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			THE MEANINGS OF THE HOLY QUR'AN

				    BY

			       ABDULLAH YUSUFALI


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THE OPENING,  CHAPTER NO.  001

001.001  In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

001.002  Praise be to God, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the world;

001.003  Most Gracious, Most Merciful;

001.004  Master of the Day of Judgment.

001.005  Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek.

001.006  Show us the straight way,

001.007  The way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, those whose 
(portion) is not wrath, and who go not astray.

THE COW,  CHAPTER NO.  002

002.001  A.L.M.

002.002  This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear 
God;

002.003  Who believe in the Unseen, are steadfast in prayer, and spend out of what 
We have provided for them;

002.004  And who believe in the Revelation sent to thee, and sent before thy time, 
and (in their hearts) have the assurance of the Hereafter.

002.005  They are on (true) guidance, from their Lord, and it is these who will 
prosper.

002.006  As to those who reject Faith, it is the same to them whether thou warn them 
or do not warn them; they will not believe.

002.007  God hath set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, and on their eyes is a 
veil; great is the penalty they (incur).

002.008  Of the people there are some who say: "We believe in God and the Last 
Day;" but they do not (really) believe.

002.009  Fain would they deceive Allah and those who believe, but they only deceive 
themselves, and realise (it) not!

002.010  In their hearts is a disease; and Allah has increased their disease: And 
grievous is the penalty they (incur), because they are false (to themselves).

002.011  When it is said to them: "Make not mischief on the earth," they say: "Why, 
we only Want to make peace!"

002.012  Of a surety, they are the ones who make mischief, but they realise (it) not.

002.013  When it is said to them: "Believe as the others believe:" They say: "Shall we 
believe as the fools believe?" Nay, of a surety they are the fools, but they do not 
know.

002.014  When they meet those who believe, they say: "We believe;" but when they 
are alone with their evil ones, they say: "We are really with you: We (were) only 
jesting."

002.015  God will throw back their mockery on them, and give them rope in their 
trespasses; so they will wander like blind ones (To and fro).

002.016  These are they who have bartered Guidance for error: But their traffic is 
profitless, and they have lost true direction,

002.017  Their similitude is that of a man who kindled a fire; when it lighted all 
around him, God took away their light and left them in utter darkness. So they could 
not see.

002.018  Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not return (to the path).

002.019  Or (another similitude) is that of a rain-laden cloud from the sky: In it are 
zones of darkness, and thunder and lightning: They press their fingers in their ears to 
keep out the stunning thunder-clap, the while they are in terror of death. But God is 
ever round the rejecters of Faith!

002.020  The lightning all but snatches away their sight; every time the light (Helps) 
them, they walk therein, and when the darkness grows on them, they stand still. And 
if God willed, He could take away their faculty of hearing and seeing; for God hath 
power over all things.

002.021  O ye people! Adore your Guardian-Lord, who created you and those who 
came before you, that ye may have the chance to learn righteousness;

002.022  Who has made the earth your couch, and the heavens your canopy; and sent 
down rain from the heavens; and brought forth therewith Fruits for your sustenance; 
then set not up rivals unto God when ye know (the truth).

002.023  And if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our 
servant, then produce a Sura like thereunto; and call your witnesses or helpers (If 
there are any) besides God, if your (doubts) are true.

002.024  But if ye cannot- and of a surety ye cannot- then fear the Fire whose fuel is 
men and stones,- which is prepared for those who reject Faith.

002.025  But give glad tidings to those who believe and work righteousness, that their 
portion is Gardens, beneath which rivers flow. Every time they are fed with fruits 
therefrom, they say: "Why, this is what we were fed with before," for they are given 
things in similitude; and they have therein companions pure (and holy); and they 
abide therein (for ever).

002.026  God disdains not to use the similitude of things, lowest as well as highest. 
Those who believe know that it is truth from their Lord; but those who reject Faith 
say: "What means God by this similitude?" By it He causes many to stray, and many 
He leads into the right path; but He causes not to stray, except those who forsake (the 
path),-

002.027  Those who break God's Covenant after it is ratified, and who sunder what 
God Has ordered to be joined, and do mischief on earth: These cause loss (only) to 
themselves.

002.028  How can ye reject the faith in God?- seeing that ye were without life, and He 
gave you life; then will He cause you to die, and will again bring you to life; and 
again to Him will ye return.

002.029  It is He Who hath created for you all things that are on earth; Moreover His 
design comprehended the heavens, for He gave order and perfection to the seven 
firmaments; and of all things He hath perfect knowledge.

002.030  Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth." 
They said: "Wilt Thou place therein one who will make mischief therein and shed 
blood?- whilst we do celebrate Thy praises and glorify Thy holy (name)?" He said: "I 
know what ye know not."

002.031  And He taught Adam the nature of all things; then He placed them before 
the angels, and said: "Tell me the nature of these if ye are right."

002.032  They said: "Glory to Thee, of knowledge We have none, save what Thou 
Hast taught us: In truth it is Thou Who art perfect in knowledge and wisdom."

002.033  He said: "O Adam! Tell them their natures." When he had told them, God 
said: "Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of heaven and earth, and I know what 
ye reveal and what ye conceal?"

002.034  And behold, We said to the angels: "Bow down to Adam" and they bowed 
down. Not so Iblis: he refused and was haughty: He was of those who reject Faith.

002.035  We said: "O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden; and eat of the 
bountiful things therein as (where and when) ye will; but approach not this tree, or ye 
run into harm and transgression."

002.036  Then did Satan make them slip from the (garden), and get them out of the 
state (of felicity) in which they had been. We said: "Get ye down, all (ye people), with 
enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling-place and your means of 
livelihood - for a time."

002.037  Then learnt Adam from his Lord words of inspiration, and his Lord Turned 
towards him; for He is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful.

002.038  We said: "Get ye down all from here; and if, as is sure, there comes to you 
Guidance from me, whosoever follows My guidance, on them shall be no fear, nor 
shall they grieve.

002.039  "But those who reject Faith and belie Our Signs, they shall be companions 
of the Fire; they shall abide therein."

002.040  O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favour which I bestowed 
upon you, and fulfil your covenant with Me as I fulfil My Covenant with you, and 
fear none but Me.

002.041  And believe in what I reveal, confirming the revelation which is with you, 
and be not the first to reject Faith therein, nor sell My Signs for a small price; and fear 
Me, and Me alone.

002.042  And cover not Truth with falsehood, nor conceal the Truth when ye know 
(what it is).

002.043  And be steadfast in prayer; practise regular charity; and bow down your 
heads with those who bow down (in worship).

002.044  Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people, and forget (To practise it) 
yourselves, and yet ye study the Scripture? Will ye not understand?

002.045  Nay, seek (God's) help with patient perseverance and prayer: It is indeed 
hard, except to those who bring a lowly spirit,-

002.046  Who bear in mind the certainty that they are to meet their Lord, and that 
they are to return to Him.

002.047  Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favour which I bestowed upon 
you, and that I preferred you to all other (for My Message).

002.048  Then guard yourselves against a day when one soul shall not avail another 
nor shall intercession be accepted for her, nor shall compensation be taken from her, 
nor shall anyone be helped (from outside).

002.049  And remember, We delivered you from the people of Pharaoh: They set you 
hard tasks and punishments, slaughtered your sons and let your women-folk live; 
therein was a tremendous trial from your Lord.

002.050  And remember We divided the sea for you and saved you and drowned 
Pharaoh's people within your very sight.

002.051  And remember We appointed forty nights for Moses, and in his absence ye 
took the calf (for worship), and ye did grievous wrong.

002.052  Even then We did forgive you; there was a chance for you to be grateful.

002.053  And remember We gave Moses the Scripture and the Criterion (Between 
right and wrong): There was a chance for you to be guided aright.

002.054  And remember Moses said to his people: "O my people! Ye have indeed 
wronged yourselves by your worship of the calf: So turn (in repentance) to your 
Maker, and slay yourselves (the wrong-doers); that will be better for you in the sight 
of your Maker." Then He turned towards you (in forgiveness): For He is Oft-
Returning, Most Merciful.

002.055  And remember ye said: "O Moses! We shall never believe in thee until we 
see God manifestly," but ye were dazed with thunder and lighting even as ye looked 
on.

002.056  Then We raised you up after your death: Ye had the chance to be grateful.

002.057  And We gave you the shade of clouds and sent down to you Manna and 
quails, saying: "Eat of the good things We have provided for you:" (But they 
rebelled); to us they did no harm, but they harmed their own souls.

002.058  And remember We said: "Enter this town, and eat of the plenty therein as ye 
wish; but enter the gate with humility, in posture and in words, and We shall forgive 
you your faults and increase (the portion of) those who do good."

002.059  But the transgressors changed the word from that which had been given 
them; so We sent on the transgressors a plague from heaven, for that they infringed 
(Our command) repeatedly.

002.060  And remember Moses prayed for water for his people; We said: "Strike the 
rock with thy staff." Then gushed forth therefrom twelve springs. Each group knew its 
own place for water. So eat and drink of the sustenance provided by God, and do no 
evil nor mischief on the (face of the) earth.

002.061  And remember ye said: "O Moses! we cannot endure one kind of food 
(always); so beseech thy Lord for us to produce for us of what the earth groweth, -its 
pot-herbs, and cucumbers, Its garlic, lentils, and onions." He said: "Will ye exchange 
the better for the worse? Go ye down to any town, and ye shall find what ye want!" 
They were covered with humiliation and misery; they drew on themselves the wrath 
of God. This because they went on rejecting the Signs of God and slaying His 
Messengers without just cause. This because they rebelled and went on transgressing.

002.062  Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish 
(scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians,- any who believe in God and the Last 
Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall 
be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

002.063  And remember We took your covenant and We raised above you (The 
towering height) of Mount (Sinai) : (Saying): "Hold firmly to what We have given 
you and bring (ever) to remembrance what is therein: Perchance ye may fear God."

002.064  But ye turned back thereafter: Had it not been for the Grace and Mercy of 
God to you, ye had surely been among the lost.

002.065  And well ye knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the 
Sabbath: We said to them: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected."

002.066  So We made it an example to their own time and to their posterity, and a 
lesson to those who fear God.

002.067  And remember Moses said to his people: "God commands that ye sacrifice a 
heifer." They said: "Makest thou a laughing-stock of us?" He said: "God save me 
from being an ignorant (fool)!"

002.068  They said: "Beseech on our behalf Thy Lord to make plain to us what 
(heifer) it is!" He said; "He says: The heifer should be neither too old nor too young, 
but of middling age. Now do what ye are commanded!"

002.069  They said: "Beseech on our behalf Thy Lord to make plain to us Her 
colour." He said: "He says: A fawn-coloured heifer, pure and rich in tone, the 
admiration of beholders!"

002.070  They said: "Beseech on our behalf Thy Lord to make plain to us what she is: 
To us are all heifers alike: We wish indeed for guidance, if God wills."

002.071  He said: "He says: A heifer not trained to till the soil or water the fields; 
sound and without blemish." They said: "Now hast thou brought the truth." Then they 
offered her in sacrifice, but not with good-will.

002.072  Remember ye slew a man and fell into a dispute among yourselves as to the 
crime: But God was to bring forth what ye did hide.

002.073  So We said: "Strike the (body) with a piece of the (heifer)." Thus God 
bringeth the dead to life and showeth you His Signs: Perchance ye may understand.

002.074  Thenceforth were your hearts hardened: They became like a rock and even 
worse in hardness. For among rocks there are some from which rivers gush forth; 
others there are which when split asunder send forth water; and others which sink for 
fear of God. And God is not unmindful of what ye do.

002.075  Can ye (o ye men of Faith) entertain the hope that they will believe in you?- 
Seeing that a party of them heard the Word of God, and perverted it knowingly after 
they understood it.

002.076  Behold! when they meet the men of Faith, they say: "We believe": But when 
they meet each other in private, they say: "Shall you tell them what God hath revealed 
to you, that they may engage you in argument about it before your Lord?"- Do ye not 
understand (their aim)?

002.077  Know they not that God knoweth what they conceal and what they reveal?

002.078  And there are among them illiterates, who know not the Book, but (see 
therein their own) desires, and they do nothing but conjecture.

002.079  Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then 
say:"This is from God," to traffic with it for miserable price!- Woe to them for what 
their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby.

002.080  And they say: "The Fire shall not touch us but for a few numbered days:" 
Say: "Have ye taken a promise from God, for He never breaks His promise? or is it 
that ye say of God what ye do not know?"

002.081  Nay, those who seek gain in evil, and are girt round by their sins,- they are 
companions of the Fire: Therein shall they abide (For ever).

002.082  But those who have faith and work righteousness, they are companions of 
the Garden: Therein shall they abide (For ever).

002.083  And remember We took a covenant from the Children of Israel (to this 
effect): Worship none but God; treat with kindness your parents and kindred, and 
orphans and those in need; speak fair to the people; be steadfast in prayer; and 
practise regular charity. Then did ye turn back, except a few among you, and ye 
backslide (even now).

002.084  And remember We took your covenant (to this effect): Shed no blood 
amongst you, nor turn out your own people from your homes: and this ye solemnly 
ratified, and to this ye can bear witness.

002.085  After this it is ye, the same people, who slay among yourselves, and banish a 
party of you from their homes; assist (Their enemies) against them, in guilt and 
rancour; and if they come to you as captives, ye ransom them, though it was not 
lawful for you to banish them. Then is it only a part of the Book that ye believe in, 
and do ye reject the rest? but what is the reward for those among you who behave like 
this but disgrace in this life?- and on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to 
the most grievous penalty. For God is not unmindful of what ye do.

002.086  These are the people who buy the life of this world at the price of the 
Hereafter: their penalty shall not be lightened nor shall they be helped.

002.087  We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of 
apostles; We gave Jesus the son of Mary Clear (Signs) and strengthened him with the 
holy spirit. Is it that whenever there comes to you an apostle with what ye yourselves 
desire not, ye are puffed up with pride?- Some ye called impostors, and others ye 
slay!

002.088  They say, "Our hearts are the wrappings (which preserve God's Word: we 
need no more)." Nay, God's curse is on them for their blasphemy: Little is it they 
believe.

002.089  And when there comes to them a Book from God, confirming what is with 
them,- although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith,- 
when there comes to them that which they (should) have recognised, they refuse to 
believe in it but the curse of God is on those without Faith.

002.090  Miserable is the price for which they have sold their souls, in that they deny 
(the revelation) which God has sent down, in insolent envy that God of His Grace 
should send it to any of His servants He pleases: Thus have they drawn on themselves 
Wrath upon Wrath. And humiliating is the punishment of those who reject Faith.

002.091  When it is said to them, "Believe in what God Hath sent down, "they say, 
"We believe in what was sent down to us:" yet they reject all besides, even if it be 
Truth confirming what is with them. Say: "Why then have ye slain the prophets of 
God in times gone by, if ye did indeed believe?"

002.092  There came to you Moses with clear (Signs); yet ye worshipped the calf 
(Even) after that, and ye did behave wrongfully.

002.093  And remember We took your covenant and We raised above you (the 
towering height) of Mount (Sinai): (Saying): "Hold firmly to what We have given 
you, and hearken (to the Law)": They said:" We hear, and we disobey:" And they had 
to drink into their hearts (of the taint) of the calf because of their Faithlessness. Say: 
"Vile indeed are the behests of your Faith if ye have any faith!"

002.094  Say: "If the last Home, with God, be for you specially, and not for anyone 
else, then seek ye for death, if ye are sincere."

002.095  But they will never seek for death, on account of the (sins) which their 
hands have sent on before them. and God is well-acquainted with the wrong-doers.

002.096  Thou wilt indeed find them, of all people, most greedy of life,-even more 
than the idolaters: Each one of them wishes He could be given a life of a thousand 
years: But the grant of such life will not save him from (due) punishment. For God 
sees well all that they do.

002.097  Say: Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel-for he brings down the (revelation) to 
thy heart by God's will, a confirmation of what went before, and guidance and glad 
tidings for those who believe,-

002.098  Whoever is an enemy to God and His angels and apostles, to Gabriel and 
Michael,- Lo! God is an enemy to those who reject Faith.

002.099  We have sent down to thee Manifest Signs (ayat); and none reject them but 
those who are perverse.

002.100  Is it not (the case) that every time they make a covenant, some party among 
them throw it aside?- Nay, Most of them are faithless.

002.101  And when there came to them an apostle from God, confirming what was 
with them, a party of the people of the Book threw away the Book of God behind 
their backs, as if (it had been something) they did not know!

002.102  They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of 
Solomon: the blasphemers Were, not Solomon, but the evil ones, teaching men 
Magic, and such things as came down at babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But 
neither of these taught anyone (Such things) without saying: "We are only for trial; so 
do not blaspheme." They learned from them the means to sow discord between man 
and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except by God's permission. And they 
learned what harmed them, not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of 
(magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price 
for which they did sell their souls, if they but knew!

002.103  If they had kept their Faith and guarded themselves from evil, far better had 
been the reward from their Lord, if they but knew!

002.104  O ye of Faith! Say not (to the Apostle) words of ambiguous import, but 
words of respect; and hearken (to him): To those without Faith is a grievous 
punishment.

002.105  It is never the wish of those without Faith among the People of the Book, 
nor of the Pagans, that anything good should come down to you from your Lord. But 
God will choose for His special Mercy whom He will - for God is Lord of grace 
abounding.

002.106  None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We 
substitute something better or similar: Knowest thou not that God Hath power over all 
things?

002.107  Knowest thou not that to God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and 
the earth? And besides Him ye have neither patron nor helper.

002.108  Would ye question your Apostle as Moses was questioned of old? but 
whoever changeth from Faith to Unbelief, Hath strayed without doubt from the even 
way.

002.109  Quite a number of the People of the Book wish they could Turn you 
(people) back to infidelity after ye have believed, from selfish envy, after the Truth 
hath become Manifest unto them: But forgive and overlook, Till God accomplish His 
purpose; for God Hath power over all things.

002.110  And be steadfast in prayer and regular in charity: And whatever good ye 
send forth for your souls before you, ye shall find it with God: for God sees Well all 
that ye do.

002.111  And they say: "None shall enter Paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian." 
Those are their (vain) desires. Say: "Produce your proof if ye are truthful."

002.112  Nay,-whoever submits His whole self to God and is a doer of good,- He will 
get his reward with his Lord; on such shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

002.113  The Jews say: "The Christians have naught (to stand) upon; and the 
Christians say: "The Jews have naught (To stand) upon." Yet they (Profess to) study 
the (same) Book. Like unto their word is what those say who know not; but God will 
judge between them in their quarrel on the Day of Judgment.

002.114  And who is more unjust than he who forbids that in places for the worship 
of God, God's name should be celebrated?-whose zeal is (in fact) to ruin them? It was 
not fitting that such should themselves enter them except in fear. For them there is 
nothing but disgrace in this world, and in the world to come, an exceeding torment.

002.115  To God belong the east and the West: Whithersoever ye turn, there is the 
presence of God. For God is all-Pervading, all-Knowing.

002.116  They say: "God hath begotten a son" :Glory be to Him.-Nay, to Him belongs 
all that is in the heavens and on earth: everything renders worship to Him.

002.117  To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He 
decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is.

002.118  Say those without knowledge: "Why speaketh not God unto us? or why 
cometh not unto us a Sign?" So said the people before them words of similar import. 
Their hearts are alike. We have indeed made clear the Signs unto any people who 
hold firmly to Faith (in their hearts).

002.119  Verily We have sent thee in truth as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner: 
But of thee no question shall be asked of the Companions of the Blazing Fire.

002.120  Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with thee unless thou 
follow their form of religion. Say: "The Guidance of God,-that is the (only) 
Guidance." Wert thou to follow their desires after the knowledge which hath reached 
thee, then wouldst thou find neither Protector nor helper against God.

002.121  Those to whom We have sent the Book study it as it should be studied: They 
are the ones that believe therein: Those who reject faith therein,- the loss is their own.

002.122  O Children of Israel! call to mind the special favour which I bestowed upon 
you, and that I preferred you to all others (for My Message).

002.123  Then guard yourselves against a-Day when one soul shall not avail another, 
nor shall compensation be accepted from her nor shall intercession profit her nor shall 
anyone be helped (from outside).

002.124  And remember that Abraham was tried by his Lord with certain commands, 
which he fulfilled: He said: "I will make thee an Imam to the Nations." He pleaded: 
"And also (Imams) from my offspring!" He answered: "But My Promise is not within 
the reach of evil-doers."

002.125  Remember We made the House a place of assembly for men and a place of 
safety; and take ye the station of Abraham as a place of prayer; and We covenanted 
with Abraham and Isma'il, that they should sanctify My House for those who 
compass it round, or use it as a retreat, or bow, or prostrate themselves (therein in 
prayer).

002.126  And remember Abraham said: "My Lord, make this a City of Peace, and 
feed its people with fruits,-such of them as believe in God and the Last Day." He said: 
"(Yea), and such as reject Faith,-for a while will I grant them their pleasure, but will 
soon drive them to the torment of Fire,- an evil destination (indeed)!"

002.127  And remember Abraham and Isma'il raised the foundations of the House 
(With this prayer): "Our Lord! Accept (this service) from us: For Thou art the All-
Hearing, the All-knowing.

002.128  "Our Lord! make of us Muslims, bowing to Thy (Will), and of our progeny a 
people Muslim, bowing to Thy (will); and show us our place for the celebration of 
(due) rites; and turn unto us (in Mercy); for Thou art the Oft-Returning, Most 
Merciful.

002.129  "Our Lord! send amongst them an Apostle of their own, who shall rehearse 
Thy Signs to them and instruct them in scripture and wisdom, and sanctify them: For 
Thou art the Exalted in Might, the Wise."

002.130  And who turns away from the religion of Abraham but such as debase their 
souls with folly? Him We chose and rendered pure in this world: And he will be in 
the Hereafter in the ranks of the Righteous.

002.131  Behold! his Lord said to him: "Bow (thy will to Me):" He said: "I bow (my 
will) to the Lord and Cherisher of the Universe."

002.132  And this was the legacy that Abraham left to his sons, and so did Jacob; "Oh 
my sons! God hath chosen the Faith for you; then die not except in the Faith of 
Islam."

002.133  Were ye witnesses when death appeared before Jacob? Behold, he said to his 
sons: "What will ye worship after me?" They said: "We shall worship Thy God and 
the God of thy fathers, of Abraham, Isma'il and Isaac,- the one (True) God: To Him 
we bow (in Islam)."

002.134  That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what 
they did, and ye of what ye do! Of their merits there is no question in your case!

002.135  They say: "Become Jews or Christians if ye would be guided (To 
salvation)." Say thou: "Nay! (I would rather) the Religion of Abraham the True, and 
he joined not gods with God."

002.136  Say ye: "We believe in God, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, 
Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given 
to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of 
them: And we bow to God (in Islam)."

002.137  So if they believe as ye believe, they are indeed on the right path; but if they 
turn back, it is they who are in schism; but God will suffice thee as against them, and 
He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

002.138  (Our religion is) the Baptism of God: And who can baptize better than God? 
And it is He Whom we worship.

002.139  Say: Will ye dispute with us about God, seeing that He is our Lord and your 
Lord; that we are responsible for our doings and ye for yours; and that We are sincere 
(in our faith) in Him?

002.140  Or do ye say that Abraham, Isma'il Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes were Jews or 
Christians? Say: Do ye know better than God? Ah! who is more unjust than those 
who conceal the testimony they have from God? but God is not unmindful of what ye 
do!

002.141  That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what 
they did, and ye of what ye do! Of their merits there is no question in your case:

002.142  The fools among the people will say: "What hath turned them from the 
Qibla to which they were used?" Say: To God belong both east and West: He guideth 
whom He will to a Way that is straight.

002.143  Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that ye might be 
witnesses over the nations, and the Apostle a witness over yourselves; and We 
appointed the Qibla to which thou wast used, only to test those who followed the 
Apostle from those who would turn on their heels (From the Faith). Indeed it was (A 
change) momentous, except to those guided by God. And never would God Make 
your faith of no effect. For God is to all people Most surely full of kindness, Most 
Merciful.

002.144  We see the turning of thy face (for guidance to the heavens: now Shall We 
turn thee to a Qibla that shall please thee. Turn then Thy face in the direction of the 
sacred Mosque: Wherever ye are, turn your faces in that direction. The people of the 
Book know well that that is the truth from their Lord. Nor is God unmindful of what 
they do.

