CHAPTER 58.  THE WOMAN WHO PLEADS                           SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

PART  XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  GOD HAS HEARD THE PLEA OF HER
WHO PLEADS WITH YOU IN HER HUSBAND'S MATTER
AND SHE CARRIES HER COMPLAINT TO GOD IN PRAYER 
GOD HEARS BOTH ARGUMENTS FOR GOD DOES HEAR 
AND OF ALL THINGS HE IS THE SEER

2  IF ANY MEN DIVORCE THEIR MARITAL PARTNERS
BY SAYING TO THEM, YOU ARE LIKE MY MOTHER 
THEY CANNOT BE THEIR MOTHERS 
AND NONE CAN BE THEIR MOTHERS 
EXCEPT THOSE WHO GAVE THEM BIRTH
AND IN FACT THEY USE WORDS IN ERROR 
BUT GOD DOES FORGIVE TRANSGRESSORS
FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

3  THOSE WHO DIVORCE WIVES BY SAYING, YOU ARE LIKE MY MOTHER 
THEN THEY WISH TO GO BACK ON THE WORDS THEY UTTERED 
MUST FREE A SLAVE BEFORE THEY TOUCH EACH OTHER 
AND TO PERFORM THIS YOU ARE ORDERED
FOR OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

4  AND IF ANY HAS NOT THE ABILITY
THEN HE SHOULD FAST FOR TWO MONTHS CONSECUTIVELY 
BEFORE THEY TOUCH EACH OTHER SUBSEQUENTLY
BUT IF ANY IS UNABLE THEN SHOULD FEED SIXTY 
INDIGENT ONES SO THAT YOU MAY SHOW YOUR PIETY 
TO GOD AND HIS APOSTLE AND THIS IS GOD'S PERIPHERY  
FOR THOSE WHO REJECT HIM IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

5  THOSE WHO RESIST GOD AND HIS MESSENGER  
WILL BE HUMBLED TO DUST AS THOSE BEFORE THEM WERE
FOR WE HAVE SENT DOWN CLEAR SIGNS TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
THAT THEIR PUNISHMENT WILL BE SEVERE

6  ON THE DAY THAT GOD WILL RAISE THEM ALL UP AGAIN
AND SHOW THEM THE TRUTH OF THEIR ACTIONS
AND THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS RECKONED 
ALTHOUGH THEY MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN  
FOR GOD IS THE WITNESSES OVER ALL CREATION

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CHAPTER 58.  THE WOMAN WHO PLEADS                          SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

7  GOD KNOWS ALL IN HEAVEN AND EARTH INDEED 
THERE IS NOT A SECRET CONSULTATION BETWEEN THREE
BUT HE MAKES THE FOURTH NOR BETWEEN FIVE BUT HE 
MAKES THE SIXTH NOR BETWEEN FEWER THAN THESE
OR BETWEEN MORE THAN THESE
BUT HE IS IN THEIR MIDST WHEREVER THEY MAY BE 
IN THE END ON JUDGMENT DAY HE WILL SURELY
TELL THEM WHAT THEY DID, FOR ALL KNOWLEDGE HAS HE

8  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION
TOWARDS THOSE WHO WERE FORBIDDEN SECRET CONSULTATIONS
AND YET THEY REVERT TO WHAT THEY WERE FORBIDDEN? 
AND YET THEY STILL HOLD SECRET CONSULTATIONS 
AMONG THEMSELVES FOR TRANSGRESSIONS 
FOR DISOBEDIENCE TO THE APOSTLE AND REBELLION
WHEN THEY COME TO YOU THEY GIVE YOU SALUTATIONS
NOT AS GOD GIVES YOU SALUTATIONS 
BUT IN CROOKED WAYS AND TO THEMSELVES THEY MENTION 
WHY DOES NOT GOD GIVE US A PENALIZATION? 
BUT FOR THEM HELL IS A SUFFICIENT PROVISION
IN IT THEY WILL BURN AND IT IS AN EVIL DESTINATION

9  THOSE OF YOU WHO BELIEVE SINCERELY 
WHEN YOU HOLD COUNSEL SECRETLY
DO IT NOT FOR INIQUITY 
AND DISOBEDIENCE TO THE PROPHET OR HOSTILITY
DO IT FOR GOODNESS AND OBSERVANCE OF DUTY
AND FEAR GOD TO WHOM IS YOUR FINAL DESTINY

10  SECRET COUNSELS ARE INSPIRED BY THE DEVIL  
SO HE MAY CAUSE GRIEF TO BELIEVING PEOPLE
 
BUT HE CANNOT HARM THEM EXCEPT AS GOD ORDERS  
AND IN GOD LET BE THE TRUST OF THE BELIEVERS 

11  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
WHEN YOU ARE TOLD TO MAKE ROOM IN THE ASSEMBLIES 
MAKE ROOM AND GOD WILL PROVIDE ROOM FOR YOU AMPLY
AND WHEN YOU ARE TOLD TO RISE UP, GOD WILL SURELY
RAISE YOU UP IN RANKS AND DEGREES
THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE AMONG YOU WHO BELIEVE 
AND SURELY GOD KNOWS ALL OF YOUR DEEDS 

12  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
WHEN YOU CONSULT THE APOSTLE PRIVATELY  
SPEND SOMETHING IN CHARITY 
BEFORE YOU CONSULT WITH HIM PRIVATELY  
THAT WILL BE MOST CONDUCIVE TO PURITY 
BUT IF YOU FIND NOT THE MEANS IMMEDIATELY
GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

