CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                  SECTION 21.  PART V

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

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

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

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

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

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

PART VI

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 22.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 23.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 4.  THE WOMEN                                                                 SECTION 24.  PART VI

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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