CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                  SECTION 1.  PART X

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  A DECLARATION OF IMMUNITY FROM THE CREATOR 
AND HIS MESSENGER TO THOSE OF THE IDOLATERS
WITH WHOM YOU HAVE ALLIANCES BETWEEN EACH OTHER

2  GO BACKWARDS AND FORWARD THROUGH THE LAND
BUT YOU CANNOT FRUSTRATE GOD BY YOUR FALSE PLANS  
GOD WILL COVER WITH SHAME THOSE WHO REJECT HIS PLAN

3  AND AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
ON THE DAY OF THE GREAT PILGRIMAGE TO THE PEOPLE 
THAT ARE ASSEMBLED, THAT GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
DISSOLVE TREATY OBLIGATIONS WITH THE PAGANISTIC PEOPLE 
IF THEN YOU REPENT IT WILL BE BENEFICIAL 
BUT IF YOU TURN AWAY KNOW THAT YOU WILL
NOT FRUSTRATE GOD AND PROCLAIM THE REQUITAL
TO THOSE OF THEM WHO REFUSE TO BOW TO GOD'S WILL

4  TREATIES ARE NOT DISSOLVED WITH THOSE PAGANS WITH WHOM YOU                              
ENTERED INTO AN ALLIANCE AND WHO HAVE NOT FAILED YOU
NOR AIDED ANYONE ELSE AGAINST YOU 
FULFILL THE ENGAGEMENTS THEY HAVE WITH YOU 
FOR GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS AMONG YOU

5  BUT THE MONTHS FORBIDDEN, WHEN YOU HAVE PAST THEM
FIGHT AND KILL THE PAGANS WHEREVER YOU FIND THEM 
AND SEIZE THEM AND BELEAGUER THEM 
AND LIE IN WAIT FOR THEM IN EVERY WAR STRATAGEM 

AND IF THEY REPENT AND ESTABLISH PRAYERS REGULARLY 
AND THEY SUBMIT AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
OPEN THE WAY FOR THEM FOR GOD IS SURELY
FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

6  IF ONE OF THE PAGANS ASKS YOU TO GIVE HIM ASYLUM
GRANT IT TO HIM SO THAT HE MAY HEAR GOD'S WISDOM
AND THEN ESCORT HIM TO WHERE IT IS SAFE FOR HIM
THAT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE MEN WITHOUT WISDOM

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7  HOW CAN THERE BE A COVENANT WITH GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
WITH THE PAGANS EXCEPT THOSE WITH WHOM A TREATY WAS ORDERED 
NEAR THE SACRED MOSQUE? AND AS LONG AS THEY ACT PROPER 
STAND TRUE TO THEM, FOR GOD LOVES RIGHTEOUS DOERS

8  HOW CAN THERE BE SUCH A COVENANT BETWEEN YOU
SEEING THAT IF THEY GET AN ADVANTAGE OVER YOU 
THEY RESPECT NOT THE TIES OF KINSHIP OR COVENANT WITH YOU? 
WITH FAIR WORDS FROM THEIR MOUTHS THEY ENTICE YOU
BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE AVERSE FROM YOU 
MOST OF THEM ARE REBELLIOUS AND WICKED TOO

9  THEY HAVE SOLD THE MESSAGES OF GOD FOR A MISERABLE WAGE
AND MANY HAVE THEY HINDERED FROM HIS WAY
AND EVIL INDEED ARE THEIR WAYS

10  THEY RESPECT NOT THE COVENANT OF A BELIEVER 
NOR THE TIES OF FRIENDSHIP OR KINSHIP EITHER 
THEY ARE BEYOND LIMITS TRANSGRESSORS

11  IF THEY REPENT AND ESTABLISH CHARITY 
THEY ARE YOUR BROTHERS IN FAITH AND SO DO WE 
EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES SO YOU MAY UNDERSTAND CLEARLY

12  BUT IF AFTER THEIR COVENANT WITH YOU
THEY DO VIOLATE THEIR PROMISES TO YOU
AND FOR YOUR FAITH THEY MOCK YOU
THEN FIGHT THE CHIEFS OF UNFAITH AMONG YOU
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY RESTRAIN THEM FROM YOU
THEIR PROMISES MEAN NOTHING THAT THEY MAKE TO YOU

13  WILL YOU NOT FIGHT PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO EXPEL THE MESSENGER
AND WHO VIOLATED THEIR OATHS AND THEN BECAME AGGRESSORS
BY BEING THE FIRST TO ASSAULT YOU, IS IT THEM YOU FEAR?
IT IS GOD WHOM YOU SHOULD MORE JUSTLY FEAR 
IF YOU ARE A SINCERE BELIEVER

14  FIGHT THEM AND YOUR LORD WILL PUNISH THEM 
BY YOUR HANDS AND WITH SHAME COVER THEM 
AND HELP YOU TO VICTORY OVER THEM 
AND HEAL THE BREASTS OF THE BELIEVERS FROM THEM

15  THEIR HEART'S INDIGNATIONS GOD WILL MAKE STATIONARY
FOR GOD WILL TURN TO WHOM HE WILLS IN MERCY 
AND GOD ENCOMPASSES ALL INDEED
AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS HE

16  OR DO YOU THINK THAT YOU 
WILL BE ABANDONED AS IF GOD DID NOT KNOW YOU 
WHO STRIVE HARD WITH MIGHT AND MAIN AMONG YOU?

