CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 1.  PART VI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS, FULFILL ALL OBLIGATIONS
AND LAWFUL TO YOU FOR FOOD FOR CONSUMPTION
ARE ALL FOUR-FOOTED ANIMALS WITH THE NAMED EXCEPTIONS
BUT ANIMALS OF THE CHASE ARE TO YOU FORBIDDEN 
WHILE YOU ARE IN THE SACRED REGION
OR IN PILGRIM DRESS FOR THESES ARE GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS 
ACCORDING TO HIS WILL AND DECISIONS

2  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE DO NOT VIOLATE NOT GOD'S SYMBOLS 
NOR THE SACRED MONTH, OR THE SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS 
OR THE GARLANDS THAT MARK OUT SUCH ANIMALS
NOR THOSE RESORTING TO THE SACRED HOUSE AS PEOPLE 
SEEKING THEIR LORD'S BOUNTY PLEASURABLY AND DELIGHTFUL
BUT WHEN YOU ARE CLEAR OF THE SACRED REGIONALS
AND OF PILGRIM DRESS YOU MAY HUNT ANIMALS
AND LET NOT HATRED OF OTHER PEOPLE
SHUTTING YOU OUT OF THE MOSQUE LEAD YOU TO DO EVIL
HELP ONE ANOTHER BEING RIGHTEOUS AND FAITHFUL 
BUT HELP NOT ONE ANOTHER IN SIN AND EVIL 
FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS STRICT IN REQUITAL

3  FOODS THAT ARE FORBIDDEN TO EAT
ARE THE FLESH OF SWINE, BLOOD, AND DEAD MEAT

AND WHAT HAS BEEN INVOKED A NAME
OF ANY OTHER THAN GOD'S NAME

AND WHAT HAS BEEN KILLED BY STRANGLING 
OR BY A VIOLENT BLOW OR BY HEADLONG FALLING 
OR THAT WHICH HAS BEEN KILLED BY GORING
OR THAT WHICH A WILD ANIMAL HAS BEEN EATING 
UNLESS YOU ARE ABLE TO PERFORM PROPER SLAUGHTERING 
AND THAT WHICH HAS BEEN USED ON ALTERS FOR SACRIFICING
AND FORBIDDEN TO YOU IS THE DIVISION OF MEAT BY RAFFLING 

FOR THAT IS TRANSGRESSION
THIS DAY HAVE THOSE IN REJECTION
GIVEN UP ALL HOPE OF YOUR RELIGION
BUT FEAR THEM NOT AND BESIDES ME FEAR NO ONE 
AND THIS DAY I HAVE PERFECTED FOR YOU YOUR RELIGION 
AND HAVE COMPLETED MY FAVOR TO YOU AND HAVE CHOSEN 
ENTIRE SUBMISSION TO MY WILL AS YOUR RELIGION  
IF ANY IS FORCED BY HUNGER, NOT INCLINING TO PERDITION
YOUR LORD IS FULL OF KINDNESS, FORGIVENESS AND COMPASSION

4  THEY ASK YOU WHAT IS LAWFUL AS FOOD
SAY, ALL THING PURE AND GOOD ARE LAWFUL TO YOU 
AND WHAT YOU TEACH HUNTING ANIMALS TO CATCH FOR YOU
IN THE MANNER WHICH GOD HAS DIRECTED TO YOU 
SO EAT THAT WHICH THEY CATCH FOR YOU 
BUT OVER IT PRONOUNCE THE NAME OF GOD AS IS DUE
AND FEAR GOD FOR HE IS SWIFT IN TAKING ACCOUNT OF YOU

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                      SECTION 1 (CONT'D).  PART VI

5  THIS DAY ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL TO YOU GOOD AND PURE 
LAWFUL IS THE FOOD OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
AND ALSO WHAT IS LAWFUL TO THEM IS YOURS
LAWFUL TO YOU ARE NOT ONLY CHASTE WOMEN WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
BUT ALSO CHASTE WOMEN AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
REVEALED BEFORE YOU WHEN YOU GIVE THEM THEIR DOWERS  
AND DESIRE NOT LEWDNESS, NOR SECRET ENCOUNTERS
AND IF ANY PERSON IS WILLFULLY A REJECTER
FRUITLESS ARE HIS WORKS, AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
HE WILL BE AMONG THE LOSERS

                                                                                                                     SECTION  2

6  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHEN YOU PREPARE FOR PRAYER
WASH YOUR FACES AND YOUR HANDS AND WASH WITH WATER
YOUR ARMS TO THE ELBOWS AND RUB YOUR HEADS WITH WATER 
 
WASH YOUR FEET TO THE ANKLES THOROUGHLY
AND IF YOU ARE IN A STATE OF IMPURITY 
THEN BATHE YOUR WHOLE BODY 
BUT IF YOU ARE ILL OR ON A JOURNEY 

OR ONE OF YOU COMES FROM OFFICES OF NATURE
OR HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH WOMEN AND FIND NO WATER 

THEN TAKE FOR YOURSELVES CLEAN EARTH OR SAND 
AND RUB WITH IT YOUR FACE AND HANDS 

GOD DOES NOT WISH TO PLACE DIFFICULTY ON YOU 
BUT TO CLEANSE YOU AND COMPLETE HIS FAVOR TO YOU 
SO THAT YOUR GRATITUDE FOR HIM MAY BE SHOWN BY YOU

7  AND CALL IN REMEMBRANCE GOD'S FAVOR TO YOU 
AND HIS COVENANT WHICH HE RATIFIED WITH YOU 
WHEN YOU SAID, WE HEAR AND WE OBEY YOU
AND FEAR GOD FOR HE KNOWS THE HEARTS OF YOU

8  OH BELIEVERS, STAND OUT FIRMLY 
FOR GOD AS WITNESSES TO DEALING FAIRLY
AND DO NOT LET YOUR HATRED OF OTHERS BE 
YOUR REASON FOR YOU NOT TO ACT EQUITABLY
AND THEN DEPART FROM JUSTICE BUT ACT JUSTLY
THAT IS NEXT TO PIETY AND TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY
FOR GOD IS AWARE OF ALL YOU DO SURELY

