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IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH PROPHET, TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY 
LISTEN NOT TO THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
OR TO THE HYPOCRITES FOR SURELY
GOD IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

2  BUT FOLLOW THAT WHICH COMES FROM GOD TO YOU 
FOR HE IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THAT YOU DO

3  AND PUT YOUR TRUST IN GOD 
AND ENOUGH AS A DISPOSER OF AFFAIRS IS GOD

4  GOD HAS NOT MADE FOR ANY MAN TWO HEARTS IN HIS ONE BODY 
NOR HAS HE MADE YOUR WIVES WHOM YOU DECLARE TO BE 
LIKE YOUR MOTHERS YOUR MOTHERS, NOR HAS HE 
MADE YOUR ADOPTED SONS YOUR SONS, THIS IS ONLY 
YOUR MANNER OF SPEECH BUT GOD TELLS YOU TRUTHFULLY
AND HE SHOWS THE RIGHT WAY TO YOU CLEARLY

5  CALL THEM BY THE NAMES OF THEIR FATHERS 
IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR LORD THAT IS JUSTER 
BUT IF YOU KNOW NOT THE NAMES OF THEIR FATHERS 
CALL THEM YOUR FRIENDS OR IN FAITH YOUR BROTHERS 

BUT IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU 
WHAT COUNTS WITH GOD IS THE INTENTION OF YOU 
AND GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL TO YOU

6  THE PROPHET IS CLOSER TO THE BELIEVERS 
THAN THEIR OWN SELVES AND HIS WIVES ARE THEIR MOTHERS 
BUT BLOOD RELATIONS AMONG EACH OTHER HAVE CLOSER 
PERSONAL TIES IN GOD'S SIGHT THAN THE BELIEVERS 
AND OF THOSE WHO FLED THEIR HOMES HOWEVER
DO WHAT IS JUST TO YOUR CLOSEST PARTNERS
FOR THIS IS WRITTEN IN GOD'S ORDERS 

7  AND REMEMBER WE TOOK FROM THE PROPHETS THEIR PROMISE  
AS WE DID FROM YOU AND NOAH AND ABRAHAM AND MOSES
AND JESUS, SON OF MARY, WE TOOK FROM THEM A PROMISE

8  THAT GOD MAY QUESTION THE CUSTODIANS TRUTHFULLY 
CONCERNING THE TRUTH THEY WERE CHARGED WITH FAITHFULLY
AND HE HAS PREPARED FOR THE DISBELIEVERS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

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9  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, REMEMBER GOD'S GRACE TO YOU 
WHEN THERE CAME DOWN ON YOU HOSTS TO OVERWHELM YOU 
WE SENT AGAINST THEM A HURRICANE AND FORCES NOT SEEN BY YOU
BUT GOD SEES CLEARLY ALL THAT YOU DO

10  THEY CAME ON YOU FROM ABOVE AND BELOW YOU 
AND YOUR EYES BECAME DIM WITHIN YOU
AND YOUR HEARTS GAPED UP TO THE THROATS OF YOU 
AND DIVERSE THOUGHTS OF GOD WERE THOUGHT BY YOU

11  IN THAT SITUATION WAS THE BELIEVER'S TESTING 
BEING SHAKEN BY A TREMENDOUS SHAKING

12  THE HYPOCRITES AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
EVEN SAID, GOD AND HIS APOSTLE PROMISED US ONLY TO DECEIVE

13  AMONG THEM SAID A PARTY 
OH PEOPLE OF YATHRIB, SURELY

YOU CANNOT STAND THE ATTACK 
THEREFORE GO BACK 

AND A BAND OF THEM ASK FOR LEAVE OF THE MESSENGER 
SAYING, OUR HOUSES ARE EXPOSED AND BARE

THOUGH THEY WERE NOT EXPOSED AS THEY DID SAY
BUT THEY INTENDED NOTHING BUT TO RUN AWAY

14  AND TOO IF AN ENTRY WERE MADE FROM THE OUTLYING PARTS OF IT
AND THEY WERE ASKED TO WAGE WAR THEY WOULD HAVE DONE IT
AND THEY WOULD NOT HAVE STAYED BUT A LITTLE WHILE IN IT

15  AND YET THEY HAD ALREADY COVENANTED WITH GOD 
NOT TO TURN BACK AND A COVENANT WITH GOD 
MUST SURELY BE ANSWERED FOR TO GOD

