ARE ALONE THE DISBELIEVERS
IN THEIR RAGE AT YOU BITE OFF THE TIPS OF THEIR FINGERS 
SAY, DIE IN YOUR RAGE, GOD KNOWS YOUR DESIRES 

120  AND IT GRIEVES THEM IF ANYTHING GOOD COMES TO YOU 
IT PLEASES THEM IF SOME MISFORTUNE OVERTAKES YOU  
BUT IF YOU ARE CONSTANT AND YOU REMAIN TRUE
NOT THE LEAST HARM WILL THEIR CUNNING DO TO YOU 
FOR GOD ENCOMPASSES ALL THAT THEY DO

SECTION  13

121  REMEMBER YOU DID LEAVE YOUR HOUSE EARLY ONE MORNING
TO POST THE FAITHFUL AT THEIR STATIONS FOR BATTLING
AND GOD HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS

122  TWO OF YOUR PARTIES MEDITATED COWARDICE
BUT GOD WAS THEIR PROTECTOR AND FROM GOD SEEK JUSTICE

123  GOD HELPED YOU IN BATTLE
WHEN YOU WERE THEN CONTEMPTIBLE 
THEN FEAR GOD SO YOU MAY BE GRATEFUL 

124  YOU SAID TO THE BELIEVERS, IS IT NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU 
THAT GOD, YOUR PROTECTOR, SHOULD HELP YOU 
WITH THREE THOUSAND ANGELS SENT DOWN TO YOU?

125  AND IF YOU ACT RIGHT AND REMAIN FIRM AND TRUE
EVEN IF THE ENEMY SHOULD RUSH IN ON YOU 
YOUR LORD WOULD SURELY HELP YOU 
WITH FIVE THOUSAND ANGELS MAKING HAVOC FOR YOU

126  IT WAS A MESSAGE OF HOPE FOR YOU FROM GOD
AND THERE IS NO HELP EXCEPT FROM GOD 
THE EXALTED, THE ALL WISE GOD

127  THAT HE MIGHT 
CUT OFF THE DISBELIEVERS OR HE MIGHT 
EXPOSE THEM IN INFAMY AND THEY MIGHT 
BE FRUSTRATED IN PURPOSE AND TURNED BACK IN FLIGHT

128  NOT FOR YOU BUT FOR GOD IS THE DECISION
WHETHER TO PUNISH OR FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY ARE IN PERDITION 

129  ALL THAT IS ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN GOD POSSESSES
AND WHOM HE PLEASES HE FORGIVES OR PUNISHES
AND GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS

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130  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, DO NOT DEVOUR USURY
DOUBLED AND MULTIPLIED BUT TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY
SO THAT YOU MAY BE SUCCESSFUL AND GAIN PROSPERITY 

131  AND FEAR THE FIRE 
WHICH IS PREPARED FOR THE DISBELIEVERS

132  AND OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY BE SUCCESSFUL

133  AND BE QUICK IN THE RACE TO BE FORGIVEN
BY YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER AND FOR A GARDEN 
WHOSE WIDTH IS THE LENGTH OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
GOD HAS PREPARED IT FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG MEN

134  THOSE WHO SPEND FREELY 
WHETHER IN PROSPERITY OR IN ADVERSITY 
AND WHO PARDON MEN AND ACT NOT ANGRILY
SURELY GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

135  THOSE WHO AFTER HAVING DONE SOMETHING 
TO BE ASHAMED OF OR WRONGED THEIR OWN BEINGS 
THEN BRING GOD TO MIND AND FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSINGS
THEY SINCERELY ASK GOD TO BE FORGIVING
WHO EXCEPT GOD CAN FORGIVE TRANSGRESSINGS?
AND THOSE WHO ARE NEVER OBSTINATE IN PERSISTING
KNOWINGLY IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND IN WRONGDOING

136  FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS FROM THEIR MAKER
AND GARDENS FOR THEM WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS
THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM FOREVER 
AN EXCELLENT REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

137  MANY WERE THE WAYS OF LIFE OF THOSE BEFORE YOU 
SAY, THEREFORE TRAVEL THE EARTH THROUGH AND THROUGH
AND SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE REJECTERS BEFORE YOU

