CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 1.  PART VI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                                                                                                                     SECTION  2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 3.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 4.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                        SECTION 5.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 6.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 7.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                         SECTION 8.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                        SECTION 9.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                      SECTION 10.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 5.  THE FOOD                                                                     SECTION 11.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

PART VII

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AND FOR EXPIATION
FEED TEN INDIGENT PERSONS 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AS ADJUDGED BY TWO 
JUST MEN AMONG YOU

OR BY WAY OF ATONEMENT 
THE FEEDING OF THE INDIGENT 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE BENEFICENT AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND WHO MADE THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT TOGETHER
BUT THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH HOLD OTHERS 
AS EQUALS WITH THEIR CREATOR

2  HE IT IS WHO FROM CLAY CREATED YOU 
AND THEN DECREED A STATED TERM FOR YOU 
THERE IS IN HIS PRESENCE ANOTHER TERM FOR YOU
YET YOU HAVE DOUBTS WITHIN YOU

3  AND HE IS GOD ON THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
HE KNOWS WHAT YOU REVEAL AND WHAT YOU KEEP HIDDEN 
AND WHAT YOU EARN BY YOUR DEEDS HE KNOWS WHAT IS THEREIN

4  NEVER DID ANY OF THE SIGNS OF THEIR LORD REACH THEM 
BUT THEY ARROGANTLY TURNED AWAY FROM THEM

5  AND THEY REJECT TRUTH WHEN IT COMES CLEARLY
BUT SOON WILL THEY SURELY LEARN THE REALITY
OF WHAT THEY USED TO MAKE MOCKERY

6  SEE THEY NOT HOW MANY GENERATIONS BEFORE THEM
WE DID COMPLETELY DESTROY BEFORE THEM
THAT WE HAD ESTABLISHED ON EARTH BEFORE THEM
AND WITH STRENGTH THAT WE HAVE NOT GIVEN TO THEM?
FOR WHOM WE POURED RAIN FROM THE SKIES FOR THEM
AND GAVE FERTILE STREAMS FLOWING BENEATH THEM
BUT FOR THEIR SINS WE DESTROYED THEM
AND THEN WE RAISED UP AFTER THEM
FRESH GENERATIONS TO SUCCEED THEM

7  AND IF WE HAD SENT TO YOU A WRITTEN MESSAGE ON PAPER 
THEY COULD TOUCH WITH THEIR HANDS, THE DISBELIEVERS 
WOULD HAVE SAID, THIS IS THE WORK OF A SORCERER

8  THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT SENT DOWN TO HIM AN ANGEL?
AND IF WE DID SEND DOWN AN ANGEL 
THE MATTER WOULD BE IMMEDIATELY SETTLED 
AND NO RESPITE WOULD BE GRANTED THE PEOPLE

9  AND SURELY IF WE HAD APPOINTED AN ANGEL THEN FOR CERTAIN
WE WOULD HAVE SENT HIM AS A MAN AND CAUSED CONFUSION 
IN A MATTER IN WHICH THEY ARE ALREADY IN CONFUSION

10  MANY APOSTLES BEFORE YOU WERE MOCKED
BUT THEIR SCOFFERS WERE HEMMED IN BY WHAT THEY MOCKED

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11  SAY, TRAVEL THE EARTH THROUGH 
AND SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THE REJECTERS BEFORE YOU

12  SAY, TO WHOM BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN 
THE  EARTH AND THE HEAVENS?
SAY, TO GOD WHO HAS MADE FOR HIMSELF A DECLARATION 
THE RULE OF COMPASSION, AND ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
HE WILL GATHER YOU TOGETHER AS ONE
THE LOSERS WILL BE THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION  

13  TO HIM BELONGS ALL THINGS 
THAT LURK IN THE NIGHT AND ALL THINGS
THAT DWELL IN THE DAY, FOR OF ALL THINGS
GOD IS ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING 

14  SAY, SHOULD I TAKE OTHER THAN GOD FOR MY PROTECTOR  
AND IT IS HE THAT FEEDS BUT IS FED NOT BY OTHERS?  
SAY, NO, I AM COMMANDED TO BOW TO THE CREATOR 
AND TO BE NOT OF THOSE WHO JOIN WITH HIM PARTNERS

15  SAY, IF MY LORD I WERE TO DISOBEY
I WOULD FEAR THE PENALTY OF A MIGHTY DAY

16  THAT DAY IF THE PENALTY IS AVERTED FROM ANY 
IT WILL BE DUE TO GOD'S MERCY 
AND THAT WOULD BE SALVATION SURELY
THE  FULFILLMENT OF ALL DESIRES COMPLETELY

17  IF GOD TOUCHES YOU WITH AFFLICTION
IT CANNOT BE REMOVED BY ANYONE 
AND IF HE TOUCHES YOU WITH COMPASSION
HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

18  HE IS THE IRRESISTIBLE AND ALWAYS WATCHING 
OVER THOSE WHO OF HIM ARE WORSHIPPING
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS

19  SAY, WHAT THING IS THE WEIGHTIEST IN TESTIMONY?
SAY, GOD IS WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND ME 
THIS QURAN WAS REVEALED BY INSPIRATION TO ME 
THAT I MAY WARN YOU AND ALL WHOM IT DOES REACH
AND CAN YOU BEAR WITNESS REALLY
THAT BESIDES GOD THERE IS ANOTHER DEITY? 
SAY, NO I CANNOT BEAR WITNESS TRUTHFULLY
HE IS THE ONE GOD AND I JOIN NO ONE WITH HIM EQUALLY

20  THOSE TO WHOM WE HAVE GIVEN THE BOOK ARE THE ONES 
THAT KNOW THIS AS THEY KNOW THEIR OWN SONS
BUT THEY ARE LOSERS WHO ARE IN REJECTION

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21  WHO IS MORE WRONG THAN HE WHO LIES ABOUT THE CREATOR 
OR HE WHO OF HIS MESSAGES ARE REJECTERS 
BUT THE WRONG-DOERS WILL NOT PROSPER

22  ONE DAY WILL WE GATHER THEM ALL TOGETHER 
AND WE WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO ASCRIBED TO US PARTNERS 
WHOM THEY TALKED AND LIED ABOUT, WHERE ARE THOSE PARTNERS?

23  THERE WILL BE LEFT NO CHOICE FOR THEM BUT TO UTTER
WE WERE NOT THOSE WHO JOINED WITH GOD PARTNERS

24  SEE HOW AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS THEY LIE
BUT THEY WILL BE LEFT IN THE LURCH BY THEIR OWN LIES

25  SOME OF THEM PRETEND TO LISTEN  
WE PUT VEILS ON THEIR HEARTS SO THEY HAVE NO COMPREHENSION
AND WE PUT DEAFNESS IN THEIR EARS SO THAT EVEN THEN
IF THEY SAW  ALL THE SIGNS THEY  WOULD NOT BELIEVE THEN EVEN    
WHEN THEY COME TO YOU THEY COME WITH DISPUTATIONS
THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, THESE BUT ARE STORIES OF THE ANCIENTS

26  THEY KEEP OTHERS AWAY FROM IT 
AND THEY KEEP THEMSELVES AWAY FROM IT
THEY DESTROY THEIR OWN SOULS AND DO NOT PERCEIVE IT

27  IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE WHEN THEY ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE FIRE 
THEY WILL SAY, IF WE COULD GO BACK WE WOULD NOT BE REJECTERS 
OF THE SIGNS OF OUR LORD BUT WE WOULD BE BELIEVERS 

28  IT WILL BE MANIFEST TO THEM WHAT BEFORE TO THEM WAS HIDDEN 
IF THEY WENT BACK THEY WOULD GO BACK TO WHAT THEY WERE FORBIDDEN
FOR THEY ARE SURELY LIARS AND ADDICTED TO SIN

29  AND THEY SAY, THERE IS NOTHING EXCEPT OUR EARTHLY LIFE
AND NEVER WILL WE BE RAISED UP AGAIN TO LIFE

30  IF YOU COULD BUT SEE WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE THEIR LORD
HE WILL SAY, IS THIS THE TRUTH?  AND THEY WILL SAY, YES OUR LORD 
AND HE WILL SAY, BECAUSE YOU DISBELIEVED THE FIRE IS YOUR REWARD

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31  LOST INDEED ARE THEY WHO FALSELY TREAT IT
THAT THEY MUST MEET GOD UNTIL THEY LOOK UP AND SEE IT 
AND THEY SAY, CURSED ARE WE THAT WE TOOK NO THOUGHT OF IT

FOR THEY BEAR ON THEIR BACKS THEIR BURDENS 
AND EVIL INDEED ARE THEIR BURDENS 

32  WHAT IS THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD BUT PLAY AND AMUSEMENT
BUT THE HOME IN THE HEREAFTER IS THE BEST ENJOYMENT

33  WE KNOW THEIR WORDS CAUSE YOU TO FRET
BUT IT IS NOT YOU THAT THE DISBELIEVERS REJECT 
IT IS THE MESSAGES OF GOD THAT THE WICKED REJECT

34   REJECTED WERE THE MESSENGERS PRIOR 
WITH PATIENCE AND CONSTANCY THEY PERSEVERED
AND BORE THEIR WRONGS FROM THEIR REJECTERS 
UNTIL OUR AID REACHED THEM AND NONE  CAN ALTER
THE WORDS AND DECREES OF THE CREATOR
YOU HAVE RECEIVED SOME ACCOUNT OF GOD'S MESSENGERS

35  THEIR TURNING AWAY IS HARD ON YOU FROM THEM
IF YOU COULD SEEK A TUNNEL INTO THE GROUND FOR THEM
OR A LADDER TO REACH THE SKIES AND BRING A SIGN TO THEM 
WHAT GOOD WOULD IT REALLY DO FOR THEM?
IF GOD WILLED HE COULD GATHER AND GUIDE THEM 
THEY ARE SWAYED BY IGNORANCE SO BE NOT AMONG THEM 

36  THOSE WHO LISTEN IN TRUTH, BE SURE THEY WILL 
ACCEPT IT, AND AS TO THE DEAD, GOD WILL 
RAISE THEM UP, AND THEN THEY WILL 
BE RETURNED TO HIM ACCORDING TO HIS WILL

37  THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT A SIGN SENT DOWN FOR THEM 
SAY, GOD HAS POWER TO SEND DOWN A SIGN TO THEM
BUT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND MOST OF THEM 

38  THERE IS NOT AN ANIMAL ON EARTH NOR A FLYING SPECIES
BUT FORMS SOCIETIES SIMILAR TO YOUR COMMUNITIES  

AND NOTHING HAVE WE OMITTED FROM THE SCRIPTURES
AND IN THE END TO THEIR LORD THEY ALL WILL BE GATHERED  

39  THOSE WHO REJECT OUR MESSAGES
ARE DEAF AND DUMB IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS 

GOD LEAVES TO WANDER WHOM HE WILLS 
HE PLACES ON THE STRAIGHT WAY WHOM HE WILLS 

40  SAY, THINK TO YOURSELVES IF THERE COMES UPON YOU 
THE WRATH OF GOD OR THE HOUR THAT IS DREADED BY YOU
WOULD YOU CALL OTHER THAN GOD?  REPLY IF YOU ARE TRUE

41  NO, ON HIM YOU WOULD SURELY CALL 
AND IF IT BE HIS WILL HE WOULD REMOVE ALL
OF THE DISTRESS WHICH HAD CAUSED YOU TO CALL 
THE FALSE GODS YOU WORSHIPPED YOU WOULD FORGET THEM ALL

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42  BEFORE YOU WE SENT APOSTLES TO MANY NATIONS 
WITH ADVERSITY WE AFFLICTED THE NATIONS 
SO THEY MIGHT LEARN HUMILIATION

43  WHEN THEY SUFFERED ADVERSITY
WHY DID THEY NOT THEN LEARN HUMILITY?
THEIR HEARTS BECAME HARDENED CONTRARILY
AND SATAN MADE THEIR SINFUL ACTS SEEM GOODLY

44  BUT THEN WHEN THEY DID FORGET THE WARNINGS 
WE OPENED UP TO THEM THE GATES OF GOOD THINGS 
AND THEN WHILE OUR GIFTS THEY WERE ENJOYING 
SUDDENLY WE CALLED THEM INTO ACCOUNTING
THEN THEY WERE PLUNGED INTO DESPAIRING

45  THE LAST REMNANT WAS CUT OFF OF THE WRONG-DOERS 
PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE LORD AND CHERISHER 

46 SAY, IF GOD TOOK YOUR SIGHT AND HEARING FROM YOU
AND THEN HE SEALED UP YOUR HEART THAT IS WITHIN YOU
WHAT GOD BESIDES GOD COULD RESTORE THEM TO YOU?
SEE HOW WE EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES IN DETAIL TO YOU?  
YET YOU TURN AWAY AFTER THEY ARE CLEAR TO YOU

47  SAY, DO YOU THINK IF GOD'S PENALTY
DOES COME TO YOU SUDDENLY OR OPENLY
WILL ANY BE DESTROYED EXCEPT THE GUILTY?

48  WE SENT THE APOSTLES ONLY 
TO GIVE GOOD NEWS AND TO GIVE WARNING CLEARLY 
FOR THOSE WHO MEND THEIR LIVES AND BELIEVE
WILL BE NO FEAR NOR WILL THEY GRIEVE

49  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS WILL EARN THE PENALTY 
FOR THAT THEY CEASED NOT FROM ACTING SINFULLY 

50  SAY, I TELL YOU NOT THAT I HAVE GOD'S TREASURES WITH ME
NOR DO I KNOW WHAT IS HIDDEN SECRETLY
NOR AM I AN ANGEL IN DECREE
BUT I ONLY FOLLOW WHAT IS REVEALED TO ME 
SAY, CAN THE BLIND BE HELD EQUAL TO THOSE WHO CAN SEE?
WILL YOU NOT THEN CONSIDER CAREFULLY?

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51  WARN THOSE WHO IN THEIR HEARTS IS THE FEAR 
THAT THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE GOD TO APPEAR
AND EXCEPT FOR HIM THEY WILL HAVE NO PROTECTOR 
NOR INTERCESSOR SO THEY WILL NOT BE TRANSGRESSORS

52  SEND NOT AWAY THOSE WHO CALL ON GOD IN THE MORNING 
AND THEY CALL ON HIM SEEKING HIS WAY IN THE EVENING

YOU ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEM AND IN NOTHING ARE THEY 
ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU THAT YOU SHOULD TURN THEM AWAY 
AND THEN BE ONE WHO ACTS IN AN UNJUST WAY

53  SO DID WE TRY SOME OF THEM BY COMPARISON WITH OTHERS 
THAT THEY SHOULD SAY, IS IT THESE THAT GOD FAVORED?  
OF THOSE WHO ARE GRATEFUL, GOD IS THE KNOWER

54  WHEN BELIEVERS COME TO YOU ADDRESS THEM PEACEFULLY 
YOUR LORD HAS ASCRIBED FOR HIMSELF THE RULE OF MERCY 
IF ANY DID EVIL IGNORANTLY AND REPENTED SINCERELY
AND AMENDED HIS CONDUCT, GOD IS FULL OF MERCY

55  WE EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES IN DETAIL TO YOU
THAT THE WAY OF THE SINNERS MAY BE SHOWN TO YOU

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56  SAY, I AM FORBIDDEN TO WORSHIP BESIDES GOD 
THEY WHOM YOU CALL ON BESIDES GOD

AND SAY TO THEM , I WILL NOT FOLLOW YOUR WAYS
IF I DID I WOULD STRAY FROM THE RIGHT WAY
AND THEN BE OF THOSE WHO GO ASTRAY

57  SAY, FOR ME I DO WORK ON A CLEAR SIGN FROM THE CREATOR
BUT YOU DO INSIST UPON BEING DISBELIEVERS AND REJECTERS 
AND WHAT YOU WOULD SEE HASTENED IS NOT IN MY POWER 
THE COMMAND RESTS WITH NONE BUT GOD, THE CREATOR
HE DECLARES THE TRUTH AND IS THE BEST OF DECODERS

58  SAY, IF WHAT YOU WOULD SEE HASTENED WERE IN MY POWER
THEN YOU AND I WOULD IMMEDIATELY SETTLE THE MATTER   
BUT GOD KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO ARE WRONGDOERS

59  WITH HIM ARE THE KEYS OF THE UNSEEN
AND THE TREASURES THAT NONE KNOWS BUT HE
AND HE KNOWS WHATEVER IS ON THE EARTH AND IN THE SEA
AND NOT A LEAF FALLS BUT HE KNOWS IT ALL INDEED
AND THERE IS NOT A GRAIN IN THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH UNSEEN
NOR ANYTHING DRY, FRESH, WITHERED OR GREEN 
BUT IS INSCRIBED IN A RECORD CLEARLY 

60  IT IS HE WHO BY NIGHT TAKES YOUR SOULS AWAY
AND HE KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DO BY DAY

AND BY DAY DOES HE RAISE YOU BY HIS WILL
THAT A TERM APPOINTED MAY BE FULFILLED

AND TO HIM WILL BE YOUR RETURN FINALLY
AND HE WILL SHOW YOU ALL THAT YOU DID CLEARLY

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61  HE IS SUPREME OVER YOU AND HE WATCHES HIS DEVOTEES
AND HE SETS GUARDIANS TO WATCH OVER YOU SECURELY
AND WHEN DEATH APPROACHES ONE OF YOU FINALLY
OUR ANGELS TAKE HIS SOUL AND THEY NEVER FAIL IN THEIR DUTY

62  THEN ARE MEN RETURNED TO GOD THE ONLY REALITY 
AND IS NOT YOUR LORD THE COMPLETE AUTHORITY?  
HE IS SWIFT IN TAKING ACCOUNT ACCURATELY

63  SAY, WHO IS IT THAT DELIVERS YOU SAFELY
FROM THE DARK RECESSES OF LAND AND SEA 
WHEN YOU CALL UPON HIM IN HUMILITY
AND IN SILENT TERROR SAYING SINCERELY
IF HE ONLY DELIVERS US FROM THESE DANGERS SAFELY
WE VOW THAT WE WILL SHOW OUR GRATITUDE FAITHFULLY

64  SAY, IT IS GOD THAT DELIVERS YOU FROM THESE
AND ALL OF YOUR OTHER DIFFICULTIES
YET YOU WORSHIP FALSE DEITIES

65  SAY, HE HAS THE POWER TO SEND CALAMITIES ON YOU 
FROM ABOVE YOU AND BELOW YOU OR TO COVER YOU 
WITH CONFUSION AND STRIFE GIVING TO YOU 
A TASTE OF MUTUAL VENGEANCE EACH FROM THE OTHER OF YOU
SEE HOW WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS BY VARYING SYMBOLS FOR YOU
THAT UNDERSTANDING MAY BE GAINED BY YOU?

