CHAPTER 1.  THE OPENING                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART I

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  PRAISE BE TO GOD
THE LORD OF THE WORLDS IS GOD

2  THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL
MASTER OF THE DAY OF REQUITAL

3  WE SERVE YOU ALONE
WE SEEK HELP FROM YOU ALONE

4  SHOW US THE STRAIGHT WAY 

5  THE WAY OF THOSE ON WHOM YOU HAVE BESTOWED GRACE 

6  NOT THE WAY OF THOSE WHO REJECT THE RIGHT WAY

7  NOR THE WAY OF THOSE WHO GO ASTRAY 

CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 1.  PART I

                                                                                                   
IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, THE CREATOR
AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  THIS IS THE BOOK, IN IT IS GUIDANCE SURELY
WITHOUT DOUBT FOR THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY

3  WHO BELIEVE IN THE UNSEEN AND PRAY REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY

4  WHO BELIEVE IN THE REVELATION SENT TO YOU
AND BELIEVE IN THE REVELATIONS SENT BEFORE YOU
AND IN THEIR HEARTS THEY ARE SURE OF THE HEREAFTER TOO

5  THEY ARE ON TRUE GUIDANCE FROM THEIR MAKER
AND IT IS THEY WHO WILL PROSPER

6  AS TO THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH IT IS THE SAME TO THEM 
THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE WHETHER YOU WARN THEM 
OR WHETHER YOU DO NOT WARN THEM 

7  GOD HAS SEALED THEIR HEARTS AND THEIR HEARING
AND OVER THEIR EYES IS A COVERING
AND GREAT IS THE PENALTY THEY WILL BE INCURRING

     

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 2.  PART I

8  OF THE PEOPLE THERE ARE SOME WHO SAY 
WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY 
BUT NOT REAL BELIEVERS ARE THEY

9  THEY SEEK TO DECEIVE GOD AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND IT IS ONLY THEMSELVES THEY DECEIVE 
BUT THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE

10  IN THEIR HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
GOD INCREASES THEIR DISEASE 
GRIEVOUS IS THEIR PENALTY 
BECAUSE OF THEIR FALSITY

11  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, MAKE NOT MISCHIEF ON THE EARTH
THEY SAY, WE ONLY WANT TO MAKE PEACE ON THE EARTH

12  THE ONES WHO MAKE MISCHIEF ARE THEY
BUT NOT IN REALIZATION OF THIS ARE THEY 

13  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, BELIEVE AS THE OTHERS BELIEVE 
THEY SAY, SHOULD WE BELIEVE AS THE FOOLS BELIEVE?
THEY ARE THE FOOLS BUT THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE

14  WHEN THEY MEET THOSE WHO BELIEVE THEY SAY, WE BELIEVE
WHEN THEY ARE ALONE WITH THEIR DEVILS THEY SAY SECRETLY
WE ARE WITH YOU REALLY WE WERE ONLY MAKING MOCKERY

15  GOD WILL PAY THEM BACK THEIR MOCKERY
LEAVING THEM ALONE IN THEIR INORDINANCY
WANDERING TO AND FRO BLINDLY

16  THESE ARE THEY WHO HAVE TRADED ERROR FOR GUIDANCE
THEIR BARGAIN IS FUTILE AND THEY HAVE LOST TRUE GUIDANCE

17  THEY ARE LIKE ONE WHO LIGHTS A FIRE 
WHEN IT LIGHTS AROUND HIM AND BECOMES BRIGHTER

GOD TAKES AWAY THEIR LIGHT
AND LEAVES THEM IN DARKNESS WITHOUT SIGHT

18  DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND AND WITHOUT LIGHT
AND THEY WILL NOT RETURN TO RIGHT 

19  A RAIN-LADEN CLOUD IS A LIKENESS OF ANOTHER  
IN IT IS DARKNESS AND LIGHTNING AND THUNDER
INTO THEIR EARS THEY PRESS THEIR FINGERS 
TO KEEP OUT THE STUNNING THUNDER
ALL THE WHILE THEY ARE IN TERROR 
BUT GOD ENCOMPASSES THE REJECTERS 

20  THEIR SIGHT IS ALMOST SNATCHED AWAY BY THE LIGHTNING
AND EVERY TIME THEY ARE HELPED BY ITS BRIGHTENING  
THEY WALK IN IT STANDING STILL IN ITS DARKENING
IF THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER WAS SO WILLING
HE WOULD TAKE AWAY THEIR HEARING AND SEEING 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 3.  PART I

21  ADORE YOUR LORD WHO CREATED YOU 
AND WHO CREATED THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE YOU 
THAT THE CHANCE TO LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS MAY BE GIVEN TO YOU
 
22  HE MADE THE EARTH A RESTING PLACE FOR YOU
AND MADE THE HEAVENS A CANOPY FOR YOU
AND SENT DOWN RAIN FROM THE HEAVENS FOR YOU
AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUITS FOR SUSTENANCE FOR YOU 
THEN SET NOT UP RIVALS TO GOD WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT IS TRUE

23  AND IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT AS TO THE SCRIPTURES
WHICH WE HAVE REVEALED TO OUR MESSENGER 
THEN TRY TO PRODUCE LIKE IT ONE CHAPTER 
AND CALL YOUR WITNESSES OR HELPERS 
BESIDES GOD IF YOU ARE SINCERE

24  BUT IF YOU CANNOT AND YOU CANNOT FOR SURE
THEN BE ON YOUR GUARD AGAINST THE FIRE 
WHOSE FUEL IS MEN AND STONES WHICH IS PREPARED 
FOR THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS

25  GIVE GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHO DO GOOD AND ARE BELIEVERS
THAT THEIR PORTION IS GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
EVERY TIME THEY ARE FED WITH FRUITS FROM THERE
THEY SAY, WE WERE FED WITH FRUITS LIKE IT PRIOR
FOR THEY ARE GIVEN THINGS SIMILAR
AND THEY HAVE IN THEM COMPANIONS HOLY AND PURE
AND THEY WILL ABIDE IN PARADISE FOREVER

26  THERE IS NO RELUCTANCE BY THE CREATOR 
TO USE THE LIKENESS OF THINGS LOWER
AS WELL AS THINGS THAT ARE HIGHER 
AND THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
KNOW THAT IT IS THE TRUTH FROM THEIR MAKER
BUT IT IS SAID BY THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS
BY THIS PARABLE WHAT DOES GOD MEAN TO CONFER?
AND BY IT HE ALLOWS MANY TO ERR
AND BY IT HE LEADS MANY TO THE RIGHT MANNER
BUT HE ONLY ALLOWS TO ERR
THOSE WHO REJECT THE RIGHT MANNER

27  THOSE WHO BREAK THE ORDERS OF THE CREATOR
AFTER THEY HAVE TO THEM BEEN MADE CLEAR
WHO SEVER WHAT HE ORDERS TO BE JOINED TOGETHER
AND ARE THEMSELVES MISCHIEF MAKERS
THESE IT IS THAT ARE THE LOSERS

28  HOW CAN YOU REJECT FAITH IN GOD IN YOUR LIFE
SEEING THAT YOU WERE WITHOUT LIFE AND HE GAVE YOU LIFE?  
GOD WILL CAUSE YOU TO DIE AND WILL AGAIN RAISE YOU TO LIFE  
AND AGAIN YOU WILL RETURN TO GOD AFTER LIFE

29  IT IS HE WHO MADE FOR YOU IN HIS CREATION 
ALL THINGS THAT ARE ON EARTH AND HIS COMPREHENSION 
DESIGNED THE HEAVENS FOR HE GAVE ORDER AND PERFECTION 
TO THE SEVEN HEAVENS AND HE KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 4.  PART I

30  GOD SAID TO THE ANGELS, I WILL CREATE ON EARTH A RULER  
THE ANGELS SAID, WILL YOU PLACE IN IT A MISCHIEF MAKER
AND ONE WHO IS A BLOOD SHEDDER
WHILE WE GLORIFY YOU AND GIVE YOU PRAISE AND HONOR?
HE SAID, I KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW NOT AND I AM THE BEST KNOWER

31  HE TAUGHT ADAM THE NAMES OF ALL THINGS
THEN HE PRESENTED THEM BEFORE THE ANGELIC BEINGS
AND SAID, TELL ME IF YOU KNOW THE NAMES OF THESE THINGS 

32  THEY SAID, GLORY TO YOU 
WE ONLY KNOW WHAT WAS TAUGHT TO US BY YOU
AND YOU ARE PERFECT IN KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND TRUTH

33  HE SAID, OH ADAM, TELL THEM THEIR NAMES 
AND WHEN HE HAD TOLD THEM THEIR NAMES

GOD SAID, I TOLD YOU I KNOW THE SECRETS OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND I KNOW WHAT YOU REVEAL AND WHAT YOU KEEP HIDDEN

34  WE SAID TO THE ANGELS, BOW DOWN TO ADAM
AND THEY ALL BOWED DOWN ALL EXCEPT SATAN
HE REFUSED AND WAS FILLED WITH OPPOSITION
AND WAS OF THOSE WHO WERE IN REJECTION

35  WE SAID, OH ADAM, DWELL IN THE GARDEN 
WITH YOUR WIFE AND EAT OF THE GOOD THINGS THEREIN
BUT APPROACH NOT THIS TREE OR YOU WILL BE IN TRANSGRESSION 

36  THEN SATAN MADE THEM SLIP FROM THE GARDEN 
AND GOT THEM OUT OF THE STATE THEY HAD BEEN IN
WE SAID, GET OUT ALL OF YOU FROM THE GARDEN
SOME OF YOU ARE ENEMIES TO OTHERS WITHIN
AND THE EARTH WILL BE YOUR PLACE TO DWELL IN
AND YOUR MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD FOR A TERM PREDESTINED

37  THEN ADAM LEARNED FROM HIS LORD WORDS OF INSPIRATION
AND HIS LORD TURNED TO HIM FOR HE IS FULL OF COMPASSION

38  WE SAID, GET OUT AND THERE WILL COME TO YOU GUIDANCE  
AND THEN WHOEVER WILL FOLLOW MY GUIDANCE
WILL HAVE NO FEAR NOR GRIEVANCE

39  THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH AND ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEY WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE 
AND THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOREVER

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 5.  PART I

40  OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BE MINDFUL OF MY FAVOR TO YOU
FULFILL YOUR COVENANT WITH ME AS I FULFILL MINE TO YOU
AND LET NONE BE FEARED BUT ME BY YOU

41  AND BELIEVE IN WHAT I REVEAL TO YOU
CONFIRMING THE REVELATION WHICH IS WITH YOU
AND BE NOT THE FIRST TO REJECT THE TRUTH 
NOR LET MY MESSAGES BE SOLD BY YOU
AND KEEP YOUR DUTY AND BE FIRM AND TRUE
AND LET NO ONE BE FEARED BUT ME BY YOU 
 
42  AND MIX NOT FALSEHOOD WITH TRUTH 
NOR CONCEAL THE TRUTH WHEN YOU KNOW  THE TRUTH

43  AND PRAY REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
BOW DOWN WITH THOSE WHO BOW DOWN SUBMISSIVELY

44  DO YOU ENJOIN RIGHT CONDUCT ON OTHERS
AND DO NOT PRACTICE IT YOURSELVES WHILE YOU READ THE SCRIPTURES 
DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER?

45  SEEK GOD'S HELP THROUGH PRAYER AND PATIENCE 
AND IT IS EASY FOR THOSE WITH A HUMBLE ESSENCE 

46  THOSE WHO ARE CERTAIN THAT THEY WILL MEET THEIR LORD
AND THAT THEY ARE GOING TO RETURN TO THEIR LORD

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 6.  PART I

47  OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, CALL TO MIND THE SPECIAL FAVOR 
WHICH I BESTOWED UPON YOU AND THAT I DID PREFER
YOU FOR MY MESSAGE TO ALL OTHERS

48  THEN GUARD AGAINST A DAY WHEN ONE PERSON
WILL NOT AVAIL ANOTHER PERSON
NOR WILL THEY HAVE ANY INTERCESSION  
NOR CAN THEY MAKE ANY COMPENSATION  
AND NOR WILL THEY BE HELPED BY ANYONE 

49  REMEMBER WE DELIVERED YOU FROM PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
WHO SUBJECTED YOU TO HARD TASKS AND TRIALS
AND KILLED YOUR MALES AND KEPT ALIVE YOUR FEMALES
AND THESE WERE FROM YOUR LORD TREMENDOUS TRIALS 

50  REMEMBER WE DIVIDED THE SEA FOR YOU AND SAVED YOU
AND DROWNED PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WITHIN THE VERY SIGHT OF YOU

51  AND REMEMBER WE APPOINTED FORTY NIGHTS FOR MOSES
AND YOU TOOK THE CALF FOR A GOD IN HIS ABSENCE
AND ACTED IN A MANNER MOST GRIEVOUS

52  AFTER THAT WE DID FORGIVE YOU AND TO YOU WE WERE MERCIFUL
THERE WAS A CHANCE EVEN THEN FOR YOU TO BE GRATEFUL

53  REMEMBER WE GAVE MOSES THE LIGHT
AND THE CRITERION BETWEEN WRONG AND RIGHT
AND THERE AGAIN WAS A CHANCE FOR YOU TO BE GUIDED ARIGHT 

54  MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, YOU HAVE BEEN WRONG DOERS
BY BEING CALF WORSHIPPERS 
SO TURN IN REPENTANCE TO YOUR MAKER
AND KILL THE WRONG-DOERS, FOR YOU THAT WILL BE BETTER 
IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
THEN GOD FORGAVE YOU FOR HE IS EVER
THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

55  YOU SAID TO MOSES, WE WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING
UNTIL WE SEE GOD MANIFESTLY, AND WHILE YOU STOOD LOOKING
YOU WERE SEIZED WITH THUNDER AND LIGHTNING 

56 THEN AFTER YOUR DEATH WE RAISED YOU
THEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO SHOW GRATITUDE

57  WE GAVE THE SHADE OF CLOUDS TO YOU 
AND WE SENT DOWN MANNA AND QUAILS TO YOU
AND SAID, EAT OF THE THINGS WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOU
BUT THEY REBELLED AND NO HARM TO US DID THEY DO
BUT HARM TO THEIR OWN SOULS THEY DID DO 

58  WE SAID, ENTER THIS TOWN AND EAT PLENTIFULLY 
BUT ENTER THE GATE WITH HUMILITY 
IN POSTURE AND IN WORDS AND WE WILL SURELY
FORGIVE YOU YOUR FAULTS AND INCREASE GREATLY
THE REWARD OF THOSE OF YOU WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

59  THE WRONG DOERS CHANGED THE WORD WE GAVE THEM
TO OTHER WORDS SO WE SENT PLAGUES ON THEM
FOR OUR ORDERS WERE DISOBEYED BY THEM

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 7.  PART I

60  REMEMBER WHEN MOSES PRAYED FOR HIS PEOPLE FOR WATER 
AND WE SAID, WITH YOUR STAFF STRIKE THE ROCK AS WE ORDER
THEN FROM THE ROCK TWELVE SPRINGS GUSHED FORTH WATER 
AND EACH GROUP KNEW ITS OWN PLACE FOR WATER 
EAT AND DRINK OF THE PROVISIONS FROM YOUR MAKER
AND DO NO EVIL ON THE EARTH NOR BE MISCHIEF MAKERS

61  AND REMEMBER 
YOU SAID, OH MOSES, WE CANNOT ENDURE 
ONE KIND OF FOOD FOREVER
SO ASK YOUR LORD TO BE OUR PROVIDER
OF WHAT THE EARTH GROWS OF ITS CUCUMBERS
AND GARLIC AND LENTILS AND ONIONS AND POT HERBS
AND HE SAID, WOULD YOU RATHER 
THAT WHICH IS WORSE TO THAT WHICH IS BETTER? 
THEN ENTER ANY CITY AND YOU WILL FIND WHAT YOU DESIRE
SO WITH SHAME AND MISERY THEY WERE COVERED
AND THE WRATH OF GOD THEY DID INCUR
BECAUSE THEY CONTINUED BEING REJECTERS
AND UNJUSTLY KILLING GOD'S MESSENGERS 
AND THEY WERE DISOBEDIENT TRANSGRESSORS

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 8.  PART I

62  THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES
AND THE CHRISTIANS AND THE SABIANS AND WHOEVER
BELIEVES IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY AND ARE RIGHT DOERS
THEY WILL HAVE THEIR REWARD WITH THEIR MAKER
AND THEY WILL NOT FEAR OR GRIEVE EITHER

63  REMEMBER WE TOOK YOUR COVENANT FROM YOU
AND RAISED THE MOUNTAIN ABOVE YOU 
HOLD FIRMLY TO WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN YOU 
AND LET WHAT IS IN IT BE REMEMBERED BY YOU 
THAT YOU MAY FEAR GOD AND KEEP EVIL FROM YOU

64  BUT THEN YOU DID TURN BACK THEREAFTER 
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE MERCY OF YOUR MAKER
YOU WOULD HAVE SURELY BEEN AMONG THE LOSERS 

65  AND THE SABBATH BY THOSE AMONG YOU WAS VIOLATED
SO WE SAID TO THEM, BE YOU AS APES DESPISED AND REJECTED

66  SO WE MADE IT AN EXAMPLE CLEARLY
IN THEIR OWN TIME AND TO THEIR POSTERITY 
AND A LESSON TO THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY

67  MOSES SAID TO HIS FOLLOWERS
GOD COMMANDS THAT YOU SACRIFICE A HEIFER 
THEY SAID, WITH THIS STORY ARE YOU BEING A RIDICULER?
HE SAID, OH MY LORD, SAVE ME FROM ACTING IN ERROR

68  THEY SAID, ASK ON OUR BEHALF FOR US
FOR GOD TO MAKE PLAIN TO US 
WHAT HEIFER IT IS TO US

HE SAID, GOD SAYS THE HEIFER 
SHOULD BE NEITHER TOO OLD NOR TOO YOUNG EITHER 
BUT OF MIDDLE AGE SO NOW DO WHAT YOU ARE ORDERED

69  THEY SAID, ASK ON OUR BEHALF FOR US
FOR GOD TO MAKE PLAIN TO US 
WHAT HER COLOR IS TO US

HE SAID, GOD SAYS HER COLOR 
IS A BRIGHT YELLOW-COLORED HEIFER 
RICH IN TONE AND PLEASING TO THE BEHOLDERS

70  THEY SAID, ASK GOD ON OUR BEHALF FOR US
TO MAKE WHAT HEIFER IT IS PLAIN TO US 
FOR ALL HEIFERS ARE ALIKE TO US 
WE WISH FOR GOD TO GUIDE US

71  HE SAID, GOD SAYS SHE IS A HEIFER 
NOT TRAINED TO TILL THE SOIL OR TO WATER 
THE FIELD, SOUND AND WITHOUT BLEMISH IN HER
THEY SAID,  NOW YOU HAVE BROUGHT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
ALTHOUGH THEY DID NOT WANT TO DO IT THEY SACRIFICED HER

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 9.  PART I

72  AND WHEN YOU KILLED A MAN AND DISAGREED ABOUT IT 
BUT GOD BROUGHT IT FORTH WHILE YOU TRIED TO HIDE IT

73  SO WE SAID, STRIKE HIM WITH IT PARTIALLY
SO DOES GOD BRING THE DEAD TO LIFE IN ORDER THAT HE
MAY SHOW YOU HIS SIGNS AND GIVE YOU KNOWLEDGE CLEARLY

74  THEN WERE YOUR HEARTS HARDENED LIKE ROCKS EVEN HARDER
FOR THERE ARE SOME ROCKS FROM WHICH GUSH FORTH RIVERS  
OTHERS WHICH WHEN SPLIT ASUNDER SEND FORTH WATER 
OTHERS FALL DOWN FOR FEAR OF THE CREATOR
AND OF WHAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER

75  DO YOU HOPE THAT YOU WILL BE BELIEVED BY THEM
SEEING THAT GOD'S WORD WAS HEARD BY THEM 
AND WAS KNOWINGLY PERVERTED BY THEM
AFTER IT WAS UNDERSTOOD BY THEM?

76  WHEN THEY MEET BELIEVERS THEY SAY, WE BELIEVE WITH YOU 
BUT THEY SAY WHEN THEY MEET BEHIND THE BACKS OF YOU
WILL YOU TELL THEM WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED TO YOU 
SO THEY MAY ARGUE ABOUT IT BEFORE GOD WITH YOU 
IS THEIR AIM NOT UNDERSTOOD BY YOU?

77  DO THEY NOT KNOW THAT GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY CONCEAL
AND THAT GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY REVEAL?

78  AND THERE ARE AMONG THEM PEOPLE WHO ARE UNLETTERED
WHO KNOW NOT THE BOOK BUT SEE IN IT THEIR OWN DESIRES 
AND THEY DO NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE

79  THEN CURSED ARE THEY 
WHO WRITE THE BOOK WITH THEIR OWN HANDS AND SAY 
THIS IS FROM GOD, SO THAT THEY MAY
SELL IT FOR A MISERABLE PRICE, CURSED ARE THEY
FOR WHAT THEY WRITE AND FOR THEIR GAINS THAT ARE  MADE 

80  THEY SAY, FOR A FEW DAYS THE FIRE WILL NOT TOUCH US  
SAY TO THEM, HAS GOD GIVEN TO YOU A PROMISE?
FOR HE NEVER BREAKS HIS PROMISE
OR DO YOU SAY THAT OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE?

81  WHOEVER SINS AND THEIR SINS BESET THEM ON EVERY SIDE
THEY ARE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE AND IN IT THEY WILL ABIDE 

82  BUT THOSE WHO WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ARE BELIEVERS
ARE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN THEY WILL LIVE IN IT FOREVER

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                              SECTION 10.  PART I

83  FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WE MADE THESE DECREES
WORSHIP NONE BUT GOD AND BE KIND TO YOUR FAMILIES 
AND ORPHANS AND WAYFARERS AND THOSE IN NEED
SPEAK FAIR TO PEOPLE AND PRAY REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY
AND THOSE WHO ADHERED WERE NOT MANY
AND EVEN NOW YOU BACKSLIDE A LARGE DEGREE

84  WE TOOK A COVENANT FROM YOU SAYING THIS
SHED NO BLOOD AMONG YOU AND YOU PROMISED THIS
NOT TO TURN OUT YOUR PEOPLE AND YOU BEAR WITNESS TO THIS

85  AFTER THIS IT IS YOU THE SAME PEOPLE 
WHO KILL PEOPLE AMONG YOUR OWN PEOPLE
AND BANISH A PARTY OF YOU FROM WHERE THEY DWELL

AND YOU ASSIST THEIR ENEMIES AGAINST THEM  
IF THEY COME TO YOU AS CAPTIVES YOU RANSOM THEM
ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO BANISH THEM

IS IT ONLY PART OF THE BOOK YOU BELIEVE IN
THEN AS TO THE REST OF IT ARE YOU IN REJECTION?
BUT FOR YOU WHO DO THIS WHAT IS YOUR COMPENSATION
BUT DISGRACE IN THIS LIFE?  AND ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
YOUR CHASTISEMENT SURELY WILL BE A PAINFUL ONE
FOR GOD HAS YOU UNDER FULL OBSERVATION 

86  THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE BUYERS 
OF THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD AT THE PRICE OF THE HEREAFTER 
THEIR PENALTY WILL NOT BE MADE LIGHTER
NOR WILL THEY FIND ANY HELPER

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 11.  PART I

87  WE GAVE MOSES THE BOOK AND SUCCEEDED HIM
WITH A SUCCESSION OF MESSENGERS WHO CAME AFTER HIM
CHRIST JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, WE GAVE CLEAR SIGNS TO HIM
AND WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WE STRENGTHENED HIM 

WHEN THERE COMES TO YOU A MESSENGER
SAYING TO YOU THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT DESIRE 
YOU ARE FILLED WITH PRIDE AND SOME YOU CALL IMPOSTORS 
AND YOU EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO MURDER OTHERS

88  AND THEY SAY THAT THEIR HEARTS ARE REPOSITORIES 
GOD'S CURSE IS ON THEM FOR THEIR BLASPHEMIES 
AND LITTLE IS IT THAT THEY BELIEVE

89  AND WHEN A BOOK FROM GOD COMES TO THEM 
CONFIRMING THE SCRIPTURES THAT ARE WITH THEM 
ALTHOUGH BEFORE THEY PRAYED TO COME TO THEM
A VICTORY AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS AMONG THEM 
BUT THEN WHEN CLEAR MESSAGES DO COME TO THEM
WHICH THEN SHOULD HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED BY THEM
THEN THE CLEAR MESSAGES ARE NOT BELIEVED BY THEM
BUT FOR THE DISBELIEVERS THE CURSE OF GOD IS ON THEM

90  THEY HAVE SOLD THEIR SOULS FRIVOLOUSLY
FOR THEY DENY GOD'S REVELATION OUT OF ENVY
THAT GOD SHOULD SEND IT DOWN FROM HIS MERCY 
TO ANY OF HIS SERVANTS AS HE DOES DECREE
SO THEY HAVE DRAWN ON THEMSELVES GOD'S FURY
FOR THE REJECTERS OF GOD IS A HUMILIATING PENALTY

91  AND WHEN THEY ARE TOLD TO BELIEVE IN GOD'S REVELATIONS  
THEY SAY, WE BELIEVE IN WHAT WE RECEIVED OF REVELATIONS 
YET OF ALL BESIDES THEY ARE IN REJECTION
 EVEN IF IT IS TO WHAT IS WITH THEM A CONFIRMATION
SAY, WHY THEN HAVE YOU KILLED GOD'S CHOSEN ONES 
IF YOU BELIEVED IN GOD AND HIS REVELATIONS?