138  HERE IS A PLAIN STATEMENT TO MEN FOR GUIDING
AND INSTRUCTING THOSE WHO ARE GOD FEARING

139  SO LOSE NOT HEART NOR FALL INTO DESPAIR
FOR YOU MUST GAIN MASTERY IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER 

140  IF A WOUND HAS TOUCHED YOU BE SURE 
THAT A SIMILAR WOUND HAS TOUCHED THE OTHERS 
SUCH DAYS OF VARYING FORTUNES WE GIVE TO OTHERS 
THAT GOD MAY KNOW THE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS
AND THAT HE MAY TAKE FROM AMONG YOU MARTYRS 
AND GOD SURELY LOVES NOT THOSE WHO ARE WRONG DOERS

141  GOD'S OBJECT IS TO PURGE THOSE THAT ARE TRUE IN FAITH 
AND TO DEPRIVE OF BLESSINGS THOSE THAT RESIST FAITH

142  DID YOU THINK THAT YOU 
WOULD ENTER HEAVEN WITHOUT GOD TESTING YOU 
WHO FOUGHT HARD IN HIS CAUSE AND REMAINED TRUE?

143  YOU DID WISH FOR DEATH BEFORE YOU MET IT
NOW WITH YOUR OWN EYES YOU HAVE SEEN IT 

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144  MUHAMMAD IS NO MORE THAN AN APOSTLE 
BEFORE HIM PASSED AWAY MANY APOSTLES 
AND IF HE DIES OR IF HE IS KILLED
WILL YOU TURN BACK ON YOUR HEELS? 
IF ANY OF YOU TURN BACK ON HIS HEELS
HE WILL NOT IN THE LEAST ALTER GOD'S WILL 
AND GOD WILL REWARD THOSE WHOM HE WILLS

145  NOR CAN A SOUL DIE UNLESS GOD PERMITS HIM 
THE TERM BEING FIXED AS IF IT WAS WRITTEN FOR HIM 
IF ANY DESIRES A REWARD IN THIS LIFE WE GIVE IT TO HIM
IF ANY DESIRES A REWARD IN THE HEREAFTER WE GIVE IT TO HIM 
AND TO ANY ONE WHO DOES SERVE US WE DO SWIFTLY REWARD HIM

146  HOW MANY PROPHETS FOUGHT IN THE WAY OF THE CREATOR 
AND WHO WITH THEM FOUGHT LARGE BANDS OF BELIEVERS
AND DID NOT LOSE HEART IF THEY MET WITH DISASTER
NOR DID THEY WEAKEN IN WILL OR GIVE IN EITHER
GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ARE FIRM BELIEVERS

147  ALL THAT THEY SAID WAS, OUR LORD, FORGIVE OUR INIQUITIES
AND ANYTHING THAT WE DID THAT TRANSGRESSED OUR DUTIES
AND ESTABLISH BENEATH US OUR FEET FOR US FIRMLY 
AND OVER THE DISBELIEVERS GRANT US VICTORY

148  AND IN THIS WORLD GOD GAVE THEM A REWARD 
AND IN THE HEREAFTER FOR THEM IS AN EXCELLENT REWARD
FOR SURELY THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS ARE LOVED BY THEIR LORD

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149  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
IF YOU WERE TO OBEY THE DISBELIEVERS
THEY WILL TURN YOU BACK TO DISBELIEVERS 
AND YOU WILL SURELY BE AMONG THE LOSERS

150  GOD IS YOUR PROTECTOR 
AND HE IS THE BEST OF HELPERS

151  SOON WILL WE CAST HORROR 
INTO THE HEARTS OF THE DISBELIEVERS 
FOR THAT THEY JOINED COMPANIONS WITH THE CREATOR
FOR WHICH HE HAD SENT DOWN NO AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER
AND THEIR ABODE WILL SURELY BE THE BLAZING FIRE 
AN EVIL HOME IT IS FOR THE WRONG DOERS

