CHAPTER 1.  THE OPENING                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART I

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

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

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

3  WE SERVE YOU ALONE
WE SEEK HELP FROM YOU ALONE

4  SHOW US THE STRAIGHT WAY 

5  THE WAY OF THOSE ON WHOM YOU HAVE BESTOWED GRACE 

6  NOT THE WAY OF THOSE WHO REJECT THE RIGHT WAY

7  NOR THE WAY OF THOSE WHO GO ASTRAY 

CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 1.  PART I

                                                                                                   
IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, THE CREATOR
AM THE BEST KNOWER

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

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

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

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

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

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

     

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 2.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 3.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 4.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 5.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 6.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 7.  PART I

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 8.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                            SECTION 9.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                              SECTION 10.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 11.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 12.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                         SECTION 13.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 14.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 15.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 2.  THE COW                                                                          SECTION 16.  PART I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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