13  IS IT THAT YOU ARE AFRAID OF SPENDING SUMS IN CHARITY 
BEFORE CONSULTING WITH HIM PRIVATELY? 
IF THEN YOU DO NOT SO AND GOD GIVES YOU MERCY 
THEN AT LEAST ESTABLISH PRAYER REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE SINCERELY
AND GOD KNOWS ALL OF YOUR DEEDS SURELY

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CHAPTER 58.  THE WOMAN WHO PLEADS                          SECTION 3.  PART XXVIII

14  HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THOSE WHO TAKE FOR PARTNERS
PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE WRATH OF THE CREATOR?
THEY ARE NOT OF YOU NOR ARE YOU OF THEM EITHER
AND THEY SWEAR KNOWING THEY ARE IN ERROR

15  GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THEM A SEVERE PENALTY
AND EVIL INDEED ARE THEIR DEEDS

16  AND THEY HAVE MADE THEIR OATHS TO BE A SHIELD
SO THEY OBSTRUCT MEN FROM DOING GOD'S WILL
AND THEY WILL HAVE A PENALTY OF EVIL

17  OF NO PROFIT TO THEM AGAINST THE CREATOR
WILL BE THEIR RICHES NOR THEIR SONS EITHER
THEIR DWELLING PLACE WILL BE THE FIRE

18  GOD WILL RAISE THEM ALL UP ONE DAY
THEY WILL SWEAR TO YOU AS TO HIM WILL THEY 
AND THEY THINK THAT THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY 
NO INDEED, BUT LIARS ARE THEY

19  THEY HAVE BEEN MASTERED BY THE DEVIL 
SO HE HAS MADE THEM FORGET DOING GOD'S WILL
AND THEY ARE NOW THE PARTY OF THE DEVIL
AND THE PARTY OF THE DEVIL WILL PERISH IN HELL

20  THOSE WHO RESIST GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
WILL BE AMONG THOSE WHO WILL BE HUMBLED

21  GOD HAS DECREED
I AND MY APOSTLES WILL SUCCEED
FOR GOD IS STRONG AND ALL MIGHTY INDEED

22  YOU WILL NOT FIND ANY PEOPLE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
LOVING ANY WHO RESIST GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
EVEN IF THEY ARE THEIR SONS OR THEIR FATHERS
OR THEIR KINDRED OR THEIR BROTHERS 

FOR HE HAS PUT FAITH IN THE HEARTS OF THEM
AND WITH HIS SPIRIT HAS STRENGTHENED THEM
AND HE WILL SURELY ADMIT THEM 
TO GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH THEM
AND THEY WILL FOREVER DWELL IN THEM  
THEY WILL BE PLEASED WITH GOD AND HE WITH THEM
AND THEY ARE GOD'S PARTY AND SUCCESS IS ASSURED THEM

 

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CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN HEAVEN EARTH GLORIFIES  
GOD, FOR HE IS MIGHTY AND WISE

2  IT IS HE WHO GOT OUT THE DISBELIEVERS 
FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
FROM THEIR HOMES IN THE BANISHMENT PRIOR
THAT THEY WOULD GET OUT YOU DID NOT CONSIDER 
THEY THOUGHT THAT THEIR BARRIERS
WOULD DEFEND THEM FROM THE CREATOR
BUT GOD'S WRATH CAME TO THEM FROM QUARTERS 
FROM WHICH THEY DID NOT CONSIDER
AND INTO THEIR HEARTS CAST TERROR 
AND THEIR DWELLINGS THEY SHATTERED 
BY THEIR OWN HANDS AND THE BELIEVERS  
SO WITH YOUR EYES OBSERVE AND CONSIDER

3  AND HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT GOD HAD ORDERED 
BANISHMENT FOR THEM HE WOULD HAVE FOR SURE 
PUNISHED THEM IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
THEY WILL CERTAINLY HAVE THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FIRE

4  THAT IS BECAUSE THEY RESISTED GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IF ANY ONE RESISTS THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER 
GOD'S PUNISHMENT IS STRICT AND SEVERE

5  WHETHER YOU CUT THE TENDER PALM TREES ASUNDER
OR LEFT THEM STANDING ON THEIR ROOTS IT WAS BY GOD'S ORDER
THAT WITH SHAME HE MIGHT COVER THE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS

6  WHAT GOD HAS FROM THEM BESTOWED ON HIS MESSENGER
FOR THIS YOU MADE NO EXPEDITION WITH EITHER 
CAVALRY OR INFANTRY BUT GOD GIVES POWER 
TO HIS MESSENGERS OVER ANY HE DESIRES
AND OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER

7  AND WHAT GOD HAS BESTOWED ON HIS MESSENGER
AND TAKEN AWAY FROM THE TOWN'S DWELLERS 
BELONGS TO GOD AND TO HIS MESSENGER
AND KINDRED AND ORPHANS, THE NEEDY AND WAYFARERS
IN ORDER THAT IT MAY NOT MERELY MAKE A CIRCULAR
BETWEEN THOSE AMONG YOU WHO ARE RICHER 
SO TAKE WHAT IS ASSIGNED TO YOU BY THE MESSENGER 
AND DENY YOURSELVES THAT OF WHICH HE DETERS
AND FEAR GOD FOR HIS PUNISHMENT IS SEVERE

      

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 CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                               SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXVIII

8  SOME PART IS DUE TO THE INDIGENT MIGRATORS
WHO WERE EXPELLED FROM WHERE THEY WERE DWELLERS
WHILE SEEKING GOD'S GRACE  AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
AND AIDING THE CREATOR AND HIS MESSENGER
THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE SINCERE 