16  SAY, RUNNING AWAY WILL NOT PROFIT YOU
IF RUNNING AWAY FROM DEATH OR SLAUGHTER ARE YOU
IF YOU ESCAPE ONLY A BRIEF DELAY WILL BE ALLOWED YOU

17  SAY, WHO IS IT THAT CAN SCREEN YOU FROM THE CREATOR
IF IT BE HIS WISH TO BESTOW UPON YOU HIS FAVOR? 
FOR BESIDES GOD THEY WILL FIND NO PROTECTOR
NOR WILL THEY FIND ANY ONE AS A HELPER

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18  SURELY GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO OTHER MEN HINDER 
AND THOSE WHO SAY, COME WITH US, TO THEIR BROTHERS
 
BUT COME NOT TO THE BATTLE
EXCEPT FOR JUST A LITTLE 

19  BEING COVETOUS OVER YOU BUT THEN WHEN COMES FEAR
THEY LOOK AT YOU WITH THEIR EYES FILLED WITH TEARS
LIKE THOSE OF ONE WHO DEATH HOVERS OVER  
AND WITH SHARP TONGUES WILL SMITE YOU WHEN THE FEAR IS OVER
COVETOUS OF GOODS AND THEY ARE NOT BELIEVERS
GOD HAS MADE FRUITLESS THEIR ENDEAVORS
AND FOR GOD THAT IS AN EASY MATTER

20  THEY THINK THAT THE CONFEDERATES HAVE NOT GIVEN IN
AND IF THE CONFEDERATES SHOULD COME AGAIN
THEY WOULD WISH THAT THEY WERE IN 
THE DESERTS WANDERING AMONG THE BEDOUINS 

AND SEEKING NEWS ABOUT YOU 
FROM A SAFE DISTANCE AND IF THEY WERE WITH YOU
THEY WOULD ONLY FIGHT BUT A LITTLE WITH YOU

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21  YOU HAVE INDEED IN THE APOSTLE OF GOD 
A GOOD PATTERN OF CONDUCT FOR BELIEVERS IN GOD 
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE LAST DAY AND PRAISE GOD

22  WHEN THE CONFEDERATE FORCES WERE SEEN BY THE BELIEVERS 
THEY SAID, THIS IS WHAT WAS PROMISED BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IT WAS TRUE WHAT WAS TOLD TO US BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IT ONLY MADE THEM STRONGER BELIEVERS

23  OF THE BELIEVERS ARE MEN WHO HAVE BEEN TRUE TO THEIR PROMISE 
AND SOME OF THEM WHO HAVE COMPLETED THEIR PROMISE

AND SOME STILL WAIT BUT THEY HAVE NEVER
CHANGED THEIR DETERMINATION EVER

24  GOD WILL REWARD THE TRUTHFUL FOR ACTING TRUTHFULLY 
AND PUNISH THE HYPOCRITES OR TURN TO THEM IN MERCY 
FOR MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL IS HE

25  AND FOR ALL OF THEIR FURY GOD TURNED BACK THE DISBELIEVERS 
NO ADVANTAGE DID THEY GAIN AND GOD SUFFICED THE BELIEVERS
IN THEIR FIGHT, FOR GOD IS STRONG AND FULL OF POWER

26  THOSE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK WHO WERE THEIR HELPERS 
GOD TOOK THEM DOWN AND INTO THEIR HEARTS CAST HORROR
SO SOME YOU KILLED AND SOME YOU MADE PRISONERS

27  HE MADE YOU HEIRS OF THEIR LANDS AND THEIR DWELLINGS 
AND OF A LAND OF WHICH YOU HAD NOT BEEN TRAVELING
AND GOD IS POSSESSOR OF POWER OVER ALL THINGS

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28  OH PROPHET, SAY TO YOUR MARITAL PARTNERS
IF YOU DESIRE THIS WORLD'S LIFE AND ITS GLITTER 
THEN COME AND FOR IT I WILL BE YOUR PROVIDER
AND SET YOU FREE IN A HANDSOME MANNER

29  BUT IF YOU SEEK GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND THE HOME OF THE HEREAFTER 
GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 
A GREAT REWARD THAT ENDURES FOREVER