002.145  Even if thou wert to bring to the people of the Book all the Signs (together), 
they would not follow Thy Qibla; nor art thou going to follow their Qibla; nor indeed 
will they follow each other's Qibla. If thou after the knowledge hath reached thee, 
Wert to follow their (vain) desires,-then wert thou Indeed (clearly) in the wrong.

002.146  The people of the Book know this as they know their own sons; but some of 
them conceal the truth which they themselves know.

002.147  The Truth is from thy Lord; so be not at all in doubt.

002.148  To each is a goal to which God turns him; then strive together (as in a race) 
Towards all that is good. Wheresoever ye are, God will bring you Together. For God 
Hath power over all things.

002.149  From whencesoever Thou startest forth, turn Thy face in the direction of the 
sacred Mosque; that is indeed the truth from the Lord. And God is not unmindful of 
what ye do.

002.150  So from whencesoever Thou startest forth, turn Thy face in the direction of 
the sacred Mosque; and wheresoever ye are, Turn your face thither: that there be no 
ground of dispute against you among the people, except those of them that are bent on 
wickedness; so fear them not, but fear Me; and that I may complete My favours on 
you, and ye May (consent to) be guided;

002.151  A similar (favour have ye already received) in that We have sent among you 
an Apostle of your own, rehearsing to you Our Signs, and sanctifying you, and 
instructing you in Scripture and Wisdom, and in new knowledge.

002.152  Then do ye remember Me; I will remember you. Be grateful to Me, and 
reject not Faith.

002.153  O ye who believe! seek help with patient perseverance and prayer; for God 
is with those who patiently persevere.

002.154  And say not of those who are slain in the way of God: "They are dead." Nay, 
they are living, though ye perceive (it) not.

002.155  Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in 
goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to those who patiently 
persevere,

002.156  Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To God We belong, and to Him is 
our return":-

002.157  They are those on whom (Descend) blessings from God, and Mercy, and 
they are the ones that receive guidance.

002.158  Behold! Safa and Marwa are among the Symbols of God. So if those who 
visit the House in the Season or at other times, should compass them round, it is no 
sin in them. And if any one obeyeth his own impulse to good,- be sure that God is He 
Who recogniseth and knoweth.

002.159  Those who conceal the clear (Signs) We have sent down, and the Guidance, 
after We have made it clear for the people in the Book,-on them shall be God's curse, 
and the curse of those entitled to curse,-

002.160  Except those who repent and make amends and openly declare (the Truth): 
To them I turn; for I am Oft-returning, Most Merciful.

002.161  Those who reject Faith, and die rejecting,- on them is God's curse, and the 
curse of angels, and of all mankind;

002.162  They will abide therein: Their penalty will not be lightened, nor will respite 
be their (lot).

002.163  And your God is One God: There is no god but He, Most Gracious, Most 
Merciful.

002.164  Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the 
night and the day; in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the profit of 
mankind; in the rain which God Sends down from the skies, and the life which He 
gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters 
through the earth; in the change of the winds, and the clouds which they Trail like 
their slaves between the sky and the earth;- (Here) indeed are Signs for a people that 
are wise.

002.165  Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides God, as equal (with 
God): They love them as they should love God. But those of Faith are overflowing in 
their love for God. If only the unrighteous could see, behold, they would see the 
penalty: that to God belongs all power, and God will strongly enforce the penalty.

002.166  Then would those who are followed clear themselves of those who follow 
(them) : They would see the penalty, and all relations between them would be cut off.

002.167  And those who followed would say: "If only We had one more chance, We 
would clear ourselves of them, as they have cleared themselves of us." Thus will God 
show them (The fruits of) their deeds as (nothing but) regrets. Nor will there be a way 
for them out of the Fire.

002.168  O ye people! Eat of what is on earth, Lawful and good; and do not follow 
the footsteps of the evil one, for he is to you an avowed enemy.

002.169  For he commands you what is evil and shameful, and that ye should say of 
God that of which ye have no knowledge.

002.170  When it is said to them: "Follow what God hath revealed:" They say: "Nay! 
we shall follow the ways of our fathers." What! even though their fathers Were void 
of wisdom and guidance?

002.171  The parable of those who reject Faith is as if one were to shout Like a goat-
herd, to things that listen to nothing but calls and cries: Deaf, dumb, and blind, they 
are void of wisdom.

002.172  O ye who believe! Eat of the good things that We have provided for you, 
and be grateful to God, if it is Him ye worship.

002.173  He hath only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, 
and that on which any other name hath been invoked besides that of God. But if one 
is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then 
is he guiltless. For God is Oft-forgiving Most Merciful.

002.174  Those who conceal God's revelations in the Book, and purchase for them a 
miserable profit,- they swallow into themselves naught but Fire; God will not address 
them on the Day of Resurrection. Nor purify them: Grievous will be their penalty.

002.175  They are the ones who buy Error in place of Guidance and Torment in place 
of Forgiveness. Ah! what boldness (They show) for the Fire!

002.176  (Their doom is) because God sent down the Book in truth but those who 
seek causes of dispute in the Book are in a schism Far (from the purpose).

002.177  It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is 
righteousness- to believe in God and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and 
the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for 
orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of 
slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfil the contracts 
which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, 
and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the God-fearing.

002.178  O ye who believe! the law of equality is prescribed to you in cases of 
murder: the free for the free, the slave for the slave, the woman for the woman. But if 
any remission is made by the brother of the slain, then grant any reasonable demand, 
and compensate him with handsome gratitude, this is a concession and a Mercy from 
your Lord. After this whoever exceeds the limits shall be in grave penalty.

002.179  In the Law of Equality there is (saving of) Life to you, o ye men of 
understanding; that ye may restrain yourselves.

002.180  It is prescribed, when death approaches any of you, if he leave any goods 
that he make a bequest to parents and next of kin, according to reasonable usage; this 
is due from the God-fearing.

002.181  If anyone changes the bequest after hearing it, the guilt shall be on those 
who make the change. For God hears and knows (All things).

002.182  But if anyone fears partiality or wrong-doing on the part of the testator, and 
makes peace between (The parties concerned), there is no wrong in him: For God is 
Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

002.183  O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those 
before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint,-

002.184  (Fasting) for a fixed number of days; but if any of you is ill, or on a journey, 
the prescribed number (Should be made up) from days later. For those who can do it 
(With hardship), is a ransom, the feeding of one that is indigent. But he that will give 
more, of his own free will,- it is better for him. And it is better for you that ye fast, if 
ye only knew.

002.185  Ramadhan is the (month) in which was sent down the Qur'an, as a guide to 
mankind, also clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment (Between right and wrong). 
So every one of you who is present (at his home) during that month should spend it in 
fasting, but if any one is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed period (Should be made 
up) by days later. God intends every facility for you; He does not want to put to 
difficulties. (He wants you) to complete the prescribed period, and to glorify Him in 
that He has guided you; and perchance ye shall be grateful.

002.186  When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them): I 
listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on Me: Let them also, with a 
will, Listen to My call, and believe in Me: That they may walk in the right way.

002.187  Permitted to you, on the night of the fasts, is the approach to your wives. 
They are your garments and ye are their garments. God knoweth what ye used to do 
secretly among yourselves; but He turned to you and forgave you; so now associate 
with them, and seek what God Hath ordained for you, and eat and drink, until the 
white thread of dawn appear to you distinct from its black thread; then complete your 
fast Till the night appears; but do not associate with your wives while ye are in retreat 
in the mosques. Those are Limits (set by) God: Approach not nigh thereto. Thus doth 
God make clear His Signs to men: that they may learn self-restraint.

002.188  And do not eat up your property among yourselves for vanities, nor use it as 
bait for the judges, with intent that ye may eat up wrongfully and knowingly a little of 
(other) people's property.

002.189  They ask thee concerning the New Moons. Say: They are but signs to mark 
fixed periods of time in (the affairs of) men, and for Pilgrimage. It is no virtue if ye 
enter your houses from the back: It is virtue if ye fear God. Enter houses through the 
proper doors: And fear God: That ye may prosper.

002.190  Fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; 
for God loveth not transgressors.

002.191  And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they 
have Turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter; but fight 
them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first) fight you there; but if they fight 
you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress faith.

002.192  But if they cease, God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

002.193  And fight them on until there is no more Tumult or oppression, and there 
prevail justice and faith in God; but if they cease, Let there be no hostility except to 
those who practise oppression.

002.194  The prohibited month for the prohibited month,- and so for all things 
prohibited,- there is the law of equality. If then any one transgresses the prohibition 
against you, Transgress ye likewise against him. But fear God, and know that God is 
with those who restrain themselves.

002.195  And spend of your substance in the cause of God, and make not your own 
hands contribute to (your) destruction; but do good; for God loveth those who do 
good.

002.196  And complete the Hajj or 'umra in the service of God. But if ye are 
prevented (From completing it), send an offering for sacrifice, such as ye may find, 
and do not shave your heads until the offering reaches the place of sacrifice. And if 
any of you is ill, or has an ailment in his scalp, (Necessitating shaving), (He should) 
in compensation either fast, or feed the poor, or offer sacrifice; and when ye are in 
peaceful conditions (again), if any one wishes to continue the 'umra on to the hajj, He 
must make an offering, such as he can afford, but if he cannot afford it, He should fast 
three days during the hajj and seven days on his return, Making ten days in all. This is 
for those whose household is not in (the precincts of) the Sacred Mosque. And fear 
God, and know that God Is strict in punishment.

002.197  For Hajj are the months well known. If any one undertakes that duty therein, 
Let there be no obscenity, nor wickedness, nor wrangling in the Hajj. And whatever 
good ye do, (be sure) God knoweth it. And take a provision (With you) for the 
journey, but the best of provisions is right conduct. So fear Me, o ye that are wise.

002.198  It is no crime in you if ye seek of the bounty of your Lord (during 
pilgrimage). Then when ye pour down from (Mount) Arafat, celebrate the praises of 
God at the Sacred Monument, and celebrate His praises as He has directed you, even 
though, before this, ye went astray.

002.199  Then pass on at a quick pace from the place whence it is usual for the 
multitude so to do, and ask for God's forgiveness. For God is Oft-forgiving, Most 
Merciful.

002.200  So when ye have accomplished your holy rites, celebrate the praises of God, 
as ye used to celebrate the praises of your fathers,- yea, with far more Heart and soul. 
There are men who say: "Our Lord! Give us (Thy bounties) in this world!" but they 
will have no portion in the Hereafter.

002.201  And there are men who say: "Our Lord! Give us good in this world and 
good in the Hereafter, and defend us from the torment of the Fire!"

002.202  To these will be allotted what they have earned; and God is quick in 
account.

002.203  Celebrate the praises of God during the Appointed Days. But if any one 
hastens to leave in two days, there is no blame on him, and if any one stays on, there 
is no blame on him, if his aim is to do right. Then fear God, and know that ye will 
surely be gathered unto Him.

002.204  There is the type of man whose speech about this world's life May dazzle 
thee, and he calls God to witness about what is in his heart; yet is he the most 
contentious of enemies.

002.205  When he turns his back, His aim everywhere is to spread mischief through 
the earth and destroy crops and cattle. But God loveth not mischief.

002.206  When it is said to him, "Fear God", He is led by arrogance to (more) crime. 
Enough for him is Hell;-An evil bed indeed (To lie on)!

002.207  And there is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of God: 
And God is full of kindness to (His) devotees.

002.208  O ye who believe! Enter into Islam whole-heartedly; and follow not the 
footsteps of the evil one; for he is to you an avowed enemy.

002.209  If ye backslide after the clear (Signs) have come to you, then know that God 
is Exalted in Power, Wise.

002.210  Will they wait until God comes to them in canopies of clouds, with angels 
(in His train) and the question is (thus) settled? but to God do all questions go back 
(for decision).

002.211  Ask the Children of Israel how many clear (Signs) We have sent them. But 
if any one, after God's favour has come to him, substitutes (something else), God is 
strict in punishment.

002.212  The life of this world is alluring to those who reject faith, and they scoff at 
those who believe. But the righteous will be above them on the Day of Resurrection; 
for God bestows His abundance without measure on whom He will.

002.213  Mankind was one single nation, and God sent Messengers with glad tidings 
and warnings; and with them He sent the Book in truth, to judge between people in 
matters wherein they differed; but the People of the Book, after the clear Signs came 
to them, did not differ among themselves, except through selfish contumacy. God by 
His Grace Guided the believers to the Truth, concerning that wherein they differed. 
For God guided whom He will to a path that is straight.

002.214  Or do ye think that ye shall enter the Garden (of bliss) without such (trials) 
as came to those who passed away before you? they encountered suffering and 
adversity, and were so shaken in spirit that even the Apostle and those of faith who 
were with him cried: "When (will come) the help of God?" Ah! Verily, the help of 
God is (always) near!

002.215  They ask thee what they should spend (In charity). Say: Whatever ye spend 
that is good, is for parents and kindred and orphans and those in want and for 
wayfarers. And whatever ye do that is good, -God knoweth it well.

002.216  Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye 
dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. 
But God knoweth, and ye know not.

002.217  They ask thee concerning fighting in the Prohibited Month. Say: "Fighting 
therein is a grave (offence); but graver is it in the sight of God to prevent access to the 
path of God, to deny Him, to prevent access to the Sacred Mosque, and drive out its 
members." Tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter. Nor will they cease 
fighting you until they turn you back from your faith if they can. And if any of you 
Turn back from their faith and die in unbelief, their works will bear no fruit in this life 
and in the Hereafter; they will be companions of the Fire and will abide therein.

002.218  Those who believed and those who suffered exile and fought (and strove and 
struggled) in the path of God,- they have the hope of the Mercy of God: And God is 
Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

002.219  They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say: "In them is great sin, and 
some profit, for men; but the sin is greater than the profit." They ask thee how much 
they are to spend; Say: "What is beyond your needs." Thus doth God Make clear to 
you His Signs: In order that ye may consider-

002.220  (Their bearings) on this life and the Hereafter. They ask thee concerning 
orphans. Say: "The best thing to do is what is for their good; if ye mix their affairs 
with yours, they are your brethren; but God knows the man who means mischief from 
the man who means good. And if God had wished, He could have put you into 
difficulties: He is indeed Exalted in Power, Wise."

002.221  Do not marry unbelieving women (idolaters), until they believe: A slave 
woman who believes is better than an unbelieving woman, even though she allures 
you. Nor marry (your girls) to unbelievers until they believe: A man slave who 
believes is better than an unbeliever, even though he allures you. Unbelievers do (but) 
beckon you to the Fire. But God beckons by His Grace to the Garden (of bliss) and 
forgiveness, and makes His Signs clear to mankind: That they may celebrate His 
praise.

002.222  They ask thee concerning women's courses. Say: They are a hurt and a 
pollution: So keep away from women in their courses, and do not approach them until 
they are clean. But when they have purified themselves, ye may approach them in any 
manner, time, or place ordained for you by God. For God loves those who turn to 
Him constantly and He loves those who keep themselves pure and clean.

002.223  Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye 
will; but do some good act for your souls beforehand; and fear God. And know that 
ye are to meet Him (in the Hereafter), and give (these) good tidings to those who 
believe.

002.224  And make not God's (name) an excuse in your oaths against doing good, or 
acting rightly, or making peace between persons; for God is One Who heareth and 
knoweth all things.

002.225  God will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths, but for 
the intention in your hearts; and He is Oft-forgiving, Most Forbearing.

002.226  For those who take an oath for abstention from their wives, a waiting for 
four months is ordained; if then they return, God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

002.227  But if their intention is firm for divorce, God heareth and knoweth all things.

002.228  Divorced women shall wait concerning themselves for three monthly 
periods. Nor is it lawful for them to hide what God Hath created in their wombs, if 
they have faith in God and the Last Day. And their husbands have the better right to 
take them back in that period, if they wish for reconciliation. And women shall have 
rights similar to the rights against them, according to what is equitable; but men have 
a degree (of advantage) over them. And God is Exalted in Power, Wise.

002.229  A divorce is only permissible twice: after that, the parties should either hold 
Together on equitable terms, or separate with kindness. It is not lawful for you, 
(Men), to take back any of your gifts (from your wives), except when both parties fear 
that they would be unable to keep the limits ordained by God. If ye (judges) do indeed 
fear that they would be unable to keep the limits ordained by God, there is no blame 
on either of them if she give something for her freedom. These are the limits ordained 
by God; so do not transgress them if any do transgress the limits ordained by God, 
such persons wrong (Themselves as well as others).

002.230  So if a husband divorces his wife (irrevocably), He cannot, after that, re-
marry her until after she has married another husband and He has divorced her. In that 
case there is no blame on either of them if they re-unite, provided they feel that they 
can keep the limits ordained by God. Such are the limits ordained by God, which He 
makes plain to those who understand.

002.231  When ye divorce women, and they fulfil the term of their ('Iddat), either take 
them back on equitable terms or set them free on equitable terms; but do not take 
them back to injure them, (or) to take undue advantage; if any one does that; He 
wrongs his own soul. Do not treat God's Signs as a jest, but solemnly rehearse God's 
favours on you, and the fact that He sent down to you the Book and Wisdom, for your 
instruction. And fear God, and know that God is well acquainted with all things.

002.232  When ye divorce women, and they fulfil the term of their ('Iddat), do not 
prevent them from marrying their (former) husbands, if they mutually agree on 
equitable terms. This instruction is for all amongst you, who believe in God and the 
Last Day. That is (the course Making for) most virtue and purity amongst you and 
God knows, and ye know not.

002.233  The mothers shall give such to their offspring for two whole years, if the 
father desires to complete the term. But he shall bear the cost of their food and 
clothing on equitable terms. No soul shall have a burden laid on it greater than it can 
bear. No mother shall be Treated unfairly on account of her child. Nor father on 
account of his child, an heir shall be chargeable in the same way. If they both decide 
on weaning, by mutual consent, and after due consultation, there is no blame on them. 
If ye decide on a foster-mother for your offspring, there is no blame on you, provided 
ye pay (the mother) what ye offered, on equitable terms. But fear God and know that 
God sees well what ye do.

002.234  If any of you die and leave widows behind, they shall wait concerning 
themselves four months and ten days: When they have fulfilled their term, there is no 
blame on you if they dispose of themselves in a just and reasonable manner. And God 
is well acquainted with what ye do.

002.235  There is no blame on you if ye make an offer of betrothal or hold it in your 
hearts. God knows that ye cherish them in your hearts: But do not make a secret 
contract with them except in terms Honourable, nor resolve on the tie of marriage till 
the term prescribed is fulfilled. And know that God Knoweth what is in your hearts, 
and take heed of Him; and know that God is Oft-forgiving, Most Forbearing.

002.236  There is no blame on you if ye divorce women before consummation or the 
fixation of their dower; but bestow on them (A suitable gift), the wealthy according to 
his means, and the poor according to his means;- A gift of a reasonable amount is due 
from those who wish to do the right thing.

002.237  And if ye divorce them before consummation, but after the fixation of a 
dower for them, then the half of the dower (Is due to them), unless they remit it or 
(the man's half) is remitted by him in whose hands is the marriage tie; and the 
remission (of the man's half) is the nearest to righteousness. And do not forget 
Liberality between yourselves. For God sees well all that ye do.

002.238  Guard strictly your (habit of) prayers, especially the Middle Prayer; and 
stand before God in a devout (frame of mind).

002.239  If ye fear (an enemy), pray on foot, or riding, (as may be most convenient), 
but when ye are in security, celebrate God's praises in the manner He has taught you, 
which ye knew not (before).

002.240  Those of you who die and leave widows should bequeath for their widows a 
year's maintenance and residence; but if they leave (The residence), there is no blame 
on you for what they do with themselves, provided it is reasonable. And God is 
Exalted in Power, Wise.

002.241  For divorced women Maintenance (should be provided) on a reasonable 
(scale). This is a duty on the righteous.

002.242  Thus doth God Make clear His Signs to you: In order that ye may 
understand.

002.243  Didst thou not Turn by vision to those who abandoned their homes, though 
they were thousands (In number), for fear of death? God said to them: "Die": Then He 
restored them to life. For God is full of bounty to mankind, but Most of them are 
ungrateful.

002.244  Then fight in the cause of God, and know that God Heareth and knoweth all 
things.

002.245  Who is he that will loan to God a beautiful loan, which God will double unto 
his credit and multiply many times? It is God that giveth (you) Want or plenty, and to 
Him shall be your return.

002.246  Hast thou not Turned thy vision to the Chiefs of the Children of Israel after 
(the time of) Moses? they said to a prophet (That was) among them: "Appoint for us a 
king, that we May fight in the cause of God." He said: "Is it not possible, if ye were 
commanded to fight, that that ye will not fight?" They said: "How could we refuse to 
fight in the cause of God, seeing that we were turned out of our homes and our 
families?" but when they were commanded to fight, they turned back, except a small 
band among them. But God Has full knowledge of those who do wrong.

002.247  Their Prophet said to them: "God hath appointed Talut as king over you." 
They said: "How can he exercise authority over us when we are better fitted than he 
to exercise authority, and he is not even gifted, with wealth in abundance?" He said: 
"God hath Chosen him above you, and hath gifted him abundantly with knowledge 
and bodily prowess: God Granteth His authority to whom He pleaseth. God careth for 
all, and He knoweth all things."

002.248  And (further) their Prophet said to them: "A Sign of his authority is that 
there shall come to you the Ark of the covenant, with (an assurance) therein of 
security from your Lord, and the relics left by the family of Moses and the family of 
Aaron, carried by angels. In this is a symbol for you if ye indeed have faith."

002.249  When Talut set forth with the armies, he said: "God will test you at the 
stream: if any drinks of its water, He goes not with my army: Only those who taste 
not of it go with me: A mere sip out of the hand is excused." but they all drank of it, 
except a few. When they crossed the river,- He and the faithful ones with him,- they 
said: "This day We cannot cope with Goliath and his forces." but those who were 
convinced that they must meet God, said: "How oft, by God's will, Hath a small force 
vanquished a big one? God is with those who steadfastly persevere."

002.250  When they advanced to meet Goliath and his forces, they prayed: "Our 
Lord! Pour out constancy on us and make our steps firm: Help us against those that 
reject faith."

002.251  By God's will they routed them; and David slew Goliath; and God gave him 
power and wisdom and taught him whatever (else) He willed. And did not God Check 
one set of people by means of another, the earth would indeed be full of mischief: But 
God is full of bounty to all the worlds.

002.252  These are the Signs of God: we rehearse them to thee in truth: verily Thou 
art one of the apostles.

002.253  Those apostles We endowed with gifts, some above others: To one of them 
God spoke; others He raised to degrees (of honour); to Jesus the son of Mary We gave 
clear (Signs), and strengthened him with the holy spirit. If God had so willed, 
succeeding generations would not have fought among each other, after clear (Signs) 
had come to them, but they (chose) to wrangle, some believing and others rejecting. If 
God had so willed, they would not have fought each other; but God Fulfilleth His 
plan.

002.254  O ye who believe! Spend out of (the bounties) We have provided for you, 
before the Day comes when no bargaining (Will avail), nor friendship nor 
intercession. Those who reject Faith they are the wrong-doers.

002.255  God! There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No 
slumber can seize Him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who 
is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what 
(appeareth to His creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass 
aught of His knowledge except as He willeth. His Throne doth extend over the 
heavens and the earth, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them for 
He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory).

002.256  Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: 
whoever rejects evil and believes in God hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-
hold, that never breaks. And God heareth and knoweth all things.

002.257  God is the Protector of those who have faith: from the depths of darkness He 
will lead them forth into light. Of those who reject faith the patrons are the evil ones: 
from light they will lead them forth into the depths of darkness. They will be 
companions of the fire, to dwell therein (For ever).

002.258  Hast thou not Turned thy vision to one who disputed with Abraham About 
his Lord, because God had granted him power? Abraham said: "My Lord is He Who 
Giveth life and death." He said: "I give life and death". Said Abraham: "But it is God 
that causeth the sun to rise from the east: Do thou then cause him to rise from the 
West." Thus was he confounded who (in arrogance) rejected faith. Nor doth God Give 
guidance to a people unjust.

002.259  Or (take) the similitude of one who passed by a hamlet, all in ruins to its 
roofs. He said: "Oh! how shall God bring it (ever) to life, after (this) its death?" but 
God caused him to die for a hundred years, then raised him up (again). He said: "How 
long didst thou tarry (thus)?" He said: (Perhaps) a day or part of a day." He said: 
"Nay, thou hast tarried thus a hundred years; but look at thy food and thy drink; they 
show no signs of age; and look at thy donkey: And that We may make of thee a sign 
unto the people, Look further at the bones, how We bring them together and clothe 
them with flesh." When this was shown clearly to him, he said: "I know that God hath 
power over all things."