9  THOSE WHO HAD HOMES IN THE CITY
AND WHO ADOPTED THE FAITH FORMERLY
LOVE THOSE WHO CAME TO THEM FOR SECURITY 
AND IN THEIR HEARTS FOR THEIR THINGS HAVE NO NEED  
BUT PREFER THEM OVER THEMSELVES THOUGH IN POVERTY
AND WHOEVER IS SAVED FROM BEING MISERLY
THEY WILL SURELY ACHIEVE PROSPERITY

10  AND THOSE WHO CAME AFTER 
SAY, OUR LORD, FORGIVE US AND OUR BROTHERS 
WHO CAME BEFORE US AS BELIEVERS
AND LEAVE NOT IN OUR HEARTS ANY RANCOR
OR SENSE OF INJURY AGAINST THE BELIEVERS 
YOU ARE INDEED THE MERCIFUL FORGIVER

 

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CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                                                 SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

11  HAVE YOU NOT BEEN AN OBSERVER 
OF THE HYPOCRITES SAYING TO THEIR DISBELIEVING BROTHERS 
AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES  
IF YOU ARE EXPELLED WE WILL GO OUT WITH YOU TOGETHER 
WE WILL NEVER LISTEN TO ANYONE IN YOUR AFFAIR
AND IF YOU ARE ATTACKED WE WILL BE YOUR HELPERS 
BUT GOD IS THE WITNESS THAT THEY ARE LIARS

12  IF THEY ARE EXPELLED NEVER WILL THEY GO OUT WITH THEM 
AND IF THEY ARE ATTACKED THEY WILL NEVER HELP THEM 
BUT THEY WILL SURELY TURN THEIR BACKS TO THEM
SO THEY WILL RECEIVE NO HELP FROM THEM 

13  SURELY YOU ARE STRONGER 
THAN THEY BECAUSE OF THE TERROR 
IN THEIR HEARTS SENT BY THE CREATOR
FOR THEY ARE MEN COMPLETELY IN ERROR

14  THEY WILL NOT FIGHT YOU EVEN AS A BODY TOGETHER 
EXCEPT IN FORTIFIED CITIES OR FROM BEHIND BARRIERS
THEIR FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES IS SEVERE  
YOU WOULD THINK THEY WERE TOGETHER 
BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE DIVIDED AGAINST EACH OTHER
AND THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLETELY IN ERROR

15  LIKE THOSE WHO PRECEEDED THEM LATELY 
HAVE TASTED THE EVIL RESULT OF THEIR ACTIVITY
AND IN THE HEREAFTER THERE IS FOR THEM A PENALTY

16  LIKE THE DEVIL WHEN HE SAYS TO MEN, DENY GOD 
BUT WHEN MAN OBEYS THE DEVIL AND DENIES GOD 
THE DEVIL SAYS, I AM FREE OF YOU, I FEAR GOD 

17  THE END OF THEM WILL BE THAT THEY WILL GO INTO THE FIRE 
DWELLING IN IT AS A REWARD FOR THE WRONG-DOERS

 

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CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                                                 SECTION 3.  PART XXVIII

18  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FEAR GOD AND LET EVERY PERSON CONSIDER
WHAT PROVISIONS HE HAS SENT FORTH FOR THE FUTURE 
YES, FEAR GOD FOR GOD KNOWS ALL OF YOUR ENDEAVORS

19  AND BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO FORGOT THEIR CREATOR
AND HE MADE THEM FORGET THEIR OWN SOULS ALL TOGETHER
AND FURTHER THEY ARE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS

20  NOT EQUAL ARE THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 
AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN 
IT IS THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS THAT ACHIEVE SALVATION

21  HAD WE SENT DOWN THIS QURAN ON A MOUNTAIN
YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN IT CRUMBLE FOR CERTAIN 
THESE ARE THE PARABLES WE MAKE TO MEN
THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE ADMONITION

22  GOD IS HE BESIDES WHOM THERE IS NO OTHER DIETY
AND HE KNOWS ALL THINGS DONE OPENLY AND SECRETLY 
AND HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

23  AND GOD IS HE BESIDES WHOM THERE IS NO OTHER DEITY
THE SOVEREIGN, THE SOURCE OF PERFECTION AND PEACE
THE GUARDIAN OF FAITH, THE PRESERVER OF SAFETY 
THE IRRESISTIBLE, THE SUPREME, THE ALMIGHTY
GLORY TO GOD, HIGHLY EXALTED IS HE 
ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM INDEED

24  HE IS GOD, THE CREATOR, THE EVOLVER 
HE IS THE BESTOWER OF FORMS OR COLORS 
TO HIM BELONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF HONOR
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH DECLARE HIS POWER 
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

             

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CHAPTER 60.  THE WOMAN WHO IS EXAMINED                 SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TAKE NOT MY AND YOUR ENEMIES AS FRIENDS OR PROTECTORS
OFFERING THEM YOUR LOVE AND THEY ARE REJECTORS
AND THEY HAVE DRIVEN OUT YOU AND THE MESSENGER 
FROM YOUR HOMES SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ARE BELIEVERS
AND IF YOU HAVE COME OUT TO SEEK MY GOOD PLEASURE 
TAKE THEM NOT AS FRIENDS HOLDING SECRET CONVERSE 
OF LOVE WITH THEM FOR I KNOW ALL YOUR ENDEAVORS
OPEN AND SECRET AND ANY OF YOU WHO DO HAS FOR SURE 
STRAYED FROM THE WAY AND IS IN MANIFEST ERROR

2  IF THEY WERE TO GET THE BETTER OF YOU 
THEY WOULD SURELY BEHAVE AS ENEMIES TO YOU 
AND STRETCH FORTH THEIR HANDS AND TONGUES AGAINST YOU 
AND THEIR DESIRE IS THAT YOU SHOULD REJECT TRUTH AS THEY DO