9  TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO DEEDS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 
GOD HAS PROMISED A GREAT REWARD AND FORGIVENESS 

10  THOSE WHO DENY OUR SIGNS AND ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEY WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE HELL-FIRE

11  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, REMEMBER GOD'S FAVOR TO YOU 
WHEN MEN STRETCHED OUT THEIR HANDS AGAINST YOU
BUT GOD HELD BACK THEIR HANDS FROM YOU 
SO FEAR GOD AND LET YOUR FAITH IN GOD BE TRUE

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 3.  PART VI

12  THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MADE A COVENANT WITH THE CREATOR 
WE APPOINTED TWELVE CAPTAINS AMONG THEM OVER THEIR AFFAIRS 
GOD SAID, I AM WITH YOU IF YOU BUT ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS
PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY AND BELIEVE IN MY MESSENGERS
AND GIVE TO THEM ASSISTANCE AND HONOR
AND TO GOD LOAN A BEAUTIFUL LOAN AND I WILL ERASE YOUR ERRORS 
AND I WILL ADMIT YOU TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
BUT IF ANY OF YOU RESISTS FAITH THEREAFTER
HE IS INDEED A WRONG DOER

13  BUT BECAUSE OF THEIR BREACH OF THEIR COVENANT 
WE CURSED THEM AND WE MADE THEIR HEARTS ARROGANT 
THEY CHANGED THE WORDS FROM THEIR PROPER ASSIGNMENT 
AND FORGET A GOOD PART OF THE MESSAGES THAT WERE SENT  
NOR WILL YOU CEASE TO FIND MOST OF THEM EVER BENT 
ON NEW DECEITS BUT OVERLOOK THEIR INTENTS 
FOR GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ARE BENEVOLENT

14  THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS, FROM THEM
WE TOOK A COVENANT, BUT WAS FORGOTTEN BY THEM
PART OF THE MESSAGE THAT WAS SENT TO THEM 
SO WE ESTRANGED THEM WITH HATRED BETWEEN THEM 
TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, AND SOON WILL GOD SHOW THEM 
WHAT IT IS THAT WAS DONE BY THEM

15  OH PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURE
NOW HAS COME TO YOU OUR MESSENGER
REVEALING WHAT YOU CONCEALED IN THE SCRIPTURE 

AND THERE HAS COME TO YOU FROM GOD A NEW LIGHT
AND A PERSPICUOUS BOOK FROM GOD GIVING SIGHT

16  WITH WHICH GOD GUIDES ALL WHO SEEK HIS DELIGHT
TO WAYS OF PEACE AND SAFETY AND LIGHT
AND LEADS THEM OUT OF DARKNESS BY HIS WILL TO THE LIGHT
AND GUIDES THEM TO A PATH THAT IS RIGHT

17  INDEED ARE THOSE IN BLASPHEMY 
THAT SAY, GOD IS CHRIST, THE SON OF MARY 
SAY, WHO HAS ANY POWER IN THE LEAST DEGREE 
WERE YOUR LORD TO DESTROY CHRIST, THE SON OF MARY
AND HIS MOTHER AND EVERYONE EARTH ADDITIONALLY?  
FOR ALL POWER OVER ALL THINGS HAS HE 

18  THE JEWS AND THE CHRISTIANS SAY, WE ARE GOD'S CHILDREN 
SAY, WHY DOES HE THEN PUNISH YOU FOR YOUR SINS? 
NO, YOU ARE ONLY OF HIS CREATION OF MEN  
AND OF WHOM HE PLEASES IS PUNISHED OR FORGIVEN  
TO HIM BELONGS THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND TO HIM IS THE FINAL GOAL IN THE END

19  OH PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURE
NOW HAS COME TO YOU OUR MESSENGER 
AND MAKING THINGS CLEAR TO YOU AFTER
THE BREAK IN THE SERIES OF OUR MESSENGERS
LEST YOU SHOULD SAY, THERE CAME NO BRINGER 
OF GLAD TIDINGS TO US AND NO WARNER 
NOW HAS COME TO YOU A BRINGER 
OF GLAD TIDINGS AND A WARNER 
AND OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 4.  PART VI

20  REMEMBER MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, I SAY TO YOU
CALL IN REMEMBRANCE YOUR LORD'S FAVOR TO YOU 
WHEN HE PRODUCED PROPHETS FROM AMONG YOU 
AND MADE YOU KINGS AND GAVE TO YOU 
WHAT HE HAD NOT GIVEN TO ANY PEOPLE OTHER THAN YOU

21  ENTER THE HOLY LAND WHICH GOD HAS ASSIGNED TO YOU 
AND TURN NOT BACK DISGRACEFULLY FOR THEN WILL YOU 
BE OVERTHROWN TO THE RUINATION OF YOU

22  THEY SAID, OH MOSES, IN THIS LAND THE PEOPLE ARE STRONG 
AND NEVER WILL WE ENTER IT FOR AS LONG
AS THEY ARE THERE BUT WE WILL ENTER IT ONCE THEY HAVE GONE

23  BUT AMONG THEM WERE TWO MEN WHO FEARED THEIR MAKER 
AND OF WHOM GOD HAD BESTOWED ON THEM HIS FAVORS
WHO SAID, ASSAULT THEM AT THE GATE THAT IS PROPER
AND WHEN YOU ARE IN YOU WILL BE THE VICTORS 
BUT IN YOUR LORD PUT YOUR FAITH IF YOU ARE BELIEVERS

24  THEY SAID, OH MOSES, WHILE THEY REMAIN THERE
NEVER TO THE END OF TIME WILL WE BE ABLE TO ENTER 
SO GO WITH YOUR LORD AND YOU FIGHT WHILE WE SIT HERE