66  BUT IF YOUR PEOPLE REJECT THIS ALTHOUGH IT IS TRUE
SAY, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE TO ARRANGE YOUR AFFAIRS FOR YOU

67  FOR EVERY MESSAGE IS A TIME LIMIT
AND SOON WILL YOU COME TO KNOW IT

68  WHEN YOU SEE MEN WHO JEST ABOUT OUR INSTRUCTIONS 
TURN AWAY FROM THEM UNLESS THEY CHANGE THEIR CONVERSATION
AND IF SATAN MAKES YOU FORGET THEN AFTER RECOLLECTION 
SIT NOT IN THE COMPANY OF THOSE IN REJECTION

69  ON THEIR ACCOUNT NO RESPONSIBILITY 
FALLS ON THE RIGHTEOUS BUT THEIR ONLY DUTY 
IS TO REMIND THEM THAT THEY MAY FEAR GOD TRULY

70  LEAVE ALONE THOSE WHO TAKE THEIR RELIGION 
TO BE MERE PLAY AND RECREATION
AND THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD HAS CAUSED THEIR DECEPTION
BUT PROCLAIM TO THEM THAT EVERY SOUL BY ITS OWN ACTIONS 
DELIVERS ITSELF TO RUIN AND DESTRUCTION
AND BESIDES GOD IT WILL FIND NO PROTECTION OR INVERSION 
AND IF IT OFFERED EVERY RANSOM FOR REPARATION
NONE WILL BE ACCEPTED AS COMPENSATION
THIS IS THE END OF THOSE WHO DELIVER THEMSELVES TO DESTRUCTION
BY THEIR OWN ACTS AND THEY WILL HAVE FOR CONSUMPTION
ONLY BOILING WATER FOR A MOST GRIEVOUS PENALIZATION 
FOR THEY WERE PERSISTENTLY IN REJECTION

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71  SAY, WILL WE CALL ON OTHERS BESIDES OUR CREATOR
THINGS THAT CAN DO US NO GOOD OR ANY HARM EITHER 
AND TURN BACK AFTER RECEIVING GUIDANCE CLEAR?

LIKE ONE WHOM THE EVIL ONES 
HAVE MADE INTO A FOOLISH ONE

WANDERING THROUGH THE EARTH IN DISGUST
AND HIS FRIENDS CALLING, COME TO US 

VAINLY GUIDING HIM TO THE WAY?  
BUT SAY, GOD'S GUIDANCE IS THE ONLY WAY 

AND WE HAVE BEEN DIRECTED TO SUBMIT 
TO THE LORD OF ALL THAT EXISTS

72  AND TO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND TO FEAR GOD TO WHOM WE WILL BE GATHERED 

73  GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH IN TRUTH 
WHEN HE SAYS, BE, IT IS AND HIS WORD IS THE TRUTH
 
ON THE DAY THE TRUMPET IS BLOWN HIS WILL BE THE DOMINION 
AND HE KNOWS THE UNSEEN AS WELL AS THAT WHICH IS OPEN 

FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND SURELY
WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS IS HE

74  REMEMBER ABRAHAM WHEN HE SAID TO HIS FATHER
DO YOU TAKE IDOLS FOR GODS AND PROTECTORS? 
FOR I SEE YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE, MY FATHER
SURELY IN MANIFEST ERROR

75  ALSO DID WE SHOW ABRAHAM THE POWER
AND THE LAWS OF THE HEAVENS AND EARTH
SO HE MIGHT HAVE UNDERSTANDING CLEAR

76  WHEN THE NIGHT CAME HE SAW A STAR AND YET
HE SAID, THIS IS MY LORD, BUT WHEN IT SET 
HE SAID, I LOVE NOT THOSE THAT SET

77  WHEN HE SAW THE MOON RISING IN SPLENDOR
HE SAID, THIS IS MY LORD AND CHERISHER

BUT WHEN IT SET HE SAID, UNLESS I AM GUIDED BY MY LORD  
I WILL BE AMONG THOSE WHO GO ASTRAY FOR SURE

78  WHEN HE SAW THE SUN RISING IN SPLENDOR                                                 
HE SAID, THIS IS THE GREATEST, THIS IS THE CREATOR

BUT WHEN IT SET HE DECREED  
SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, I AM FREE
FROM GUILT OF WORSHIPPING OTHER DEITIES 

79  FOR ME I HAVE SET MY FACE TOWARDS THE CREATOR
OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND NEVER 
WILL I GIVE TO GOD ANY PARTNERS 

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80  HIS PEOPLE DISPUTED WITH HIM
AND HE SAID TO THEM
  
DO YOU COME  TO DISPUTE ABOUT GOD WITH ME
WHEN HE HIMSELF HAS GUIDED ME? 

I FEAR NOT THE BEINGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH GOD 
NOTHING CAN HAPPEN TO ME UNLESS IT PLEASES GOD

IN HIS KNOWLEDGE ALL THINGS GOD COMPREHENDED 
WILL YOU NOT THEN BE ADMONISHED?

81  HOW SHOULD I FEAR THE BEINGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH GOD 
WHEN YOU FEAR NOT TO GIVE PARTNERS TO GOD 

WITHOUT HAVING BEEN GIVEN ANY WARRANTY 
WHICH OF US HAVE MORE RIGHT TO SECURITY?  
TELL ME IF IT YOU KNOW TRUTHFULLY 

82  IT IS THOSE WHO SINCERELY AND TRUTHFULLY BELIEVE 
AND CONFUSE NO WRONG WITH WHAT THEY BELIEVE
THAT ARE TRULY IN SECURITY AND GUIDED RIGHTLY

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83  AND THAT WAS THE REASONING ABOUT US WHICH WE 
GAVE TO ABRAHAM TO USE FOR HIS PEOPLE IN DECREE
WE RAISE WHOM WE WILL DEGREE AFTER DEGREE 
FOR GOD, FULL OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IS HE

84  WE GAVE HIM ISAAC AND JACOB AND WE GUIDED ALL THREE 
AND WE GUIDED NOAH AND AMONG HIS PROGENY 

JOB, DAVID AND SOLOMON 
JOSEPH AND MOSES AND AARON
SO DO WE  REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

85  AND ZAKARIYA AND JOHN AND JESUS AND ELIAS 
THEY WERE ALL IN THE RANKS OF THE RIGHTEOUS

86  AND ISHMAEL, ELISHA, JONAH AND LOT, ALL OF THEM  
WE GAVE FAVOR ABOVE THE NATIONS TO THEM 

87  THEIR FATHERS AND PROGENY AND BRETHREN, WE CHOSE THEM 
AND TO A STRAIGHT WAY WE GUIDED THEM

88  THIS IS GOD'S GUIDANCE
AND HE GIVES THAT GUIDANCE 

TO WHOM HE PLEASES OF HIS WORSHIPPERS 
AND IF THEY WERE TO JOIN WITH HIM OTHERS 
ALL THAT WAS DONE BY THEM WOULD BE IN ERROR

89  THESE WERE THE MEN TO WHOM WE 
GAVE THE BOOK AND AUTHORITY AND PROPHECY

AND IF THESE THEIR DESCENDANTS REJECT THEM
THEN WE SHALL ENTRUST THE CHARGE OF THEM
TO A NEW PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT REJECT THEM 

90  THOSE WERE THE PROPHETS WHO RECEIVED 
GOD'S GUIDANCE SO COPY THE GUIDANCE THEY RECEIVED 

SAY, NO REWARD DO I ASK OF YOU FOR THIS LESSON
THIS IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE FOR ALL THE NATIONS

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91  NO JUST ESTIMATE DO THEY MAKE OF GOD 
WHEN THEY SAY, NO REVELATION IS SENT TO MAN BY GOD 

THEN SAY TO THEM, WHO THEN SENT DOWN THE BOOK TO MAN
WHICH MOSES BROUGHT AS A LIGHT AND GUIDANCE TO MAN? 

BUT YOU MAKE IT INTO SEPARATE SHEETS FOR SHOW
WHILE YOU CONCEAL MUCH OF ITS CONTENTS AND IN IT YOU KNOW 
YOU WERE TAUGHT THAT WHICH YOU AND YOU FATHERS DID NOT KNOW 

SAY, GOD SENT IT DOWN TO YOU, THEN LEAVE THEM PLUNGING 
INTO VAIN DISCOURSE AND TRIFLING

92  AND THIS IS A BOOK OF BLESSINGS WHICH WE HAVE SENT DOWN
CONFIRMING THE REVELATIONS FROM BEFORE IT CAME DOWN
SO YOU MAY WARN THE MOTHER OF CITIES AND ALL AROUND  

AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE HEREAFTER 
BELIEVE IN THIS BOOK AND GUARD THEIR PRAYERS

93  WHO IS MORE WICKED THAN HE 
WHO LIES ABOUT GOD OR SAYS, I HAVE RECEIVED 
INSPIRATION FROM GOD, WHEN NOTHING HAS HE RECEIVED 
OR AGAIN HE WHO SAYS, I CAN REVEAL SIMILARLY
OF WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED, BUT IF YOU COULD BUT SEE 
WHEN THE WRONGDOERS AT DEATH ARE IN AGONIES
WHEN THE ANGELS STRETCH FORTH THEIR HANDS AND DECREE
YIELD UP YOUR SOULS, THIS DAY WILL YOU WILL RECEIVE
AS YOUR REWARD A SHAMEFUL PENALTY 
BECAUSE YOU USED TO LIE ABOUT GOD SCORNFULLY 
AND REJECTED HIS MESSAGES ARROGANTLY

94  NOW YOU COME TO US BARE AND ALONE AS WE CREATED YOU 
AND NOW YOU HAVE LEFT BEHIND YOU 
ALL OF THE FAVORS WE BESTOWED ON YOU 
AND WE SEE NOT YOUR INTERCESSORS WITH YOU 
WHOM YOU HAD THOUGHT TO BE PARTNERS WITH YOU
ALL YOUR RELATIONS HAVE BEEN CUT OFF BETWEEN YOU 
AND ALL OF YOUR PET FANCIES THEY ALL HAVE LEFT YOU 

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95  IT IS GOD WHO CAUSES THE GRAIN-SEED'S SPROUTING
AND HE CAUSES THE DATE-STONE'S SPLITTING
AND IT IS HE WHO BRINGS THE LIVING 
OUT OF THE DEAD AND BRINGS THE DEAD OUT OF THE LIVING
THEN WHAT IS IT THAT KEEPS YOU FROM DOING THE RIGHT THING?

96  AND HE IT IS THAT CLEAVES THE DAY'S BREAKING
AND HE MAKES THE NIGHT FOR YOU FOR RESTING 
AND THE SUN AND MOON FOR TIME CALCULATING
AND THIS IS HIS JUDGMENT AND HIS ORDERING 
FOR HE IS ALL MIGHTY AND ALL KNOWING

97  IT IS HE WHO MAKES THE STARS AS BEACONS FOR YOU TO SEE 
THAT YOU MAY GUIDE YOURSELVES THROUGH LAND AND SEA 
WE DETAIL OUR MESSAGES FOR PEOPLE WITH CERTAINTY

98  IT IS HE WHO HAS PRODUCED YOU FROM A SINGLE BEING
THEN  PLACED YOU INTO A PLACE OF RESTING 
THEN PLACES YOU INTO A PLACE OF DEPARTING
WE DETAIL OUR SIGNS FOR PEOPLE OF UNDERSTANDING

99  IT IS HE WHO SENDS DOWN RAIN AND WITH IT WE PRODUCE 
VEGETATION OF ALL KINDS AND FROM SOME WE PRODUCE
GREEN CROPS OUT OF WHICH WE PRODUCE 

GRAIN HEAPED UP AT HARVEST AND FROM THE DATE TREE
COME CLUSTERS OF DATES HANGING NEAR AND LOWLY 

AND GARDENS OF OLIVES AND POMEGRANATES AND GRAPES
SIMILAR IN KIND YET DIFFERENT IN SHAPE 

WHEN THEY EACH BEGIN TO BEAR FRUIT 
SO FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE RIPENESS OF THE FRUIT 

FOR IN THESE THINGS THERE ARE SIGNS
FOR PEOPLE WITH WISE MINDS

100  YET THEY MAKE EQUAL WITH GOD THE DEMONS
ALTHOUGH GOD DID CREATE THE DEMONS 

AND THEY HAVING NO KNOWLEDGE FALSELY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM 
SONS AND DAUGHTERS BUT PRAISE AND GLORY BE TO HIM
HE IS FAR ABOVE WHAT THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM 

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101  TO HIM IS DUE THE PRIMAL ORIGIN 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
HOW CAN HE HAVE A SON
WHEN HE HAS NO COMPANION?  
AND HE CREATED ALL CREATION
AND HE IS THE ALL KNOWING ONE

102  THAT IS GOD, YOUR LORD AND THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
HE IS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS SO WORSHIP HIM ONLY
HE HAS POWER TO DISPOSE OF ALL AFFAIRS COMPLETELY

103  VISION CAN NOT COMPREHEND HIM BUT HE COMPREHENDS ALL VISION 
AND HE IS ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS IN CREATION

104  PROOF HAS COME TO YOU FROM YOUR LORD SO WHOEVER
WILL SEE IT WILL BE TO HIS OWN GOOD AND WHOEVER
IS BLIND IT WILL BE TO HIS OWN HARM, HOWEVER
I AM NOT HERE FOR YOUR AFFAIRS TO WATCH OVER 

105  SO DO WE REPEAT THE MESSAGES THAT THEY MAY
SAY, YOU HAVE TAUGHT US DILIGENTL AND THAT WE MAY
MAKE THE MATTER CLEAR TO THOSE WHO KNOW THE RIGHT WAY

106  FOLLOW WHAT YOU ARE TAUGHT BY INSPIRATION FROM GOD
BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 
AND TURN AWAY FROM THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD 

107  IF IT HAD BEEN THE PLAN OF GOD 
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN FALSE GODS 

BUT WE MADE YOU NOT ONE TO WATCH OVER THEIR DOINGS
NOR ARE YOU SET OVER THEIR AFFAIRS FOR DISPOSING

108  REVILE NOT THOSE WHOM THEY CALL UPON BESIDES GOD 
OR THEY OUT OF SPITE IN THEIR IGNORANCE MAY REVILE GOD 

AND SO HAVE WE MADE ALLURING 
TO EACH PEOPLE ITS OWN DOINGS 

IN THE END WILL THEY RETURN TO THEIR LORD INEVITABLY
AND WE WILL TELL THEM THE TRUTH OF ALL THEY DID CLEARLY 

109  AND THEY SWEAR THEIR STRONGEST OATHS BY THE CREATOR 
THAT IF A SPECIAL SIGN CAME TO THEM FROM THEIR MAKER
THEN THAT BY IT THEY WOULD BE BELIEVERS 
SAY, ALL SIGNS ARE IN GOD'S POWER  
IF SIGNS CAME TO THEM THAT WERE CLEARER 
THEY WILL STILL NOT EVEN THEN BE BELIEVERS? 