3  NO PROFIT WILL YOUR RELATIVES AND YOUR CHILDREN BE TO YOU   
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND HE WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOU 
FOR GOD SEES WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

4   THERE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE IN ABRAHAM AND HIS FOLLOWERS 
WHEN HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE ,OF YOU WE ARE CLEAR 
AND OF WHATEVER YOU WORSHIP BESIDES THE CREATOR
AND WE HAVE REJECTED YOU AND THERE IS A BARRIER
BETWEEN US, AND ENMITY FOREVER
UNLESS YOU BELIEVE ALONE IN THE CREATOR 
BUT ABRAHAM SAID TO HIS FATHER
I WILL PRAY FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS THOUGH I HAVE NO POWER
TO GET ANYTHING ON YOUR BEHALF FROM YOUR MAKER 
THEY PRAYED, OH OUR LORD AND CHERISHER
IN YOU WE TRUST, FORGIVE US FOR OUR ERRORS 
AND TO YOU IS OUR FINAL GOAL IN THE HEREAFTER

5  OUR LORD MAKE US NOT A TRIAL FOR THOSE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY
BUT FORGIVE US, OUR LORD, FOR YOU ARE ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

6  THERE WAS IN THEM AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE 
FOR YOU TO FOLLOW AND FOR THOSE PEOPLE

WHOSE HOPE IS IN GOD AND IN THE LAST DAY 
BUT IF ANY OF THOSE AMONG YOU TURN AWAY 
GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE

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CHAPTER 60.  THE WOMAN WHO IS EXAMINED                 SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

7  IT MAY BE THAT GOD WILL POSSIBLY
GRANT LOVE BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR ENEMIES 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF POWER AND FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

8  GOD FORBIDS YOU NOT REGARDING
THOSE WHO ARE NOT GUILTY OF FIGHTING YOU FOR BELIEVING
AND FOR DRIVING YOU OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS
FROM ENGAGING WITH THEM IN JUST DEALING
GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN JUST DEALING

9  GOD ONLY FORBIDS YOU REGARDING
THOSE WHO ARE GUILTY OF FIGHTING YOU FOR BELIEVING
AND DRIVING YOU OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS
AND SUPPORTING OTHERS IN DRIVING YOU FROM YOUR DWELLINGS
FROM TURNING TO THEM, FOR THIS IS WRONG IN DOING 

10  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
WHEN THERE COME TO YOU REFUGEE WOMEN AS BELIEVERS
EXAMINE THEM AS TO THEIR BEING BELIEVERS
AND YOUR LORD IS THE BEST KNOWER  
IF YOU ASCERTAIN THAT THEY ARE BELIEVERS 
THEN SEND THEM NOT BACK TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
THEY ARE NOT LAWFUL WIVES FOR THE DISBELIEVERS 
NOR ARE THE DISBELIEVERS LAWFUL HUSBANDS FOR THEM EITHER
BUT PAY THE DISBELIEVERS WHAT THEY HAVE SPENT ON THEIR DOWERS 
AND THERE WILL BE NO BLAME ON YOU IF THEREAFTER 
YOU PAY THEM THEIR DOWERS IF YOU WED THEM AS PARTNERS
BUT HOLD NOT WOMEN TO THE GUARDIANSHIP OF DISBELIEVERS
AND ASK FOR WHAT YOU HAVE SPENT ON THEIR DOWERS 
LET THE DISBELIEVERS ASK FOR WHAT THEY SPENT ON THE DOWERS 
OF WOMEN WHO TO YOU COME OVER  
THIS IS BETWEEN YOU YOUR LORD'S ORDER 
AND GOD IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER

11  AND IF ANY OF YOUR WIVES DESERT TO THE DISBELIEVERS
AND YOU HAVE AN ACCESSION THEN PAY OVER
TO THOSE WHOSE WIVES ARE DESERTERS 
THE EQUIVALENT OF WHAT THEY HAD SPENT ON THEIR DOWERS 
AND FEAR GOD IN WHOM YOU ARE A BELIEVER

12  OH PROPHET, WHEN BELIEVING WOMEN COME TO YOU EARNESTLY
TO TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AND SINCERITY 
THAT THEY WILL WORSHIP THE ONE GOD ONLY
AND THAT THEY WILL NOT STEAL OR COMMIT ADULTERY
NOT KILL THEIR CHILDREN OR BRING A CALUMNY
UTTERING SLANDER AND ACTING FALSELY 
AND THAT THEY WILL NOT ACT DISOBEDIENTLY
THEN SHOULD YOU RECEIVE THEIR ALLEGIANCE SINCERELY
AND PRAY TO GOD FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS EARNESTLY
FOR GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY 

13  TURN NOT FOR FRIENDSHIP, OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TO PEOPLE ON WHOM IS THE WRATH OF THE CREATOR
FOR OF THE HEREAFTER THEY ARE ALREADY IN DESPAIR
AS THE DISBELIEVERS ABOUT THOSE IN THE GRAVES ARE IN DESPAIR 

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 CHAPTER 61.  THE RANKS                                                         SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS AND ON EARTH GLORIFIES
THE PRAISES OF GOD, FOR HE IS MIGHTY AND WISE

2  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHY SAY YOU 
THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT DO?