002.260  Behold! Abraham said: "My Lord! Show me how Thou givest life to the 
dead." He said: "Dost thou not then believe?" He said: "Yea! but to satisfy My own 
undertaking." He said: "Take four birds; Tame them to turn to thee; put a portion of 
them on every hill and call to them: They will come to thee (Flying) with speed. Then 
know that God is Exalted in Power, Wise."

002.261  The parable of those who spend their substance in the way of God is that of 
a grain of corn: it groweth seven ears, and each ear Hath a hundred grains. God giveth 
manifold increase to whom He pleaseth: And God careth for all and He knoweth all 
things.

002.262  Those who spend their substance in the cause of God, and follow not up 
their gifts with reminders of their generosity or with injury,-for them their reward is 
with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

002.263  Kind words and the covering of faults are better than charity followed by 
injury. God is free of all wants, and He is Most-Forbearing.

002.264  O ye who believe! cancel not your charity by reminders of your generosity 
or by injury,- like those who spend their substance to be seen of men, but believe 
neither in God nor in the Last Day. They are in parable like a hard, barren rock, on 
which is a little soil: on it falls heavy rain, which leaves it (Just) a bare stone. They 
will be able to do nothing with aught they have earned. And God guideth not those 
who reject faith.

002.265  And the likeness of those who spend their substance, seeking to please God 
and to strengthen their souls, is as a garden, high and fertile: heavy rain falls on it but 
makes it yield a double increase of harvest, and if it receives not Heavy rain, light 
moisture sufficeth it. God seeth well whatever ye do.

002.266  Does any of you wish that he should have a garden with date-palms and 
vines and streams flowing underneath, and all kinds of fruit, while he is stricken with 
old age, and his children are not strong (enough to look after themselves)- that it 
should be caught in a whirlwind, with fire therein, and be burnt up? Thus doth God 
make clear to you (His) Signs; that ye may consider.

002.267  O ye who believe! Give of the good things which ye have (honourably) 
earned, and of the fruits of the earth which We have produced for you, and do not 
even aim at getting anything which is bad, in order that out of it ye may give away 
something, when ye yourselves would not receive it except with closed eyes. And 
know that God is Free of all wants, and worthy of all praise.

002.268  The Evil one threatens you with poverty and bids you to conduct unseemly. 
God promiseth you His forgiveness and bounties. And God careth for all and He 
knoweth all things.

002.269  He granteth wisdom to whom He pleaseth; and he to whom wisdom is 
granted receiveth indeed a benefit overflowing; but none will grasp the Message but 
men of understanding.

002.270  And whatever ye spend in charity or devotion, be sure God knows it all. But 
the wrong-doers have no helpers.

002.271  If ye disclose (acts of) charity, even so it is well, but if ye conceal them, and 
make them reach those (really) in need, that is best for you: It will remove from you 
some of your (stains of) evil. And God is well acquainted with what ye do.

002.272  It is not required of thee (O Apostle), to set them on the right path, but God 
sets on the right path whom He pleaseth. Whatever of good ye give benefits your own 
souls, and ye shall only do so seeking the "Face" of God. Whatever good ye give, 
shall be rendered back to you, and ye shall not Be dealt with unjustly.

002.273  (Charity is) for those in need, who, in God's cause are restricted (from 
travel), and cannot move about in the land, seeking (For trade or work): the ignorant 
man thinks, because of their modesty, that they are free from want. Thou shalt know 
them by their (Unfailing) mark: They beg not importunately from all the sundry. And 
whatever of good ye give, be assured God knoweth it well.

002.274  Those who (in charity) spend of their goods by night and by day, in secret 
and in public, have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall 
they grieve.

002.275  Those who devour usury will not stand except as stand one whom the Evil 
one by his touch Hath driven to madness. That is because they say: "Trade is like 
usury," but God hath permitted trade and forbidden usury. Those who after receiving 
direction from their Lord, desist, shall be pardoned for the past; their case is for God 
(to judge); but those who repeat (The offence) are companions of the Fire: They will 
abide therein (for ever).

002.276  God will deprive usury of all blessing, but will give increase for deeds of 
charity: For He loveth not creatures ungrateful and wicked.

002.277  Those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, and establish regular 
prayers and regular charity, will have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be 
no fear, nor shall they grieve.

002.278  O ye who believe! Fear God, and give up what remains of your demand for 
usury, if ye are indeed believers.

002.279  If ye do it not, Take notice of war from God and His Apostle: But if ye turn 
back, ye shall have your capital sums: Deal not unjustly, and ye shall not be dealt 
with unjustly.

002.280  If the debtor is in a difficulty, grant him time Till it is easy for him to repay. 
But if ye remit it by way of charity, that is best for you if ye only knew.

002.281  And fear the Day when ye shall be brought back to God. Then shall every 
soul be paid what it earned, and none shall be dealt with unjustly.

002.282  O ye who believe! When ye deal with each other, in transactions involving 
future obligations in a fixed period of time, reduce them to writing Let a scribe write 
down faithfully as between the parties: let not the scribe refuse to write: as God Has 
taught him, so let him write. Let him who incurs the liability dictate, but let him fear 
His Lord God, and not diminish aught of what he owes. If they party liable is 
mentally deficient, or weak, or unable Himself to dictate, Let his guardian dictate 
faithfully, and get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, 
then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them 
errs, the other can remind her. The witnesses should not refuse when they are called 
on (For evidence). Disdain not to reduce to writing (your contract) for a future period, 
whether it be small or big: it is juster in the sight of God, More suitable as evidence, 
and more convenient to prevent doubts among yourselves but if it be a transaction 
which ye carry out on the spot among yourselves, there is no blame on you if ye 
reduce it not to writing. But take witness whenever ye make a commercial contract; 
and let neither scribe nor witness suffer harm. If ye do (such harm), it would be 
wickedness in you. So fear God; For it is Good that teaches you. And God is well 
acquainted with all things. If ye are on a journey, and cannot find a scribe, a pledge 
with possession (may serve the purpose). And if one of you deposits a thing on trust 
with another, let the trustee (faithfully) discharge his trust, and let him Fear his Lord 
conceal not evidence; for whoever conceals it, - his heart is tainted with sin. And God 
knoweth all that ye do.

002.283  If ye are on a journey, and cannot find a scribe, a pledge with possession 
(may serve the purpose). And if one of you deposits a thing on trust with another, Let 
the trustee (Faithfully) discharge His trust, and let him fear his Lord. Conceal not 
evidence; for whoever conceals it,- His heart is tainted with sin. And God Knoweth 
all that ye do.

002.284  To God belongeth all that is in the heavens and on earth. Whether ye show 
what is in your minds or conceal it, God Calleth you to account for it. He forgiveth 
whom He pleaseth, and punisheth whom He pleaseth, for God hath power over all 
things.

002.285  The Apostle believeth in what hath been revealed to him from his Lord, as 
do the men of faith. Each one (of them) believeth in God, His angels, His books, and 
His apostles. "We make no distinction (they say) between one and another of His 
apostles." And they say: "We hear, and we obey: (We seek) Thy forgiveness, our 
Lord, and to Thee is the end of all journeys."

002.286  On no soul doth God Place a burden greater than it can bear. It gets every 
good that it earns, and it suffers every ill that it earns. (Pray:) "Our Lord! Condemn us 
not if we forget or fall into error; our Lord! Lay not on us a burden Like that which 
Thou didst lay on those before us; Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden greater than we 
have strength to bear. Blot out our sins, and grant us forgiveness. Have mercy on us. 
Thou art our Protector; Help us against those who stand against faith."

THE FAMILY OF 'IMRAN, THE HOUSE OF 'IMRAN,  CHAPTER NO.  003

003.001  A. L. M.

003.002  God! There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-Subsisting, Eternal.

003.003  It is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book, confirming 
what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) 
before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (of judgment 
between right and wrong).

003.004  Then those who reject Faith in the Signs of God will suffer the severest 
penalty, and God is Exalted in Might, Lord of Retribution.

003.005  From God, verily nothing is hidden on earth or in the heavens.

003.006  He it is Who shapes you in the wombs as He pleases. There is no god but 
He, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

003.007  He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: In it are verses basic or 
fundamental (of established meaning); they are the foundation of the Book: others are 
allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is 
allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings, but no one knows 
its hidden meanings except God. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge 
say: "We believe in the Book; the whole of it is from our Lord:" and none will grasp 
the Message except men of understanding.

003.008  "Our Lord!" (they say), "Let not our hearts deviate now after Thou hast 
guided us, but grant us mercy from Thine own Presence; for Thou art the Grantor of 
bounties without measure.

003.009  "Our Lord! Thou art He that will gather mankind Together against a day 
about which there is no doubt; for God never fails in His promise."

003.010  Those who reject Faith,- neither their possessions nor their (numerous) 
progeny will avail them aught against God: They are themselves but fuel for the Fire.

003.011  (Their plight will be) no better than that of the people of Pharaoh, and their 
predecessors: They denied our Signs, and God called them to account for their sins. 
For God is strict in punishment.

003.012  Say to those who reject Faith: "Soon will ye be vanquished and gathered 
together to Hell,-an evil bed indeed (to lie on)!

003.013  "There has already been for you a Sign in the two armies that met (in 
combat): One was fighting in the cause of God, the other resisting God; these saw 
with their own eyes Twice their number. But God doth support with His aid whom He 
pleaseth. In this is a warning for such as have eyes to see."

003.014  Fair in the eyes of men is the love of things they covet: Women and sons; 
Heaped-up hoards of gold and silver; horses branded (for blood and excellence); and 
(wealth of) cattle and well-tilled land. Such are the possessions of this world's life; but 
in nearness to God is the best of the goals (To return to).

003.015  Say: Shall I give you glad tidings of things Far better than those? For the 
righteous are Gardens in nearness to their Lord, with rivers flowing beneath; therein is 
their eternal home; with companions pure (and holy); and the good pleasure of God. 
For in God's sight are (all) His servants,-

003.016  (Namely), those who say: "Our Lord! we have indeed believed: forgive us, 
then, our sins, and save us from the agony of the Fire;"-

003.017  Those who show patience, Firmness and self-control; who are true (in word 
and deed); who worship devoutly; who spend (in the way of God); and who pray for 
forgiveness in the early hours of the morning.

003.018  There is no god but He: That is the witness of God, His angels, and those 
endued with knowledge, standing firm on justice. There is no god but He, the Exalted 
in Power, the Wise.

003.019  The Religion before God is Islam (submission to His Will): Nor did the 
People of the Book dissent therefrom except through envy of each other, after 
knowledge had come to them. But if any deny the Signs of God, God is swift in 
calling to account.

003.020  So if they dispute with thee, say: "I have submitted My whole self to God 
and so have those who follow me." And say to the People of the Book and to those 
who are unlearned: "Do ye (also) submit yourselves?" If they do, they are in right 
guidance, but if they turn back, Thy duty is to convey the Message; and in God's sight 
are (all) His servants.

003.021  As to those who deny the Signs of God and in defiance of right, slay the 
prophets, and slay those who teach just dealing with mankind, announce to them a 
grievous penalty.

003.022  They are those whose works will bear no fruit in this world and in the 
Hereafter nor will they have anyone to help.

003.023  Hast thou not turned Thy vision to those who have been given a portion of 
the Book? They are invited to the Book of God, to settle their dispute, but a party of 
them Turn back and decline (The arbitration).

003.024  This because they say: "The Fire shall not touch us but for a few numbered 
days": For their forgeries deceive them as to their own religion.

003.025  But how (will they fare) when we gather them together against a day about 
which there is no doubt, and each soul will be paid out just what it has earned, 
without (favour or) injustice?

003.026  Say: "O God! Lord of Power (And Rule), Thou givest power to whom Thou 
pleasest, and Thou strippest off power from whom Thou pleasest: Thou enduest with 
honour whom Thou pleasest, and Thou bringest low whom Thou pleasest: In Thy 
hand is all good. Verily, over all things Thou hast power.

003.027  "Thou causest the night to gain on the day, and thou causest the day to gain 
on the night; Thou bringest the Living out of the dead, and Thou bringest the dead out 
of the Living; and Thou givest sustenance to whom Thou pleasest, without measure."

003.028  Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than 
believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from God: except by way of 
precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them. But God cautions you (To 
remember) Himself; for the final goal is to God.

003.029  Say: "Whether ye hide what is in your hearts or reveal it, God knows it all: 
He knows what is in the heavens, and what is on earth. And God has power over all 
things.

003.030  "On the Day when every soul will be confronted with all the good it has 
done, and all the evil it has done, it will wish there were a great distance between it 
and its evil. But God cautions you (To remember) Himself. And God is full of 
kindness to those that serve Him."

003.031  Say: "If ye do love God, Follow me: God will love you and forgive you your 
sins: For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

003.032  Say: "Obey God and His Apostle": But if they turn back, God loveth not 
those who reject Faith.

003.033  God did choose Adam and Noah, the family of Abraham, and the family of 
'Imran above all people,-

003.034  Offspring, one of the other: And God heareth and knoweth all things.

003.035  Behold! a woman of 'Imran said: "O my Lord! I do dedicate unto Thee what 
is in my womb for Thy special service: So accept this of me: For Thou hearest and 
knowest all things."

003.036  When she was delivered, she said: "O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a 
female child!"- and God knew best what she brought forth- "And no wise is the male 
Like the female. I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy 
protection from the Evil One, the Rejected."

003.037  Right graciously did her Lord accept her: He made her grow in purity and 
beauty: To the care of Zakariya was she assigned. Every time that he entered (Her) 
chamber to see her, He found her supplied with sustenance. He said: "O Mary! 
Whence (comes) this to you?" She said: "From God: for God Provides sustenance to 
whom He pleases without measure."

003.038  There did Zakariya pray to his Lord, saying: "O my Lord! Grant unto me 
from Thee a progeny that is pure: for Thou art He that heareth prayer!

003.039  While he was standing in prayer in the chamber, the angels called unto him: 
"God doth give thee glad tidings of Yahya, witnessing the truth of a Word from God, 
and (be besides) noble, chaste, and a prophet,- of the (goodly) company of the 
righteous."

003.040  He said: "O my Lord! How shall I have son, seeing I am very old, and my 
wife is barren?" "Thus," was the answer, "Doth God accomplish what He willeth."

003.041  He said: "O my Lord! Give me a Sign!" "Thy Sign," was the answer, "Shall 
be that thou shalt speak to no man for three days but with signals. Then celebrate the 
praises of thy Lord again and again, and glorify Him in the evening and in the 
morning."

003.042  Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! God hath chosen thee and purified thee- 
chosen thee above the women of all nations.

003.043  "O Mary! worship Thy Lord devoutly: Prostrate thyself, and bow down (in 
prayer) with those who bow down."

003.044  This is part of the tidings of the things unseen, which We reveal unto thee 
(O Apostle!) by inspiration: Thou wast not with them when they cast lots with arrows, 
as to which of them should be charged with the care of Mary: Nor wast thou with 
them when they disputed (the point).

003.045  Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word 
from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this 
world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to God;

003.046  "He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be 
(of the company) of the righteous."

003.047  She said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched 
me?" He said: "Even so: God createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, 
He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is!

003.048  "And God will teach him the Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel,

003.049  "And (appoint him) an apostle to the Children of Israel, (with this message): 
"'I have come to you, with a Sign from your Lord, in that I make for you out of clay, 
as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by God's 
leave: And I heal those born blind, and the lepers, and I quicken the dead, by God's 
leave; and I declare to you what ye eat, and what ye store in your houses. Surely 
therein is a Sign for you if ye did believe;

003.050  "'(I have come to you), to attest the Law which was before me. And to make 
lawful to you part of what was (Before) forbidden to you; I have come to you with a 
Sign from your Lord. So fear God, and obey me.

003.051  "'It is God Who is my Lord and your Lord; then worship Him. This is a Way 
that is straight.'"

003.052  When Jesus found Unbelief on their part He said: "Who will be My helpers 
to (the work of) God?" Said the disciples: "We are God's helpers: We believe in God, 
and do thou bear witness that we are Muslims.

003.053  "Our Lord! we believe in what Thou hast revealed, and we follow the 
Apostle; then write us down among those who bear witness."

003.054  And (the unbelievers) plotted and planned, and God too planned, and the 
best of planners is God.

003.055  Behold! God said: "O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and 
clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow 
thee superior to those who reject faith, to the Day of Resurrection: Then shall ye all 
return unto me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.

003.056  "As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this 
world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help."

003.057  "As to those who believe and work righteousness, God will pay them (in 
full) their reward; but God loveth not those who do wrong."

003.058  "This is what we rehearse unto thee of the Signs and the Message of 
Wisdom."

003.059  The similitude of Jesus before God is as that of Adam; He created him from 
dust, then said to him: "Be". And he was.

003.060  The Truth (comes) from God alone; so be not of those who doubt.

003.061  If any one disputes in this matter with thee, now after (full) knowledge Hath 
come to thee, say: "Come! let us gather together,- our sons and your sons, our women 
and your women, ourselves and yourselves: Then let us earnestly pray, and invoke the 
curse of God on those who lie!"

003.062  This is the true account: There is no god except God; and God-He is indeed 
the Exalted in Power, the Wise.

003.063  But if they turn back, God hath full knowledge of those who do mischief.

003.064  Say: "O People of the Book! come to common terms as between us and you: 
That we worship none but God; that we associate no partners with him; that we erect 
not, from among ourselves, Lords and patrons other than God." If then they turn back, 
say ye: "Bear witness that we (at least) are Muslims (bowing to God's Will).

003.065  Ye People of the Book! Why dispute ye about Abraham, when the Law and 
the Gospel Were not revealed Till after him? Have ye no understanding?

003.066  Ah! Ye are those who fell to disputing (Even) in matters of which ye had 
some knowledge! but why dispute ye in matters of which ye have no knowledge? It is 
God Who knows, and ye who know not!

003.067  Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian; but he was true in Faith, and 
bowed his will to God's (Which is Islam), and he joined not gods with God.

003.068  Without doubt, among men, the nearest of kin to Abraham, are those who 
follow him, as are also this Apostle and those who believe: And God is the Protector 
of those who have faith.

003.069  It is the wish of a section of the People of the Book to lead you astray. But 
they shall lead astray (Not you), but themselves, and they do not perceive!

003.070  Ye People of the Book! Why reject ye the Signs of God, of which ye are 
(Yourselves) witnesses?

003.071  Ye People of the Book! Why do ye clothe Truth with falsehood, and conceal 
the Truth, while ye have knowledge?

003.072  A section of the People of the Book say: "Believe in the morning what is 
revealed to the believers, but reject it at the end of the day; perchance they may 
(themselves) Turn back;

003.073  "And believe no one unless he follows your religion." Say: "True guidance 
is the Guidance of God: (Fear ye) Lest a revelation be sent to someone (else) Like 
unto that which was sent unto you? or that those (Receiving such revelation) should 
engage you in argument before your Lord?" Say: "All bounties are in the hand of 
God: He granteth them to whom He pleaseth: And God careth for all, and He 
knoweth all things."

003.074  For His Mercy He specially chooseth whom He pleaseth; for God is the 
Lord of bounties unbounded.

003.075  Among the People of the Book are some who, if entrusted with a hoard of 
gold, will (readily) pay it back; others, who, if entrusted with a single silver coin, will 
not repay it unless thou constantly stoodest demanding, because, they say, "there is no 
call on us (to keep faith) with these ignorant (Pagans)." but they tell a lie against God, 
and (well) they know it.

003.076  Nay.- Those that keep their plighted faith and act aright,-verily God loves 
those who act aright.

003.077  As for those who sell the faith they owe to God and their own plighted word 
for a small price, they shall have no portion in the Hereafter: Nor will God (Deign to) 
speak to them or look at them on the Day of Judgment, nor will He cleans them (of 
sin): They shall have a grievous penalty.

003.078  There is among them a section who distort the Book with their tongues: (As 
they read) you would think it is a part of the Book, but it is no part of the Book; and 
they say, "That is from God," but it is not from God: It is they who tell a lie against 
God, and (well) they know it!

003.079  It is not (possible) that a man, to whom is given the Book, and Wisdom, and 
the prophetic office, should say to people: "Be ye my worshippers rather than God's": 
on the contrary (He would say) "Be ye worshippers of Him Who is truly the Cherisher 
of all: For ye have taught the Book and ye have studied it earnestly."

003.080  Nor would he instruct you to take angels and prophets for Lords and patrons. 
What! would he bid you to unbelief after ye have bowed your will (To God in Islam)?

003.081  Behold! God took the covenant of the prophets, saying: "I give you a Book 
and Wisdom; then comes to you an apostle, confirming what is with you; do ye 
believe in him and render him help." God said: "Do ye agree, and take this my 
Covenant as binding on you?" They said: "We agree." He said: "Then bear witness, 
and I am with you among the witnesses."

003.082  If any turn back after this, they are perverted transgressors.

003.083  Do they seek for other than the Religion of God?-while all creatures in the 
heavens and on earth have, willing or unwilling, bowed to His Will (Accepted Islam), 
and to Him shall they all be brought back.

003.084  Say: "We believe in God, and in what has been revealed to us and what was 
revealed to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to 
Moses, Jesus, and the prophets, from their Lord: We make no distinction between one 
and another among them, and to God do we bow our will (in Islam)."

003.085  If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to God), never will 
it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have 
lost (All spiritual good).

003.086  How shall God Guide those who reject Faith after they accepted it and bore 
witness that the Apostle was true and that Clear Signs had come unto them? but God 
guides not a people unjust.

003.087  Of such the reward is that on them (rests) the curse of God, of His angels, 
and of all mankind;-

003.088  In that will they dwell; nor will their penalty be lightened, nor respite be 
(their lot);-

003.089  Except for those that repent (Even) after that, and make amends; for verily 
God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

003.090  But those who reject Faith after they accepted it, and then go on adding to 
their defiance of Faith,- never will their repentance be accepted; for they are those 
who have (of set purpose) gone astray.

003.091  As to those who reject Faith, and die rejecting,- never would be accepted 
from any such as much gold as the earth contains, though they should offer it for 
ransom. For such is (in store) a penalty grievous, and they will find no helpers.

003.092  By no means shall ye attain righteousness unless ye give (freely) of that 
which ye love; and whatever ye give, of a truth God knoweth it well.

003.093  All food was lawful to the Children of Israel, except what Israel Made 
unlawful for itself, before the Law (of Moses) was revealed. Say: "Bring ye the Law 
and study it, if ye be men of truth."

003.094  If any, after this, invent a lie and attribute it to God, they are indeed unjust 
wrong-doers.

003.095  Say: "God speaketh the Truth: follow the religion of Abraham, the sane in 
faith; he was not of the Pagans."

003.096  The first House (of worship) appointed for men was that at Bakka: Full of 
blessing and of guidance for all kinds of beings:

003.097  In it are Signs Manifest; (for example), the Station of Abraham; whoever 
enters it attains security; Pilgrimage thereto is a duty men owe to God,- those who can 
afford the journey; but if any deny faith, God stands not in need of any of His 
creatures.

003.098  Say: "O People of the Book! Why reject ye the Signs of God, when God is 
Himself witness to all ye do?"

003.099  Say: "O ye People of the Book! Why obstruct ye those who believe, from 
the path of God, Seeking to make it crooked, while ye were yourselves witnesses (to 
God's Covenant)? but God is not unmindful of all that ye do."

003.100  O ye who believe! If ye listen to a faction among the People of the Book, 
they would (indeed) render you apostates after ye have believed!

003.101  And how would ye deny Faith while unto you are rehearsed the Signs of 
God, and among you Lives the Apostle? Whoever holds firmly to God will be shown 
a way that is straight.

003.102  O ye who believe! Fear God as He should be feared, and die not except in a 
state of Islam.

003.103  And hold fast, all together, by the rope which God (stretches out for you), 
and be not divided among yourselves; and remember with gratitude God's favour on 
you; for ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love, so that by His Grace, ye 
became brethren; and ye were on the brink of the pit of Fire, and He saved you from 
it. Thus doth God make His Signs clear to you: That ye may be guided.

003.104  Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, 
enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: They are the ones to attain 
felicity.

003.105  Be not like those who are divided amongst themselves and fall into 
disputations after receiving Clear Signs: For them is a dreadful penalty,-

003.106  On the Day when some faces will be (lit up with) white, and some faces will 
be (in the gloom of) black: To those whose faces will be black, (will be said): "Did ye 
reject Faith after accepting it? Taste then the penalty for rejecting Faith."