92  THERE CAME TO YOU MOSES WITH CLEAR SIGNS
YET YOU WORSHIPPED THE CALF EVEN AFTER THE SIGNS
AND THEN YOU BEHAVED WRONGFULLY MOST OF THE TIME

93  AND WE TOOK YOUR COVENANT FROM YOU FAITHFULLY
AND WE THEN RAISED THE MOUNTAIN ABOVE YOU HIGHLY
TO WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN TO YOU HOLD TO IT FIRMLY
AND WE GAVE YOU THE LAW TO ACT OBEDIENTLY
THEY SAID, WE HEAR AND WE WILL ACT DISOBEDIENTLY 
SO THEY HAD TO ABSORB DUE TO THEIR LACK OF BELIEF
THE LOVE OF THE CALF.  SAY, VILE IS YOUR BELIEF 
IF YOU DO EVEN HAVE ANY BELIEF

94  SAY, IF THE LAST HOME WITH GOD IS JUST FOR YOU
NOT FOR ANY OTHER PEOPLE OTHER THAN YOU 
SEEK FOR DEATH IF WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE

95  BUT DEATH THEY WILL NEVER SEEK FOR
BECAUSE OF THE SINS THEY HAVE SENT ON BEFORE 
AND GOD IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE WRONG-DOERS

96  YOU WILL FIND THEM FOR LIFE MOST GREEDY   
AND EVEN MORE THAN THE PRACTICERS OF IDOLATRY 
EACH ONE OF THEM WISHES HE COULD BE GIVEN A DECREE 
OF A LIFE OF A THOUSAND YEARS, BUT GRANTING SUCH A DECREE
WILL NOT SAVE ANY OF THEM FROM THE DUE PENALTY
FOR ALL THAT THEY DO GOD SEES CLEARLY

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 12.  PART I

97  SAY, WHOEVER IS AN ENEMY TO GABRIEL
FOR HE BRINGS DOWN WHAT WE REVEAL
TO YOUR HEART BY GOD'S WILL
VERIFYING WHAT WAS FORMERLY REVEALED
AND GUIDANCE AND GOOD NEWS FOR THE FAITHFUL

98  AND WHOEVER IS AN ENEMY TO GOD AND HIS APOSTLES 
AND TO HIS ANGELS AND TO GABRIEL AND TO MICHAEL
THEN GOD IS AN ENEMY TO THE UNFAITHFUL

99  AND WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU CLEAR MESSAGES
AND NONE REJECT THEM EXCEPT HE WHO TRANSGRESSES

100  IS IT NOT THE CASE WITH THEM
THAT EVERY TIME A COVENANT IS MADE WITH THEM
IT IS THROWN ASIDE BY A PARTY OF THEM?
THEY ARE FAITHLESS MOST OF THEM

101  THEN WHEN A MESSENGER FROM GOD CAME TO THEM 
CONFIRMING THE REVELATIONS THAT WERE WITH THEM
THEY THEN THREW GOD'S BOOK BEHIND THEM 
AS IF IT HAD BEEN UNKNOWN TO THEM

102  AND THEY ALSO FOLLOWED WHAT THE EVIL ONES
FABRICATED AGAINST THE POWER OF SOLOMON
BUT SOLOMON WAS NOT A DISBELIEVING ONE
BUT THE DEVILS WERE DISBELIEVING ONES
AND TEACHERS OF ILLUSION
BUT THERE CAME NO REVELATION
TO THE TWO ANGELS AT BABYLON   
HARUT AND MARUT, NOR DID EITHER ONE
OF THESE TEACH SUCH THINGS TO ANYONE
WITHOUT GIVING THEM THE CLEAR DISTINCTION
THAT WE ARE ONLY FOR TRIAL SO BE NOT BLASPHEMOUS ONES
AND THEY LEARNED FROM THEM THE MEANS TO SOW DISSENSION
BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS WIFE BUT THEY COULD NOT HARM ANYONE
EXCEPT BY GOD'S PERMISSION
THEY LEARNED HARMFUL NOT PROFITABLE LESSONS
THEY KNEW THAT THE BUYERS OF IT WOULD HAVE NONE
OF THE HAPPINESS IN THE HEREAFTER FOR WHAT THEY HAD DONE
SELLING THEIR SOULS WAS EVIL HAD THEY KNOWN THE LESSONS

103  IF THEY HAD KEPT THEIR FAITH AND FROM EVIL BEEN ON GUARD
IF THEY ONLY KNEW THEY WOULD HAVE RECEIVED A REWARD
FAR BETTER AND GREATER FROM THEIR LORD

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 13.  PART I

104  DO NOT SPEAK AMBIGUOUSLY  
BUT  LISTEN AND SPEAK RESPECTFULLY
FOR THOSE WITHOUT FAITH IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

105  IT IS NEVER THE WISH OF THE DISBELIEVERS
AMONG PAGANS NOR OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
THAT ANY GOOD SHOULD COME TO YOU FROM THE CREATOR
BUT YOUR LORD CHOOSES WHOM HE PLEASES FOR HIS PLEASURE
SURELY HE IS THE GRANTOR OF SUSTENANCE WITHOUT MEASURE

106  NONE OF OUR REVELATIONS
DO WE ABROGATE OR CAUSE TO BE FORGOTTEN
WITHOUT GIVING A BETTER OR A SIMILAR SUBSTITUTION
AND SURELY YOUR LORD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

107  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION
OF EVERYTHING ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
AND BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO HELPER OR PATRON

108  AND WOULD YOU QUESTION 
YOUR MESSENGER AS MOSES WAS QUESTIONED?
BUT WHOEVER CHANGES FROM FAITH TO REJECTION
HAS STRAYED WITHOUT DOUBT FROM THE RIGHT DIRECTION

109  QUITE A NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
WISH THEY COULD TURN YOU BACK TO DISBELIEVERS
AFTER YOU HAVE BECOME BELIEVERS
FROM SELFISH ENVY AFTER THE TRUTH HAS BECOME CLEAR
BUT OVERLOOK THEM UNTIL GOD'S WORK IS OVER
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER 

110  AND BE STEADFAST IN PRAYER AND REGULAR IN CHARITY
WHATEVER GOOD YOU SEND FORTH FOR YOUR SOULS SINCERELY
YOU WILL FIND IT WITH GOD, FOR ALL YOU DO GOD SEES CLEARLY

111  THEY SAY, ONLY JEWS OR CHRISTIANS WILL ENTER HEAVEN
BUT THOSE ARE ONLY THEIR VAIN ASPIRATIONS 
SAY, PRODUCE PROOF OF YOUR ASSERTIONS

112  WHOEVER SUBMITS HIS ENTIRE SELF TO HIS LORD
AND DOES GOOD HE WILL GET HIS REWARD FROM HIS LORD 
AND HE WILL NEVER HAVE ANYTHING TO FEAR FROM HIS LORD

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 14.  PART I

113  THE CHRISTIANS SAY, THE JEWS HAVE NOTHING TO STAND UPON
THE JEWS SAY, THE  CHRISTIANS HAVE NOTHING TO STAND UPON
YET THEY STUDY THE SAME REVELATIONS
BUT LIKE WHAT THEY SAY IS WHAT SAY THE ONES
WHO DO NOT KNOW, BUT ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
GOD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM IN THEIR DISPUTATIONS

114  WHO DOES MORE INJUSTICE THAN ONE OF THEM
WHO FORBIDS THAT PLACES FOR GOD'S WORSHIP THAT IN THEM
THAT GOD'S NAME AND HIS GRACES SHOULD BE CELEBRATED IN THEM
AND WHOSE AIM IS IN FACT TO RUIN THEM 
AND IT WAS NOT FITTING FOR THEM
THAT EXCEPT IN FEAR SHOULD THEY ENTER THEM 
THERE IS NOTHING BUT DISGRACE IN THIS WORLD FOR THEM 
AND NOTHING BUT TORMENT IN THE COMING WORLD FOR THEM

115  THE EAST AND THE WEST BELONG TO GOD 
WHEREVER YOU TURN THERE IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD 
FOR SURELY ALL-PERVADING AND ALL-KNOWING IS GOD

116  THEY SAY, GOD HAS BEGOTTEN A SON, NO, GLORY BE TO HIM
ALL THAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND ON EARTH BELONG TO HIM
EVERYTHING RENDERS WORSHIP TO HIM

117  THE PRIMAL ORIGIN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH IS HIS
WHEN HE DECREES A MATTER ALL THAT HAPPENS IS
HE ONLY SAYS TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

118  WHY DOES NOT GOD SPEAK TO US?  SAY THE DISBELIEVERS
OR WHY DOES NOT A SIGN COME TO US THAT IS CLEAR?
SO SAID THE PEOPLE BEFORE THEM WORDS SIMILAR 
THEIR HEARTS ARE ALIKE, GOD HAS MADE CLEAR 
HIS SIGNS TO ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

119  WE HAVE SENT YOU IN TRUTH AS A WARNER 
AND AS A GOOD NEWS BEARER 
BUT NO QUESTION WILL BE INQUIRED
OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE BLAZING FIRE

120  NEVER WILL THE JEWS OR THE CHRISTIANS 
BE SATISFIED WITH YOU UNLESS YOU FOLLOW THEIR RELIGION 
SAY TO THEM, GOD'S RELIGION IS THE ONLY RELIGION
AND WERE YOU TO FOLLOW THEIR ASPIRATIONS
AFTER THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH HAS COME INTO YOUR POSSESSION
YOU WOULD FIND AGAINST GOD NO PROTECTION

121  THOSE TO WHOM WE HAVE SENT THE BOOK STUDY IT 
AS IT SHOULD BE STUDIED, THEY ARE THE ONES THAT BELIEVE IN IT 
BUT THEY ARE LOST WHO ARE REJECTERS OF IT

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 15.  PART I

122  OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, CALL TO MIND THE SPECIAL FAVOR 
WHICH I BESTOWED UPON YOU PREFERRING YOU TO ALL OTHERS

123  BE ON YOUR GUARD AGAINST A DAY WHEN ONE PERSON
WILL NOT AVAIL ANOTHER PERSON
NOR WILL HE BE ABLE TO MAKE ANY COMPENSATION 
NOR WILL HE HAVE ANY INTERCESSION 
NOR WILL HE BE HELPED BY ANYONE

124  ABRAHAM WAS TRIED WITH COMMANDS BY THE CREATOR 
AND GOD SAID, I WILL TO THE NATIONS MAKE YOU A LEADER
AND HE PLEADED, AND FROM MY OFFSPRING ALSO LEADERS 
AND THIS WAS HIS ANSWER FROM THE CREATOR
BUT MY PROMISE IS NOT WITHIN THE REACH OF EVIL-DOERS

125  WE MADE THE SACRED HOUSE A PLACE TO GATHER
AND A PLACE OF SAFETY AND A PLACE OF PRAYER
SO TAKE THE STATION OF ABRAHAM AS A PLACE OF PRAYER  
AND WE COVENANTED WITH ISHMAEL AND ABRAHAM TOGETHER

THAT MY HOUSE THEY SHOULD SANCTIFY IT
FOR ALL THOSE WHO CIRCLE AROUND IT 
OR USE IT AS A RETREAT OR BOW IN IT
OR PROSTRATE OR PRAY IN IT

126  REMEMBER ABRAHAM SAID, OH CREATOR
MAKE THIS A CITY OF PEACE, OH LORD AND CHERISHER
AND FEED ITS PEOPLE WITH FRUITS THEY WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY.  GOD SAID, YES AND THE DISBELIEVERS
FOR A WHILE I WILL GRANT THEM THEIR PLEASURES
BUT I WILL SOON DRIVE THEM TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRE 
IT IS THE EVIL DESTINATION FOR THE WRONG DOERS

127   ABRAHAM AND ISHMAEL RAISED THE FOUNDATION 
OF THE SACRED HOUSE WITH THIS PRAYER IN CELEBRATION
ACCEPT THIS SERVICE FROM US, OH HOLY ONE
FOR YOU ARE THE ALL-HEARING, THE ALL-KNOWING ONE

128  OUR LORD MAKE SUBMITTERS OF US
AND OUR DESCENDANTS AFTER US AND OUR PLACES SHOW US 
FOR THE CELEBRATION OF DUE RITES AND BESTOW MERCY UPON US 
FOR YOU ARE OFTEN RETURNING AND MOST MERCIFUL TO US

129  OUR LORD, SEND AN APOSTLE OF THEIR OWN AMONG THEM 
ONE WHO WILL RECITE YOUR MESSAGES TO THEM 
AND INSTRUCT THEM IN SCRIPTURE AND SANCTIFY THEM 
FOR YOU ARE ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN MIGHT OVER THEM

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 16.  PART I

130  WHOEVER TURNS AWAY FROM ABRAHAM'S RELIGION 
IS ONE WHO MAKES HIMSELF A FOOLISH ONE 
FOR IN THIS WORLD WE DID MAKE A HIM PURE ONE 
IN THE HEREAFTER HE WILL BE OF THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

131  HIS LORD SAID TO HIM, BOW YOUR WILL TO ME 
HE SAID, I BOW MY WILL TO YOU LORD COMPLETELY

132  THIS WAS THE LEGACY ABRAHAM LEFT TO HIS SONS 
AND SO DID JACOB SAY TO HIS SONS, OH MY SONS
GOD HAS CHOSEN FOR YOU ENTIRE SUBMISSION
TO HIS WILL AS YOUR RELIGION 
SO DO NOT DIE EXCEPT IN THIS RELIGION 

133  WERE YOU WITNESSES WHEN TO JACOB DEATH DID APPEAR
AND WHEN HE SAID TO HIS SONS, AFTER ME WHAT WILL YOU SERVE?
THEY SAID, WE WILL SERVE YOUR GOD AND THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS
ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL AND ISAAC AND WE ARE SUBMITTERS

134  THOSE WERE PEOPLE WHO PASSED AWAY BEFORE YOU
THEY WILL REAP THE FRUIT OF WHAT THEY DID AND YOU OF WHAT YOU DO
AND NO QUESTION AS TO WHAT THEY DID WILL BE ASKED OF YOU

135  THEY SAY, BECOME JEWS OR CHRISTIANS 
IF YOU WOULD BE GUIDED TO SALVATION 
SAY, NO I WOULD RATHER THE RELIGION 
OF ABRAHAM THE TRUE ONE 
HE WORSHIPPED ONE GOD AND ONLY ONE 

136  SAY, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE MESSAGE GIVEN TO US               
AND GIVEN TO ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL, ISAAC AND MOSES
AND TO JACOB AND THE TRIBES AND TO JESUS
AND ALL PROPHETS FROM OUR LORD SENT TO US
AND NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM IS MADE BY US
AND GOD IS BOWED DOWN TO AND SUBMITTED TO BY US

137  SO IF THEY BELIEVE AS YOU BELIEVE 
THEY ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH INDEED 
BUT IF THEY TURN BACK THEY ARE OPPOSERS SURELY
GOD WILL AID YOU AGAINST THEM SUFFICIENTLY
FOR ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING IS HE

138  OUR RELIGION IS THE BAPTISM OF GOD 
WHO CAN BAPTIZE BETTER THAN GOD? 
AND WE ARE WORSHIPPERS OF GOD

139  SAY, ABOUT GOD WILL YOU ENGAGE WITH US IN DISPUTING
WHEN HE IS OUR GOD AND YOUR GOD AND SEEING
THAT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR DOINGS 
AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DOINGS 
AND THAT WE ARE SINCERE TO HIM IN OUR BELIEVING?

140  OR IS IT THAT YOU DO ASCRIBE
THAT ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL, ISAAC, JACOB AND THE  TRIBES

THAT THEY WERE CHRISTIANS OR JEWS 
BUT WHO KNOWS BETTER, GOD OR YOU? 
AND WHO IS MORE UNJUST AMONG YOU
THAN HE WHO CONCEALS THE TRUTH AMONG YOU?
BUT YOUR LORD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF WHAT YOU DO 

141  THOSE WERE PEOPLE THAT PASSED AWAY BEFORE YOU
THEY WILL REAP THE FRUIT OF WHAT THEY DID AND YOU OF WHAT YOU DO
AND NO QUESTION AS TO WHAT THEY DID WILL BE ASKED OF YOU

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 17.  PART II

PART II

142  THE FOOLS AMONG THE PEOPLE WILL SAY 
FROM THE DIRECTION THEY HAD WHAT HAS TURNED THEM AWAY? 

SAY TO THEM, TO GOD BELONGS BOTH EAST AND WEST
AND HE GUIDES WHOM HE WILLS TO THE WAY THAT IS BEST

143  AND WE HAVE MADE YOU AN EXALTED NATION 
SO THAT YOU MIGHT BE WITNESSES TO THE NATIONS 
AND THE MESSENGER A WITNESS TO YOUR NATION
AND WE APPOINTED THE DIRECTION 
TO WHICH YOU WERE USED TO ONLY TO MAKE A CLEAR DISTINCTION 
FROM THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THE MESSENGER WITH CONVICTION
FROM THOSE WHO WOULD TURN ON THEIR HEELS IN REJECTION 
IT WAS A HARD TEST EXCEPT FOR THOSE GUIDED WITH CONVICTION
AND NEVER WOULD GOD MAKE OF NO EFFECT YOUR RELIGION
FOR GOD IS TO ALL PEOPLE FULL OF COMPASSION

144  WE SEE YOU NOW TURNING YOUR FACE TO THE HEAVENS 
NOW WE WILL TURN YOU TO A PLEASING DIRECTION 
SO TURN YOUR FACE IN THE DIRECTION 
OF THE SACRED MOSQUE AND FROM WHATEVER DIRECTION
YOU MAY BE IN, TURN YOUR FACE IN THAT DIRECTION 
THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK KNOW FOR CERTAIN 
THAT IT IS THE TRUTH FROM THE LORD OF ALL CREATION
AND GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU DO FOR CERTAIN

145  IF YOU BROUGHT TO THOSE TO WHOM THE BOOK HAS BEEN GIVEN
ALL THE SIGNS THEY WOULD NOT FOLLOW YOUR DIRECTION 
NOR ARE YOU GOING TO FOLLOW THEIR DIRECTION 
AND NEITHER WILL THEY FOLLOW EACH OTHERS DIRECTION 
IF AFTER THE KNOWLEDGE HAS COME INTO YOUR POSSESSION
WERE YOU TO FOLLOW THEIR DIRECTION 
WITHOUT QUESTION YOU WOULD BE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

146  THOSE TO WHOM WE HAVE GIVEN REVELATION
THEY KNOW THIS AS THEY KNOW THEIR OWN SONS
BUT THEN SOME OF THEM CONCEAL THE REVELATIONS

147  THE TRUTH IS FROM THE LORD OF ALL CREATION 
SO BE NOT IN DOUBT ABOUT THIS REVELATION

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 18.  PART II

148  TO EACH GOD GIVES A GOAL, SO STRIVE TOGETHER 
TOWARDS ALL THAT IS PROPER 
AND WHEREVER YOU ARE GOD WILL BRING YOU TOGETHER 
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER 

149  WHEREVER YOU ARE, TURN YOUR FACE IN THE DIRECTION 
OF THE SACRED MOSQUE IN THE SACRED REGION
THAT IS FROM GOD THE TRUE INSTRUCTION 
AND GOD IS AWARE OF YOUR ACTIONS 
 
150  SO THEN FROM WHEREVER YOU START FORTH DEVOTEDLY
TURN YOUR FACE TO THE SACRED MOSQUE REPEATEDLY 
AND TURN TOWARDS IT WHEREVER YOU MAY BE 
SO NO DISPUTE AGAINST YOU MAY THERE BE
WITH EXCEPTION TO THOSE WHO ACT WICKEDLY
BUT DO NOT FEAR THEM BUT FEAR ONLY ME 
THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE FAVOR FROM ME
AND THAT YOU MAY ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

151  AND SO SIMILARLY WE HAVE SENT AMONG YOU A MESSENGER
FROM AMONG YOURSELVES RECITING TO YOU OUR SCRIPTURES
AND PURIFYING YOU AND INSTRUCTING YOU IN SCRIPTURE 
AND TEACHING YOU WISDOM YOU DID NOT KNOW PRIOR

152  THEREFORE REMEMBER ME AND IF YOU DO
THEN SURELY I WILL REMEMBER YOU 

SO BE GRATEFUL TO ME 
AND DO NOT REJECT FAITH IN ME

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 19.  PART II

153  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, SEEK HELP BY BEING PATIENT 
AND PRAY, FOR GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO ARE PATIENT 

154  OF THOSE WHO ARE KILLED IN GOD'S WAY, SAY NOT
THAT THEY ARE DEAD, NO INDEED THEY ARE NOT
THEY LIVE ALTHOUGH YOU PERCEIVE IT NOT

155  BE SURE WE WILL TEST YOU WITH FEAR AND HUNGER
AND LOSS IN GOODS OR LIVES OR THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR
BUT GIVE GLAD TIDINGS TO THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE

156  WHO SAY WHEN AFFLICTED WITH CALAMITY 
WE BELONG TO GOD AND OUR RETURN IS TO GOD SURELY

157  THEY ARE ON WHO DESCEND BLESSINGS FROM GOD 
AND THEY ARE THE ONES THAT RECEIVE GUIDANCE FROM GOD

158  SAFA AND MARWA ARE AMONG GOD'S SIGNS
THOSE WHO VISIT THE HOUSE IN SEASON OR OTHER TIMES

IF THEY CIRCLE THEM THEY ARE HELD BLAMELESSLY 
AND IF ANY ONE DOES GOOD SPONTANEOUSLY 
GOD IS REWARDING AND IS FULL OF BOUNTY

159  THOSE WHO CONCEAL THE MESSAGES THAT WE HAVE SENT 
AND THE GUIDANCE AFTER WE HAVE MADE IT EVIDENT

SURELY ON THEM WILL BE GOD'S CURSE 
AND THE CURSE OF THOSE ENTITLED TO CURSE

160  EXCEPT THOSE WHO REPENT TO GOD SINCERELY
AND DECLARE THE TRUTH OPENLY AND HONESTLY
SURELY GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

161  THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH AND DIE IN REJECTION, ON THEM 
IS GOD'S CURSE AND THE CURSE OF THE ANGELS IS ON THEM
AND THE CURSE OF MANKIND ALL COMBINED IS ON THEM

162  AND THE HELL FIRE THEY WILL SURELY ABIDE IN IT
THEIR PENALTY WILL NOT BE LIGHTENED IN IT
NOR WILL THEY BE RESPITED

163  YOUR GOD IS ONE GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
MOST GRACIOUS AND MOST MERCIFUL IS HE

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 20.  PART II

164  AND IN THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND IN THE NIGHT AND THE DAY IN THEIR ALTERNATION 
IN THE SAILING OF THE SHIPS THROUGH THE OCEAN 
FOR THE PROFIT OF AND THE SUSTAINING OF MEN
AND IN THE RAIN WHICH GOD SENDS FROM THE HEAVENS
AND THE LIFE TO A DEAD EARTH WHICH HE HAS THEN GIVEN 
AND IN THE BEASTS OF ALL KINDS THAT HE SCATTERS WITHIN
AND IN THE CHANGING OF THE WINDS 
AND THE CLOUDS BETWEEN EARTH AND HEAVEN
IN THESE THINGS THERE ARE SIGNS FOR MINDFUL MEN

165  YET THERE ARE MEN WHO TAKE FOR WORSHIP OTHER GODS
BESIDES GOD AS EQUALS WITH GOD 
THEY LOVE THEM AS THEY SHOULD LOVE GOD
BUT THE FAITHFUL OVERFLOW IN THEIR LOVE FOR GOD 

IF THE UNRIGHTEOUS COULD SEE
WHEN THEY WILL THEN SEE THE PENALTY 
AND THAT TO GOD BELONGS ALL POWER INDEED
AND THAT GOD WILL STRONGLY ENFORCE THE PENALTY

166  THEN THOSE WHO WERE FOLLOWED WILL SURELY
DENY THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THEM WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY
AND ALL THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THEM WILL BE CUT OF COMPLETELY
  
167  IT WILL BE SAID BY THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THEM
IF WE COULD WE WOULD DENY THEM
AS THEY DENIED US, SO WILL GOD SHOW THEM 
THE FRUITS OF THEIR DEEDS AS REGRETS TO THEM
NOR WILL THERE BE A WAY OUT OF THE FIRE FOR THEM

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 21.  PART II

168  OH YOU PEOPLE, EAT WHAT IS LAWFUL AND GOODLY
AND FOLLOW NOT SATAN'S FOOTSTEPS FOR SURELY
HE IS TO YOU AN AVOWED ENEMY

169  FOR HE COMMANDS YOU WHAT IS EVIL AND SHAMEFUL
AND TO SAY OF GOD THAT WHICH YOU ARE UNKNOWLEDGEABLE

170  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, FOLLOW YOUR LORD'S SCRIPTURES
THEY SAY, NO WE FOLLOW THE WAYS OF OUR FATHERS
AND THEY SAY THIS EVEN THOUGH THEIR FATHERS 
WERE VOID OF WISDOM ALL TOGETHER

171  AND THE PARABLE OF THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
IS AS IF ONE WERE TO SHOUT LIKE A GOAT-HERDER
TO THINGS THAT LISTEN ONLY TO CRIES AND CLAMOR 
DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND WITH NO WISDOM WHATSOEVER

172  SO EAT OF THE GOOD THINGS 
THAT WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOUR SUSTAINING
AND BE GRATEFUL TO GOD IF IT IS HE YOU ARE SERVING

173  HE HAS ONLY FORBIDDEN YOU TO EAT
THE FLESH OF SWINE, BLOOD AND DEAD MEAT 
AND THAT ON WHICH ANY NAME HAS BEEN BESEECHED 
BESIDES GOD'S NAME, BUT IF ONE IS FORCED BY NECESSITY 
WITHOUT BEING DISOBEDIENT WILLFULLY
AND WITHOUT TRANSGRESSING LIMITS THEN GUILTLESS IS HE 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

174  THOSE WHO CONCEAL GOD'S SCRIPTURES
THEN SELL THEM TO INCREASE THEIR TREASURES
THEY SWALLOW NOTHING INTO THEMSELVES BUT FIRE 
AND THEIR LORD WILL NOT ADDRESS THEM IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND THEIRS WILL BE THE PENALTY OF THE HELL FIRE

175  THEY ARE THOSE WHO BUY ERROR INSTEAD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND WHO TRADE TORMENT IN PLACE OF FORGIVENESS 
THEY SHOW FOR THE FIRE SUCH BOLDNESS

176  THEIR DOOM IS BECAUSE GOD SENT DOWN THE BOOK IN TRUTH
BUT THOSE WHO SEEK IN THE BOOK CAUSES OF DISPUTE  
THEY ARE IN OPPOSITION TO THE TRUTH

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 22.  PART II

177  IT IS NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT YOU TURN YOUR FACES 
TO THE EAST OR TO THE WEST BUT IT IS RIGHTEOUSNESS 

TO BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY AND THE ANGELS
AND THE BOOK AND THE MESSENGERS AND BE CHARITABLE

AND SPEND YOUR SUBSTANCE OUT OF LOVE FOR YOUR CREATOR 
AND FOR YOUR KIN AND FOR ORPHANS AND THE WAYFARER

AND FOR THOSE WHO ASK AND FOR THE NEEDY
AND FOR THE RANSOM OF SLAVES AND PRAY REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND FULFILL THE CONTRACTS WHICH YOU MAKE FAITHFULLY
AND BE FIRM AND PATIENT IN PAIN AND ADVERSITY
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ACT TRUTHFULLY
AND THESE ARE THE ONES THAT KEEP THEIR DUTY

178  OH YOU, WHO ARE BELIEVING ONES
PRESCRIBED FOR MURDER IS RETALIATION
THE FREE FOR THE FREE, THE WOMAN FOR THE WOMAN
THE SLAVE FOR THE SLAVE, BUT IF REMISSION 
IS MADE BY THE BROTHER OF THE SLAIN PERSON
HE SHOULD BE GIVEN REASONABLE COMPENSATION 
THIS IS FROM GOD A MERCY AND A CONCESSION  
AND WHOEVER EXCEEDS THE LIMITATION
WILL BE IN GRAVE PENALIZATION 

179  AND IN THE LAW OF EQUALITY THERE IS THE SAVING 
OF LIFE TO YOU, OH YOU MEN OF UNDERSTANDING 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY BE SELF RESTRAINING

180  AND IT IS PRESCRIBED WHEN DEATH APPROACHES ANY OF YOU
IF HE LEAVES GOODS FOR PARENTS AND NEAR OF KIN IT IS DUE
THAT HE MAKE A BEQUEST ACCORDING TO REASONABLE USE

181  AND IF ANYONE CHANGES THE BEQUEST AFTER HEARING 
THE GUILT WILL BE ON THOSE WHO DO THE CHANGING
FOR GOD HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS

182  BUT IF ANYONE FEARS WRONG DOING OR PARTIALITY
ON THE PART OF THE TESTATOR AND PEACEFULLY
BRINGS RECONCILIATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES
THEN HE IS NOT WRONG IN THE LEAST DEGREE 
GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 23.  PART II

183  FASTING IS PRESCRIBED TO YOU 
AS IT WAS PRESCRIBED TO THOSE BEFORE YOU 
SO THAT SELF-RESTRAINT MAY BE LEARNED BY YOU

184  FASTING FOR DAYS OF A FIXED NUMBER 
BUT IF ANY ONE IS ILL OR ON A JOURNEY THEN THE NUMBER 
SHOULD BE MADE UP BY YOU FROM DAYS LATER 
FOR THOSE WHO FIND THIS TO BE HARDER
MAY EFFECT REDEMPTION BY FEEDING ONE WHO IS POOR
BUT HE THAT DOES GOOD SPONTANEOUSLY IT IS BETTER 
AND THAT YOU FAST IF YOU ONLY KNEW IT IS BETTER 

185  THE MONTH OF RAMADAN IS IN WHICH THE QURAN WAS SENT  
AS A GUIDE AND CLEAR SIGNS FOR GUIDANCE AND JUDGMENT 
BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG, SO EVERYONE WHO IS PRESENT
AT HIS HOME DURING THAT MONTH THEN HIS ASSIGNMENT
IS THAT IN FASTING IT SHOULD BE SPENT

BUT IF ANY IS ILL OR ON A JOURNEY 
THE PRESCRIBED PERIOD SHOULD BE MADE UP BELATEDLY
FOR GOD INTENDS FOR YOU EVERY FACILITY  
HE DOES NOT WANT TO PUT YOU TO DIFFICULTIES 
BUT HE WANTS YOU TO COMPLETE THE PERIOD EASILY
AND TO GLORIFY HIM IN THAT HE  HAS GUIDED YOU RIGHTLY
AND SO THAT YOU MAY ACT GRATEFULLY