110  WE WILL TURN THEIR HEARTS AND THEIR EYES TO PERPLEXITY 
AND EVEN AS THEY REFUSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO BELIEVE
WE LEAVE THEM IN THEIR TRESPASSES TO WANDER BLINDLY 

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PART VIII

111  IF WE SENT ANGELS TO THEM 
AND EVEN IF THE DEAD DID SPEAK TO THEM 
AND IF WE GATHERED ALL THINGS TOGETHER BEFORE THEM
THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE UNLESS IT IS IN GOD'S PLAN FOR THEM
BUT THEY IGNORE THE TRUTH MOST OF THEM  

112  WE MADE FOR EVERY MESSENGER EVIL ONES
AS ENEMIES AMONG MEN AND DEMONS 
INSPIRING EACH OTHER WITH FLOWERY DISCOURSE BY DECEPTION 
IF YOUR LORD SO PLANNED IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE 
SO LEAVE THEM ALONE, THEM AND THEIR INVENTIONS 

113  AND TO SUCH DECEIT LET THE HEARTS OF THOSE INCLINE TO IT
WHO HAVE NO FAITH IN THE HEREAFTER LET THEM DELIGHT IN IT 
AND LET THEM EARN WHAT THEY MAY FROM IT 

114  SAY, SHALL I SEEK BESIDES GOD FOR ANOTHER DEITY
AND IT IS HE THAT HAS SENT TO YOU THE BOOK EXPLAINED FULLY?  
THEY KNOW TO WHOM WE HAVE GIVEN THE BOOK CLEARLY
THAT IT HAS BEEN SENT DOWN FROM YOUR LORD TRUTHFULLY
SO NEVER BE OF THOSE WHO ACT DOUBTFULLY

115  THE WORD OF YOUR LORD HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED JUSTLY 
AND THERE IS NONE CAN CHANGE HIS WORDS IN ANY DEGREE
FOR HE IS THE ONE WHO HEARS AND KNOWS ALL INDEED

116  IF YOU WERE TO OBEY THOSE WHO ARE ON EARTH 
THEY WILL LEAD YOU AWAY FROM THE CREATOR 
AND THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE 
AND THEY DO NOTHING BUT LIE FOR SURE

117  YOUR LORD KNOWS BEST WHO STRAYS FROM HIS WAY 
AND HE KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE GUIDED TO THE RIGHT WAY

118  SO EAT OF THE MEATS ON WHICH THE NAME OF GOD
HAS BEEN PRONOUNCED, IF YOU HAVE FAITH IN GOD

119  WHY WOULD YOU NOT EAT OF MEATS 
ON WHICH GOD'S NAME HAS BEEN DECREED
WHEN GOD HAS EXPLAINED TO YOU CLEARLY
WHAT IS FORBIDDEN YOU EXCEPT COMPULSITORY 
MANY MISLEAD MEN BY THEIR APPETITES IGNORANTLY 
AND GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS ARROGANTLY

120  SHUN ALL SIN, OPEN OR HIDDEN
SURELY THOSE AMONG YOU WHO EARN SIN
WILL GET DUE RECOMPENSE FOR THEIR SINS

121  DO NOT EAT OF THOSE MEATS 
ON WHICH GOD'S NAME HAS NOT BEEN DECREED 
INDEED THAT WOULD MOST ASSUREDLY BE INIQUITY
BUT THE DEVILS DO INSPIRE THEIR FRIENDS TO DISAGREE
IF YOU WERE TO OBEY THEM YOU WOULD BE PAGANS INDEED

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122  CAN HE WHO WAS DEAD TO WHOM WE GAVE LIFE 
WHEREBY HE CAN WALK AMONG MEN AND GAVE HIM LIGHT

BE LIKE HIM WHO IS IN THE DEPTHS OF A DARK PIT
FROM WHERE HE CANNOT COME OUT FROM IT? 

SO TO THOSE WHO ARE WITHOUT BELIEF
PLEASING TO THEM ARE THEIR OWN DEEDS 

123  IN EVERY TOWN WE PLACED LEADERS IN IT
AND THOSE WHO ARE WICKED, PLOT AND BURROW IN IT
THEY PLOT AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS AND DO NOT PERCEIVE IT 

124  WHEN A SIGN COMES TO THEM CLEARLY
THEY SAY, WE WILL NOT BELIEVE UNTIL WE RECEIVE 
ONE EXACTLY LIKE THOSE THAT GOD'S APOSTLES RECEIVED

AND GOD KNOWS BEST HOW TO CARRY OUT HIS MISSION 
AND THE WICKED WILL BE OVERTAKEN BY HUMILIATION 
AND A SEVERE PENALTY FOR ALL THEIR MACHINATIONS

125  THOSE WHO GOD WILLS TO GUIDE TO INSTRUCTION
HE OPENS THEIR BREASTS TO SUBMISSION 
AND WHOM HE LEAVES IN REJECTION
HE MAKES THEIR BREASTS CLOSE IN CONSTRICTION
AS IF THEY HAD TO CLIMB UP TO THE HEAVENS 
AND SO DOES HE HEAP THE DESTRUCTION 
ON THOSE WHO INSIST ON REJECTION 

126  THIS IS THE WAY OF YOUR LORD LEADING STRAIGHT INDEED 
WE HAVE DETAILED THE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO TAKE HEED

127  FOR THEM WILL BE A HOME OF PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY
IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR LORD ETERNALLY
AND THEIR FRIEND HE WILL BE
BECAUSE THEY PRACTICED ACTING RIGHTEOUSLY

128  ONE DAY WILL HE GATHER THE DEMONS AND SAY
INDEED MUCH TOIL OF MEN DID YOU TAKE 
THEIR FRIENDS AMONG MEN WILL SAY

OUR LORD, WE MADE PROFIT FROM EACH OTHER 
BUT WE REACHED OUR TERM OF WHICH YOU WERE THE APPOINTER 
AND HE WILL SAY, YOUR DWELLING PLACE WILL BE THE FIRE  
YOU WILL DWELL IN IT FOREVER
EXCEPT AS I CHOOSE, FOR I AM THE BEST KNOWER

129  SO DO WE MAKE THE WRONG-DOERS TURN 
TO EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY EARN

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130  OH ASSEMBLY OF DEMONS AND MEN, DID THERE NOT COME TO YOU 
APOSTLES FROM AMONG YOU SETTING FORTH MY MESSAGES TO YOU 
AND WARNING YOU OF THE MEETING OF THIS DAY TO YOU?

THEY WILL SAY, AGAINST OURSELVES WE BEAR WITNESS
INDEED THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD SURELY DECEIVED US
SO AGAINST THEMSELVES THEY WILL BEAR WITNESS
THEY REJECTED FAITH AND DID TRANSGRESS

131  THE APOSTLES WERE SENT 
FOR YOUR LORD WOULD NOT DESTROY THE OCCUPANTS 

OF MEN'S HABITANTS FOR WRONG-DOING  
WHILE THEY WERE NOT GIVEN WARNING

132  TO ALL ARE DEGREES OR RANKS ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DO
FOR YOUR LORD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF ANYTHING THAT THEY DO

133  YOUR LORD IS SELF-SUFFICIENT AND FULL OF MERCY 
IF IT WERE HIS WILL HE COULD DESTROY YOU EASILY

AND IN YOUR PLACE APPOINT WHOM HE PLEASES AS YOUR SUCCESSORS 
AS HE RAISED YOU UP AS OTHER PEOPLE'S SUCCESSORS 

134  ALL THAT HAS BEEN PROMISED TO YOU 
WILL COME TO PASS AND CANNOT BE FRUSTRATED BY YOU

135  SAY, OH MY PEOPLE, DO WHATEVER YOU CAN DO
AND I WILL DO MY PART AND SOON WILL YOU 

KNOW WHO IT IS WHOSE END WILL BE BEST IN THE HEREAFTER 
CERTAIN IT IS THAT THE WRONG-DOERS WILL NOT PROSPER

136  OUT OF WHAT IS PRODUCED IN THE EARTH BY GOD
AND IN CATTLE THEY ASSIGN A DETERMINED SHARE FOR GOD
AND THEY SAY ACCORDING TO THEIR FANCIES, THIS IS FOR GOD 

AND THIS SHARE IS ASSIGNED FOR OUR PARTNERS 
THE SHARE DOES NOT REACH GOD OF THEIR PARTNERS  
WHILE THE SHARE OF GOD DOES REACH THEIR PARTNERS 

AND EVIL AND ILL INTENT
IS THEIR ASSIGNMENT

137  EVEN SO IN THE EYES OF MOST OF THE PARTNERS OF THE PAGANS  
MADE ALLURING TO THEM THE SLAUGHTER OF THEIR CHILDREN
IN ORDER TO LEAD THEM TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION 
AND TO CAUSE CONFUSION IN THEIR RELIGION 
IF GOD HAD WILLED THIS THEY WOULD NOT HAVE DONE 
THEREFORE LEAVE THEM ALONE, THEM AND THEIR INVENTIONS

138  SUCH AND SUCH CATTLE AND CROPS ARE TABOO, THEY SAY
AND NONE SHOULD EAT OF THEM EXCEPT THOSE WHO THEY SAY

AND FURTHER THERE ARE CATTLE FORBIDDEN TO YOKE OR BURDEN 
AND CATTLE ON WHICH GOD'S NAME HAS NOT BEEN MENTIONED
AND THESE ARE AGAINST GOD'S INTENTIONS 
AND HE WILL HE REQUITE THEM FOR THEIR INVENTIONS 

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139  THEY SAY, WHAT IS IN THE WOMBS OF CERTAIN 
OF THE CATTLE IS RESERVED FOR OUR MEN 
AND IS FORBIDDEN TO OUR WOMEN
BUT IF IT IS STILL BORN ALL HAVE SHARES THEREIN

FOR THEIR FALSE ATTRIBUTION 
TO THEIR LORD OF SUPERSTITIONS 
HE WILL ISSUE OUT TO THEM RETRIBUTION 
FOR HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND INSTRUCTION

140  LOST ARE THOSE WHO SLAY THEIR CHILDREN FROM FOLLY 
AND FORBID FOOD WHICH GOD HAS PROVIDED FOR THEM AMPLY 

INVENTING LIES AGAINST GOD AND NO GUIDANCE DO THEY HEED 
AND THEY HAVE GONE FAR ASTRAY INDEED 

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141  IT IS HE WHO PRODUCES 
GARDENS WITH AND WITHOUT TRELLISES 
 
AND DATES AND HARVESTS WITH PRODUCE OF ALL KINDS 
AND OLIVES AND POMEGRANATES SIMILAR IN KIND 

AND DIFFERENT IN SHAPE AND VARIETY 
SO EAT OF THEIR FRUIT IN THEIR SEASON BUT PROPERLY

RENDER THE DUES ON THE DAY THAT THE HARVEST IS GATHERED
BUT WASTE NOT BY EXCESS, FOR GOD LOVES NOT WASTERS

142  OF THE CATTLE SOME ARE FOR BURDEN AND SOME FOR MEAT
WHAT GOD HAS PROVIDED ENJOY IT AND EAT
  
AND FOLLOW NOT THE FOOTSTEPS OF SATAN
FOR HE IS AN AVOWED ENEMY TO MAN

143  TAKE EIGHT HEAD OF CATTLE IN FOUR PAIRS 
OF SHEEP A PAIR AND OF GOATS A PAIR 

SAY, HAS HE FORBIDDEN THE TWO MALES OR THE TWO FEMALES 
OR THE YOUNG ENCLOSED IN THE WOMBS OF THE TWO FEMALES?

THEN TELL ME 
IF YOU KNOW TRUTHFULLY

144  OF CAMELS A PAIR 
AND OF OXEN A PAIR 

SAY, HAS HE FORBIDDEN THE TWO MALES OR THE TWO FEMALES 
OR THE YOUNG ENCLOSED IN THE WOMBS OF THE TWO FEMALES?

WERE YOU PRESENT WHEN GOD ORDERED SUCH A THING TO YOU?
BUT WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN ONE WHO AMONG YOU

INVENTS A LIE AGAINST GOD TO MISLEAD PEOPLE?
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT WRONG-DOING PEOPLE

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145  SAY, I FIND NOT IN THE REVELATION                                                          
RECEIVED BY ME ANY MEAT FORBIDDEN 

BY ONE WHO WISHES TO EAT IT UNLESS IT BE DEAD MEAT                               
OR BLOOD POURED FORTH OR SWINE'S MEAT                                                      
FOR IT IS SURELY UNCLEAN TO EAT 

AND WHAT IS IMPIOUS MEAT ON WHICH A NAME 
HAS BEEN INVOKED OTHER THAN GOD'S NAME

BUT EVEN SO IF A PERSON IS FORCED BY NECESSITY 
WITHOUT BEING DISOBEDIENT WILLFULLY

NOR EXCEEDING DUE LIMITS IN TRANSGRESSING 
GOD IS MOST MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING 

146  FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THE JEWISH LAW, WE FORBADE 
EVERY ANIMAL WITH UNDIVIDED HOOF AND WE FORBADE 

THE FAT OF THE OX AND THE SHEEP EXCEPT WHAT 
ADHERES TO THEIR BACKS OR THEIR ENTRAILS OR WHAT

IS MIXED UP WITH A BONE, THIS IN RECOMPENSE 
FOR THEIR WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE 
FOR WE ARE TRUE IN OUR ORDINANCE

147  IF THEY ACCUSE YOU OF SPEAKING FALSELY
SAY, YOUR LORD IS THE LORD OF ALL EMBRACING MERCY
BUT NEVER WILL HIS WRATH BE TURNED BACK FROM THE GUILTY

148  THOSE WILL SAY, WHO GIVE TO GOD PARTNERS 
IF GOD WILLED WE WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN HIM PARTNERS 
NOR WOULD OUR FATHERS HAVE ASCRIBED TO GOD PARTNERS

NOR OF TABOOS WOULD WE HAVE HAD ANY
SO DID THEIR ANCESTORS ARGUE FALSELY 
UNTIL THEY TASTED OF OUR PENALTY 

SAY, HAVE YOU ANY CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE WITH YOU?
THEN DO PRODUCE IT BEFORE US IF YOU REALLY DO
NOTHING BUT LIE AND CONJECTURE DO YOU DO

149  WITH GOD IS THE ARGUMENT THAT REACHES HOME INDEED
IF IT HAD BEEN HIS WILL HE COULD HAVE GUIDED YOU EASILY

150  SAY TO THEM, BRING FORWARD YOUR WITNESSES 
PROVING YOUR LORD FORBADE  ANY OF THIS
AND IF THEY BRING SUCH WITNESSES 

BE NOT AMONG THEM NOR FOLLOW THE VAIN DESIRES 
OF THOSE WHO TREAT OUR MESSENGERS AS LIARS
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE HEREAFTER
FOR THEY HOLD GOD AS EQUAL WITH OTHERS

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151  SAY TO THEM, COME I WILL RECITE WHAT GOD HAS REALLY 
PROHIBITED YOU FROM, JOIN NOT ANYTHING WITH HIM EQUALLY
BE GOOD TO YOUR PARENTS, KILL NOT YOUR CHILDREN UNJUSTLY
FOR WE PROVIDE SUSTENANCE FOR YOU AND THEM AMPLY
AND COME NOT NEAR TO SHAMEFUL DEEDS
WHETHER OPENLY OR SECRETLY 
TAKE NOT LIFE WHICH GOD CREATED SACREDLY 
EXCEPT BY MANNER OF BEING LAWFUL AND JUSTLY
SO DOES HE SUMMON YOU THAT YOU MAKE ACT RIGHTLY

152  AND DO NOT COME NEAR TO THE ORPHAN'S PROPERTY 
BUT TO IMPROVE IT UNTIL HE ATTAINS FULL MATURITY
AND GIVE DUE MEASURE AND WEIGHT JUSTLY
NO BURDEN DO WE PLACE ON ANY SOUL BUT WHAT IT CAN CARRY 
AND WHENEVER YOU SPEAK, SPEAK FAIR AND SPEAK JUSTLY
EVEN AGAINST A RELATIVE, AND FULFILL YOUR DUTY 
YOU ARE COMMANDED THIS THAT YOU MAY ACT GRATEFULLY

153  AND SURELY THIS IS MY STRAIGHT LEADING WAY 
THEREFORE FOLLOW IT, FOLLOW NOT OTHER WAYS
OR THEY WILL DIVERT YOU FROM HIS GREAT WAY
SO DOES HE COMMAND YOU SO THAT YOU MAY 
CONDUCT YOURSELVES IN A RIGHTEOUS WAY 

154  MOREOVER WE GAVE MOSES THE SCRIPTURES
COMPLETING TO THOSE WHO WOULD BE RIGHT DOERS
OUR FAVORS AND EXPLAINING IN DETAIL ALL THINGS CLEAR
AND A GUIDE AND A MERCY SO THAT THEY MIGHT BE BELIEVERS
IN THE MEETING IN THE HEREAFTER WITH THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER  

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155  AND THIS IS A BOOK WHICH WE HAVE REVEALED CLEARLY
AS A BLESSING, SO FOLLOW IT AND ACT RIGHTEOUSLY 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE MERCY

156  OR ELSE YOU WOULD SAY, THE BOOK WAS SENT DOWN ONLY
TO TWO PARTIES BEFORE US AND FOR OUR PART WE REALLY
WERE UNAWARE OF WHAT THEY LEARNED BY THEIR STUDY

