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PART IV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SECTION  13

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

131  AND FEAR THE FIRE 
WHICH IS PREPARED FOR THE DISBELIEVERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART IV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

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

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

2  TO ORPHANS RESTORE THEIR PROPERTY 
UPON THEIR REACHING MATURITY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                   SECTION 2.  PART IV 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 3.  PART IV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

22  AND DO NOT MARRY 
WOMEN WHOM YOUR FATHERS MARRIED 

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 4.  PART IV

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

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