CHAPTER 49.  THE APARTMENTS                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
BE NOT FORWARD BEFORE GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
BUT FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS THE HEARER AND THE BEST  KNOWER

2  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
RAISE NOT YOUR VOICE ABOVE THE MESSENGER'S  
NOR SPEAK ALOUD TO HIM AS YOU DO TO EACH OTHER
LEST YOUR DEEDS BECOME VAIN WHILE YOU ARE UNAWARE 

3  THOSE WHO IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S MESSENGER
LOWER THEIR VOICES AND THEIR HEARTS GOD HAS MEASURED  
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GREAT REWARD OF GREAT FAVOR

4  THOSE WHO SHOUT OUT TO YOU FROM BEHIND DWELLINGS 
MOST OF THEM LACK UNDERSTANDING

5  IF THEY HAD PATIENCE UNTIL YOU CAME TO THEM 
IT WOULD SURELY BE BEST FOR THEM 
BUT GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL TO THEM

6  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, IF A WICKED PERSON COMES TO YOU
WITH ANY NEWS, ASCERTAIN THE TRUTH OR ELSE YOU 

MAY HARM PEOPLE UNWITTINGLY AND AFTERWARDS BECOME 
FULL OF REPENTANCE FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE

7  KNOW THAT AMONG YOU IS GOD'S MESSENGER
AND WERE HE TO FOLLOW YOUR WISHES IN MATTERS
YOU WOULD FALL INTO MISFORTUNE BUT GOD HAS ENDEARED
THE FAITH TO YOU AND IN YOUR HEARTS HAS MADE IT SUPERB 

AND HAS MADE HATEFUL UNBELIEF, REBELLION AND WICKEDNESS  
SUCH INDEED ARE THOSE WHO WALK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS

8  THIS IS A GRACE AND A FAVOR FROM GOD 
AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS GOD

9  MAKE PEACE BETWEEN TWO QUARRELING BELIEVERS
IF ONE OF THEM TRANSGRESSES AGAINST THE OTHER 
FIGHT ALL OF YOU AGAINST THE TRANSGRESSOR
UNTIL WITH THE COMMAND OF GOD THEY ADHERE 
MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM WITH JUSTICE AND BE FAIR 
FOR YOUR LORD DOES LOVE THOSE WHO ARE JUST AND FAIR 

10  THE BELIEVERS ARE NOTHING LESS THAN BROTHERS
SO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN YOUR TWO CONTENDING BROTHERS 
AND FEAR GOD THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE MERCY FROM YOUR MAKER

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CHAPTER 49.  THE APARTMENTS                                               SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

11  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
LET NOT SOME MEN AMONG YOU LAUGH AT OTHERS 
IT MAY BE THAT THE LATTER ARE BETTER THAN THE FORMER 
NOR LET SOME WOMEN LAUGH AT OTHERS 
IT MAY BE THAT THE LATTER ARE BETTER THAN THE FORMER 
NOR DEFAME NOR BE SARCASTIC TO EACH OTHER 
NOR BY OFFENSIVE NICKNAMES ADDRESS EACH OTHER
FOR ILL SEEMING IS A NAME CONNOTING ERROR 
TO BE USED ON ONE AFTER HE IS A BELIEVER
AND THOSE WHO DO NOT DESIST ARE WRONG DOERS

12  AVOID SUSPICION, OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FOR SUSPICION IS A SIN AND SPY NOT ON EACH OTHER 
NOR SPEAK ILL BEHIND THE BACKS OF EACH OTHER
WOULD ANY OF YOU LIKE TO EAT THE FLESH OF HIS DEAD BROTHER?   
NO, IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD ABHOR 
BUT FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

13  MANKIND WE CREATED FROM A SINGLE PAIR 
OF A MALE AND A FEMALE AND MADE YOU FROM THERE
INTO NATIONS AND TRIBES THAT YOU MAY KNOW EACH OTHER
BUT NOT SO THAT YOU MAY DESPISE EACH OTHER
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD HE OF YOU IS THE MOST HONORED  
IS HE WHO IS THE MOST RIGHTEOUS DOER 
AND OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

14  THE DESERT ARABS SAY, WE BELIEVE
BUT TO THEM SAY, YOU DO NOT REALLY BELIEVE
BUT YOU ONLY SAY THAT YOU BELIEVE 
NOT YET HAS ENTERED YOUR HEARTS BELIEF
BUT IF YOU OBEY GOD AND HIS APOSTLE HE WILL INDEED
NOT BELITTLE ANYTHING OF YOUR DEEDS 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

15  ONLY THOSE ARE BELIEVERS 
WHO HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD AND THE MESSENGER
AND HAVE NEVER SINCE BEEN DOUBTERS 
BUT HAVE STRIVEN WITH BELONGINGS OF THEIRS
AND THEIR PERSONS IN GOD'S CAUSE AND ARE SINCERE 

16  SAY, WHAT WILL YOU INSTRUCT GOD ABOUT YOUR RELIGION
WHEN GOD KNOWS ALL THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND IN HEAVEN
AND HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION?

17  THEY REGARD THEIR ACCEPTING THE FAITH AS DOING YOU A FAVOR 
SAY, COUNT NOT YOUR ACCEPTING FAITH AS DOING ME A FAVOR  
NO, GOD HAS UPON YOU CONFERRED A FAVOR  
THAT HE HAS GUIDED YOU TO THE FAITH IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER

18  GOD KNOWS WHAT IS HIDDEN
IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
AND GOD SEES ALL THE DOINGS OF MEN

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