157  OR ELSE YOU WOULD SAY, IF THE BOOK HAD ONLY 
BEEN SENT DOWN TO US THEN WE WOULD HAVE SURELY
FOLLOWED ITS GUIDANCE BETTER AND MORE TRUTHFULLY
BUT NOW HAS COME TO YOU CLEARLY AND MANIFESTLY 
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LORD AND A GUIDE AND A MERCY 

WHO COULD DO MORE WRONG THAN THEY 
WHO REJECT GOD'S MESSAGES AND TURN AWAY 
IN TIME WILL WE REQUITE THOSE WHO TURN AWAY 
WITH A DREADFUL PENALTY FOR THEIR TURNING AWAY

158  ARE THEY WAITING TO SEE IF THE ANGELS COME TO THEM
OR GOD HIMSELF OR GOD'S SIGNS COME TO THEM?
THE DAY WHEN GOD'S SIGNS DO COME TO THEM
NO GOOD WILL IT DO FOR A SOUL TO THEN BELIEVE IN THEM 
IF BEFORE IT DID NOT BELIEVE IN THEM 
NOR EARNED RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH BELIEVING IN THEM
SAY, WAIT, WE ALSO ARE WAITING WITH THEM

159  THOSE WHO DIVIDE THEIR RELIGION 
AND WHO BREAK IT UP INTO SECTIONS

YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY PART IN THEM 
THEIR AFFAIR IS WITH GOD AND HE WILL TELL THEM 
THE TRUTH OF ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WERE DONE BY THEM

160  HE WHO DOES A GOOD DEED HE WILL HAVE TEN TO HIS CREDIT
HE WHO DOES EVIL WILL BE RECOMPENSED WITH THE LIKE OF IT
AND NO ONE WILL BE WRONGED THE LEAST LITTLE BIT

161  SAY, SURELY MY LORD HAS GUIDED ME 
TO A PATH THAT IS STRAIGHT, THE RIGHT RELIGION INDEED
THE PATH OF ABRAHAM, THE TRUE IN FAITH TRULY
AND HE JOINED NOT GODS WITH GOD IN DEITY

162  SAY, MY PRAYER AND MY SACRIFICES
MY LIFE AND MY DEATH AND ALL MY SERVICES
ARE ALL FOR GOD, THE LORD OF ALL EXISTENCES

163  NO PARTNER HAS HE AND OF THIS I AM COMMANDED 
AND I AM THE FIRST OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUBMITTED

164  SAY, SHALL I SEEK OTHER THAN GOD FOR MY PROTECTOR 
WHEN OF ALL THINGS THAT EXISTS HE IS THE SUSTAINER? 
EVERY SOUL DRAWS THE RESULTS OF ITS ACTS ON NONE OTHER
BUT ITS OWN SELF AND NO BURDEN BEARER 
CAN BEAR THE BURDEN OF ANOTHER 
YOUR GOAL IS TO ---GOD, THEN HE WILL BE THE RECOUNTER  
OF THE TRUTH OF THE THINGS OF WHICH YOU WERE DISPUTERS

165  AND IT IS HE WHO HAS MADE YOU HIS AGENTS AND INHERITORS 
AND HE HAS RAISED YOU IN RANKS, SOME OF YOU ABOVE OTHERS 
THAT HE MAY TRY YOU IN THE GIFTS OF WHICH HE IS THE GIVER
AND YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER IS THE PUNISHER
YET HE IS ALSO THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

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IN THE NAME OF GOD, 
THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL 
 
1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER, THE TRUTHFUL

2  WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU THIS SCRIPTURE
SO LET YOUR HEART NO LONGER
BE OPPRESSED BY ANY DIFFICULTY ON ANY MATTER
AND WITH IT YOU MAY WARN THOSE IN ERROR
AND TEACH THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

3  FOLLOW WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO YOU BY THE GOD OF REVELATION
SEEK NOT OTHER THAN GOD FOR FRIENDS OR PROTECTION
LITTLE DO YOU MIND GOD'S ADMONITION 

4  HOW MANY TOWNS HAVE WE DESTROYED FOR THEIR SINS 
WHEN OUR PUNISHMENT TOOK THEM ALL OF A SUDDEN 
BY NIGHT OR AT MIDDAY WHILE THEY SLEPT IN?

5  WHEN OUR PUNISHMENT TOOK THEM NO CRY DID THEY UTTER
BUT THIS, INDEED WE WERE WRONG-DOERS

6  WE WILL QUESTION THOSE TO WHOM OUR MESSAGE WAS SENT 
AND WE WILL QUESTION THOSE BY WHOM IT WAS SENT

7  AND WITH KNOWLEDGE WE WILL SURELY 
RECOUNT THEIR WHOLE ENTIRE STORY 
FOR NEVER ABSENT WERE WE 

8  THE JUDGMENT THAT DAY WILL BE TRUE AND JUSTLY
THEY WILL PROSPER WHOSE GOOD DEEDS WILL BE HEAVY 

9  THOSE WHOSE GOOD DEEDS WILL BE LIGHT ONES
THEY WILL FIND THEIR SOULS IN PERDITION
BECAUSE THEY TREATED OUR MESSAGES WITH REJECTION

10  IT IS WE WHO HAVE PLACED YOU 
WITH AUTHORITY ON EARTH AND PROVIDED YOU 
WITH MEANS IN IT TO FULFILL YOUR LIFE FOR YOU 
AND SMALL ARE THE THANKS THAT ARE GIVEN BY YOU

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11  IT IS WE WHO CREATED AND SHAPED YOU BEAUTIFULLY
WE TOLD THE ANGELS TO BOW DOWN TO ADAM SUBMISSIVELY
THEY BOWED DOWN BUT NOT SATAN, HE REFUSED ARROGANTLY

12  GOD SAID, WHAT PREVENTED YOU FROM BOWING SUBMISSIVELY 
WHEN I COMMANDED YOU?  HE ANSWERED, I AM BETTER THAN HE 
YOU CREATED HIM FROM CLAY AND FROM FIRE YOU MADE ME

13  GOD SAID, GET OUT OF HERE
IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO BE ARROGANT HERE 
GET OUT FOR YOU ARE OF THE VILEST OF CREATURES

14  HE SAID, UNTIL THE DAY THEY ARE RAISED UP GRANT ME RESPITE

15  GOD SAID, YOU ARE AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE RESPITE

16  HE SAID, BECAUSE YOU HAVE THROWN ME OUT OF THE WAY 
I WILL LIE IN WAIT FOR THEM ON YOUR STRAIGHT WAY

17  AND I WILL ASSAULT THEM
FROM BEFORE THEM AND BEHIND THEM
FROM THE RIGHT AND FROM THE LEFT OF THEM
AND YOU WILL NOT FIND GRATITUDE IN MOST OF THEM

18  GOD SAID, GET OUT FROM HERE DISGRACED AND EXPELLED
IF ANY OF THEM FOLLOW YOU, I WILL THROW YOU ALL INTO HELL

19  OH ADAM, DWELL YOU AND YOUR WIFE IN THE GARDEN HAPPILY
AND ENJOY ITS GOOD THINGS BUT APPROACH NOT THIS TREE
OR YOU WILL TRANSGRESS ASSUREDLY

20  THEN SATAN MADE SUGGESTIONS TO THEM DECEITFULLY
BRINGING THEIR HIDDEN SHAME BEFORE THEM OPENLY
HE SAID, YOUR LORD ONLY FORBADE YOU THIS TREE 
LEST YOU WOULD BECOME ANGELS OR LIVE ETERNALLY

21  AND HE SWORE TO BOTH OF THEM 
THAT HE WAS A SINCERE ADVISOR TO THEM

22  HE BROUGHT ABOUT THEIR FALL DECEITFULLY
WHEN THEY TASTED OF THE TREE 
THEIR SHAME WAS SHOWN TO THEM MANIFESTLY 
AND THEY THEN BEGAN TO SEW THE LEAVES
OF THE GARDEN TOGETHER TO COVER THEIR BODIES
SO THEN THEIR LORD CALLED TO THEM REPROACHINGLY
AND SAID, DID I NOT FORBID YOU TO APPROACH THAT TREE 
AND I TOLD YOU THAT SATAN WAS TO YOU AN AVOWED ENEMY?

23  THEY SAID, OUR LORD WE HAVE WRONGED OUR OWN SOULS SURELY
IF YOU FORGIVE US NOT AND BESTOW NOT UPON US YOUR MERCY 
THEN WE WILL BE LOST MOST ASSUREDLY

24  GOD SAID, GET OUT WITH ENMITY BETWEEN YOURSELVES
AND ON THE EARTH WILL BE YOUR PLACE TO DWELL
AND YOUR MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD FOR A SPELL

25  HE SAID, YOU WILL LIVE IN IT AND DIE IN IT
AND THEN YOU WILL BE TAKEN OUT OF IT

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26  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM, WE HAVE BESTOWED ON YOU CLOTHING
TO COVER YOUR SHAME AND BEAUTIFUL CLOTHING

AND THE BEST CLOTHING THAT GUARDS AGAINST EVIL
THESE ARE GOD'S MESSAGES THAT YOU MAY BE MINDFUL 

27  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM, LET NOT SATAN 
SEDUCE YOU THE SAME WAY AS HE GOT YOUR PARENTS 
OUT OF FROM GARDEN STRIPPING THEM OF THEIR RAIMENT 

FOR SURELY HE AND HIS TRIBE THEY WATCH YOU FROM POSITIONS 
WHERE YOU CANNOT SEE THEM AND WE MADE THE EVIL ONES
FRIENDS TO THOSE WHO WERE IN REJECTION

28  WHEN THEY DO ANYTHING THAT IS SHAMEFUL 
THEY SAY, OUR FATHERS DID THESE THINGS AS WELL
SO THIS IS THEREFORE GOD'S COMMAND TO US AS WELL
SAY TO THEM, GOD NEVER COMMANDS WHAT IS SHAMEFUL
DO YOU SAY OF GOD THAT WHICH YOU ARE UNKNOWLEDGEABLE? 

29  SAY, MY LORD HAS COMMANDED JUSTICE FROM HIM
AND TO SET YOUR FACES AT EVERY TIME AND PLACE OF PRAYER TO HIM
AND CALL UPON HIM MAKING YOUR DEVOTION SINCERE TO HIM
AS HE CREATED YOU BEFORE YOU WILL RETURN TO HIM

30  SOME HE HAS GUIDED AND OTHERS 
WHO BY THEIR OWN CHOICE HAVE DESERVED 
THE LOSS OF THEIR WAY IN THAT THEY TOOK DEVILS RATHER 
THAN GOD FOR THEIR FRIENDS AND PROTECTORS 
AND THINK THAT THEY ARE GUIDED PROPER

31  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM DISPLAY YOUR BEAUTIFUL WEAR
AT EVERY TIME AND PLACE OF PRAYER 
EAT AND DRINK BUT WASTE NOT, FOR GOD LOVES NOT WASTERS

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32  SAY, WHO HAS FORBIDDEN GOD'S ADORNMENTS
WHICH HE HAS PRODUCED FOR PROVISIONS FOR HIS SERVANTS 
AND THE GOOD THINGS WHICH HE HAS PROVIDED FOR SUSTENANCE

SAY, THESE ARE IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD FOR THE FAITHFUL
AND FOR THEM ON THE JUDGMENT DAY AND THEY WILL BE SUCCESSFUL

33  WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION
SAY, THE THINGS THAT MY LORD HAS INDEED FORBIDDEN 
ARE SHAMEFUL DEEDS WHETHER OPEN OR HIDDEN
AND SINS AND TRESPASSES AGAINST TRUTH AND REASON 
ASSIGNING OF PARTNERS TO GOD FOR WHICH HE HAS GIVEN 
NO AUTHORITY AND SAYING THINGS ABOUT GOD EVEN 
WHEN NO KNOWLEDGE TO YOU HAS BEEN GIVEN 

34  TO EVERY PEOPLE IS A TERM APPOINTED  
AND WHEN THEY REACH THEIR TERM APPOINTED
NOT FOR A SINGLE HOUR CAN THEY DELAY IT
NOR FOR AN HOUR CAN THEY ADVANCE IT 

35  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM, WHENEVER 
THERE COMES TO YOU FROM AMONG YOU MESSENGERS
RECITING MY MESSAGES, THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
AND MEND THEIR LIVES AND ARE BELIEVERS
ON THEM WILL BE NO FEAR NOR WILL THEY GRIEVE EITHER

36  THOSE WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS AND TURN AWAY ARROGANTLY 
THEY ARE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE TO DWELL IN IT ETERNALLY

37  WHO IS A MORE UNJUST WRONG DOER                                                                                  
THAN ONE WHO LIES AGAINST THE CREATOR
AND OF HIS LORD'S MESSAGES IS A REJECTER
THEIR PORTION APPOINTED FROM THE SCRIPTURES
MUST REACH THEM UNTIL WHEN THE DEATH MESSENGERS
TAKE THEIR SOULS AND SAY, WHERE ARE YOUR GOD PARTNERS 
THEY WILL SAY, THEY HAVE LEFT US IN THE LURCH
AND THEN THEY WILL BE WITNESS BEARERS
AGAINST THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE DISBELIEVERS

38  AND HE WILL SAY, YOU PEOPLE WILL ENTER 
IN THE COMPANY OF THE PEOPLE PRIOR
OF MEN AND DEMONS INTO THE FIRE 
AND EVERY TIME A NEW PEOPLE DO ENTER
IT CURSES ITS SISTER PEOPLE THAT WENT PRIOR
UNTIL THEY FOLLOW EACH OTHER ALL INTO THE FIRE 
AND THE LAST WILL SAY ABOUT THE FIRST 
OUR LORD, THEY MISLEAD US SO GIVE THEM THE WORST
OUR LORD, GIVE THEM A DOUBLE PENALTY IN THE FIRE 
HE WILL SAY, YOU ALL HAVE A DOUBLE PENALTY TOGETHER

39  THE FIRST WILL SAY TO THE LAST, NOW WE SEE 
NO ADVANTAGE DO YOU HAVE OVER US INDEED
TASTE THE PENALTY FOR ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

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40  THOSE WHO OF OUR SIGNS ARE IN REJECTION
THERE WILL BE NO WAY OPEN
TO THEM OF THE GATES OF HEAVEN 
AND NOR WILL THEY ENTER THE GARDEN 

UNTIL THE CAMEL 
PASSES THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE 
THIS IS OUR REWARD FOR THE GUILTY PEOPLE

41  FOR THEM THERE IS HELL AS A COUCH BELOW THEM
AND FOLDINGS AND FOLDINGS OF COVERINGS ABOVE THEM
AND THIS IS OUR REQUITAL FOR THE WRONG DOERS AMONG THEM 

42  BUT THOSE WHO DO GOOD DEEDS AND ARE SINCERE BELIEVERS
NO BURDEN DO WE PLACE ON ANY SOUL BUT WHAT IT CAN BEAR 
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THE GARDEN FOREVER

43  WE WILL REMOVE FROM THEIR HEARTS ANY INJURY 
AND THEY WILL HAVE RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH 
AND THEY WILL SAY, TO GOD ALL PRAISES BE 
WHO HAS GUIDED US TO THIS FELICITY 
WE COULD NOT HAVE FOUND MERCY
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR GOD'S MERCY

INDEED IT WAS THE TRUTH THAT THE MESSENGERS
OF GOD BROUGHT TO US AND THE CRY THEY WILL HEAR 
SEE THE GARDEN BEFORE YOU AND YOU ARE ITS INHERITORS
BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN CONSTANT RIGHTEOUS DOERS

44  THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS WILL SAY TO THOSE IN THE FIRE 
WE HAVE FOUND TRUE THE PROMISE OF THE CREATOR  
HAVE YOU ALSO FOUND TRUE THE PROMISES OF YOUR MAKER? 
THEY WILL SAY, YES, BUT BETWEEN THEM A CRIER
WILL SAY, THE CURSE OF GOD IS ON THE WRONG-DOERS

45  THOSE WHO WOULD HINDER 
MEN FROM GOD'S WAY AND SEEK IN IT SOMETHING IN ERROR 
THEY WERE INDEED THOSE WHO WERE DENIERS OF THE HEREAFTER

46  BETWEEN THEM WILL BE A VEIL AND ON THE ELEVATED PLACES              
WILL BE MEN WHO WILL KNOW EVERY ONE BY THEIR FACES

AND THEY WILL CALL TO THE GARDEN'S OWNERS
AND SAY, MAY PEACE BE UPON YOU FOREVER
AND THEY WILL NOT YET HAVE ENTERED  
BUT OF IT THEY WILL BE ASSURED

47  THEIR EYES WILL BE TURNED TO THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE
THEY WILL SAY, LORD, SEND US NOT AMONGST THE WRONG DOERS

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48  THE MEN IN THE ELEVATED PLACES                                                                  
WILL CALL TO MEN WHOM THEY WILL KNOW BY THEIR FACES                                
AND SAY, NO PROFIT WAS YOUR WEALTH AND YOUR ARROGANTNESS