003.107  But those whose faces will be (lit with) white,- they will be in (the light of) 
God's mercy: therein to dwell (for ever).

003.108  These are the Signs of God: We rehearse them to thee in Truth: And God 
means no injustice to any of His creatures.

003.109  To God belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth: To Him do all 
questions go back (for decision).

003.110  Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, 
forbidding what is wrong, and believing in God. If only the People of the Book had 
faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them 
are perverted transgressors.

003.111  They will do you no harm, barring a trifling annoyance; if they come out to 
fight you, they will show you their backs, and no help shall they get.

003.112  Shame is pitched over them (Like a tent) wherever they are found, except 
when under a covenant (of protection) from God and from men; they draw on 
themselves wrath from God, and pitched over them is (the tent of) destitution. This 
because they rejected the Signs of God, and slew the prophets in defiance of right; 
this because they rebelled and transgressed beyond bounds.

003.113  Not all of them are alike: Of the People of the Book are a portion that stand 
(For the right): They rehearse the Signs of God all night long, and they prostrate 
themselves in adoration.

003.114  They believe in God and the Last Day; they enjoin what is right, and forbid 
what is wrong; and they hasten (in emulation) in (all) good works: They are in the 
ranks of the righteous.

003.115  Of the good that they do, nothing will be rejected of them; for God knoweth 
well those that do right.

003.116  Those who reject Faith,- neither their possessions nor their (numerous) 
progeny will avail them aught against God: They will be companions of the Fire,-
dwelling therein (for ever).

003.117  What they spend in the life of this (material) world May be likened to a 
wind which brings a nipping frost: It strikes and destroys the harvest of men who 
have wronged their own souls: it is not God that hath wronged them, but they wrong 
themselves.

003.118  O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: 
They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already 
appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made 
plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom.

003.119  Ah! ye are those who love them, but they love you not,- though ye believe in 
the whole of the Book. When they meet you, they say, "We believe": But when they 
are alone, they bite off the very tips of their fingers at you in their rage. Say: "Perish 
in you rage; God knoweth well all the secrets of the heart."

003.120  If aught that is good befalls you, it grieves them; but if some misfortune 
overtakes you, they rejoice at it. But if ye are constant and do right, not the least harm 
will their cunning do to you; for God Compasseth round about all that they do.

003.121  Remember that morning Thou didst leave Thy household (early) to post the 
faithful at their stations for battle: And God heareth and knoweth all things:

003.122  Remember two of your parties Meditated cowardice; but God was their 
protector, and in God should the faithful (Ever) put their trust.

003.123  God had helped you at Badr, when ye were a contemptible little force; then 
fear God; thus May ye show your gratitude.

003.124  Remember thou saidst to the Faithful: "Is it not enough for you that God 
should help you with three thousand angels (Specially) sent down?

003.125  "Yea, - if ye remain firm, and act aright, even if the enemy should rush here 
on you in hot haste, your Lord would help you with five thousand angels Making a 
terrific onslaught.

003.126  God made it but a message of hope for you, and an assurance to your hearts: 
(in any case) there is no help except from God. The Exalted, the Wise:

003.127  That He might cut off a fringe of the Unbelievers or expose them to infamy, 
and they should then be turned back, frustrated of their purpose.

003.128  Not for thee, (but for God), is the decision: Whether He turn in mercy to 
them, or punish them; for they are indeed wrong-doers.

003.129  To God belongeth all that is in the heavens and on earth. He forgiveth whom 
He pleaseth and punisheth whom He pleaseth; but God is Oft-Forgiving, Most 
Merciful.

003.130  O ye who believe! Devour not usury, doubled and multiplied; but fear God; 
that ye may (really) prosper.

003.131  Fear the Fire, which is repaired for those who reject Faith:

003.132  And obey God and the Apostle; that ye may obtain mercy.

003.133  Be quick in the race for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a Garden whose 
width is that (of the whole) of the heavens and of the earth, prepared for the 
righteous,-

003.134  Those who spend (freely), whether in prosperity, or in adversity; who 
restrain anger, and pardon (all) men;- for God loves those who do good;-

003.135  And those who, having done something to be ashamed of, or wronged their 
own souls, earnestly bring God to mind, and ask for forgiveness for their sins,- and 
who can forgive sins except God?- and are never obstinate in persisting knowingly in 
(the wrong) they have done.

003.136  For such the reward is forgiveness from their Lord, and Gardens with rivers 
flowing underneath,- an eternal dwelling: How excellent a recompense for those who 
work (and strive)!

003.137  Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel 
through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.

003.138  Here is a plain statement to men, a guidance and instruction to those who 
fear God!

003.139  So lose not heart, nor fall into despair: For ye must gain mastery if ye are 
true in Faith.

003.140  If a wound hath touched you, be sure a similar wound hath touched the 
others. Such days (of varying fortunes) We give to men and men by turns: that God 
may know those that believe, and that He may take to Himself from your ranks 
Martyr-witnesses (to Truth). And God loveth not those that do wrong.

003.141  God's object also is to purge those that are true in Faith and to deprive of 
blessing Those that resist Faith.

003.142  Did ye think that ye would enter Heaven without God testing those of you 
who fought hard (In His Cause) and remained steadfast?

003.143  Ye did indeed wish for death before ye met him: Now ye have seen him 
with your own eyes, (And ye flinch!)

003.144  Muhammad is no more than an apostle: many Were the apostle that passed 
away before him. If he died or were slain, will ye then Turn back on your heels? If 
any did turn back on his heels, not the least harm will he do to God; but God (on the 
other hand) will swiftly reward those who (serve Him) with gratitude.

003.145  Nor can a soul die except by God's leave, the term being fixed as by writing. 
If any do desire a reward in this life, We shall give it to him; and if any do desire a 
reward in the Hereafter, We shall give it to him. And swiftly shall We reward those 
that (serve us with) gratitude.

003.146  How many of the prophets fought (in God's way), and with them (fought) 
Large bands of godly men? but they never lost heart if they met with disaster in God's 
way, nor did they weaken (in will) nor give in. And God Loves those who are firm 
and steadfast.

003.147  All that they said was: "Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and anything We may 
have done that transgressed our duty: Establish our feet firmly, and help us against 
those that resist Faith."

003.148  And God gave them a reward in this world, and the excellent reward of the 
Hereafter. For God Loveth those who do good.

003.149  O ye who believe! If ye obey the Unbelievers, they will drive you back on 
your heels, and ye will turn back (from Faith) to your own loss.

003.150  Nay, God is your protector, and He is the best of helpers.

003.151  Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they 
joined companions with God, for which He had sent no authority: their abode will be 
the Fire: And evil is the home of the wrong-doers!

003.152  God did indeed fulfil His promise to you when ye with His permission Were 
about to annihilate your enemy,-until ye flinched and fell to disputing about the order, 
and disobeyed it after He brought you in sight (of the booty) which ye covet. Among 
you are some that hanker after this world and some that desire the Hereafter. Then did 
He divert you from your foes in order to test you but He forgave you: For God is full 
of grace to those who believe.

003.153  Behold! ye were climbing up the high ground, without even casting a side 
glance at any one, and the Apostle in your rear was calling you back. There did God 
give you one distress after another by way of requital, to teach you not to grieve for 
(the booty) that had escaped you and for (the ill) that had befallen you. For God is 
well aware of all that ye do.

003.154  After (the excitement) of the distress, He sent down calm on a band of you 
overcome with slumber, while another band was stirred to anxiety by their own 
feelings, Moved by wrong suspicions of God-suspicions due to ignorance. They said: 
"What affair is this of ours?" Say thou: "Indeed, this affair is wholly God's." They 
hide in their minds what they dare not reveal to thee. They say (to themselves): "If we 
had had anything to do with this affair, We should not have been in the slaughter 
here." Say: "Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death was 
decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death"; but (all this was) 
that God might test what is in your breasts and purge what is in your hearts. For God 
knoweth well the secrets of your hearts.

003.155  Those of you who turned back on the day the two hosts Met,-it was Satan 
who caused them to fail, because of some (evil) they had done. But God Has blotted 
out (their fault): For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Forbearing.

003.156  O ye who believe! Be not like the Unbelievers, who say of their brethren, 
when they are travelling through the Earth or engaged in fighting: "If they had stayed 
with us, they would not have died, or been slain." This that God may make it a cause 
of sighs and regrets in their hearts. It is God that gives Life and Death, and God sees 
well all that ye do.

003.157  And if ye are slain, or die, in the way of God, forgiveness and mercy from 
God are far better than all they could amass.

003.158  And if ye die, or are slain, Lo! it is unto God that ye are brought together.

003.159  It is part of the Mercy of God that thou dost deal gently with them Wert thou 
severe or harsh-hearted, they would have broken away from about thee: so pass over 
(Their faults), and ask for (God's) forgiveness for them; and consult them in affairs 
(of moment). Then, when thou hast Taken a decision put thy trust in God. For God 
loves those who put their trust (in Him).

003.160  If God helps you, none can overcome you: If He forsakes you, who is there, 
after that, that can help you? in God, then, Let believers put their trust.

003.161  No prophet could (ever) be false to his trust. If any person is so false, He 
shall, on the Day of Judgment, restore what he misappropriated; then shall every soul 
receive its due,- whatever it earned,- and none shall be dealt with unjustly.

003.162  Is the man who follows the good pleasure of God Like the man who draws 
on himself the wrath of God, and whose abode is in Hell?- A woeful refuge!

003.163  They are in varying gardens in the sight of God, and God sees well all that 
they do.

003.164  God did confer a great favour on the believers when He sent among them an 
apostle from among themselves, rehearsing unto them the Signs of God, sanctifying 
them, and instructing them in Scripture and Wisdom, while, before that, they had 
been in manifest error.

003.165  What! When a single disaster smites you, although ye smote (your enemies) 
with one twice as great, do ye say?- "Whence is this?" Say (to them): "It is from 
yourselves: For God hath power over all things."

003.166  What ye suffered on the day the two armies Met, was with the leave of God, 
in order that He might test the believers,-

003.167  And the Hypocrites also. These were told: "Come, fight in the way of God, 
or (at least) drive (The foe from your city)." They said: "Had we known how to fight, 
we should certainly have followed you." They were that day nearer to Unbelief than 
to Faith, saying with their lips what was not in their hearts but God hath full 
knowledge of all they conceal.

003.168  (They are) the ones that say, (of their brethren slain), while they themselves 
sit (at ease): "If only they had listened to us they would not have been slain." Say: 
"Avert death from your own selves, if ye speak the truth."

003.169  Think not of those who are slain in God's way as dead. Nay, they live, 
finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord;

003.170  They rejoice in the bounty provided by God: And with regard to those left 
behind, who have not yet joined them (in their bliss), the (Martyrs) glory in the fact 
that on them is no fear, nor have they (cause to) grieve.

003.171  They glory in the Grace and the bounty from God, and in the fact that God 
suffereth not the reward of the Faithful to be lost (in the least).

003.172  Of those who answered the call of God and the Apostle, even after being 
wounded, those who do right and refrain from wrong have a great reward;-

003.173  Men said to them: "A great army is gathering against you": And frightened 
them: But it (only) increased their Faith: They said: "For us God sufficeth, and He is 
the best disposer of affairs."

003.174  And they returned with Grace and bounty from God: no harm ever touched 
them: For they followed the good pleasure of God: And God is the Lord of bounties 
unbounded.

003.175  It is only the Evil One that suggests to you the fear of his votaries: Be ye not 
afraid of them, but fear Me, if ye have Faith.

003.176  Let not those grieve thee who rush headlong into Unbelief: Not the least 
harm will they do to God: God's plan is that He will give them no portion in the 
Hereafter, but a severe punishment.

003.177  Those who purchase Unbelief at the price of faith,- not the least harm will 
they do to God, but they will have a grievous punishment.

003.178  Let not the Unbelievers think that our respite to them is good for 
themselves: We grant them respite that they may grow in their iniquity: But they will 
have a shameful punishment.

003.179  God will not leave the believers in the state in which ye are now, until He 
separates what is evil from what is good nor will He disclose to you the secrets of the 
Unseen. But He chooses of His Apostles (For the purpose) whom He pleases. So 
believe in God. And His apostles: And if ye believe and do right, ye have a reward 
without measure.

003.180  And let not those who covetously withhold of the gifts which God Hath 
given them of His Grace, think that it is good for them: Nay, it will be the worse for 
them: soon shall the things which they covetously withheld be tied to their necks Like 
a twisted collar, on the Day of Judgment. To God belongs the heritage of the heavens 
and the earth; and God is well-acquainted with all that ye do.

003.181  God hath heard the taunt of those who say: "Truly, God is indigent and we 
are rich!"- We shall certainly record their word and (their act) of slaying the prophets 
in defiance of right, and We shall say: "Taste ye the penalty of the Scorching Fire!

003.182  "This is because of the (unrighteous deeds) which your hands sent on before 
ye: For God never harms those who serve Him."

003.183  They (also) said: "God took our promise not to believe in an apostle unless 
He showed us a sacrifice consumed by Fire (From heaven)." Say: "There came to you 
apostles before me, with clear Signs and even with what ye ask for: why then did ye 
slay them, if ye speak the truth?"

003.184  Then if they reject thee, so were rejected apostles before thee, who came 
with Clear Signs, Books of dark prophecies, and the Book of Enlightenment.

003.185  Every soul shall have a taste of death: And only on the Day of Judgment 
shall you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the Fire and 
admitted to the Garden will have attained the object (of Life): For the life of this 
world is but goods and chattels of deception.

003.186  Ye shall certainly be tried and tested in your possessions and in your 
personal selves; and ye shall certainly Hear much that will grieve you, from those 
who received the Book before you and from those who worship many gods. But if ye 
persevere patiently, and guard against evil,-then that will be a determining factor in 
all affairs.

003.187  And remember God took a covenant from the People of the Book, to make it 
known and clear to mankind, and not to hide it; but they threw it away behind their 
backs, and purchased with it some miserable gain! And vile was the bargain they 
made!

003.188  Think not that those who exult in what they have brought about, and love to 
be praised for what they have not done,- think escape the penalty. For them is a 
penalty Grievous indeed.

003.189  To God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth; and God hath 
power over all things.

003.190  Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of 
night and day,- there are indeed Signs for men of understanding,-

003.191  Men who celebrate the praises of God, standing, sitting, and lying down on 
their sides, and contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the heavens and the earth, 
(With the thought): "Our Lord! not for naught Hast Thou created (all) this! Glory to 
Thee! Give us salvation from the penalty of the Fire.

003.192  "Our Lord! any whom Thou dost admit to the Fire, Truly Thou coverest with 
shame, and never will wrong-doers Find any helpers!

003.193  "Our Lord! we have heard the call of one calling (Us) to Faith, 'Believe ye in 
the Lord,' and we have believed. Our Lord! Forgive us our sins, blot out from us our 
iniquities, and take to Thyself our souls in the company of the righteous.

003.194  "Our Lord! Grant us what Thou didst promise unto us through Thine 
apostles, and save us from shame on the Day of Judgment: For Thou never breakest 
Thy promise."

003.195  And their Lord hath accepted of them, and answered them: "Never will I 
suffer to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female: Ye are members, one 
of another: Those who have left their homes, or been driven out therefrom, or suffered 
harm in My Cause, or fought or been slain,- verily, I will blot out from them their 
iniquities, and admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing beneath;- A reward from 
the presence of God, and from His presence is the best of rewards."

003.196  Let not the strutting about of the Unbelievers through the land deceive thee:

003.197  Little is it for enjoyment: Their ultimate abode is Hell: what an evil bed (To 
lie on)!

003.198  On the other hand, for those who fear their Lord, are Gardens, with rivers 
flowing beneath; therein are they to dwell (for ever),- a gift from the presence of God; 
and that which is in the presence of God is the best (bliss) for the righteous.

003.199  And there are, certainly, among the People of the Book, those who believe 
in God, in the revelation to you, and in the revelation to them, bowing in humility to 
God: They will not sell the Signs of God for a miserable gain! For them is a reward 
with their Lord, and God is swift in account.

003.200  O ye who believe! Persevere in patience and constancy; vie in such 
perseverance; strengthen each other; and fear God; that ye may prosper.

WOMEN,  CHAPTER NO.  004

004.001  O mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single 
person, created, of like nature, His mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) 
countless men and women;- reverence God, through whom ye demand your mutual 
(rights), and (reverence) the wombs (That bore you): for God ever watches over you.

004.002  To orphans restore their property (When they reach their age), nor substitute 
(your) worthless things for (their) good ones; and devour not their substance (by 
mixing it up) with your won. For this is indeed a great sin.

004.003  If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, Marry 
women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to 
deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, 
that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice.

004.004  And give the women (on marriage) their dower as a free gift; but if they, of 
their own good pleasure, remit any part of it to you, Take it and enjoy it with right 
good cheer.

004.005  To those weak of understanding Make not over your property, which God 
hath made a means of support for you, but feed and clothe them therewith, and speak 
to them words of kindness and justice.

004.006  Make trial of orphans until they reach the age of marriage; if then ye find 
sound judgment in them, release their property to them; but consume it not 
wastefully, nor in haste against their growing up. If the guardian is well-off, Let him 
claim no remuneration, but if he is poor, let him have for himself what is just and 
reasonable. When ye release their property to them, take witnesses in their presence: 
But all-sufficient is God in taking account.

004.007  From what is left by parents and those nearest related there is a share for 
men and a share for women, whether the property be small or large,-a determinate 
share.

004.008  But if at the time of division other relatives, or orphans or poor, are present, 
feed them out of the (property), and speak to them words of kindness and justice.

004.009  Let those (disposing of an estate) have the same fear in their minds as they 
would have for their own if they had left a helpless family behind: Let them fear God, 
and speak words of appropriate (comfort).

004.010  Those who unjustly eat up the property of orphans, eat up a Fire into their 
own bodies: They will soon be enduring a Blazing Fire!

004.011  God (thus) directs you as regards your Children's (Inheritance): to the male, 
a portion equal to that of two females: if only daughters, two or more, their share is 
two-thirds of the inheritance; if only one, her share is a half. For parents, a sixth share 
of the inheritance to each, if the deceased left children; if no children, and the parents 
are the (only) heirs, the mother has a third; if the deceased Left brothers (or sisters) 
the mother has a sixth. (The distribution in all cases ('s) after the payment of legacies 
and debts. Ye know not whether your parents or your children are nearest to you in 
benefit. These are settled portions ordained by God; and God is All-knowing, Al-
wise.

004.012  In what your wives leave, your share is a half, if they leave no child; but if 
they leave a child, ye get a fourth; after payment of legacies and debts. In what ye 
leave, their share is a fourth, if ye leave no child; but if ye leave a child, they get an 
eighth; after payment of legacies and debts. If the man or woman whose inheritance is 
in question, has left neither ascendants nor descendants, but has left a brother or a 
sister, each one of the two gets a sixth; but if more than two, they share in a third; 
after payment of legacies and debts; so that no loss is caused (to any one). Thus is it 
ordained by God; and God is All-knowing, Most Forbearing.

004.013  Those are limits set by God: those who obey God and His Apostle will be 
admitted to Gardens with rivers flowing beneath, to abide therein (for ever) and that 
will be the supreme achievement.

004.014  But those who disobey God and His Apostle and transgress His limits will 
be admitted to a Fire, to abide therein: And they shall have a humiliating punishment.

004.015  If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence of four 
(Reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them 
to houses until death do claim them, or God ordain for them some (other) way.

004.016  If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they 
repent and amend, Leave them alone; for God is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.

004.017  God accept the repentance of those who do evil in ignorance and repent 
soon afterwards; to them will God turn in mercy: For God is full of knowledge and 
wisdom.

004.018  Of no effect is the repentance of those who continue to do evil, until death 
faces one of them, and he says, "Now have I repented indeed;" nor of those who die 
rejecting Faith: for them have We prepared a punishment most grievous.

004.019  O ye who believe! Ye are forbidden to inherit women against their will. Nor 
should ye treat them with harshness, that ye may Take away part of the dower ye have 
given them,-except where they have been guilty of open lewdness; on the contrary 
live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If ye take a dislike to them it may 
be that ye dislike a thing, and God brings about through it a great deal of good.

004.020  But if ye decide to take one wife in place of another, even if ye had given 
the latter a whole treasure for dower, Take not the least bit of it back: Would ye take 
it by slander and manifest wrong?

004.021  And how could ye take it when ye have gone in unto each other, and they 
have Taken from you a solemn covenant?

004.022  And marry not women whom your fathers married,- except what is past: It 
was shameful and odious,- an abominable custom indeed.

004.023  Prohibited to you (For marriage) are:- Your mothers, daughters, sisters; 
father's sisters, Mother's sisters; brother's daughters, sister's daughters; foster-mothers 
(Who gave you suck), foster-sisters; your wives' mothers; your step-daughters under 
your guardianship, born of your wives to whom ye have gone in,- no prohibition if ye 
have not gone in;- (Those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your 
loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time, except for what is past; for 
God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful;-

004.024  Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right 
hands possess: Thus hath God ordained (Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, 
all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your 
property,- desiring chastity, not lust, seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give 
them their dowers (at least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree 
Mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and God is All-knowing, All-wise.

004.025  If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women, 
they may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess: And 
God hath full knowledge about your faith. Ye are one from another: Wed them with 
the leave of their owners, and give them their dowers, according to what is 
reasonable: They should be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours: when they are 
taken in wedlock, if they fall into shame, their punishment is half that for free women. 
This (permission) is for those among you who fear sin; but it is better for you that ye 
practise self-restraint. And God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

004.026  God doth wish to make clear to you and to show you the ordinances of those 
before you; and (He doth wish to) turn to you (In Mercy): And God is All-knowing, 
All-wise.

004.027  God doth wish to Turn to you, but the wish of those who follow their lusts is 
that ye should turn away (from Him),- far, far away.

004.028  God doth wish to lighten your (difficulties): For man was created Weak (in 
flesh).

004.029  O ye who believe! Eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities: 
But let there be amongst you Traffic and trade by mutual good-will: Nor kill (or 
destroy) yourselves: for verily God hath been to you Most Merciful!

004.030  If any do that in rancour and injustice,- soon shall We cast them into the 
Fire: And easy it is for God.

004.031  If ye (but) eschew the most heinous of the things which ye are forbidden to 
do, We shall expel out of you all the evil in you, and admit you to a gate of great 
honour.

004.032  And in no wise covet those things in which God Hath bestowed His gifts 
More freely on some of you than on others: To men is allotted what they earn, and to 
women what they earn: But ask God of His bounty. For God hath full knowledge of 
all things.

004.033  To (benefit) every one, We have appointed shares and heirs to property left 
by parents and relatives. To those, also, to whom your right hand was pledged, give 
their due portion. For truly God is witness to all things.

004.034  Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because God has given 
the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their 
means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the 
husband's) absence what God would have them guard. As to those women on whose 
part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share 
their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not 
against them Means (of annoyance): For God is Most High, great (above you all).

004.035  If ye fear a breach between them twain, appoint (two) arbiters, one from his 
family, and the other from hers; if they wish for peace, God will cause their 
reconciliation: For God hath full knowledge, and is acquainted with all things.

004.036  Serve God, and join not any partners with Him; and do good- to parents, 
kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbours who are near, neighbours who are 
strangers, the companion by your side, the wayfarer (ye meet), and what your right 
hands possess: For God loveth not the arrogant, the vainglorious;-

004.037  (Nor) those who are niggardly or enjoin niggardliness on others, or hide the 
bounties which God hath bestowed on them; for We have prepared, for those who 
resist Faith, a punishment that steeps them in contempt;-

004.038  Not those who spend of their substance, to be seen of men, but have no faith 
in God and the Last Day: If any take the Evil One for their intimate, what a dreadful 
intimate he is!

004.039  And what burden Were it on them if they had faith in God and in the Last 
Day, and they spent out of what God hath given them for sustenance? For God hath 
full knowledge of them.

004.040  God is never unjust in the least degree: If there is any good (done), He 
doubleth it, and giveth from His own presence a great reward.

004.041  How then if We brought from each people a witness, and We brought thee 
as a witness against these people!

004.042  On that day those who reject Faith and disobey the apostle will wish that the 
earth Were made one with them: But never will they hide a single fact from God!