AND TAKE FOR YOURSELVES NO FRIENDS OR PROTECTORS   
EXCEPT GOD AND HIS MESSENGER AND THE BELIEVERS 
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER

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17  IT IS NOT FOR THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD 
TO VISIT OR MAINTAIN THE MOSQUES OF GOD 

WHILE THEY WITNESS AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS AS INFIDELS
THEIR WORKS BEAR NO FRUIT AND IN THE FIRE WILL THEY DWELL

18  THE MOSQUES OF GOD WILL BE
VISITED AND MAINTAINED BY THOSE WHO BELIEVE
IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY AND ESTABLISH PRAYERS REGULARLY
AND WHO PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND FEAR NONE EXCEPT GOD, FULL OF GLORY
IT IS THEY WHO ARE EXPECTED TO BE GUIDED RIGHTLY

19  DO YOU MAKE GIVING DRINK TO PILGRIMS WHO SERVE GOD 
OR THE MAINTAINING OF THE SACRED MOSQUE OF GOD 
EQUAL TO THOSE WHO SERVE AND BELIEVE IN GOD 
AND THE LAST DAY AND STRIVE HARD IN THE CAUSE OF GOD? 
NO, THEY ARE NOT AT ALL EQUAL IN THE SIGHT OF GOD 
THOSE WHO DO WRONG ARE NOT GUIDED BY GOD

20  BUT THOSE WHO DO BELIEVE AND SUFFER EXILE AND STRIVE 
HARD IN GOD'S CAUSE WITH THEIR GOODS AND THEIR LIVES
THEY HAVE THE HIGHEST RANK IN GOD'S SIGHT
THEY ARE THE ONES WHO RECEIVE SPIRITUAL DELIGHT

21  GOD GIVES THEM NEWS OF MERCY AND OF HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
AND OF GARDENS FOR THEM WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS

22  THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM FOREVER 
FOR GOD'S REWARD IS THE GREATEST EVER

23  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TAKE NOT FOR FRIENDS YOUR FATHERS AND YOUR BROTHERS 
IF THEY LOVE INFIDELITY ABOVE BEING BELIEVERS 
IF ANY OF YOU DO SO YOU ARE WRONG-DOERS

24  IF IT BE THAT YOUR FATHERS 
OR YOUR SONS OR YOUR BROTHERS 
YOUR MATES OR YOUR KINDRED OR YOUR TREASURES 
OR THE COMMERCE IN WHICH OF A LOSS YOU FEAR 
OR THE DWELLINGS WHICH GIVE YOU PLEASURE  
ARE DEARER TO YOU THAN THE CREATOR 
OR HIS MESSENGER OR THE STRIVING IN THE CAUSE OF YOUR MAKER 
WAIT UNTIL A DECISION IS MADE BY YOUR LORD AND CHERISHR
AND REBELLIOUS PEOPLE ARE NOT GUIDED BY THE CREATOR

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25  CERTAINLY GOD DID INDEED IN MANY BATTLE FIELDS HELP YOU
ON THE DAY OF HUNAIN YOUR GREAT NUMBERS ELATED YOU 
BUT IN NOTHING DID THEY AVAIL YOU 
AND THE LAND AS WIDE AS IT IS DID CONSTRAIN YOU 
AND YOU TURNED BACK ON YOUR HEELS IN RETREAT MOST OF YOU

26  BUT GOD DID INDEED HELP THE MESSENGER AND THE BELIEVERS 
AND SENT FORCES WHICH YOU SAW NOT ON THE DISBELIEVERS
AND SO DOES HE PUNISH THE DISBELIEVERS

27  AGAIN WILL GOD TURN TO WHOM HE WILLS IN MERCY 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

28  OH BELIEVERS, THE PAGANS ARE DIRTY 
SO AFTER THIS YEAR LET THEM NOT GAIN ENTRY
TO THE SACRED MOSQUE AND IF YOU FEAR POVERTY
GOD WILL ENRICH YOU IF HE WILLS OUT OF HIS BOUNTY 
AND ALL KNOWING AND ALL WISE IS HE

29  AND FIGHT AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION
THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE RESSURECTION
THOSE WHO HOLD NOT FORBIDDEN 
THAT WHICH GOD AND HIS MESSENGER HAS FORBIDDEN 
NOR DO THEY FOLLOW THE TRUE RELIGION 
EVEN IF THEY ARE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE REVELATIONS 
UNTIL THEY PAY THE TAX WITH WILLING SUBMISSION
AND FEEL THEMSELVES IN A STATE OF HUMILIATION

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30  THE JEWS CALL EZRA, GOD'S SON
THE CHRISTIANS CALL CHRIST, GOD'S SON
THAT IS FROM THEIR MOUTHS AN INVENTION
IN THIS THEY BUT MAKE AN IMITATION
OF THE PRIOR DISBELIEVER'S FABRICATIONS 
GOD'S CURSE IS ON THEM AND THEY ARE IN DELUSION

31  THEY TAKE THEIR ANCHORITES AND THEIR PRIESTS 
AS GODS BESIDES GOD IN DEITY
AND THEY TAKE CHRIST, THE SON OF MARY AS A DIETY
YET THEY WERE COMMANDED TO WORSHIP ONE GOD ONLY
AND THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, TO HIM BE PRAISE AND GLORY  
FAR ABOVE HAVING THE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM IS HE

32  WITH THEIR MOUTHS THEY WANT TO EXTINGUISH GOD'S LIGHT 
BUT GOD WILL ALLOW ONLY TO PERFECT HIS LIGHT 
THOUGH IT BE TO THE DISBELIEVERS DISLIKE 