49  ARE THESE NOT THE MEN WHOM YOU EXPRESSED
THAT GOD IN HIS MERCY WOULD NEVER BLESS? 

ENTER THE GARDEN, NO FEAR ON YOU WILL THERE BE 
NOR WILL YOU HAVE ANY REASON TO GRIEVE

50  THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 
WILL CALL TO THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS 

POUR DOWN TO US WATER OR ANYTHING 
THAT GOD DOES PROVIDE FOR YOUR SUSTAINING
AND THEY WILL SAY TO THEM, BOTH THESE THINGS 
GOD HAS FORBIDDEN TO THOSE GUILTY OF REJECTING

51  THOSE WHO TOOK THEIR RELIGION FOR AMUSEMENT AND PLAY
AND WERE DECEIVED BY THE LIFE OF THE WORLD THAT DAY 
SO WE WILL FORGET THEM AS THEY FORGOT THIS DAY 
AND BECAUSE THEY REJECTED THE WAY

52  WE SENT TO THEM A BOOK BASED ON KNOWLEDGE CLEARLY
EXPLAINED IN DETAIL TO BELIEVERS, A GUIDE AND A MERCY 

53  DO THEY WAIT FOR THE FINAL FULFILLMENT OF THE EVENT?
ON THE DAY OF THE FINAL FULFILLMENT OF THE EVENT 

THOSE WHO DISREGARDED IT BEFORE 
WILL SAY, THE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD 

DID SURELY BRING TO US TRUE TIDINGS AND WE HAVE INDEED
NO INTERCESSORS NOW TO ON OUR BEHALF INTERCEDE 
OR IF WE COULD BE SENT BACK THEN WE INDEED
WOULD BEHAVE QUITE DIFFERENTLY 

THEY WILL HAVE LOST THEIR SALVATION
AND THE THINGS OF THEIR INVENTIONS 
WILL HAVE LEFT THEM IN DISPOSITION

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54  YOUR GUARDIAN-LORD IS GOD WHO ALONE
CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH IN SIX DAYS ON HIS OWN
AND IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED AS THE LORD OF THE THRONE  

AND HE DRAWS THE NIGHT AS A VEIL OVER THE DAY
EACH SEEKING THE OTHER IN SUCCESSIVE WAYS

OF THE SUN, MOON AND STARS, HE IS THEIR CREATOR
ALL GOVERNED BY LAWS UNDER HIS ORDER
ARE THEY NOT HIS TO BE THEIR CREATOR
AND TO BE THEIR GOVERNOR?
BLESSED BE GOD, THE CHERISHER
OF THE WORLDS AND THE SUSTAINER 

55  CALL ON YOUR LORD WITH HUMILITY AND IN PRIVATE 
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO TRESPASS BEYOND LIMITS

56  AND BE NOT A MISCHIEF MAKER
ON THE EARTH AFTER IT HAS BEEN SET IN ORDER 
BUT CALL ON HIM LONGING IN YOUR HEARTS AND IN FEAR
FOR THE MERCY OF YOUR LORD IS ALWAYS NEAR

57  IT IS HE WHO SENDS THE WINDS COOL AND BREEZY 
LIKE HERALDS OF GOOD NEWS GOING BEFORE HIS MERCY

AND WHEN THEY HAVE CARRIED THE CLOUDS THAT ARE HEAVY-LADEN 
WE DRIVE THEM TO A DEAD LAND AND MAKE RAIN TO DESCEND 

AND PRODUCE EVERY KIND OF HARVEST IN DUE MEASURE 
AND WE WILL RAISE UP THE DEAD SO THAT YOU MAY REMEMBER 

58  FROM THE LAND THAT IS GOOD BY THE WILL OF ITS CREATOR
SPRINGS UP PRODUCE RICH AFTER THAT OF WHICH IT IS SIMILAR

BUT FROM THE LAND THAT IS BAD
SPRINGS UP NOTHING BUT THAT WHICH IS BAD

SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS BY VARIOUS SYMBOLS 
TO ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE GRATEFUL

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59  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE 
AND HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE 

WORSHIP GOD 
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 

I FEAR FOR YOU THE PENALTY
OF A DREADFUL DAY INDEED

60  THE LEADERS OF HIS PEOPLE UTTERED
WE SEE YOU TO BE CLEARLY IN ERROR 

61  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, I AM NOT IN ERROR
ON THE CONTRARY, I AM A MESSENGER
FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER 

62  I BUT FULFILL TOWARDS YOU 
THE DUTIES OF MY LORD'S MISSION TO YOU 
AND I KNOW FROM GOD WHAT IS NOT KNOWN TO YOU 

63  DO YOU WONDER THAT THERE HAS COME TO YOU 
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LORD TO YOU THROUGH 
A MAN OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE TO WARN YOU  
SO YOU MAY FEAR HIM AND HE MAY HAVE MERCY ON YOU?

64  BUT THEY REJECTED HIM 
AND WE SAFELY DELIVERED HIM 
AND THOSE IN THE ARK WITH HIM 

BUT WE OVERWHELMED IN THE FLOOD THOSE PEOPLE 
WHO REJECTED OUR SIGNS, THEY WERE A BLIND PEOPLE

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65  TO THE AD PEOPLE, AS A MESSENGER
WE SENT HUD ONE OF THEIR BROTHERS

AND HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 
WILL YOU NOT KEEP YOUR DUTY TO GOD?

66  AMONG HIS PEOPLE, SAID THE LEADERS OF THE DISBELIEVERS
WE SEE YOU ARE AN IMBECILE AND WE THINK YOU ARE A LIAR

67  HE SAID, I AM NO IMBECILE BUT I AM A MESSENGER 
FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

68  I BUT FULFILL TOWARDS YOU 
THE DUTIES OF GOD'S MISSION TO YOU 
AND I AM A TRUSTWORTHY ADVISER TO YOU

69  DO YOU WONDER THAT THERE HAS COME TO YOU 
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LORD TO YOU THROUGH 
A MAN OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE TO WARN YOU? 
CALL IN REMEMBRANCE THAT HE MADE YOU 
INHERITORS AFTER NOAH'S PEOPLE AND GAVE YOU 

A STATURE AMONG THE NATIONS
AND CALL TO MIND HIS BENEFITS IN YOUR POSSESSION
THAT TO YOU PROSPERITY MAY BE GIVEN  

70  THEY SAID, HAVE YOU COME THAT WE MAY WORSHIP GOD AS ONE 
AND GIVE UP TOTALLY OUR FATHER'S RELIGION?  

THEN BRING US THAT WITH WHICH YOU THREATEN US 
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

71  HE SAID, PUNISHMENT HAS ALREADY COME FROM GOD UPON YOU 
DO YOU DISPUTE WITH NAMES DEVISED BY YOUR FATHERS AND YOU 
AND WITHOUT AUTHORITY FROM GOD BEING GIVEN TO YOU?
THEN WAIT I TOO WILL WAIT ALONG WITH YOU

72  WE SAVED HIM AND THOSE WHO TO HIM ADHERED  
AND WE CUT OFF THE ROOTS OF THE REJECTERS
AND THOSE WHO WERE NOT BELIEVERS

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73  WE SENT SALIH TO THE THAMUD PEOPLE
ONE THEIR OWN BROTHERS AS AN APOSTLE 

HE SAID TO THEM, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD 
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 
NOW HAS COME TO YOU A SIGN FROM GOD
THIS SHE-CAMEL IS A SIGN TO YOU FROM GOD

SO LEAVE HER HERE TO GRAZE UNHARMED BY YOU
OR A GRIEVOUS PUNISHMENT WILL SEIZE YOU

74  REMEMBER HOW HE MADE YOU INHERITORS IN THE LAND
AFTER THE AD PEOPLE AND GAVE YOU HABITATIONS IN THE LAND                                        

YOU BUILD PALACES AND CASTLES IN OPEN PLAINS 
AND CARVE OUT HOMES IN THE MOUNTAINS 

SO REMEMBER GOD'S BENEFITS OF WHICH YOU ARE THE RECEIVERS
AND REFRAIN FROM EVIL ON EARTH AND BE NOT MISCHIEF MAKERS 

75  THOSE WHO WERE OF THE ARROGANT LEADERS   
SAID TO THOSE WHO WERE RECKONED WITHOUT POWER
AMONG THOSE OF HIS FOLLOWERS WHO WERE BELIEVERS
DO YOU KNOW INDEED THAT SALIH IS GOD'S MESSENGER?
THEY ANSWERED SAYING, WE INDEED ARE SURELY BELIEVERS 
THE REVELATION HE HAS BROUGHT US HAS MADE US BELIEVERS

76  THE ARROGANT PARTY SAID, FOR OUR PART WE DISBELIEVE
IN WHAT IT IS THAT YOU PEOPLE BELIEVE 

77  THEN THE SHE-CAMEL THEY SLAUGHTERED 
IN DEFIANCE OF THEIR LORD'S ORDER
AND SAID, OH SALIH, BRING YOUR THREATS IF YOU ARE A MESSENGER

78  THE EARTHQUAKE OVERTOOK THEM WHEN THEY WERE NOT PERCEIVING 
AND THEY WERE MOTIONLESS BODIES IN THEIR HOMES IN THE MORNING
SALIH LEFT THEM SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, I GAVE TO YOU THE WARNING
WHICH WAS SENT BY MY LORD AND I GAVE YOU GOOD COUNSELING
BUT YOU ARE NOT OF THOSE WHO LOVE GOOD COUNSELING

80  WE ALSO SENT LOT, HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE 
DO YOU COMMIT LEWDNESS SUCH AS NO PEOPLE 
IN CREATION EVER COMMITTED BEFORE YOU PEOPLE?

81  FOR YOU PRACTICE YOUR LUSTS ON MEN 
IN PREFERENCE TO WOMEN 

YOU ARE PEOPLE INDEED EXCEEDING
BEYOND ALL BOUNDS IN TRANSGRESSING

82  AND NO ANSWER WAS GIVEN BY HIS PEOPLE 
BUT THAT THEY SAID, DRIVE THESE PEOPLE
OUT OF YOUR CITY, THESE ARE PEOPLE
WHO WANT TO BE CLEAN AND PURE PEOPLE

83  WE SAVED HIM AND HIS FAMILY 
EXCEPT HIS WIFE FOR IT WAS DECREED
THAT SHE WOULD LAG BEHIND BELATEDLY

84  WE RAINED BRIMSTONES UPON THEM FOR THEIR SINS
THIS WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO INDULGED IN CRIME AND SIN

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85  TO THE MADYAN PEOPLE WE SENT AS A MESSENGER
SHUAIB, ONE OF THEIR OWN BROTHERS

HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE ,WORSHIP GOD 
FOR BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 
NOW HAS COME TO YOU A CLEAR MESSAGE FROM GOD 

GIVE JUST WEIGHT AND MEASURE
NOR WITHHOLD FROM PEOPLE WHAT IS PROPER
DO NO MISCHIEF ON THE EARTH AFTER IT HAS BEEN SET IN ORDER 
THAT WILL BE BEST FOR YOU IF YOU ARE BELIEVERS

86  AND LIE NOT IN WAIT ON EVERY HIGHWAY                                                           
BREATHING THREATS, HINDERING MEN FROM GOD'S WAY 

AND SEEKING IN IT SOMETHING UNTRUE
REMEMBER YOU WERE LITTLE AND HE GAVE INCREASE TO YOU 
AND REMEMBER THE END OF THOSE WHO DID MISCHIEF BEFORE YOU

87  IF THERE IS AMONG YOU A PARTY THAT BELIEVES
IN THE MESSAGES WHICH I HAVE RECEIVED                                                       
AND A PARTY WHICH DOES NOT BELIEVE  
BE PATIENT UNTIL GOD INTERCEDES 
FOR HE IS THE BEST TO INTERCEDE

PART IX

88  THE LEADERS, THE ARROGANT PARTY 
SAID, OH SHUAIB, WE WILL CERTAINLY 
DRIVE YOU OUT OF OUR CITY 

YOU AND THOSE WHO ARE WITH YOU OR ELSE YOU AND THEY
WILL HAVE TO RETURN TO OUR RELIGION AND OUR WAYS 
HE SAID, EVEN THOUGH WE DETEST YOUR WAYS?

89  WE WOULD INDEED BE LIARS IF WE RETURNED TO THEM 
NOW AFTER OUR LORD HAS RESCUED US FROM THEM 
NOR COULD WE BY ANY MEANS RETURN TO THEM 

UNLESS IT BE IN GOD'S WILL AND PLANNING
GOD IN HIS KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENDS ALL THINGS 

AND IN GOD IS OUR TRUST  
OUR LORD DECIDES BETWEEN OUR PEOPLE AND US
FOR SURELY YOU ARE THE BEST TO DECIDE BETWEEN US

90  THE LEADERS OF THE DISBELIEVERS AMONG HIS PEOPLE 
SAID, IF YOU FOLLOW SHUAIB YOU WILL BE A RUINED PEOPLE

91  THE EARTHQUAKE TOOK THEM WHEN THEY WERE NOT PERCEIVING 
AND THEY LAID MOTIONLESS IN THEIR HOMES BEFORE THE MORNING

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92  THE MEN WHO REJECTED SHUAIB 
BECAME AS IF THEY HAD NEVER STAYED 
IN THE HOMES IN WHICH THEY HAD LAID
AND THE MEN WHO HAD REJECTED SHUAIB
THE ONES WHO WERE RUINED WERE THEY

93  SHUAIB LEFT THEM SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, I GAVE YOU
THE MESSAGE WHICH WAS SENT BY MY LORD FOR YOU

I GAVE YOU GOOD COUNSEL BUT HOW SHALL I GRIEVE 
OVER A PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO BELIEVE?

  SECTION  12

94  WHENEVER WE SENT A PROPHET TO A CITY
WE TOOK UP ITS PEOPLE IN ADVERSITY
SO THEY MAY LEARN HUMILITY

95  WE CHANGED THEIR SUFFERING INTO PROSPEROUS WAYS
UNTIL THEY GREW AND MULTIPLIED AND BEGAN TO SAY

OUR FATHERS WERE TOUCHED BY AFFLUENCE AND SUFFERING 
AND SO THEN AFTER WE CALLED THEM INTO ACCOUNTING
ALL OF A SUDDEN WHILE THEY WERE NOT PERCEIVING

96  IF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK HAD BELIEVED
AND FEARED GOD AND KEPT THEIR DUTY

WE WOULD HAVE OPENED OUT TO THEM ALL KINDS OF BLESSINGS 
FROM HEAVEN AND EARTH BUT THEY CONTINUED REJECTING
SO WE BROUGHT THEM TO BOOK FOR THEIR DISBELIEVING

97  DID THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWNS FEEL SECURE FROM THE COMING
OF OUR WRATH BY NIGHT WHILE THEY WERE SLEEPING?

98  OR DID THEY FEEL SECURE AGAINST ITS COMING 
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT WHILE THEY WERE PLAYING?  

99  DID THEY THEN FEEL SECURE AGAINST THE PLAN OF GOD? 
BUT NO ONE CAN FEEL SECURE FROM THE PLAN OF GOD 
EXCEPT THOSE DOOMED TO RUIN BY GOD

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100  TO THOSE WHO INHERIT THE EARTH IN SUCCESSION 
TO ITS PREVIOUS POSSESSORS, IS IT NOT A GUIDING LESSON 
THAT IF WE SO WILLED WE COULD PUNISH THEM FOR THEIR SINS
AND ALSO SEAL UP THEIR HEARTS SO THAT THEY COULD NOT LISTEN?