004.043  O ye who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until ye can 
understand all that ye say,- nor in a state of ceremonial impurity (Except when 
travelling on the road), until after washing your whole body. If ye are ill, or on a 
journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with 
women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub 
therewith your faces and hands. For God doth blot out sins and forgive again and 
again.

004.044  Hast thou not turned Thy vision to those who were given a portion of the 
Book? they traffic in error, and wish that ye should lose the right path.

004.045  But God hath full knowledge of your enemies: God is enough for a 
protector, and God is enough for a Helper.

004.046  Of the Jews there are those who displace words from their (right) places, and 
say: "We hear and we disobey"; and "Hear what is not Heard"; and "Ra'ina"; with a 
twist of their tongues and a slander to Faith. If only they had said: "What hear and we 
obey"; and "Do hear"; and "Do look at us"; it would have been better for them, and 
more proper; but God hath cursed them for their Unbelief; and but few of them will 
believe.

004.047  O ye People of the Book! believe in what We have (now) revealed, 
confirming what was (already) with you, before We change the face and fame of 
some (of you) beyond all recognition, and turn them hindwards, or curse them as We 
cursed the Sabbath-breakers, for the decision of God Must be carried out.

004.048  God forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth 
anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with God is to devise a sin 
Most heinous indeed.

004.049  Hast thou not turned Thy vision to those who claim sanctity for themselves? 
Nay-but God Doth sanctify whom He pleaseth. But never will they fail to receive 
justice in the least little thing.

004.050  Behold! how they invent a lie against God! but that by itself is a manifest 
sin!

004.051  Hast thou not turned Thy vision to those who were given a portion of the 
Book? they believe in sorcery and Evil, and say to the Unbelievers that they are better 
guided in the (right) way Than the believers!

004.052  They are (men) whom God hath cursed: And those whom God Hath cursed, 
thou wilt find, have no one to help.

004.053  Have they a share in dominion or power? Behold, they give not a farthing to 
their fellow-men?

004.054  Or do they envy mankind for what God hath given them of his bounty? but 
We had already given the people of Abraham the Book and Wisdom, and conferred 
upon them a great kingdom.

004.055  Some of them believed, and some of them averted their faces from him: And 
enough is Hell for a burning fire.

004.056  Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as 
their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may 
taste the penalty: for God is Exalted in Power, Wise.

004.057  But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, We shall soon admit 
to Gardens, with rivers flowing beneath,- their eternal home: Therein shall they have 
companions pure and holy: We shall admit them to shades, cool and ever deepening.

004.058  God doth command you to render back your Trusts to those to whom they 
are due; And when ye judge between man and man, that ye judge with justice: Verily 
how excellent is the teaching which He giveth you! For God is He Who heareth and 
seeth all things.

004.059  O ye who believe! Obey God, and obey the Apostle, and those charged with 
authority among you. If ye differ in anything among yourselves, refer it to God and 
His Apostle, if ye do believe in God and the Last Day: That is best, and most suitable 
for final determination.

004.060  Hast thou not turned Thy vision to those who declare that they believe in the 
revelations that have come to thee and to those before thee? Their (real) wish is to 
resort together for judgment (in their disputes) to the Evil One, though they were 
ordered to reject him. But Satan's wish is to lead them astray far away (from the 
right).

004.061  When it is said to them: "Come to what God hath revealed, and to the 
Apostle": Thou seest the Hypocrites avert their faces from thee in disgust.

004.062  How then, when they are seized by misfortune, because of the deeds which 
they hands have sent forth? Then their come to thee, swearing by God: "We meant no 
more than good-will and conciliation!"

004.063  Those men,-God knows what is in their hearts; so keep clear of them, but 
admonish them, and speak to them a word to reach their very souls.

004.064  We sent not an apostle, but to be obeyed, in accordance with the will of 
God. If they had only, when they were unjust to themselves, come unto thee and 
asked God's forgiveness, and the Apostle had asked forgiveness for them, they would 
have found God indeed Oft-returning, Most Merciful.

004.065  But no, by the Lord, they can have no (real) Faith, until they make thee 
judge in all disputes between them, and find in their souls no resistance against Thy 
decisions, but accept them with the fullest conviction.

004.066  If We had ordered them to sacrifice their lives or to leave their homes, very 
few of them would have done it: But if they had done what they were (actually) told, 
it would have been best for them, and would have gone farthest to strengthen their 
(faith);

004.067  And We should then have given them from our presence a great reward;

004.068  And We should have shown them the Straight Way.

004.069  All who obey God and the apostle are in the company of those on whom is 
the Grace of God,- of the prophets (who teach), the sincere (lovers of Truth), the 
witnesses (who testify), and the Righteous (who do good): Ah! what a beautiful 
fellowship!

004.070  Such is the bounty from God: And sufficient is it that God knoweth all.

004.071  O ye who believe! Take your precautions, and either go forth in parties or go 
forth all together.

004.072  There are certainly among you men who would tarry behind: If a misfortune 
befalls you, they say: "God did favour us in that we were not present among them."

004.073  But if good fortune comes to you from God, they would be sure to say - as if 
there had never been Ties of affection between you and them - "Oh! I wish I had been 
with them; a fine thing should I then have made of it!"

004.074  Let those fight in the cause of God Who sell the life of this world for the 
hereafter. To him who fighteth in the cause of God,- whether he is slain or gets 
victory - Soon shall We give him a reward of great (value).

004.075  And why should ye not fight in the cause of God and of those who, being 
weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)?- Men, women, and children, whose cry is: "Our 
Lord! Rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from 
thee one who will protect; and raise for us from thee one who will help!"

004.076  Those who believe fight in the cause of God, and those who reject Faith 
Fight in the cause of Evil: So fight ye against the friends of Satan: feeble indeed is the 
cunning of Satan.

004.077  Hast thou not turned Thy vision to those who were told to hold back their 
hands (from fight) but establish regular prayers and spend in regular charity? When 
(at length) the order for fighting was issued to them, behold! a section of them feared 
men as - or even more than - they should have feared God: They said: "Our Lord! 
Why hast Thou ordered us to fight? Wouldst Thou not Grant us respite to our 
(natural) term, near (enough)?" Say: "Short is the enjoyment of this world: the 
Hereafter is the best for those who do right: Never will ye be dealt with unjustly in the 
very least!

004.078  "Wherever ye are, death will find you out, even if ye are in towers built up 
strong and high!" If some good befalls them, they say, "This is from God"; but if evil, 
they say, "This is from thee" (O Prophet). Say: "All things are from God." But what 
hath come to these people, that they fail to understand a single fact?

004.079  Whatever good, (O man!) happens to thee, is from God; but whatever evil 
happens to thee, is from thy (own) soul. and We have sent thee as an apostle to 
(instruct) mankind. And enough is God for a witness.

004.080  He who obeys the Apostle, obeys God: But if any turn away, We have not 
sent thee to watch over their (evil deeds).

004.081  They have "Obedience" on their lips; but when they leave thee, a section of 
them Meditate all night on things very different from what thou tellest them. But God 
records their nightly (plots): So keep clear of them, and put thy trust in God, and 
enough is God as a disposer of affairs.

004.082  Do they not consider the Qur'an (with care)? Had it been from other Than 
God, they would surely have found therein Much discrepancy.

004.083  When there comes to them some matter touching (Public) safety or fear, 
they divulge it. If they had only referred it to the Apostle, or to those charged with 
authority among them, the proper investigators would have Tested it from them 
(direct). Were it not for the Grace and Mercy of God unto you, all but a few of you 
would have fallen into the clutches of Satan.

004.084  Then fight in God's cause - Thou art held responsible only for thyself - and 
rouse the believers. It may be that God will restrain the fury of the Unbelievers; for 
God is the strongest in might and in punishment.

004.085  Whoever recommends and helps a good cause becomes a partner therein: 
And whoever recommends and helps an evil cause, shares in its burden: And God 
hath power over all things.

004.086  When a (courteous) greeting is offered you, meet it with a greeting still more 
courteous, or (at least) of equal courtesy. God takes careful account of all things.

004.087  God! There is no god but He: of a surety He will gather you together against 
the Day of Judgment, about which there is no doubt. And whose word can be truer 
than God's?

004.088  Why should ye be divided into two parties about the Hypocrites? God hath 
upset them for their (evil) deeds. Would ye guide those whom God hath thrown out of 
the Way? For those whom God hath thrown out of the Way, never shalt thou find the 
Way.

004.089  They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the 
same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way 
of God (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay 
them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their 
ranks;-

004.090  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 fighting their own people. If God had pleased, He could have given them 
power over you, and they would have fought you: Therefore if they withdraw from 
you but fight you not, and (instead) send you (Guarantees of) peace, then God Hath 
opened no way for you (to war against them).

004.091  Others you will find that wish to gain your confidence as well as that of their 
people: Every time they are sent back to temptation, they succumb thereto: if they  
withdraw not from you nor give you (guarantees) of peace besides restraining their 
hands, seize them and slay them wherever ye get them: In their case We have 
provided you with a clear argument against them.

004.092  Never should a believer kill a believer; but (If it so happens) by mistake, 
(Compensation is due): If one (so) kills a believer, it is ordained that he should free a 
believing slave, and pay compensation to the deceased's family, unless they remit it 
freely. If the deceased belonged to a people at war with you, and he was a believer, 
the freeing of a believing slave (Is enough). If he belonged to a people with whom ye 
have treaty of Mutual alliance, compensation should be paid to his family, and a 
believing slave be freed. For those who find this beyond their means, (is prescribed) a 
fast for two months running: by way of repentance to God: for God hath all 
knowledge and all wisdom.

004.093  If a man kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide 
therein (For ever): And the wrath and the curse of God are upon him, and a dreadful 
penalty is prepared for him.

004.094  O ye who believe! When ye go abroad in the cause of God, investigate 
carefully, and say not to any one who offers you a salutation: "Thou art none of a 
believer!" Coveting the perishable goods of this life: with God are profits and spoils 
abundant. Even thus were ye yourselves before, till God conferred on you His 
favours: Therefore carefully investigate. For God is well aware of all that ye do.

004.095  Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and 
those who strive and fight in the cause of God with their goods and their persons. God 
hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons 
than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath God promised good: But 
those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a 
special reward,-

004.096  Ranks specially bestowed by Him, and Forgiveness and Mercy. For God is 
Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

004.097  When angels take the souls of those who die in sin against their souls, they 
say: "In what (plight) Were ye?" They reply: "Weak and oppressed Were we in the 
earth." They say: "Was not the earth of God spacious enough for you to move 
yourselves away (From evil)?" Such men will find their abode in Hell,- What an evil 
refuge! -

004.098  Except those who are (really) weak and oppressed - men, women, and 
children - who have no means in their power, nor (a guide-post) to their way.

004.099  For these, there is hope that God will forgive: For God doth blot out (sins) 
and forgive again and again.

004.100  He who forsakes his home in the cause of God, finds in the earth Many a 
refuge, wide and spacious: Should he die as a refugee from home for God and His 
Apostle, His reward becomes due and sure with God: And God is Oft-forgiving, Most 
Merciful.

004.101  When ye travel through the earth, there is no blame on you if ye shorten 
your prayers, for fear the Unbelievers May attack you: For the Unbelievers are unto 
you open enemies.

004.102  When thou (O Apostle) art with them, and standest to lead them in prayer, 
Let one party of them stand up (in prayer) with thee, Taking their arms with them: 
When they finish their prostrations, let them Take their position in the rear. And let 
the other party come up which hath not yet prayed - and let them pray with thee, 
Taking all precaution, and bearing arms: the Unbelievers wish, if ye were negligent of 
your arms and your baggage, to assault you in a single rush. But there is no blame on 
you if ye put away your arms because of the inconvenience of rain or because ye are 
ill; but take (every) precaution for yourselves. For the Unbelievers God hath prepared 
a humiliating punishment.

004.103  When ye pass (Congregational) prayers, celebrate God's praises, standing, 
sitting down, or lying down on your sides; but when ye are free from danger, set up 
Regular Prayers: For such prayers are enjoined on believers at stated times.

004.104  And slacken not in following up the enemy: If ye are suffering hardships, 
they are suffering similar hardships; but ye have Hope from God, while they have 
none. And God is full of knowledge and wisdom.

004.105  We have sent down to thee the Book in truth, that thou mightest judge 
between men, as guided by God: so be not (used) as an advocate by those who betray 
their trust;

004.106  But seek the forgiveness of God; for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

004.107  Contend not on behalf of such as betray their own souls; for God loveth not 
one given to perfidy and crime:

004.108  They may hide (Their crimes) from men, but they cannot hide (Them) from 
God, seeing that He is in their midst when they plot by night, in words that He cannot 
approve: And God Doth compass round all that they do.

004.109  Ah! These are the sort of men on whose behalf ye may contend in this 
world; but who will contend with God on their behalf on the Day of Judgment, or 
who will carry their affairs through?

004.110  If any one does evil or wrongs his own soul but afterwards seeks God's 
forgiveness, he will find God Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

004.111  And if any one earns sin. he earns it against His own soul: for God is full of 
knowledge and wisdom.

004.112  But if any one earns a fault or a sin and throws it on to one that is innocent, 
He carries (on himself) (Both) a falsehood and a flagrant sin.

004.113  But for the Grace of God to thee and his Mercy, a party of them would 
certainly have plotted to lead thee astray. But (in fact) they will only Lead their own 
souls astray, and to thee they can do no harm in the least. For God hath sent down to 
thee the Book and wisdom and taught thee what thou Knewest not (before): And great 
is the Grace of God unto thee.

004.114  In most of their secret talks there is no good: But if one exhorts to a deed of 
charity or justice or conciliation between men, (Secrecy is permissible): To him who 
does this, seeking the good pleasure of God, We shall soon give a reward of the 
highest (value).

004.115  If anyone contends with the Apostle even after guidance has been plainly 
conveyed to him, and follows a path other than that becoming to men of Faith, We 
shall leave him in the path he has chosen, and land him in Hell,- what an evil refuge!

004.116  God forgiveth not (The sin of) joining other gods with Him; but He 
forgiveth whom He pleaseth other sins than this: one who joins other gods with God, 
Hath strayed far, far away (from the right).

004.117  (The Pagans), leaving Him, call but upon female deities: They call but upon 
satan the persistent rebel!

004.118  God did curse him, but he said: "I will take of Thy servants a portion 
Marked off;

004.119  "I will mislead them, and I will create in them false desires; I will order 
them to slit the ears of cattle, and to deface the (fair) nature created by God." 
Whoever, forsaking God, takes satan for a friend, hath of a surety suffered a loss that 
is manifest.

004.120  Satan makes them promises, and creates in them false desires; but satan's 
promises are nothing but deception.

004.121  They (his dupes) will have their dwelling in Hell, and from it they will find 
no way of escape.

004.122  But those who believe and do deeds of righteousness,- we shall soon admit 
them to gardens, with rivers flowing beneath,-to dwell therein for ever. God's promise 
is the truth, and whose word can be truer than God's?

004.123  Not your desires, nor those of the People of the Book (can prevail): whoever 
works evil, will be requited accordingly. Nor will he find, besides God, any protector 
or helper.

004.124  If any do deeds of righteousness,- be they male or female - and have faith, 
they will enter Heaven, and not the least injustice will be done to them.

004.125  Who can be better in religion than one who submits his whole self to God, 
does good, and follows the way of Abraham the true in Faith? For God did take 
Abraham for a friend.

004.126  But to God belong all things in the heavens and on earth: And He it is that 
Encompasseth all things.

004.127  They ask thy instruction concerning the women say: God doth instruct you 
about them: And (remember) what hath been rehearsed unto you in the Book, 
concerning the orphans of women to whom ye give not the portions prescribed, and 
yet whom ye desire to marry, as also concerning the children who are weak and 
oppressed: that ye stand firm for justice to orphans. There is not a good deed which ye 
do, but God is well-acquainted therewith.

004.128  If a wife fears cruelty or desertion on her husband's part, there is no blame 
on them if they arrange an amicable settlement between themselves; and such 
settlement is best; even though men's souls are swayed by greed. But if ye do good 
and practise self-restraint, God is well-acquainted with all that ye do.

004.129  Ye are never able to be fair and just as between women, even if it is your 
ardent desire: But turn not away (from a woman) altogether, so as to leave her (as it 
were) hanging (in the air). If ye come to a friendly understanding, and practise self-
restraint, God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

004.130  But if they disagree (and must part), God will provide abundance for all 
from His all-reaching bounty: for God is He that careth for all and is Wise.

004.131  To God belong all things in the heavens and on earth. Verily we have 
directed the People of the Book before you, and you (o Muslims) to fear God. But if 
ye deny Him, lo! unto God belong all things in the heavens and on earth, and God is 
free of all wants, worthy of all praise.

004.132  Yea, unto God belong all things in the heavens and on earth, and enough is 
God to carry through all affairs.

004.133  If it were His will, He could destroy you, o mankind, and create another 
race; for He hath power this to do.

004.134  If any one desires a reward in this life, in God's (gift) is the reward (both) of 
this life and of the hereafter: for God is He that heareth and seeth (all things).

004.135  O ye who believe! stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to God, even as 
against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or 
poor: for God can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest ye 
swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or decline to do justice, verily God is well-
acquainted with all that ye do.

004.136  O ye who believe! Believe in God and His Apostle, and the scripture which 
He hath sent to His Apostle and the scripture which He sent to those before (him). 
Any who denieth God, His angels, His Books, His Apostles, and the Day of 
Judgment, hath gone far, far astray.

004.137  Those who believe, then reject faith, then believe (again) and (again) reject 
faith, and go on increasing in unbelief,- God will not forgive them nor guide them nor 
guide them on the way.

004.138  To the Hypocrites give the glad tidings that there is for them (but) a grievous 
penalty;-

004.139  Yea, to those who take for friends unbelievers rather than believers: is it 
honour they seek among them? Nay,- all honour is with God.

004.140  Already has He sent you Word in the Book, that when ye hear the signs of 
God held in defiance and ridicule, ye are not to sit with them unless they turn to a 
different theme: if ye did, ye would be like them. For God will collect the hypocrites 
and those who defy faith - all in Hell:-

004.141  (These are) the ones who wait and watch about you: if ye do gain a victory 
from God, they say: "Were we not with you?"- but if the unbelievers gain a success, 
they say (to them): "Did we not gain an advantage over you, and did we not guard 
you from the believers?" but God will judge betwixt you on the Day of Judgment. 
And never will God grant to the unbelievers a way (to triumphs) over the believers.

004.142  The Hypocrites - they think they are over-reaching God, but He will over-
reach them: When they stand up to prayer, they stand without earnestness, to be seen 
of men, but little do they hold God in remembrance;

004.143  (They are) distracted in mind even in the midst of it,- being (sincerely) for 
neither one group nor for another whom God leaves straying,- never wilt thou find for 
him the way.

004.144  O ye who believe! Take not for friends unbelievers rather than believers: Do 
ye wish to offer God an open proof against yourselves?

004.145  The Hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire: no helper wilt thou 
find for them;-

004.146  Except for those who repent, mend (their lives) hold fast to God, and purify 
their religion as in God's sight: if so they will be (numbered) with the believers. And 
soon will God grant to the believers a reward of immense value.

004.147  What can God gain by your punishment, if ye are grateful and ye believe? 
Nay, it is God that recogniseth (all good), and knoweth all things.

004.148  God loveth not that evil should be noised abroad in public speech, except 
where injustice hath been done; for God is He who heareth and knoweth all things.

004.149  Whether ye publish a good deed or conceal it or cover evil with pardon, 
verily God doth blot out (sins) and hath power (in the judgment of values).

004.150  Those who deny God and His apostles, and (those who) wish to separate 
God from His apostles, saying: "We believe in some but reject others": And (those 
who) wish to take a course midway,-

004.151  They are in truth (equally) unbelievers; and we have prepared for 
unbelievers a humiliating punishment.

004.152  To those who believe in God and His apostles and make no distinction 
between any of the apostles, we shall soon give their (due) rewards: for God is Oft-
forgiving, Most Merciful.

004.153  The people of the Book ask thee to cause a book to descend to them from 
heaven: Indeed they asked Moses for an even greater (miracle), for they said: "Show 
us God in public," but they were dazed for their presumption, with thunder and 
lightning. Yet they worshipped the calf even after clear signs had come to them; even 
so we forgave them; and gave Moses manifest proofs of authority.

004.154  And for their covenant we raised over them (the towering height) of Mount 
(Sinai); and (on another occasion) we said: "Enter the gate with humility"; and (once 
again) we commanded them: "Transgress not in the matter of the sabbath." And we 
took from them a solemn covenant.

004.155  (They have incurred divine displeasure): In that they broke their covenant; 
that they rejected the signs of God; that they slew the Messengers in defiance of right; 
that they said, "Our hearts are the wrappings (which preserve God's Word; We need 
no more)";- Nay, God hath set the seal on their hearts for their blasphemy, and little is 
it they believe;-

004.156  That they rejected Faith; that they uttered against Mary a grave false charge;

004.157  That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the 
Apostle of God";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to 
appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) 
knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:-

004.158  Nay, God raised him up unto Himself; and God is Exalted in Power, Wise;-

004.159  And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before 
his death; and on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against them;-

004.160  For the iniquity of the Jews We made unlawful for them certain (foods) 
good and wholesome which had been lawful for them;- in that they hindered many 
from God's Way;-

004.161  That they took usury, though they were forbidden; and that they devoured 
men's substance wrongfully;- we have prepared for those among them who reject 
faith a grievous punishment.

004.162  But those among them who are well-grounded in knowledge, and the 
believers, believe in what hath been revealed to thee and what was revealed before 
thee: And (especially) those who establish regular prayer and practise regular charity 
and believe in God and in the Last Day: To them shall We soon give a great reward.

004.163  We have sent thee inspiration, as We sent it to Noah and the Messengers 
after him: we sent inspiration to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, to 
Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and solomon, and to David We gave the Psalms.

004.164  Of some apostles We have already told thee the story; of others We have 
not;- and to Moses God spoke direct;-

004.165  Apostles who gave good news as well as warning, that mankind, after (the 
coming) of the apostles, should have no plea against God: For God is Exalted in 
Power, Wise.

004.166  But God beareth witness that what He hath sent unto thee He hath sent from 
His (own) knowledge, and the angels bear witness: But enough is God for a witness.

004.167  Those who reject Faith and keep off (men) from the way of God, have verily 
strayed far, far away from the Path.

004.168  Those who reject Faith and do wrong,- God will not forgive them nor guide 
them to any way-

004.169  Except the way of Hell, to dwell therein for ever. And this to God is easy.

004.170  O Mankind! The Apostle hath come to you in truth from God: believe in 
him: It is best for you. But if ye reject Faith, to God belong all things in the heavens 
and on earth: And God is All-knowing, All-wise.

004.171  O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of God 
aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of 
God, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: 
so believe in God and His apostles. Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: 
for God is one God: Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him 
belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is God as a Disposer of 
affairs.

004.172  Christ disdaineth nor to serve and worship God, nor do the angels, those 
nearest (to God): those who disdain His worship and are arrogant,-He will gather 
them all together unto Himself to (answer).

004.173  But to those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, He will give their 
(due) rewards,- and more, out of His bounty: But those who are disdainful and 
arrogant, He will punish with a grievous penalty; Nor will they find, besides God, any 
to protect or help them.

004.174  O mankind! verily there hath come to you a convincing proof from your 
Lord: For We have sent unto you a light (that is) manifest.

004.175  Then those who believe in God, and hold fast to Him,- soon will He admit 
them to mercy and grace from Himself, and guide them to Himself by a straight way.

004.176  They ask thee for a legal decision. Say: God directs (thus) about those who 
leave no descendants or ascendants as heirs. If it is a man that dies, leaving a sister 
but no child, she shall have half the inheritance: If (such a deceased was) a woman, 
who left no child, Her brother takes her inheritance: If there are two sisters, they shall 
have two-thirds of the inheritance (between them): if there are brothers and sisters, 
(they share), the male having twice the share of the female. Thus doth God make clear 
to you (His law), lest ye err. And God hath knowledge of all things.