33  IT IS HE WHO HAS SENT HIS MESSENGER WITH THE TRUE RELIGION
AND GUIDANCE TO PROCLAIM IT OVER ALL RELIGIONS
THOUGH IT IS DETESTED BY THOSE IN REJECTION 

 34  OH BELIEVERS, AMONG PRIESTS AND RABBIS ARE THOSE WHOM THEY 
DEVOUR THE SUBSTANCE OF MEN AND HINDER THEM FROM GOD'S WAY
WHO HOARD GOLD AND SILVER AND SPEND IT NOT IN GOD'S WAY  
ANNOUNCE TO THEM THE PENALTY OF A GRIEVOUS DAY

35  ON THE DAY WHEN PRODUCED OUT OF THAT WEALTH WILL BE
HEAT IN THE FIRE OF HELL AND WITH IT WILL BE 
BRANDED THEIR FOREHEADS, THEIR FLANKS AND BACKS AND INDEED 
THIS WILL BE THE TREASURE WHICH FOR YOURSELVES YOU BURIED
SO TASTE THE TREASURES WHICH YOU YOURSELVES BURIED

36  THE NUMBER OF MONTHS IS TWELVE IN A YEAR
THE DAY GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH  
AND OF THEM FOUR ARE SACRED THAT IS THE RIGHT CULTURE
SO WRONG NOT YOURSELVES IN THEM AND FIGHT THE DISBELIEVERS 
ALL TOGETHER AS THEY FIGHT YOU ALL TOGETHER
BUT KNOW THAT GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO PERSEVERE

37  TRANSPOSING A PROHIBITED MONTH IS DONE BY DISBELIEVERS 
TO MAKE IT LAWFUL ONE YEAR AND FORBID IT ANOTHER  
AND MAKING FORBIDDEN MONTHS LAWFUL BY ADJUSTING THEIR NUMBER
MAKING LAWFUL MONTHS FORBIDDEN BY ADJUSTING THEIR NUMBER
AND THE EVIL OF THEIR COURSE GIVES THEM PLEASURE
BUT GOD GUIDES NOT THOSE WHO ARE REJECTORS

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38  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS, WHAT IS THE MATTER  
THAT WHEN YOU ARE ASKED TO FIGHT IN THE CAUSE OF THE CREATOR 
THAT YOU CLING HEAVILY TO THE EARTH THEREAFTER?  
DO YOU PREFER THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD TO THE HEREAFTER?
LITTLE IS THE COMFORT OF THIS LIFE COMPARED TO THE HEREAFTER

39  UNLESS YOU GO FORTH HE SURELY
WILL PUNISH YOU WITH A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

AND IN YOUR PLACE PUT OTHERS 
BUT HIM YOU WILL NOT HARM EVER
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER

40  IF YOU HELP NOT YOUR LEADER IT IS NO MATTER 
FOR SURELY GOD DID HELP HIM WHEN THE DISBELIEVERS 
DROVE HIM OUT AND HE HAD NO MORE THAN ONE PARTNER 
WHEN THEY WERE TWO IN THE CAVE AND HE SAID TO HIS PARTNER
FEAR NOT FOR WITH US IS THE CREATOR
THEN GOD SENT DOWN PEACE ON HIM MAKING HIM STRONGER
WITH FORCES OF WHICH YOU WERE NOT THE OBSERVER  
AND HUMBLED TO THE DEPTHS THE DISBELIEVERS 
THE WORD OF GOD IS EXALTED IN MEASURE
GOD IS WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER 

41  GO FORTH EQUIPPED LIGHTLY OR HEAVILY AND STRIVE 
AND STRUGGLE IN GOD'S CAUSE WITH YOUR GOODS AND YOUR LIVES 
THAT IS BEST FOR YOU IF YOU ARE WISE

42  IF THERE HAD BEEN GAIN IN SIGHT IMMEDIATELY  
AND THE JOURNEY EASY THEY WOULD HAVE ALL SURELY
FOLLOWED YOU BUT THE DISTANCE WAS LONG AND WEIGHTY 
AND THEY WOULD SWEAR BY GOD STRONGLY
IF ONLY WE COULD WE WOULD HAVE CERTAINLY 
COME WITH YOU BUT THEY WOULD DESTROY COMPLETELY
THEIR OWN SOULS FOR GOD KNOWS THEY ARE LYING SURELY

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43  GOD GIVES YOU GRACE BUT WHY DID YOU GRANT THEM EXEMPTION
BEFORE THOSE WHO TOLD THE TRUTH WERE SEEN IN DISTINCTION 
AND YOU HAD PROVED THE LIARS WITHOUT QUESTION?

44  THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE RESSURECTION 
AND IN GOD DO NOT ASK YOU FOR ANY EXEMPTION 
FOR FIGHTING WITH THEIR PERSONS AND POSSESSIONS
AND GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR OBLIGATIONS

45  ONLY THOSE WHO ASK YOU FOR EXEMPTION
ARE THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE RESSURECTION 
OR IN THEIR LORD AND WHOSE HEARTS ARE IN CONFUSION 
AND THEY ARE TOSSED TO AND FRO IN THEIR DELUSION

46  IF THEY HAD INTENDED TO COME OUT IN REALITY
THEY WOULD HAVE MADE SOME PREPARATION TO BE READY
BUT YOUR LORD WAS AVERSE TO THEIR BEING SENT FORTH REALLY
SO HE MADE THEM TO LAG BEHIND AND THEY WERE TOLD TO SIT IDLY
AMONG THOSE WHO SIT AT HOME INACTIVELY 