30  OH WIVES OF THE PROPHET, IF ANY OF YOU ARE GUILTY 
OF EVIDENT CONDUCT UNSEEMLY 

THE PUNISHMENT WOULD BE DOUBLED TO HER
AND THAT FOR GOD IS AND EASY MATTER

PART XXII

31  ANY OF YOU THAT IS SINCERE TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
AND DOES GOOD, WE WILL GRANT TWICE THE REWARD TO HER  
AND WE HAVE PREPARED A GENEROUS SUSTENANCE FOR HER

32  OH WIVES OF THE PROPHET, YOU ARE NOT LIKE OTHER WOMEN 
IF YOU DO FEAR GOD IN YOUR SPEECH BE NOT COMPLACENT 

OR ELSE ONE IN WHOSE HEART IS A DISORDER 
COULD THEN POSSIBLY BE MOVED WITH DESIRE 
BUT SPEAK IN SPEECH THAT IS JUST IN MANNER

33  AND QUIETLY IN YOUR HOUSES STAY
AND MAKE NOT OF YOUR BEAUTY A DAZZLING DISPLAY 

LIKE THAT OF THOSE OF TIMES OF IGNORANCE FORMER 
AND ESTABLISH REGULAR CHARITY AND PRAYER  
AND OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 

GOD WISHES TO REMOVE FROM YOU ALL UNCLEANNESS
AND TO MAKE YOU PURE AND SPOTLESS

34  AND RECITE THE MESSAGES 
OF GOD IN YOUR HOUSES

FOR GOD UNDERSTANDS THE FINEST MYSTERIES 
AND WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IS HE

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35  FOR SUBMITTING MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR DEVOUT MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR TRUE MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR PATIENT MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR HUMBLE MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR CHARITABLE MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR FASTING MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR CHASTE MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR MEN AND WOMEN 

WHO ENGAGE MUCH IN THE PRAISE OF THEIR LORD
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GREAT REWARD 

36  IT IS NOT FITTING FOR A BELIEVER 
MAN OR WOMAN THAT WHEN A MATTER 
HAS BEEN DECIDED BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
TO HAVE ANY OPTION ABOUT THE MATTER
IF ANY ONE DISOBEYS GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
HE IS INDEED A WRONG DOER

37  YOU SAID TO ONE WHO HAD BEEN THE RECEIVER
OF THE GRACE OF GOD AND YOUR FAVOR
RETAIN YOUR WIFE AND FEAR YOUR MAKER
BUT YOU HID IN YOUR HEART THAT WHICH THE CREATOR 
WAS ABOUT TO MAKE MANIFEST AND THE PEOPLE YOU FEARED 
BUT GOD IS MORE FITTING THAT HIM YOU SHOULD FEAR 
BUT WHEN ZAID HAD DISSOLVED HIS MARRIAGE WITH HER 
WITH THE NECESSARY FORMALITY, WE THEN JOINED HER 
IN MARRIAGE TO YOU SO THAT THERE MAY BE TO THE BELIEVERS 
NO DIFFICULTY IN THE MATTER 
OF MARRIAGE WITH WIVES OF THEIR ADOPTED SONS WHEN THE LATTER 
HAD DISSOLVED THEIR MARRIAGE PRIOR
AND GOD'S COMMAND MUST BE FULFILLED FOR SURE

38  TO THE PROPHET THERE CAN BE NO DIFFICULTY
IN WHAT GOD HAS INDICATED TO HIM AS A DUTY
IT IS THE PRACTICE THAT GOD APPROVED FORMERLY
AND GOD'S COMMAND IS A DETERMINED DECREE 

39  IT IS THE PRACTICE OF THE PREACHERS 
OF THE MESSAGES OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 

AND FEAR HIM AND FEAR NONE BUT GOD 
AND ENOUGH TO CALL MEN TO ACCOUNT IS GOD

40  MUHAMMAD IS NOT THE FATHER 
OF ANY OF YOUR MEN BUT HE IS GOD'S MESSENGER 
AND THE SEAL OF THE PROPHETS AND GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

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41  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
CELEBRATE GOD'S PRAISES AND DO THIS FREQUENTLY

42  AND GLORIFY HIM IN THE MORNING
AND GLORIFY HIM IN THE EVENING

43  IT IS YOU WHOM HE AND HIS ANGELS BLESS 
TO BRING YOU INTO LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS 
AND HE IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