Surah 5. The Table, The Table Spread
1. O ye who believe! fulfil (all) obligations. Lawful unto you (for food) are all four-footed animals, with the exceptions named: But animals of the chase are forbidden while ye are in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb: for Allah doth command according to His will and plan. 
2. O ye who believe! Violate not the sanctity of the symbols of Allah, nor of the sacred month, nor of the animals brought for sacrifice, nor the garlands that mark out such animals, nor the people resorting to the sacred house, seeking of the bounty and good pleasure of their Lord. But when ye are clear of the sacred precincts and of pilgrim garb, ye may hunt and let not the hatred of some people in (once) shutting you out of the Sacred Mosque lead you to transgression (and hostility on your part). Help ye one another in righteousness and piety, but help ye not one another in sin and rancour: fear Allah. for Allah is strict in punishment. 
3. Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah. that which hath been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by being gored to death; that which hath been (partly) eaten by a wild animal; unless ye are able to slaughter it (in due form); that which is sacrificed on stone (altars); (forbidden) also is the division (of meat) by raffling with arrows: that is impiety. This day have those who reject faith given up all hope of your religion: yet fear them not but fear Me. This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. But if any is forced by hunger, with no inclination to transgression, Allah is indeed Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. 
4. They ask thee what is lawful to them (as food). Say: lawful unto you are (all) things good and pure: and what ye have taught your trained hunting animals (to catch) in the manner directed to you by Allah. eat what they catch for you, but pronounce the name of Allah over it: and fear Allah. for Allah is swift in taking account. 
5. This day are (all) things good and pure made lawful unto you. The food of the People of the Book is lawful unto you and yours is lawful unto them. (Lawful unto you in marriage) are (not only) chaste women who are believers, but chaste women among the People of the Book, revealed before your time,- when ye give them their due dowers, and desire chastity, not lewdness, nor secret intrigues if any one rejects faith, fruitless is his work, and in the Hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good). 
6. O ye who believe! when ye prepare for prayer, wash your faces, and your hands (and arms) to the elbows; Rub your heads (with water); and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If ye are in a state of ceremonial impurity, bathe your whole body. But if ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands, Allah doth not wish to place you in a difficulty, but to make you clean, and to complete his favour to you, that ye may be grateful. 
7. And call in remembrance the favour of Allah unto you, and His covenant, which He ratified with you, when ye said: "We hear and we obey": And fear Allah, for Allah knoweth well the secrets of your hearts. 
8. O ye who believe! stand out firmly for Allah, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear Allah. For Allah is well-acquainted with all that ye do. 
9. To those who believe and do deeds of righteousness hath Allah promised forgiveness and a great reward. 
10. Those who reject faith and deny our signs will be companions of Hell-fire. 
11. O ye who believe! Call in remembrance the favour of Allah unto you when certain men formed the design to stretch out their hands against you, but ((Allah)) held back their hands from you: so fear Allah. And on Allah let believers put (all) their trust. 
12. Allah did aforetime take a covenant from the Children of Israel, and we appointed twelve captains among them. And Allah said: "I am with you: if ye (but) establish regular prayers, practise regular charity, believe in my apostles, honour and assist them, and loan to Allah a beautiful loan, verily I will wipe out from you your evils, and admit you to gardens with rivers flowing beneath; but if any of you, after this, resisteth faith, he hath truly wandered from the path or rectitude." 
13. But because of their breach of their covenant, We cursed them, and made their hearts grow hard; they change the words from their (right) places and forget a good part of the message that was sent them, nor wilt thou cease to find them- barring a few - ever bent on (new) deceits: but forgive them, and overlook (their misdeeds): for Allah loveth those who are kind. 
14. From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it is they have done. 
15. O people of the Book! There hath come to you our Messenger, revealing to you much that ye used to hide in the Book, and passing over much (that is now unnecessary). There hath come to you from Allah a (new) light and a perspicuous Book,- 
16. Wherewith Allah guideth all who seek His good pleasure to ways of peace and safety, and leadeth them out of darkness, by His will, unto the light,- guideth them to a path that is straight. 
17. In blasphemy indeed are those that say that Allah is Christ the son of Mary. Say: "Who then hath the least power against Allah, if His will were to destroy Christ the son of Mary, his mother, and all every - one that is on the earth? For to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between. He createth what He pleaseth. For Allah hath power over all things." 
18. (Both) the Jews and the Christians say: "We are sons of Allah, and his beloved." Say: "Why then doth He punish you for your sins? Nay, ye are but men,- of the men he hath created: He forgiveth whom He pleaseth, and He punisheth whom He pleaseth: and to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between: and unto Him is the final goal (of all)" 
19. O People of the Book! Now hath come unto you, making (things) clear unto you, Our Messenger, after the break in (the series of) our apostles, lest ye should say: "There came unto us no bringer of glad tidings and no warner (from evil)": But now hath come unto you a bringer of glad tidings and a warner (from evil). And Allah hath power over all things. 
20. Remember Moses said to his people: "O my people! Call in remembrance the favour of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. 
21. "O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin." 
22. They said: "O Moses! In this land are a people of exceeding strength: Never shall we enter it until they leave it: if (once) they leave, then shall we enter." 
23. (But) among (their) Allah.fearing men were two on whom Allah had bestowed His grace: They said: "Assault them at the (proper) Gate: when once ye are in, victory will be yours; But on Allah put your trust if ye have faith." 
24. They said: "O Moses! while they remain there, never shall we be able to enter, to the end of time. Go thou, and thy Lord, and fight ye two, while we sit here (and watch)." 
25. He said: "O my Lord! I have power only over myself and my brother: so separate us from this rebellious people!" 
26. Allah said: "Therefore will the land be out of their reach for forty years: In distraction will they wander through the land: But sorrow thou not over these rebellious people. 
27. Recite to them the truth of the story of the two sons of Adam. Behold! they each presented a sacrifice (to Allah.: It was accepted from one, but not from the other. Said the latter: "Be sure I will slay thee." "Surely," said the former, "(Allah) doth accept of the sacrifice of those who are righteous. 
28. "If thou dost stretch thy hand against me, to slay me, it is not for me to stretch my hand against thee to slay thee: for I do fear Allah, the cherisher of the worlds. 
29. "For me, I intend to let thee draw on thyself my sin as well as thine, for thou wilt be among the companions of the fire, and that is the reward of those who do wrong." 
30. The (selfish) soul of the other led him to the murder of his brother: he murdered him, and became (himself) one of the lost ones. 
31. Then Allah sent a raven, who scratched the ground, to show him how to hide the shame of his brother. "Woe is me!" said he; "Was I not even able to be as this raven, and to hide the shame of my brother?" then he became full of regrets- 
32. On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land. 
33. The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter; 
34. Except for those who repent before they fall into your power: in that case, know that Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. 
35. O ye who believe! Do your duty to Allah, seek the means of approach unto Him, and strive with might and main in his cause: that ye may prosper. 
36. As to those who reject Faith,- if they had everything on earth, and twice repeated, to give as ransom for the penalty of the Day of Judgment, it would never be accepted of them, theirs would be a grievous penalty. 
37. Their wish will be to get out of the Fire, but never will they get out therefrom: their penalty will be one that endures. 
38. As to the thief, Male or female, cut off his or her hands: a punishment by way of example, from Allah, for their crime: and Allah is Exalted in power. 
39. But if the thief repents after his crime, and amends his conduct, Allah turneth to him in forgiveness; for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. 
40. Knowest thou not that to Allah (alone) belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth? He punisheth whom He pleaseth, and He forgiveth whom He pleaseth: and Allah hath power over all things. 
41. O Messenger. let not those grieve thee, who race each other into unbelief: (whether it be) among those who say "We believe" with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews,- men who will listen to any lie,- will listen even to others who have never so much as come to thee. They change the words from their (right) times and places: they say, "If ye are given this, take it, but if not, beware!" If any one's trial is intended by Allah, thou hast no authority in the least for him against Allah. For such - it is not Allah.s will to purify their hearts. For them there is disgrace in this world, and in the Hereafter a heavy punishment. 
42. (They are fond of) listening to falsehood, of devouring anything forbidden. If they do come to thee, either judge between them, or decline to interfere. If thou decline, they cannot hurt thee in the least. If thou judge, judge in equity between them. For Allah loveth those who judge in equity. 
43. But why do they come to thee for decision, when they have (their own) law before them?- therein is the (plain) command of Allah. yet even after that, they would turn away. For they are not (really) People of Faith. 
44. It was We who revealed the law (to Moses): therein was guidance and light. By its standard have been judged the Jews, by the prophets who bowed (as in Islam) to Allah.s will, by the rabbis and the doctors of law: for to them was entrusted the protection of Allah.s book, and they were witnesses thereto: therefore fear not men, but fear me, and sell not my signs for a miserable price. If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) Unbelievers. 
45. We ordained therein for them: "Life for life, eye for eye, nose or nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal." But if any one remits the retaliation by way of charity, it is an act of atonement for himself. And if any fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (No better than) wrong-doers. 
46. And in their footsteps We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming the Law that had come before him: We sent him the Gospel: therein was guidance and light, and confirmation of the Law that had come before him: a guidance and an admonition to those who fear Allah. 
47. Let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah hath revealed therein. If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) those who rebel. 
48. To thee We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it, and guarding it in safety: so judge between them by what Allah hath revealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging from the Truth that hath come to thee. To each among you have we prescribed a law and an open way. If Allah had so willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to test you in what He hath given you: so strive as in a race in all virtues. The goal of you all is to Allah. it is He that will show you the truth of the matters in which ye dispute; 
49. And this (He commands): Judge thou between them by what Allah hath revealed, and follow not their vain desires, but beware of them lest they beguile thee from any of that (teaching) which Allah hath sent down to thee. And if they turn away, be assured that for some of their crime it is Allah.s purpose to punish them. And truly most men are rebellious. 
50. Do they then seek after a judgment of (the days of) ignorance? But who, for a people whose faith is assured, can give better judgment than Allah. 
51. O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust. 
52. Those in whose hearts is a disease - thou seest how eagerly they run about amongst them, saying: "We do fear lest a change of fortune bring us disaster." Ah! perhaps Allah will give (thee) victory, or a decision according to His will. Then will they repent of the thoughts which they secretly harboured in their hearts. 
53. And those who believe will say: "Are these the men who swore their strongest oaths by Allah, that they were with you?" All that they do will be in vain, and they will fall into (nothing but) ruin. 
54. O ye who believe! if any from among you turn back from his Faith, soon will Allah produce a people whom He will love as they will love Him,- lowly with the believers, mighty against the rejecters, fighting in the way of Allah, and never afraid of the reproaches of such as find fault. That is the grace of Allah, which He will bestow on whom He pleaseth. And Allah encompasseth all, and He knoweth all things. 
55. Your (real) friends are (no less than) Allah, His Messenger, and the (fellowship of) believers,- those who establish regular prayers and regular charity, and they bow down humbly (in worship). 
56. As to those who turn (for friendship) to Allah, His Messenger, and the (fellowship of) believers,- it is the fellowship of Allah that must certainly triumph. 
57. O ye who believe! take not for friends and protectors those who take your religion for a mockery or sport,- whether among those who received the Scripture before you, or among those who reject Faith; but fear ye Allah, if ye have faith (indeed). 
58. When ye proclaim your call to prayer they take it (but) as mockery and sport; that is because they are a people without understanding. 
59. Say: "O people of the Book! Do ye disapprove of us for no other reason than that we believe in Allah, and the revelation that hath come to us and that which came before (us), and (perhaps) that most of you are rebellious and disobedient?" 
60. Say: "Shall I point out to you something much worse than this, (as judged) by the treatment it received from Allah. those who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine, those who worshipped evil;- these are (many times) worse in rank, and far more astray from the even path!" 
61. When they come to thee, they say: "We believe": but in fact they enter with a mind against Faith, and they go out with the same but Allah knoweth fully all that they hide. 
62. Many of them dost thou see, racing each other in sin and rancour, and their eating of things forbidden. Evil indeed are the things that they do. 
63. Why do not the rabbis and the doctors of Law forbid them from their (habit of) uttering sinful words and eating things forbidden? Evil indeed are their works. 
64. The Jews say: "(Allah)'s hand is tied up." Be their hands tied up and be they accursed for the (blasphemy) they utter. Nay, both His hands are widely outstretched: He giveth and spendeth (of His bounty) as He pleaseth. But the revelation that cometh to thee from Allah increaseth in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy. Amongst them we have placed enmity and hatred till the Day of Judgment. Every time they kindle the fire of war, Allah doth extinguish it; but they (ever) strive to do mischief on earth. And Allah loveth not those who do mischief. 
65. If only the People of the Book had believed and been righteous, We should indeed have blotted out their iniquities and admitted them to gardens of bliss. 
66. If only they had stood fast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that was sent to them from their Lord, they would have enjoyed happiness from every side. There is from among them a party on the right course: but many of them follow a course that is evil. 
67. O Messenger. proclaim the (message) which hath been sent to thee from thy Lord. If thou didst not, thou wouldst not have fulfilled and proclaimed His mission. And Allah will defend thee from men (who mean mischief). For Allah guideth not those who reject Faith. 
68. Say: "O People of the Book! ye have no ground to stand upon unless ye stand fast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord." It is the revelation that cometh to thee from thy Lord, that increaseth in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy. But sorrow thou not over (these) people without Faith. 
69. Those who believe (in the Qur'an), those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Sabians and the Christians,- any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness,- on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. 
70. We took the covenant of the Children of Israel and sent them apostles, every time, there came to them an apostle with what they themselves desired not - some (of these) they called impostors, and some they (go so far as to) slay. 
71. They thought there would be no trial (or punishment); so they became blind and deaf; yet Allah (in mercy) turned to them; yet again many of them became blind and deaf. But Allah sees well all that they do. 
72. They do blaspheme who say: "(Allah) is Christ the son of Mary." But said Christ: "O Children of Israel! worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." Whoever joins other gods with Allah,- Allah will forbid him the garden, and the Fire will be his abode. There will for the wrong-doers be no one to help. 
73. They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them. 
74. Why turn they not to Allah, and seek His forgiveness? For Allah is Oft- forgiving, Most Merciful. 
75. Christ the son of Mary was no more than an apostle; many were the apostles that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth make His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth! 
76. Say: "Will ye worship, besides Allah, something which hath no power either to harm or benefit you? But Allah,- He it is that heareth and knoweth all things." 
77. Say: "O people of the Book! exceed not in your religion the bounds (of what is proper), trespassing beyond the truth, nor follow the vain desires of people who went wrong in times gone by,- who misled many, and strayed (themselves) from the even way. 
78. Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary: because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses. 
79. Nor did they (usually) forbid one another the iniquities which they committed: evil indeed were the deeds which they did. 
80. Thou seest many of them turning in friendship to the Unbelievers. Evil indeed are (the works) which their souls have sent forward before them (with the result), that Allah.s wrath is on them, and in torment will they abide. 
81. If only they had believed in Allah, in the Messenger, and in what hath been revealed to him, never would they have taken them for friends and protectors, but most of them are rebellious wrong-doers. 
82. Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans; and nearest among them in love to the believers wilt thou find those who say, "We are Christians": because amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant. 
83. And when they listen to the revelation received by the Messenger, thou wilt see their eyes overflowing with tears, for they recognise the truth: they pray: "Our Lord! we believe; write us down among the witnesses. 
84. "What cause can we have not to believe in Allah and the truth which has come to us, seeing that we long for our Lord to admit us to the company of the righteous?" 
85. And for this their prayer hath Allah rewarded them with gardens, with rivers flowing underneath,- their eternal home. Such is the recompense of those who do good. 
86. But those who reject Faith and belie our Signs,- they shall be companions of Hell-fire. 
87. O ye who believe! make not unlawful the good things which Allah hath made lawful for you, but commit no excess: for Allah loveth not those given to excess. 
88. Eat of the things which Allah hath provided for you, lawful and good; but fear Allah, in Whom ye believe. 
89. Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is the expiation for the oaths ye have sworn. But keep to your oaths. Thus doth Allah make clear to you His signs, that ye may be grateful. 
90. O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination,- of Satan's handwork: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper. 
91. Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain? 
92. Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and beware (of evil): if ye do turn back, know ye that it is Our Messenger.s duty to proclaim (the message) in the clearest manner. 
93. On those who believe and do deeds of righteousness there is no blame for what they ate (in the past), when they guard themselves from evil, and believe, and do deeds of righteousness,- (or) again, guard themselves from evil and believe,- (or) again, guard themselves from evil and do good. For Allah loveth those who do good. 
94. O ye who believe! Allah doth but make a trial of you in a little matter of game well within reach of your hands and your lances, that He may test who feareth him unseen: any who transgress thereafter, will have a grievous penalty. 
95. O ye who believe! Kill not game while in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb. If any of you doth so intentionally, the compensation is an offering, brought to the Ka'ba, of a domestic animal equivalent to the one he killed, as adjudged by two just men among you; or by way of atonement, the feeding of the indigent; or its equivalent in fasts: that he may taste of the penalty of his deed. Allah forgives what is past: for repetition Allah will exact from him the penalty. For Allah is Exalted, and Lord of Retribution. 
96. Lawful to you is the pursuit of water-game and its use for food,- for the benefit of yourselves and those who travel; but forbidden is the pursuit of land-game;- as long as ye are in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb. And fear Allah, to Whom ye shall be gathered back. 
97. Allah made the Ka'ba, the Sacred House, an asylum of security for men, as also the Sacred Months, the animals for offerings, and the garlands that mark them: That ye may know that Allah hath knowledge of what is in the heavens and on earth and that Allah is well acquainted with all things. 
98. Know ye that Allah is strict in punishment and that Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. 
99. The Messenger.s duty is but to proclaim (the message). But Allah knoweth all that ye reveal and ye conceal. 
100. Say: "Not equal are things that are bad and things that are good, even though the abundance of the bad may dazzle thee; so fear Allah, O ye that understand; that (so) ye may prosper." 
101. O ye who believe! Ask not questions about things which, if made plain to you, may cause you trouble. But if ye ask about things when the Qur'an is being revealed, they will be made plain to you, Allah will forgive those: for Allah is Oft- forgiving, Most Forbearing. 
102. Some people before you did ask such questions, and on that account lost their faith. 
103. It was not Allah who instituted (superstitions like those of) a slit-ear she- camel, or a she-camel let loose for free pasture, or idol sacrifices for twin-births in animals, or stallion-camels freed from work: It is blasphemers who invent a lie against Allah. but most of them lack wisdom. 
104. When it is said to them: "Come to what Allah hath revealed; come to the Messenger.: They say: "Enough for us are the ways we found our fathers following." what! even though their fathers were void of knowledge and guidance? 
105. O ye who believe! Guard your own souls: If ye follow (right) guidance, no hurt can come to you from those who stray. the goal of you all is to Allah. it is He that will show you the truth of all that ye do. 
106. O ye who believe! When death approaches any of you, (take) witnesses among yourselves when making bequests,- two just men of your own (brotherhood) or others from outside if ye are journeying through the earth, and the chance of death befalls you (thus). If ye doubt (their truth), detain them both after prayer, and let them both swear by Allah. "We wish not in this for any worldly gain, even though the (beneficiary) be our near relation: we shall hide not the evidence before Allah. if we do, then behold! the sin be upon us!" 
107. But if it gets known that these two were guilty of the sin (of perjury), let two others stand forth in their places,- nearest in kin from among those who claim a lawful right: let them swear by Allah. "We affirm that our witness is truer than that of those two, and that we have not trespassed (beyond the truth): if we did, behold! the wrong be upon us!" 
108. That is most suitable: that they may give the evidence in its true nature and shape, or else they would fear that other oaths would be taken after their oaths. But fear Allah, and listen (to His counsel): for Allah guideth not a rebellious people: 
109. One day will Allah gather the apostles together, and ask: "What was the response ye received (from men to your teaching)?" They will say: "We have no knowledge: it is Thou Who knowest in full all that is hidden." 
110. Then will Allah say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Recount My favour to thee and to thy mother. Behold! I strengthened thee with the holy spirit, so that thou didst speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. Behold! I taught thee the Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel and behold! thou makest out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and thou breathest into it and it becometh a bird by My leave, and thou healest those born blind, and the lepers, by My leave. And behold! thou bringest forth the dead by My leave. And behold! I did restrain the Children of Israel from (violence to) thee when thou didst show them the clear Signs, and the unbelievers among them said: 'This is nothing but evident magic.' 
111. "And behold! I inspired the disciples to have faith in Me and Mine Messenger. they said, 'We have faith, and do thou bear witness that we bow to Allah as Muslims'". 
112. Behold! the disciples, said: "O Jesus the son of Mary! can thy Lord send down to us a table set (with viands) from heaven?" Said Jesus: "Fear Allah, if ye have faith." 
113. They said: "We only wish to eat thereof and satisfy our hearts, and to know that thou hast indeed told us the truth; and that we ourselves may be witnesses to the miracle." 
114. Said Jesus the son of Mary: "O Allah our Lord! Send us from heaven a table set (with viands), that there may be for us - for the first and the last of us - a solemn festival and a sign from thee; and provide for our sustenance, for thou art the best Sustainer (of our needs)." 
115. Allah said: "I will send it down unto you: But if any of you after that resisteth faith, I will punish him with a penalty such as I have not inflicted on any one among all the peoples." 
116. And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah.?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, Thou I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden. 
117. "Never said I to them aught except what Thou didst command me to say, to wit, 'worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord'; and I was a witness over them whilst I dwelt amongst them; when Thou didst take me up Thou wast the Watcher over them, and Thou art a witness to all things. 
118. "If Thou dost punish them, they are Thy servant: If Thou dost forgive them, Thou art the Exalted in power, the Wise." 
119. Allah will say: "This is a day on which the truthful will profit from their truth: theirs are gardens, with rivers flowing beneath,- their eternal Home: Allah well-pleased with them, and they with Allah. That is the great salvation, (the fulfilment of all desires). 
120. To Allah doth belong the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, and it is He Who hath power over all things. 


CATTLE, LIVESTOCK,  CHAPTER NO.  006

006.001  Praise be God, Who created the heavens and the earth, and made the 
darkness and the light. Yet those who reject Faith hold (others) as equal, with their 
Guardian-Lord.

006.002  He it is  created you from clay, and then decreed a stated term (for you). 
And there is in His presence another determined term; yet ye doubt within yourselves!

006.003  And He is God in the heavens and on earth. He knoweth what ye hide, and 
what ye reveal, and He knoweth the (recompense) which ye earn (by your deeds).

006.004  But never did a single one of the signs of their Lord reach them, but they 
turned away therefrom.

006.005  And now they reject the truth when it reaches them: but soon shall they learn 
the reality of what they used to mock at.

006.006  See they not how many of those before them We did destroy?- generations 
We had established on the earth, in strength such as We have not given to you - for 
whom We poured out rain from the skies in abundance, and gave (fertile) streams 
flowing beneath their (feet): yet for their sins We destroyed them, and raised in their 
wake fresh generations (to succeed them).

006.007  If We had sent unto thee a written (message) on parchment, so that they 
could touch it with their hands, the Unbelievers would have been sure to say: "This is 
nothing but obvious magic!"

006.008  They say: "Why is not an angel sent down to him?" If we did send down an 
angel, the matter would be settled at once, and no respite would be granted them.

006.009  If We had made it an angel, We should have sent him as a man, and We 
should certainly have caused them confusion in a matter which they have already 
covered with confusion.

006.010  Mocked were (many) apostles before thee; but their scoffers were hemmed 
in by the thing that they mocked.

006.011  Say: "Travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who 
rejected Truth."

006.012  Say: "To whom belongeth all that is in the heavens and on earth?" Say: "To 
God. He hath inscribed for Himself (the rule of) Mercy. That He will gather you 
together for the Day of Judgment, there is no doubt whatever. It is they who have lost 
their own souls, that will not believe.

006.013  To him belongeth all that dwelleth (or lurketh) in the night and the day.  For 
he is the one who heareth and knoweth all things."

006.014  Say: "Shall I take for my protector any other than God, the Maker of the 
heavens and the earth? And He it is that feedeth but is not fed." Say: "Nay! but I am 
commanded to be the first of those who  bow to God (in Islam), and be not thou of the 
company of those who join gods with God."

006.015  Say: "I would, if I disobeyed my Lord, indeed have fear of the penalty of a 
Mighty Day.

006.016  "On that day, if the penalty is averted from any, it is due to God's mercy; 
And that would be (Salvation), the obvious fulfilment of all desire.

006.017  "If God touch thee with affliction, none can remove it but He; if He touch 
thee with happiness, He hath power over all things.

006.018  "He is the irresistible, (watching) from above over His worshippers; and He 
is the Wise, acquainted with all things."

006.019  Say: "What thing is most weighty in evidence?" Say: "God is witness 
between me and you; This Qur'an hath been revealed to me by inspiration, that I may 
warn you and all whom it reaches. Can ye possibly bear witness that besides God 
there is another God?" Say: "Nay! I cannot bear witness!" Say: "But in truth He is the 
one God, and I truly am innocent of (your blasphemy of) joining others with Him."