25  HE SAID, OH LORD, I HAVE POWER 
ONLY OVER MYSELF AND MY BROTHER 
SO SEPARATE US FROM THESE TRANSGRESSORS

26  GOD SAID, THE LAND WILL BE OUT OF REACH OF THEIR'S 
THEY WILL WANDER THROUGH IT FOR FORTY YEARS
BUT GRIEVE NOT OVER THESE TRANSGRESSORS

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                        SECTION 5.  PART VI

27  RECITE TO THEM THE STORY OF ADAM'S TWO SONS
THEY EACH PRESENTED A SACRIFICE TO GO AND FROM ONE
IT WAS ACCEPTED BUT IT WAS NOT ACCEPTED FROM THE OTHER ONE
AND SAID THE ONE BROTHER TO THE OTHER ONE
I WILL KILL YOU, THEN SAID THE OTHER ONE 
GOD ONLY ACCEPTS SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUS ONES

28  SO STRETCH YOUR HAND AGAINST ME TO KILL ME AND IF YOU DO
I WILL NOT STRETCH MY HAND AGAINST YOU TO KILL YOU
I FEAR GOD, THE LORD OF ME AND YOU

29  I INTEND TO LET YOU DRAW  UPON YOU
MY SIN AS WELL AS YOUR SIN UPON YOU

FOR YOU WILL BE AMONG THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE 
AND THAT IS THE REWARD OF THE WRONG DOERS

30  THE SELFISH SOUL OF THE OTHER 
LED HIM TO THE MURDER OF HIS BROTHER 
HE MURDERED HIM AND BECAME ONE OF THE LOSERS

31  THEN GOD SENT A BIRD 
SCRATCHING THE GROUND SHOWING THE MURDERER
HOW TO COVER THE SHAME OF HIS BROTHER 
HE SAID, I AM NOT EVEN ABLE TO BE AS THIS BIRD
AND TO COVER THE SHAME OF MY BROTHER 
SO HE BECAME ONE OF THE REGRETTERS

32  WE PRESCRIBED FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THEREAFTER
THAT WHOEVER KILLS A PERSON UNLESS IT BE FOR MANSLAUGHTER
OR MISCHIEF, IT IS AS THOUGH HE HAD KILLED ALL MEN ALL TOGETHER
WHOEVER SAVES A LIFE IS AS IF HE HAS SAVED ALL LIFE AND FURTHER 
OUR MESSENGERS CAME TO THEM WITH MESSAGES CLEAR
BUT MOST OF THEM COMMITTED EXCESSES EVEN AFTER

33  THE PUNISHMENT OF THOSE WHO WAGE WAR
AGAINST GOD AND HIS MESSENGER

AND WHO MAKE MISCHIEF IN THE LAND 
IS EXECUTION OR CUTTING OFF OF FEET AND HAND 
FROM THEIR OPPOSITE SIDES OR EXILING FROM THE LAND

THIS WILL BE DISGRACE IN THIS WORLD FOR THEM
AND THERE IS HEAVY PUNISHMENT IN THE HEREAFTER FOR THEM

34  EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO REPENT BEFORE YOU OVERPOWER THEM
IN THAT CASE GOD IS FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL TO THEM

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 6.  PART VI

35  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY
AND SEEK NEARNESS TO HIM PERSEVERINGLY
AND STRIVE HARD TO GAIN PROSPERITY

36  IF THE REJECTERS HAD ALL ON EARTH AND TWICE REPEATEDLY 
TO GIVE FOR RANSOM ON JUDGMENT DAY FOR THE PENALTY 
IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AND THEIRS IS A SEVERE PENALTY 

37  THEIR WISH WILL BE TO GET OUT OF THE FIRE 
BUT THEY WILL NOT GET OUT FROM IT EVER
THEIR PENALTY WILL ENDURE FOREVER

38  AND AS FOR THE THIEF, MALE OR FEMALE 
CUT OFF THEIR HANDS FOR THEIR CRIME AS AN EXAMPLE

AS PUNISHMENT FROM GOD
AND ALL MIGHTY AND ALL WISE IS GOD

39  BUT IF THE THIEF REPENTS 
AFTER HIS CRIME AND MAKES AMENDMENTS

GOD TURNS TO HIM IN FORGIVENESS 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS

40  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 

HE PUNISHES WHOM HE PLEASES 
AND HE FORGIVES WHOM HE PLEASES 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL EXISTENCE

41  LET NOT THOSE GRIEVE YOU, OH MESSENGER
THOSE WHO INSIST ON BEING DISBELIEVERS
WHETHER IT BE THOSE WHO SAY, WE ARE BELIEVERS 
WITH THEIR LIPS BUT IN THEIR HEARTS ARE DISBELIEVERS
OR AMONG THE JEWS MEN WHO WOULD LISTEN TO OTHERS 
WHO HAVE NOT EVEN TO YOUR COME OVER 
AND THEY ALTER WORDS FROM THEIR PLACES THAT ARE PROPER 
AND THEY SAY, IF YOU ARE GIVEN THIS TAKE IT WITH PLEASURE
BUT IF YOU ARE NOT GIVEN THIS THEN BEWARE 
AND IF ANY PERSON'S TRIAL IS INTENDED BY THE CREATOR 
YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY FOR HIM AGAINST HIS MAKER
FOR THEM IT IS NOT GOD'S WILL TO MAKE THEM PURE 
THEIRS IS DISGRACE IN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER 

42  THEY ARE FOND OF LISTENING TO FALSEHOOD
AND OF DEVOURING THINGS THAT ARE NOT GOOD

IF THEY COME TO YOU JUDGE BETWEEN THEM
OR EITHER DECLINE TO INTERFERE WITH THEM
IF YOU DECLINE YOU CANNOT BE HURT BY THEM 

IF YOU JUDGE BETWEEN THEM JUDGE IN EQUITY
FOR GOD LOVES THOSE WHO JUDGE IN EQUITY

43  BUT WHY DO THEY COME TO YOU FOR DECISION 
WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LAW FOR DELIBERATION?  