3  HATEFUL IS IT IN GOD'S SIGHT THAT YOU
SAY THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT DO

4  THOSE WHO FIGHT IN GOD'S WAY HE LOVES THEM ALL
WHO FIGHT IN RANKS AS IF THEY WERE A SOLID WALL

5  AND REMEMBER MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE
WHY DO YOU INSULT ME WHEN YOU KNOW I AM GOD'S APOSTLE 
THEN WHEN THEY WENT WRONG AND DID EVIL
GOD LET THEM FOR GOD GUIDES NOT WRONG DOING PEOPLE

6  JESUS, THE SON OF MARY SAID, OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
I AM SENT TO YOU AS GOD'S APOSTLE 
CONFIRMING THE LAW WHICH CAME WITH THE APOSTLE 
BEFORE ME AND GIVING GLAD TIDINGS OF AFTER ME AN APOSTLE 
WHOSE NAME WILL BE AHMAD, AND HE FULFILLED
GIVING THEM CLEAR SIGNS AND THEY SAID, THIS A SPELL

7  WHO DOES GREATER WRONG THAN ONE WHO INVENTS FALSITY 
AGAINST GOD WHEN HE IS BEING INVITED TO ACT SUBMISSIVELY?  
AND GOD GUIDES NOT THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

8  THEIR INTENTION IS TO EXTINGUISH GOD'S LIGHT 
WITH THEIR MOUTHS BUT HE WILL COMPLETE HIS LIGHT 
EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD BE TO THE DISBELIEVERS DISLIKE

9  GOD SENT HIS APOSTLE WITH GUIDANCE AND THE TRUE RELIGION 
THAT HE MAY MAKE IT OVERCOME ALL OF THE RELIGIONS 
ALTHOUGH THE POLYTHEISTS MAY BE IN OPPOSITION

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CHAPTER 61.  THE RANKS                                                          SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

10  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, SHALL I LEAD YOU 
TO A BARGAIN THAT WILL SAVE YOU 
FROM A GRIEVOUS PENALTY FALLING UPON YOU?

11  THAT YOU BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND THAT YOU STRIVE IN THE CAUSE OF YOUR MAKER
WITH YOUR PERSONS AND YOUR PROPERTY YOU HAVE ACQUIRED 
IF YOU BUT KNEW THAT FOR YOU WOULD BE BETTER

12  HE WILL FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS
AND WILL ADMIT YOU TO GARDENS 
IN WHICH RIVERS FLOW WITHIN
AND TO BEAUTIFUL MANSIONS 
AND PERPETUAL GARDENS 
THAT IS THE SUPREME SALVATION

13  AND ANOTHER FAVOR WILL HE SURELY
BESTOW WHICH YOU LOVE INDEED
HELP FROM GOD AND A SPEEDY VICTORY 
SO GIVE THE GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE

14  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, BE GOD'S HELPERS 
AS JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, SAID TO HIS FOLLOWERS
TO DO GOD'S WORK WHO OF YOU WILL BE MY HELPERS? 
THE DISCIPLES SAID TO HIM, WE ARE GOD'S HELPERS 
SOME OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BECAME BELIEVERS 
AND A PORTION OF THEM WERE DISBELIEVERS 
WE GAVE POWER AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES TO THE BELIEVERS 
AND THEY BECAME THE ONES THAT WERE THE WINNERS

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CHAPTER 62.  THE CONGREGATION                                       SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS AND ON EARTH GLORIFIES
GOD, THE SOVEREIGN, THE HOLY, THE MIGHTY, THE WISE

2  IT IS HE WHO HAS SENT AMONG THE UNLETTERED 
FROM AMONG THEM A MESSENGER
TO RECITE TO THEM HIS MESSAGES CLEAR 
AND INSTRUCT THEM IN WISDOM AND IN SCRIPTURE
ALTHOUGH THEY HAD BEEN BEFORE IN MANIFEST ERROR

3  AS WELL AS TO CONFER 
ALL THESE BENEFITS UPON OTHERS 
WHO HAVE NOT JOINED IN THEM PRIOR 
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND HAS ALL POWER 

4  THIS IS THE BOUNTY OF GOD WHICH HE BESTOWS FREELY
 ON WHOM HE PLEASES, AND GOD IS THE LORD OF BOUNTY

5  THE SIMILITUDE OF THOSE WHO WERE CHARGED FAITHFULLY
WITH THE TORAH AND FAILED IN THOSE OBLIGATIONS SUBSEQUENTLY 
IS THAT OF BOOKS BEING CARRIED BY A DONKEY 
AND EVIL IS THE SIMILITUDE OF PEOPLE WHO FALSELY
REJECT GOD'S SIGNS INSOLENTLY
AND GOD GUIDES NOT PEOPLE OF INIQUITY

6  SAY, OH YOU THAT ARE JEWS
IF YOU THINK THAT YOU 
ARE FRIENDS TO GOD TO EXCLUDE 
OTHER MEN THEN WISH DEATH UPON YOU
IF YOU THINK WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

7  BUT NEVER WILL THEY EXPRESS THEIR DESIRE 
FOR DEATH BECAUSE OF THE DEEDS THEY HAVE DONE PRIOR
AND YOUR LORD SURELY KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE WRONG DOERS

8  SAY, THE DEATH FROM WHICH YOU FLEE 
WILL OVERTAKE YOU THEN WILL YOU BE 
SENT BACK TO THE KNOWER OF DEEDS
SECRET AND OPEN AND HE WILL INDEED
TELL YOU THE TRUTH OF ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

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CHAPTER 62.  THE CONGREGATION                                      SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

9  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WHEN THE CALL IS MADE FOR FRIDAY PRAYER  
HASTEN TO THE REMEMBRANCE OF YOUR MAKER
AND LEAVE OFF BUSINESS, FOR YOU THAT WILL BE  BETTER

10  AND WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED THE PRAYER 
THEN THROUGH THE LAND YOU MAY DISPERSE 
AND SEEK OF YOUR LORD'S TREASURES 
AND CELEBRATE THE PRAISES OF THE CREATOR 
OFTEN SO THAT YOU MAY PROSPER