101  SUCH WERE THE TOWNS WE RELATE TO YOU THEIR STORY
TO THEM CAME APOSTLES WITH SIGNS CLEARLY
BUT THEY DISBELIEVED
IN WHAT THEY HAD BEFORE DISBELIEVED
GOD SEALS UP THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

102  MOST OF THEM WE FOUND NOT MEN TRUE TO THEIR COVENANT 
BUT MOST OF THEM WE FOUND REBELLIOUS AND DISOBEDIENT

103  AFTER THEM WE SENT MOSES 
WITH OUR MESSAGES

104  TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS
BUT THEY REJECTED THEM WRONGFULLY
SO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO ACT MISCHIEVOUSLY

MOSES SAID, OH PHARAOH, I AM A MESSENGER
FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

105  ONE FOR WHOM IT IS RIGHT TO SAY ABOUT GOD TRUTH ONLY 
NOW HAVE I COME TO YOU FROM GOD WITH SIGNS CLEARLY
SO LET THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DEPART WITH ME

106  PHARAOH SAID, IF YOU HAVE COME WITH A SIGN, SHOW PROOF
IF YOU ARE INDEED TELLING THE TRUTH

107  THEN MOSES THREW HIS ROD AND SUDDENLY
IT WAS A SERPENT PLAIN FOR ALL TO SEE 

108  AND HE DREW OUT HIS HAND AND CLEARLY
IT WAS WHITE FOR ALL TO SEE

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109  SAID THE CHIEFS OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
THIS IS A SORCERER THAT IS VERY SKILLFUL

110  HIS PLAN IS TO GET YOU OUT OF YOUR LAND
WHAT DO YOU COUNSEL AGAINST HIS PLAN?

111  THEY SAID, KEEP IN SUSPENSE HIM AND HIS BROTHER 
AND TO THE CITIES SEND OUT SUMMONERS

112  AND BRING UP ALL OUR WELL-VERSED 
AND TALENTED AND SKILLFUL SORCERERS

113  SO WHEN THE SORCERERS CAME TO PHARAOH THEY SAID
OF COURSE WE WILL HAVE A REWARD IF WE COME OUT AHEAD

114  HE SAID, YES AND MORE FOR YOU WILL BE
RAISED TO POSITIONS NEAR TO ME

115  THEY SAID, OH MOSES, WILL YOU THROW FIRST
OR WILL WE BE THE ONES TO THROW FIRST?

116  MOSES SAID, YOU MAY THROW FIRST 
SO WHEN THEY DID THROW FIRST

THEY BEWITCHED THE PEOPLE'S EYES AND STRUCK FEAR INTO THEM 
FOR THEY SHOWED A GREAT FEAT OF MAGIC TO THEM

117  WE PUT INTO MOSES'S MIND BY INSPIRATION
THROW YOUR ROD AND IT SWALLOWED UP THEIR FABRICATIONS 

118  SO TRUTH WAS CONFIRMED AND HENCE
ALL THAT THEY DID WAS MADE OF NO CONSEQUENCE

119  SO THE GREAT ONES WERE VANQUISHED
AND WERE MADE TO LOOK DIMINISHED

120  AND THE SORCERERS IN ADORATION
FELL DOWN IN PROSTRATION

121  THEY SAID, WE BELIEVE TRULY
IN THE LORD OF THE WORLDS COMPLETELY

122  THE LORD OF MOSES AND THE LORD OF AARON

123  PHAROAH SAID, YOU BELIEVE HIM BEFORE I GIVE YOU PERMISSION?
SURELY YOU PLANNED IN THE CITY THIS DECEPTION
TO TURN OUT ITS PEOPLE BUT YOU WILL KNOW THE REPERCUSSIONS

124  I WILL CUT OFF YOUR HANDS AND FEET ON OPPOSITE SIDES
AND I WILL CAUSE YOU ALL TO BE CRUCIFIED

125  THEY SAID, AS FOR US WE ARE ONLY
SENT BACK TO OUR LORD SECURELY

126  BUT YOU WREAK YOUR VENGEANCE ON US 
BECAUSE WE BELIEVED GOD'S SIGNS WHEN THEY REACHED US 
OUR LORD AND CHERISHER POUR PATIENCE AND CONSTANCY ON US 

AND TAKE OUR SOULS UNTO YOU 
AS SUBMITTERS WHO BOW TO YOU

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127  SAID THE CHIEFS OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE 
WILL YOU LEAVE MOSES AND HIS PEOPLE 

TO SPREAD MISCHIEF IN THE LAND FREELY
AND TO ABANDON YOU AND YOUR DEITIES?  

SO HE SAID, THEIR MALE CHILDREN WE WILL KILL THEM
AND ALL OF THEIR FEMALES WE WILL SAVE THEM 
FOR WE HAVE IRRESISTIBLE POWER OVER THEM 

128  MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, PRAY FOR HELP FROM GOD 
AND WAIT PATIENTLY, FOR THE EARTH BELONGS TO GOD
TO GIVE AS A HERITAGE TO THE SERVANTS OF GOD
THE END IS BEST FOR THE SERVANTS OF GOD

129  THEY SAID, THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT TROUBLE FOR US
BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER YOU CAME TO US

MOSES SAID,  OH MY PEOPLE, YOUR LORD MAY DESTROY YOUR ENEMY 
AND MAKE YOU INHERITORS IN THE EARTH SUBSEQUENTLY 
SO THAT HE MAY TRY YOU BY YOUR DEEDS

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130  WE PUNISHED PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WITH YEARS OF DESTRUCTION  
OF CROPS AND DROUGHT THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE ADMONITION

131  WHEN GOOD TIMES CAME THEY DECREED  
THIS IS DUE TO US, BUT WHEN GRIPPED BY CALAMITY 
THEY ASCRIBED IT TO EVIL OMENS FROM MOSES UNJUSTLY 
BUT THE OMENS ARE THEIRS IN REALITY
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT UNDERSTAND CLEARLY

132  THEY SAID TO MOSES, WHATEVER BE THE MESSAGES
THAT YOU BRING WITH YOUR SORCERY TO US
YOU WILL NEVER BE BELIEVED BY US

133  SO WE THEREFORE SENT PLAGUES ON THEM 
WHOLESALE DEATH AND LOCUSTS ON THEM
LICE AND FROGS AND BLOOD ON THEM

SIGNS SELF-EXPLAINED PLAINLY
BUT THEY WERE STEEPED IN ACTING ARROGANTLY
FOR THEY WERE PEOPLE SURELY GIVEN TO INIQUITY

134  EVERY TIME THE PENALTY FELL ON THEM THEY SAID, IF YOU                                                                                        
OH MOSES, CALL ON GOD IN VIRTUE OF HIS PROMISE TO YOU 
AND REMOVE THE PENALTY, WE WILL BELIEVE IN YOU
AND WE WILL SEND AWAY THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WITH YOU

135  BUT EVERY TIME WE REMOVED THE PENALTY FROM THEM 
ACCORDING TO A FIXED TERM WHICH WE SET FOR THEM 
THEY BROKE THE PROMISE WE TOOK FROM THEM

136  SO WE EXACTED RETRIBUTION FROM THEM 
AND IN THE SEA WE DROWNED THEM 
BECAUSE OUR SIGNS WERE REJECTED BY THEM
AND THEY FAILED TO TAKE WARNING FROM THEM

137  AND WE MADE A PEOPLE WHO WERE ASSESSED 
AS WEAK AND OF NO ACCOUNT AND OPPRESSED
INHERITORS OF THE LANDS, EAST AND WEST
LANDS ON WHICH WE BLESSED

THE PROMISE OF YOUR LORD WAS FULFILLED 
IN COMPLETION FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
BECAUSE THEY HAD PATIENCE AND WERE GRATEFUL

AND WE LEVELED TO THE GROUND THE FINE BUILDINGS 
WHICH PHARAOH AND HIS PEOPLE ERECTED SELF ESTEEMING

138  WE TOOK THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAFELY ACROSS THE SEA 
AND THEY CAME UPON A PEOPLE DEVOTED TO IDOLS ENTIRELY 
THEY SAID, OH MOSES, MAKE US A GOD LIKE THEIR DEITIES 
HE SAID, YOU ARE PEOPLE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE INDEED

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139  THESE FOLK THE CULT THEY ARE IN 
IS ONLY MERELY A FRAGMENT OF A RUIN 
AND VAIN IS THE WORSHIP THEY PRACTICE IN

140  HE SAID, SHOULD I SEEK FOR YOU A GOD 
ONE OTHER THAN THE ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD 
WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN ENDOWED WITH GIFTS BY GOD
AND YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED ABOVE THE NATIONS BY GOD?

141  AND REMEMBER WE RESCUED YOU 
FROM PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WHO AFFLICTED YOU 
WITH THE WORST OF PENALTIES AND WHO ALSO SLEW 

YOUR MALE CHILDREN 
AND SAVED ALIVE YOUR FEMALE CHILDREN
AND THAT WAS A TRIAL FROM THE LORD OF CREATION

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142  WE APPOINTED FOR MOSES THIRTY NIGHTS 
AND COMPLETED THE PERIOD WITH TEN MORE NIGHTS

SO WAS COMPLETED WITH GOD THE TERM OF COMMUNION 
FORTY NIGHTS, AND MOSES HAD CHARGED HIS BROTHER AARON 

BEFORE HE WENT UP SAYING, ACT AMONG MY PEOPLE FOR ME 
DO RIGHT AND FOLLOW NOT THOSE WHO ACT MISCHIEVOUSLY

143  WHEN MOSES CAME TO THE PLACE APPOINTED 
HIS LORD ADDRESSED HIM AND MOSES SAID 

THAT I MAY LOOK UPON YOU SHOW YOURSELF TO ME 
HIS LORD SAID, BY NO MEANS CAN YOU SEE ME DIRECTLY
LOOK UPON THE MOUNTAIN, IF IT ABIDES IN ITS PLACE FIRMLY 
YOU WILL SEE ME AND WHEN HIS LORD MANIFESTED HIS GLORY 
ON THE MOUNTAIN HE MADE IT CRUMBLE AND IMMEDIATELY
MOSES FELL DOWN AND FAINTED AND WHEN HE CLEARLY
RECOVERED HIS SENSES HE SAID, TO YOU BE THE GLORY  
I TURN IN REPENTANCE AND AM THE FIRST TO BELIEVE 

144  GOD SAID, OH MOSES, I HAVE CHOSEN YOU 
ABOVE OTHER MEN BY THE MISSION I HAVE GIVEN YOU 
AND BY THE WORDS WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU 
TAKE THE REVELATION WHICH I GIVE TO YOU 
AND BE OF THOSE WHO GIVE THANKS AMONG YOU

145  WE ORDAINED LAWS FOR HIM AND ADMONITION
AND OF ALL THINGS A CLEAR EXPLANATION
AND SAID, TAKE AND HOLD TO THESE WITH CONVICTION 
AND ENJOIN ON YOUR PEOPLE TO HOLD TO THIS RELIGION 
I WILL SHOW YOU THE HOME OF THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION   

146  THOSE WHO BEHAVE ON THE EARTH ARROGANTLY
AND THEY DO IT IN DEFIANCE OF ACTING RIGHTLY

I WILL TURN AWAY MY SIGNS FROM THEM
IF THEY SEE ALL THE SIGNS THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE IN THEM
AND IF THE WAY OF RIGHT CONDUCT IS SEEN BY THEM
IT WILL NOT BE ADOPTED AS THE WAY BY THEM
BUT IF THE WRONG WAY IS SEEN BY THEM 
THAT IS THE WAY THAT WILL BE ADOPTED BY THEM
FOR THEY HAVE TAKEN OUR SIGNS AND REJECTED THEM
AND ALSO THEY HAVE FAILED TO TAKE WARNING FROM THEM

147  THOSE WHO OF OUR MESSAGES ARE REJECTERS 
AND IN THE MEETING OF THE HEREAFTER 
VAIN WILL BE THEIR ENDEAVORS 
THEY WILL RECEIVE WHAT THEY EARNED IN DUE MEASURE

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148  THE PEOPLE OF MOSES MADE IN HIS ABSENCE
THE IMAGE OF A CALF FOR WORSHIP OUT OF THEIR ORNAMENTS

AND IT SEEMED THAT IT HAD A HOLLOW SOUND TO THEM 
DID THEY NOT SEE THAT IT COULD NOT SPEAK TO THEM 
AND NOR COULD IT SHOW THE WAY TO THEM ? 
THEY TOOK IT FOR WORSHIP WHICH WAS WRONG OF THEM

149  THEY REPENTED AND SAW THAT THEY ACTED WRONGFULLY  
THEY SAID, IF OUR LORD DOES NOT UPON US HAVE MERCY
WE WILL BE OF THOSE WHO PERISH CERTAINLY

150  AND WHEN MOSES CAME BACK TO HIS PEOPLE 
ANGRY AND GRIEVED HE SAID, WHAT YOU HAVE DONE IS EVIL 

IN MY ABSENCE DID YOU HURRY 
TO BRING UPON YOU GOD'S FURY?

HE PUT DOWN THE TABLETS AND SEIZED HIS BROTHER BY THE HEAD
AND DRAGGED HIM TOWARDS HIM AND AARON SAID

SON OF MY MOTHER, THE PEOPLE RECKONED ME AS NOTHING
AND EVEN CONSIDERED ME FOR SLAYING  

MAKE NOT MY ENEMIES REJOICE OVER MY TRAGEDY
NOR COUNT ME AMONG THE PEOPLE OF INIQUITY

151  MOSES PRAYED, OH MY LORD, FORGIVE ME 
AND MY BROTHER AND ADMIT US TO YOUR MERCY 
FOR YOU ARE THE MOST MERCIFUL OF THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY

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152  THOSE WHO TOOK AND WORSHIPPED THE CALF 
THEY WILL SURLEY BE OVERWHELMED WITH WRATH
AND SO DO WE PUNISH THOSE WHO FORSAKE THE PATH

153  BUT THOSE WHO DO WRONG BUT REPENT AFTER AND BELIEVE 
YOUR LORD THEREAFTER IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

154  WHEN THE ANGER OF MOSES WAS APPEASED
HE TOOK UP THE TABLETS AND IN ITS WRITING WAS MERCY 
AND GUIDANCE FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD AND BELIEVE

155  MOSES CHOSE SEVENTY PEOPLE FOR OUR PLACE OF MEETING 
AND WHEN THEY WERE SEIZED WITH VIOLENT QUAKING 

HE PRAYED, OH MY LORD, IF IT HAD BEEN YOUR WILL YOU EASILY
COULD HAVE DESTROYED LONG BEFORE BOTH THEM AND ME 

WOULD YOU DESTROY US
FOR THE DEEDS OF THE FOOLISH ONES AMONG US? 
FOR SURELY THIS IS NO MORE THAN YOUR TRIAL UPON US

AND BY IT YOU CAUSE WHOM YOU WILL TO GO ASTRAY 
AND YOU LEAD WHOM YOU WILL TO THE RIGHT WAY 

AND YOU ARE OUR PROTECTOR SO FORGIVE US
AND GIVE YOUR KINDNESS AND MERCY TO US
FOR YOU ARE THE BEST FORGIVER OF US
 
156  AND ORDAIN FOR US
THAT WHICH IS GOOD FOR US
IN THIS LIFE AND IN THE HEREAFTER FOR US 

FOR WE HAVE TURNED TO YOU SUBMISSIVELY
AND HE SAID, WITH MY PENALTY
I VISIT WHOM I WILL BUT MY MERCY
EXTENDS TO ALL THINGS AND THAT MERCY 
I WILL ORDAIN FOR THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
AND FOR THOSE WHO DO PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN OUR MESSAGES SINCERELY 

157  THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE UNLETTERED MESSENGER 
WHOM THEY FIND MENTIONED IN THEIR OWN SCRIPTURES 

AND IN THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL, FOR HE COMMANDS THEM
JUSTICE AND FORBIDS THEM EVIL AND ALLOWS THEM 
AS LAWFUL WHAT IS GOOD AND HE PROHIBITS THEM 
FROM WHAT IS BAD AND IS IMPURE AND HE RELEASES THEM 
FROM THEIR BURDENS AND THE SHACKLES THAT ARE ON THEM 

IT IS THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM AND HONOR HIM AND HELP HIM 
AND FOLLOW THE LIGHT WHICH IS SENT DOWN WITH HIM 
IT IS THEY WHO WILL PROSPER THROUGH HIM

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158  SAY, OH MEN, I AM SENT TO YOU ALL AS THE MESSENGER
OF THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

TO WHOM BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS

BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 
IT IS HE THAT GIVES LIFE AND DEATH SO BELIEVE IN GOD 
AND THE UNLETTERED PROPHET WHO BELIEVES IN GOD 
AND FOLLOW HIM SO YOU MAY BE GUIDED BY GOD

159  OF THE PEOPLE OF MOSES 
ARE SOME WHO GUIDE WITH TRUTH AND JUSTICE 

160  WE DIVIDED THEM INTO TWELVE TRIBES OR NATIONS
AND WE DIRECTED MOSES BY INSPIRATION 

WHEN HIS PEOPLE ASKED HIM FOR WATER WHEN THIRSTY
WE SAID, STRIKE THE ROCK WITH YOUR STAFF AND IMMEDIATELY

FROM IT GUSHED THROUGH TWELVE SPRINGS OF RUNNING WATER
AND EACH GROUP KNEW ITS OWN PLACE FOR WATER

WE GAVE THE SHADE OF CLOUDS TO THEM 
AND SENT DOWN MANNA AND QUAILS TO THEM 

SAYING, EAT OF THE GOOD THINGS 
WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOUR SUSTAINING

BUT THEY REBELLED AND TO US THEY DID NO HARM
BUT TO THEIR OWN SELVES THEY DID DO HARM

161  AND REMEMBER IT WAS SAID TO THEM, DWELL IN THIS CITY                    
EAT AS YOU WISH THEREIN BUT SAY THE WORD OF HUMILITY 
AND ENTER THE GATE IN A POSTURE OF HUMILITY 
AND WE WILL FORGIVE YOU YOUR INIQUITIES
AND INCREASE THE PORTION OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

162  THE TRANSGRESSORS AMONG THEM 
CHANGED THE WORD WE HAD GIVEN TO THEM 
SO WE SENT A PLAGUE FROM HEAVEN UPON THEM 
BECAUSE OF THE REPEATED TRANSGRESSIONS OF THEM

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163  ASK THEM ABOUT THE STORY
OF THE TOWN BY THE SEA

WHEN THEY TRANSGRESSED IN THE MATTER OF THE SABBATH
THEIR FISH CAME TO THEM ON THE DAY OF THEIR SABBATH
BUT DID NOT COME WHEN THEY HAD NO SABBATH
THIS WAS A TRIAL BECAUSE THEY TRANSGRESSED IN THE SABBATH

164  WHEN SOME OF THEM SAID, WHY DO YOU PREACH TO PEOPLE 
WHOM GOD WILL DESTROY WITH A PENALTY THAT IS TERRIBLE? 

SAID THE PREACHERS, TO DISCHARGE OUR DUTY TO GOD 
AND PERCHANCE THAT THEY MAY FEAR GOD

165  WHEN THEY DISREGARDED THE WARNINGS GIVEN TO THEM
THOSE WHO HAD FORBADE EVIL WE RESCUED THEM

BUT WE PUNISHED THE WRONG-DOERS WITH A SEVERE PENALTY 
BECAUSE THEY WERE GIVEN TO INIQUITY

166  AND IN THEIR INSOLENCE THEY TRANSGRESSED ALL PROHIBITIONS 
WE SAID TO THEM, BE YOU AS APES DESPISED AND WITH REJECTION

167  YOUR LORD DECLARED THAT HE WOULD SEND AGAINST THEM 
TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THOSE WHO WOULD AFFLICT THEM 
 
FOR YOUR LORD IS SEVERE IN AFFLICTING PENALTY
HE IS ALSO FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

168  INTO SECTIONS ON THIS EARTH WE DIVIDED THEM 
THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE RIGHTEOUS AMONG THEM 
AND OTHERS THAT ARE THE OPPOSITE AMONG THEM

WE HAVE TRIED THEM WITH BOTH PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT TURN TO US HUMBLY

169  AFTER THEM SUCCEEDED AN EVIL GENERATION
THAT INHERITED THE BOOK OF REVELATION

THEY CHOSE FOR THEMSELVES VAIN THINGS
AND SAYING FOR AN EXCUSE THAT EVERYTHING 
WILL BE FORGIVEN US, SO IF SIMILAR VAIN THINGS

CAME THEIR WAY THEY WOULD AGAIN SEIZE THEM 
WAS NOT THE COVENANT OF THE BOOK TAKEN FROM THEM

THAT THEY WOULD NOT ASCRIBE TO GOD 
ANYTHING BUT THE TRUTH OF GOD?