006.020  Those to whom We have given the Book know this as they know their own 
sons. Those who have lost their own souls refuse therefore to believe.

006.021  Who doth more wrong than he who inventeth a lie against God or rejecteth 
His sings?  But verily the wrong-doers never shall prosper.

006.022  One day shall We gather them all together: We shall say to those who 
ascribed partners (to Us): "Where are the partners whom ye (invented and) talked 
about?"

006.023  There will then be (left) no subterfuge for them but to say: "By God our 
Lord, we were not those who joined gods with God."

006.024  Behold! how they lie against their own souls! But the (lie) which they 
invented will leave them in the lurch.

006.025  Of them there are some who (pretend to) listen to thee;  but We have thrown 
veils on their hearts, So they understand it not, and deafness in their ears; if they saw 
every one of the signs, not they will believe in them; in so much that when they come 
to thee, they (but) dispute with thee; the Unbelievers say: "These are nothing but tales 
of the ancients."

006.026  Others they keep away from it, and themselves they keep away; but they 
only destroy their own souls, and they perceive it not.

006.027  If thou couldst but see when they are confronted with the Fire! They will 
say: "Would that we were but sent back! Then would we not reject the signs of our 
Lord, but would be amongst those who believe!"

006.028  Yea, in their own (eyes) will become manifest what before they concealed. 
But if they were returned, they would certainly relapse to the things they were 
forbidden, for they are indeed liars.

006.029  And they (sometimes) say: "There is nothing except our life on this earth, 
and never shall we be raised up again."

006.030  If thou couldst but see when they are confronted with their Lord! He will 
say: "Is not this the truth?" They will say: "Yea, by our Lord!" He will say: "Taste ye 
then the penalty, because ye rejected Faith."

006.031  Lost indeed are they who treat it as a falsehood that they must meet God,- 
until on a sudden the hour is on them, and they say: "Ah! woe unto us that we took no 
thought of it"; for they bear their burdens on their backs, and evil indeed are the 
burdens that they bear?

006.032  What is the life of this world but play and amusement?  But best is the home 
in the hereafter, for those who are righteous. Will ye not then understand?

006.033  We know indeed the grief which their words do cause thee: It is not thee 
they reject: it is the signs of God, which the wicked contemn.

006.034  Rejected were the apostles before thee: with patience and constancy they 
bore their rejection and their wrongs, until Our aid did reach them: there is none that 
can alter the words (and decrees) of God. Already hast thou received some account of 
those apostles.

006.035  If their spurning is hard on thy mind, yet if thou wert able to seek a tunnel in 
the ground or a ladder to the skies and bring them a sign,- (what good?). If it were 
God's will, He could gather them together unto true guidance: so be not thou amongst 
those who are swayed by ignorance (and impatience)!

006.036  Those who listen (in truth), be sure, will accept: as to the dead, God will 
raise them up; then will they be turned unto Him.

006.037  They say: "Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?" Say: "God 
hath certainly power to send down a sign: but most of them understand not.

006.038  There is not an animal (that lives) on the earth, nor a being that flies on its 
wings, but (forms part of) communities like you. Nothing have we omitted from the 
Book, and they (all) shall be gathered to their Lord in the end.

006.039  Those who reject our sings are deaf and dumb,- in the midst of darkness 
profound: whom God willeth, He leaveth to wander: whom He willeth, He placeth on 
the way that is straight.

006.040  Say: "Think ye to yourselves, if there come upon you the wrath of God, or 
the Hour (that ye dread), would ye then call upon other than God?- (reply) if ye are 
truthful!

006.041  "Nay,- On Him would ye call, and if it be His will, He would remove (the 
distress) which occasioned your call upon Him, and ye would forget (the false gods) 
which ye join with Him!"

006.042  Before thee We sent (apostles) to many nations, and We afflicted the nations 
with suffering and adversity, that they might learn humility.

006.043  When the suffering reached them from us, why then did they not learn 
humility? On the contrary their hearts became hardened, and Satan made their (sinful) 
acts seem alluring to them.

006.044  But when they forgot the warning they had received, We opened to them the 
gates of all (good) things, until, in the midst of their enjoyment of Our gifts, on a 
sudden, We called them to account, when lo! they were plunged in despair!

006.045  Of the wrong-doers the last remnant was cut off. Praise be to God, the 
Cherisher of the worlds.

006.046  Say: "Think ye, if God took away your hearing and your sight, and sealed up 
your hearts, who - a god other than God - could restore them to you?" See how We 
explain the signs by various (symbols); yet they turn aside.

006.047  Say: "Think ye, if the punishment of God comes to you, whether suddenly 
or openly, will any be destroyed except those who do wrong?

006.048  We send the apostles only to give good news and to warn: so those who 
believe and mend (their lives),- upon them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

006.049  But those who reject our signs,- them shall punishment touch, for that they 
ceased not from transgressing.

006.050  Say: "I tell you not that with me are the treasures of God, nor do I know 
what is hidden, nor do I tell you I am an angel.  I but follow what is revealed to me." 
Say: "can the blind be held equal to the seeing?" Will ye then consider not?

006.051  Give this warning to those in whose (hearts) is the fear that they will be 
brought (to judgment) before their Lord: except for Him they will have no protector 
nor intercessor: that they may guard (against evil).

006.052  Send not away those who call on their Lord morning and evening, seeking 
His face. In naught art thou accountable for them, and in naught are they accountable 
for thee, that thou shouldst turn them away, and thus be (one) of the unjust.

006.053  Thus did We try some of them by comparison with others, that they should 
say: "Is it these then that God hath favoured from amongst us?" Doth not God know 
best those who are grateful?

006.054  When those come to thee who believe in Our signs, Say: "Peace be on you: 
Your Lord hath inscribed for Himself (the rule of) mercy: verily, if any of you did 
evil in ignorance, and thereafter repented, and amend (his conduct), lo! He is Oft-
forgiving, Most Merciful.

006.055  Thus do We explain the signs in detail: that the way of the sinners may be 
shown up.

006.056  Say: "I am forbidden to worship those - others than God - whom ye call 
upon." Say: "I will not follow your wain desires: If I did, I would stray from the path, 
and be not of the company of those who receive guidance."

006.057  Say: "For me, I (work) on a clear sign from my Lord, but ye reject Him. 
What ye would see hastened, is not in my power. The command rests with none but 
God: He declares the truth, and He is the best of judges."

006.058  Say: "If what ye would see hastened were in my power, the matter would be 
settled at once between you and me. But God knoweth best those who do wrong."

006.059  With Him are the keys of the unseen, the treasures that none knoweth but 
He. He knoweth whatever there is on the earth and in the sea. Not a leaf doth fall but 
with His knowledge: there is not a grain in the darkness (or depths) of the earth, nor 
anything fresh or dry (green or withered), but is (inscribed) in a record clear (to those 
who can read).

006.060  It is He who doth take your souls by night, and hath knowledge of all that ye 
have done by day: by day doth He raise you up again; that a term appointed be 
fulfilled; In the end unto Him will be your return; then will He show you the truth of 
all that ye did.

006.061  He is the irresistible, (watching) from above over His worshippers, and He 
sets guardians over you. At length, when death approaches one of you, Our angels 
take his soul, and they never fail in their duty.

006.062  Then are men returned unto God, their protector, the (only) reality: Is not 
His the command? and He is the swiftest in taking account.

006.063  Say: "Who is it that delivereth you from the dark recesses of land and sea, 
when ye call upon Him in humility and silent terror: 'If He only delivers us from these 
(dangers), (we vow) we shall truly show our gratitude'.?"

006.064  Say "It is God that delivereth you from these and all (other) distresses: and 
yet ye worship false gods!"

006.065  Say: "He hath power to send calamities on you, from above and below, or to 
cover you with confusion in party strife, giving you a taste of mutual vengeance - 
each from the other." See how We explain the signs by various (symbols); that they 
may understand.

006.066  But thy people reject this, though it is the truth. Say: "Not mine is the 
responsibility for arranging your affairs;

006.067  For every message is a limit of time, and soon shall ye know it."

006.068  When thou seest men engaged in vain discourse about Our signs, turn away 
from them unless they turn to a different theme. If Satan ever makes thee forget, then 
after recollection, sit not thou in the company of those who do wrong.

006.069  On their account no responsibility falls on the righteous, but (their duty) is to 
remind them, that they may (learn to) fear God.

006.070  Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere play and amusement, 
and are deceived by the life of this world. But proclaim (to them) this (truth): that 
every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts: it will find for itself no protector or 
intercessor except God: if it offered every ransom, (or reparation), none will be 
accepted: such is (the end of) those who deliver themselves to ruin by their own acts: 
they will have for drink (only) boiling water, and for punishment, one most grievous: 
for they persisted in rejecting God.

006.071  Say: "Shall we indeed call on others besides God,- things that can do us 
neither good nor harm,- and turn on our heels after receiving guidance from God? - 
like one whom the evil ones have made into a fool, wandering bewildered through the 
earth, his friends calling, come to us', (vainly) guiding him to the path." Say: "God's 
guidance is the (only) guidance, and we have been directed to submit ourselves to the 
Lord of the worlds;-

006.072  "To establish regular prayers and to fear God: for it is to Him that we shall 
be gathered together."

006.073  It is He who created the heavens and the earth in true (proportions): the day 
He saith, "Be," behold! it is. His word is the truth. His will be the dominion the day 
the trumpet will be blown. He knoweth the unseen as well as that which is open. For 
He is the Wise, well acquainted (with all things).

006.074  Lo! Abraham said to his father Azar: "Takest thou idols for gods? For I see 
thee and thy people in manifest error."

006.075  So also did We show Abraham the power and the laws of the heavens and 
the earth, that he might (with understanding) have certitude.

006.076  When the night covered him over, He saw a star: He said: "This is my 
Lord." But when it set, He said: "I love not those that set."

006.077  When he saw the moon rising in splendour, he said: "This is my Lord." But 
when the moon set, He said: "unless my Lord guide me, I shall surely be among those 
who go astray."

006.078  When he saw the sun rising in splendour, he said: "This is my Lord; this is 
the greatest (of all)." But when the sun set, he said: "O my people! I am indeed free 
from your (guilt) of giving partners to God.

006.079  "For me, I have set my face, firmly and truly, towards Him Who created the 
heavens and the earth, and never shall I give partners to God."

006.080  His people disputed with him. He said: "(Come) ye to dispute with me, 
about God, when He (Himself) hath guided me? I fear not (the beings) ye associate 
with God: Unless my Lord willeth, (nothing can happen). My Lord comprehendeth in 
His knowledge all things. Will ye not (yourselves) be admonished?

006.081  "How should I fear (the beings) ye associate with God, when ye fear not to 
give partners to God without any warrant having been given to you? Which of (us) 
two parties hath more right to security? (tell me) if ye know.

006.082  "It is those who believe and confuse not their beliefs with wrong - that are 
(truly) in security, for they are on (right) guidance."

006.083  That was the reasoning about Us, which We gave to Abraham (to use) 
against his people: We raise whom We will, degree after degree: for thy Lord is full 
of wisdom and knowledge.

006.084  We gave him Isaac and Jacob: all (three) guided: and before him, We guided 
Noah, and among his progeny, David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, and Aaron: thus 
do We reward those who do good:

006.085  And Zakariya and John, and Jesus and Elias: all in the ranks of the 
righteous:

006.086  And Isma'il and Elisha, and Jonas, and Lot: and to all We gave favour above 
the nations:

006.087  (To them) and to their fathers, and progeny and brethren: We chose them, 
and we guided them to a straight way.

006.088  This is the guidance of God: He giveth that guidance to whom He pleaseth, 
of His worshippers.  If they were to join other gods with Him, all that they did would 
be vain for them.

006.089  These were the men to whom We gave the Book, and authority, and 
prophethood: if these (their descendants) reject them, Behold! We shall entrust their 
charge to a new people who reject them not.

006.090  Those were the (prophets) who received God's guidance: Copy the guidance 
they received; Say: "No reward for this do I ask of you: This is no less than a message 
for the nations."

006.091  No just estimate of God do they make when they say: "Nothing doth God 
send down to man (by way of revelation)" Say: "Who then sent down the Book which 
Moses brought?- a light and guidance to man: But ye make it into (separate) sheets 
for show, while ye conceal much (of its contents): therein were ye taught that which 
ye knew not- neither ye nor your fathers." Say: "God (sent it down)": Then leave 
them to plunge in vain discourse and trifling.

006.092  And this is a Book which We have sent down, bringing blessings, and 
confirming (the revelations) which came before it: that thou mayest warn the mother 
of cities and all around her. Those who believe in the Hereafter believe in this (Book), 
and they are constant in guarding their prayers.

006.093  Who can be more wicked than one who inventeth a lie against God, or saith, 
"I have received inspiration," when he hath received none, or (again) who saith, "I can 
reveal the like of what God hath revealed"? If thou couldst but see how the wicked 
(do fare) in the flood of confusion at death! - the angels stretch forth their hands, 
(saying),"Yield up your souls: this day shall ye receive your reward,- a penalty of 
shame, for that ye used to tell lies against God, and scornfully to reject of His signs!"

006.094  "And behold! ye come to us bare and alone as We created you for the first 
time: ye have left behind you all (the favours) which We bestowed on you: We see 
not with you your intercessors whom ye thought to be partners in your affairs: so now 
all relations between you have been cut off, and your (pet) fancies have left you in the 
lurch!"

006.095  It is God Who causeth the seed-grain and the date-stone to split and sprout. 
He causeth the living to issue from the dead, and He is the one to cause the dead to 
issue from the living. That is God: then how are ye deluded away from the truth?

006.096  He it is that cleaveth the day-break (from the dark): He makes the night for 
rest and tranquillity, and the sun and moon for the reckoning (of time): Such is the 
judgment and ordering of (Him), the Exalted in Power, the Omniscient.

006.097  It is He Who maketh the stars (as beacons) for you, that ye may guide 
yourselves, with their help, through the dark spaces of land and sea: We detail Our 
signs for people who know.

006.098  It is He Who hath produced you from a single person: here is a place of 
sojourn and a place of departure: We detail Our signs for people who understand.

006.099  It is He Who sendeth down rain from the skies: with it We produce 
vegetation of all kinds: from some We produce green (crops), out of which We 
produce grain, heaped up (at harvest); out of the date-palm and its sheaths (or spathes) 
(come) clusters of dates hanging low and near: and (then there are) gardens of grapes, 
and olives, and pomegranates, each similar (in kind) yet different (in variety): when 
they begin to bear fruit, feast your eyes with the fruit and the ripeness thereof. 
Behold! in these things there are signs for people who believe.

006.100  Yet they make the Jinns equals with God, though God did create the Jinns; 
and they falsely, having no knowledge, attribute to Him sons and daughters. Praise 
and glory be to Him! (for He is) above what they attribute to Him!

006.101  To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: How can He 
have a son when He hath no consort? He created all things, and He hath full 
knowledge of all things.

006.102  That is God, your Lord! there is no god but He, the Creator of all things: 
then worship ye Him: and He hath power to dispose of all affairs.

006.103  No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision: He is above all 
comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things.

006.104  "Now have come to you, from your Lord, proofs (to open your eyes): if any 
will see, it will be for (the good of) his own soul; if any will be blind, it will be to his 
own (harm): I am not (here) to watch over your doings."

006.105  Thus do we explain the signs by various (symbols): that they may say, 
"Thou hast taught (us) diligently," and that We may make the matter clear to those 
who know.

006.106  Follow what thou art taught by inspiration from thy Lord: there is no god but 
He: and turn aside from those who join gods with God.

006.107  If it had been God's plan, they would not have taken false gods: but We 
made thee not one to watch over their doings, nor art thou set over them to dispose of 
their affairs.

006.108  Revile not ye those whom they call upon besides God, lest they out of spite 
revile God in their ignorance. Thus have We made alluring to each people its own 
doings. In the end will they return to their Lord, and We shall then tell them the truth 
of all that they did.

006.109  They swear their strongest oaths by God, that if a (special) sign came to 
them, by it they would believe. Say: "Certainly (all) signs are in the power of God: 
but what will make you (Muslims) realise that (even) if (special) signs came, they will 
not believe."?

006.110  We (too) shall turn to (confusion) their hearts and their eyes, even as they 
refused to believe in this in the first instance: We shall leave them in their trespasses, 
to wander in distraction.

006.111  Even if We did send unto them angels, and the dead did speak unto them, 
and We gathered together all things before their very eyes, they are not the ones to 
believe, unless it is in God's plan. But most of them ignore (the truth).

006.112  Likewise did We make for every Messenger an enemy,- evil ones among 
men and jinns, inspiring each other with flowery discourses by way of deception. If 
thy Lord had so planned, they would not have done it: so leave them and their 
inventions alone.

006.113  To such (deceit) let the hearts of those incline, who have no faith in the 
hereafter: let them delight in it, and let them earn from it what they may.

006.114  Say: "Shall I seek for judge other than God? - when He it is Who hath sent 
unto you the Book, explained in detail." They know full well, to whom We have 
given the Book, that it hath been sent down from thy Lord in truth. Never be then of 
those who doubt.

006.115  The word of thy Lord doth find its fulfilment in truth and in justice: None 
can change His words: for He is the one who heareth and knoweth all.

006.116  Wert thou to follow the common run of those on earth, they will lead thee 
away from the way of God. They follow nothing but conjecture: they do nothing but 
lie.

006.117  Thy Lord knoweth best who strayeth from His way: He knoweth best who 
they are that receive His guidance.

006.118  So eat of (meats) on which God's name hath been pronounced, if ye have 
faith in His signs.

006.119  Why should ye not eat of (meats) on which God's name hath been 
pronounced, when He hath explained to you in detail what is forbidden to you - 
except under compulsion of necessity? But many do mislead (men) by their appetites 
unchecked by knowledge. Thy Lord knoweth best those who transgress.

006.120  Eschew all sin, open or secret: those who earn sin will get due recompense 
for their "earnings."

006.121  Eat not of (meats) on which God's name hath not been pronounced: That 
would be impiety. But the evil ones ever inspire their friends to contend with you if 
ye were to obey them, ye would indeed be Pagans.

006.122  Can he who was dead, to whom We gave life, and a light whereby he can 
walk amongst men, be like him who is in the depths of darkness, from which he can 
never come out? Thus to those without faith their own deeds seem pleasing.

006.123  Thus have We placed leaders in every town, its wicked men, to plot (and 
burrow) therein: but they only plot against their own souls, and they perceive it not.

006.124  When there comes to them a sign (from God), They say: "We shall not 
believe until we receive one (exactly) like those received by God's apostles." God 
knoweth best where (and how) to carry out His mission. Soon will the wicked be 
overtaken by humiliation before God, and a severe punishment, for all their plots.

006.125  Those whom God (in His plan) willeth to guide,- He openeth their breast to 
Islam; those whom He willeth to leave straying,- He maketh their breast close and 
constricted, as if they had to climb up to the skies: thus doth God (heap) the penalty 
on those who refuse to believe.

006.126  This is the way of thy Lord, leading straight: We have detailed the signs for 
those who receive admonition.

006.127  For them will be a home of peace in the presence of their Lord: He will be 
their friend, because they practised (righteousness).

006.128  One day will He gather them all together, (and say): "O ye assembly of 
Jinns! Much (toll) did ye take of men." Their friends amongst men will say: "Our 
Lord! we made profit from each other: but (alas!) we reached our term - which thou 
didst appoint for us." He will say: "The Fire be your dwelling-place: you will dwell 
therein for ever, except as God willeth." for thy Lord is full of wisdom and 
knowledge.

006.129  Thus do we make the wrong-doers turn to each other, because of what they 
earn.

006.130  "O ye assembly of Jinns and men! came there not unto you apostles from 
amongst you, setting forth unto you My signs, and warning you of the meeting of this 
Day of yours?" They will say: "We bear witness against ourselves." It was the life of 
this world that deceived them. So against themselves will they bear witness that they 
rejected Faith.

006.131  (The apostles were sent) thus, for thy Lord would not destroy for their 
wrong-doing men's habitations whilst their occupants were unwarned.

006.132  To all are degrees (or ranks) according to their deeds: for thy Lord is not 
unmindful of anything that they do.

006.133  Thy Lord is self-sufficient, full of Mercy: if it were His will, He could 
destroy you, and in your place appoint whom He will as your successors, even as He 
raised you up from the posterity of other people.

006.134  All that hath been promised unto you will come to pass: nor can ye frustrate 
it (in the least bit).

006.135  Say: "O my people! Do whatever ye can: I will do (my part): soon will ye 
know who it is whose end will be (best) in the Hereafter: certain it is that the wrong-
doers will not prosper."

006.136  Out of what God hath produced in abundance in tilth and in cattle, they 
assigned Him a share: they say, according to their fancies: "This is for God, and this" 
- for our "partners"! but the share of their" partners "reacheth not God, whilst the 
share of God reacheth their "partners" ! evil (and unjust) is their assignment!

006.137  Even so, in the eyes of most of the pagans, their "partners" made alluring the 
slaughter of their children, in order to lead them to their own destruction, and cause 
confusion in their religion. If God had willed, they would not have done so: But leave 
alone them and their inventions.

006.138  And they say that such and such cattle and crops are taboo, and none should 
eat of them except those whom - so they say - We wish; further, there are cattle 
forbidden to yoke or burden, and cattle on which, (at slaughter), the name of God is 
not pronounced; - inventions against God's name: soon will He requite them for their 
inventions.

006.139  They say: "What is in the wombs of such and such cattle is specially 
reserved (for food) for our men, and forbidden to our women; but if it is still-born, 
then all have share therein. For their (false) attribution (of superstitions to God), He 
will soon punish them: for He is full of wisdom and knowledge.

006.140  Lost are those who slay their children, from folly, without knowledge, and 
forbid food which God hath provided for them, inventing (lies) against God. They 
have indeed gone astray and heeded no guidance.

006.141  It is He Who produceth gardens, with trellises and without, and dates, and 
tilth with produce of all kinds, and olives and pomegranates, similar (in kind) and 
different (in variety): eat of their fruit in their season, but render the dues that are 
proper on the day that the harvest is gathered. But waste not by excess: for God loveth 
not the wasters.

006.142  Of the cattle are some for burden and some for meat: eat what God hath 
provided for you, and follow not the footsteps of Satan: for he is to you and avowed 
enemy.

006.143  (Take) eight (head of cattle) in (four) pairs: of sheep a pair, and of goats a 
pair; say, hath He forbidden the two males, or the two females, or (the young) which 
the wombs of the two females enclose? Tell me with knowledge if ye are truthful:

006.144  Of camels a pair, and oxen a pair; say, hath He forbidden the two males, or 
the two females,  or (the young) which the wombs of the two females enclose? -  
Were ye present when God ordered you such a thing? But who doth more wrong than 
one who invents a lie against God, to lead astray men without knowledge? For God 
guideth not people who do wrong.

006.145  Say: "I find not in the message received by me by inspiration any (meat) 
forbidden to be eaten by one who wishes to eat it, unless it be dead meat, or blood 
poured forth, or the flesh of swine,- for it is an abomination - or, what is impious, 
(meat) on which a name has been invoked, other than God's". But (even so), if a 
person is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due 
limits,- thy Lord is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

006.146  For those who followed the Jewish Law, We forbade every (animal) with 
undivided hoof, and We forbade them that fat of the ox and the sheep, except what 
adheres to their backs or their entrails, or is mixed up with a bone: this in recompense 
for their wilful disobedience: for We are true (in Our ordinances).

006.147  If they accuse thee of falsehood, say: "Your Lord is full of mercy all-
embracing; but from people in guilt never will His wrath be turned back.

006.148  Those who give partners (to God) will say: "If God had wished, we should 
not have given partners to Him nor would our fathers; nor should we have had any 
taboos." So did their ancestors argue falsely, until they tasted of Our wrath. Say: 
"Have ye any (certain) knowledge? If so, produce it before us. Ye follow nothing but 
conjecture: ye do nothing but lie."

006.149  Say: "With God is the argument that reaches home: if it had been His will, 
He could indeed have guided you all."

006.150  Say: "Bring forward your witnesses to prove that God did forbid so and so." 
If they bring such witnesses, be not thou amongst them: Nor follow thou the vain 
desires of such as treat our signs as falsehoods, and such as believe not in the 
Hereafter: for they hold others as equal with their Guardian-Lord.