11  BUT WHEN THEY SEE SOME BARGAIN OR SOMETHING AMUSING
THEY DISPERSE HEADLONG INTO IT AND LEAVE YOU STANDING 
SAY, FROM THE PRESENCE OF OUR LORD, HIS BLESSING
IS BETTER THAN ANY AMUSEMENT OR BARGAINING
GOD IS THE BEST TO PROVIDE FOR ALL THINGS

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CHAPTER 63.  THE HYPOCRITES                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE HYPOCRITES SAY, WE ARE WITNESS BEARERS  
THAT YOU ARE INDEED GOD'S MESSENGER 
AND YES, GOD KNOWS THAT YOU ARE HIS MESSENGER 
AND GOD IS THE WITNESS BEARER 
THAT THE HYPOCRITES ARE SURELY LIARS 

2  THEY HAVE MADE THEIR OATHS A SCREEN FOR THEIR MISDEEDS
SO THEY OBSTRUCT MEN FROM GOD'S PATH INDEED
AND SINFUL AND EVIL ARE THEIR DEEDS

3  THAT IS BECAUSE THEY REJECTED BELIEVING
SO OVER THEIR HEARTS WAS SET A SEALING
SO THAT THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING

4  WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEM YOU ARE PLEASED WITH THEM
AND WHEN THEY SPEAK YOU LISTEN TO THEM
AS PROPPED UP PIECES OF TIMBER IS THE LIKENESS OF THEM
AND THEY THINK THAT EVERY CRY IS AGAINST THEM 
THEY ARE THE ENEMIES SO BEWARE OF THEM 
AND THE CURSE OF GOD BE ON THEM 
AND DELUSION IS UPON THEM

5  AND WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, COME, GOD'S APOSTLE WILL PRAY 
FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS BUT THEY TURN THEIR HEADS AWAY
AND THEY ARROGANTLY TURN THEIR FACES AWAY

6  IT IS EQUAL TO THEM
WHETHER OR NOT YOU PRAY FOR THEM
GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE THEM 
FOR TRANSGRESSORS GOD DOES NOT GUIDE THEM

7  THEY ARE THE ONES WHO SAY, SPEND NOT YOUR TREASURES
ON THOSE WHO ARE ON THE WAY WITH GOD'S MESSENGER 
TO THE END THAT THEY MAY DISPERSE 
BUT TO GOD BELONG THE TREASURES 
OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
BUT THE HYPOCRITES HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE FOR SURE

8  THEY SAY, IF WE RETURN TO MEDINA THOSE MORE HONORED 
WILL BE EXPELLED FROM THE WEAKER
BUT ALL HONOR BELONGS TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND TO THE BELIEVERS
BUT THE HYPOCRITES KNOW NOT FOR SURE

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CHAPTER 63.  THE HYPOCRITES                                              SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

9  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, LET NOT YOUR CHILDREN DIVERT YOU 
FROM THE REMEMBRANCE OF GOD, IF ANY OF YOU DO
THE LOSS WILL SURELY BE TO YOU

10  AND SPEND SOMETHING IN CHARITY OUT OF THE BOUNTY
WHICH WE HAVE BESTOWED UPON YOU FREELY
BEFORE DEATH COMES TO YOU AND YOU WILL PLEA
OH MY LORD, WHY DID YOU NOT GIVE RESPITE TO ME
I WOULD THEN HAVE GIVEN LARGELY IN CHARITY
AND WOULD HAVE BEEN OF THOSE WHO ACTED RIGHTEOUSLY

11  GOD GRANTS TO NO SOUL RESPITE WHEN ITS TIME HAS ENDED 
AND WITH ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS AQUATINTED

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CHAPTER 64.  THE MUTUAL LOSS AND GAIN                      SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE BENEFICENT AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  EVERYTHING IN HEAVEN AND EARTH DECLARES GOD'S GLORY 
TO HIM BELONGS THE SOVEREIGNTY 
TO HIM BELONGS PRAISE AND DIGNITY
AND ALL POWER OVER ALL THINGS HAS HE

2  IT IS HE WHO IS YOUR CREATOR 
AND SOME OF YOU ARE DISBELIEVERS
AND SOME OTHERS OF YOU ARE BELIEVERS
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO YOUR LORD IS THE SEER 

3  HE HAS CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH IN JUST PROPORTIONS 
AND HAS GIVEN YOU SHAPES IN BEAUTIFUL FORMATIONS 
AND TO HIM IS THE FINAL DESTINATION

4  HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
HE KNOWS WHAT YOU REVEAL AND WHAT YOU KEEP HIDDEN 
YES GOD KNOWS WELL THE SECRETS THE HEARTS KEEP WITHIN

5  HAS NOT REACH YOU THE STORY  
OF THOSE WHO REJECTED FAITH PREVIOUSLY?
THEY TASTED THE EVIL RESULT OF THEIR FOLLY
AND THEY HAD TO ENDURE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

6  THAT WAS BECAUSE THERE CAME TO THEM MESSENGERS
BRINGING TO THEM CLEAR MESSAGES AND SCRIPTURES
BUT THEY SAID, WILL HUMANS BE OUR DIRECTORS? 
SO OF THE MESSAGES THEY BECAME REJECTORS  
BUT GOD CAN DO WITHOUT THEM AS HELPERS
FOR GOD IS FREE OF ALL NEEDS AND EXALTED IN POWER

7  THE DISBELIEVERS THINK THAT RAISED UP THEY WILL NOT BE  
SAY, YES, BY MY LORD YOU WILL BE RAISED UP SURELY
THEN WILL YOU BE TOLD OF ALL THAT YOU DID TRUTHFULLY
AND SURELY FOR GOD THAT IS NO DIFFICULTY