47  IF THEY HAD COME OUT WITH YOU 
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE ADDED STRENGTH TO YOU
BUT WOULD HAVE ONLY CAUSED DISORDER AMONG YOU
HURRYING TO AND FRO AND SOWING SEDITION AMONG YOU 
THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOME OF THEM WHO
WOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THEM FROM AMONG YOU
GOD KNOWS WELL THOSE WHO DO WRONG AMONG YOU

48  THEY HAD PLOTTED SEDITION BEFORE AND HAD DEVISED
PLOTS AGAINST YOU UNTIL THE TRUTH ARRIVED

AND THE DECREE OF GOD BECAME MANIFEST
ALTHOUGH SURELY THEY DID DETEST

49  AMONG THEM THERE ARE MANY 
WHO SAY, GRANT ME EXEMPTION AND DO NOT TRY ME 
HAVE THEY NOT FALLEN INTO TRIAL ALREADY? 
AND HELL SURROUNDS THE DISBELIEVERS COMPLETELY

50  IF GOOD BEFALLS YOU THEN GRIEVED ARE THEY
IF A MISFORTUNE BEFALLS YOU THEN THEY SAY
WE TOOK OUR PRECAUTIONS BEFORE TODAY
AND THEN THEY REJOICE TURNING AWAY

51  SAY, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO US 
EXCEPT WHAT GOD HAS DECREED FOR US 
HE IS OUR PROTECTOR AND IN HIM WE TRUST

52  CAN YOU EXPECT FOR US ANY FATE OTHER 
THAN ONE OF TWO THINGS, WE WILL BE VICTORS OR MARTYRS?
BUT FOR YOU WE CAN EXPECT EITHER THAT THE CREATOR
WILL PUNISH YOU HIMSELF OR BY OUR ENDEAVORS
SO WAIT, FOR WE WILL WAIT WITH YOU TOGETHER

53  SAY, SPEND WILLINGLY OR UNWILLINGLY, IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED 
FOR YOU ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE REBELLIOUS AND WICKED

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54  THE ONLY REASON WHY THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS 
ARE NOT ACCEPTED IS BECAUSE OF THEIR REJECTION 
OF GOD AND HIS MESSENGER AND THEY HAVE NO CONVICTION 
IN THEIR PRAYERS AND THEY OFFER UNWILLING CONTRIBUTIONS

55  LET NOT THEIR WEALTH OR THEIR CHILDREN BE TO YOU AMAZING 
GOD'S PLAN IS TO PUNISH THEM IN THIS LIFE WITH THESE THINGS 
AND THAT THEIR SOULS MAY PERISH IN THEIR DENYING

56  THEY SWEAR BY GOD THAT THEY ARE OF YOU
BUT THEY ARE NOT REALLY OF YOU 
AND THEY ARE AFRAID TO APPEAR BEFORE YOU

57  AND IF THEY COULD FIND CAVES OR A PLACE TO FLEE  
OR A PLACE OF CONCEALMENT THEY WOULD SURELY
TURN STRAIGHTWAY FROM YOU HASTILY

58  AND AMONG THEM ARE MEN WHO SLANDEROUSLY
ATTACK YOU IN THE MATTER OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHARITY
AND IF THEY ARE GIVEN PART OF IT THEN THEY ARE PLEASED
BUT IF NOT THEN THEY BEHAVE INDIGNANTLY 

59  IF THEY HAD BEEN CONTENT
WITH WHAT GOD AND HIS APOSTLE HAD SENT
AND IF THEY HAD SAID, FOR US GOD IS SUFFICIENT 
AND GOD AND HIS APOSTLE WILL SOON GIVE US RECOMPENSE  
AND TO GOD DO WE GIVE OUR OBEDIENCE
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE RIGHT COURSE TO COMMENCE

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60  CHARITY IS FOR THE POOR AND THE NEEDY
AND THOSE EMPLOYED TO ADMINISTER THE MONEY
AND FOR THOSE WHOSE HEARTS HAVE BEEN RECENTLY
RECONCILED TO TRUTH AND TO FREE THOSE WHO ARE NOT FREE

AND IN DEBT IN THE CAUSE OF GOD 
AND FOR THE WAYFARER AND THIS IS ORDAINED BY GOD 
FOR FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS GOD

61  THERE ARE THOSE WHO ANNOY THE MESSENGER 
AND THEY SAY, HE IS ALL EAR
BUT TO THEM SAY, HE LISTENS TO WHAT IS BETTER 
HE BELIEVES IN GOD AND HAS FAITH IN THE BELIEVERS
AND HE IS A MERCY TO THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
BUT ANY OF THOSE WHO ANNOY THE MESSENGER
WILL HAVE A PENALTY THAT IS SEVERE

62  TO PLEASE YOU THEY SWEAR BY THE CREATOR
BUT IF THEY PLEASED GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
IT WOULD BE BETTER IF THEY ARE BELIEVERS

63  KNOW THEY NOT THAT FOR THOSE WHO ARE OPPOSERS 
OF THEIR LORD AND HIS MESSENGER

IS THE FIRE OF HELL? 
AND IN IT THEY WILL DWELL 
THAT IS THE SUPREME DISGRACE - HELL

64  THE HYPOCRITES ARE AFRAID THAT A CHAPTER SHOULD BE 
SENT DOWN ABOUT THEM SHOWING THEM WHAT IS REALLY 
IN THEIR HEARTS. SAY, AT US YOU MAKE MOCKERY
GOD WILL BRING TO LIGHT ALL YOU FEAR SURELY

65  IF YOU QUESTION THEM THEY SAY EMPHASIZING 
SAYING, WE WERE ONLY TALKING IDLY AND PLAYING
SAY, WAS IT GOD AND HIS APOSTLE YOU WERE MOCKING?