186  WHEN MY SERVANTS ASK YOU CONCERNING ME 
I AM CLOSE TO THEM AND I LISTEN CLEARLY
TO THE PRAYER OF EVERY CALLER WHO CALLS ON ME 
SO LET THEM ALSO WHEN I CALL LISTEN TO ME
AND BELIEVE IN ME THAT THEY MAY ACT RIGHTEOUSLY 

187  ON THE NIGHT OF THE FAST YOU ARE PERMITTED 
TO APPROACH YOUR WIVES AS GOD HAS COMMANDED

THEY ARE YOUR GARMENTS
AND YOU ARE THEIR GARMENTS  

AND GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU USED TO SECRETLY DO 
BUT HE TURNED TO YOU AND HE FORGAVE YOU

SO ASSOCIATE WITH THEM
AND SEEK WHAT GOD HAS ORDAINED FOR YOU WITH THEM

AND EAT AND DRINK UNTIL THE DAWN'S WHITE THREAD 
APPEARS TO YOU DISTINCT FROM ITS BLACK THREAD 

THEN COMPLETE YOUR FAST UNTIL NIGHTFALL 
BUT DO NOT ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR WIVES AT ALL

WHILE YOU ARE IN THE MOSQUES CONFINING YOURSELVES
THOSE ARE LIMITS SET BY GOD FOR YOURSELVES

SO APPROACH THEM NOT, SO DOES GOD MAKE PLAIN
THE SIGNS TO MEN THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO RESTRAIN

188  DO NOT EAT UP YOUR PROPERTY 
AMONG YOU FOR THE PURPOSES OF VANITY 
NOR USE IT AS BAIT FOR THE JUDGES INTENTIONALLY
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY EAT UP WRONGFULLY
A LITTLE OF OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 24.  PART II

189  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING THE MOON'S QUARTERS
SAY, THEY ARE SIGNS USED AS TIME MEASURES
AND FOR PILGRIMAGE AND IT IS NO VIRTUE IF YOU ENTER 
YOUR HOUSES FROM THE BACK BUT IT IS VIRTUE IF YOU ENTER 
HOUSES THROUGH THE DOORS THAT ARE PROPER
AND FEAR GOD THAT YOU MAY PROSPER

190  AND IN GOD'S CAUSE BE FIGHTERS
AGAINST THOSE WHO AGAINST YOU ARE FIGHTERS
BUT DO NOT BE TRANSGRESSORS 
FOR GOD LOVES NOT TRANSGRESSORS

190  AND KILL THEM WHEREVER YOU CATCH THEM 
AND FROM WHERE THEY TURN YOU OUT DO THE SAME TO THEM
PERSECUTION IS WORSE THAN SLAUGHTER, BUT DO NOT FIGHT THEM 
AT THE SACRED MOSQUE UNLESS THEY FIGHT YOU, BUT KILL THEM  
IF THEY DO FIGHT YOU, THIS IS THE REWARD FOR THEM

192  BUT IF THEY CEASE FIGHTING
GOD IS MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING

193  FIGHT THEM UNTIL THERE IS NO MORE OPPRESSION
AND FAITH IN GOD PREVAILS AND THE TRUE RELIGION
BUT IF THEY CEASE LET THERE BE NO AGGRESSION
EXCEPT TO THOSE WHO PRACTICE OPPRESSION 

194  THE PROHIBITED MONTH 
FOR THE PROHIBITED MONTH 

THERE IS THE LAW OF EQUALITY FOR ALL PROHIBITIONS
IF AGAINST YOU ANY ONE TRANSGRESSES THE PROHIBITION 

TRANSGRESS AGAINST THEM BUT FEAR GOD
FOR WITH THOSE WHO RESTRAIN THEMSELVES IS GOD 

195  SPEND OF YOUR SUBSTANCE IN GOD'S CAUSE 
AND MAKE NOT YOUR OWN HANDS BE YOUR CAUSE 
OF YOU TO CONTRIBUTE TO A SELF DESTRUCTIVE CAUSE 
FOR YOUR LORD LOVES THOSE WHO DO GOOD IN HIS CAUSE

196  IN THE SERVICE OF GOD IS THE COMPLETING 
OF THE PILGRIMAGE AND THE VISIT BUT IF FROM ITS COMPLETING  
YOU ARE PREVENTED THEN FOR SACRIFICE SEND AN OFFERING 
SUCH AS YOU MAY FIND AND DO NO SHAVING 
TO YOUR HEADS UNTIL YOUR OFFERING 
REACHES THE PLACE OF SACRIFICING 
AND IF ANY OF YOU IS ILL OR HAS AN AILING
IN HIS SCALP NECESSITATING SHAVING 
HE SHOULD COMPENSATE EITHER BY FASTING 
OR FEEDING THE POOR OR A SACRIFICE OFFERING 
WHEN YOU ARE AGAIN IN PEACEFUL SURROUNDINGS
IF ANY ONE OF YOU WISHES TO CONTINUE THE VISITING
ON TO THE PILGRIMAGE THEN HE MUST MAKE AN OFFERING 
THAT IS WITHIN HIS AFFORDING
BUT IF HE CANNOT AFFORD IT HE SHOULD SPEND IN FASTING
FOR THREE DAYS DURING THE PILGRIMAGE AND SEVEN ON RETURNING
MAKING TEN DAYS AND THIS IS FOR THOSE WHOSE HOUSING
IS NOT IN THE PRECINCTS OF THE SACRED REGIONING
AND FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS STRICT IN PUNISHING

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 25.  PART II

197  FOR THE PILGRIMAGE THE MONTHS ARE DECREED 
IF ANY OF YOU UNDERTAKES THAT DUTY
IN IT LET THERE BE NO OBSCENITY 
NOR WRANGLING OR ACTING WICKEDLY
AND WHATEVER GOOD YOU DO GOD KNOWS IT SURELY
AND TAKE  PROVISIONS WITH YOU FOR THE JOURNEY
BUT THE BEST PROVISION IS TO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
SO FEAR GOD, OH YOU WHO BELIEVE SINCERELY

198  AND IT IS NO CRIME IF YOU SEEK OF THE BOUNTY OF YOUR LORD 
DURING PILGRIMAGE, THEN WHEN FROM MOUNT ARAFAT YOU POUR 
OBSERVE THE PRAISES OF YOUR LORD
AT THE SACRED MONUMENT AND PRAISE YOUR LORD 
THE WAY YOU WERE DIRECTED BY YOUR LORD
EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE IN ERROR BEFORE 

199  THEN PASS ON AT QUICK PACES 
WHERE THE MULTITUDES HASTEN ON FROM THE PLACES 
WHEN IT IS USUAL TO DO SO, AND ASK FOR GOD'S FORGIVENESS
FOR GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

200  AND PRAISE GOD WHEN YOU HAVE PERFORMED YOUR DEVOTIONS 
AS YOU USED TO PRAISE YOUR FATHERS BUT WITH MORE DEVOTION
AND THERE ARE MEN WHO SAY, OUR LORD GIVE US OUR PORTION
IN THIS WORLD BUT IN THE HEREAFTER THEY HAVE NO PORTION

201  BUT THERE ARE MEN WHO SAY, GIVE US OH CREATOR 
IN THIS WORLD AND GIVE US GOOD IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND DEFEND US FROM THE TORMENT OF THE FIRE

202  TO THESE WILL BE ALLOTTED ON ACCOUNT
OF WHAT THEY HAVE EARNED AND GOD QUICKLY TAKES ACCOUNT

203  CELEBRATE THE PRAISES OF GOD DURING THE APPOINTED DAYS 
BUT IF ANY ONE HASTENS TO LEAVE IN TWO DAYS 
THERE IS NO BLAME ON HIM AND IF ANY ONE STAYS 
ON HIM THERE IS NO BLAME IF HE ACTS IN THE RIGHT WAY 
AND TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY DURING YOUR STAY
YOU WILL BE GATHERED TO GOD ON JUDGMENT DAY

204  THERE IS THE TYPE OF MAN WHOSE SPEECH 
ABOUT THIS WORLD'S LIFE MAY DAZZLE YOU INDEED
AND HE CALLS GOD TO WITNESS ABOUT WHAT HE DECREES
FROM HIS HEART, YET HE IS THE MOST CONTENTIOUS OF ENEMIES

205  WHEN HE TURNS HIS BACK HIS AIM IN CHIEF
IS TO EVERYWHERE THROUGH THE EARTH SPREAD MISCHIEF 
AND DESTROY CROPS AND CATTLE., BUT GOD LOVES NOT MISCHIEF

206  WHEN KEEP YOUR DUTY IS SAID TO HIM
MORE SIN IS THEN COMMITTED BY HIM 
HELL IS SURELY ENOUGH FOR HIM 
AN EVIL BED TO LIE ON FOR HIM

207  THERE IS THE TYPE OF MAN WHO GIVES HIS LIFE TO GOD
IN AN EFFORT TO EARN THE GOOD PLEASURES OF GOD 
AND FULL OF KINDNESS TO HIS DEVOTEES IS GOD

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                      SECTION 25 (CONT'D). PART I1

208  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, ENTER INTO SUBMISSION WHOLE-HEARTEDLY 
AND FOLLOW NOT THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE DEVIL FOOLISHLY
FOR HE IS TO YOU AN AVOWED ENEMY

209  IF YOU BACKSLIDE AFTER THE CLEAR SIGNS HAVE COME TO YOU 
GOD IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER OVER YOU

210  THEY WAIT FOR GOD'S COMING ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION  
IN CANOPIES OF CLOUDS WITH THE ANGELS IN DESCENSION
AND THEN COMPLETELY SETTLED WILL BE THE QUESTION 
TO GOD DO ALL QUESTIONS GO BACK FOR DECISION

SECTION 26

211  ASK THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HOW MANY SIGNS WE SENT 
IF ANY OF YOU AFTER TO HIM GOD'S SIGNS HAVE BEEN SENT
THEN SUBSTITUTES SOMETHING DIFFERENT
GOD IS STRICT IN PUNISHMENT

212  THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS ALLURING TO THE DISBELIEVERS
AND THEY SCOFF AT THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
BUT ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS
WILL BE ABOVE THEM, FOR GOD BESTOWS HIS TREASURES
UPON WHOM HE PLEASES WITHOUT MEASURE

213  MAN WAS ONE SINGLE NATION AND GOD SENT MESSENGERS 
WITH GOOD NEWS AND AS WARNERS 
AND HE SENT WITH THEM THE BOOK IN TRUTH TO JUDGE MATTERS 
WHEREIN THEY DIFFERED, BUT THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
AFTER CLEAR SIGNS HAD COME TO THEM DID NOT DIFFER 
AMONG THEMSELVES EXCEPT FOR SELFISH CONTRIVERS 
BUT GOD BY HIS GRACE GUIDED THE BELIEVERS 
TO THE TRUTH OF THAT IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED 
FOR SURELY GOD GUIDES THOSE OF HIS PLEASURE
INTO THE STRAIGHT WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

214  OR DO YOU THINK THAT THE GARDEN YOU WILL ENTER  
WITHOUT COMING TO YOU SUCH TRIALS AS CAME PRIOR
TO THE MEN WHO PASSED AWAY FORMER? 
FOR THEY WERE SO SHAKEN IN SPIRIT THAT THE MESSENGER
AND OF THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM OF THE BELIEVERS
CRIED, WHEN WILL COME THE HELP OF THE CREATOR?
SURELY GOD'S HELP IS ALWAYS NEAR 

215  AND THEY ASK YOU WHAT THEY SHOULD SPEND OF THEIR TREASURES  
SAY, WHATEVER THAT IS GOOD FOR KIN, PARENTS AND WAYFARERS 
AND ORPHANS AND FOR THOSE IN WANT AND WHATEVER 
YOU DO THAT IS GOOD GOD IS THE KNOWER

216  FIGHTING IS PRESCRIBED FOR YOU 
AND YOU DISLIKE IT BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOU 
DISLIKE A THING WHICH IS GOOD FOR YOU 
AND THAT YOU LOVE A THING WHICH IS BAD FOR YOU 
BUT GOD KNOWS WHAT IS NOT KNOWN TO YOU

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217  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING FIGHTING IN THE PROHIBITED MONTH.  
SAY, FIGHTING IS A GRAVE OFFENSE IN THE PROHIBITED MONTH

BUT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IT IS GRAVER TO HINDER 
MEN FROM GOD'S PATH AND TO DENY HIM AND HINDER
MEN FROM THE SACRED MOSQUE AND DRIVE OUT ITS MEMBERS 
AND PERSECUTION AND OPPRESSION ARE WORSE THAN SLAUGHTER 
NOR WILL THEY CEASE FIGHTING YOU UNTIL THEY RENDER
YOU BACK TO DISBELIEF AFTER BEING A BELIEVER
AND IF ANY OF YOU TURN BACK FROM BEING A BELIEVER 
AND THEN DIES AFTER AS A DISBELIEVER
NO FRUIT IN THIS LIFE WILL THEIR WORKS BEAR  
AND IN THE HEREAFTER THEY WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE 
AND THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOREVER

218  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVED AND THOSE WHO SUFFERED
AND FOUGHT AND WERE EXILED AND WERE STRUGGLERS
IN THE WAY OF THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER 
THEY HAVE THE HOPE OF THE MERCY OF THEIR MAKER 
AND GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

219  CONCERNING WINE AND GAMBLING, THEY ASK YOU ABOUT IT
SAY, IN IT IS GREAT SIN FOR MEN AND SOME PROFIT 
BUT THE SIN IS GREATER THAN THE PROFIT 

THEY ASK YOU HOW MUCH THEY ARE TO SPEND IN CHARITY
SAY TO THEM, WHAT IS BEYOND YOUR NEEDS

GOD MAKES CLEAR TO YOU HIS SIGNS IN ORDER 
THAT YOU MAY CONSIDER-

220  ON THIS LIFE AND THE HEREAFTER 

AND THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING THE ORPHANS AFFAIRS
SAY, DO WHAT IS WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THEIR AFFAIRS
AND IF YOU MIX YOUR AFFAIRS WITH THEIRS 
REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE IN FAITH YOUR BROTHERS 
BUT GOD KNOWS THE MAN WHO MEANS TO BE FAIR
FROM THE MAN WHO MEANS NOT TO BE FAIR 
IF GOD WISHED HE COULD PUT YOU INTO DESPAIR 
FOR YOUR LORD IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER

221  DO NOT MARRY WOMEN WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
UNTIL THEY BECOME BELIEVERS  
A SLAVE WOMAN WHO IS A BELIEVER 
IS BETTER THAN A WOMAN WHO IS A DISBELIEVER
EVEN THOUGH SHE ALLURES YOU TO HER FAVOR 
NOR MARRY YOUR GIRLS TO DISBELIEVERS 
UNTIL THEY BECOME BELIEVERS 
SURELY A MAN SLAVE WHO IS A BELIEVER 
IS BETTER THAN A MAN THAT IS A DISBELIEVER
EVEN THOUGH HE DOES ALLURE YOU TO HIS FAVOR 
DISBELIEVERS DO BUT BECKON YOU TO THE FIRE 
BUT GOD INVITES YOU TO PARADISE FOREVER
AND GOD MAKES HIS MESSAGES CLEAR
THAT MEN MAY GIVE HIM PRAISE AND HONOR

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 28.  PART II

222  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING WOMEN'S MENSTRUATION                      
SAY TO THEM, THEY ARE INDEED A HURT AND A POLLUTION
SO KEEP AWAY FROM WOMEN DURING MENSTRUATION

AND UNTIL THEY ARE CLEAN DO NOT APPROACH THEM 
BUT WHEN THEY HAVE PURIFIED THEMSELVES YOU MAY GO INTO THEM 
AS ORDAINED BY GOD CONCERNING THEM

GOD LOVES THOSE WHO TURN TO HIM CONSTANTLY
AND HE LOVES THOSE WHO ASCRIBE TO PURITY

223  YOUR WIVES ARE AS FERTILE EARTH TO YOU 
SO APPROACH THEM WHEN IT PLEASES YOU
BUT SEND SOME GOOD ACT BEFORE YOU
AND FEAR GOD AND KNOW THAT YOU

ARE TO MEET WITH GOD IN THE HEREAFTER
AND GIVE GOOD NEWS TO THE BELIEVERS

224  AND MAKE NOT GOD A REASON FOR EXCUSING YOU FROM MAKING 
PEACE BETWEEN PERSONS OR DOING GOOD OR PROPERLY ACTING  
FOR GOD IS ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

225  GOD WILL NOT CALL YOU 
TO ACCOUNT FOR THE VAIN OATHS OF YOU
BUT FOR THE INTENTION IN THE HEARTS OF YOU
GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND FORBEARING TO YOU 

226  AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO TAKE AN OATH OF ABSTAINING
FROM THEIR WIVES, A PERIOD OF FOUR MONTHS OF WAITING 
IS ORDAINED, IF THEN THEY CONSENT TO RETURNING 
GOD IS MOST MERCIFUL AND MOST FORGIVING

227  BUT IF THEIR INTENTION IS FIRM FOR DIVORCING 
GOD IS ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

228  DIVORCED WOMEN MUST WAIT A PERIOD
OF THREE MONTHLY PERIODS 

AND NEITHER IS IT LAWFUL FOR THEM TO HIDE AWAY
WHAT GOD HAS CREATED IN THEIR WOMBS IF THEY 
HAVE FAITH IN GOD AND IN THE LAST DAY

AND THEIR SPOUSES DO HAVE THE RIGHT OF REASON
TO TAKE THEM BACK AFTER THEIR COURSES ARE DONE
IF THEY DO WISH FOR RECONCILIATION

AND THE RIGHTS OF THE WOMEN 
WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE RIGHTS OF MEN
BUT MEN HAVE A DEGREE OF ADVANTAGE OVER WOMEN
AND YOUR LORD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION 

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 29.  PART II

229  A DIVORCE IS PERMISSIBLE TWICE ONLY, THEN AFTER 
THE TWO PARTIES SHOULD EITHER SEPARATE OR HOLD TOGETHER 
AND IT IS NOT LAWFUL TO TAKE FROM HER
ANY OF YOUR GIFTS YOU HAVE GIVEN TO HER
EXCEPT WHEN BOTH PARTIES DO FEAR
THAT THEY WOULD BE UNABLE TO ADHERE 
TO THE LIMITS THAT ARE ORDAINED BY THEIR MAKER
THEREFORE IF YOU JUDGES DO FEAR
THAT THEY WOULD BE UNABLE TO ADHERE 
TO THE LIMITS THAT ARE ORDAINED BY THEIR MAKER
THERE IS NO BLAME ON EITHER IF SHE GIVES SOMETHING TO FREE HER 
AND THESE ARE THE LIMITS ORDAINED BY THE CREATOR
SO DO NOT TRANSGRESS THE LIMITS ORDAINED BY YOUR MAKER
ANY  PERSONS WHO OF THESE ARE TRANSGRESSORS
WRONG THEMSELVES AS WELL AS OTHERS 

230  SO IF A HUSBAND DIVORCES HIS WIFE THE THIRD TIME
THEY CANNOT REMARRY AFTER THAT TIME

UNTIL SHE MARRIES ANOTHER HUSBAND AND HE DIVORCES HER 
THEN THERE IS NO BLAME IF THEY DO RETURN TO EACH OTHER
IF THEY CAN KEEP THE LIMITS ORDAINED BY THE CREATOR
AND THESE ARE THE LIMITS ORDAINED BY YOUR MAKER
WHICH IS PLAIN TO THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

231  WHEN YOU DIVORCE WOMEN AND THEY FULFILL THEIR TERMS 
EITHER TAKE THEM BACK ON EQUITABLE TERMS
OR SET THEM FREE ON EQUITABLE TERMS 

BUT DO NOT TAKE THEM BACK TO INJURE THEM 
OR TO TAKE UNDUE ADVANTAGE OF THEM

IF ANY ONE DOES THAT HE WRONGS HIS OWN SOUL GREATLY 
AND DO NOT TREAT GOD'S MESSAGES LIGHTLY 
BUT REHEARSE GOD'S FAVORS SINCERELY 

AND THE FACT THAT HE SENT DOWN TO YOU BY INSPIRATION
THE BOOK AND WISDOM FOR YOUR INSTRUCTION
AND GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 30.  PART II

232  AND WHEN YOU DIVORCE WOMEN AND THEY COMPLETELY
FULFILL THEIR TERMS DO NOT PREVENT THEM IF THEY AGREE
TO RETURN TO THEIR FORMER HUSBANDS AND REMARRY
THIS INSTRUCTION IS FOR ALL OF YOU WHO BELIEVE 
THAT IS THE COURSE MAKING FOR MOST PURITY 
GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU KNOW NOT SURELY

233  CHILDREN WILL BE NURSED BY THEIR MOTHERS 
FOR TWO WHOLE YEARS IF THE FATHER 
DESIRES COMPLETING THE TERM, BUT HE WILL BEAR 
ON EQUITABLE TERMS THE COST OF THEIR CARE
AND NO SOUL WILL BEAR
A BURDEN LAID ON IT GREATER THAT IT CAN BEAR 
NO MOTHER WILL BECAUSE OF HER CHILD BE TREATED UNFAIR 
NO FATHER BECAUSE OF HIS CHILD WILL BE TREATED UNFAIR
IN THE SAME WAY AN HEIR WILL BE HELD TO ANSWER 
IF THEY BOTH CONSENT ON WEANING TOGETHER 
THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU IF YOU DECIDE ON A FOSTER MOTHER
FOR YOUR OFFSPRING PROVIDED YOU PAY THE MOTHER 
ON EQUITABLE TERMS WHAT YOU OFFERED
KEEP YOUR DUTY FOR YOU ARE SEEN BY YOUR MAKER 

234  IF ANY OF YOU DIE AND LEAVE WIDOWS BEHIND
THEY MUST WAIT FOUR MONTHS AND TEN DAYS RESIGNED

AND WHEN THEY HAVE FULFILLED THEIR OBLIGATIONS
THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU IF THEY OF THEIR OWN DECISION

DISPOSE OF THEMSELVES IN A REASONABLE MANNER
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER 

235  AND THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU IF YOU MAKE A BETROTHAL
OR YOU HOLD IT IN YOUR HEARTS FOR YOUR LORD IS MINDFUL
THAT YOU LOVE THEM, BUT DO NOT MAKE SECRET COUNCIL
WITH THEM EXCEPT IN TERMS THAT ARE HONORABLE  
NOR RESOLVE ON THE TIE OF MARRIAGE UNTIL 
THE PRESCRIBED TERM HAS BEEN FULFILLED
 
AND WHAT IS IN YOUR HEARTS GOD IS ALL KNOWING
AND TAKE HEED OF HIM FOR HE IS FORGIVING 
AND YOUR LORD IS MOST FORBEARING

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 31.  PART II

236  THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU IF YOU DIVORCE WOMEN 
BEFORE CONSUMMATION OF THE DOWER'S FIXATION 

BUT BESTOW ON THEM 
A SUITABLE GIFT FOR THEM

THE WEALTHY ACCORDING TO HIS MEANS 
AND THE POOR ACCORDING TO HIS MEANS 

A GIFT OF A REASONABLE AMOUNT IS OWING
FROM THOSE WHO WISH TO DO THE RIGHT THING

237  AND IF YOU DIVORCE THEM BEFORE CONSUMMATION 
BUT AFTER THE DOWER'S FIXATION
 
THEN HALF OF THE DOWER IS DUE TO THEM UNLESS THEY REMIT IT 
OR UNLESS THE MAN'S HALF IS REMITTED 

BY HIM IN WHOSE HANDS IS THE MARRIAGE TIE
THE REMISSION OF THE MAN'S HALF IS NEAREST TO RIGHT  

AND DO NOT FORGET LIBERALITY
FOR ALL THAT YOU DO GOD SEES CLEARLY

238  GUARD STRICTLY YOUR HABIT OF PRAYERS 
ESPECIALLY THE MIDDLE PRAYER 
AND STAND BEFORE GOD DEVOUTLY IN PRAYER

239  IF YOU FEAR AN ENEMY 
PRAY ON FOOT OR RIDING CONVENIENTLY
BUT THEN WHEN YOU ARE AGAIN IN SECURITY 
PRAY IN THE MANNER GOD HAS TAUGHT YOU PROPERLY
WHICH WAS NOT KNOWN TO YOU PREVIOUSLY

240  THOSE OF YOU WHO DIE AND LEAVE WIDOWS 
SHOULD BEQUEATH FOR THEIR WIDOWS 

A YEAR'S MAINTENANCE AND RESIDENCE 
BUT IF THEY LEAVE THE RESIDENCE 
 
 YOU ARE NOT BLAMEABLE
FOR WHAT THEY DO PROVIDED IT IS REASONABLE 
AND GOD IS EXALTED IN POWER AND KNOWLEDGEABLE

241  FOR DIVORCED WOMEN MAINTENANCE SHOULD BE 
PROVIDED ON A REASONABLE SCALE, THIS IS A DUTY 
ON THOSE OF YOU WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

242  SO DOES GOD MAKE CLEAR HIS MESSAGES TO YOU
IN ORDER TO GIVE UNDERSTANDING TO YOU

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 32.  PART II

243  DID YOU NOT SEE THOSE WHO ABANDONED WHERE THEY DWELLED 
THOUGH THEIR NUMBERS WERE THOUSANDS FOR FEAR OF BEING KILLED  
AND GOD SAID TO THEM, DIE, AND THEN HE RESTORED THEM BY HIS WILL?
FOR YOUR LORD IS TO MAN GRACEFUL BUT MOST MEN ARE UNGRATEFUL

244  THEN FIGHT IN THE CAUSE OF GOD 
AND KNOW THAT ALL THINGS ARE KNOWN BY GOD

245  WHO IS HE THAT WILL LOAN A BEAUTIFUL LOAN TO GOD 
WHICH WILL BE DOUBLED TO HIS CREDIT AND MULTIPLIED BY GOD? 
HE GIVES YOU WANT OR PLENTY AND YOUR FINAL DESTINY IS TO GOD

246  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION TO THE PRINCIPALS 
AFTER THE TIME OF MOSES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 

WHEN THEY SAID TO THEIR PROPHET, APPOINT US A KING 
SO THAT IN THE CAUSE OF GOD WE MAY ENGAGE IN FIGHTING 
HE SAID, IS IT NOT POSSIBLE IF YOU WERE COMMANDED FIGHTING 
THAT MAYBE YOU WOULD REFRAIN FROM FIGHTING? 
THEY SAID, HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY REFUSE FIGHTING 
SEEING THAT WE HAVE BEEN TURNED OUT OF OUR DWELLINGS?   