8  BELIEVE THEREFORE IN GOD AND THE MESSENGER
AND IN THE LIGHT WE SENT DOWN MAKING THINGS CLEAR
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER

9  THE DAY THAT YOUR LORD ASSEMBLES ALL OF YOU TOGETHER 
THAT WILL BE A DAY OF LOSS FOR SOME AND GAIN FOR OTHERS
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
HE WILL REMOVE FROM THEM THEIR ILLS AND ERRORS
AND WILL ADMIT THEM TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS  
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM FOR EVER 
THAT WILL BE THE SUPREME FAVOR

10  BUT THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
AND TREAT OUR MESSENGERS AS LIARS
THEY WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE 
THEY WILL DWELL IN IT FOR EVER 
AN EVIL DESTINY OF TERROR

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11  AND NO KIND OF CALAMITY CAN OCCUR 
EXCEPT BY THE LEAVE OF THE CREATOR
AND ANY ONE THAT IS A BELIEVER 
GOD GUIDES HIS HEART FOR GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

12  SO OBEY GOD AND OBEY HIS MESSENGER 
BUT IF YOU TURN BACK THE DUTY OF THE MESSENGER 
IS ONLY TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE CLEAR

13  GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
ON GOD LET THE BELIEVERS PUT THEIR TRUST COMPLETELY

14  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AMONG YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR MARITAL PARTNERS
ARE ENEMIES TO YOU SO OF THEM BEWARE 
BUT IF THEIR FAULTS YOU WILL COVER
YOUR LORD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

15  YOUR RICHES AND YOUR CHILDREN MAY BE  A TRIAL TO YOU
BUT WITH YOUR LORD IS THE GREATEST REWARD FOR YOU

16  SO FEAR GOD AND KEEP YOUR DUTY 
AND LISTEN AND OBEY AND SPEND IN CHARITY 
FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOURSELVES AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT GREEDY 
THEY ARE THE ONES THAT WILL ACHIEVE PROSPERITY

17  IF YOU LOAN A BEAUTIFUL LOAN TO YOUR CREATOR
HE WILL DOUBLE IT TO YOUR CREDIT AND MAKE IT GREATER
AND FORGIVE YOU FOR HE IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

18  KNOWER OF WHAT IS DONE SECRETLY AND OPENLY
FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY 

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CHAPTER 65.  DIVORCE                                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH PROPHET WHEN YOU DIVORCE WOMEN IT IS PRESCRIBED
THAT YOU DIVORCE THEM AT THEIR PERIODS THAT ARE PRESCRIBED 
AND COUNT THE PERIODS THAT ARE PRESCRIBED
AND TURN THEM NOT OUT FROM WHERE THEY RESIDE
UNLESS THEY ARE GUILTY OF LEWDNESS THAT THEY DID NOT HIDE
DO NOT LEAVE THEM AND THESE LIMITS ARE SET FOR YOU TO ABIDE 
WHOEVER DOES SO WRONGS HIMSELF AND BESIDES
GOD MAY BRING SOME NEW SITUATION FOR WHICH TO ABIDE

2  SO WHEN THEY FULFILL THEIR TERMS APPROPRIATELY 
EITHER TAKE THEM BACK ON TERMS EQUITABLY
OR PART WITH THEM ON TERMS EQUITABLY 
AND TAKE TWO PERSONS FOR WITNESSES JUSTLY 
AND ESTABLISH THE EVIDENCE BEFORE GOD PROPERLY
THIS IS THE ADMONITION GIVEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE   
FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD HE DELIVERS SECURELY 

3  HE PROVIDES FOR HIM FROM SOURCES HE COULD NOT PERCEIVE 
AND IF ANY ONE PUTS HIS TRUST IN GOD COMPLETELY
GOD PROVIDES FOR HIM SUFFICIENTLY
FOR GOD WILL ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSE SURELY 
FOR HE INDEED PROPORTIONS DULY

4  FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE PASSED THE AGE OF MONTHLY PERIODS
THREE MONTHS OF WAITING IS THE PRESCRIBED PERIOD
AND FOR THEY WHO HAVE NO PERIODS
UNTIL THEY DELIVER THEIR BURDEN IS THEIR PERIOD 

AND FOR THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY
HE WILL MAKE THEIR PATH EASY

5  THAT IS THE COMMAND OF GOD SENT TO YOU FROM HIM
ANY WHO FEARS GOD HE WILL REMOVE EVIL FROM HIM 
AND WILL ENLARGE HIS REWARD FOR HIM

6  FOR WOMEN THE STYLE AS YOU LIVE PROVIDE THE SAME FOR THEM
ACCORDING TO YOUR MEANS AND DO NOT ANNOY  THEM  
AND IF THEY CARRY LIFE WITHIN THEM
UNTIL THEY DELIVER SPEND YOUR SUBSTANCE ON THEM  
IF THEY NURSE YOUR OFFSPRING COMPENSATE THEM 
AND TAKE MUTUAL COUNSEL WITH THEM
ACCORDING TO WHAT IS JUST FOR YOU AND THEM 
AND IF YOU FIND YOURSELVES IN DIFFICULTIES WITH THEM
LET ANOTHER WOMAN NURSE THE CHILD ON BEHALF OF HIM

7  LET THE MAN OF MEANS SPEND ACCORDINGLY
LET THE MAN OF LESSER MEANS SPEND ACCORDINGLY  
GOD PUTS NO BURDEN ON ANY BUT WHAT HE CAN CARRY
AND AFTER A DIFFICULTY GOD GRANTS RELIEF SURELY

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8  HOW MANY POPULATIONS THAT OPPOSED GOD AND HIS MESSENGERS  
DID WE CALL TO ACCOUNT AND PUNISH THEM AFTER?  