44  THEIR SALUTATION ON THE DAY THEY MEET HIM WILL BE PEACE 
AND HE HAS PREPARED FOR THEM A REWARD GENEROUSLY

45  OH MESSENGER, WE HAVE SENT YOU AS A WITNESS BEARER
AND A BEARER OF GLAD TIDINGS AND AS A WARNER

46  AND ONE WHO INVITES TO GOD'S GRACE BY HIS MIGHT
AND AS A LAMP SPREADING LIGHT

47  THEN GIVE THE GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
THAT THEY WILL HAVE FROM GOD A GREAT BOUNTY

48  OBEY NOT THE HYPOCRITES AND THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
BUT TRUST IN GOD AND THEIR ANNOYANCE DO NOT HEED 
FOR ENOUGH IS GOD AS A DISPOSER OF DEEDS

49  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHEN YOU MARRY BELIEVING WOMEN
AND THEN DIVORCE THEM BEFORE YOU HAVE TOUCHED THEM
THEN YOU HAVE NO TERM TO RECKON IN RESPECT TO THEM 
SO GIVE A HANDSOME PRESENT TO THEM 
AND SET THEM FREE IN A GOOD MANNER FOR THEM

50  OH MESSENGER
WE HAVE MADE LAWFUL YOUR MARITAL PARTNERS 
TO WHOM YOU HAVE PAID THEIR DOWERS
AND YOUR CAPTIVES OUT OF THE WAR PRISONERS  
WHOM GOD HAS ASSIGNED INTO YOUR CARE 
AND YOUR PATERNAL UNCLE'S AND AUNT'S DAUGHTERS
AND YOUR MATERNAL UNCLE'S AND AUNT'S DAUGHTERS
WHO CAME FROM MECCA WITH YOU AS MIGRATERS
AND ANY WOMEN WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WHO DEDICATE THEMSELVES TO YOU AND YOU WISH TO WED HER 
THIS IS ONLY FOR YOU AND NOT FOR ALL THE BELIEVERS 
WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE APPOINTED CONCERNING THEIR PARTNERS 
AND THE CAPTIVES OF WHOM THEIR RIGHT HANDS ARE POSSESSORS
SO THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO DIFFICULTY FOR YOU WHATSOEVER
AND GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

51  YOU MAY DEFER THE TURN OF ANY OF THEM AS PLEASES YOU
AND YOU MAY RECEIVE ANY AS IT PLEASES YOU
AND THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU 
IF YOU INVITE ONE WHOSE TURN HAS BEEN SET ASIDE BY YOU
AND THIS WAS NEARER TO THEIR COMFORT FROM YOU 
FOR PREVENTION OF THEIR GRIEF AND FOR THEIR GRATITUDE
THAT ALL OF THEM MAY BE PLEASED BY WHAT IS GIVEN BY YOU 
AND GOD KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS OF YOU
FOR GOD IS ALL KNOWING AND MOST FORBEARING TO YOU

52  IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO MARRY MORE WOMEN 
AFTER THIS NOR TO CHANGE THEM FOR OTHER WIVES EVEN 
THOUGH THEIR BEAUTY ATTRACT YOU EXCEPT ANY WHO THEN
YOUR RIGHT HAND SHOULD POSSESS AS HANDMAIDENS 
AND GOD WATCHES OVER ALL CREATION

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53  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
ENTER NOT THE HOUSES OF THE MESSENGER 
UNTIL LEAVE FOR A MEAL IS GIVEN YOU AND NEVER
SO EARLY AS TO WAIT FOR IT TO BE PREPARED
BUT WHEN YOU ARE INVITED TO ENTER 
AND WHEN YOU HAVE TAKEN YOUR MEAL DISPERSE 
WITHOUT SEEKING TALK BEING FAMILIAR 
FOR SUCH BEHAVIOR IS ANNOYING TO THE MESSENGER

AND HE IS ASHAMED TO DISMISS YOU 
BUT GOD IS NOT ASHAMED TO TELL THE TRUTH TO YOU 

AND WHEN YOU ASK HIS LADIES FOR ANYTHING 
ASK THEM FROM BEHIND A SCREEN 

FOR YOU AND FOR THEM THAT IS BETTER
NOR IS IT RIGHT THAT YOU SHOULD ANNOY GOD'S MESSENGER

OR THAT HIS WIDOWS AFTER HIM THAT YOU SHOULD MARRY
FOR SUCH A THING IN GOD'S SIGHT IS AN ENORMITY

54  WHETHER YOU REVEAL OR CONCEAL ANYTHING 
GOD HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS

55  AND THERE IS NO BLAME ON THESE LADIES IF THEY APPEAR  
BEFORE THEIR FATHERS OR THEIR SONS OR THEIR BROTHERS
OR THEIR BROTHER'S SONS OR THE SONS OF THEIR SISTERS