BUT WHEN THE COMMAND TO FIGHT WAS GIVEN TO THEM
THEY TURNED BACK EXCEPT A SMALL BAND AMONG THEM
YOUR LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO DO WRONG AMONG THEM

249  AND THEIR PROPHET SAID TO THEM
THAT GOD APPOINTED SAUL AS KING OVER THEM

THEY SAID, HOW CAN HE OVER US EXERCISE AUTHORITY 
WHEN WE ARE MUCH BETTER SUITED THAN HE 
NOR DOES HE EVEN HAVE WEALTH ABUNDANTLY?
HE SAID, GOD HAS CHOSEN HIM ABOVE YOU SURELY
AND HAS GIFTED HIM WITH KNOWLEDGE ABUNDANTLY
AND GOD GRANTS TO WHOM HE PLEASES AUTHORITY 
AND ALL CARING AND ALL KNOWING IS HE 

248  FURTHER THEIR PROPHET SAID TO THEM, ADDITIONALLY
THERE WILL COME TO YOU AS A CLEAR SIGN OF HIS AUTHORITY  
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT WITH YOUR LORD'S ASSURETY   
AND THE RELICS LEFT BY MOSES AND AARON'S FAMILY 

CARRIED BY ANGELS 
FOR YOU THIS IS A SYMBOL 
IF YOU ARE  FAITHFUL

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                 SECTION 33.  PART II, III

249  AND SAUL SAID TO THEM WHEN HE SET FORTH WITH THE ARMY
WHEN YOU COME TO THE STREAM YOU WILL BE TESTED SURELY
ANY WHO DRINKS OF ITS WATER GOES NOT WITH MY ARMY 
ONLY THOSE WHO TASTE NOT OF IT GO WITH ME 

A MERE SIP OF THE HAND IS EXCUSED
BUT THEY ALL DRANK OF IT EXCEPT A FEW

AND WHEN THEY CROSSED THE RIVER
IT WAS SAID BY THE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS
WE CANNOT COPE WITH GOLIATH AND HIS SOLDIERS
BUT THOSE WHO KNEW THAT THEY MUST MEET THE CREATOR
SAID, HOW OFTEN BY THE WILL OF OUR MAKER
HAS A SMALL FORCE DEFEATED ONE THAT WAS GREATER? 
SURELY GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO CONSTANTLY PERSEVERE 

250  WHEN THEY ADVANCED TO MEET GOLIATH AND HIS FORCES 
THEY PRAYED, OUR LORD, POUR OUT CONSTANCY ON US 
AND MAKE OUR STEPS FIRM AND HELP US 
AGAINST THE DISBELIEVING FORCES

251  THEY PUT THEM TO FLIGHT BY THE WILL OF THE CREATOR
AND DAVID SLEW GOLIATH BY GOD'S POWER
AND TO DAVID GOD GAVE WISDOM AND POWER
AND HE TAUGHT HIM WHATEVER ELSE HE DESIRED
AND DID NOT GOD CHECK ONE PEOPLE BY ANOTHER 
THE EARTH WOULD BE FILLED UP OF MISCHIEF MAKERS
YOUR LORD IS THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISER

252  THESE ARE THE MESSAGES OF THE CREATOR  
WE RECITE THEM TO YOU TRUTHFULLY AND CLEAR
FOR YOU OH PROPHET, ARE ONE OF THE MESSENGERS

PART III

253  WE ENDOWED THOSE MESSENGERS WITH TREASURES
WE ENDOWED SOME WITH MORE THAN OTHERS 
TO ONE OF THEM GOD SPOKE AND OTHERS
HE RAISED TO DEGREES OF HONOR 
AND TO JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, WE GAVE PURE SCRIPTURE
AND WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WE GAVE HIM POWER
AND IF IT HAD BEEN THE CREATOR'S DESIRE 
SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS WOULD HAVE NEVER
FOUGHT AMONG EACH OTHER AFTER RECEIVING SIGNS CLEAR 
SOME CHOSE TO BE BELIEVERS OTHERS CHOSE TO BE REJECTERS 
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE FOUGHT EACH OTHER HAD GOD SO ORDERED
BUT YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER DOES WHATEVER HE DESIRES

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                      SECTION 34.  PART III

254  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
SPEND FREELY OUT OF THE TREASURES 
WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOUR PLEASURE 
BEFORE THE DAY COMES WHEN NO BARTER
WILL AVAIL YOU NOR FRIENDS NOR INTERCESSORS 
THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH THEY ARE THE WRONG DOERS

255  GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, THE LIVING 
THE ETERNAL, THE SELF-SUBSISTING
NO SLUMBERING CAN SEIZE HIM NOR SLEEPING
AND TO HIM BELONG ALL THINGS 
IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH AND WHAT BEINGS
CAN INTERCEDE IN HIS PRESIDING?
HE KNOWS WHAT APPEARS TO HIS BEINGS
BEFORE OR BEHIND THEM OR DURING 
NOR OF HIS KNOWLEDGE WILL THEY COMPASS ANYTHING 
EXCEPT BY HIS ORDERING AND CHOOSING
OVER HEAVEN AND EARTH IS HIS THRONE'S EXTENDING
HE FEELS NO FATIGUE IN THEIR GUARDING OR PRESERVING
FOR HE HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

256  LET THERE BE NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION EVER
TRUTH STANDS OUT CLEAR FROM ERROR
AND WHOEVER REJECTS EVIL AND IS A BELIEVER
HAS GRASPED THE HANDHOLD THAT BREAKS NEVER 
AND GOD IS ALL HEARING AND HE IS THE BEST KNOWER

257  THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH, GOD IS THE PROTECTOR OF THEM
FROM THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT HE WILL LEAD THEM 
AND FOR THE REJECTERS, THE DEVILS ARE THE PATRONIZERS OF THEM
AND FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS INTO DARKNESS THEY WILL LEAD THEM
AND THE FIRE WILL BE THE DWELLING PLACE FOR ALL OF THEM

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 35.  PART III

258  HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OF THE ONE WHO WAS A DISPUTER 
WITH ABRAHAM ABOUT GOD BECAUSE GOD GRANTED HIM POWER?  
AND ABRAHAM SAID, LIFE AND DEATH ARE CAUSED BY THE CREATOR
HE SAID, BUT I TOO AM A LIFE GIVER AND A DEATH CAUSER 
ABRAHAM SAID, THE SUN RISES FROM THE EAST BY GOD'S POWER 
CAN YOU CAUSE IT TO RISE FROM THE WEST BY YOUR POWER?
SO HE WAS CONFOUNDED, HE WHO WAS A REJECTER 
NOR DOES GOD GIVE TO UNJUST PEOPLE FAVOR 

259  LIKE HIM WHO PASSED BY A TOWN ALL SHATTERED
AND ALL OF ITS ROOFS HAD ALL FALLEN OVER
HE SAID, HOW WILL GOD BRING IT TO LIFE AFTER 
BUT GOD CAUSED HIM TO DIE FOR A HUNDRED YEARS 
AND THEN RAISED HIM UP AGAIN TO LIFE AFTER
GOD SAID, HOW LONG DID YOU STAY OVER? 
HE SAID, PERHAPS A DAY OR MAYBE SHORTER 
GOD SAID, YOU HAVE STAYED A HUNDRED YEARS
BUT LOOK AT YOUR FOOD AND YOUR WATER
THEY DO NOT SHOW SIGNS OF AGE EITHER
AND AT YOUR MULE LOOK FURTHER
SO DO WE  MAKE YOU A SIGN AND LOOK FURTHER 
AT THE BONES HOW WE BRING THEM TOGETHER
AND WITH FLESH WE CLOTHE THEM OVER 
WHEN THESE THINGS WERE SHOWN TO HIM CLEAR
HE SAID, I KNOW THAT OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER 

260  ABRAHAM SAID
MY LORD, SHOW ME HOW YOU GIVE LIFE TO THE DEAD 
AND GOD SAID, DO YOU NOT BELIEVE?  THEN HE SAID
YES, BUT FOR THE CLEARING OF MY OWN HEAD 

SO GOD SAID, TAKE FOUR BIRDS AND TAME THEM TO TURN TO YOU
PUT A PORTION OF THEM ON EVERY HILL AND CALL THEM TO YOU 
AND THEN THEY WILL COME FLYING WITH SPEED TO YOU
THEN KNOW THAT GOD HAS ALL POWER OVER YOU

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                        SECTION 36.  PART III

261  HE WHO SPENDS IN THE WAY OF HIS LORD AND CHERISHER
IS LIKE A GRAIN OF CORN GROWING SEVEN EARS 
WITH A HUNDRED GRAINS IN EACH EAR
AND GOD GIVES INCREASES IN MEASURE
TO WHOM HE CHOOSES OF HIS PLEASURE
GOD CARES FOR ALL AND HE IS THE BEST KNOWER 

262  THOSE WHO SPEND IN THE CAUSE OF GOD SINCERELY
AND FOLLOW NOT UP THEIR GIFTS WITH INJURY
OR REMINDERS OF THEIR GENEROSITY
THEIR REWARD IS WITH THEIR LORD ASSUREDLY
AND THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE NOR LIVE FEARFULLY 

263  KIND WORDS AND COVERING OF DEFICIENCIES
ARE BETTER THAN CHARITY FOLLOWED WITH INJURIES 
GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND MOST FORBEARING IS HE 

264  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, DO NOT CANCEL YOUR CHARITY 
BY REMINDERS OF YOUR GENEROSITY OR BY INJURY 
LIKE THOSE WHO SPEND OF THEIR BOUNTY
TO BE SEEN OF MEN BUT DO NOT BELIEVE REALLY
IN GOD NOR IN THE LAST DAY AND SIMILARLY 
THEY ARE LIKE A HARD ROCK THAT IS DRY AND DUSTY 
WHICH HAS A LITTLE SOIL ON IT LIGHTLY
THEN RAIN FALLS UPON IT HEAVILY
WHICH LEAVES IT JUST A BARE STONE LIFELESSLY
THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO NOTHING WITH THEIR BOUNTY 
AND YOUR LORD DOES NOT GUIDE THOSE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY 

265  THE LIKENESS OF THOSE WHO SPEND THEIR SUBSTANCE
SEEKING TO PLEASE GOD AND TO STRENGTHEN 
THEIR SOULS IS LIKE A GARDEN 

THAT IS HIGH AND FERTILE AND WHEN HEAVY RAIN FALLS ON IT 
IT YIELDS A DOUBLE INCREASE OF HARVEST AND EVEN IF IT 
RECEIVES NOT HEAVY RAIN LIGHT MOISTURE SUFFICES IT  
AND WHATEVER YOU DO GOD SURELY SEES IT

264  WHO AMONG YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE A GARDEN
WITH DATE-PALMS AND VINES AND STREAMS FLOWING WITHIN
WITH FRUITS OF ALL KINDS WHILE WITH OLD AGE HE IS STRICKEN?  

AND HIS CHILDREN ARE TOO YOUNG TO TEND TO THEIR OWN CARE
AND IT SHOULD BE CAUGHT AND BURNED IN A WHIRLWIND OF FIRE 
SO DOES GOD MAKE HIS MESSAGES CLEAR THAT YOU MAY CONSIDER

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 37.  PART III

267  BELIEVERS, GIVE OF THE GOOD THINGS WHICH YOU EARN HONORABLY 
OF THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH WHICH WE PRODUCE FOR YOU AMPLY 
AND DO NOT AIM AT GETTING ANYTHING DISHONORABLY
SO THAT OUT OF IT YOU MAY GIVE AWAY SOMETHING CHARITABLY
THAT YOU YOURSELVES WOULD NOT RECEIVE WILLINGLY 
AND GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY 

268  THE DEVIL THREATENS YOU WITH POVERTY 
AND BIDS YOU TO CONDUCT UNSEEMLY 
BUT GOD PROMISES YOU HIS FORGIVENESS AND BOUNTY 
AND GOD IS ALL CARING AND ALL KNOWING IS HE

269  TO WHOM HE PLEASES GOD GRANTS WISDOM GRACIOUSLY
AND HE TO WHOM IS GRANTED WISDOM RECEIVES INDEED 
A BENEFIT OVERFLOWING BUT NONE WILL TAKE HEED
TO THE MESSAGE EXCEPT THOSE WHO PERCEIVE  

270  AND WHATEVER YOU SPEND IN CHARITY OR DEVOTION BE SURE 
GOD KNOWS IT ALL BUT THE WRONG-DOERS HAVE NO HELPERS

271  IF YOU DISCLOSE ACTS OF CHARITY IT IS WELL INDEED
BUT CONCEAL THEM AND MAKE THEM REACH THOSE REALLY IN NEED 
THAT IS BEST FOR YOU AND IT WILL REMOVE SOME OF YOUR INIQUITIES 
AND GOD IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

272  TO SET THEM ON THE RIGHT PATH IS NOT REQUIRED OF YOU
BUT GOD GUIDES WHOM HE PLEASES TO THE TRUTH
AND WHATEVER OF GOOD IS GIVEN BY YOU
BENEFITS THE SOULS OF YOU
ONLY SEEKING GOD'S GRACE WILL IT BE DONE BY YOU 
AND WHATEVER GOOD THAT IS GIVEN BY YOU  
WILL MOST SURELY BE GIVEN BACK TO YOU
AND NO INJUSTICE WILL BE DONE TO YOU

273  CHARITY IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED 
WHO IN GOD'S CAUSE ARE INDEED
RESTRICTED FROM BEING FREE
TO SEEK TRADE OR WORK FREELY 
BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE IGNORANTLY  
THINK THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR MODESTY 
THAT THEY ARE FREE FROM BEING NEEDY 
BUT YOU WILL KNOW THEM CLEARLY
FOR THEY BEG NOT IMPORTUNATELY 
WHATEVER GOOD YOU GIVE GOD KNOWS IT SURELY

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                       SECTION 38.  PART III

274  THOSE WHO SPEND OF THEIR GOODS IN CHARITY 
NIGHT AND DAY, SECRETLY AND PUBLICLY
HAVE THEIR REWARD WITH THEIR LORD GRACIOUSLY
THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE NOR LIVE FEARFULLY

275  THOSE WHO DEVOUR USURY 
WILL NOT STAND EXCEPT HE WHO SURELY
THE DEVIL BY HIS TOUCH HAS DRIVEN TO INSANITY
THAT IS BECAUSE THEY SAY THAT TRADE IS LIKE USURY 
BUT GOD HAS PERMITTED TRADE AND FORBIDDEN USURY 

THOSE WHO RECEIVE DIRECTION AND DESIST THEREAFTER 
THEN THEIR LORD WILL PARDON THEIR PAST THEREAFTER 
THEIR CASE WILL BE JUDGED BY THEIR LORD THEREAFTER
BUT THOSE WHO REPEAT THE OFFENSE AFTER
THEY ARE THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE
THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOR EVER

276  GOD WILL DEPRIVE ALL BLESSINGS FROM USURY 
BUT WILL SURELY GIVE INCREASE FOR DEEDS OF CHARITY 
HE LOVES NOT UNGRATEFUL CREATURES WHO ACT WICKEDLY

277  THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS AND REGULAR CHARITY 
WILL HAVE THEIR REWARD WITH THEIR LORD JUSTLY
THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE NOR LIVE FEARFULLY

278  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FEAR GOD AND GIVE UP THE REMAINDERS
OF YOUR DEMAND FOR USURY IF YOU ARE BELIEVERS

279  IF YOU DO IT NOT, TAKE NOTICE OF WAR 
FROM GOD AND HIS MESSENGER

BUT IF YOU REPENT YOU WILL SURELY
HAVE YOUR CAPITAL SUMS JUSTLY
AND DO NOT DEAL UNJUSTLY
AND YOU WILL NOT BE DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY

280  IF THE DEBTOR IS IN A DIFFICULTY 
GRANT HIM TIME UNTIL REPAYMENT FOR HIM IS EASY 
BUT IF YOU REMIT IT BY WAY OF CHARITY
THAT IS BEST FOR YOU IF YOU ONLY KNEW TRULY

281  AND FEAR THE DAY WHEN YOU WILL BE 
BROUGHT BACK TO GOD, THEN EVERY SOUL WILL BE 
PAID WHAT IT EARNED AND NONE WILL BE 
DEALT WITH THE LEAST UNJUSTLY

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282  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WHEN YOU DEAL WITH EACH OTHER 
INVOLVING OBLIGATIONS OF THE FUTURE 
REDUCE THEM TO WRITING BY A TRANSCRIBER
AND LET THERE BE NO REFUSAL TO WRITE BY THE TRANSCRIBER  
SO LET HIM WRITE AS HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT BY THE CREATOR
AND LET HIM WHO INCURS THE DEBT BE THE DICTATOR
LET HIM NOT DIMINISH ANYTHING OF THE DEBT HE HAS INCURRED
BUT IF THE PARTY LIABLE IS WEAK OR IS MENTALLY DISTURBED
OR UNABLE TO DICTATE, LET HIS GUARDIAN BE THE DICTATOR 
AND GET TWO OF YOUR OWN MEN AS WITNESS BEARERS
OR A MAN AND TWO WOMEN AS WITNESS BEARERS 
SO IF ONE OF THEM MAKES AN ERROR THE OTHER CAN REMIND HER 
AND THE WITNESSES SHOULD REFUSE NOT WHEN CALLED AS TESTATORS 
SO DO NOT REFUSE TO WRITE YOUR CONTRACT FOR THE FUTURE 
WHETHER IT BE SMALL OR LARGE IN GOD'S SIGHT IT IS JUSTER 
AND MORE SUITABLE AS EVIDENCE AND MORE BETTER 
TO PREVENT DOUBTS AMONG EACH OTHER
A TRANSACTION WHICH YOU CARRY OUT ON THE SPOT TOGETHER
IF YOU DO NOT WRITE IT DOWN IT DOES NOT MATTER 
BUT WHEN YOU MAKE A CONTRACT TAKE WITNESS BEARERS
LET NO HARM BE SUFFERED BY EITHER WITNESS OR TRANSCRIBER 
AND IF YOU DO SUCH HARM IT WOULD BE IN ERROR 
SO FEAR GOD FROM WHOM YOU RECEIVE YOUR FAVORS
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER

283  IF YOU ARE ON A JOURNEY AND CANNOT FIND A TRANSCRIBER
THEN A SECURITY MAY BE TAKEN IN TENURE 
IF ONE OF YOU DEPOSITS A THING ON TRUST WITH ANOTHER 
LET THE TRUSTEE DISCHARGE HIS TRUST WITH CARE
AND LET HIM FEAR HIS LORD AND CHERISHER
AND DO NOT CONCEAL EVIDENCE FOR WHOEVER 
AMONG YOU CONCEALS EVIDENCE IS A WRONG DOER 
AND OF ALL THINGS THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE KNOWER

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284  TO GOD BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND WHETHER YOU SHOW WHAT IS IN YOUR MINDS OR KEEP IT HIDDEN 
HE CALLS YOU TO ACCOUNT FOR IT AND WHOM HE PLEASES IS FORGIVEN 
AND WHOM HE CHOOSES TO RECEIVES PENALIZATION
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

285  IT IS BELIEVED BY THE APOSTLE 
THAT WHICH TO HIM HAS BEEN REVEALED 
AND SO DO THOSE WITH HIM WHO ARE FAITHFUL 
EACH ONE OF THEM BELIEVES IN GOD AND HIS ANGELS 
AND IN ALL OF HIS SCRIPTURES AND IN ALL OF HIS APOSTLES 
AND MAKE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN ANY OF GOD'S APOSTLES 
THEY SAY, WE HEAR AND OBEY GOD'S WILL
AND WE SEEK FOR GOD TO US TO BE MERCIFUL
AND TO HIM IS THE DESTINATION THAT IS FINAL

286  GOD DOES NOT PLACE A GREATER BURDEN 
BEYOND THE SCOPE OF ANY PERSON 
EACH GETS EVERY GOOD THAT HE HAS DONE
AND HE SUFFERS EVERY ILL THAT HE HAS DONE 

PRAY, OUR LORD, DO NOT CONDEMN US 
IF WE FALL INTO ERROR OUR LORD AND LAY NOT ON US 
A BURDEN LIKE THAT WHICH YOU DID LAY ON THOSE BEFORE US
OUR LORD, LAY NOT A GREATER BURDEN ON US  
THAN WE HAVE STRENGTH TO BEAR, BLOT OUT OUR SINS FROM US
AND GRANT FORGIVENESS TO US AND HAVE MERCY ON US 
FOR SURELY YOU ARE THE PROTECTOR OF US
SO AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS HELP US

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, THE CREATOR
AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, THE LIVING
THE ETERNAL, THE SELF-SUBSISTING

3  GOD SENT DOWN THE BOOK IN TRUTH TO YOU
CONFIRMING WHAT WAS SENT BEFORE YOU

AND HE SENT DOWN THE LAW OF MOSES  
AND THE CRITERION AND THE GOSPEL OF JESUS 

4  THEN THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
IN THE MESSAGES OF THE CREATOR

WILL SUFFER THE SEVEREST PENALTY 
GOD IS LORD OF RETRIBUTION AND ALL MIGHTY

5  FROM GOD NOTHING IS HIDDEN 
ON EARTH OR IN THE HEAVENS

6  HE SHAPES YOU IN THE WOMBS OF YOUR MOTHERS
 THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE AND THERE IS NO OTHER
AND HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXALTED IN POWER

7  HE IT IS WHO HAS SENT DOWN TO YOU THE REVELATION 
SOME OF ITS VERSES ARE BASIC, THEY ARE ITS FOUNDATION 
OTHERS ARE ALLEGORICAL BUT THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS PERVERSION
GIVE THE ALLEGORIES THEIR OWN INTERPRETATIONS
SEEKING TO MISLEAD AND ONLY GOD KNOWS THEIR INTERPRETATIONS

AND SAY THOSE WHO ARE FIRMLY GROUNDED IN INSTRUCTION 
WE BELIEVE IN THE BOOK, IT IS FROM THE LORD OF ALL CREATION 
THE MESSAGE WILL BE GRASPED ONLY BY THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION

8  AND THEY SAY, OUR LORD, NOW AFTER 
YOU HAVE GUIDED US LET NOT OUR HEARTS ALTER
BUT GRANT TO US MERCY FROM YOUR GOOD PLEASURE
FOR YOU ARE THE GRANTOR OF BOUNTIES WITHOUT MEASURE

9  OUR LORD, YOU ARE HE THAT WILL GATHER MANKIND TOGETHER 
ON A DAY ABOUT WHICH THERE IS NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER 
FOR GOD NEVER FAILS IN HIS PROMISES EVER

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10  THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
NEITHER THEIR CHILDREN OR THEIR WEALTH EITHER
WILL AVAIL THEM AGAINST THEIR LORD AND SUSTAINER 
AND SURELY THEY ARE THEMSELVES BUT FUEL FOR THE FIRE

11  THEIR PLIGHT WILL BE NO BETTER 
THAN PHARAOH AND HIS PREDECESSORS 
THEY DENIED THE MESSAGE AND WERE REJECTERS
AND THEY WERE CALLED TO ACCOUNT BY THE CREATOR
FOR GOD IS THE SUPREME PUNISHER

12  SAY TO THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS
YOU WILL BE VANQUISHED AND GATHERED TOGETHER 
AND THROWN INTO HELL, AN EVIL PLACE FOR THE DWELLERS

13  THERE WAS A SIGN FOR YOU IN THE MEETING OF TWO ARMIES  
ONE FIGHTING IN THE CAUSE OF GOD, THE OTHER CONTRARY  
THESE SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES TWICE THEIR MILITARY
BUT GOD SUPPORTS WITH HIS AID WHOM HE DECREES 
AND IN THIS IS A WARNING FOR ALL TO SEE

14  FAIR IN MEN'S EYES IS THE LOVE OF COVETOUS THINGS 
WOMEN AND SONS AND HEAPED UP HOARDINGS 
OF GOLD, SILVER, CATTLE, HORSES AND DWELLINGS
THESE ARE ONLY POSSESSIONS OF THIS WORLD'S THINGS 
BUT NEARNESS TO YOUR LORD IS THE BEST ACCOMPLISHING

15  SAY, SHALL I GIVE YOU GLAD TIDINGS OF THINGS FAR BETTER?
FOR THE RIGHTEOUS ARE GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS  
AND THEY ARE IN NEARNESS TO THE CREATOR
WITH COMPANIONS HOLY AND PURE 
FOR GOD OF ALL OF HIS SERVANTS IS THE SEER

16  THOSE WHO SAY, OUR LORD, WE ARE BELIEVERS 
FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND SAVE US FROM THE FIRE

17  THOSE WHO SHOW PATIENCE FIRMLY 
WHO ARE TRUE IN WORD AND DEED 
AND WHO WORSHIP DEVOUTLY
AND WHO SPEND IN THE WAY OF GOD FREELY
AND PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS REGULARLY
IN THE MORNING HOURS EARLY

18  GOD BEARS WITNESS THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE
SO DO HIS ANGELS AND THOSE ENDUED WITH CLARITY  
STANDING ON JUSTICE THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE
EXALTED IN POWER AND ALL WISE IS HE

19  ENTIRE SUBMISSION TO HIS WILL IS GOD'S RELIGION TRULY 
AND THOSE WHO WERE GIVEN THE BOOK DIFFERED ONLY
AFTER KNOWLEDGE HAD COME TO THEM OUT OF ENVY 
AMONG THEMSELVES, AND WHOEVER DISBELIEVES 
IN HIS MESSAGE HE CALLS TO ACCOUNT SWIFTLY

20  SO IF WITH YOU THEY ARE DISPUTERS 
SAY TO THEM, TO GOD I AM A SUBMITTER
AND MY FOLLOWERS ARE ALSO SUBMITTERS
AND SAY TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
AND THE UNLEARNED PEOPLE, ALSO BE SUBMITTERS 
AND IF THEY DO SUBMIT THEN THEY ARE RIGHT DOERS
BUT IF THEY TURN AWAY YOUR DUTY IS ONLY TO DELIVER
THE MESSAGE FROM GOD, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
AND OF ALL OF HIS SERVANTS GOD IS THE SEER

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21  AS TO THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE IN THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AND IN DEFIANCE OF RIGHT KILL THE PROPHETS OF GOD

AND KILL THOSE WHO TEACH JUST DEALING WITH MANKIND 
ANNOUNCE TO THEM A PENALTY OF A GRIEVOUS KIND

22  THEY ARE OF THOSE WHOSE WORKS WILL BEAR 
NO FRUIT IN THIS WORLD OR IN THE HEREAFTER 
NOR WILL THEY HAVE ANYONE AS HELPERS

23  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION 
TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GIVEN REVELATIONS? 
AND THEY ARE INVITED TO COME TO GOD'S REVELATIONS 
IN ORDER FOR THEM TO SETTLE THEIR DISPUTATIONS
BUT A PARTY OF THEM TURN BACK IN AVERSION
AND THEY DECLINE THE ARBITRATION

24  THIS IS BECAUSE THEY SAY 
THE FIRE WILL NOT TOUCH US FOR A FEW DAYS 

AS TO THEIR OWN RELIGION 
THEY ARE DECEIVED BY THEIR FABRICATIONS

25  BUT HOW WILL THEY TURN OUT WHEN WE GATHER THEM TOGETHER 
AGAINST A DAY ABOUT WHICH THERE IS NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER
AND EACH SOUL WILL BE PAID ITS EARNINGS WITHOUT FAVOR

26  SAY, OH CREATOR
LORD OF RULE AND POWER 
TO WHOM YOU PLEASE YOU GIVE POWER 
AND FROM WHOM YOU PLEASE YOU STRIP OFF POWER 
AND THOSE WHOM YOU PLEASE YOU ENDUE WITH HONOR 
AND WHOMEVER YOU PLEASE YOU DISHONOR
AND IN YOUR HAND IS ALL THAT IS PROPER
AND OVER ALL THINGS YOU HAVE POWER

27  YOU CAUSE THE NIGHT
TO GAIN ON THE DAY AND THE DAY TO GAIN ON THE NIGHT 

OUT OF THE DEAD YOU BRING THE LIVING
AND YOU BRING THE DEAD OUT OF THE LIVING 

AND YOU ARE THE GRANTOR 
OF SUSTENANCE TO WHOM YOU PLEASE WITHOUT MEASURE

28  LET NOT THE BELIEVERS TAKE FOR FRIENDS OR HELPERS 
DISBELIEVERS RATHER THAN BELIEVERS 
IF ANY DO THEY WILL NOT HAVE GOD AS A HELPER
AND GOD CAUTIONS YOU AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS
SO YOU MAY GUARD YOURSELVES FROM THEIR ERRORS
AND GOD CAUTIONS THAT HIM YOU SHOULD REMEMBER 
FOR THE FINAL GOAL IS TO YOUR LORD IN THE HEREAFTER

29  WHETHER YOU HIDE WHAT IS IN YOUR HEARTS OR REVEAL IT 
GOD KNOWS IT AND WHAT IS IN THE HEAVENS HE KNOWS IT 
AND WHATEVER IS ON THE EARTH GOD KNOWS IT
AND OF ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER OVER IT

30  ON THE DAY WHEN EVERY PERSON
WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH ALL THE GOOD HE HAS DONE 
AND HE WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH ALL THE EVIL HE HAS DONE 