9  THEN DID THEY TASTE THE EVIL RESULT OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND PERDITION WAS THE END OF THEIR CONDUCT INDEED

10  GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THEM A SEVERE PENALTY
THEREFORE FEAR GOD, OH YOU WHO BELIEVE
FOR GOD HAS SENT DOWN TO YOU A MESSAGE CLEARLY

11  AN APOSTLE WHO CAME TO YOU WITH RECITATIONS
OF GOD'S MESSAGES CONTAINING CLEAR EXPLANATIONS 
THAT THOSE WHO BELIEVE FOR THE DEEDS THEY HAVE DONE 
HE MAY LEAD OUT OF DARKNESS INTO THE LIGHT OF THE SUN
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND ARE RIGHTEOUS ONES
WILL DWELL FOREVER IN GARDENS THROUGH WHICH RIVERS RUN 
THE FELICITY GOD HAS GRANTED THEM IS A MOST EXCELLENT ONE

12  GOD IS HE WHO CREATED THE SEVEN HEAVENS
AND OF THE EARTH A SIMILAR COMPOSITION
THROUGH THE MIDST OF THEM HIS COMMAND DESCENDS 
SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT ALL THINGS HE COMPREHENDS 

 

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CHAPTER 66.  THE PROHIBITION                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE BENEFICENT AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH PROPHET, WHY DO YOU MAKE UNLAWFUL
THAT WHICH GOD HAS MADE LAWFUL?  
YOU SEEK TO PLEASE YOUR WIVES BUT GOD IS MERCIFUL 

2  GOD HAS ALREADY ORDAINED FOR YOU THE DISSOLUTION 
OF YOUR OATHS AND WITH GOD IS YOUR PROTECTION
AND GOD IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM 

3  WHEN THE PROPHET DISCLOSED A MATTER 
CONFIDENTIALLY TO ONE OF HIS MARITAL PARTNERS
AND SHE THEN LAID IT BARE AND GOD MADE HIM AWARE 
AND PART OF IT HE DID CONFIRM AFTER 
AND REPUDIATED A PART OF ANOTHER 
THEN WHEN ABOUT IT HE TOLD HER 
SHE SAID, WHO TOLD YOU OF THESE MATTERS?  
HE SAID, HE TOLD ME, HE WHO IS THE BEST KNOWER 

4  IF YOU TWO TURN IN REPENTANCE TO YOUR MAKER
THEN YOUR HEARTS ARE SO ORDERED
BUT IF AGAINST HIM YOU BACK UP EACH OTHER 
TRULY GOD IS HIS PROTECTOR 
AND GABRIEL AND EVERY RIGHTEOUS BELIEVER
AND THE ANGELS AFTER THAT ARE ALSO HIS AIDERS

5  IT MAY BE IF HE DIVORCED ALL OF YOU 
THAT GOD WILL GIVE HIM BETTER WIVES THAN YOU 
WHO SUBMIT, WHO BELIEVE AND WHO ARE DEVOUT TOO

AND WHO TURN TO GOD IN REPENTANCE SINCERELY 
WHO WORSHIP, TRAVEL, FAST AND PRAY REGULARLY
EITHER VIRGINS OR WOMEN MARRIED PREVIOUSLY

6  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
SAVE YOURSELVES AND YOUR FAMILIES FROM A FIRE 
WHOSE FUEL IS MEN AND STONES AND APPOINTED OVER 
ARE ANGELS WHO FLINCH NOT FROM EXECUTING GOD'S ORDERS 
STERN AND SEVERE AND DO PRECISELY WHAT THEY ARE ORDERED

7  OH DISBELIEVERS, THIS DAY MAKE NO EXCUSES
YOU ARE BEING REQUITED FOR ALL YOUR PERFORMANCES

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8  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TURN TO GOD IN REPENTANCE SINCERE
IN HOPE THAT GOD WILL REMOVE YOUR ERRORS
AND ADMIT YOU TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS  
GOD WILL NOT PERMIT TO BE HUMILIATED THE MESSENGER
AND THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AND THEIR LIGHT WILL RUN FORWARD 
AND THEY BY THEIR RIGHT HANDS WILL DECLARE 
OUR LORD, PERFECT OUR LIGHT AND MAKE US SECURE
AND FORGIVE US FOR OVER ALL THINGS YOU HAVE POWER 

9  OH PROPHET, STRIVE HARD AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS
AND THE HYPOCRITES AND AGAINST THEM BE SEVERE
AND THEIR ABODE IS HELL, AN EVIL PLACE FOR SURE

10  GOD SETS FORTH FOR AN EXAMPLE TO DISBELIEVERS 
NOAH AND LOT'S MARITAL PARTNERS
TWO OF OUR RIGHTEOUS SERVANTS WERE THEY UNDER
BUT THEY WERE FALSE TO THEIR PARTNERS
THEY PROFITED NOTHING BEFORE THEIR CREATOR
AND THEY WERE TOLD, ENTER THE FIRE 
ALONG WITH THE OTHERS THAT ENTER

11  GOD SETS FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE TO THE BELIEVERS 
THE WIFE OF PHARAOH, SHE SAID, OH CREATOR
BUILD ME A HOUSE THAT TO YOU I MAY BE NEARER
A MANSION IN THE GARDEN AND LET ME BE DELIVERED 
FROM PHARAOH AND SAVE ME FROM THE WRONG DOERS

MARY, THE DAUGHTER OF AMRAN
WHO GUARDED HER CHASTITY AND WE GAVE HER INSPIRATION 
TO THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD AND HIS REVELATIONS 
AND SHE WAS ONE OF THE DEVOUT BELIEVING ONES

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