AND IN IT THEY HAVE THE PLAIN COMMAND OF GOD
AND YET THEY AFTER TURN AWAY FROM GOD
THEY ARE NOT REAL BELIEVERS IN GOD

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 7.  PART VI

44  WE GAVE TO MOSES THE REVELATION 
IN IT WAS GUIDANCE AND CLEAR INSTRUCTION
AND THE JEWS HAVE BEEN JUDGED BY ITS REGULATION 
BY THE PROPHETS WHO BOWED TO GOD'S WILL IN SUBMISSION 
AND THE RABBIS AND THE DOCTORS OF LAW WERE THE ONES
THAT WERE  ENTRUSTED WITH THE LAW'S PROTECTION 
TO IT THEY WERE WITNESSES SO BE NOT IN AGITATION
BUT FEAR ONLY ME AND DO NOT SELL MY INSTRUCTIONS  
AND IF ANY FAIL TO JUDGE BY GOD'S REVELATIONS
THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THOSE IN REJECTION

45  WE ORDAINED LIFE FOR LIFE, EYE FOR EYE, NOSE FOR NOSE 
EAR FOR EAR, TOOTH FOR TOOTH, AND WOUNDS EQUAL TO THOSE

INFLICTED ON YOU BUT IF ANYONE 
BY CHARITY REMITS THE RETALIATION 
 
IT IS FOR HIMSELF AN ACT OF ATONEMENT 
AND IF ANY FAILS TO EXERCISE JUDGMENT

BY THE WAY OF GOD'S REVELATIONS
THEN THEY ARE WRONG DOING ONES 

46  AND IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS WE SENT JESUS, THE SON OF MARY
CONFIRMING THE LAW THAT HAD COME BEFORE HIM PREVIOUSLY 
AND WE GAVE HIM THE GOSPEL AND IN IT WAS GUIDANCE CLEARLY
AND LIGHT AND CONFIRMATION OF THE LAW THAT CAME PREVIOUSLY 
AND AN ADMONITION TO THOSE WHO COME TO GOD SUBMISSIVELY

47  OH YOU PEOPLE OF THE GOSPEL, JUDGE BY GOD'S REVELATIONS  
IF ANY  FAIL TO JUDGE BY THE LIGHT OF GOD'S REVELATIONS
THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THOSE IN REJECTION

48  WE HAVE SURELY IN TRUTH SENT TO YOU THE SCRIPTURE 
CONFIRMING WHAT CAME BEFORE IT OF SCRIPTURE
AND GUARDING IT AND KEEPING IT SECURE
SO JUDGE BETWEEN THEM BY WHAT IS REVEALED BY THE CREATOR
AND DO NOT FOLLOW THEIR VAIN DESIRES
DIVERGING YOU FROM THE TRUTH OF THE SCRIPTURES 

AND WE HAVE PRESCRIBED A LAW TO EACH AMONG YOU
IF GOD HAD SO WILLED HE WOULD HAVE MADE YOU 
A SINGLE PEOPLE BUT HIS PLAN IS TO TEST YOU  
IN THAT IN WHICH HE HAS GIVEN TO YOU 
SO STRIVE AS IN A RACE IN ALL VIRTUES 
TO GOD IS THE GOAL OF ALL OF YOU 
AND IT IS HE THAT WILL SHOW YOU 
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTERS IN WHICH YOU DISPUTE AMONG YOU

49  AND THIS HE COMMANDS YOU
JUDGE BETWEEN THEM BY WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED TO YOU
BUT OF THEM BEWARE LEST THEY BEGUILE YOU 
FROM THE TEACHING WHICH GOD HAS SENT DOWN TO YOU 
AND IF THEY TURN AWAY FROM YOU
THAT FOR SOME OF THEIR CRIMES WE ASSURE YOU
YOUR LORD WILL PUNISH THEM FOR THEY ARE UNTRUE

50  DO THEY THEN SEEK JUDGMENT OF THE DAYS OF IGNORANCE? 
BUT WHO FOR A PEOPLE FOR WHOSE FAITH HAS ASSURANCE
CAN GIVE BETTER JUDGMENT THAN GOD AND GUIDANCE?

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 8.  PART VI

51  TAKE NOT FOR FRIENDS AND PROTECTORS 
JEWS OR CHRISTIANS, THEY ARE FRIENDS OF EACH OTHER
AND HE AMONG YOU THAT TURNS TO THEM FOR PROTECTORS  
GOD SURELY DOES NOT GUIDE THE WRONG DOERS

52  THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE
YOU SEE HOW THEY RUN ABOUT SAYING EAGERLY 
WE FEAR LEST A CHANGE OF FORTUNE BRING US A CALAMITY
PERHAPS GOD WILL GIVE YOU A DECISION OR A VICTORY 
ACCORDING TO HIS WILL THEN WILL THEY CERTAINLY
REPENT OF WHAT THEY HARBORED IN THEIR HEARTS SECRETLY

53  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE WILL SAY, ARE THESE THE MEN WHO 
SWORE THEIR STRONGEST OATHS THAT THEY WERE WITH YOU?  
AND IN VAIN WILL BE ALL THE WORKS THAT THEY DO 
THEY WILL HAVE LOST ALL DIRECTION OF TRUTH

54  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
IF ANY OF YOU TURN BACK AS DISBELIEVERS
GOD WILL PRODUCE A PEOPLE WHO WILL BE BELIEVERS
THEY WILL LOVE HIM AND HE WILL LOVE THEM GREATER
AND THEY WILL BE HUMBLE TOWARDS THE BELIEVERS
AND WILL BE MIGHTY AGAINST THE REJECTERS 
FIGHTING IN THE WAY OF THE CREATOR
AND NEVER AFRAID OF THE BLAME OF THE BLAMERS
THAT IS THE GRACE YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
WILL BESTOW ON THOSE WHOM HE FAVORS
GOD ENCOMPASSES ALL AND HE IS THE BEST KNOWER