HE WILL WISH THERE WERE A GREAT DISTANCE BETWEEN HIS EVIL AND HIM  
BUT YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER CAUTIONS YOU TO REMEMBER HIM 
AND GOD IS FULL OF KINDNESS TO THOSE THAT SERVE HIM

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31  SAY, IF YOU LOVE GOD FOLLOW ME AND GOD WILL LOVE YOU 
AND FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS FOR GOD IS FORGIVING TO YOU

32  SAY, OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
BUT IF THEY TURN BACK GOD LOVES NOT DISBELIEVERS

33  GOD CHOSE ADAM AND NOAH AND ABRAHAM'S FAMILY 
AND THE FAMILY OF AMRAN ABOVE ALL OF HUMANITY

34  OFFSPRING ONE OF THE OTHER, AND GOD IS ALL HEARING
AND HE IS ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

35  A WOMAN OF AMRAN SAID, OH CREATOR
WHAT IS IN MY WOMB TO YOU I OFFER
ACCEPT THIS OF ME, MY LORD AND CHERISHER
FOR YOU ARE THE HEARER AND THE BEST KNOWER

36  WHEN SHE WAS DELIVERED 
SHE SAID, OH MY LORD, A FEMALE CHILD HAVE I DELIVERED 
AND GOD KNEW BEST WHAT SHE DELIVERED 
AND THE MALE IS NOT LIKE THE FEMALE FOR SURE 
AND I HAVE NAMED HER MARY AND I COMMEND HER 
AND HER PROGENY TO YOUR PROTECTION FROM THE EVIL REJECTER 

37  RIGHT GRACIOUSLY DID HER LORD ACCEPT HER 
HE MADE HER GROW BEAUTIFULLY AND PURE
AND ASSIGNED HER TO ZAKARIYA'S CARE 
EVERY TIME HE ENTERED HER CHAMBER TO SEE HER 
HE FOUND HER SUPPLIED WITH FOOD AND HE SAID TO HER
OH MARY, HOW DID THIS COME TO YOU HERE?  
SHE ANSWERED, FROM GOD, FOR GOD IS THE PROVIDER
OF SUSTENANCE TO WHOM HE PLEASES WITHOUT MEASURE 

38  THERE DID ZAKARIYA PRAY TO HIS LORD SOLEMNLY
SAYING, OH MY LORD, GRANT TO ME A PURE PROGENY 
FOR YOU ARE THE HEARER OF PRAYERS ASSUREDLY

39  WHILE HE WAS PRAYING IN THE CHAMBER
THE ANGELS SAID TO HIM, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
GIVES YOU GLAD TIDINGS OF JOHN, A WITNESS BEARER 
OF THE TRUTH OF A WORD FROM YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
AND NOBLE AND CHASTE AND A PROPHET AND A MESSENGER
AND A MEMBER OF THE GOOD COMPANY OF RIGHTEOUS DOERS

40  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, HOW CAN I HAVE A SON
SEEING THAT I AM VERY OLD AND MY WIFE IS BARREN? 
THE ANSWER WAS, GOD DOES WHAT HE WILLS TO BE DONE

41  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, GIVE A SIGN TO ME 
THE ANSWER WAS, SURELY YOUR SIGN WILL BE 
THAT YOU WILL NOT SPEAK TO ANY MEN DIRECTLY
FOR THREE DAYS EXCEPT WITH SIGNALS AND THEN SOLEMNLY 
CELEBRATE THE PRAISES OF YOUR LORD, MOST HIGH, REPEATEDLY
AND GLORIFY HIM IN THE EVENING AND MORNING CONTINUOUSLY

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42  THE ANGELS SAID, OH MARY, GOD HAS CHOSEN AND PURIFIED YOU 
AND ABOVE ALL WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS HE HAS CHOSEN YOU

43  OH MARY, WORSHIP YOUR LORD WITH SINCERE DEVOTION 
PROSTRATE IN PRAYER AND BOW DOWN IN SUBMISSION 
ALONG WITH THOSE WHO BOW IN SUBMISSION

44  THIS IS OF THE UNSEEN EXPOSITIONS
WHICH WE REVEAL TO YOU BY INSPIRATION
AND YOU WERE NOT IN THEIR CONGREGATION
WHEN THEY CAST LOTS TO SEE WHICH ONE 
SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH MARY’S DISPOSITION 
NOR WERE YOU WITH THEM DURING THEIR DISPUTATIONS

45  THE ANGELS SAID, OH MARY HERE IS GOOD NEWS FROM THE CREATOR
HIS NAME WILL BE CHRIST JESUS, SON OF MARY, HELD IN HONOR 
IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND OF THE COMPANY OF THOSE NEAREST TO THE CREATOR

46  HE WILL SPEAK TO PEOPLE IN CHILDHOOD AND IN MATURITY
HE WILL BE OF THE COMPANY OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

47  SHE SAID, OH MY LORD, HOW WILL IT BE
FOR ME TO HAVE A SON WHEN NO MAN HAS TOUCHED ME?
HE ANSWERED, EVEN SO GOD DOES CREATE WHAT HE DECREES

AND WHEN HE HAS DECREED A PLAN ALL THAT HAPPENS IS 
HE ONLY SAYS TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

48  GOD WILL TEACH HIM THE BOOK, THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL

49  AND HE WILL SEND HIM AS AN APOSTLE 
WITH THIS MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 

I HAVE COME TO YOU WITH A SIGN BY GOD’S PERMISSION
IN THAT I MAKE FOR YOU OUT OF CLAY BY GOD’S PERMISSION
THE FIGURE OF A BIRD BY GOD’S PERMISSION
AND I BREATHE INTO IT BY GOD’S PERMISSION
AND IT BECOMES A BIRD BY GOD'S PERMISSION
I HEAL THOSE BORN BLIND BY GOD’S PERMISSION
AND I HEAL THE LEPERS BY GOD’S PERMISSION 
AND I RAISE THE DEAD BY GOD'S PERMISSION
AND I DECLARE TO YOU WHAT TO EAT BY GOD’S PERMISSION
WHAT TO STORE IN YOUR HOUSES BY GOD’S PERMISSION
AND THIS IS A SIGN TO THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION

50  I HAVE COME TO YOU CONFIRMING TO YOU
THE LAW AND TO MAKE LAWFUL TO YOU 
WHAT WAS BEFORE FORBIDDEN TO YOU 

AND I HAVE COME TO YOU WITH A SIGN FROM YOUR LORD
SO OBEY ME AND KEEP YOUR DUTY TO YOUR LORD

51  SURELY GOD IS MY LORD AND YOUR LORD 
SO SERVE HIM, THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY WITH YOUR LORD

52  WHEN JESUS FOUND THEM TO BE DISBELIEVERS 
HE SAID, WHO OF YOU WILL BE MY HELPERS 
TO DO THE WORK OF THE CREATOR
THE DISCIPLES SAID, WE ARE GOD'S HELPERS 
WE BELIEVE IN HIM SO BEAR WITNESS WE ARE SUBMITTERS

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53  OUR LORD, WE ARE BELIEVERS 
IN WHAT YOU HAVE REVEALED OF SCRIPTURES
AND WE DO SINCERELY FOLLOW THE MESSENGER
THEN WRITE US DOWN AMONG THE WITNESS BEARERS

54  AND THE DISBELIEVERS PLOTTED AND PLANNED 
AND YOUR LORD TOO PLOTTED AND PLANNED
AND GOD IS THE BEST OF THOSE WHO PLAN

SECTION 6

55  YOUR LORD SAID, OH JESUS, I WILL TAKE YOU AND CLEAR YOU 
OF THE FALSEHOODS OF THOSE WHO BLASPHEME AGAINST YOU
AND I WILL MAKE THOSE WHO FOLLOW YOU 
SUPERIOR TO THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH IN YOU
TO THE DAY OF RESURRECTION, THEN SHALL YOU 
ALL RETURN TO ME AND I WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOU 
IN THE MATTERS OF WHICH YOU DISPUTE AMONG YOU

56  AND I WILL PUNISH THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
WITH AGONY IN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER 
NOR WILL THEY HAVE ANY ONE AS HELPERS

57  AND TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
GOD WILL ASSURELDY PAY THEM THEIR REWARD FULLY
BUT GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

58  THIS IS WHAT WE RECITE TO YOU 
OF THE MESSAGES OF WISDOM TO YOU

59  THE LIKENESS OF ADAM WITH GOD IS LIKE THAT OF JESUS
HE CREATED HIM FROM DUST THEN SAID TO HIM, BE, AND HE WAS

60  THE TRUTH COMES FROM GOD ALONE SO ABOUT IT
BE NOT ONE OF THOSE WHO DOUBT IT

61  IF ANYONE DISPUSTES IN THIS MATTER WITH YOU
NOW AFTER FULL KNOWLEDGE HAS COME TO YOU 

SAY, COME LET US GATHER TOGETHER OUR SONS 
AND YOUR SONS 

AND OUR WOMEN 
AND YOUR WOMEN 

AND OURSELVES 
AND YOURSELVES 

THEN LET US BE EARNEST IN PRAYER
AND INVOKE THE CURSE OF GOD ON THE LIARS

62  THIS IS THE TRUE ACCOUNT, THERE IS NO GOD EXCEPT GOD
AND ALL MIGHTY AND ALL WISE IS GOD

63  BUT IF THEY TURN BACK, GOD IS THE KNOWER
OF THOSE WHO ARE THE MISCHIEF MAKERS

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64  SAY, OH PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
COME TO TERMS WITH US THAT WE WORSHIP NONE OTHER
BUT GOD, AND THAT WE ASSOCIATE WITH HIM NO PARTNERS 
AND THAT WE ERECT NOT FROM AMONG US PROTECTORS 
AND PATRONS OTHER THAN OUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
IF THEY TURN BACK SAY, WE ARE WITNESS BEARERS
THAT WE BOW TO GOD'S WILL AS SUBMITTERS

65  OH YOU PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
WHY ABOUT ABRAHAM ARE YOU DISPUTERS

WHEN THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL HAD NOT ITS REVEALING
UNTIL AFTER HIM, HAVE YOU NO UNDERSTANDING?

66  IT IS YOU WHO DISPUTE IN MATTERS OF WHICH YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE
BUT WHY DISPUTE IN MATTERS OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE?  
IT IS GOD WHO KNOWS ALL AND YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE 

67  ABRAHAM WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN OR A JEW
HE WAS A SUBMITTER TO GOD UPRIGHT AND TRUE 

HE BOWED HIS WILL TO GOD'S WILL COMPLETEY
AND HE JOINED NOT GODS WITH GOD IN DEITY

68  THE NEAREST OF KIN TO ABRAHAM ARE HIS FOLLOWERS
ALSO THIS MESSENGER AND THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND GOD IS THE PROTECTOR OF THE BELIEVERS

69  THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK WISH THEY COULD LEAD YOU ASTRAY 
BUT THEY WILL NOT BY ANY MEANS LEAD YOU ASTRAY 
THEY WILL ONLY LEAD THEMSELVES ASTRAY

70  YOU PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, WHY DO YOU REJECT GOD'S MESSAGES
OF WHICH YOU ARE YOURSELVES WITNESSES?

71  YOU PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, WHY DO YOU CLOTHE TRUTH 
WITH FALSEHOOD AND YOU CONCEAL THE TRUTH 
WHILE YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

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72  THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK SAY, BELIEVE IN THE MORNING 
WHAT IS REVEALED TO THE BELIEVERS BUT REJECT IT IN THE EVENING
PERCHANCE THAT THEY MIGHT THEMSELVES TURN AWAY DISBELIEVING

73  AND BELIEVE IN NO ONE 
UNLESS HE FOLLOWS YOUR RELIGION 
SAY, TRUE SUBMISSION IS GOD'S RELIGION 
UNLESS THERE BE SENT A REVELATION  
TO SOMEONE ELSE LIKE YOUR REVELATION 
OR THAT THOSE RECEIVING SUCH REVELATION
SHOULD HAVE YOU ENGAGING IN DISPUTATIONS
SAY TO THEM, ALL BOUNTIES ARE IN GOD’S DOMINION
HE GRANTS THEM TO WHOM HE PLEASES AT HIS DISCRETION  
 
74  HE SPECIALLY CHOOSES WHOM HE PLEASES FOR HIS MERCIES
FOR GOD IS THE LORD OF UNBOUNDED BOUNTIES 

75  AND AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
ARE SOME WHO IF YOU TRUSTED WITH A HOARD OF TREASURES
WILL DEFINITELY PAY IT BACK TO YOU AND THEN THERE ARE OTHERS
WHO WILL NOT REPAY YOU IF TRUSTED WITH A SINGLE COIN OF SILVER 
UNLESS YOU CONSTANTLY STOOD DEMANDING IT AFTER
BECAUSE THEY SAY, WE DO NOT HAVE TO BE FAIR
WITH THESE IGNORANT PAGANS, BUT THEY DECLARE
A LIE AGAINST GOD AND OF IT THEY ARE WELL AWARE

76  THOSE THAT KEEP THEIR FAITH AND ACT RIGHT 
SURELY GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ACT RIGHT

77  AS FOR THOSE WHO SELL THE FAITH THAT THEY OWE TO GOD
FOR A SMALL PRICE THEY WILL HAVE NO PORTION WITH GOD
IN THE HEREAFTER NOR WILL THEY BE SPOKEN TO BY GOD
NOR WILL THEY BE SEEN ON JUDGMENT DAY BY GOD
NOR WILL THEY BE CLEANSED BY GOD 
THEY WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY FROM GOD

78  THERE IS AMONG THEM A PARTY WHO DISTORT THE BOOK
AND YOU WOULD THINK IT IS PART OF THE BOOK 
BUT IT IS REALLY NOT PART OF THE BOOK 

THEY SAY THAT IT IS FROM GOD, BUT IT IS NOT FROM GOD
BUT IT IS THEY WHO TELL A LIE AGAINST GOD

79  AND IT IS NOT POSSIBLE THAT A MAN WHO IS GIVEN SCRIPTURE 
AND WISDOM AND PROPHETHOOD SAY TO GOD'S FOLLOWERS
BE MY WORSHIPPERS RATHER THAN THE CREATOR
HE WOULD SAY, BE WORSHIPPERS OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
FOR MOST ASSUREDLY YOU HAVE TAUGHT THE SCRIPTURES 
AND YOU STUDY IT EARNESTLY AND SINCERE

80  NOR WOULD HE TELL YOU TO TAKE ANGELS FOR GODS
OR TO TAKE PROPHETS FOR GODS
WOULD HE BID YOU TO UNBELIEF IN GOD 
AFTER YOU HAVE BOWED YOUR WILL TO GOD? 

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81  GOD TOOK THE COVENANT ALL OF THE PROPHETS ALL TOGETHER
SAYING, I GIVE YOU SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM, THEN A MESSENGER 
COMFIRMING WHAT IS WITH YOU WILL COME TO YOU AFTER
WILL YOU BELIEVE IN HIM AND HELP HIM AND FURTHER 
DO YOU AGREE AND TAKE MY COVENANT AS SINCERE? 
AND THEY SAID, WE ALL AGREE ALL TOGETHER
AND HE SAID, THEN BE WITNESS BEARERS
AND I AM  AMONG YOU AS A WITNESS BEARER

82  IF ANY TURN BACK AFTER 
THEY ARE PERVERTED TRANSGRESSORS

83  DO THEY SEEK FOR OTHER THAN GOD'S RELIGION 
WHILE ALL CREATURES ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
WILLINGLY OR UNWILLINGLY BOW TO HIM IN SUBMISSION?
TO HIM THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BACK FOR THE FINAL DECISION

84  SAY, WE BELIEVE IN GOD AND BELIEVE IN WHAT IS REVEALED TO US
AND WHAT WAS REVEALED TO ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL AND TO MOSES
AND TO ISAAC AND  JACOB AND THE TRIBES, AND TO JESUS 
AND ALL OF THE PROPHETS FROM GOD SENT TO US
AND NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THEM IS MADE BY US
AND TO GOD DO WE OFFER COMPLETE SUBMISSION FROM US

IF ANYONE DESIRES A RELIGION OTHER 
THAN SUBMISSION TO THE WILL OF THE CREATOR
IT WILL IN NO WAY AT ALL BE ACCEPTED FROM HIM EVER
AND IN THE HEREAFTER HE WILL BE IN THE RANKS OF THE LOSERS

86  AND HOW SHALL GOD GUIDE THOSE WHO BECAME DISBELIEVERS 
AFTER BEING BELIEVERS AND BORE WITNESS THAT THE MESSENGER
WAS TRUE AND MESSAGES HAD COME TO THEM THAT WERE CLEAR 
BUT UNJUST PEOPLE ARE NOT GUIDED BY THE CREATOR

87  AS FOR THESE THEIR REWARD IS FOR THEM 
GOD'S CURSE AND THE CURSE OF HIS ANGELS IS ON THEM
AND THE CURSE OF ALL MANKIND ALL COMBINED IS UPON THEM

88  IN THAT WILL THEY DWELL NOR WILL THEIR PENALTY
BE LIGHTENED NOR RESPITED WILL THEY BE 

89  EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT REPENT SINCERELY
AND MAKE AMENDS, FOR GOD IS SURELY 
OFTEN RETURNING TO MERCY

90  BUT FOR THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH AFTER THEY HAVE ACCEPTED 
AND GO ON DEFYING, THEIR REPENTANCE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
FOR THEY ARE THOSE WHO HAVE PURPOSELY REJECTED

91  AS TO THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION WHEN DEATH COMES TO THEM
ALL THE GOLD THE EARTH HOLDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM THEM 
THOUGH THEY SHOULD OFFER IT GLADLY TO RANSOM THEM
AND A GRIEVOUS PENALTY IS IN STORE FOR THEM  
AND THEY WILL FIND NO ONE TO HELP THEM

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PART IV

92  BY NO MEANS WILL YOU ATTAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS
UNLESS YOU GIVE FREELY OF THAT WHICH YOU POSSESS 
AND GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU DO GIVE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
 
93  TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ALL FOOD WAS LAWFUL
EXCEPT WHAT ISRAEL MADE FOR ITSELF UNLAWFUL 
BEFORE MOSES'S LAW WAS REVEALED
SAY, BRING THE LAW AND STUDY IT IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL 

94  IF ANY INVENT A LIE AND ATTRIBUTE IT TO GOD AFTER
THEY ARE INDEED UNJUST WRONG-DOERS

95  SAY, GOD SPEAKS THE TRUTH, SO FOLLOW ABRAHAM'S RELIGION 
THE TRUE IN FAITH AND HE WAS NOT ONE OF THE PAGANS

96  THE FIRST HOUSE APPOINTED FOR WORSHIPPING
WAS THAT AT MECCA FULL OF BLESSINGS 
AND GUIDANCE FOR ALL BEINGS

97  THERE ARE SIGNS THAT ARE CLEAR IN IT
THE STATION OF ABRAHAM, WHOEVER ENTERS IT
ATTAINS SECURITY AND PILGRIMAGE TO IT 
IS A DUTY MEN OWE TO GOD FOR THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD IT 
BUT FAITH IN GOD, ANY WHO DENY IT
AS TO NEED OF HIS CREATURES GOD IS ABOVE IT

98  SAY, OH PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
WHY DO YOU REJECT THE SIGNS OF YOUR CREATOR
WHEN YOUR LORD IS WITNESS TO ALL YOUR ENDEAVORS?

99  SAY, OH YOU PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
WHY DO YOU OBSTRUCT THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FROM THE PATH OF GOD, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER?

SEEKING TO CAUSE IT TO BE BENT 
WHILE YOU WERE WITNESSES TO GOD'S COVENANT?  
BUT YOUR LORD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF YOUR INTENT

100  AND IF YOU DO LISTEN, OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
TO A PARTY AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
THEY WOULD RENDER YOU AS DISBELIEVERS
AFTER YOU HAVE BEEN BELIEVERS

101  AND HOW WOULD YOU DENY FAITH IN GOD
WHILE TO YOU ARE RECITED THE MESSAGES OF GOD
AND WHEN AMONG YOU LIVES THE MESSENGER OF GOD 
AND WHOEVER AMONG YOU HOLDS FIRMLY TO GOD
WILL BE SHOWN THE STRAIGHT WAY BY GOD

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102  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
FEAR GOD AND DIE NOT EXCEPT AS A SUBMITTER 

103  HOLD FAST BY THE ROPE GOD STRETCHES OUT FOR YOU 
AND DO NOT BE DIVIDED AMONG YOU 
AND REMEMBER WITH GRATITUDE GOD'S FAVOR TO YOU
WHEN YOU WERE ENEMIES AND HE JOINED LOVE BETWEEN YOU 
AND BY HIS MIGHTY GRACE HE MADE BROTHERS OF YOU 
WHEN ON THE BRINK OF THE PIT OF FIRE WERE YOU
YOUR LORD MOST GRACIOUS SAVED YOU
SO DOES GOD MAKE HIS SIGNS CLEAR TO YOU 
IN ORDER THAT HE MAY GIVE GUIDANCE TO YOU

104  LET THERE ARISE OUT OF YOU A BAND OF PEOPLE 
ENJOINING WHAT IS RIGHT AND FORBIDDING EVIL
THEY ARE THE ONES THAT WILL BE SUCCESSFUL

105  BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO HAD DISAGREEMENTS 
AFTER THEY HAD RECEIVED CLEAR ARGUMENTS
FOR THEM IS A GRIEVOUS CHASTISEMENT

106  THE DAY WHEN SOME FACES WILL BE LIT UP WITH LIGHT 
AND SOME FACES ON THAT DAY WILL BE VOID OF LIGHT 
AND TO THOSE WHOSE FACES WILL BE VOID OF LIGHT

IT WILL BE SAID, DID YOU REJECT FAITH 
EVEN AFTER YOU HAD ACCEPTED THE FAITH?  
THEN TASTE THE PENALTY FOR REJECTING FAITH

107  BUT THOSE WHOSE FACES WILL BE LIT UP BRIGHTLY
THEY WILL BE IN THE LIGHT OF GOD'S MERCY
THERE THEY WILL DWELL FOR ETERNITY

108  THESE ARE THE MESSAGES OF GOD THE CREATOR 
WE RECITE THEM TO YOU IN TRUTH WITHOUT ERROR
AND GOD DESIRES NO INJUSTICE TO HIS CREATURES 

109  TO GOD BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
AND TO HIM DO ALL QUESTIONS GO BACK FOR DECISION

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110  YOU ARE THE BEST OF PEOPLE EVOLVED FOR MANKIND INDEED
YOU ENJOIN WHAT IS RIGHT, FORBID WHAT IS WRONG AND BELIEVE
IF ONLY THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK HAD BELIEVED

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEST FOR THEM 
BUT THEN SOME HAVE FAITH AMONG THEM 
BUT THEY ARE TRANSGRESSORS MOST OF THEM

111  NO HARM WILL THEY DO TO YOU 
BARRING A TRIFLING ANNOYANCE TO YOU
AND IF THEY COME OUT TO FIGHT AGAINST YOU 
NO HELP WILL THEY GET AND THEY WILL SHOW THEIR BACKS TO YOU

112  AND UPON THEM SHAME IS PITCHED OVER THEM LIKE A TENT 
WHEREVER THEY ARE EXCEPT WHEN UNDER A COVENANT 
FROM MEN AND FROM GOD'S COVENANT 

THEY DRAW ON THEMSELVES GOD'S WRATH AND HUMILIATION 
AND PITCHED OVER THEM IS THE TENT OF DESTITUTION 
THIS IS BECAUSE THEY WERE IN REJECTION 

OF THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AND IN DEFIANCE OF RIGHT KILLED THE PROPHETS OF GOD
AND BECAUSE THEY TRANSGRESSED AND REBELLED AGAINST GOD 

113  OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK NOT ALL OF THEM ARE ALIKE                                                                    
FOR THERE IS A PORTION OF THEM THAT DO STAND FOR RIGHT 
AND THEY ADORE GOD AND RECITE HIS MESSAGES ALL NIGHT 

114  AND THEY DO BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE RESURRECTION 
THEY ENJOIN WHAT IS RIGHT AND FORBID CORRUPTION
AND THEY HASTEN TO GOOD WORKS IN EMULATION 
THEY ARE THOSE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

115  THE GOOD THEY DO WILL NOT BE REJECTED OF THEM 
FOR GOD KNOWS WELL THOSE THAT DO RIGHT AMONG THEM

116  THOSE WHO WILLFULLY REJECT GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS
NEITHER THEIR CHILDREN OR ALL THEIR POSSESSIONS
WILL AVAIL THEM AGAINST GOD'S DESTRUCTION
AND THEY WILL BE THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 
AND IT IS AN EVIL DESTINATION 

117  WHAT THEY SPEND 
IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD MAY BE LIKENED TO A WIND 
WHICH BRINGS A NIPPING FROST THEN IT STRIKES AND THEN 

IT DESTROYS THE HARVEST OF MEN WHO HAVE WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS 
IT IS NOT GOD THAT HAS WRONGED THEIR SOULS
BUT THEY HAVE THEMSELVES WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS

118  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
TAKE NOT INTO YOUR INTIMACY DISBELIEVERS
FOR THEY WILL CORRUPT YOU AND THEIR DESIRE
IS TO RUIN YOU, AND RANK HATRED HAS APPEARED 
FROM THEIR MOUTHS ALREADY AND WHAT THEIR HEARTS HARBOR
IS FAR WORSE AND WE HAVE MADE THE MESSAGES CLEAR 
IF YOU HAVE ANY WISDOM WHATSOEVER

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119  YOU ARE THOSE WHO LOVE THEM SINCERE                                                                   
BUT THEY DO NOT LOVE YOU AND YOU BELIEVE IN THE SCRIPTURES 
AND WHEN THEY MEET YOU THEY SAY, WE ARE BELIEVERS 
BUT WHEN THEY ARE ALONE THE DISBELIEVERS
IN THEIR RAGE AT YOU BITE OFF THE TIPS OF THEIR FINGERS 
SAY, DIE IN YOUR RAGE, GOD KNOWS YOUR DESIRES 

120  AND IT GRIEVES THEM IF ANYTHING GOOD COMES TO YOU 
IT PLEASES THEM IF SOME MISFORTUNE OVERTAKES YOU  
BUT IF YOU ARE CONSTANT AND YOU REMAIN TRUE
NOT THE LEAST HARM WILL THEIR CUNNING DO TO YOU 
FOR GOD ENCOMPASSES ALL THAT THEY DO

SECTION  13

121  REMEMBER YOU DID LEAVE YOUR HOUSE EARLY ONE MORNING
TO POST THE FAITHFUL AT THEIR STATIONS FOR BATTLING
AND GOD HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS

122  TWO OF YOUR PARTIES MEDITATED COWARDICE
BUT GOD WAS THEIR PROTECTOR AND FROM GOD SEEK JUSTICE

123  GOD HELPED YOU IN BATTLE
WHEN YOU WERE THEN CONTEMPTIBLE 
THEN FEAR GOD SO YOU MAY BE GRATEFUL 

124  YOU SAID TO THE BELIEVERS, IS IT NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU 
THAT GOD, YOUR PROTECTOR, SHOULD HELP YOU 
WITH THREE THOUSAND ANGELS SENT DOWN TO YOU?

