CHAPTER 60.  THE WOMAN WHO IS EXAMINED                 SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TAKE NOT MY AND YOUR ENEMIES AS FRIENDS OR PROTECTORS
OFFERING THEM YOUR LOVE AND THEY ARE REJECTORS
AND THEY HAVE DRIVEN OUT YOU AND THE MESSENGER 
FROM YOUR HOMES SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ARE BELIEVERS
AND IF YOU HAVE COME OUT TO SEEK MY GOOD PLEASURE 
TAKE THEM NOT AS FRIENDS HOLDING SECRET CONVERSE 
OF LOVE WITH THEM FOR I KNOW ALL YOUR ENDEAVORS
OPEN AND SECRET AND ANY OF YOU WHO DO HAS FOR SURE 
STRAYED FROM THE WAY AND IS IN MANIFEST ERROR

2  IF THEY WERE TO GET THE BETTER OF YOU 
THEY WOULD SURELY BEHAVE AS ENEMIES TO YOU 
AND STRETCH FORTH THEIR HANDS AND TONGUES AGAINST YOU 
AND THEIR DESIRE IS THAT YOU SHOULD REJECT TRUTH AS THEY DO

3  NO PROFIT WILL YOUR RELATIVES AND YOUR CHILDREN BE TO YOU   
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND HE WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOU 
FOR GOD SEES WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

4   THERE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE IN ABRAHAM AND HIS FOLLOWERS 
WHEN HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE ,OF YOU WE ARE CLEAR 
AND OF WHATEVER YOU WORSHIP BESIDES THE CREATOR
AND WE HAVE REJECTED YOU AND THERE IS A BARRIER
BETWEEN US, AND ENMITY FOREVER
UNLESS YOU BELIEVE ALONE IN THE CREATOR 
BUT ABRAHAM SAID TO HIS FATHER
I WILL PRAY FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS THOUGH I HAVE NO POWER
TO GET ANYTHING ON YOUR BEHALF FROM YOUR MAKER 
THEY PRAYED, OH OUR LORD AND CHERISHER
IN YOU WE TRUST, FORGIVE US FOR OUR ERRORS 
AND TO YOU IS OUR FINAL GOAL IN THE HEREAFTER

5  OUR LORD MAKE US NOT A TRIAL FOR THOSE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY
BUT FORGIVE US, OUR LORD, FOR YOU ARE ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

6  THERE WAS IN THEM AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE 
FOR YOU TO FOLLOW AND FOR THOSE PEOPLE

WHOSE HOPE IS IN GOD AND IN THE LAST DAY 
BUT IF ANY OF THOSE AMONG YOU TURN AWAY 
GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE

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CHAPTER 60.  THE WOMAN WHO IS EXAMINED                 SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

7  IT MAY BE THAT GOD WILL POSSIBLY
GRANT LOVE BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR ENEMIES 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF POWER AND FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

8  GOD FORBIDS YOU NOT REGARDING
THOSE WHO ARE NOT GUILTY OF FIGHTING YOU FOR BELIEVING
AND FOR DRIVING YOU OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS
FROM ENGAGING WITH THEM IN JUST DEALING
GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN JUST DEALING

9  GOD ONLY FORBIDS YOU REGARDING
THOSE WHO ARE GUILTY OF FIGHTING YOU FOR BELIEVING
AND DRIVING YOU OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS
AND SUPPORTING OTHERS IN DRIVING YOU FROM YOUR DWELLINGS
FROM TURNING TO THEM, FOR THIS IS WRONG IN DOING 

10  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
WHEN THERE COME TO YOU REFUGEE WOMEN AS BELIEVERS
EXAMINE THEM AS TO THEIR BEING BELIEVERS
AND YOUR LORD IS THE BEST KNOWER  
IF YOU ASCERTAIN THAT THEY ARE BELIEVERS 
THEN SEND THEM NOT BACK TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
THEY ARE NOT LAWFUL WIVES FOR THE DISBELIEVERS 
NOR ARE THE DISBELIEVERS LAWFUL HUSBANDS FOR THEM EITHER
BUT PAY THE DISBELIEVERS WHAT THEY HAVE SPENT ON THEIR DOWERS 
AND THERE WILL BE NO BLAME ON YOU IF THEREAFTER 
YOU PAY THEM THEIR DOWERS IF YOU WED THEM AS PARTNERS
BUT HOLD NOT WOMEN TO THE GUARDIANSHIP OF DISBELIEVERS
AND ASK FOR WHAT YOU HAVE SPENT ON THEIR DOWERS 
LET THE DISBELIEVERS ASK FOR WHAT THEY SPENT ON THE DOWERS 
OF WOMEN WHO TO YOU COME OVER  
THIS IS BETWEEN YOU YOUR LORD'S ORDER 
AND GOD IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER

11  AND IF ANY OF YOUR WIVES DESERT TO THE DISBELIEVERS
AND YOU HAVE AN ACCESSION THEN PAY OVER
TO THOSE WHOSE WIVES ARE DESERTERS 
THE EQUIVALENT OF WHAT THEY HAD SPENT ON THEIR DOWERS 
AND FEAR GOD IN WHOM YOU ARE A BELIEVER

12  OH PROPHET, WHEN BELIEVING WOMEN COME TO YOU EARNESTLY
TO TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AND SINCERITY 
THAT THEY WILL WORSHIP THE ONE GOD ONLY
AND THAT THEY WILL NOT STEAL OR COMMIT ADULTERY
NOT KILL THEIR CHILDREN OR BRING A CALUMNY
UTTERING SLANDER AND ACTING FALSELY 
AND THAT THEY WILL NOT ACT DISOBEDIENTLY
THEN SHOULD YOU RECEIVE THEIR ALLEGIANCE SINCERELY
AND PRAY TO GOD FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS EARNESTLY
FOR GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY 

13  TURN NOT FOR FRIENDSHIP, OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TO PEOPLE ON WHOM IS THE WRATH OF THE CREATOR
FOR OF THE HEREAFTER THEY ARE ALREADY IN DESPAIR
AS THE DISBELIEVERS ABOUT THOSE IN THE GRAVES ARE IN DESPAIR 

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