66  MAKE NO EXCUSES FOR YOU 
HAVE REJECTED THE FAITH EVEN AFTER YOU 
HAD ACCEPTED IT AND IF WE PARDON SOME OF YOU  
WE WILL SURELY PUNISH OTHERS AMONG YOU 
FOR THEY ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE UNTRUE

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67  THE HYPOCRITES HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING WITH EACH OTHER
THEY ENJOIN EVIL AND FORBID WHAT IS PROPER
THEY WITHHOLD THEIR HANDS AND HAVE FORGOTTEN THE CREATOR
SO THEY TOO HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN BY THEIR MAKER 
THE HYPOCRITES ARE REBELLIOUS AND PERVERTED TRANSGRESSORS

68  GOD HAS PROMISED THE HYPOCRITICAL MEN 
AND THOSE WHO ARE HYPOCRITICAL WOMEN 
AND TO THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION 

THE FIRE OF HELL AND IT IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEM 
AND THE CURSE OF THEIR LORD IS ON THEM
AN ENDURING PUNISHMENT IS IN STORE FOR THEM

69  AS IN THE CASE OF THOSE PRIOR 
THEY WERE MIGHTIER THAN YOU IN POWER  
IN WEALTH AND CHILDREN THEY WERE GREATER
AND THEY HAD THEIR ENJOYMENT OF THEIR MEASURE 
AND YOU TOO HAVE OF YOURS AS SO DID THOSE BEFORE
AND YOU INDULGE IN IDLE TALK TOO AS THEY DID FORMER
AND THEIR WORKS ARE FRUITLESS AND SO IN THE HEREAFTER
THEY WILL SURELY BE AMONG THE LOSERS 

70  HAS NOT THE STORY REACHED THEM OF THE FORMER PEOPLE 
OF THE PEOPLE OF NOAH AND AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE
AND THE PEOPLE OF ABRAHAM AND THE MIDIAN PEOPLE 

AND THE OVERTHROWN CITIES?   
APOSTLES CAME TO THEM WITH SIGNS CLEARLY
THEY WRONGED THEMSELVES, GOD TREATED THEM NOT WRONGFULLY

71  THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE BELIEVERS
THEY ARE PROTECTORS OF ONE ANOTHER 
THEY ENJOIN WHAT IS JUST AND FORBID WHAT IS IN ERROR  
THEY PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY AND OBSERVE REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
UPON THEM WILL GOD GRANT HIS FAVOR
FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER

72  GOD HAS PROMISED TO BELIEVERS MEN AND WOMEN 
GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS AND GARDENS
WITH EVERLASTING BLISSFUL MANSIONS 
AND GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE IS THE GREATEST SALVATION

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73  OH PROPHET, STRIVE HARD AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS 
AND THE HYPOCRITES BE FIRM AGAINST THEM AND SEVERE 
AND THEIR HOME IS IN HELL, AN EVIL PLACE FOR THE DWELLERS

74  THEY SWEAR BY GOD THAT NOTHING DID THEY UTTER 
BUT THEY DID BLASPHEME AND THEY DID DO IT AFTER 
ACCEPTING THE RELIGION AND THEY CONSPIRED
PLOTTINGS WHICH THEY WERE UNABLE TO DELIVER
AND THIS REVENGE WAS THEIR RETURN FOR THE FAVOR
WHICH HAD BEEN GIVEN TO THEM BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
IF THEY REPENT IT WILL BE BETTER 
BUT IF THEY TURN BACK TO EVIL GOD WILL PUNISH THEM AFTER
WITH A GRIEVOUS PENALTY IN THIS LIFE AND THE HEREAFTER 
AND THEY WILL HAVE NO ONE AS A PROTECTOR OR HELPER

75  AMONG THEM ARE MEN WHO MADE A COVENANT SINCERELY
WITH GOD, THAT IF HE BESTOWED ON THEM OF HIS BOUNTY 
THAT THEY WOULD GIVE LARGELY IN CHARITY 
AND BE TRULY AMONG THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

76  BUT WHEN HE DID BESTOW OF HIS BOUNTY THEY BECAME GREEDY 
AND TURNED BACK FROM THE FULFILLMENT OF THEIR DUTY

77  SO HE HAS CONSEQUENTLY
PUT INTO THEIR HEARTS HYPOCRISY

78  TO LAST UNTIL THE DAY WHEN THEY WILL MEET GOD
BECAUSE THEY BROKE THEIR COVENANT WITH GOD 
AND BECAUSE THAT THEY LIED TO GOD
THEIR SECRET THOUGHTS ARE KNOWN TO GOD 
AND THEIR SECRET COUNSELS ARE KNOWN TO GOD
AND ALL THINGS SEEN AND UNSEEN ARE KNOWN TO GOD  

79  THOSE WHO SLANDER THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WHO GIVE THEMSELVES FREELY TO DEEDS OF CHARITY 
AS WELL AS THOSE WHO FIND NOTHING TO GIVE EXCEPT GOOD DEEDS  
AND MOCK THEM, GOD WILL REPAY THEM FOR THEIR MOCKERY  
AND THEY WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

80  WHETHER OR NOT YOU ASK FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS 
THEIR SIN IS UNFORGIVABLE, IF YOU ASK  FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS 
SEVENTY TIMES THEY WILL NOT RECEIVE GOD'S FORGIVENESS
BECAUSE THEY HAVE REJECTED GOD AND HIS MESSAGES
AND GOD GUIDES NOT HE WHO TRANSGRESSES 