152  YOUR LORD FULFILLED TO YOU HIS FAVOR
WHEN YOU WERE ABOUT TO ANNIHILATE AN OPPOSER
UNTIL YOU FLINCHED AND DISPUTED ABOUT THE ORDER
AND THEN YOU DISOBEYED IT AFTER 
HE SHOWED YOU THE PRIZE YOU WERE AFTER
AND FOR THIS WORLD SOME OF YOU HANKER 
THERE ARE SOME OF WHO DESIRE THE HEREAFTER 
AND THEN HE DIVERTED YOU FROM YOUR OPPOSERS 
IN ORDER TO TEST YOU THEN HE FORGAVE YOU AFTER
SURELY YOUR LORD IS FULL OF GRACE TO THE BELIEVERS

153  REMEMBER YOU WERE CLIMBING UP THE HIGH GROUND 
WITHOUT EVEN CASTING A SIDE GLANCE AROUND

AND THE APOSTLE WAS CALLING YOU BACK FROM YOUR REAR
AND THERE GOD GAVE YOU ONE DISTRESS AFTER ANOTHER

TO TEACH YOU NOT TO GRIEVE FOR THE SPOILS THAT ESCAPED YOU 
AND NOT TO GRIEVE FOR THE ILL THAT HAD BEFALLEN YOU 
FOR GOD IS WELL AWARE OF ALL THAT YOU DO

154  AFTER THE DISTRESS HE MADE SECURE
A BAND OF YOU OVERCOME WITH SLUMBER
WHILE ANOTHER BAND OF YOU WAS STIRRED 
TO ANXIETY BY THEIR OWN DESIRES
MOVED BY WRONG SUSPICIONS OF THEIR MAKER
SUSPICIONS OWING TO IGNORANCE AND THEY DECLARED
HOW IS THIS ANY OF OUR AFFAIR? 
SAY, THIS AFFAIR IS COMPLETELY THE CREATOR'S
AND THEY HIDE IN THEIR MINDS WHAT THEY DO NOT DARE
REVEAL TO YOU, AND TO THEMSELVES THEY DECLARE
IF WE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS AFFAIR 
WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN IN THE SLAUGHTER THERE 
SAY, THOSE FOR WHOM DEATH WAS ORDERED 
TO THEIR PLACE OF DEATH THEY WOULD HAVE GONE THERE 
BUT THIS WAS TO TEST WHAT IS IN YOUR BREASTS BY YOUR MAKER
AND PURGE WHAT IS IN YOUR HEARTS, FOR GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

155  THOSE OF YOU WHO TURNED BACK ON YOUR HEELS
THE DAY THAT THE TWO PARTIES MET IT WAS THE DEVIL 
WHO CAUSED THEM TO FAIL BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL 
BUT YOUR LORD HAS BLOTTED OUT THEIR EVIL
FOR GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL

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156  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
BE NOT LIKE THE DISBELIEVERS 
WHO SAY OF THEIR BROTHERS
WHEN THEY ARE ENGAGED IN WAR 
OR TRAVELING THROUGH THE EARTH
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED
IF THEY HAD ONLY STAYED WITH US TOGETHER
AND THIS THAT GOD MAY MAKE THEM REGRETTERS 
IT IS GOD THAT CAUSES DEATH AND IS THE LIFE GIVER 
AND OF ALL THINGS THAT YOU DO YOUR LORD IS THE SEER

157  AND IF YOU ARE KILLED OR DIE IN THE WAY OF YOUR MAKER 
SURELY FORGIVENESS AND MERCY FROM THE CREATOR
ARE FAR BETTER THAN ALL THEY COULD ACQUIRE

158  AND WHETHER YOU DIE OR ARE SLAIN 
YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO GOD AGAIN

159  IT IS PART OF GOD'S FAVOR 
THAT YOU DEAL WITH THEM WITH CARE 
AND WERE YOU HARSH HEARTED OR SEVERE
THEN THEY WOULD HAVE DEPARTED FOR SURE
THEREFORE PASS OVER WHAT THEY DO IN ERROR
AND ASK FORGIVENESS FOR THEM FROM THE CREATOR
AND CONSULT THEM ON IMPORTANT AFFAIRS
AND WHEN YOU DO DECIDE ON A MATTER
PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE CREATOR 
FOR THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM ARE LOVED BY THEIR MAKER

160  IF GOD HELPS YOU, NONE CAN OVERCOME YOU 
IF HE FORSAKES YOU, WHO AFTER THAT CAN HELP YOU?  
THEN TRUST IN GOD ALONE IF THERE IS ANY FAITH IN YOU