55  YOUR REAL FRIENDS ARE GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE BELIEVERS
WHO ESTABLISH REGULAR CHARITY AND REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND THEY BOW DOWN AS WORSHIPPERS

56  THOSE WHO TURN FOR FRIENDSHIP TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
AND TO THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE BELIEVERS 
IT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF GOD THAT MUST WIN OVER

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                        SECTION 9.  PART VI

57  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TAKE NOT FOR FRIENDS AND PROTECTORS 
THOSE WHO OF YOUR RELIGION ARE MOCKERS
WHETHER AMONG THOSE WHO RECEIVED THE SCRIPTURE 
BEFORE YOU OR AMONG THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
BUT FEAR GOD IF YOU ARE SINCERE BELIEVERS

58  AND WHEN YOU PROCLAIM YOUR CALL TO PRAYER
THEY TAKE IT AS A SPORT AND THEY ARE MOCKERS 
THAT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE DISBELIEVERS

59  SAY TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURE
DO YOU DISAPPROVE OF US FOR NO REASON OTHER 
THAN THE FACT THAT IN OUR LORD WE ARE BELIEVERS
AND BELIEVE THE REVELATION THAT HAS COME TO US HERE 
AND THAT WE BELIEVE IN WHAT BEFORE US CAME PRIOR? 
AND MAYBE YOU ARE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS 
AND ALSO DISOBEDIENT REJECTERS

60  SAY, SHALL I INFORM YOU OF SOMETHING WORSE? 
THOSE WHO INCURRED GOD'S CURSE  

THOSE OF WHOM HE TRANSFORMED INTO SWINE AND MONKEYS
AND WORSHIPPED EVIL, FOR MUCH WORSE ARE THESE 

61  WHEN THEY COME TO YOU THEY SAY WE BELIEVE
BUT THEY ENTER WITH A MIND AGAINST BELIEF

AND THEY GO OUT THE SAME WAY 
BUT GOD KNOWS ALL THAT THEY HIDE AWAY

62  MANY OF THEM DO YOU SEE
RACING EACH OTHER IN EVIL DEEDS

AND THEIR EATING OF FORBIDDEN THINGS 
EVIL ARE THE THINGS THEY HAVE BEEN DOING

63  WHY DO NOT THE RABBIS AMONG THEM
AND THE DOCTORS OF LAW FORBID THEM

FROM THEIR HABIT OF UTTERING WORDS THAT ARE SINFUL 
AND EATING THINGS FORBIDDEN, INDEED THEY ARE EVIL

64  THE JEWS SAY, GOD'S HAND IS TIED UP 
IT IS THEIR HANDS THAT ARE TIED UP 

AND THEY ARE CURSED FOR THEIR BLASPHEMY 
BUT NO, BOTH HIS HANDS ARE STRETCHED OUT WIDELY 
AND HE GIVES AND SPENDS AS HE PLEASES OF HIS BOUNTY 

BUT THE REVELATION THAT COMES TO YOU FROM GOD
INCREASES THEIR OBSTINATE REBELLION AGAINST GOD

WE HAVE PLACED HATRED AND RESENTMENT
AMONG THEM UNTIL THE DAY OF THE JUDGMENT 

EVERY TIME THEY KINDLE THE FIRE OF WAR SPIRIT
THEN YOUR LORD DOES EXTINGUISH IT 

BUT THEY EVER STRIVE TO DO MISCHIEF 
AND GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO DO MISCHIEF

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                             SECTION 9 (CONT'D). PART VI

65  IF ONLY THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
HAD BEEN RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS
WE WOULD HAVE BLOTTED OUT THEIR ERRORS
AND ADMITTED THEM TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS

66  IF THEY HAD STOOD FAST UPON THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
AND ALL THE REVELATION SENT BY GOD TO THEIR PEOPLE
THEN THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IN GARDENS DELIGHTFUL
SOME OF THEM FOLLOW A COURSE THAT IS RIGHTFUL 
SOME OF THEM FOLLOW A COURSE THAT IS EVIL 

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                      SECTION 10.  PART VI

67  OH MESSENGER, PROCLAIM THE REVELATION
SENT TO YOU FROM THE LORD OF CREATION
IF YOU DO IT NOT THEN YOUR MISSION
YOU WOULD NOT HAVE FULFILLED TO COMPLETION
AND GOD WILL DEFEND YOU FROM THOSE IN REBELLION 
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION

68  YOU HAVE NO GROUND TO STAND ON, YOU PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
UNLESS YOU STAND BY THE LAW, THE GOSPEL AND ALL SCRIPTURES 
THAT HAS COME TO YOU FROM YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
IT IS THE REVELATION THAT COMES FROM YOUR MAKER
THAT GIVES THEM OBSTINATE REBELLION FURTHER
BUT SORROW NOT OVER THESE DISBELIEVERS

69  THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE QURAN AND IN THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES 
AND THE CHRISTIANS AND SABIANS, ANY WHO ARE BELIEVERS
IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY AND ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE OR FEAR EITHER

70  WE TOOK THE COVENANT OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
AND WE SENT AMONG THEM MANY APOSTLES
WHEN THERE CAME TO THEM AN APOSTLE 

WITH WHAT THEY THEMSELVES DID NOT DESIRE 
SOME OF THESE THEY DID CALL IMPOSTORS
SOME THEY GO SO FAR AS TO MURDER

71  AND THEY THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE NO TRIAL OR PENALTY
SO THEY BECAME BLIND AND DEAF YET GOD IN HIS MERCY 
TURNED TO THEM AND YET AGAIN OF THEM MANY 
BECAME BLIND AND DEAF BUT GOD SURELY
SEES WELL ALL THAT THEY DO CLEARLY

72  THEY BLASPHEME WHO SAY, CHRIST, THE SON OF MARY, IS GOD
BUT CHRIST JESUS SAID, OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WORSHIP GOD 
MY LORD AND YOUR LORD, WHOEVER JOINS GODS WITH GOD 