AND THEY STUDY WHAT IS IN THE SCRIPTURES 
BUT BETTER FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
IS THE HOME IN THE HEREAFTER 
WILL YOU NOT THEN BE OF THOSE WHO CONSIDER?

170  FOR THOSE WHO HOLD FAST BY THE SCRIPTURES
AND KEEP UP PRAYER, NEVER WILL WE SUFFER 
TO PERISH THE REWARD OF THE REFORMERS

171  WHEN WE SHOOK THE MOUNTAIN OVER THEM 
AS IF IT HAD BEEN A CANOPY AND IT WAS THOUGHT BY THEM
THAT IT WAS GOING TO FALL ON THEM 
WE TOLD THEM TO HOLD FIRMLY TO WHAT WE HAD GIVEN THEM

AND BRING EVER WHAT IS THEREIN TO REMEMBRANCE 
THAT YOU MAY FEAR GOD PERCHANCE

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172  WHEN YOUR LORD DREW FROM ADAM'S CHILDREN 
FROM THE LOINS OF THEM THEIR DESCENDANTS 
AND MADE THEM MAKE THIS TESTAMENT 

SAYING, AM I NOT YOUR LORD WHO SUSTAINS YOU?
THEY SAID, YES WE DO TESTIFY TO THIS UNLESS YOU 

SHOULD SAY ON THE DAY OF REQUITAL
THAT OF THIS WE WERE NEVER MINDFUL

173  OR ELSE YOU SHOULD SAY, OUR FATHERS BEFORE US 
MAY HAVE TAKEN FALSE GODS, BUT AS FOR US 

WE ARE THEIR DESCENDANTS AFTER THEM 
WILL YOU DESTROY US BECAUSE OF THEM?

174  SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES IN DETAIL FROM US
THAT PERCHANCE THEY MAY TURN TO US

175  RELATE TO THEM THE STORY 
OF THE MAN TO WHOM WE SENT MESSAGES CLEARLY

BUT HE PASSED THEM BY AND TURNED AWAY
SO SATAN FOLLOWED HIM UP AND HE WENT ASTRAY

176  IF IT HAD BEEN OUR WILL WE WOULD HAVE SURELY
ELEVATED HIM WITH OUR MESSAGES BUT HE INSISTENTLY 
INCLINED TO THE EARTH AND FOLLOWED HIS OWN VANITIES

HIS PARABLE IS THAT OF A DOG, IF YOU ATTACK HIM 
HE LOLLS OUT HIS TONGUE OR IF ALONE YOU LEAVE HIM 

HE STILL LOLLS OUT HIS TONGUE, THAT IS THE PARABLE
OF THOSE WHO REJECT OUR MESSAGES AND ARE UNGRATEFUL
SO RELATE THE PARABLE THAT PERCHANCE THEY MAY BE MINDFUL

177  EVIL AS AN EXAMPLE ARE PEOPLE 
WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS AND COMMIT THEIR SOULS TO EVIL

178  WHOM GOD DOES GUIDE IS ON THE RIGHT WAY
 WHOM HE REJECTS FROM HIS GUIDANCE GO ASTRAY

179  WE HAVE MADE HELL FOR MANY DEMONS AND MEN
THEY HAVE HEARTS WITH WHICH THEY DO NOT COMPREHEND

EYES WITH WHICH THEY SEE NOT
AND EARS WITH WHICH THEY HEAR NOT 

THEY ARE LIKE CATTLE BUT MORE MINDLESS
FOR OF WARNINGS THEY ARE HEEDLESS

180 TO GOD BELONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES 
SO CALL ON HIM BY HIS NAMES
BUT SHUN MEN WHO USE PROFANITY IN HIS NAMES 
FOR WHAT THEY DO THEY WILL BE BROUGHT TO SHAME

181  OF THOSE WE HAVE CREATED ARE PEOPLE WHO WITH TRUTH
DIRECT OTHERS AND DISPENSE JUSTICE WITH TRUTH

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182  THOSE WHO REJECT OUR MESSAGES WE WILL GRADUALLY 
VISIT WITH PUNISHMENT IN WAYS THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE

183  RESPITE TO THEM I WILL BE GRANTING 
FOR MY SCHEME IS STRONG AND UNFAILING

184  DO THEY NOT REFLECT THAT THEIR MESSENGER
IS NOT SEIZED WITH MADNESS, HE IS BUT A PLAIN WARNER?

185   DO THEY SEE NOTHING IN THE GOVERNMENTS
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND ALL THAT GOD HAS IN HIS CREATION?

DO THEY NOT SEE THAT IT MAY BE CERTAIN
THAT THEIR TERM IS NEAR DRAWING TO AN END 
IN WHAT MESSAGE AFTER THIS WILL THEY BELIEVE IN THEN?

186  THOSE WHO GOD REJECTS FROM HIS INSTRUCTION 
FOR THEM THERE CAN NEVER BE ANY DIRECTION 
HE LEAVES THEM IN THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS
WANDERING TO AND FRO IN DISTRACTION

187  THEY ASK YOU ABOUT THE FINAL HOUR, WHEN WILL IT BE ?                         
SAY, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR IS WITH MY LORD ONLY                               

AND SURELY NONE BUT HE CAN REVEAL AS TO WHEN IT WILL HAPPEN
HEAVY IS ITS BURDEN THROUGH THE  EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND IT WILL COME TO YOU ALL OF A SUDDEN 
 
THEY ASK YOU AS IF YOU WERE EAGER IN SEARCH OF IT 
SAY TO THEM, WITH GOD IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF IT 
BUT MOST AMONG MEN DO NOT KNOW IT

188  SAY, NO POWER OVER ANY GOOD OR HARM HAVE I
TO MYSELF EXCEPT AS GOD WILLS AND IF I 
HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN THEN I 

WOULD HAVE MULTIPLIED ALL GOOD FOR ME
AND NO EVIL WOULD HAVE TOUCHED ME 

BUT I AM ONLY A PLAIN WARNER 
AND A BRINGER OF GOOD NEWS TO BELIEVERS

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189  GOD CREATED YOU FROM A SINGLE  CREATURE
AND MADE FOR YOU A MATE OF LIKE NATURE
IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT DWELL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER
AND WHEN THEY ARE UNITED A LIGHT BURDEN SHE BEARS
AND CARRIES IT ABOUT UNNOTICED WITH HER
AND THEN WHEN SHE GROWS HEAVIER 
THEY BOTH PRAY TO GOD SAYING, OH CREATOR 
IF YOU GIVE US A GOOD CHILD WE SWEAR
THAT WE WILL BE GRATEFUL FOREVER

190  BUT WHEN HE GIVES THEM A GOOD CHILD THEY ASCRIBE TO OTHERS 
A SHARE IN THE GIFT THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED FROM THEIR MAKER
BUT HE IS ABOVE WHAT THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM AS PARTNERS

191  DO THEY INDEED ASCRIBE TO HIM THINGS 
THAT HAVE THEMSELVES CREATED NOTHING
BUT ARE THEMSELVES CREATED THINGS?

192  AND THEY CAN GIVE TO THEM NO AID
NOR CAN THEY GIVE TO THEMSELVES AID

193  IF TO GUIDANCE YOU CALL THEM 
THEY WILL NOT OBEY YOU, IT IS THE SAME TO THEM 
WHETHER YOU CALL THEM OR WHETHER YOU DO NOT CALL THEM

194  SURELY THOSE WHOM YOU 
CALL ON BESIDES GOD ARE SERVANTS LIKE YOU 
SO CALL UPON THEM PRAYING AND LET THEM LISTEN TO YOU
IF YOU THINK THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

195  HAVE THEY FEET TO WALK WITH OR HANDS TO MOVE FREELY
OR EARS TO HEAR WITH OR EYES TO SEE? 
SAY, CALL YOUR GOD-PARTNERS AND SCHEME AGAINST ME 
YOUR WORST SCHEME AND GIVE NO RESPITE TO ME 

196  GOD WHO REVEALED THE BOOK IS MY FRIEND
HE CHOOSES THE RIGHTEOUS AND THEM HE BEFRIENDS

197  AND BESIDES HIM THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ON BY YOU
ARE UNABLE TO HELP THEMSELVES OR YOU

198  IF YOU CALL THEM TO GUIDANCE THEY HEAR NOT 
YOU WILL SEE THEM LOOKING AT YOU BUT THEY SEE NOT

199  COMMAND WHAT IS RIGHT BUT TURN AWAY 
FROM THE IGNORANT AND EVIL WAYS

200  IF A SUGGESTION FROM SATAN IS MENTALLY AFFLICTING
SEEK REFUGE IN GOD, FOR HE IS ALL KNOWING

201  WHEN AN EVIL THOUGHT AFFLICTS THOSE WHO FEAR GOD
WHEN THEIR SIGHT RETURNS TO THEM THEY REMEMBER GOD

202  BUT THEIR BROTHERS THE EVIL ONES, PLUNGE THEM DEEPER
INTO ERROR AND RELAX THEIR EFFORTS NEVE

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203  IF YOU BRING THEM NOT A REVELATION THEY UTTER 
WHY HAVE YOU NOT GOT IT TOGETHER? 
SAY, I BUT FOLLOW WHAT IS REVEALED TO ME FROM THE CREATOR 
THIS IS GUIDANCE AND LIGHT FROM YOUR MAKER 
AND MERCY FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 

204  WHEN THE QURAN IS RECITED, LISTEN TO IT ATTENTIVELY
AND HOLD YOUR PEACE THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE MERCY

205  AND REMEMBER YOUR LORD WITH HUMILITY
AND IN TRUE REVERENCE AND NOT NOISILY 
MORNING AND EVENING AND TAKE HEED

206  THOSE WHO ARE NEAR TO GOD, DO NOT REFUSE TO PRAISE HIM
THEY CELEBRATE HIS PRAISES AND BOW DOWN BEFORE HIM

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING THINGS TAKEN AS SPOILS OF WAR 
SAY, SUCH SPOILS ARE AT THE DISPOSAL OF GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
SO KEEP STRAIGHT YOUR RELATIONS AND FEAR YOUR MAKER
AND OBEY GOD AND HIS APOSTLE IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER  

2  BELIEVERS ARE THOSE WHO WHEN THEY HEAR GOD MENTIONED
FEEL IN THEIR HEARTS A TREMBLING SENSATION 
WHEN THEY HEAR HIS WORDS MENTIONED 
THEY FIND THEIR FAITH STRENGTHENED 
AND THEIR LORD IS WHOM THEY PUT ALL THEIR TRUST IN

3  THOSE WHO KEEP UP PRAYERS REGULARLY 
AND SPEND OUT OF WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN THEM FREELY

4  THESE ARE THE BELIEVERS TRULY
THEY HAVE WITH THEIR LORD GRADES OF DIGNITY  
AND THEY WILL INDEED BE REWARDED GENEROUSLY 

5  YOUR LORD SENT YOU FORTH FROM YOUR HOUSE WITH TRUTH 
ALTHOUGH A PARTY OF THE BELIEVERS DISPUTED WITH YOU

6  DISPUTING ABOUT THE TRUTH AFTER THE MANIFESTATION OF IT
AS IF THEY WERE BEING DRIVEN TO DEATH WHILE THEY SAW IT

7  GOD PROMISED YOU ONE OF THE ENEMY PARTIES SHOULD BE YOURS 
AND YOU WISHED THAT THE ONES UNARMED SHOULD BE YOURS 

BUT GOD WILLED TO ACCORDING TO HIS WORDS TO JUSTIFY TRUTH 
AND TO CUT OFF THE DISBELIEVERS AT THE ROOTS 

8  THAT HE MIGHT PROVE FALSEHOOD TO BE FALSE AND JUSTIFY TRUTH
DISTASTEFUL THOUGH IT BE TO THE GUILTY AMONG YOU

9  REMEMBER YOU IMPLORED 
THE ASSISTANCE OF YOUR LORD 

AND HE ANSWERED YOU SAYING, I WILL ASSIST YOU 
WITH A THOUSAND ANGELS IN RANKS TO HELP YOU

10  IT WAS A MESSAGE OF HOPE AND AN ASSURANCE FROM GOD
IN ANY CASE THERE IS NO HELP EXCEPT FROM GOD
EXALTED IN POWER AND ALL WISE IS GOD

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CHAPTER 8.  THE SPOILS OF WAR                                                  SECTION 2.  PART IX

11  AND REMEMBER HE COVERED YOU 
WITH DROWSINESS TO GIVE PEACE TO YOU 
HE CAUSED TO DESCEND FROM HEAVEN ON YOU 
RAIN TO CLEANSE YOU AND TO REMOVE FROM YOU 
SATAN'S STAIN AND TO STRENGTHEN THE HEARTS OF YOU
AND TO PLANT YOUR FEET FIRMLY UNDER YOU

12  YOUR LORD INSPIRED THE ANGELS WITH THESE MESSAGES
I AM WITH YOU SO GIVE TO THE BELIEVERS FIRMNESS

FOR I WILL INSTILL HORROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE DISBELIEVERS 
AND SMITE THEM ABOVE THEIR NECKS AND SMITE THEIR FINGERS

13  BECAUSE THEY CONTENDED AGAINST GOD AND HIS APOSTLE
AND IF ANY DO CONTEND AGAINST GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
GOD IS STRICT IN PUNISHMENT AND SEVERE IN REQUITAL

14  SO WILL IT BE SAID, TASTE THEN OF THE PUNISHMENT 
FOR THOSE WHO RESIST GOD THE FIRE IS THEIR PUNISHMENT

15  YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
WHEN YOU MEET THE DISBELIEVERS 
NEVER TURN YOUR BACKS TO THEM EVER

16  IF ANY DO TURN HIS BACK TO THEM 
UNLESS IT BE IN A WAR STRATAGEM 

OR TO RETREAT TO A TROOP OF HIS OWN COMPANY
HE DRAWS ON HIMSELF GOD'S FURY

AND HIS ABODE IS HELL 
AN EVIL PLACE TO DWELL

17  IT IS NOT YOU WHO SLEW THEM IT WAS GOD 
YOU THREW A HANDFUL OF DUST, IT WAS NOT YOUR ACT BUT GOD'S 
SO THAT THE BELIEVERS MAY BE TESTED BY A TRIAL FROM GOD 
FOR ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS IS GOD

18  THAT, AND ALSO BECAUSE GOD IS HE 
WHO MAKES FEEBLE THE PLANS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

19  IF YOU PRAYED FOR VICTORY AND JUDGMENT 
NOW HAS MOST ASSUREDLY COME TO YOU THE JUDGMENT 
IF YOU DESIST FROM WRONG IT WILL BE FOR YOUR BETTERMENT 

