CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 4.  PART IV

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

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

PART V

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 5.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 6.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 7.  PART V

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

NOR AFTER SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
EXCEPT WHEN TRAVELING ON A GIVEN COURSE 

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

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

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

FOR GOD DOES BLOT OUT SINS
AND FORGIVES AGAIN AND AGAIN 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                   SECTION 8.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                    SECTION 9.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

68  AND WE WOULD HAVE SHOWN THE STRAIGHT WAY TO THEM 

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

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

AND THE RIGHTEOUS WHO DO GOOD 
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BROTHERHOOD

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 10.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 11.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 SECTION  12

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 13.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 14.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 15.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 16.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 17.  PART V

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 18.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 19.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 20.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 21.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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