GOD WILL FORBID HIM THE GARDEN
AND THE FIRE WILL SURELY BE HIS HAVEN
AND THE WRONG-DOERS WILL HAVE NO PATRON

73  THEY BLASPHEME WHO SAY, GOD IS ONE OF THREE IN A TRINITY
FOR THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD ONLY
IF THEY DESIST NOT FROM THEIR WORD OF BLASPHEMY 
THERE WILL BEFALL THE BLASPHEMERS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

74  WHY DO THEY NOT TURN TO GOD AND SEEK HIS FORGIVENESS?
FOR GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS

75  CHRIST, THE SON OF MARY, WAS NO MORE THAN AN APOSTLE 
BEFORE HIM PASSED AWAY MANY APOSTLES

AND HIS MOTHER WAS A WOMAN OF TRUTH
AND THEY BOTH USED TO EAT FOOD 

GOD MAKES HIS SIGNS CLEAR TO MEN  
HOW ARE THEY DELUDED FROM THE TRUTH THEN

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                    SECTION 10 (CONT'D). PART VI

76  SAY, WILL YOU WORSHIP BESIDES GOD SOMETHING 
WHICH HAS NO POWER OF HARMING YOU OR BENEFITING
AND IT IS YOUR LORD THAT HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS?

77  SAY, OH PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
IN YOUR RELIGION BE NOT EXCEEDERS  
OF THE BOUNDS OF WHAT IS PROPER
NOR BE TRESPASSERS 
NOR FOLLOW THE VAIN DESIRES 
OF PEOPLE WHO WENT WRONG IN TIMES PRIOR
WHO MISLEAD AND STRAYED FROM WHAT WAS PROPER

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                     SECTION 11.  PART VI

78  THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHO DISBELIEVED
WERE CURSED BY CHRIST JESUS, THE SON OF MARY
AND BY DAVID BECAUSE THEY DISOBEYED PERSISTENTLY

79  AND NOR DID THEY USUALLY
FORBID EACH OTHER'S INIQUITIES 
FOR EVIL INDEED WERE THEIR DEEDS 

80  YOU SEE MANY OF THEM 
BEFRIENDING THE DISBELIEVERS AMONG THEM
EVIL ARE THE WORKS THEIR SOULS HAVE SENT BEFORE THEM 
WITH THE RESULT THAT THEIR LORD'S WRATH IS ON THEM 
AND AN EVIL TORMENT IS IN STORE FOR THEM

81  IF ONLY THEY HAD BEEN BELIEVERS 
IN THE TRUTH FROM GOD AND IN THE MESSENGER
AND IN WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED TO THE MESSENGER  
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN THEM FOR PROTECTORS 
BUT MOST OF THEM ARE REBELLIOUS AND WRONG-DOERS

82  STRONGEST AMONG MEN IN ENMITY TO THE BELIEVERS 
YOU WILL FIND THOSE WHO ARE JEWS AND IDOLATERS
NEARER AMONG MEN IN LOVE TO THE BELIEVERS 

WILL YOU FIND THOSE MEN 
WHO SAY, WE ARE CHRISTIANS 
BECAUSE AMONG THESE ARE MEN 
DEVOTED TO LEARNING AND THEY ARE MEN 
WHO HAVE RENOUNCED THE WORLD AND ARE NOT ARROGANT MEN

PART VII

83  WHEN THEY LISTEN TO THE REVELATION FROM THE MESSENGER 
YOU WILL THEN SEE THEIR EYES OVER FLOWING WITH TEARS
FOR THE TRUTH THEY HEAR AND THIS IS THEIR PRAYER
OUR LORD AND CHERISHER, WE ARE BELIEVERS
SO WRITE US DOWN AMONG THE WITNESS BEARERS

84  WHAT CAUSE CAN THERE BE FOR US 
NOT TO BELIEVE IN THE TRUTH WHICH HAS COME TO US  
SEEING THAT WE LONG FOR OUR LORD TO ADMIT US 
INTO THE COMPANY OF THE RIGHTEOUS

85  FOR THIS THEIR PRAYER GOD HAS REWARDED THEM 
WITH GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING UNDERNEATH THEM

THEIR ETERNAL HOME, THIS IS THE REWARD
OF THOSE WHO DO GOOD WITH THEIR LORD

86  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS AND ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEY WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE HELL-FIRE

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87  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, MAKE NOT UNLAWFUL 
THE GOOD THINGS WHICH FOR YOU GOD HAS MADE LAWFUL 

AND DO NOT COMMIT EXCESS 
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE GIVEN TO EXCESS

88  EAT OF THE LAWFUL THINGS PROVIDED FOR YOU BY GOD 
BUT FEAR GOD IF YOU ARE BELIEVERS IN GOD

89  FOR YOUR FUTILE OATHS GOD WILL NOT CALL YOU TO ACCOUNT
BUT FOR YOUR DELIBERATE OATHS HE WILL CALL YOU TO ACCOUNT

AND FOR EXPIATION
FEED TEN INDIGENT PERSONS 

ON A SCALE OF THE AVERAGE FOOD OF YOUR FAMILIES 
OR CLOTHE THEM OR SET A SLAVE FREE

IF THAT IS BEYOND YOUR INSTRUMENTATION
FAST FOR THREE DAYS, THAT IS THE EXPIATION 

FOR THE OATHS THAT YOU HAVE MADE
BUT KEEP YOUR OATHS THAT YOU HAVE MADE

SO DOES GOD MAKE HIS SIGNS CLEAR TO YOU 
THAT GRATITUDE MAY BE SHOWN BY YOU

90  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, INTOXICANTS AND DEDICATION 
OF STONES AND GAMBLING AND DIVINATION 
BY ARROWS ARE SATAN'S ABOMINATIONS 
SO THAT YOU MAY PROSPER SHUN SUCH ABOMINATIONS 

91  SATAN PLANS TO EXCITE ENMITY BETWEEN YOU 
WITH INTOXICANTS AND GAMBLING AND HINDER YOU 

FROM PRAYER AND FROM GOD'S REMEMBRANCE 
WILL YOU NOT THEN PRACTICE ABSTINENCE?