IF YOU RETURN TO THE ATTACK THEN INDEED SO WILL WE 
NOT THE LEAST GOOD TO YOU WILL YOUR FORCES BE 
EVEN IF THEY WERE MULTIPLIED GREATLY
FOR GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE

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20  OH YOU BELIEVERS
OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND TURN NOT AWAY WHEN YOU HEAR 
HIM SPEAK THE MESSAGE HE HAS TO DELIVER

21  AND DO NOT
BE LIKE THOSE WHO SAY, WE HEAR BUT LISTEN NOT

22  IN THE SIGHT OF GOD THE WORST CREATURES LIVING
ARE THE DEAF AND THE DUMB, WITH NO UNDERSTANDING

23  IF GOD HAD FOUND IN THEM ANY GOOD INDEED
HE WOULD HAVE MADE THEM ALL TAKE HEED

IF HE HAD MADE THEM LISTEN TO HIS MESSAGES
THEY WOULD HAVE REJECTED THE MESSAGES

24  OH YOU BELIEVERS
GIVE YOUR RESPONSE TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
WHEN HE CALLS YOU TO WHAT GIVES YOU LIFE AND VIGOR 
GOD COMES IN BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS HEART 
AND TO HIM YOU WILL ALL BE GATHERED  

25  AND FEAR TUMULT OR OPPRESSION WHICH AFFECTS NOT ONLY 
THOSE WHO DO WRONG AND KNOW THAT GOD IS STRICT IN PENALTY 

26  CALL TO MIND WHEN YOU WERE A SMALL BAND 
DESPISED AND OPPRESSED THROUGH THE LAND

AFRAID THAT MEN MIGHT DESPOIL AND KIDNAP YOU 
BUT HE PROVIDED A SAFE ASYLUM FOR YOU 
AND ALSO WITH HIS AID HE STRENGTHENED YOU 
AND GAVE GOOD THINGS FOR SUSTENANCE TO YOU 
IN ORDER THAT GRATITUDE MIGHT BE SHOWN BY YOU

27  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, BETRAY NOT GOD'S TRUST 
OR THE APOSTLE, NOR MISAPPROPRIATE THE TRUST
OF THINGS THAT ARE GIVEN INTO YOUR TRUST

28  YOUR CHILDREN AND THE POSSESSIONS YOU HOARD
ARE BUT A TRIAL FOR YOU AND WITH YOUR LORD
IS WITH WHOM LIES YOUR HIGHEST REWARD

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29  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, IF YOU FEAR GOD
YOU WILL BE GIVEN A CRITERION BY GOD 

TO JUDGE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG AND REMOVE FROM YOU 
ALL OF THE EVIL THAT MAY AFFLICT YOU AND FORGIVE YOU 
FOR GOD IS THE LORD OF GRACE UNBOUNDED TO YOU

30  REMEMBER HOW THE DISBELIEVERS PLOTTED AGAINST YOU 
TO KEEP YOU IN BONDS OR TO SLAY YOU 

OR GET YOU OUT OF YOUR HOME, AND THEY PLOT AND PLAN
AND GOD ALSO PLANS AND IS THE BEST OF THOSE WHO PLAN

31  WHEN OUR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM THEY SAY 
WE HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE, THE SAME WE COULD SAY 
THESE ARE ONLY TALES OF THE ANCIENTS ANYWAY

32  REMEMBER HOW THEY SAID, OH GOD, IF TO US 
THIS IS INDEED THE TRUTH FROM YOU, RAIN DOWN ON US 
A SHOWER OF STONES FROM THE SKY OR SEND A PENALTY ON US 
 
33  BUT GOD WAS NOT GOING TO SEND THEM 
A PENALTY WHILE YOU WERE AMONG THEM 

NOR WAS HE GOING TO SEND IT 
WHILE THEY COULD ASK FOR PARDON FROM IT

34  BUT WHAT REASON SHOULD GOD NOT PUNISH THEM
WHEN MEN ARE KEPT OUT OF THE SACRED MOSQUE BY THEM?

AND THEY ARE NOT ITS GUARDIANS 
NO MEN CAN BE ITS GUARDIANS 

EXCEPT THE RIGHTEOUS IN THE LAND
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT UNDERSTAND

35  THEIR PRAYER AT THE HOUSE OF GOD IS NOTHING 
BUT WHISTLING AND HAND CLAPPING 
 
THEREFORE TASTE THE PENALTY 
BECAUSE OF YOUR BLASPHEMY

36  THE DISBELIEVERS SPEND THEIR WEALTH TO HINDER MEN 
FROM THE PATH OF GOD SO THEY CONTINUE TO SPEND 
BUT THEY WILL HAVE ONLY REGRETS IN THE END

AT LENGTH THEY WILL BE OVERCOME AND THE DISBELIEVERS 
WILL BE GATHERED AND THROWN INTO HELL ALL TOGETHER 

37  SO THAT GOD MAY SEPARATE THE IMPURE FROM THE PURE
AND PUT THE IMPURE ON ONE ANOTHER
AND HEAP THEM ALL TOGETHER 
AND CAST THEM INTO HELL AND THEY WILL BE THE LOSERS

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38  SAY TO THE  DISBELIEVERS, IF FROM UNBELIEF THEY DESIST 
THEIR PAST WILL BE FORGIVEN, BUT IF THEY PERSIST 

THE PUNISHMENT OF THOSE BEFORE THEM 
IS ALREADY A MATTER OF WARNING FOR THEM

39  FIGHT THEM UNTIL THERE IS NO MORE PERSECUTION 
AND JUSTICE PREVAILS AND GOD'S RELIGION 
BUT IF THEY CEASE GOD IS THE SEER AND THE PATRON 

40  IF THEY REFUSE KNOW THAT GOD IS YOUR PROTECTOR 
THE BEST PROTECTOR AND THE BEST HELPER

PART  X

41  KNOW THAT OF ALL THAT YOU MAY ACQUIRE IN WAR 
A FIFTH SHARE IS ASSIGNED TO GOD AND TO THE MESSENGER
AND TO RELATIVES, ORPHANS, THE NEEDY AND THE WAYFARER 
IF YOU DO BELIEVE IN GOD AND IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE SCRIPTURE 

WE SENT DOWN TO OUR SERVANT ON THE DAY OF TESTING 
ON THE DAY OF THE TWO FORCES MEETING 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

42  REMEMBER YOU WERE ON THE NEAR SIDE OF THE VALLEY
AND THEY WERE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE VALLEY

AND THE CARAVAN ON LOWER GROUND THAN YOU 
IF YOU HAD MADE AN APPOINTMENT BETWEEN YOU
THE APPOINTMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN FAILED BY YOU

BUT YOU MET THAT GOD MIGHT ACCOMPLISH A MATTER 
ALREADY ENACTED, THAT THOSE WHO DIED MIGHT DIE AFTER 
A CLEAR SIGN HAD BEEN GIVEN AND THOSE WHO LIVED AFTER 
MIGHT LIVE AFTER SIGNS HAD TO THEM BEEN MADE CLEAR 
AND GOD IS THE HEARER AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

43  GOD SHOWED THEM TO YOU IN YOUR DREAM AS FEW
AND IF HE HAD SHOWN THEM AS MANY TO YOU 
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DISCOURAGING TO YOU
YOU WOULD HAVE DISPUTED BUT GOD SAVED YOU
FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE  HEARTS OF YOU

44  HE SHOWED THEM TO YOU AS FEW IN YOUR EYES
AND HE MADE YOU APPEAR AS CONTEMPTIBLE IN THEIR EYES
SO THAT GOD MIGHT ACCOMPLISH A MATTER THAT HE DID DECIDE
FOR TO GOD DO ALL QUESTIONS GO BACK TO DECIDE

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45  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WHEN YOU MEET A FORCE BE FIRM AND REMEMBER 
YOUR LORD MUCH AND OFTEN THAT YOU MAY PROSPER 

46  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS, OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND FALL INTO NO DISPUTES OR YOU WILL LOSE YOUR POWER 
AND BE PATIENT AND CONSTANT AND PERSEVERE 
FOR GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO PERSEVERE

47  BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO STARTED FROM WHERE
THEY DWELL TO BE SEEN OF MEN AND TO HINDER 
MEN FROM THE PATH OF THE CREATOR
FOR ALL THAT THEY DO IS ENCOMPASSED BY THEIR MAKER

48  REMEMBER SATAN MADE THEIR ACTS OF SIN TO SEEM FAIR 
AND SAID, NO ONE CAN OVERCOME YOU WHILE I AM NEAR 
WHEN THE TWO FORCES CAME IN SIGHT OF EACH OTHER
SATAN TURNED BACK AND SAID, OF YOU I AM CLEAR  
I SEE WHAT YOU SEE NOT, IT IS GOD THAT I FEAR 
FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF GOD IS SEVERE

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49  HYPOCRITES SAY AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
THESE PEOPLE THEIR RELIGION HAS MISLEAD THEM INDEED                                   
IF ANY TRUST IN GOD HE IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

50  IF YOU COULD SEE THE ANGELS TAKING
THE SOULS OF THE DISBELIEVERS AT DEATH AND STRIKING 
THEIR FACES AND THEIR BACKS AND SAYING 
TASTE THE PENALTY OF BURNING

51  BECAUSE OF THE DEEDS WHICH YOUR OWN HANDS HAVE SENT 
FOR GOD IS NEVER UNJUST TO HIS SERVANTS

52  AFTER THE MANNER OF THE PEOPLE 
OF PHARAOH AND OF THE PRIOR PEOPLE 

THEY REJECTED THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AND WERE PUNISHED FOR THEIR CRIMES BY GOD
SURELY STRONG AND STRICT IN PUNISHMENT IS GOD

53  THIS IS BECAUSE GOD WILL NEVER CHANGE  THE CONDITION
OF A PEOPLE UNTIL THEY CHANGE THEIR OWN CONDITION
AND HE IS THE ALL HEARING, THE ALL KNOWING ONE

54  GOD'S MESSAGES WERE TREATED AS FALSE BY PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
AND BY THOSE BEFORE HIM SO WE DESTROYED THOSE PEOPLE
AND WE DROWNED ALL OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
FOR THEY WERE ALL OPPRESSIVE AND EVIL

55  FOR THE WORST OF BEASTS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD 
ARE THOSE WHO REJECT HIM AND WILL NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

56  THEY ARE THOSE WITH WHOM YOU MADE A COVENANT 
BUT THEN EVERY TIME THEY BROKE THEIR COVENANT 
AND THEY HAVE NO FEAR OF GOD'S PUNISHMENT 

57  IF YOU GAIN MASTERY OVER THEM DISPERSE WITH THEM 
THAT THOSE WHO FOLLOW THEM MAY REMEMBER THEM

58  IF FROM ANY GROUP YOU FEAR TREACHERY  
THROW BACK THEIR COVENANT TO THEM SO AS TO BE 
ON EQUAL TERMS, FOR SURELY GOD LOVES NOT TREACHERY

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59  LET NOT DISBELIEVERS THINK THAT THEY CAN GET THE BEST OF US 
THEY WILL NOT ESCAPE PUNISHMENT FROM US

60  MAKE READY YOUR STRENGTH TO THE UTMOST OF YOUR POWER
TO ATTACK THEM INCLUDING STEEDS OF WAR
TO INTO THE HEARTS OF GOD'S ENEMIES STRIKE TERROR
AND OTHERS WHO YOU KNOW NOT, BUT GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER
AND WHATEVER YOU SPEND IN THE CAUSE OF THE CREATOR
WILL BE REPAID AND YOU WILL NOT BE TREATED UNFAIR 

61  BUT IF THE ENEMY INCLINES TOWARDS PEACE 
THEN YOU ALSO INCLINE TOWARDS PEACE 
AND TRUST IN GOD COMPLETELY
FOR HE HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS SURELY

62  SHOULD THEY INTEND TO DECEIVE YOU
THEN SURELY GOD SUFFICES YOU 
AND WITH HIS AID HAS STRENGTHENED YOU 
AND WITH THE COMPANY OF THE BELIEVERS TOO

63  HE HAS PUT IN THEIR HEARTS AFFECTION  
IF YOU HAD SPENT ALL THAT IS IN EARTH AND HEAVEN
STILL YOU COULD NOT PRODUCE THAT AFFECTION
BUT GOD HAS DONE IT FOR HE IS FULL OF POWER AND WISDOM

64  GOD IS SUFFICIENT TO YOU, OH MESSENGER
AND TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW YOU AMONG THE BELIEVERS

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65  OH APOSTLE, URGE FIGHTING TO THE BELIEVERS 
IF THERE ARE TWENTY PATIENT AND PERSEVERING BELIEVERS
THEY WILL VANQUISH TWO HUNDRED DISBELIEVERS
IF A HUNDRED THEY WILL VANQUISH A THOUSAND DISBELIEVERS
FOR NO UNDERSTANDING HAVE THE DISBELIEVERS

66  FOR THE PRESENT GOD HAS LIGHTENED YOUR TASK FOR YOU 
FOR HE KNOWS THAT THERE IS A WEAK SPOT IN YOU 
BUT EVEN SO IF THERE ARE A HUNDRED OF YOU

WHO ARE PERSEVERING WILL VANQUISH TWO HUNDRED DISBELIEVERS
OR A THOUSAND OF YOU WILL VANQUISH TWO THOUSAND DISBELIEVERS 

WITH THE HELP OF ALL MIGHTY GOD 
FOR THOSE WHO PERSEVERE ARE HELPED BY GOD

67  IT IS NOT FIT FOR A MESSENGER 
THAT HE SHOULD HAVE WAR PRISONERS  
UNTIL HE HAS SUBDUED THE LAND ALL TOGETHER
BUT THE GOODS OF THIS WORLD IS WHAT YOU DESIRE
BUT YOUR LORD DESIRES FOR YOU THE HEREAFTER 
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

68  HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A PREVIOUS ORDAINMENT FOR YOU
A SEVERE PUNISHMENT WOULD HAVE REACHED YOU 
FOR THE RANSOM THAT WAS TAKEN BY YOU

69  BUT NOW ENJOY WHAT YOU TOOK IN WAR GOOD AND LAWFUL
BUT FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL

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70  OH APOSTLE, SAY TO THE CAPTIVES IN THE HANDS OF YOU
THAT IF GOD FINDS THAT THERE IS ANY GOOD IN YOU 
HE WILL GIVE YOU BETTER THAN WHAT HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM YOU 
AND HE WILL FORGIVE YOU FOR GOD IS FORGIVING TO YOU

71  BUT IF THEY HAVE AGAINST YOU DESIGNS OF TREACHERY
THEY HAVE BEEN IN TREASON AGAINST GOD ALREADY 
AND HE HAS GIVEN YOU POWER OVER THEM SURELY
AND GOD IS FULL KNOWLEDGE AND ALL MIGHTY

72  THE BELIEVERS WHO ADOPTED EXILE AND FOUGHT FOR RELIGION
IN GOD'S CAUSE WITH THEIR PROPERTY AND THEIR PERSONS 
AS WELL AS THOSE WHO GAVE THEM ASYLUM 
THESE ARE ALL FRIENDS AND GIVE EACH OTHER PROTECTION 
TO BELIEVERS THAT CAME NOT INTO EXILE YOU OWE NO PROTECTION 
UNTIL THEY COME INTO EXILE, IF THEY SEEK YOUR AID IN RELIGION
THEN FOR YOU TO HELP THEM IS YOUR OBLIGATION
EXCEPT PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU HAVE A PEACEFUL ASSOCIATION
AND REMEMBER THAT GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

73  THE DISBELIEVERS GIVE EACH OTHER PROTECTION
UNLESS YOU GIVE EACH OTHER PROTECTION 
ON EARTH THERE WOULD BE PERSECUTION AND OPPRESSION 
AND GREAT MISCHIEF AND CORRUPTION

74  THOSE BELIEVERS WHO ADOPT EXILE AND WHO FIGHT FOR RELIGION 
IN GOD'S CAUSE, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO GIVE THEM ASYLUM
THESE ARE ALL TRUE RIGHTEOUS ONES IN RELIGION
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GENEROUS PROVISION

75  THOSE WHO ADOPT EXILE AND ACCEPT FAITH AFTER
AND FOR THE FAITH THEY ARE FIGHTERS
THEY ARE OF YOU BUT BLOOD KIN HAVE PRIOR 
RIGHTS AGAINST EACH OTHER IN THE BOOK OF THE CREATOR 
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                  SECTION 1.  PART X

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                  SECTION 2.  PART X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                   SECTION 3.  PART X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                   SECTION 4.  PART X

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                   SECTION 5.  PART X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                   SECTION 6.  PART X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                   SECTION 7.  PART X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

77  SO HE HAS CONSEQUENTLY
PUT INTO THEIR HEARTS HYPOCRISY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                SECTION 12.  PART X

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

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

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

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

PART XI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                              SECTION 13 (CONT'D). PART XI

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                               SECTION 14.  PART XI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                              SECTION 15.  PART XI

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                               SECTION 16.  PART XI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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