OR THE WOMEN OR THE SLAVES WHOM THEIR RIGHT HANDS POSSESS 
AND FEAR GOD FOR TO ALL THINGS GOD IS THE WITNESS

56  GOD AND HIS ANGELS SEND THEIR BLESSINGS ON THE APOSTLE 
OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, SEND YOUR BLESSINGS ON THE APOSTLE 
AND SALUTE HIM IN A MANNER THAT IS RESPECTFUL

57  THOSE WHO ANNOY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
GOD HAS CURSED THEM IN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER 
AND FOR THEM  HE HAS PREPARED A PUNISHMENT OF HORROR

58  THOSE WHO ANNOY BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
BEAR A DEFAMATION AND A GLARING SIN

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59  OH MESSENGER
TELL YOUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS 
AND THE WOMEN BELIEVERS
THAT THEIR PERSONS THEY SHOULD COVER
THAT IS BEST THAT THEY SHOULD SO BE PATTERNED
AND NOT MOLESTED, AND GOD IS THE MERCIFUL FORGIVER

60  IF THE HYPOCRITES AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
AND THOSE WHO STIR UP SEDITION IN THE CITY 
AND DESIST NOT, WE WILL CERTAINLY 
STIR YOU UP AGAINST THEM, THEN WILL THEY NOT BE 
ABLE TO STAY IN IT AS YOUR NEIGHBORS BUT SHORTLY

61  THEY WILL HAVE A CURSE ON THEM WHEREVER THEY MAY BE
AND THEY WILL BE SEIZED AND KILLED WITHOUT MERCY

62  AMONG THOSE FORMALLY THIS WAS THE PRACTICE OF GOD 
AND NO CHANGE WILL YOU FIND IN THE PRACTICE OF GOD

63  MEN ASK YOU CONCERNING THE HOUR 
SAY, WITH GOD ALONE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR
AND WHAT WILL TO YOU MAKE IT CLEAR
THAT THE HOUR MAY BE QUITE NEAR? 

64  SURELY GOD HAS CURSED THE DISBELIEVERS 
AND PREPARED FOR THEM A BLAZING FIRE

65  THEY WILL DWELL THEREIN FOREVER 
NO PROTECTOR WILL THEY FIND NOR HELPER

66  THEY WILL SAY THE DAY THAT THEIR LEADERS 
WILL BE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN IN THE FIRE 
IF WE ONLY HAD OBEYED GOD AND THE MESSENGER 

67  AND THEY WOULD SAY, OUR LORD WE OBEYED 
OUR CHIEFS AND OUR GREAT ONES AND FOLLOWED THEIR WAYS
AND THEY MISLED US AS TO THE RIGHT WAY

68  OUR LORD GIVE THEM A DOUBLE PENALTY
AND CURSE THEM WITH A CURSE GREATLY

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                             SECTION 9.  PART  XXII

69  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO ANNOYED MOSES 
BUT GOD CLEARED HIM COMPLETELY OF THEIR CHARGES
AND HE IN GOD'S SIGHT WAS HELD WITH JUSTICE

70  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, FEAR GOD AND ALWAYS SAY 
A WORD DIRECTED TO THE RIGHT WAY

71  THAT HE MAY MAKE YOUR CONDUCT SOUND FOR YOU 
AND THAT HE MAY FORGIVE YOUR SINS FOR YOU 

HE THAT OBEYS GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
HAS ATTAINED THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT POSSIBLE

72  WE OFFERED THE TRUST TO THE HEAVENS
AND TO THE EARTH AND TO THE MOUNTAINS

BUT THEY REFUSED TO UNDERTAKE IT
BEING AFRAID OF IT BUT MAN UNDERTOOK IT 
AND HE WAS UNJUST AND WAS FOOLISH ABOUT IT

73  SO THAT GOD HAS TO PUNISH THE MEN AND WOMEN 
AMONG THE HYPOCRITES AND UNBELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
AND GOD TURNS IN MERCY TO THE BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN

FOR GOD IS SURELY
FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

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