92  OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE AND BEWARE OF EVIL 
IF YOU DO TURN BACK IT IS THE DUTY OF OUR APOSTLE 
ONLY TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE CLEARLY TO THE PEOPLE

93  ON THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS 
THERE IS NO BLAME FOR WHAT THEY ATE WHEN INDEED
THEY KEEP THEIR DUTY AND BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS
AND AGAIN BELIEVE AND KEEP THEIR DUTY 
AND AGAIN DO GOOD AND KEEP THEIR DUTY
FOR GOD LOVES THOSE WHO DO GOOD INDEED

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94  GOD WILL TRY YOU, OH YOU WHO BELIEVE
IN RESPECT OF SOME GAME WELL WITHIN THE REACH 
OF YOUR HANDS AND YOUR LANCES THAT HE MAY INDEED
TEST THOSE OF YOU WHO FEARED HIM UNSEEN
WHOEVER TRANSGRESSES WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

95  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, KILL NOT GAME
WHILE YOU ARE IN THE SACRED DOMAIN

OR WHILE YOU ARE IN PILGRIM CLOTHING                                                                     
IF YOU DO TO COMPENSATE BRING AND OFFERING                                                      

TO THE KABA OF A DOMESTIC ANIMAL 
EQUIVALENT TO THE ONE YOU KILLED

AS ADJUDGED BY TWO 
JUST MEN AMONG YOU

OR BY WAY OF ATONEMENT 
THE FEEDING OF THE INDIGENT 

OR ITS EQUIVALENT IN FASTING
SO YOU MAY TASTE THE PENALTY OF YOUR DOINGS 

GOD FORGIVES WHAT IS PAST BUT WILL PENALIZE FOR REPETITION 
FOR GOD IS EXALTED AND LORD OF RETRIBUTION

96  THE PURSUIT OF WATER-GAME FOR YOU 
IS LAWFUL FOR FOOD FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOU 
THE PURSUIT OF LAND GAME IS FORBIDDEN TO YOU
AS LONG IN THE SACRED PRECINCTS ARE YOU 

OR AS LONG AS YOU ARE IN PILGRIM CLOTHING 
AND FEAR GOD TO WHOM WILL BE YOUR RETURNING

97  GOD MADE THE SACRED HOUSE AN ASYLUM FOR MEN'S SECURING 
AND ALSO THE SACRED MONTHS AND ANIMALS FOR OFFERINGS 
AND THE GARLANDS THAT MARK THEM FOR YOUR KNOWING
THAT OF WHAT IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH GOD IS ALL KNOWING
AND THAT GOD IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS

98  KNOW YOU THAT GOD IS STRICT IN REQUITING EVIL
AND THAT GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL

99  THE APOSTLE'S DUTY 
IS ONLY TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE CLEARLY

BUT GOD KNOWS ALL THAT YOU REVEAL 
AND HE KNOWS ALL THAT YOU CONCEAL

100  SAY, NOT EQUAL ARE GOOD THINGS AND BAD THINGS  
THOUGH YOU MAY BE DAZZLED BY THE ABUNDANCE OF BAD THINGS

OH MEN OF UNDERSTANDING, TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY GAIN PROSPERITY 

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101  OH BELIEVERS, ASK NOT QUESTIONS ABOUT THINGS 
WHICH IF MADE PLAIN TO YOU MAY BE TROUBLING
BUT IF YOU SHOULD ASK ABOUT SUCH THINGS 

WHEN THE QURAN IS BEING REVEALED TO YOU
THEN THEY WILL BE MADE PLAIN TO YOU 
AND GOD WILL SURELY FORGIVE YOU
FOR GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL TO YOU

102  SOME PEOPLE BEFORE YOU DID ASK SUCH QUESTIONS
AND ON THAT ACCOUNT BECAME DISBELIEVING ONES

103  IT WAS NOT GOD'S INSTITUTIONS
OF MADE UP SUPERSTITIONS 

LIKE THOSE OF A SLIT-EAR SHE-CAMEL 
OR A LET LOOSE FOR FREE PASTURE SHE-CAMEL 
OR IDOL SACRIFICES FOR TWIN-BIRTHS IN ANIMALS 
OR FREED FROM WORK STALLION-CAMELS 

IT IS BLASPHEMERS WHO AGAINST GOD MAKE FABRICATIONS 
BUT MOST OF THEM REALLY LACK DISCRETION

104  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, COME TO WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED
AND COME AND FOLLOW THE APOSTLE

THEY SAY, WE FOLLOW THE WAYS WE FOUND OUR FATHERS FOLLOWING 
EVEN THOUGH THEIR FATHERS WERE VOID OF UNDERSTANDING

105  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS                                                                          
OF YOUR OWN SOULS BE PROTECTORS
AND IF YOU FOLLOW IN THE RIGHT MANNER
NO HURT CAN COME TO YOU FROM THE WRONG DOERS

FOR TO GOD IS THE GOAL OF ALL OF YOU 
AND IT IS HE THAT WILL SHOW TO YOU 
THE TRUTH OF ALL THAT IS DONE BY YOU

106  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHEN ANY OF YOU DEATH APPROACHES                                 
WHEN MAKING A BEQUEST, FROM AMONG YOU TAKE WITNESSES 

USING TWO JUST MEN FROM AMONG YOU
OR OTHERS FROM OUTSIDE OF YOU
IF YOU ARE ON A JOURNEY WHERE DEATH CAN BEFALL YOU 
AND IF YOU DOUBT THEIR BEING TRUE 