125  AND IF YOU ACT RIGHT AND REMAIN FIRM AND TRUE
EVEN IF THE ENEMY SHOULD RUSH IN ON YOU 
YOUR LORD WOULD SURELY HELP YOU 
WITH FIVE THOUSAND ANGELS MAKING HAVOC FOR YOU

126  IT WAS A MESSAGE OF HOPE FOR YOU FROM GOD
AND THERE IS NO HELP EXCEPT FROM GOD 
THE EXALTED, THE ALL WISE GOD

127  THAT HE MIGHT 
CUT OFF THE DISBELIEVERS OR HE MIGHT 
EXPOSE THEM IN INFAMY AND THEY MIGHT 
BE FRUSTRATED IN PURPOSE AND TURNED BACK IN FLIGHT

128  NOT FOR YOU BUT FOR GOD IS THE DECISION
WHETHER TO PUNISH OR FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY ARE IN PERDITION 

129  ALL THAT IS ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN GOD POSSESSES
AND WHOM HE PLEASES HE FORGIVES OR PUNISHES
AND GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS

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130  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, DO NOT DEVOUR USURY
DOUBLED AND MULTIPLIED BUT TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY
SO THAT YOU MAY BE SUCCESSFUL AND GAIN PROSPERITY 

131  AND FEAR THE FIRE 
WHICH IS PREPARED FOR THE DISBELIEVERS

132  AND OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY BE SUCCESSFUL

133  AND BE QUICK IN THE RACE TO BE FORGIVEN
BY YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER AND FOR A GARDEN 
WHOSE WIDTH IS THE LENGTH OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
GOD HAS PREPARED IT FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG MEN

134  THOSE WHO SPEND FREELY 
WHETHER IN PROSPERITY OR IN ADVERSITY 
AND WHO PARDON MEN AND ACT NOT ANGRILY
SURELY GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

135  THOSE WHO AFTER HAVING DONE SOMETHING 
TO BE ASHAMED OF OR WRONGED THEIR OWN BEINGS 
THEN BRING GOD TO MIND AND FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSINGS
THEY SINCERELY ASK GOD TO BE FORGIVING
WHO EXCEPT GOD CAN FORGIVE TRANSGRESSINGS?
AND THOSE WHO ARE NEVER OBSTINATE IN PERSISTING
KNOWINGLY IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND IN WRONGDOING

136  FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS FROM THEIR MAKER
AND GARDENS FOR THEM WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS
THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM FOREVER 
AN EXCELLENT REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

137  MANY WERE THE WAYS OF LIFE OF THOSE BEFORE YOU 
SAY, THEREFORE TRAVEL THE EARTH THROUGH AND THROUGH
AND SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE REJECTERS BEFORE YOU

138  HERE IS A PLAIN STATEMENT TO MEN FOR GUIDING
AND INSTRUCTING THOSE WHO ARE GOD FEARING

139  SO LOSE NOT HEART NOR FALL INTO DESPAIR
FOR YOU MUST GAIN MASTERY IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER 

140  IF A WOUND HAS TOUCHED YOU BE SURE 
THAT A SIMILAR WOUND HAS TOUCHED THE OTHERS 
SUCH DAYS OF VARYING FORTUNES WE GIVE TO OTHERS 
THAT GOD MAY KNOW THE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS
AND THAT HE MAY TAKE FROM AMONG YOU MARTYRS 
AND GOD SURELY LOVES NOT THOSE WHO ARE WRONG DOERS

141  GOD'S OBJECT IS TO PURGE THOSE THAT ARE TRUE IN FAITH 
AND TO DEPRIVE OF BLESSINGS THOSE THAT RESIST FAITH

142  DID YOU THINK THAT YOU 
WOULD ENTER HEAVEN WITHOUT GOD TESTING YOU 
WHO FOUGHT HARD IN HIS CAUSE AND REMAINED TRUE?

143  YOU DID WISH FOR DEATH BEFORE YOU MET IT
NOW WITH YOUR OWN EYES YOU HAVE SEEN IT 

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144  MUHAMMAD IS NO MORE THAN AN APOSTLE 
BEFORE HIM PASSED AWAY MANY APOSTLES 
AND IF HE DIES OR IF HE IS KILLED
WILL YOU TURN BACK ON YOUR HEELS? 
IF ANY OF YOU TURN BACK ON HIS HEELS
HE WILL NOT IN THE LEAST ALTER GOD'S WILL 
AND GOD WILL REWARD THOSE WHOM HE WILLS

145  NOR CAN A SOUL DIE UNLESS GOD PERMITS HIM 
THE TERM BEING FIXED AS IF IT WAS WRITTEN FOR HIM 
IF ANY DESIRES A REWARD IN THIS LIFE WE GIVE IT TO HIM
IF ANY DESIRES A REWARD IN THE HEREAFTER WE GIVE IT TO HIM 
AND TO ANY ONE WHO DOES SERVE US WE DO SWIFTLY REWARD HIM

146  HOW MANY PROPHETS FOUGHT IN THE WAY OF THE CREATOR 
AND WHO WITH THEM FOUGHT LARGE BANDS OF BELIEVERS
AND DID NOT LOSE HEART IF THEY MET WITH DISASTER
NOR DID THEY WEAKEN IN WILL OR GIVE IN EITHER
GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ARE FIRM BELIEVERS

147  ALL THAT THEY SAID WAS, OUR LORD, FORGIVE OUR INIQUITIES
AND ANYTHING THAT WE DID THAT TRANSGRESSED OUR DUTIES
AND ESTABLISH BENEATH US OUR FEET FOR US FIRMLY 
AND OVER THE DISBELIEVERS GRANT US VICTORY

148  AND IN THIS WORLD GOD GAVE THEM A REWARD 
AND IN THE HEREAFTER FOR THEM IS AN EXCELLENT REWARD
FOR SURELY THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS ARE LOVED BY THEIR LORD

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149  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
IF YOU WERE TO OBEY THE DISBELIEVERS
THEY WILL TURN YOU BACK TO DISBELIEVERS 
AND YOU WILL SURELY BE AMONG THE LOSERS

150  GOD IS YOUR PROTECTOR 
AND HE IS THE BEST OF HELPERS

151  SOON WILL WE CAST HORROR 
INTO THE HEARTS OF THE DISBELIEVERS 
FOR THAT THEY JOINED COMPANIONS WITH THE CREATOR
FOR WHICH HE HAD SENT DOWN NO AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER
AND THEIR ABODE WILL SURELY BE THE BLAZING FIRE 
AN EVIL HOME IT IS FOR THE WRONG DOERS

152  YOUR LORD FULFILLED TO YOU HIS FAVOR
WHEN YOU WERE ABOUT TO ANNIHILATE AN OPPOSER
UNTIL YOU FLINCHED AND DISPUTED ABOUT THE ORDER
AND THEN YOU DISOBEYED IT AFTER 
HE SHOWED YOU THE PRIZE YOU WERE AFTER
AND FOR THIS WORLD SOME OF YOU HANKER 
THERE ARE SOME OF WHO DESIRE THE HEREAFTER 
AND THEN HE DIVERTED YOU FROM YOUR OPPOSERS 
IN ORDER TO TEST YOU THEN HE FORGAVE YOU AFTER
SURELY YOUR LORD IS FULL OF GRACE TO THE BELIEVERS

153  REMEMBER YOU WERE CLIMBING UP THE HIGH GROUND 
WITHOUT EVEN CASTING A SIDE GLANCE AROUND

AND THE APOSTLE WAS CALLING YOU BACK FROM YOUR REAR
AND THERE GOD GAVE YOU ONE DISTRESS AFTER ANOTHER

TO TEACH YOU NOT TO GRIEVE FOR THE SPOILS THAT ESCAPED YOU 
AND NOT TO GRIEVE FOR THE ILL THAT HAD BEFALLEN YOU 
FOR GOD IS WELL AWARE OF ALL THAT YOU DO

154  AFTER THE DISTRESS HE MADE SECURE
A BAND OF YOU OVERCOME WITH SLUMBER
WHILE ANOTHER BAND OF YOU WAS STIRRED 
TO ANXIETY BY THEIR OWN DESIRES
MOVED BY WRONG SUSPICIONS OF THEIR MAKER
SUSPICIONS OWING TO IGNORANCE AND THEY DECLARED
HOW IS THIS ANY OF OUR AFFAIR? 
SAY, THIS AFFAIR IS COMPLETELY THE CREATOR'S
AND THEY HIDE IN THEIR MINDS WHAT THEY DO NOT DARE
REVEAL TO YOU, AND TO THEMSELVES THEY DECLARE
IF WE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS AFFAIR 
WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN IN THE SLAUGHTER THERE 
SAY, THOSE FOR WHOM DEATH WAS ORDERED 
TO THEIR PLACE OF DEATH THEY WOULD HAVE GONE THERE 
BUT THIS WAS TO TEST WHAT IS IN YOUR BREASTS BY YOUR MAKER
AND PURGE WHAT IS IN YOUR HEARTS, FOR GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

155  THOSE OF YOU WHO TURNED BACK ON YOUR HEELS
THE DAY THAT THE TWO PARTIES MET IT WAS THE DEVIL 
WHO CAUSED THEM TO FAIL BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL 
BUT YOUR LORD HAS BLOTTED OUT THEIR EVIL
FOR GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL

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CHAPTER 3.  THE FAMILY OF AMRAN                                          SECTION 17.  PART IV

156  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
BE NOT LIKE THE DISBELIEVERS 
WHO SAY OF THEIR BROTHERS
WHEN THEY ARE ENGAGED IN WAR 
OR TRAVELING THROUGH THE EARTH
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED
IF THEY HAD ONLY STAYED WITH US TOGETHER
AND THIS THAT GOD MAY MAKE THEM REGRETTERS 
IT IS GOD THAT CAUSES DEATH AND IS THE LIFE GIVER 
AND OF ALL THINGS THAT YOU DO YOUR LORD IS THE SEER

157  AND IF YOU ARE KILLED OR DIE IN THE WAY OF YOUR MAKER 
SURELY FORGIVENESS AND MERCY FROM THE CREATOR
ARE FAR BETTER THAN ALL THEY COULD ACQUIRE

158  AND WHETHER YOU DIE OR ARE SLAIN 
YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO GOD AGAIN

159  IT IS PART OF GOD'S FAVOR 
THAT YOU DEAL WITH THEM WITH CARE 
AND WERE YOU HARSH HEARTED OR SEVERE
THEN THEY WOULD HAVE DEPARTED FOR SURE
THEREFORE PASS OVER WHAT THEY DO IN ERROR
AND ASK FORGIVENESS FOR THEM FROM THE CREATOR
AND CONSULT THEM ON IMPORTANT AFFAIRS
AND WHEN YOU DO DECIDE ON A MATTER
PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE CREATOR 
FOR THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM ARE LOVED BY THEIR MAKER

160  IF GOD HELPS YOU, NONE CAN OVERCOME YOU 
IF HE FORSAKES YOU, WHO AFTER THAT CAN HELP YOU?  
THEN TRUST IN GOD ALONE IF THERE IS ANY FAITH IN YOU

161  NO PROPHET COULD EVER BE FALSE TO HIS TRUST 
IF ANY PERSON IS FALSE THEN HE MUST
ON JUDGMENT DAY RESTORE WHAT WAS UNJUST
THEN WILL EVERY SOUL RECEIVE WHATEVER IS JUST
AND NONE WILL BE DEALT WITH IN ANY MANNER UNJUST

162  IS THE MAN WHO FOLLOWS THE GOOD PLEASURE OF THE CREATOR  
LIKE THE MAN WHO DRAWS ON HIMSELF THE WRATH OF HIS MAKER
AND WHOSE ABODE IS IN HELL TO DWELL IN IT FOREVER?

163  THEY ARE IN VARYING GRADES BEFORE GOD 
AND ALL THAT THEY DO IS SEEN BY GOD

164  GOD CONFERRED A GREAT FAVOR ON THE BELIEVERS 
WHEN HE SENT AMONG THEM A MESSENGER 
RECITING TO THEM THE MESSAGES OF THEIR MAKER
AND INSTRUCTING THEM IN WISDOM AND IN SCRIPTURE
WHILE BEFORE THAT THEY HAD BEEN IN MANIFEST ERROR

165  WHEN A SINGLE DISASTER SMITES YOU 
THOUGH YOUR ENEMIES WERE SMITTEN BY YOU 
WITH ONE TWICE AS GREAT AS WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU  
WHERE DOES THIS COME FROM?  IS SAID BY YOU
SAY TO THEM, THIS MISFORTUNE IS FROM YOU 
FOR GOD HAS ALL POWER OVER YOU

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CHAPTER 3.  THE FAMILY OF AMRAN                        SECTION 17 (CONT'D).  PART IV

166  ON THE DAY WHEN THE TWO ARMIES MET WHAT YOU SUFFERED
WAS WITH THE PERMISSION OF YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER 
IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT TEST THE BELIEVERS

167  AND THE HYPOCRITES, THESE WERE TOLD ALSO
FIGHT IN GOD'S WAY OR AT LEAST DRIVE THE FOE 
FROM YOUR CITY, THEY SAID, IF WE DID KNOW

HOW TO FIGHT WE WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED YOU INDEED 
THEY WERE NEARER TO UNBELIEF THAT DAY THAN TO BELIEF 

SAYING WITH THEIR LIPS WHAT WAS NOT IN THEIR HEARTS
BUT GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY CONCEAL IN THEIR HEARTS

168  THEY ARE THE ONES THAT SAY OF THEIR SLAIN BROTHERS 
WHILE THEY THEMSELVES SIT AT EASE AT HOME WITH EACH OTHER
HAD THEY LISTENED TO US THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED
SAY, THEN AVERT DEATH FROM YOURSELVES IF IT IS TRUE WHAT YOU UTTER

169  THINK NOT AS DEAD THOSE SLAIN IN THE WAY OF GOD
THEY LIVE FINDING THEIR SUSTENANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD 

170  THEY REJOICE IN THE BOUNTY GOD PROVIDES THEM
WITH REGARD TO THOSE LEFT BEHIND THEM
WHO HAVE NOT YET IN THEIR BLISS JOINED THEM 
AND THE MARTYRS GLORY IN THE FACT THAT ON THEM
THERE IS NO FEAR NOR IS THERE IS ANY GRIEF FOR THEM

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171  THEY FIND GLORY IN GOD'S GRACE AND FAVOR
AND IN THE FACT THAT GOD DOES NOT SUFFER 
TO BE LOST THE REWARD OF THE BELIEVERS

172  OF THOSE WHO ANSWERED 
THE CALL OF GOD AND THE MESSENGER
EVEN AFTER BEING WOUNDED AND WHO ARE RIGHT DOERS
AND REFRAIN FROM WRONG HAVE FROM GOD A GREAT FAVOR

173  MEN SAID TO THEM, A GREAT ARMY 
IS GATHERING AGAINST YOU TO CAUSE ANXIETY
BUT IT ONLY INCREASED THEIR FAITH, SO THEY DECREED 
FOR US OUR LORD SUFFICES AND THE BEST PROTECTOR IS HE

174  AND THEY RETURNED WITH GOOD GRACE AND BOUNTY FROM GOD 
NO HARM TOUCHED THEM FOR THEY FOLLOWED THE PATH OF GOD
AND THE LORD OF BOUNTIES UNBOUNDED IS GOD

175  THE DEVIL SUGGESTS TO YOU FEAR OF HIS FOLLOWERS 
BE NOT AFRAID OF THEM IT IS GOD YOU SHOULD FEAR

176  THOSE WHO RUSH HEADLONG INTO UNBELIEF 
LET THEM NOT CAUSE YOU ANY GRIEF 
THEY WILL NOT HARM YOU OR GOD IN THE LEAST
GOD WILL IN THE HEREAFTER GIVE THEM A SEVERE PENALTY

177  THOSE WHO PURCHASE UNBELIEF AT THE PRICE OF BELIEF
THEY WILL SURELY NOT HARM GOD IN THE LEAST
BUT THEY WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

178  LET NOT DISBELIEVERS THINK OUR GRANTING THEM RELIEF  
IS GOOD FOR THEM, WE WILL GRANT THEM RELIEF
THAT THEY MAY GROW IN THEIR INIQUITY 
BUT THEY WILL HAVE A SHAMEFUL PENALTY

179  AND YOUR LORD WILL SURELY NOT LEAVE THE BELIEVERS 
IN THE STATE IN WHICH YOU ARE IN UNTIL HE SEVERS 
ALL OF THE EVIL FROM THAT WHICH IS PURER
NOR WILL HE DISCLOSE TO YOU THE SECRETS OF THE HEREAFTER
BUT HE CHOOSES WHOM HE PLEASES AS MESSENGERS 
SO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IF YOU DO RIGHT AND ARE A BELIEVER 
YOU HAVE A REWARD FROM GOD WITHOUT MEASURE

180  AND LET NOT THOSE WHO COVETOUSLY 
WITHHOLD OF THE GIFTS GOD HAS GIVEN THEM GRACIOUSLY 

THINK THAT IT IS GOOD FOR THEM 
NO IT WILL BE THE WORSE FOR THEM 

THE THINGS OF WHICH THEY WERE THE WITHHOLDERS
WILL BE TIED TO THEIR NECKS LIKE A TWISTED COLLAR 
TO GOD BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH 
AND GOD IS EXALTED IN POWER AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

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CHAPTER 3.  THE FAMILY OF AMRAN                                           SECTION 19.  PART IV

181  GOD HAS HEARD THOSE WHO UTTERED 
WE ARE RICH AND GOD IS POOR 
BUT WE WILL RECORD WHAT THEY UTTER 
AND THEIR ACT OF SLAYING THE MESSENGERS
AND WE WILL SAY, TASTE ALL YOU DISBELIEVERS
THE PENALTY OF THE SCORCHING FIRE

182  THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE DEEDS YOUR HANDS HAVE SENT 
FOR YOUR LORD NEVER HARMS HIS SERVANTS

183  THEY SAID, GOD TOLD US NOT TO BELIEVE ANY MESSENGER
UNLESS HE SHOWED US A SACRIFICE CONSUMED BY FIRE  
SAY, THERE CAME TO YOU BEFORE ME MESSENGERS 
WITH CLEAR SIGNS AND EVEN WITH WHAT YOU DESIRED
WHY THEN DID YOU KILL THEM IF WHAT YOU SAY IS PROPER

184  THEN IF THEY REJECT YOU THEY REJECTED MESSENGERS  
WHO CAME TO THEM BEFORE YOU WITH SIGNS THAT WERE CLEAR
AND BOOKS OF DARK PROPHECIES AND ENLIGHTENING SCRIPTURES

185  WITHOUT DOUBT EVERY SOUL WILL TASTE DEATH FOR SURE 
ON JUDGMENT DAY YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR REWARD  
AND ONLY HE WHO IS SAVED FAR FROM THE FIRE 
WILL BE IN PARADISE IN THE HEREAFTER

AND WILL BE OF THOSE THAT ATTAIN THE OBJECT OF LIVING
FOR THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD CONSISTS OF NOTHING
BUT GOODS AND VANITIES OF DECEIVING THINGS

186  YOU WILL BE TESTED IN YOUR PERSONS AND PROPERTIES
YOU WILL HEAR MUCH THAT WILL MAKE YOU GRIEVE  
FROM THOSE AMONG THEM WHO DID RECEIVE 
THE MESSAGE BEFORE YOU PREVIOUSLY
AND FROM THOSE WHO WORSHIP MANY DEITIES
BUT IF YOU PERSEVERE PATIENTLY 
AND GUARD AGAINST INIQUITY
THAT WILL BE A DETERMINING DECREE

187  YOUR LORD TOOK A COVENANT FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES  
IN ORDER TO MAKE IT KNOWN TO MANKIND AND TO MAKE IT CLEAR 
THEY THREW IT BEHIND THEIR BACKS AND HID THE SCRIPTURES 
AND THEY PURCHASED WITH IT A GAIN THAT WAS MEAGER
AND TERRIBLE WAS THE BARGAIN THEY BARTERED

188  THINK NOT THAT THEY WHO EXULT IN WHAT THEY HAVE DONE 
AND LOVE TO BE PRAISED FOR WHAT THEY HAVE NOT DONE 
THINK NOT THAT THEY CAN ESCAPE THE DESTRUCTION 
FOR THEM IS A GRIEVOUS PENALIZATION 

189  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND ALL OF THE HEAVENS
AND GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

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CHAPTER 3.  THE FAMILY OF AMRAN                                          SECTION 20.  PART IV

190  SURELY IN THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND OF THE NIGHT AND THE DAY IN THEIR ALTERNATION
ARE SIGNS FOR MEN WITH COMPREHENSION

191  MEN WHO CELEBRATE GOD'S PRAISES IN ADORATION 
IN STANDING AND IN SITTING AND IN LYING POSITIONS
AND DOWN ON THEIR SIDES AND GIVE CONTEMPLATION
TO THE WONDERS OF THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND SAY, OUR LORD, YOU DID NOT CREATE THIS WITHOUT INTENTION
AND GLORY TO YOU, OUR LORD, AND SAVE US FROM DESTRUCTION

192  OUR LORD, ANY WHOM YOU ADMIT TO THE FIRE 
YOU COVER WITH THEM SHAME AND WITH DISHONOR
AND NEVER WILL THE WRONG-DOERS FIND ANY HELPERS

193  OUR LORD, WE HAVE HEARD ONE CALLING US TO BE  BELIEVERS 
AND WE HAVE BELIEVED OUR LORD AND WE ARE SUBMITTERS
FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND BLOT OUT FROM US OUR ERRORS
AND UNITE US AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 

194  OUR LORD, GRANT US 
WHAT YOU DID PROMISE TO US 
THROUGH YOUR APOSTLE AND SAVE US 

FROM SHAME ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
FOR YOU NEVER BREAK YOUR COVENANT

195  AND THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER HAS ACCEPTED THEIR PRAYER 
AND SAID, I WILL NOT SUFFER TO BE LOST THE WORK OF A WORKER 
BE HE MALE OR FEMALE FOR YOU ARE MEMBERS OF ONE ANOTHER
THOSE WHO LEFT THEIR HOMES OR WERE DRIVEN OUT OR SUFFERED 
HARM IN MY CAUSE, I WILL BLOT OUT FROM THEM THEIR ERRORS 
AND ADMIT THEM INTO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
THIS IS A REWARD FROM YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
AND FROM YOUR LORD IS THE BEST REWARD 

196  LET NOT THE STRUTTING ABOUT THROUGH
THE LAND BY THE DISBELIEVERS DECEIVE YOU

197  A BRIEF ENJOYMENT, THEN THEIR ABODE IS HELL
AND IT IS AN EVIL RESTING PLACE TO DWELL

198  THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR MAKER 
FOR THEM ARE GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS
AN ETERNAL GIFT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE CREATOR
THAT WHICH IS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CREATOR 
IS BEST FOR THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS 

199  THERE ARE THOSE AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND WHO BELIEVE IN THE SCRIPTURES
GIVEN TO YOU AND BELIEVE IN THE SCRIPTURES
GIVEN TO THEM BOWING IN HUMILITY TO THE CREATOR 
AND THEY WILL NOT SELL THE SIGNS OF THEIR MAKER
FOR A MISERABLE GAIN AND FOR THEM IS A REWARD 
WITH THEIR LORD AND SWIFT IN ACCOUNT IS YOUR LORD

200  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, PATIENTLY PERSEVERE 
AND WITH CONSTANCY IN THAT IN WHICH YOU PERSEVERE 
STRENGTHEN EACH OTHER AND FEAR GOD THAT YOU MAY PROSPER

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART IV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH MANKIND, KEEP YOUR DUTY TO YOUR CREATOR
HE WHO CREATED YOU FROM A SINGLE CREATURE
AND CREATED YOUR MATES OF LIKE NATURE 

AND YOUR LORD MADE MANY MEN AND WOMEN FROM THESE TWO
SO OBEY GOD WHOM YOU DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS THROUGH
AND REVERE THE WOMBS THAT BORE YOU 
FOR GOD EVER WATCHES OVER YOU

2  TO ORPHANS RESTORE THEIR PROPERTY 
UPON THEIR REACHING MATURITY

NOR SUBSTITUTE YOUR WORTHLESS THINGS FOR THEIR GOOD ONES
AND DO NOT BE GUILTY OF DEVOURING UP THEIR POSSESSIONS 
BY MIXING IT UP WITH YOURS FOR THIS IS A TRANSGRESSION

3  IF YOU FEAR THAT YOU CANNOT DEAL JUSTLY WITH THE ORPHANS 
THEN MARRY TWO OR THREE OR FOUR WOMEN 

BUT IF YOU FEAR THAT YOU CANNOT DEAL WITH THEM JUSTLY 
THEN ONLY ONE OR A CAPTIVE OF YOUR RIGHT HAND WILL BE 
MORE SUITABLE TO PREVENT YOU FROM ACTING UNJUSTLY

4  GIVE THE WOMEN ON MARRIAGE THEIR DOWER 
BUT IF THEY WISH OF THEIR OWN GOOD PLEASURE 
TO REMIT PART OF IT ENJOY IT WITH GOOD CHEER

5  MAKE NOT OVER YOUR PROPERTY HOLDINGS
TO THOSE OF THEM WITH WEAK UNDERSTANDINGS
WHICH GOD HAS MADE A MEANS OF YOUR SUSTAINING
BUT WITH IT DO FEED THEM AND DO GIVE THEM CLOTHING
AND SPEAK WORDS OF KINDNESS TO THEM THAT ARE FAVORING

6  TEST THE ORPHANS UNTIL THEY REACH THE AGE OF MATRIMONY
THEN IF YOU FIND IN THEM INTELLECTUAL MATURITY
THEN MAKE OVER TO THEM THEIR PROPERTY
AND DO NOT CONSUME IT WASTEFULLY
AGAINST THEIR GROWING UP HASTILY
AND WHOEVER IS RICH LET HIM ABSTAIN RATIONALLY
WHOEVER IS POOR LET HIM CONSUME REASONABLY
WHEN YOU MAKE OVER TO THEM THEIR PROPERTY
CALL IN SUFFICIENT WITNESSES PROPERLY
AND GOD RECKONS SUFFICIENTLY

7  FROM WHAT IS LEFT BY PARENTS AND THOSE NEAR OF KIN
THERE IS A SHARE FOR MEN AND A SHARE FOR WOMEN 
WHETHER LARGE OR SMALL A SHARE DETERMINED

8  BUT IF ORPHANS ARE PRESENT AT THE TIME OF DIVISION 
OR POOR OR OTHER RELATIONS 
FEED THEM OUT OF THE POSSESSIONS 
AND SPEAK TO THEM WORDS OF COMPASSION 

9  AND LET THOSE DISPOSING OF AN ESTATE HAVE THE FEAR IN MIND
AS THEY WOULD HAVE FOR THEIR OWN IF THEY HAD LEFT BEHIND
A HELPLESS FAMILY, SO FEAR GOD AND BE KIND

10  THOSE WHO EAT UP THE PROPERTY OF ORPHANS EAT UP FIRE
INTO THEIR OWN BODIES AND THEY WILL ENDURE A BLAZING FIRE

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                   SECTION 2.  PART IV 

11  GOD DIRECTS YOU AS REGARDS TO YOUR CHILDREN
TO THE MEN A PORTION EQUAL TO THAT OF TWO WOMEN 

IF ONLY DAUGHTERS TWO OR MORE THEIR SHARE 
IS TWO THIRDS OF THE INHERITANCE, IF ONLY ONE HER SHARE 
IS HALF OF THE INHERITANCE AND FOR PARENTS A SIXTH SHARE 
TO EACH IF THE DECEASED LEFT CHILDREN AS HEIRS
BUT IF NO CHILDREN AND THE PARENTS ARE THE ONLY HEIRS 
THE MOTHER HAS A THIRD BUT IF THE DECEASED LEFT BROTHERS 
OR SISTERS THEN THE MOTHER HAS A SIXTH SHARE 
THE DISTRIBUTION IN ALL CASES IS AFTER 
LEGACY AND DEBT PAYMENTS AND YOU KNOW NOT WHETHER 
YOUR PARENTS OR YOUR CHILDREN IN BENEFIT ARE NEARER 
AND THESE ARE PORTIONS ORDAINED BY THE CREATOR 
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

12  FROM YOUR WIVES YOUR SHARE IS HALF IF THEY LEAVE NO CHILD
BUT YOU GET A FOURTH IF THEY DO LEAVE A CHILD

AFTER DEBT PAYMENTS AND LEGACIES
AND THEY GET A FOURTH OF WHAT YOU LEAVE 

IF YOU DO NOT LEAVE A CHILD
BUT THEY GET AN EIGHTH IF YOU LEAVE A CHILD

AFTER PAYMENTS OF DEBTS ARE DONE 
IF THE PERSON WHOSE INHERITANCE IS IN QUESTION 

LEFT NEITHER ASCENDANTS NOR DESCENDANTS AS HEIRS
BUT HAS LEFT A BROTHER OR A SISTER

EACH ONE OF THE TWO 
GETS A SIXTH BUT IF MORE THAN TWO 

THEY SHARE A THIRD AFTER DEBT PAYMENTS ARE DONE 
SO THAT NO LOSS IS CAUSED TO ANY ONE 

THIS IS ORDAINED BY GOD 
ALL KNOWING AND MOST FORBEARING IS GOD

13  THOSE ARE LIMITS SET BY THE CREATOR 
AND THOSE WHO OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
WILL BE ADMITTED TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
AND THEY WILL ABIDE IN THEM FOREVER 
AND THAT IS THE GOAL OF THE TRUE BELIEVER

14  BUT THOSE WHO DISOBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND TRANSGRESS HIS LIMITS WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE FIRE 
AND THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOREVER 
THEIR'S WILL BE A PENALTY THAT ENDURES FOREVER

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 3.  PART IV

15  IF ANY OF YOUR WOMEN ARE GUILTY OF LEWDNESS 
TAKE THE EVIDENCE OF FOUR RELIABLE WITNESSES 

FROM AMONG YOURSELVES AGAINST THEM 
IF THEY TESTIFY CONFINE THEM 
TO HOUSES UNTIL DEATH CLAIMS THEM 
OR GOD ORDAINS SOME OTHER WAY FOR THEM 

16  IF TWO MEN AMONG YOU ARE GUILTY OF LEWDNESS
PUNISH THEM BUT IF THEY REPENT AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS
THEN LEAVE THEM ALONE, FOR SURELY GOD IS MOST GRACIOUS

17  GOD ACCEPTS THE REPENTANCE 
OF THOSE WHO DO EVIL IN IGNORANCE 
BUT SOON AFTERWARDS TURN IN REPENTANCE
GOD WILL TURN TO THEM MERCIFULLY IN RECOMPENSE

18  BUT THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO DO EVIL AFTER THEY HAVE REPENTED 
THEN WHEN DEATH REACHES THEM HE SAYS, NOW I HAVE REPENTED
IS OF NO EFFECT, NOR OF THEM WHO DIES AS ONE WHO REJECTED
WITH A GRIEVOUS PENALTY THEY WILL BE REWARDED 

19  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO INHERIT WOMEN FORCIBLY 
NOR SHOULD YOU WRONGFULLY TREAT THEM HARSHLY
SO YOU CAN TAKE AWAY PART OF THEIR DOWRY
EXCEPT WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN GUILTY
OF OPEN LEWDNESS, BUT ON THE CONTRARY 
LIVE WITH THEM WITH KINDNESS AND IN EQUITY 
IF YOU TAKE A DISLIKE TO THEM IT MAY BE 
THAT YOU COULD DISLIKE A THING AND MAYBE 
GOD COULD BRING THROUGH IT MUCH GOOD POSSIBLY

20  BUT IF YOU DECIDE TO TAKE ONE WIFE IN PLACE OF ANOTHER
AND YOU HAD GIVEN HER A WHOLE TREASURE FOR DOWER 
TAKE NOT THE LEAST BIT OF IT BACK FROM HER
WOULD YOU TAKE IT BY A MANIFEST WRONG AND SLANDER?