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81  AND OF THOSE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND IN THE TABUK EXPEDITION 
BEHIND THE BACK OF THE APOSTLE THEY REJOICE IN THEIR INACTION 
THEY HATED TO STRIVE WITH THEIR LIVES AND THEIR POSSESSIONS
THEY SAID, GO NOT FORTH IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN
BUT THE FIRE OF HELL IS FIERCER ONE 

82  SO LET THEM LAUGH A LITTLE, MUCH WILL THEY BE WEEPING
A RECOMPENSE FOR THE EVIL THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING

83  THEREFORE IF GOD BRINGS YOU BACK TO A PARTY OF THEM 
AND YOUR PERMISSION TO GO FORTH IS ASKED BY THEM
NEVER WILL YOU GO FORTH WITH ME. SAY TO THEM 
AND NEVER FIGHT AN ENEMY WITH THEM
TO SIT AT HOME THE FIRST TIME WAS CHOSEN BY THEM
SO NOW WITH THOSE WHO STAY BEHIND, LET THEM STAY WITH THEM

84  NOR DO YOU EVER PRAY FOR ANY OF THEM THAT HAVE DIED
NOR STAND AT HIS GRAVE FOR THAT THEY DIED

IN REJECTION OF GOD AND HIS APOSTLE
AND IN A STATE OF BEING REBELS

85  NOR LET THEIR WEALTH OR CHILDREN BE TO YOU AMAZING
YOUR LORD'S PLAN IS TO PUNISH THEM WITH THESE THINGS 
AND THAT THEIR SOULS MAY PERISH FOR THEIR DENYING

86  WHEN A CHAPTER COMES DOWN ENJOINING THEM TO BE BELIEVERS 
AND TO STRIVE AND FIGHT ALONG WITH GOD'S MESSENGER
THEY ASK YOU FOR EXEMPTION THOSE WITH WEALTH AND TREASURES
AND SAY, LEAVE US BEHIND WITH THE STRAGGLERS

87  THEY PREFER TO BE WITH THE WOMEN
WHO REMAIN BEHIND AT HOME WITH THE CHILDREN
THEIR HEARTS ARE SEALED SO THEY HAVE NO COMPREHENSION 

88  BUT THE APOSTLE AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE WITH HIM STRIVE 
AND THEY FIGHT WITH THEIR WEALTH AND THEIR LIVES
AND THEY WILL PROSPER ALL OF THEIR LIVES

89  GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THEM 
GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH THEM 
THAT IS INDEED THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT FOR THEM

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90  AND THERE WERE AMONG THE ARABS OF THE DESERT  
MEN WHO MADE EXCUSES AND WERE FALSE TO THE CREATOR
AND ASKED FOR EXEMPTION AND WERE FALSE TO THE MESSENGER
AND SAT INACTIVE AND SOON WILL A DISASTER 
SEIZE ALL THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 

91  THERE IS NO BLAME ON THE WEAK OR THE SICK OR EITHER
THOSE WHO FIND NOTHING TO SPEND BUT ARE SINCERE 
IN THEIR DUTY TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
NO COMPLAINT IS THERE AGAINST THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
AND GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

92  NOR IS THEIR BLAME ON ACCOUNT
OF THOSE WHO CAME TO YOU TO BE PROVIDED WITH MOUNTS
BUT WHEN THEN YOU SAID TO THEM, I CAN FIND FOR YOU NO MOUNTS  
THEY TURNED BACK CRYING ON ACCOUNT
THAT THEY HAD NO RESOURCES TO AFFORD THE AMOUNTS

93  THE COMPLAINT IS AGAINST THOSE WHO CLAIM EXEMPTION 
WHILE THEY ARE RICH AND PREFER TO STAY BEHIND WITH THE WOMEN 
GOD HAS SEALED THEIR HEARTS SO THAT THEY HAVE NO COMPREHENSION

PART XI

94  WHEN THEY RETURN TO YOU
THEY WILL PRESENT THEIR EXCUSES TO YOU
SAY TO THEM, PRESENT NO EXCUSES WE WILL NOT BELIEVE YOU
GOD HAS TOLD US THE TRUE STATE OF MATTERS CONCERNING YOU
WHAT MATTERS TO GOD AND THE APOSTLE ARE THE ACTIONS OF YOU 
AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO GOD AND HE WILL THEN SHOW YOU 
THE TRUTH OF ALL THAT WAS DONE BY YOU 

95  THEY WILL SWEAR BY GOD WHEN YOU RETURN TO THEM
THAT YOU MAY LEAVE THEM ALONE, THEREFORE LEAVE THEM  
THEY ARE AN ABOMINATION AND HELL IS THE PLACE FOR THEM
A FITTING RECOMPENSE FOR EVIL DONE BY THEM

96  THEY WILL SWEAR TO MAKE YOU PLEASED WITH THEM
BUT EVEN IF YOU ARE PLEASED WITH THEM
GOD IS NOT PLEASED WITH THEM

97  THE DESERT DWELLERS 
ARE THE WORST HYPOCRITES AND DISBELIEVERS
AND MORE IGNORANT OF WHAT GOD REVEALED TO HIS MESSENGER
BUT GOD IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

98  SOME OF THE DESERT DWELLERS
LOOK ON THEIR PAYMENTS AS A FINE AND WATCH FOR DISASTERS 
TO FALL ON YOU, BUT ON THEM BE THE EVIL DISASTER 
GOD IS ALL HEARING AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