161  NO PROPHET COULD EVER BE FALSE TO HIS TRUST 
IF ANY PERSON IS FALSE THEN HE MUST
ON JUDGMENT DAY RESTORE WHAT WAS UNJUST
THEN WILL EVERY SOUL RECEIVE WHATEVER IS JUST
AND NONE WILL BE DEALT WITH IN ANY MANNER UNJUST

162  IS THE MAN WHO FOLLOWS THE GOOD PLEASURE OF THE CREATOR  
LIKE THE MAN WHO DRAWS ON HIMSELF THE WRATH OF HIS MAKER
AND WHOSE ABODE IS IN HELL TO DWELL IN IT FOREVER?

163  THEY ARE IN VARYING GRADES BEFORE GOD 
AND ALL THAT THEY DO IS SEEN BY GOD

164  GOD CONFERRED A GREAT FAVOR ON THE BELIEVERS 
WHEN HE SENT AMONG THEM A MESSENGER 
RECITING TO THEM THE MESSAGES OF THEIR MAKER
AND INSTRUCTING THEM IN WISDOM AND IN SCRIPTURE
WHILE BEFORE THAT THEY HAD BEEN IN MANIFEST ERROR

165  WHEN A SINGLE DISASTER SMITES YOU 
THOUGH YOUR ENEMIES WERE SMITTEN BY YOU 
WITH ONE TWICE AS GREAT AS WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU  
WHERE DOES THIS COME FROM?  IS SAID BY YOU
SAY TO THEM, THIS MISFORTUNE IS FROM YOU 
FOR GOD HAS ALL POWER OVER YOU

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166  ON THE DAY WHEN THE TWO ARMIES MET WHAT YOU SUFFERED
WAS WITH THE PERMISSION OF YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER 
IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT TEST THE BELIEVERS

167  AND THE HYPOCRITES, THESE WERE TOLD ALSO
FIGHT IN GOD'S WAY OR AT LEAST DRIVE THE FOE 
FROM YOUR CITY, THEY SAID, IF WE DID KNOW

HOW TO FIGHT WE WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED YOU INDEED 
THEY WERE NEARER TO UNBELIEF THAT DAY THAN TO BELIEF 

SAYING WITH THEIR LIPS WHAT WAS NOT IN THEIR HEARTS
BUT GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY CONCEAL IN THEIR HEARTS

168  THEY ARE THE ONES THAT SAY OF THEIR SLAIN BROTHERS 
WHILE THEY THEMSELVES SIT AT EASE AT HOME WITH EACH OTHER
HAD THEY LISTENED TO US THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED
SAY, THEN AVERT DEATH FROM YOURSELVES IF IT IS TRUE WHAT YOU UTTER

169  THINK NOT AS DEAD THOSE SLAIN IN THE WAY OF GOD
THEY LIVE FINDING THEIR SUSTENANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD 

170  THEY REJOICE IN THE BOUNTY GOD PROVIDES THEM
WITH REGARD TO THOSE LEFT BEHIND THEM
WHO HAVE NOT YET IN THEIR BLISS JOINED THEM 
AND THE MARTYRS GLORY IN THE FACT THAT ON THEM
THERE IS NO FEAR NOR IS THERE IS ANY GRIEF FOR THEM

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171  THEY FIND GLORY IN GOD'S GRACE AND FAVOR
AND IN THE FACT THAT GOD DOES NOT SUFFER 
TO BE LOST THE REWARD OF THE BELIEVERS

172  OF THOSE WHO ANSWERED 
THE CALL OF GOD AND THE MESSENGER
EVEN AFTER BEING WOUNDED AND WHO ARE RIGHT DOERS
AND REFRAIN FROM WRONG HAVE FROM GOD A GREAT FAVOR

173  MEN SAID TO THEM, A GREAT ARMY 
IS GATHERING AGAINST YOU TO CAUSE ANXIETY
BUT IT ONLY INCREASED THEIR FAITH, SO THEY DECREED 
FOR US OUR LORD SUFFICES AND THE BEST PROTECTOR IS HE

174  AND THEY RETURNED WITH GOOD GRACE AND BOUNTY FROM GOD 
NO HARM TOUCHED THEM FOR THEY FOLLOWED THE PATH OF GOD
AND THE LORD OF BOUNTIES UNBOUNDED IS GOD