21  HOW COULD YOU TAKE IT WHEN YOU HAVE GONE INTO HER
AND YOU HAVE TAKEN A COVENANT FROM EACH OTHER?

22  AND DO NOT MARRY 
WOMEN WHOM YOUR FATHERS MARRIED 

EXCEPT WHAT IS PAST AND IT WAS SHAMEFUL 
AND A CUSTOM THAT WAS ABOMINABLE

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 4.  PART IV

23  PROHIBITED TO YOU FOR MARRIAGE ARE YOUR MOTHERS 
YOUR DAUGHTERS, YOUR SISTERS, YOUR FATHER'S SISTERS
YOUR MOTHER'S SISTERS, YOUR BROTHER'S DAUGHTERS
YOUR SISTER'S DAUGHTERS AND YOUR FOSTER SISTERS
YOUR WIVES' MOTHERS

AND YOUR FOSTER MOTHERS WHO NURSED YOU
AND YOUR STEP DAUGHTERS UNDER THE GUARDIANSHIP OF YOU
BORN OF WIVES TO WHOM YOU HAVE GONE INTO 
NO PROHIBITION IF THEY YOU HAVE NOT GONE INTO 
AND EX WIVES OF YOUR SONS PROCEEDING FROM YOU 
AND TWO SISTERS TOGETHER EXCEPT WHAT IS PAST DUE 
FOR GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL TO YOU

PART V

24  ALSO PROHIBITED ARE WOMEN WHO ARE MARRIED ALREADY 
EXCEPT THOSE WOMEN WHO ARE SLAVES WHOM YOU MARRY 
GOD SO ORDAINED PROHIBITIONS AND EXCEPT FOR THESE
ALL OTHERS ARE LAWFUL PROVIDED THAT YOU MARRY
NOT BEING LUSTFUL BUT WITH GIFTS FROM YOUR PROPERTY  
SINCE THEY BENEFIT YOU GIVE TO THEM THEIR DOWRIES
AT LEAST ACCORDING TO WHAT IS PRESCRIBED DULY
AFTER A DOWER IS PRESCRIBED AND MUTUALLY
YOU AGREE FOR IT TO VARY 
THEN YOU ARE HELD BLAMELESSLY
AND GOD IS ALL KNOWING AND ALL WISE IS HE

25  IF YOU HAVE NOT THE MEANS TO MARRY  
BELIEVING WOMEN WHO ARE FREE 
YOU MAY WED YOUR SLAVE WOMEN LEGALLY
AND GOD HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR DUTY
YOU ARE ONE FROM ANOTHER SO WED THEM WITH THE LEAVE 
OF THEIR OWNERS AND GIVE THEM THEIR DOWRIES 
ACCORDING TO WHAT IS WITHIN ACTING RIGHTEOUSLY
AND THEY BEING CHASTE NOR TAKING THEM ILLEGALLY
WHEN THEY ARE TAKEN IN WEDLOCK IF THEY ACT UNRIGHTEOUSLY
THEIR PUNISHMENT IS THEN HALF THAT OF WOMEN WHO ARE FREE  
THIS PERMISSION IS FOR THOSE AMONG YOU WHO FEAR INIQUITY
BUT IT IS BETTER FOR YOU THAT YOU ACT RESTRAINFULLY 
AND GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 5.  PART V

26  AND YOUR LORD DOES WISH TO SHOW TO YOU CLEARLY
THE ORDINANCES OF THOSE BEFORE YOU PREVIOUSLY
AND HE DOES WISH TO TURN TO YOU IN MERCY 
FOR ALL KNOWING AND ALL WISE IS HE

27  GOD DOES WISH TO TURN TO YOU 
THOSE WHO FOLLOW THEIR LUSTS WISH THAT YOU
SHOULD TURN AWAY FROM YOUR LORD AS A LOSS TO YOU

28  GOD DOES WISH TO LIGHTEN YOUR BURDEN
FOR MAN WAS MADE WEAK IN CREATION

29  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, EAT NOT UP YOUR PROPERTIES
AMONG YOURSELVES IN VANITIES

BUT LET THERE BE TRAFFIC AND TRADE BY MUTUAL GOODWILL 
NOR KILL YOURSELVES FOR TO YOU GOD HAS BEEN MERCIFUL 

30  IF ANY DO THAT IN INJUSTICE AND RANCOR 
SOON WILL WE CAST THEM INTO THE FIRE 
THAT FOR GOD IS AN EASY MATTER

31  IF THE MOST HEINOUS OF THE THINGS ARE SHUNNED BY YOU
OF THE THINGS OF WHICH YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO DO
WE WILL EXPEL OUT OF YOU 
ALL OF THE EVIL THAT IS IN YOU 
AND BESTOW GREAT HONOR UPON YOU

32  AND WISH NOT FOR THOSE THINGS WHICH GOD HAS FREELY 
SHOWERED MORE ON SOME AND OTHERS MORE MEAGERLY
AND TO MEN IS ALLOTTED WHAT THEY EARN GAINFULLY
WOMEN ARE ALLOTTED WHAT THEY EARN EQUALLY
BUT THEN ASK OF YOUR LORD FOR HIS BOUNTY 
FOR KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS HAS HE

33  TO BENEFIT EVERYONE WE HAVE CLEARLY
APPOINTED SHARES AND HEIRS TO PROPERTY 

LEFT BY PARENTS AND RELATIVES AND TO THOSE ALSO TO WHOM
YOUR RIGHT HAND WAS PLEDGED,GIVE THEM THEIR DUE 
FOR GOD IS EVER WITNESSING TO ALL THAT YOU DO

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 6.  PART V

34  AS TO WOMEN, MEN ARE THEIR PROTECTORS AND MAINTAINERS 
BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN THE ONE MORE STRENGTH THAN THE OTHER 
AND BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT THEM FROM THEIR TREASURES
SO RIGHTEOUS WOMEN ARE OBEDIENT TO THEIR MARITAL PARTNERS 
AND IN THEIR ABSENCE GUARD WHAT GOD WILLS THEM TO GUARD
AND AS TO WOMEN, THOSE FROM WHOM DISLOYALTY YOU FEAR
FIRST ADMONISH THEM, NEXT THEIR BEDS REFUSE TO SHARE
AND LASTLY, LIGHTLY CHASTISE HER 
IF SHE RETURNS TO OBEDIENCE DO NOT ANNOY HER
FOR OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE KNOWER AND SEER

35  IF YOU FEAR A BREACH APPOINT TWO ARBITERS 
ONE FROM HIS FAMILY AND THE OTHER FROM HERS 

IF THEY WISH FOR PEACE GOD WILL CAUSE THEIR RECONCILING
FOR GOD HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE AND IS AWARE OF ALL THINGS

36  SERVE GOD AND JOIN WITH HIM NO PARTNERS
AND DO GOOD TO PARENTS AND KIN WHO ARE NEAR 
THE ORPHANS, THE NEEDY AND NEIGHBORS WHO ARE NEAR
AND ALSO TO THOSE NEIGHBORS WHO ARE STRANGERS
THE COMPANION BY YOUR SIDE AND THE WAYFARER 
AND THOSE OF WHOM YOU ARE SLAVE OWNERS 
GOD LOVES NOT ANY ARROGANT BOASTERS 

37  NOR THOSE WHO ARE  MISERLY 
OR WHO ENJOIN OTHERS TO BE MISERLY
OR THOSE OF YOU WHO HIDE THE BOUNTIES
WHICH GOD HAS BESTOWED ON THEM FREELY
FOR REJECTERS WE HAVE PREPARED A SEVERE PENALTY 

38  NOR THOSE WHO SPEND OF THEIR SUBSTANCE TO BE SEEN OF MEN 
AND NO FAITH HAVE THEY IN THE LORD OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
IF ANY TAKE THE DEVIL FOR THEIR INTIMATE FRIEND
HE IS A DREADFUL INTIMATE FRIEND

39  AND WHAT BURDEN WOULD IT BE IF THEY
HAD FAITH IN GOD AND IN THE LAST DAY

AND SPENT OUT OF WHAT GOD HAD GIVEN THEM? 
FOR GOD HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THEM

40  GOD IS NEVER UNJUST IN THE LEAST BIT
IF THERE IS ANY GOOD DONE THEN HE DOUBLES IT
AND HE GIVES FROM HIMSELF A REWARD WITHOUT LIMIT

41  HOW THEN IF WE BROUGHT A WITNESS FROM EACH PEOPLE 
AND WE BROUGHT YOU AS A WITNESS AGAINST THESE PEOPLE?

42  ON THAT DAY THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
AND THOSE WHO DISOBEY THE MESSENGER
WILL WISH THEY WERE MADE ONE WITH THE  EARTH  
BUT NO FACT WILL BE HIDDEN FROM THEM BY THE CREATOR

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 7.  PART V

43  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHILE INTOXICATED DO NOT PRAY 
UNTIL YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ALL THAT YOU SAY

NOR AFTER SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
EXCEPT WHEN TRAVELING ON A GIVEN COURSE 

UNTIL AFTER WASHING YOUR WHOLE BODY
BUT IF YOU ARE ILL OR ON A JOURNEY

OR ONE OF YOU COMES FROM OFFICES OF NATURE
OR YOU 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 

FOR GOD DOES BLOT OUT SINS
AND FORGIVES AGAIN AND AGAIN 

44  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION 
TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE GIVEN A PORTION 
OF THE BOOK AND OF IT THEY ARE IN REJECTION?  
AND THEY WISH THAT YOU TOO SHOULD BE IN REJECTION

45  BUT FULL KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR ENEMIES HAS GOD
AND ENOUGH FOR YOU AS A PROTECTOR IS GOD
AND ENOUGH FOR YOU AS A HELPER IS GOD

46  AND OF THE JEWS THERE ARE THOSE WHO DISPLACE WORDS
FROM THEIR PLACES AND SAY, WE HEAR WHAT WE HAVE HEARD
AND WE DISOBEY AND WE HEAR WHAT IS NOT HEARD 
WITH A TWIST OF THEIR TONGUES AND A SLANDER 
AND IF ONLY THEY HAD SAID, WE DO HEAR 
AND WE OBEY AND DO LOOK AT US AND WE DO HEAR 
FOR THEM IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER AND MORE PROPER
BUT GOD HAS CURSED THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE DISBELIEVERS 
AND EVEN STILL ONLY A FEW OF THEM WILL EVER BE BELIEVERS

47  OH PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, BELIEVE IN WHAT WE REVEAL TO YOU
CONFIRMING THE SCRIPTURES THAT ARE WITH YOU 
BEFORE WE CHANGE THE FACE AND FAME OF SOME OF YOU 
BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION AND TURN YOU HINDWARDS OR CURSE YOU  
AS WE CURSED THE SABBATH BREAKERS BEFORE YOU
FOR THE DECISION OF YOUR LORD MUST BE CARRIED THROUGH

48  GOD FORGIVES NOT THAT PARTNERS 
SHOULD BE SET UP WITH HIM EVER
BUT HE FORGIVES WHATEVER ELSE HE DESIRES 
AND TO SET UP WITH GOD PARTNERS
IS TO DEVISE THE MOST HEINOUS SIN OF SINNERS

49  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION
TO THOSE WHO CLAIM SANCTITY TO THEIR OWN PERSONS?
NO, BUT TO WHOM GOD PLEASES HE GIVES SANCTIFICATION
BUT NEVER WILL THEY FAIL TO RECEIVE JUSTICE IN DECISION

50  SEE HOW THEY INVENT A LIE AGAINST GOD 
BUT THAT BY ITSELF IS A SIN AGAINST GOD

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                   SECTION 8.  PART V

51  HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THOSE WHO WERE GIVEN SCRIPTURES?  
THEY BELIEVE IN SORCERY AND SAY TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
THAT THEY ARE BETTER GUIDED THAN THE BELIEVERS

52  THEY ARE MEN WHOM GOD HAS CURSED 
YOU WILL FIND NO ONE TO HELP WHOM GOD HAS CURSED

53  HAVE THEY A SHARE IN POWER OR DOMINION
AND THEY GIVE NOTHING TO THEIR FELLOW MEN?

54  OR IS IT MANKIND THAT THEY ENVY 
FOR WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN THEM OF HIS BOUNTY? 

WE GAVE ABRAHAM'S PEOPLE THE BOOK AND WISDOM 
AND CONFERRED UPON THEM A GREAT KINGDOM

55  SOME OF THEM WERE BELIEVERS 
SOME OF THEM TURNED AWAY AFTER 
AND ENOUGH IS HELL FOR A BURNING FIRE

56  FOR THOSE WHO OF OUR MESSAGES ARE REJECTERS
WE WILL SOON CAST ALL OF THEM INTO THE FIRE
AS OFTEN AS THEIR SKINS ARE ROASTED OVER 
WE WILL CHANGE THEM FOR NEW SKINS THAT ARE FRESHER 
SO THAT THEY MAY TASTE A PENALTY THAT IS SEVERE
FOR GOD IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER

57 FOR THOSE WHO DO GOOD DEEDS AND ARE BELIEVERS 
WE WILL SOON ADMIT TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
AND THEREIN THEY WILL HAVE COMPANIONS HOLY AND PURE
AND THEY WILL HAVE SHADINGS COOL AND DEEPENING FOREVER

58  GOD DOES COMMAND YOU TO RENDER BACK YOUR TRUSTS 
TO THOSE TO WHOM THEY ARE DUE AND WHEN YOU JUDGE, BE JUST 

HOW EXCELLENT IS THAT WHICH HE GIVES YOU AS TEACHINGS 
FOR YOUR LORD HEARS AND SEES ALL THINGS

59  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, OBEY GOD AND THE MESSENGER
AND THOSE IN AUTHORITY, AND IN ANYTHING THAT YOU DIFFER 
REFER IT TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY THAT IS BETTER
AND MOST SUITABLE FOR THE DETERMINATION THAT IS FOREVER

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 9.  PART V

60  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION 
TO THOSE WHO SAY THEY BELIEVE IN THE REVELATIONS
THAT ARE WITH YOU AND ALSO IN THE PREVIOUS REVELATIONS? 

THEY RESORT FOR JUDGMENT IN THEIR DISPUTES TO THE DEVIL
ALTHOUGH THEY WERE ORDERED TO REJECT THE DEVIL  
TO LEAD THEM ASTRAY IS THE WISH OF THE DEVIL

61  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, COME TO WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED
AND TO THE APOSTLE, YOU SEE THE HYPOCRITES WITH ZEAL
AVERT THEIR FACES FROM YOU WITH ADVERSE APPEAL

62  THEN WHEN THEY ARE SEIZED BY A CHASTISEMENT 
BECAUSE OF DEEDS WHICH THEIR HANDS HAVE SENT 
THEY COME TO YOU SWEARING BY GOD, WE MEANT 
NO MORE THAN GOOD WILL AND BEFRIENDMENT

63  THOSE MEN GOD KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS OF THEM
THEREFORE  KEEP CLEAR OF THEM BUT ADMONISH THEM 
AND SPEAK A WORD TO REACH THE SOULS OF THEM

64  WE SENT MESSENGERS TO MEN TO BE OBEYED BY GOD'S ORDINANCES
WHEN THEY WERE UNJUST IF THEY HAD ASKED GOD'S FORGIVENESS 
AND THE MESSENGER HAD ASKED GOD FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS 
THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND GOD FULL OF FORGIVENESS

65  BUT NO, BY YOUR LORD THEY CAN HAVE NO REAL TRUTH
UNTIL THEY MAKE YOU JUDGE BETWEEN THEM IN ALL DISPUTES

AND THEY HAVE NO RESISTANCE AGAINST YOUR DECISIONS 
BUT ACCEPT THEM WITH THE FULLEST CONVICTIONS

66  IF WE HAD ORDERED THEM TO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES 
OR LEAVE THEIR HOMES, FEW OF THEM WOULD HAVE COMPILED

BUT IF THEY DID WHAT WAS TOLD TO THEM
THEN IT WOULD HAVE SURELY BEEN BEST FOR THEM 
AND WOULD HAVE GONE TO STRENGTHEN THE FAITH OF THEM 

67  AND WE WOULD THEN HAVE GIVEN THEM 
FROM OUR PRESENCE A GREAT REWARD TO THEM

68  AND WE WOULD HAVE SHOWN THE STRAIGHT WAY TO THEM 

69  ALL WHO OBEY GOD AND THE MESSENGER ARE IN THE COMPANY
OF THOSE ON WHOM IS THEIR LORD'S MERCY

AND THE MESSENGERS WHO TEACH THE SINCERE LOVERS OF TRUTH       
AND THE WITNESSES WHO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH

AND THE RIGHTEOUS WHO DO GOOD 
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BROTHERHOOD

70  THIS IS THE BOUNTY FROM GOD 
AND SUFFICIENT IS IT THAT ALL IS KNOWN BY GOD

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 10.  PART V

71  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, TAKE YOUR PRECAUTIONS
AND EITHER GO FORTH IN PARTIES OR IN ONE CONGREGATION

72  THERE ARE AMONG YOU MEN WHO WOULD STAY IN THE REAR
IF MISFORTUNE BEFALLS YOU THEY SAY, IT IS US THAT GOD FAVORED 
BECAUSE WE WERE NOT WITH THEM WHEN THEY WERE SLAUGHTERED

73  BUT IF GOD GIVES YOU GOOD FORTUNE
THEY WOULD SAY AS IF THERE HAD NOT BEEN 
BETWEEN YOU AND THEM ANY TIES OF AFFECTION
I SURELY WISH NOW THAT WITH THEM I HAD BEEN 
A FINE THING WOULD I HAVE MADE OF IT THEN

74  LET THEM IN THE CAUSE OF GOD BE FIGHTERS
WHO SELL THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD FOR THE HEREAFTER 
FOR TO THOSE WHO FIGHT IN THE CAUSE OF THE CREATOR
WHETHER HE IS SLAIN OR HE BECOMES THE VICTOR
WE WILL REWARD HIM WITH A GREAT FAVOR

75  WHY SHOULD YOU NOT FIGHT IN THE CAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
WHEN THOSE WHO ARE WEAK ARE ILL TREATED AND OPPRESSED 

WHO ARE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO CRY, LORD RESCUE US  
FROM THIS TOWN WHOSE PEOPLE MURDER AND OPPRESS US 
AND RAISE FOR US FROM YOU ONE WHO WILL PROTECT US 
AND RAISE FOR US FROM YOU ONE WHO WILL HELP US

76  THOSE WHO FIGHT IN GOD'S CAUSE ARE BELIEVING ONES 
THOSE WHO FIGHT IN SATAN'S CAUSE ARE IN REJECTION
THEREFORE FIGHT AGAINST THE FRIENDS OF SATAN 
FOR FEEBLE INDEED IS THE CUNNING OF SATAN

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 11.  PART V

77  DO YOU SEE THOSE WHO WERE TOLD TO REFRAIN FROM FIGHTING 
BUT PRAY REGULARLY AND BE CHARITABLE IN THEIR SPENDING?  
WHEN THE ORDER WAS ISSUED TO THEM FOR FIGHTING  
THEY FEARED MEN AND GOD IS WHO THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN FEARING    
AND THEY SAID, LORD, WHY HAVE YOU ORDERED FOR US FIGHTING?  
WOULD YOU NOT TO A NEAR TERM GRANT TO US RESPITING?
 
SAY, SHORT IS THE ENJOYMENT OF THIS WORLD'S LIFE
BUT THE HEREAFTER IS BEST FOR THOSE WHO DO RIGHT
AND YOU WILL NOT BE DEALT WITH OTHER THAN RIGHT 

78  WHEREVER YOU ARE DEATH WILL FIND YOU 
EVEN IF YOU ARE IN TOWERS BUILT UP HIGH ABOVE YOU
IF GOOD BEFALLS THEM THEY SAY, THIS IS FROM GOD IN TRUTH
BUT IF SOME EVIL BEFALLS THEM THEN THEY SAY, THIS IS FROM YOU  
 
SAY TO THEM, ALL THINGS ARE FROM GOD, BUT WHAT IN FACT
HAS COME TO THESE PEOPLE SO AS A MATTER OF FACT 
THEY FAIL TO UNDERSTAND A SINGLE FACT

79  FOR FROM YOUR LORD COMES WHATEVER GOOD HAPPENS TO YOU 
BUT FROM YOURSELVES COMES WHATEVER EVIL HAPPENS TO YOU 
AND WE HAVE SENT TO YOU AN APOSTLE TO INSTRUCT YOU
AND ENOUGH IS GOD AS A WITNESS FOR YOU

80  HE WHO OBEYS THE MESSENGER OBEYS GOD INDEED
BUT IF ANY OF THEM TURN AWAY AND DO NOT TAKE HEED
WE HAVE NOT SENT YOU TO WATCH OVER THEIR EVIL DEEDS

81  THERE IS OBEDIENCE ON THE LIPS OF THEM
BUT WHEN THEY LEAVE YOU A SECTION OF THEM 
MEDITATE ON THINGS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU TELL THEM 
BUT GOD RECORDS THEIR NIGHTLY PLOTS SO KEEP CLEAR OF THEM 
AND TRUST YOUR LORD WHO IS THE DISPOSER OF AFFAIRS FOR THEM 

82  DO THEY NOT GIVE THE QURAN CONSIDERATION  
THAT IF IT HAD BEEN OTHER THAN GOD'S REVELATION
THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND IN IT MUCH CONTRADICTION?