99  BUT SOME OF THE DESERT DWELLERS
THOSE WHO IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY ARE BELIEVERS
LOOK ON THEIR PAYMENTS AS GIFTS BRINGING THEM NEARER 
TO THE CREATOR AND OBTAINING THE PRAYERS OF THE MESSENGER
THEY DO BRING THEM NEARER AND GOD WILL ADMIT THEM TO HIS FAVOR 
FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

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100  THE VANGUARD OF ISLAM WHO WERE THE FIRST OF THEM 
WHO FORSOOK THEIR HOMES AND THOSE WHO AIDED THEM 
AND THOSE WHO IN ALL GOOD DEEDS FOLLOW THEM 
GOD IS WELL PLEASED WITH THEM 
AS ARE THEY WITH HIM AND FOR THEM
HE HAS PREPARED GARDENS TO DWELL IN FOR THEM
AND THAT IS THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT FOR THEM

101  AROUND YOU THERE ARE DESERT ARABS THAT ARE HYPOCRITES TRULY
AND AMONG THE MEDINA FOLK THAT ARE OBSTINATE IN HYPOCRISY 
YOU DO NOT KNOW THEM BUT WE DO KNOW THEM CLEARLY
AND TWICE WILL WE PUNISH THEM AND ADDITIONALLY
THEY WILL BE SENT TO A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

102  OTHERS THERE ARE WHO ACKNOWLEDGED THEIR EVILS 
AND THEY HAVE MIXED A GOOD ACT WITH ONE THAT WAS SINFUL
PERHAPS GOD WILL TURN TO THEM IN MERCY, FOR GOD IS MERCIFUL 

103  AND OF THEIR GOODS TAKE CHARITY FROM THEM
SO THAT YOU MIGHT PURIFY AND SANCTIFY THEM 
AND ON THEIR BEHALF PRAY FOR THEM
YOUR PRAYERS ARE A SOURCE OF SECURITY FOR THEM 
AND GOD IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THEM

104  GOD ACCEPTS REPENTANCE FROM HIS SERVANTS GRATEFULLY
AND GRACEFULLY RECEIVES THEIR GIFTS OF CHARITY 
AND GOD IS OFTEN RETURNING TO MERCY

1O5  AND SAY, WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS. GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
WILL BE THE OBSERVER OF YOUR WORK AND THE BELIEVERS 
AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE KNOWER 
OF WHAT IS HIDDEN AND OPEN, THEN WE WILL MAKE CLEAR 
THE TRUTH TO YOU OF ALL OF YOUR ENDEAVORS

106  THERE ARE YET OTHERS 
HELD IN SUSPENSE FOR GOD'S ORDERS
WHETHER HE WILL PUNISH THEM OR GIVE THEM FAVOR 
FOR GOD IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

107  THERE ARE THOSE WHO PUT UP A MOSQUE IN ERROR
IN AN EFFORT TO DISUNITE THE BELIEVERS
AND IN PREPARATION FOR ONE WHO WAS A WARRIOR
AGAINST THE CREATOR AND HIS MESSENGER
BEFORE THAT THEY WILL INDEED SWEAR 
THAT THEIR INTENTIONS WERE THOSE OF RIGHT DOERS
BUT GOD DOES DECLARE THAT THEY ARE LIARS 

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108  NEVER STAND IN IT, THERE IS A MOSQUE SURELY
WHOSE FOUNDATION WAS LAID FROM THE FIRST DAY ON PIETY 
YOUR STANDING IN IT IS MORE WORTHY
FOR OFFERING YOUR PRAYERS IN IT REGULARLY
FOR IN IT ARE MEN WHO LOVE PURITY
AND GOD LOVES THOSE WHO LOVE PURITY

109  WHICH THEN IS BEST, HE THAT LAYS HIS FOUNDATION 
ON PIETY TO GOD OR HE THAT LAYS HIS FOUNDATION

ON AN UNDERMINED SAND CLIFF READY TO CRUMBLE? 
AND IT DOES CRUMBLE DOWN WITH HIM INTO HELL 
AND GOD GUIDES NOT WRONG DOING PEOPLE 

110  THOSE WHO BUILD SUCH A FOUNDATION 
ARE NEVER FREE FROM SUSPICION 
THEIR HEARTS ARE IN A SHAKY CONDITION
UNTIL THEIR HEARTS ARE CUT UP INTO SECTIONS
AND SURELY GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

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111  GOD HAS PURCHASED OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE
THEIR PERSONS AND THEIR PROPERTIES
FOR THEIRS IN RETURN IS THE GARDEN OF ETERNITY
FOR THEY FIGHT AND KILL AND ARE KILLED FOR HIS GLORY
A PROMISE THAT IS BINDING ON HIM IN TRUTH AND CERTAINTY
THROUGH THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL AND THE QURAN FIRMLY

WHO BESIDES GOD IS MORE FAITHFUL TO HIS COVENANT?
THEN REJOICE IN THE CONCLUDED AGREEMENT
AND THAT IS THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT 

112  THOSE THAT TURN IN REPENTANCE TO GOD 
AND THAT SERVE GOD AND PRAISE GOD
THAT WANDER IN DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE OF GOD 
THAT BOW DOWN AND PROSTRATE THEMSELVES IN PRAYER TO GOD  
WHO ENJOIN GOOD, FORBID EVIL AND OBSERVE THE LIMITS SET BY GOD 
THEY REJOICE, SO GIVE GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS IN GOD