175  THE DEVIL SUGGESTS TO YOU FEAR OF HIS FOLLOWERS 
BE NOT AFRAID OF THEM IT IS GOD YOU SHOULD FEAR

176  THOSE WHO RUSH HEADLONG INTO UNBELIEF 
LET THEM NOT CAUSE YOU ANY GRIEF 
THEY WILL NOT HARM YOU OR GOD IN THE LEAST
GOD WILL IN THE HEREAFTER GIVE THEM A SEVERE PENALTY

177  THOSE WHO PURCHASE UNBELIEF AT THE PRICE OF BELIEF
THEY WILL SURELY NOT HARM GOD IN THE LEAST
BUT THEY WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

178  LET NOT DISBELIEVERS THINK OUR GRANTING THEM RELIEF  
IS GOOD FOR THEM, WE WILL GRANT THEM RELIEF
THAT THEY MAY GROW IN THEIR INIQUITY 
BUT THEY WILL HAVE A SHAMEFUL PENALTY

179  AND YOUR LORD WILL SURELY NOT LEAVE THE BELIEVERS 
IN THE STATE IN WHICH YOU ARE IN UNTIL HE SEVERS 
ALL OF THE EVIL FROM THAT WHICH IS PURER
NOR WILL HE DISCLOSE TO YOU THE SECRETS OF THE HEREAFTER
BUT HE CHOOSES WHOM HE PLEASES AS MESSENGERS 
SO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IF YOU DO RIGHT AND ARE A BELIEVER 
YOU HAVE A REWARD FROM GOD WITHOUT MEASURE

180  AND LET NOT THOSE WHO COVETOUSLY 
WITHHOLD OF THE GIFTS GOD HAS GIVEN THEM GRACIOUSLY 

THINK THAT IT IS GOOD FOR THEM 
NO IT WILL BE THE WORSE FOR THEM 

THE THINGS OF WHICH THEY WERE THE WITHHOLDERS
WILL BE TIED TO THEIR NECKS LIKE A TWISTED COLLAR 
TO GOD BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH 
AND GOD IS EXALTED IN POWER AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

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181  GOD HAS HEARD THOSE WHO UTTERED 
WE ARE RICH AND GOD IS POOR 
BUT WE WILL RECORD WHAT THEY UTTER 
AND THEIR ACT OF SLAYING THE MESSENGERS
AND WE WILL SAY, TASTE ALL YOU DISBELIEVERS
THE PENALTY OF THE SCORCHING FIRE

182  THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE DEEDS YOUR HANDS HAVE SENT 
FOR YOUR LORD NEVER HARMS HIS SERVANTS

183  THEY SAID, GOD TOLD US NOT TO BELIEVE ANY MESSENGER
UNLESS HE SHOWED US A SACRIFICE CONSUMED BY FIRE  
SAY, THERE CAME TO YOU BEFORE ME MESSENGERS 
WITH CLEAR SIGNS AND EVEN WITH WHAT YOU DESIRED
WHY THEN DID YOU KILL THEM IF WHAT YOU SAY IS PROPER

184  THEN IF THEY REJECT YOU THEY REJECTED MESSENGERS  
WHO CAME TO THEM BEFORE YOU WITH SIGNS THAT WERE CLEAR
AND BOOKS OF DARK PROPHECIES AND ENLIGHTENING SCRIPTURES

185  WITHOUT DOUBT EVERY SOUL WILL TASTE DEATH FOR SURE 
ON JUDGMENT DAY YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR REWARD  
AND ONLY HE WHO IS SAVED FAR FROM THE FIRE 
WILL BE IN PARADISE IN THE HEREAFTER

AND WILL BE OF THOSE THAT ATTAIN THE OBJECT OF LIVING
FOR THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD CONSISTS OF NOTHING
BUT GOODS AND VANITIES OF DECEIVING THINGS

186  YOU WILL BE TESTED IN YOUR PERSONS AND PROPERTIES
YOU WILL HEAR MUCH THAT WILL MAKE YOU GRIEVE  
FROM THOSE AMONG THEM WHO DID RECEIVE 
THE MESSAGE BEFORE YOU PREVIOUSLY
AND FROM THOSE WHO WORSHIP MANY DEITIES
BUT IF YOU PERSEVERE PATIENTLY 
AND GUARD AGAINST INIQUITY
THAT WILL BE A DETERMINING DECREE