THEN AFTER PRAYER DETAIN BOTH OF THEM 
AND LET THEM SWEAR BY GOD BOTH OF THEM

WE WISH NOT IN THIS FOR ANY WORLDLY ACCUMULATION 
EVEN THOUGH THE BENEFICIARY BE OUR NEAR RELATION 
 
FOR WE WILL NOT HIDE THE EVIDENCE BEFORE GOD SECRETLY
IF WE DID THEN THE SIN WOULD BE UPON US CERTAINLY

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107  BUT IF IT GETS KNOWN MANIFESTLY
THAT THESE TWO WERE GUILTY OF PERJURY 

LET TWO OTHERS STAND FORTH NEAREST IN KIN IN PLACE OF THEM 
FROM THOSE WHO CLAIM A LAWFUL RIGHT AMONG THEM

LET THEM  SWEAR BY THE CREATOR
WE AFFIRM THAT OUR WITNESS IS TRUER 
THAN THAT OF THOSE TWO AND THAT FURTHER 

WE HAVE NOT TRESPASSED BEYOND ACTING TRUTHFULLY 
IF WE DID, THE WRONG WOULD BE UPON US CERTAINLY

1O8  THAT IS MOST SUITABLE AND PROPER
THAT THEY MAY GIVE THE EVIDENCE IN ITS TRUE NATURE

OR ELSE THEY WOULD FEAR THAT OTHER OATHS 
WOULD BE TAKEN AFTER THEIR OATHS 

BUT FEAR GOD AND LISTEN TO HIS COUNSEL 
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT REBELLIOUS PEOPLE

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109  ONE DAY WILL GOD GATHER AND ASK THE APOSTLES
 WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE YOU RECEIVED FROM THE PEOPLE

THEY WILL SAY, WE HAVE NO INFORMATION
IT IS YOU WHO KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

110  GOD WILL SAY, OH JESUS, SON OF MARY
REMEMBER MY FAVOR TO YOU AND YOUR MOTHER MARY

THAT WITH THE HOLY SPRIT I STRENGTHENED YOU 
SO YOU DID SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE AS A YOUTH
AND YOU SPOKE TO THEM IN MATURITY TOO
I TAUGHT THE BOOK AND WISDOM TO YOU
AND THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL TOO

AND YOU MADE OUT OF CLAY THE FIGURE OF A BIRD BY MY PERMISSION 
YOU BREATHED INTO IT AND IT BECAME A BIRD BY MY PERMISSION
AND YOU BROUGHT FORTH THE DEAD BY MY PERMISSION

AND I DID RESTRAIN FROM YOU
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM VIOLENCE TO YOU 

WHEN YOU DID SHOW THEM THE SIGNS CLEARLY 
AND THE DISBELIEVERS SAID, THIS IS SORCERY

111  AND THE DISCIPLES I INDEED INSPIRED
TO BELIEVE IN ME AND MY MESSENGER
AND THEY SAID, WE ARE BELIEVERS
AND WE ARE WITNESS BEARERS 
AND WE BOW OUR WILL TO GOD AS SUBMITTERS

112  THE DISCIPLES SAID, OH JESUS, SON OF MARY
CAN YOUR LORD SEND DOWN TO US FAVORABLY
A TABLE SET FROM HEAVEN? AND JESUS SAID, SURELY
IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD THEN TO HIM KEEP YOUR DUTY

113  THEY SAID, WE ONLY WISH TO EAT OF IT 
TO SATISFY OUR HEARTS AND TO KNOW FROM IT
THAT YOU SURELY HAVE TOLD US THE TRUTH ABOUT IT
AND THAT WE MAY REALLY WITNESS THE MIRACLE OF IT

114  CHRIST JESUS, THE SON OF MARY SAID, OUR LORD, SEND US 
FROM HEAVEN A TABLE SET THAT THERE MAY BE FOR US 
FOR THE FIRST AND FOR THE LAST OF US 
A SOLEMN FESTIVAL AND A SIGN FROM YOU TO US
AND PROVIDE SUSTENANCE FROM YOU FOR US
FOR YOU ARE THE BEST SUSTAINER OF US

115  GOD SAID, I WILL SEND IT DOWN TO YOU 
BUT IF FAITH IS RESISTED AFTER BY ANY OF YOU 

I WILL PUNISH HIM WITH A PENALTY 
SUCH AS I HAVE NOT INFLICTED ON ANY PEOPLE IN HISTORY

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                     SECTION 16.  PART VII

116  AND GOD WILL SAY, OH JESUS, SON OF MARY
DID YOU TELL MEN TO WORSHIP YOU AND YOUR MOTHER MARY
AS GODS BESIDES ME?  AND HE WILL SAY, NO, TO YOU BE THE GLORY 

NEVER COULD I SAY WHAT I HAD NO RIGHT TO SAY OF YOU
HAD I SAID SUCH A THING IT WOULD BE KNOWN BY YOU
FOR WHAT IS IN MY HEART IS KNOWN BY YOU 
I KNOW NOT WHAT IS IN THE HEART OF YOU
ALL THAT IS HIDDEN IS KNOWN BY YOU

117  NEVER DID I SAY ANYTHING TO THEM
EXCEPT WHAT YOU COMMANDED ME TO SAY TO THEM
I SAID, WORSHIP GOD, MY LORD AND YOUR LORD, TO THEM
AND WHILE I LIVED AMONG THEM I WAS A WITNESS OVER THEM 
WHEN YOU DID TAKE ME UP YOU WERE THE WATCHER OVER THEM 
AND OF ALL THINGS AND TO THIS YOU ARE THE WITNESS OVER THEM

118  IF YOU DO PUNISH THEM 
THEY ARE YOUR SERVANTS AND IF YOU FORGIVE THEM 
YOU ARE ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER OVER THEM

119  GOD WILL SAY, THIS IS A DAY WHICH MEN OF TRUTH
WILL SURELY PROFIT FROM THEIR TRUTH 

THEIRS ARE GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH THEM
AS THEIR ETERNAL HOME WITH GOD WELL-PLEASED WITH THEM 
AND THEY PLEASED WITH GOD, THAT IS THE GREAT SALVATION FOR THEM 

120  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND ALL THAT IS THEREIN 
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

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