113  IT IS NOT FITTING FOR THE PROPHET AND FOR THE BELIEVERS
THAT THEY SHOULD PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS FOR DISBELIEVERS
EVEN THOUGH THEY BE NEAR OF KIN AFTER IT IS CLEAR 
THAT THEY ARE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

114  AND ABRAHAM PRAYED FOR FORGIVENESS FOR HIS FATHER  
ONLY BECAUSE HE HAD MADE TO HIM A PROMISE PRIOR
BUT WHEN HIS ENMITY TO GOD BECAME CLEAR  
HE DISASSOCIATED HIMSELF FROM HIM ALTOGETHER
FOR ABRAHAM WAS A TENDER HEARTED AND FORBEARING BELIEVER

115  AND GOD WILL NOT MISLEAD A PEOPLE AFTER
HE HAS GUIDED THEM IN ORDER THAT HE MAY MAKE CLEAR
WHAT TO AVOID, FOR GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

116  THE DOMINION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH BELONG TO THE CREATOR
HE GIVES LIFE AND HE TAKES IT AND YOU HAVE NO HELPER
EXCEPT FOR HIM AND NO PROTECTOR

117  GOD TURNED WITH FAVOR TO THE PROPHET AND THE EMIGRANTS   
AND HELPERS WHO FOLLOWED HIM IN A TIME OF TORMENT

THEN AFTER THE HEARTS OF A PARTY OF THEM 
HAD NEARLY SWERVED FROM DUTY HE TURNED TO THEM 
FOR INDEED HE IS MOST KIND AND MOST MERCIFUL TO THEM

118  TO THE THREE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND HE TURNED IN MERCY
AND THEY FELT GUILTY TO SUCH A DEGREE 
THAT THE EARTH SEEMED CONSTRAINED IN ALL ITS EXTENSITY 
THEIR SOULS SEEMED STRAIGHTENED AND THEY PERCEIVED 
THAT FROM GOD THERE IS NOWHERE TO FLEE 
AND NO REFUGE BUT IN GOD AND HE TURNED TO THEM MERCIFULLY
THAT THEY MIGHT REPENT, FOR HE IS FULL OF MERCY

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119 FEAR GOD, OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
AND BE WITH THOSE WHO ARE TRUE IN WORD AND DEED

120  FOR THE PEOPLE OF MEDINAH IT WAS NOT PROPER
AND THOSE ROUND ABOUT THEM OF THE DESERT DWELLERS
TO REFUSE TO FOLLOW GOD'S MESSENGER 
NOR TO THEIR OWN LIVES TO HIS TO PREFER 
BECAUSE NOTHING COULD THEY DO OR SUFFER 
BUT WAS TO THEIR CREDIT OF DEEDS OF RIGHT  DOERS
WHETHER THEY SUFFERED THIRST OR FATIGUE OR HUNGER 
OR TROD PATHS TO RAISE THE ANGER OF DISBELIEVERS
OR RECEIVED AN INJURY FROM AN ENEMY WHATEVER
FOR YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER DOES NOT SUFFER
THE REWARD TO BE LOST OF RIGHTEOUS DOERS

121  AND NOR COULD THEY SPEND CHARITABLY
ANYTHING LARGE OR SMALL FOR THE NEED
OR CUT ACROSS A VALLEY BUT THE DEED
IS INSCRIBED TO THEIR CREDIT INDEED
THAT HE MAY REWARD THEM AMPLY

122  NOR SHOULD THE BELIEVERS ALL GO FORTH IN ONE CONGREGATION 
IF A CONTINGENT FROM EVERY EXPEDITION 
REMAINED BEHIND THEY COULD STUDY RELIGION 
AND GIVE TO THE PEOPLE TRUE AND CLEAR ADMONITION 
SO THE PEOPLE MAY LEARN TO GUARD AGAINST PERDITION

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123  FIGHT THE DISBELIEVERS WHO ARE NEAR YOU 
AND LET THEM FIND FIRMNESS IN YOU 
AND KNOW THAT IF YOU FEAR GOD HE IS WITH YOU

124  WHENEVER THERE COMES DOWN A CHAPTER 
SOME OF THEM SAY, WHICH OF YOU BELIEVERS
BY IT HAS HAD HIS FAITH MADE STRONGER 
THOSE WHO ARE TRUE BELIEVERS
REJOICE BECAUSE THEIR FAITH IS MADE STRONGER

125  THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE, IT WILL ADD DOUBT
TO THEIR DOUBT AND THEY WILL DIE IN A STATE OF DOUBT

126  THEY ARE TRIED EVERY YEAR ONCE OR TWICE
YET THEY TURN NOT IN REPENTANCE AND THEY TAKE NO ADVICE

127  AND THEN WHENEVER THERE COMES DOWN TO THEM A REVELATION
THEY LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER AND SAY, ARE YOU SEEN BY ANYONE?
THEN THEY TURN AWAY, SO GOD HAS TURNED THE DIRECTION
OF THEIR HEARTS AWAY FROM THE LIGHT FOR THE REASON
THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY COMPREHENSION

128  NOW HAS COME FROM AMONG YOU AN APOSTLE
IT GRIEVES HIM THAT YOU SHOULD BE STRESSFUL
SO ARDENTLY ANXIOUS IS HE OVER YOU PEOPLE
TO THE BELIEVERS IS HE KIND AND MERCIFUL 

129  BUT IF THEY TURN AWAY SAY, GOD SUFFICES ME 
THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE AND ON HIM IS MY DEPENDENCY
AND MY LORD IS THE LORD OF THE THRONE OF SUPREME GLORY

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