187  YOUR LORD TOOK A COVENANT FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES  
IN ORDER TO MAKE IT KNOWN TO MANKIND AND TO MAKE IT CLEAR 
THEY THREW IT BEHIND THEIR BACKS AND HID THE SCRIPTURES 
AND THEY PURCHASED WITH IT A GAIN THAT WAS MEAGER
AND TERRIBLE WAS THE BARGAIN THEY BARTERED

188  THINK NOT THAT THEY WHO EXULT IN WHAT THEY HAVE DONE 
AND LOVE TO BE PRAISED FOR WHAT THEY HAVE NOT DONE 
THINK NOT THAT THEY CAN ESCAPE THE DESTRUCTION 
FOR THEM IS A GRIEVOUS PENALIZATION 

189  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND ALL OF THE HEAVENS
AND GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

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190  SURELY IN THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND OF THE NIGHT AND THE DAY IN THEIR ALTERNATION
ARE SIGNS FOR MEN WITH COMPREHENSION

191  MEN WHO CELEBRATE GOD'S PRAISES IN ADORATION 
IN STANDING AND IN SITTING AND IN LYING POSITIONS
AND DOWN ON THEIR SIDES AND GIVE CONTEMPLATION
TO THE WONDERS OF THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND SAY, OUR LORD, YOU DID NOT CREATE THIS WITHOUT INTENTION
AND GLORY TO YOU, OUR LORD, AND SAVE US FROM DESTRUCTION

192  OUR LORD, ANY WHOM YOU ADMIT TO THE FIRE 
YOU COVER WITH THEM SHAME AND WITH DISHONOR
AND NEVER WILL THE WRONG-DOERS FIND ANY HELPERS

193  OUR LORD, WE HAVE HEARD ONE CALLING US TO BE  BELIEVERS 
AND WE HAVE BELIEVED OUR LORD AND WE ARE SUBMITTERS
FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND BLOT OUT FROM US OUR ERRORS
AND UNITE US AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 

194  OUR LORD, GRANT US 
WHAT YOU DID PROMISE TO US 
THROUGH YOUR APOSTLE AND SAVE US 

FROM SHAME ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
FOR YOU NEVER BREAK YOUR COVENANT

195  AND THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER HAS ACCEPTED THEIR PRAYER 
AND SAID, I WILL NOT SUFFER TO BE LOST THE WORK OF A WORKER 
BE HE MALE OR FEMALE FOR YOU ARE MEMBERS OF ONE ANOTHER
THOSE WHO LEFT THEIR HOMES OR WERE DRIVEN OUT OR SUFFERED 
HARM IN MY CAUSE, I WILL BLOT OUT FROM THEM THEIR ERRORS 
AND ADMIT THEM INTO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
THIS IS A REWARD FROM YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
AND FROM YOUR LORD IS THE BEST REWARD 

196  LET NOT THE STRUTTING ABOUT THROUGH
THE LAND BY THE DISBELIEVERS DECEIVE YOU

197  A BRIEF ENJOYMENT, THEN THEIR ABODE IS HELL
AND IT IS AN EVIL RESTING PLACE TO DWELL

198  THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR MAKER 
FOR THEM ARE GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS
AN ETERNAL GIFT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE CREATOR
THAT WHICH IS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CREATOR 
IS BEST FOR THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS 

199  THERE ARE THOSE AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND WHO BELIEVE IN THE SCRIPTURES
GIVEN TO YOU AND BELIEVE IN THE SCRIPTURES
GIVEN TO THEM BOWING IN HUMILITY TO THE CREATOR 
AND THEY WILL NOT SELL THE SIGNS OF THEIR MAKER
FOR A MISERABLE GAIN AND FOR THEM IS A REWARD 
WITH THEIR LORD AND SWIFT IN ACCOUNT IS YOUR LORD

200  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, PATIENTLY PERSEVERE 
AND WITH CONSTANCY IN THAT IN WHICH YOU PERSEVERE 
STRENGTHEN EACH OTHER AND FEAR GOD THAT YOU MAY PROSPER

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