83  THEY DIVULGE WHEN COMES TO THEM SOME SAFETY MATTER   
BUT IF THEY HAD REFERRED IT TO THE MESSENGER  
OR TO THOSE IN AUTHORITY THEN FOR SURE 
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TESTED BY THE PROPER INVESTIGATORS
AND WERE IT NOT FOR GOD'S GOOD GRACE AND FAVOR 
ALL BUT A FEW OF YOU WOULD HAVE FALLEN OVER
INTO THE CLUTCHES OF SATAN'S POWER

84  THEN FIGHT IN GOD'S CAUSE FAITHFULLY
YOU ARE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF ONLY 
AND ROUSE THOSE WHO ARE AMONG YOU WHO BELIEVE
MAYBE YOUR LORD WILL RESTRAIN THE DISBELIEVERS FURY 
FOR GOD IS STRONGEST IN MIGHT AND IN AFFLICTING PENALTY

85  WHOEVER HELPS A GOOD CAUSE BECOMES A PARTNER IN IT 
AND WHOEVER HELPS AN EVIL CAUSE HAS A SHARE IN IT
AND OF ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER OVER IT

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                 SECTION 11 (CONT'D). PART V

86  WHEN SOMEONE OFFERS YOU A COURTEOUS GREETING 
MEET IT WITH A MORE COURTEOUS GREETING 
OR AT LEAST AN EQUALLY COURTEOUS GREETING 
AND GOD TAKES CAREFUL ACCOUNT OF ALL THINGS

87  GOD, THERE IS NO OTHER DEITY
HE WILL GATHER YOU TOGETHER SURELY
ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION UNDOUBTEDLY
AND WHOSE WORD BESIDES GOD CAN BE MORE HOLY

 SECTION  12

88   AND THE HYPOCRITES, WHY SHOULD YOU BE DIVIDED ABOUT THEM
WHEN GOD HAS UPSET THEM FOR THE EVIL DEEDS DONE BY THEM?

WOULD YOU GUIDE HIM WHOM GOD HAS THROWN OUT OF THE WAY? 
FOR THOSE WHOM GOD HAS THROWN OUT OF THE WAY 
FOR HIM NEVER WILL YOU FIND THE WAY

89  THEY WISH THAT YOU WOULD REJECT FAITH LIKE THEM 
AND THEN BE ON THE SAME FOOTING AS THEM 
TAKE NOT FRIENDS FROM AMONG THEM 
UNTIL THEY FLEE FROM WHAT IS FORBIDDEN TO THEM
BUT IF THEY TURN RENEGADE SEIZE THEM 
AND KILL THEM WHEREVER YOU FIND THEM 
AND TAKE NO FRIENDS OR HELPERS FROM AMONG THEM

90  EXCEPT THOSE WHO JOIN A GROUP BETWEEN WHOM AND YOU
THERE IS A TREATY OF PEACE OR THOSE WHO APPROACH YOU 
WITH HEARTS RESTRAINING THEM FROM FIGHTING YOU 
AS WELL AS THEM FIGHTING THEIR OWN PEOPLE TOO
GOD COULD HAVE GIVEN THEM POWER OVER YOU 
AND THEY SURELY WOULD HAVE FOUGHT YOU 
IF THEY WITHDRAW FROM YOU AND DO NOT FIGHT YOU 
AND INSTEAD THEY SEND GUARANTEES OF PEACE TO YOU 
THEN GOD HAS OPENED NO WAY TO WAR AGAINST THEM FOR YOU

91  YOU WILL FIND OTHERS WHO DESIRE TO BE SECURE FROM YOU
AND THEY DESIRE TO BE SECURE FROM THEIR OWN PEOPLE TOO
AND EVERY TIME THAT TEMPTATION THEY ARE SENT BACK TO  
THEY FALL BACK INTO THE SAME STATE OF INGRATITUDE
IF THEY WITHDRAW NOT FROM YOU 
NOR GIVE GUARANTEES OF PEACE TO YOU 
BESIDES RESTRAINING THEIR HANDS FROM YOU 
SEIZE AND KILL THEM WHEREVER THEY ARE CAUGHT BY YOU 
WE HAVE PROVIDED CLEAR ARGUMENTS AGAINST THEM FOR YOU

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 13.  PART V

92  NEVER SHOULD A BELIEVER KILL ONE WHO BELIEVES 
IF BY MISTAKE ONE DOES KILL ONE WHO BELIEVES
THEN A BELIEVING SLAVE SHOULD BE FREED 
AND COMPENSATION PAID TO THE DECEASED'S FAMILY
UNLESS THEY THEMSELVES REMIT IT FREELY 
AND IF THE DECEASED BELONGED TO PEOPLE WHO ARE ADVISORIES
AND HE WAS A BELIEVER, THEN IT IS ENOUGH TO SET A SLAVE FREE
IF HE BELONGED TO PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU HAVE A TREATY  
COMPENSATION SHOULD THEN BE PAID TO HIS FAMILY
AND A BELIEVING SLAVE SHOULD BE FREED 

BUT FOR THOSE WHO FIND THIS TO BE BEYOND THEIR ABILITY
IS PRESCRIBED A FAST FOR TWO MONTHS CONSECUTIVELY 
BY WAY OF REPENTANCE TO GOD ALMIGHTY
FOR ALL KNOWING AND ALL WISE IS HE

93  IF A MAN KILLS A BELIEVER INTENTIONALLY  
THEN HIS RECOMPENSE IS HELL, AN EVIL DESTINY
THE WRATH AND THE CURSE OF GOD IS HIS DECREE 
AND PREPARED FOR HIM IS A DREADFUL PENALTY 

94  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
WHEN YOU GO TO FIGHT IN THE WAY OF THE CREATOR 
INVESTIGATE AND SAY NOT TO ANY PERSON WHO OFFERS 
TO YOU A SALUTATION, YOU ARE NOT A BELIEVER 
SEEKING THE PERISHABLE GOODS OF THIS LIFE TO AQUIFER
FOR WITH YOUR LORD ARE SPOILS ABUNDANT AND TREASURES 
YOU WERE THE SAME BEFORE GOD CONFERRED ON YOU HIS FAVORS 
SO INVESTIGATE FOR OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

95  NOT EQUAL ARE THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WHO SIT AT HOME AND NO HURT DO THEY RECEIVE 
AND THOSE WHO FIGHT IN GOD'S CAUSE FAITHFULLY
WITH THEIR PERSONS AND THEIR PROPERTY 
GOD HAS GRANTED A HIGHER DEGREE
TO THOSE WHO STRIVE WITH THEIR PERSONS AND PROPERTY 
THAN TO THOSE WHO SIT AT HOME SAFELY
AND TO ALL IN FAITH HAS GOD PROMISED A REWARD AMPLY
BUT THOSE WHO STRIVE AND FIGHT ARE SPECIALLY
DISTINGUISHED ABOVE THOSE WHO SIT BY A SPECIAL DEGREE

96  RANKS BESTOWED BY HIM AND FORGIVENESS AND MERCY 
FOR GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND FULL OF MERCY

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 14.  PART V

97  WHEN THE ANGELS TAKE THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO DIE IN SIN 
THEY SAY TO THEM, IN WHAT PLIGHT WERE YOU IN?  
AND THEY SAY, WEAK AND OPPRESSED WERE WE AS MEN 
THE ANGELS SAY, WAS THERE NOT SPACE ON EARTH TO MOVE IN?  
THEREFORE HELL WILL BE THE HOME OF SUCH MEN  
AND WHAT AN EVIL PLACE IS IT TO DWELL IN
EXCEPT FOR THOSE IN A WEAKENED CONDITION 
UNDER OPPRESSION AS MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN 
WHO HAVE NO MEANS OR A GUIDE TO DIRECT THEIR WAY IN 

99  FOR THESE THERE IS HOPE THAT GOD WILL FORGIVE THEIR SINS
FOR GOD BLOTS OUT SINS AND FORGIVES AGAIN AND AGAIN 

100  HE WHO FORSAKES HIS HOME IN THE CAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
HE FINDS ON EARTH MANY A REFUGE WIDE AND SPACIOUS

AND IF HE DIES AS A REFUGEE FROM HOME FOR GOD AND HIS APOSTLE
HIS REWARD FROM GOD BECOMES IMMEDIATELY DUE AND FULL 
AND GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL 

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 15.  PART V

101  WHEN TRAVELING THROUGH THE EARTH THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU 
IF YOU SHORTEN PRAYERS FOR FEAR DISBELIEVERS MAY ATTACK YOU 
FOR THE DISBELIEVERS ARE OPEN ENEMIES TO YOU

102  WHEN YOU ARE WITH THEM TO LEAD THEM IN DEVOTION
LET ONE PARTY STAND TO MAKE THEIR PROSTRATIONS 
TAKING ALL OF THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS 
THEN WHEN THEY HAVE FINISHED THEIR PROSTRATIONS
THEN LET THEM GO TO THE REAR AND TAKE THEIR POSITIONS 
THEN LET THE OTHERS WHO HAVE NOT MADE THEIR PROSTRATIONS 
LET THEM COME UP AND PRAY TAKING ALL PRECAUTIONS
AND BEARING ARMS, FOR THE DISBELIEVING ONES
WISH IF YOU WERE NEGLIGENT TO MAKE AN INVASION
ON YOU THERE IS NO BLAME  IF YOU PUT AWAY YOUR WEAPONS
BECAUSE OF THE INCONVENIENCE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 
OR BECAUSE YOU ARE ILL, BUT TAKE EVERY PRECAUTION 
FOR GOD HAS A PUNISHMENT OF HUMILIATION 
PREPARED FOR THE UNBELIEVING ONES

103  AND WHEN YOU PASS CONGREGATIONAL PRAYERS 
STANDING,  SITTING OR LAYING DOWN, SAY YOUR PRAYERS
BUT WHEN YOU ARE FREE FROM DANGER SET UP REGULAR PRAYERS
FOR PRAYERS ARE ENJOINED AT STATED TIMES ON BELIEVERS

104  DO NOT SLACKEN HASTILY IN FOLLOWING UP THE ENEMY
IF YOU ARE SUFFERING HARDSHIPS THEY ARE SUFFERING SIMILARLY

BUT YOU HAVE HOPE FROM GOD 
WHILE THEY HAVE NO HOPE FROM GOD
AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS GOD

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 16.  PART V

105  WE HAVE SENT DOWN TO YOU THE BOOK IN TRUTH 
SO YOU CAN JUDGE BETWEEN MEN AS GOD HAS TAUGHT YOU
SO BE NOT USED AS AN ADVOCATE BY THOSE WHO ARE UNTRUE

106  BUT SEEK THE FORGIVENESS OF GOD 
FOR MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL IS GOD

107  CONTEND NOT ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO ACT UNFAITHFULLY
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE GIVEN TO CRIME AND INFIDELITY

108  THEY MAY HIDE THEIR CRIMES FROM MEN BUT THEY CANNOT 
HIDE FROM GOD, FOR HE IS WITH THEM WHEN THEY PLOT 
BY NIGHT IN MATTERS THAT PLEASE HIM NOT
AND GOD ENCOMPASSES ROUND ALL THAT THEY PLOT

109  THESE ARE THE SORT OF MEN 
ON WHOSE BEHALF YOU MAY CONTEND 
BUT ON JUDGMENT DAY WHO FOR THEM WILL CONTEND 
OR WHO WILL CARRY THEIR AFFAIRS THROUGH TO THE END?

110  IF ANY ONE DOES EVIL OR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
BUT AFTERWARDS SEEKS GOD'S FORGIVENESS 
HE WILL FIND GOD FULL OF FORGIVENESS

111  WHOEVER SINS IT IS AGAINST HIMSELF HE IS SINNING
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND ALL KNOWING

112  AND WHOEVER COMMITS A SIN
AND ACCUSES OF IT ONE INNOCENT OF THE SIN
HE  CARRIES ON HIMSELF A FALSEHOOD AND A MANIFEST SIN

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 17.  PART V

113  WERE IT NOT FOR GOD'S GRACE AND MERCY TO YOU 
A PARTY OF THEM WOULD HAVE PLOTTED TO MISLEAD YOU 
BUT MISLEADING THEIR OWN SOULS IS ALL THAT THEY WILL DO 
AND NO HARM IN THE LEAST TO YOU CAN THEY DO
FOR GOD HAS GIVEN THE BOOK AND WISDOM TO YOU 
AND TAUGHT YOU WHAT WAS NOT BEFORE KNOWN TO YOU
AND GREAT IS THE GRACE OF YOUR LORD TO YOU

114  MOST OF THEIR SECRET TALKS ARE EVIL
IF ONE EXHORTS TO A DEED THAT IS CHARITABLE 
OR FOR JUSTICE OR CONCILIATION BETWEEN PEOPLE
THEN SECRECY IS PERMISSIBLE 
HE WHO DOES THIS SEEKING TO DO GOD'S WILL
WILL SOON RECEIVE A REWARD THAT WILL BE AMPLE

115  IF ANYONE CONTENDS WITH THE APOSTLE  
AFTER HAVING BEEN GUIDED AND HE BECOMES EVIL
WE GIVE HIM WHAT HE CHOOSES AND LAND HIM IN HELL  
AND WHAT AN EVIL PLACE IS IT TO DWELL

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 18.  PART V

116  THE SIN OF JOINING GOD'S WITH GOD IS NOT FORGIVEN 
BUT HE FORGIVES WHOM HE PLEASES FOR ALL OTHER SINS
SO ONE WHO JOINS OTHER GODS WITH GOD HAS THEN
STRAYED FAR AWAY FROM THE RIGHT DIRECTION

117  THE PAGANS CALL UPON FEMALE DEITIES 
THEY CALL UPON SATAN AND A PERSISTENT REBEL IS HE

118  GOD DID CURSE HIM AND HE SAID ARROGANTLY
I WILL TAKE A PORTION OF YOUR SERVANTS WITH ME

119  I WILL MISLEAD THEM AND CREATE IN THEM FALSE DESIRES 
I WILL ORDER THEM TO SLIT CATTLE'S EARS 
AND TO DISFIGURE THEIR LORD'S CREATED NATURE
AND WHOEVER FORSAKING GOD TAKES SATAN FOR A HELPER  
HE HAS THEN SURELY SUFFERED THE GREATEST LOSS OF LOSERS 

120  SATAN MAKES PROMISES 
CREATING IN THEM FALSE WISHES
BUT THEN INDEED SATAN'S PROMISES 
ARE NOTHING BUT DECEPTIVE PROMISES 

121  THEY WILL HAVE THEIR DWELLING IN HELL
AND THEY WILL FIND NO ESCAPE FROM HELL

122  BUT THOSE WHO DO RIGHT AND ARE BELIEVERS 
WE WILL ADMIT THEM TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM HAPPILY FOREVER 
GOD'S PROMISE IS TRUE AND WHOSE WORD CAN BE TRUER? 

123  NOT YOUR DESIRES OR THOSE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
CAN PREVAIL AGAINST GOD AND WHOEVER COMMITS ERROR 
WILL BE REQUITED ACCORDING TO THEIR ERROR
AND HE WILL FIND NO PROTECTOR 
BESIDES GOD NOR HELPER

124  IF ANYONES IS A RIGHTEOUS DOER 
BE THEY MALE OR FEMALE AND IS A BELIEVER
THE GATES OF HEAVEN IS THEIR PLACE TO ENTER 
NOT THE LEAST INJUSTICE WILL BE DONE TO THEM EVER

125  AND WHO CAN BE BETTER IN RELIGION
THAN ONE WHO COMES TO GOD IN TOTAL SUBMISSION
AND WHO FOLLOWS ABRAHAM'S RELIGION 
FOR ABRAHAM WAS ONE OF GOD'S CHOSEN ONES

126  AND TO GOD BELONGS EVERYTHING
THAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND EVERYTHING
IN THE EARTH AND GOD ENCOMPASSES EVERYTHING

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 19.  PART V

127  CONCERNING THE WOMEN THEY ASK YOU TO DECLARE
SAY TO THEM, GOD GIVES YOU ABOUT THEM INSTRUCTION CLEAR    
AND REMEMBER WHAT HAS BEEN RECITED TO YOU IN THE SCRIPTURES
ABOUT THOSE TO WHOM YOU GIVE NOT THEIR DUE MEASURES 
AND YET TO MARRY THEM IS YOUR DESIRE 
ALSO CONCERNING THE CHILDREN WHO SUFFER
THAT YOU STAND FIRM FOR THE ORPHAN'S AFFAIRS 
THERE IS NOT A DEED WHICH YOU SHARE
BUT OF IT GOD IS WELL AWARE 

128  IF A WIFE FEARS FROM HER HUSBAND CRUELTY 
THERE IS NO BLAME ON THEM IF THEY DO TRY TO AGREE  
SUCH SETTLEMENT IS BEST THOUGH MEN ARE SWAYED BY GREED 
BUT IF YOU PRACTICE SELF-RESTRAINT AND DO GOOD DEEDS
GOD IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL YOU DO INDEED

129  YOU ARE NEVER ABLE TO BE JUST AND FAIR 
BETWEEN WOMEN EVEN IF IT IS YOUR ARDENT DESIRE 
BUT DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM A WOMAN ALTOGETHER 
SO AS TO LEAVE HER HANGING IN THE AIR 
IF YOU PRACTICE SELF RESTRAINT AND WITH HER
YOU COME TO A GOOD UNDERSTANDING AND BE FAIR
GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND IS READY TO FORBEAR

130  IF THEY MUST PART BECAUSE THEY DISAGREE 
GOD WILL PROVIDE FOR ALL ABUNDANTLY 
FROM HIS ALL REACHING BOUNTY 
FOR GOD CARES FOR ALL AND ALL WISE IS HE

131   THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS BELONG TO GOD
THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK WERE DIRECTED BY GOD
AND YOU OH SUBMITTERS, TO FEAR GOD
BUT THEN IF YOU SHOULD DENY GOD
ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH BELONG TO GOD 
AND FREE OF ALL WANTS AND PRAISE WORTHY IS GOD

132  ALL THINGS IN THE HEAVENS AND ON EARTH BELONG TO GOD
AND TO CARRY THROUGH ALL AFFAIRS SUFFICIENT IS GOD

133  IF IT WERE HIS WILL OH MANKIND, HE COULD DESTROY YOU 
AND CREATE ANOTHER RACE TO REPLACE YOU
AND FOR THIS HE HAS POWER TO DO

134  IF A REWARD IN THIS LIFE IS ANYONE'S DESIRE
GOD'S GIFT IS THE REWARD OF THE HEREAFTER 
FOR GOD IS THE HEARER AND THE SEER

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 20.  PART V

135  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
STAND OUT FIRMLY FOR GOD AS WITNESS BEARERS 
EVEN AGAINST YOURSELVES OR YOUR PARENTS OR KIN OF YOURS 
WHETHER IT BE AGAINST RICH OR POOR 
FOR GOD CAN BEST PROTECT BOTH, AND FOLLOW NOT YOUR DESIRES 
LEST YOU SWERVE AND YOU DISTORT WHAT IS PROPER 
OR WHAT IS JUST YOU DECLINE TO ENDEAVOR
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER

136  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
AND IN THE SCRIPTURE WHICH HE HAS SENT TO HIS APOSTLE 
AND THE SCRIPTURE WHICH HE SENT BEFORE TO HIS APOSTLES
ANYONE WHO DENIES GOD AND HIS ANGELS 
AND HIS BOOKS AND HIS APOSTLES 
AND THE DAY OF REQUITAL
THEY ARE UNFAITHFUL

137  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE THEN DISBELIEVE 
AND BELIEVE AGAIN AND AGAIN DISBELIEVE 
AND GO ON INCREASING IN DISBELIEF
GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE OR GIVE THEM ANY RELIEF 

138  TO THE HYPOCRITES GIVE THE NEWS TO THEM 
THAT THERE IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY FOR THEM

139  THOSE WHO TAKE FOR FRIENDS DISBELIEVERS 
RATHER THAN BEFRIENDING BELIEVERS 
DO THEY SEEK FROM THEM HONOR
WHEN WITH GOD IS ALL HONOR?

140  ALREADY HAS YOUR LORD SENT YOU WORD IN THE REVELATIONS 
THAT WHEN YOU HEAR GOD'S MESSAGES HELD IN HUMILIATION 
THAT YOU ARE NOT TO SIT IN THEIR CONGREGATION
UNLESS THEY CHANGE THEIR CONVERSATION

IF YOU DID THEN YOU WOULD BE LIKE THEM
GOD WILL COLLECT THE HYPOCRITES ALL OF THEM
AND THOSE WHO DENY FAITH AND FILL HELL WITH THEM

141  THESE ARE THE ONES WHO WAIT AND WATCH ABOUT YOU 
IF YOU GAIN VICTORY THEY SAY, WERE WE NOT WITH YOU? 
BUT IF THE DISBELIEVERS GAIN SUCCESS OVER YOU
THEY SAY TO THEM,  DID WE NOT GAIN AN ADVANTAGE OVER YOU 
AND ALSO FROM THE BELIEVERS DID WE NOT GUARD YOU? 
ON JUDGMENT DAY GOD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOU 

AND NEVER WILL GOD GRANT TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
A WAY TO TRIUMPH OVER THE BELIEVERS

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 21.  PART V

142  IT IS THE CREATOR THE HYPOCRITES DO SEEK TO DECEIVE 
AND THEY WILL SURELY BE REQUITED FOR THEIR DECEIT 
AND WHEN THEY PRAY THEY PRAY NOT EARNESTLY
AND THEY PRAY TO BE SEEN OF MEN ONLY
AND THEY REMEMBER GOD JUST BARELY

143  THEY ARE MENTALLY DISTRACTED IN ITS CENTER
BEING SINCERE FOR NEITHER ONE GROUP NOR FOR ANOTHER 
WHOM GOD LEAVES IN ERROR YOU WILL FIND A WAY FOR HIM NEVER

144  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TAKE NOT FOR FRIENDS OR PROTECTORS
THE DISBELIEVERS RATHER THAN BELIEVERS 
IS TO GIVE GOD PROOF AGAINST YOU YOUR DESIRE?

145  THE HYPOCRITES WILL BE IN THE LOWEST DEPTHS OF THE FIRE 
AND YOU WILL FIND FOR THEM NO HELPER 

146  EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO REPENT AND MEND THEIR ERRORS 
AND HOLD FAST TO GOD AND HAVE THEIR FAITH MADE PURE  
IF THEY DO, THEY WILL BE NUMBERED WITH THE BELIEVERS 
GOD WILL GRANT A GREAT REWARD TO THE BELIEVERS 

147  WHAT CAN YOUR LORD GAIN BY YOUR PENALTY
IF YOU ARE GRATEFUL AND BELIEVE SINCERELY? 
ALL GOOD IS RECOGNIZED BY GOD CLEARLY
AND ALL WISE AND ALL KNOWING IS HE

PART VI

148  GOD LOVES NOT THAT EVIL SPEECH BE NOISED PUBLICLY 
EXCEPT WHERE DEEDS HAVE BEEN DONE UNJUSTLY
FOR ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING IS HE
 
149  WHETHER YOU PUBLISH A GOOD DEED OR CONCEAL IT SECRETLY
OR YOU PARDON EVIL, GOD DOES BLOTS OUT INIQUITIES
AND ALL POWER OVER ALL THINGS HAS HE

150  THOSE WHO DENY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND WISH TO SEPARATE GOD FROM HIS MESSENGERS
BY SAYING THEY BELIEVE IN SOME BUT REJECT OTHERS
AND THOSE WHO STRADDLE BETWEEN ONE AND ANOTHER

151  THEY ARE IN TRUTH EQUALLY DISBELIEVERS
AND WE HAVE PREPARED PUNISHMENT FOR DISBELIEVERS 

152  TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS APOSTLES 
AND MAKE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN ANY OF HIS APOSTLES  
WE WILL GIVE THEM THEIR REWARD IN FULL
FOR GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 22.  PART VI

153  AND THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURE
ASK YOU TO DESCEND TO THEM FROM HEAVEN A SCRIPTURE
BUT THEY ASKED MOSES FOR A MIRACLE EVEN GREATER
SHOW US GOD IN PERSON, THEY UTTERED
BUT THEY WERE DAZED WITH LIGHTNING AND THUNDER 
YET THEY WORSHIPPED THE CALF EVEN AFTER 
SIGNS CAME TO THEM THAT WERE CLEAR
THEN WE FORGAVE THEM EVEN AFTER
AND GAVE MOSES EVIDENCE THAT WAS CLEAR 

154  WE RAISED THE MOUNTAIN ABOVE THEM AT THEIR COVENANT
WE SAID TO THEM, ENTER THE DOOR BEING TO YOUR LORD OBEDIENT
AND SAID, VIOLATE NOT THE SABBATH, AND WE TOOK THEIR COVENANT 

155  THEY HAVE INCURRED DIVINE DISCONTENTMENT
BECAUSE THEY BROKE THEIR COVENANT
AND THAT THEY REJECTED GOD'S TESTAMENTS
AND THEY SLEW THE MESSENGERS IN RESENTMENT
AND THEY SAY, ARE OUR HEARTS ARE IN CONFINEMENT
GOD SEALED THEIR HEARTS FOR THEIR DEFILEMENT
AND THEIR BELIEF IS BUT LITTLE IN COMMITMENT

156  AND THEY REJECTED FAITH AND AGAINST MARY
THEY INDEED UTTERED A GRIEVOUS FALSITY

157  THEY SAID ARROGANTLY AS BOASTERS
WE KILLED CHRIST JESUS, GOD'S MESSENGER 
THEY DID NOT KILL OR CRUCIFY HIM FOR SURE
BUT SO IT WAS MADE TO THEM TO APPEAR 
AND THOSE WHO ABOUT IT DIFFER 
ARE FULL OF DOUBTS WITH NO KNOWLEDGE FOR SURE
THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
FOR THEY KILLED HIM NOT FOR SURE

158  NO, HE WAS EXALTED IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD
AND ALL MIGHTY AND ALL WISE IS GOD

159  OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
THERE IS NONE BUT MUST SURELY BE BELIEVERS
IN HIM BEFORE HIS DEATH, AND IN THE HEREAFTER
HE WILL BE AGAINST THEM AS A WITNESS BEARER

160  FOR THE SINS OF THE JEWS WE MADE CERTAIN FOODS UNLAWFUL 
GOOD AND WHOLESOME WHICH TO THEM HAD BEEN LAWFUL 
IN THAT THEY HINDERED FROM GOD'S WAY MANY PEOPLE

161  AND THAT THEY TOOK USURY
ALTHOUGH THEY WERE FORBIDDEN USURY
AND THEY DEVOURED MEN'S SUBSTANCE WRONGFULLY 
WE HAVE PREPARED FOR THOSE AMONG THEM A SEVERE PENALTY 
THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH WILLFULLY

162  BUT THOSE WHO ARE WELL GROUNDED IN SCRIPTURES
AND THOSE AMONG YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
BELIEVE IN WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED TO YOU OF SCRIPTURES
AND IN WHAT WAS REVEALED BEFORE YOU PRIOR
AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS
AND ARE REGULAR CHARITABLE GIVERS 
AND IN GOD AND IN THE LAST DAY THEY ARE BELIEVERS
TO THEM WE WILL GIVE A REWARD OF GREAT FAVOR

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 23.  PART VI

163  WE HAVE SENT TO YOU INSPIRATION
AS WE SENT BEFORE YOU TO NOAH INSPIRATION
AND APOSTLES AFTER HIM AND WE SENT INSPIRATION 
TO ABRAHAM AND ISHMAEL, ISAAC, JESUS AND AARON
TO JACOB AND THE TRIBES, TO JOB, JONAH AND SOLOMON 
AND TO DAVID WE GAVE THE PSALMS

164  SOME MESSENGERS WE HAVE ALREADY TOLD YOU THEIR STORY 
AND OF OTHERS WE HAVE NOT AND TO MOSES GOD SPOKE DIRECTLY 

165  MESSENGERS WHO GAVE GOOD NEWS AS WELL AS WARNING 
SO THAT MANKIND THEN AFTER THEIR COMING 
WOULD AGAINST GOD HAVE NO DEFENDING 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

166  GOD BEARS WITNESS THAT WHAT HE HAS SENT TO YOU 
HE HAS SENT FROM HIS OWN KNOWLEDGE TO YOU
AND THE ANGELS BEAR WITNESS TOO
BUT ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A WITNESS FOR YOU

167  THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH AND KEEP MEN FROM GOD'S WAY 
HAVE STRAYED FAR AWAY FROM THE RIGHT WAY

168  AND THOSE WHO DO WRONG AND REJECT FAITH
WILL NOT BE FORGIVEN BY GOD NOR WILL THEY
BE GUIDED BY GOD TO ANY WAY

169  EXCEPT TO THE WAY OF HELL
AND IN IT THEY WILL FOREVER DWELL
AND THIS YOUR LORD CAN DO QUITE WELL

170  OH MANKIND, THE MESSENGER 
HAS COME WITH TRUTH FROM THE CREATOR
IT IS BEST FOR YOU IF IN HIM YOU ARE BELIEVERS
BUT IF THEN YOU ARE REJECTERS
TO GOD BELONG ALL IN HEAVEN AND EARTH 
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER 

171  OH PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, ACT NOT EXCESSIVELY
NOR SAY OF GOD ANYTHING EXCEPT TRUTHFULLY
AND CHRIST JESUS, THE SON OF MARY
WAS NO MORE THAN A MESSENGER OF GOD DEVOTED TRUTHFULLY
AND HIS WORD WHICH WAS BESTOWED BY GOD ON MARY 
AND A SPIRIT PROCEEDING FROM GOD, SO BELIEVE 
IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGERS AND SAY NOT TRINITY
FOR YOUR LORD IS ONLY ONE GOD ONLY
AND TO HIM ALONE BE THE GLORY
FAR EXALTED ABOVE HAVING A SON IS HE

FOR TO HIM BELONGS WHATEVER 
IS IN THE HEAVENS AND WHATEVER
IS ON THE EARTH AND OF ALL AFFAIRS
YOUR LORD IS ENOUGH AS A DISPOSER   

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 24.  PART VI

172  AND CHRIST DOES NOT REFUSE TO SERVE AND WORSHIP GOD 
NOR DO THE ANGELS AND THEY ARE THOSE NEAREST TO GOD 
THOSE WHO ARE ARROGANT REFUSE THE WORSHIP OF GOD
AND THEY WILL ALL BE GATHERED TO ANSWER TO GOD

173  BUT AS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
HE WILL GIVE DUE REWARDS AND MORE OUT OF HIS BOUNTY 
BUT THOSE WHO ARE DISDAINFUL AND ACT ARROGANTLY
HE WILL PUNISH THEM WITH A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 
NO PROTECTOR OR HELPER BESIDES HIM WILL THERE BE

174  OH MANKIND, THERE HAS NOW COME TO YOU 
PROOF FROM GOD FOR WE HAVE SENT YOU 
A LIGHT THAT IS MANIFEST TO YOU

175  THEN THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HOLD FAST TO HIM 
HE WILL ADMIT THEM TO MERCY AND GRACE FROM HIM
AND GUIDE THEM BY A STRAIGHT WAY TO HIM

176  AND THEY ASK YOU FOR A DECISION IN LEGAL MATTERS
GOD DIRECTS YOU ABOUT THOSE WHO LEAVE NO HEIRS 
IF IT IS A MAN THAT DIES LEAVING A SISTER 
BUT NO CHILD, HALF THE INHERITANCE IS HERS
IF THE DECEASED WAS A WOMAN WHO LEFT NO CHILD AS AN HEIR
HER BROTHER TAKES HER INHERITANCE, BUT IF THERE ARE TWO SISTERS 
OF THE INHERITANCE THEY WILL HAVE BETWEEN THEM TWO THIRDS 
AND IF THERE ARE BROTHERS AND ALSO SISTERS 
THE MALE HAS TWICE THE FEMALE'S SHARE  
GOD MAKES HIS LAWS TO YOU CLEAR 
TO KEEP YOU FROM BEING IN ERROR 
AND OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

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