006.151  Say: "Come, I will rehearse what God hath (really) prohibited you from": 
Join not anything as equal with Him; be good to your parents; kill not your children 
on a plea of want;- We provide sustenance for you and for them;- come not nigh to 
shameful deeds. Whether open or secret; take not life, which God hath made sacred, 
except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn 
wisdom.

006.152  And come not nigh to the orphan's property, except to improve it, until he 
attain the age of full strength; give measure and weight with (full) justice;- no burden 
do We place on any soul, but that which it can bear;- whenever ye speak, speak justly, 
even if a near relative is concerned; and fulfil the covenant of God: thus doth He 
command you, that ye may remember.

006.153  Verily, this is My way, leading straight: follow it: follow not (other) paths: 
they will scatter you about from His (great) path: thus doth He command you. that ye 
may be righteous.

006.154  Moreover, We gave Moses the Book, completing (Our favour) to those who 
would do right, and explaining all things in detail,- and a guide and a mercy, that they 
might believe in the meeting with their Lord.

006.155  And this is a Book which We have revealed as a blessing: so follow it and 
be righteous, that ye may receive mercy:

006.156  Lest ye should say: "The Book was sent down to two Peoples before us, and 
for our part, we remained unacquainted with all that they learned by assiduous study:"

006.157  Or lest ye should say: "If the Book had only been sent down to us, we 
should have followed its guidance better than they." Now then hath come unto you a 
clear (sign) from your Lord,- and a guide and a mercy: then who could do more 
wrong than one who rejecteth God's signs, and turneth away therefrom? In good time 
shall We requite those who turn away from Our signs, with a dreadful penalty, for 
their turning away.

006.158  Are they waiting to see if the angels come to them, or thy Lord (Himself), or 
certain of the signs of thy Lord! the day that certain of the signs of thy Lord do come, 
no good will it do to a soul to believe in them then if it believed not before nor earned 
righteousness through its faith. Say: "Wait ye: we too are waiting."

006.159  As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou hast no 
part in them in the least: their affair is with God: He will in the end tell them the truth 
of all that they did.

006.160  He that doeth good shall have ten times as much to his credit: He that doeth 
evil shall only be recompensed according to his evil: no wrong shall be done unto 
(any of) them.

006.161  Say: "Verily, my Lord hath guided me to a way that is straight,- a religion of 
right,- the path (trod) by Abraham the true in Faith, and he (certainly) joined not gods 
with God."

006.162  Say: "Truly, my prayer and my service of sacrifice, my life and my death, 
are (all) for God, the Cherisher of the Worlds:

006.163  No partner hath He: this am I commanded, and I am the first of those who 
bow to His will.

006.164  Say: "Shall I seek for (my) Cherisher other than God, when He is the 
Cherisher of all things (that exist)? Every soul draws the meed of its acts on none but 
itself: no bearer of burdens can bear of burdens can bear the burden of another. Your 
goal in the end is towards God: He will tell you the truth of the things wherein ye 
disputed."

006.165  It is He Who hath made you (His) agents, inheritors of the earth: He hath 
raised you in ranks, some above others: that He may try you in the gifts He hath given 
you: for thy Lord is quick in punishment: yet He is indeed Oft-forgiving, Most 
Merciful.

THE HEIGHTS,  CHAPTER NO.  007

007.001  Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad.

007.002  A Book revealed unto thee,- So let thy heart be oppressed no more by any 
difficulty on that account,- that with it thou mightest warn (the erring) and teach the 
Believers).

007.003  Follow (O men!) the revelation given unto you from your Lord, and follow 
not, as friends or protectors, other than Him. Little it is ye remember of admonition.

007.004  How many towns have We destroyed (for their sins)? Our punishment took 
them on a sudden by night or while they slept for their afternoon rest.

007.005  When (thus) Our punishment took them, no cry did they utter but this: 
"Indeed we did wrong."

007.006  Then shall we question those to whom Our message was sent and those by 
whom We sent it.

007.007  And verily, We shall recount their whole story with knowledge, for We were 
never absent (at any time or place).

007.008  The balance that day will be true (to nicety): those whose scale (of good) 
will be heavy, will prosper:

007.009  Those whose scale will be light, will be their souls in perdition, for that they 
wrongfully treated Our signs.

007.010  It is We Who have placed you with authority on earth, and provided you 
therein with means for the fulfilment of your life: small are the thanks that ye give!

007.011  It is We Who created you and gave you shape; then We bade the angels bow 
down to Adam, and they bowed down; not so Iblis; He refused to be of those who 
bow down.

007.012  (God) said: "What prevented thee from bowing down when I commanded 
thee?" He said: "I am better than he: Thou didst create me from fire, and him from 
clay."

007.013  (God) said: "Get thee down from this: it is not for thee to be arrogant here: 
get out, for thou art of the meanest (of creatures)."

007.014  He said: "Give me respite till the day they are raised up."

007.015  (God) said: "Be thou among those who have respite."

007.016  He said: "Because thou hast thrown me out of the way, lo! I will lie in wait 
for them on thy straight way:

007.017  "Then will I assault them from before them and behind them, from their 
right and their left: Nor wilt thou find, in most of them, gratitude (for thy mercies)."

007.018  (God) said: "Get out from this, disgraced and expelled. If any of them follow 
thee,- Hell will I fill with you all.

007.019  "O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden, and enjoy (its good 
things) as ye wish: but approach not this tree, or ye run into harm and transgression."

007.020  Then began Satan to whisper suggestions to them, bringing openly before 
their minds all their shame that was hidden from them (before): he said: "Your Lord 
only forbade you this tree, lest ye should become angels or such beings as live for 
ever."

007.021  And he swore to them both, that he was their sincere adviser.

007.022  So by deceit he brought about their fall: when they tasted of the tree, their 
shame became manifest to them, and they began to sew together the leaves of the 
garden over their bodies. And their Lord called unto them: "Did I not forbid you that 
tree, and tell you that Satan was an avowed enemy unto you?"

007.023  They said: "Our Lord! We have wronged our own souls: If thou forgive us 
not and bestow not upon us Thy Mercy, we shall certainly be lost."

007.024  (God) said: "Get ye down. With enmity between yourselves. On earth will 
be your dwelling-place and your means of livelihood,- for a time."

007.025  He said: "Therein shall ye live, and therein shall ye die; but from it shall ye 
be taken out (at last)."

007.026  O ye Children of Adam! We have bestowed raiment upon you to cover your 
shame, as well as to be an adornment to you. But the raiment of righteousness,- that is 
the best. Such are among the Signs of God, that they may receive admonition!

007.027  O ye Children of Adam! Let not Satan seduce you, in the same manner as 
He got your parents out of the Garden, stripping them of their raiment, to expose their 
shame: for he and his tribe watch you from a position where ye cannot see them: We 
made the evil ones friends (only) to those without faith.

007.028  When they do aught that is shameful, they say: "We found our fathers doing 
so"; and "God commanded us thus": Say: "Nay, God never commands what is 
shameful: do ye say of God what ye know not?"

007.029  Say: "My Lord hath commanded justice; and that ye set your whole selves 
(to Him) at every time and place of prayer, and call upon Him, making your devotion 
sincere as in His sight: such as He created you in the beginning, so shall ye return."

007.030  Some He hath guided: Others have (by their choice) deserved the loss of 
their way; in that they took the evil ones, in preference to God, for their friends and 
protectors, and think that they receive guidance.

007.031  O Children of Adam! wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of 
prayer: eat and drink: But waste not by excess, for God loveth not the wasters.

007.032  Say: Who hath forbidden the beautiful (gifts) of God, which He hath 
produced for His servants, and the things, clean and pure, (which He hath provided) 
for sustenance? Say: They are, in the life of this world, for those who believe, (and) 
purely for them on the Day of Judgment. Thus do We explain the signs in detail for 
those who understand.

007.033  Say: the things that my Lord hath indeed forbidden are: shameful deeds, 
whether open or secret; sins and trespasses against truth or reason; assigning of 
partners to God, for which He hath given no authority; and saying things about God 
of which ye have no knowledge.

007.034  To every people is a term appointed: when their term is reached, not an hour 
can they cause delay, nor (an hour) can they advance (it in anticipation).

007.035  O ye Children of Adam! whenever there come to you apostles from amongst 
you, rehearsing My signs unto you,- those who are righteous and mend (their lives),- 
on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve.

007.036  But those who reject Our signs and treat them with arrogance,- they are 
companions of the Fire, to dwell therein (for ever).

007.037  Who is more unjust than one who invents a lie against God or rejects His 
Signs? For such, their portion appointed must reach them from the Book (of decrees): 
until, when our messengers (of death) arrive and take their souls, they say: "Where 
are the things that ye used to invoke besides God?" They will reply, "They have left 
us in the lurch," And they will bear witness against themselves, that they had rejected 
God.

007.038  He will say: "Enter ye in the company of the peoples who passed away 
before you - men and jinns, - into the Fire." Every time a new people enters, it curses 
its sister-people (that went before), until they follow each other, all into the Fire. Saith 
the last about the first: "Our Lord! it is these that misled us: so give them a double 
penalty in the Fire." He will say: "Doubled for all" : but this ye do not understand.

007.039  Then the first will say to the last: "See then! No advantage have ye over us; 
so taste ye of the penalty for all that ye did !"

007.040  To those who reject Our signs and treat them with arrogance, no opening 
will there be of the gates of heaven, nor will they enter the garden, until the camel can 
pass through the eye of the needle: Such is Our reward for those in sin.

007.041  For them there is Hell, as a couch (below) and folds and folds of covering 
above: such is Our requital of those who do wrong.

007.042  But those who believe and work righteousness,- no burden do We place on 
any soul, but that which it can bear,- they will be Companions of the Garden, therein 
to dwell (for ever).

007.043  And We shall remove from their hearts any lurking sense of injury;- beneath 
them will be rivers flowing;- and they shall say: "Praise be to God, who hath guided 
us to this (felicity): never could we have found guidance, had it not been for the 
guidance of God: indeed it was the truth, that the apostles of our Lord brought unto 
us." And they shall hear the cry: "Behold! the garden before you! Ye have been made 
its inheritors, for your deeds (of righteousness)."

007.044  The Companions of the Garden will call out to the Companions of the Fire: 
"We have indeed found the promises of our Lord to us true: Have you also found 
Your Lord's promises true?" They shall say, "Yes"; but a crier shall proclaim between 
them: "The curse of God is on the wrong-doers;-

007.045  "Those who would hinder (men) from the path of God and would seek in it 
something crooked: they were those who denied the Hereafter."

007.046  Between them shall be a veil, and on the heights will be men who would 
know every one by his marks: they will call out to the Companions of the Garden, 
"peace on you": they will not have entered, but they will have an assurance (thereof).

007.047  When their eyes shall be turned towards the Companions of the Fire, they 
will say: "Our Lord! send us not to the company of the wrong-doers."

007.048  The men on the heights will call to certain men whom they will know from 
their marks, saying: "Of what profit to you were your hoards and your arrogant ways?

007.049  "Behold! are these not the men whom you swore that God with His Mercy 
would never bless? Enter ye the Garden: no fear shall be on you, nor shall ye grieve."

007.050  The Companions of the Fire will call to the Companions of the Garden: 
"Pour down to us water or anything that God doth provide for your sustenance." They 
will say: "Both these things hath God forbidden to those who rejected Him."

007.051  "Such as took their religion to be mere amusement and play, and were 
deceived by the life of the world." That day shall We forget them as they forgot the 
meeting of this day of theirs, and as they were wont to reject Our signs.

007.052  For We had certainly sent unto them a Book, based on knowledge, which 
We explained in detail,- a guide and a mercy to all who believe.

007.053  Do they just wait for the final fulfilment of the event? On the day the event 
is finally fulfilled, those who disregarded it before will say: "The apostles of our Lord 
did indeed bring true (tidings). Have we no intercessors now to intercede on our 
behalf? Or could we be sent back? then should we behave differently from our 
behaviour in the past." In fact they will have lost their souls, and the things they 
invented will leave them in the lurch.

007.054  Your Guardian-Lord is God, Who created the heavens and the earth in six 
days, and is firmly established on the throne (of authority): He draweth the night as a 
veil o'er the day, each seeking the other in rapid succession: He created the sun, the 
moon, and the stars, (all) governed by laws under His command. Is it not His to create 
and to govern? Blessed be God, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds!

007.055  Call on your Lord with humility and in private: for God loveth not those 
who trespass beyond bounds.

007.056  Do no mischief on the earth, after it hath been set in order, but call on Him 
with fear and longing (in your hearts): for the Mercy of God is (always) near to those 
who do good.

007.057  It is He Who sendeth the winds like heralds of glad tidings, going before His 
mercy: when they have carried the heavy-laden clouds, We drive them to a land that 
is dead, make rain to descend thereon, and produce every kind of harvest therewith: 
thus shall We raise up the dead: perchance ye may remember.

007.058  From the land that is clean and good, by the will of its Cherisher, springs up 
produce, (rich) after its kind: but from the land that is bad, springs up nothing but that 
which is niggardly: thus do we explain the signs by various (symbols) to those who 
are grateful.

007.059  We sent Noah to his people. He said: "O my people! worship God! ye have 
no other god but Him. I fear for you the punishment of a dreadful day!

007.060  The leaders of his people said: "Ah! we see thee evidently wandering (in 
mind)."

007.061  He said: "O my people! No wandering is there in my (mind): on the contrary 
I am an apostle from the Lord and Cherisher of the worlds!

007.062  "I but fulfil towards you the duties of my Lord's mission: Sincere is my 
advice to you, and I know from God something that ye know not.

007.063  "Do ye wonder that there hath come to you a message from your Lord, 
through a man of your own people, to warn you,- so that ye may fear God and haply 
receive His Mercy?"

007.064  But they rejected him, and We delivered him, and those with him, in the 
Ark: but We overwhelmed in the flood those who rejected Our signs. They were 
indeed a blind people!

007.065  To the 'Ad people, (We sent) Hud, one of their (own) brethren: He said: O 
my people! worship God! ye have no other god but Him will ye not fear (God)?"

007.066  The leaders of the Unbelievers among his people said: "Ah! we see thou art 
an imbecile!" and "We think thou art a liar!"

007.067  He said: "O my people! I am no imbecile, but (I am) an apostle from the 
Lord and Cherisher of the worlds!

007.068  "I but fulfil towards you the duties of my Lord's mission: I am to you a 
sincere and trustworthy adviser.

007.069  "Do ye wonder that there hath come to you a message from your Lord 
through a man of your own people, to warn you? call in remembrance that He made 
you inheritors after the people of Noah, and gave you a stature tall among the nations. 
Call in remembrance the benefits (ye have received) from God: that so ye may 
prosper."

007.070  They said: "Comest thou to us, that we may worship God alone, and give up 
the  cult of our fathers? bring us what thou threatenest us with, if so be that thou 
tellest the truth!"

007.071  He said: "Punishment and wrath have already come upon you from your 
Lord: dispute ye with me over names which ye have devised - ye and your fathers,- 
without authority from God? then wait: I am amongst you, also waiting."

007.072  We saved him and those who adhered to him. By Our mercy, and We cut off 
the roots of those who rejected Our signs and did not believe.

007.073  To the Thamud people (We sent) Salih, one of their own brethren: He said: 
"O my people! worship God: ye have no other god but Him.  Now hath come unto 
you a clear (Sign) from your Lord! This she-camel of God is a Sign unto you: So 
leave her to graze in God's earth, and let her come to no harm, or ye shall be seized 
with a grievous punishment.

007.074  "And remember how He made you inheritors after the 'Ad people and gave 
you habitations in the land: ye build for yourselves palaces and castles in (open) 
plains, and care out homes in the mountains; so bring to remembrance the benefits (ye 
have received) from God, and refrain from evil and mischief on the earth."

007.075  The leaders of the arrogant party among his people said to those who were 
reckoned powerless - those among them who believed: "know ye indeed that Salih is 
an apostle from his Lord?" They said: "We do indeed believe in the revelation which 
hath been sent through him."

007.076  The Arrogant party said: "For our part, we reject what ye believe in."

007.077  Then they ham-strung the she-camel, and insolently defied the order of their 
Lord, saying: "O Salih! bring about thy threats, if thou art an apostle (of God)!"

007.078  So the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes 
in the morning!

007.079  So Salih left them, saying: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the 
message for which I was sent by my Lord: I gave you good counsel, but ye love not 
good counsellors!"

007.080  We also (sent) Lut: He said to his people: "Do ye commit lewdness such as 
no people in creation (ever) committed before you?

007.081  "For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women : ye are indeed a 
people transgressing beyond bounds."

007.082  And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your 
city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!"

007.083  But we saved him and his family, except his wife: she was of those who 
legged behind.

007.084  And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): Then see what was 
the end of those who indulged in sin and crime!

007.085  To the Madyan people We sent Shu'aib, one of their own brethren: he said: 
"O my people! worship God; Ye have no other god but Him. Now hath come unto 
you a clear (Sign) from your Lord! Give just measure and weight, nor withhold from 
the people the things that are their due; and do no mischief on the earth after it has 
been set in order: that will be best for you, if ye have Faith.

007.086  "And squat not on every road, breathing threats, hindering from the path of 
God those who believe in Him, and seeking in it something crooked; But remember 
how ye were little, and He gave you increase. And hold in your mind's eye what was 
the end of those who did mischief.

007.087  "And if there is a party among you who believes in the message with which 
I have been sent, and a party which does not believe, hold yourselves in patience until 
God doth decide between us: for He is the best to decide.

007.088  The leaders, the arrogant party among his people, said: "O Shu'aib! we shall 
certainly drive thee out of our city - (thee) and those who believe with thee; or else ye 
(thou and they) shall have to return to our ways and religion." He said: "What! even 
though we do detest (them)?

007.089  "We should indeed invent a lie against God, if we returned to your ways 
after God hath rescued us therefrom; nor could we by any manner of means return 
thereto unless it be as in the will and plan of God, Our Lord. Our Lord can reach out 
to the utmost recesses of things by His knowledge. In the God is our trust. our Lord! 
decide Thou between us and our people in truth, for Thou art the best to decide."

007.090  The leaders, the unbelievers among his people, said: "If ye follow Shu'aib, 
be sure then ye are ruined!"

007.091  But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their 
homes before the morning!

007.092  The men who reject Shu'aib became as if they had never been in the homes 
where they had flourished: the men who rejected Shu'aib - it was they who were 
ruined!

007.093  So Shu'aib left them, saying: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the 
messages for which I was sent by my Lord: I gave you good counsel, but how shall I 
lament over a people who refuse to believe!"

007.094  Whenever We sent a prophet to a town, We took up its people in suffering 
and adversity, in order that they might learn humility.

007.095  Then We changed their suffering into prosperity, until they grew and 
multiplied, and began to say: "Our fathers (too) were touched by suffering and 
affluence" ... Behold! We called them to account of a sudden, while they realised not 
(their peril).

007.096  If the people of the towns had but believed and feared God, We should 
indeed have opened out to them (All kinds of) blessings from heaven and earth; but 
they rejected (the truth), and We brought them to book for their misdeeds.

007.097  Did the people of the towns feel secure against the coming of Our wrath by 
night while they were asleep?

007.098  Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight while they 
played about (care-free)?

007.099  Did they then feel secure against the plan of God?- but no one can feel 
secure from the Plan of God, except those (doomed) to ruin!

007.100  To those who inherit the earth in succession to its (previous) possessors, is it 
not a guiding, (lesson) that, if We so willed, We could punish them (too) for their 
sins, and seal up their hearts so that they could not hear?

007.101  Such were the towns whose story We (thus) relate unto thee: There came 
indeed to them their apostles with clear (signs):  But they would not believe what they 
had rejected before. Thus doth God seal up the hearts of those who reject faith.

007.102  Most of them We found not men (true) to their covenant: but most of them 
We found rebellious and disobedient.

007.103  Then after them We sent Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs, 
but they wrongfully rejected them: So see what was the end of those who made 
mischief.

007.104  Moses said: "O Pharaoh! I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds,-

007.105  One for whom it is right to say nothing but truth about God. Now have I 
come unto you (people), from your Lord, with a clear (Sign): So let the Children of 
Israel depart along with me."

007.106  (Pharaoh) said: "If indeed thou hast come with a Sign, show it forth,- if thou 
tellest the truth."

007.107  Then (Moses) threw his rod, and behold! it was a serpent, plain (for all to 
see)!

007.108  And he drew out his hand, and behold! it was white to all beholders!

007.109  Said the Chiefs of the people of Pharaoh: "This is indeed a sorcerer well-
versed.

007.110  "His plan is to get you out of your land: then what is it ye counsel?"

007.111  They said: "Keep him and his brother in suspense (for a while); and send to 
the cities men to collect-

007.112  And bring up to thee all (our) sorcerers well-versed."

007.113  So there came the sorcerers to Pharaoh: They said, "of course we shall have 
a (suitable) reward if we win!"

007.114  He said: "Yea, (and more),- for ye shall in that case be (raised to posts) 
nearest (to my person)."

007.115  They said: "O Moses! wilt thou throw (first), or shall we have the (first) 
throw?"

007.116  Said Moses: "Throw ye (first)." So when they threw, they bewitched the 
eyes of the people, and struck terror into them: for they showed a great (feat of) 
magic.

007.117  We put it into Moses's mind by inspiration: "Throw (now) thy rod":and 
behold!  it swallows up straight away all the falsehoods which they fake!

007.118  Thus truth was confirmed, and all that they did was made of no effect.

007.119  So the (great ones) were vanquished there and then, and were made to look 
small.

007.120  But the sorcerers fell down prostrate in adoration.

007.121  Saying: "We believe in the Lord of the Worlds,-

007.122  "The Lord of Moses and Aaron."

007.123  Said Pharaoh: "Believe ye in Him before I give you permission? Surely this 
is a trick which ye have planned in the city to drive out its people: but soon shall ye 
know (the consequences).

007.124  "Be sure I will cut off your hands and your feet on apposite sides, and I will 
cause you all to die on the cross."

007.125  They said: "For us, We are but sent back unto our Lord:

007.126  "But thou dost wreak thy vengeance on us simply because we believed in 
the Signs of our Lord when they reached us! Our Lord! pour out on us patience and 
constancy, and take our souls unto thee as Muslims (who bow to thy will)!

007.127  Said the chiefs of Pharaoh's people: "Wilt thou leave Moses and his people, 
to spread mischief in the land, and to abandon thee and thy gods?" He said: "Their 
male children will we slay; (only) their females will we save alive; and we have over 
them (power) irresistible."

007.128  Said Moses to his people: "Pray for help from God, and (wait) in patience 
and constancy: for the earth is God's, to give as a heritage to such of His servants as 
He pleaseth; and the end is (best) for the righteous.

007.129  They said: "We have had (nothing but) trouble, both before and after thou 
camest to us." He said: "It may be that your Lord will destroy your enemy and make 
you inheritors in the earth; that so He may try you by your deeds."

007.130  We punished the people of Pharaoh with years (of droughts) and shortness 
of crops; that they might receive admonition.

007.131  But when good (times) came, they said, "This is due to us;"  When gripped 
by calamity, they ascribed it to evil omens connected with Moses and those with him! 
Behold! in truth the omens of evil are theirs in God's sight, but most of them do not 
understand!

007.132  They said (to Moses): "Whatever be the Signs thou bringest, to work 
therewith thy sorcery on us, we shall never believe in thee.

007.133  So We sent (plagues) on them: Wholesale death, Locusts, Lice, Frogs, And 
Blood: Signs openly self-explained: but they were steeped in arrogance,- a people 
given to sin.

007.134  Every time the penalty fell on them, they said: "O Moses! on your behalf 
call on thy Lord in virtue of his promise to thee: If thou wilt remove the penalty from 
us, we shall truly believe in thee, and we shall send away the Children of Israel with 
thee."

007.135  But every time We removed the penalty from them according to a fixed term 
which they had to fulfil,- Behold! they broke their word!

007.136  So We exacted retribution from them: We drowned them in the sea, because 
they rejected Our Signs and failed to take warning from them.

007.137  And We made a people, considered weak (and of no account), inheritors of 
lands in both east and west, - lands whereon We sent down Our blessings. The fair 
promise of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience 
and constancy, and We levelled to the ground the great works and fine buildings 
which Pharaoh and his people erected (with such pride).

007.138  We took the Children of Israel (with safety) across the sea. They came upon 
a people devoted entirely to some idols they had. They said: "O Moses! fashion for us  
a god like unto the gods they have." He said: "Surely ye are a people without 
knowledge.

007.139  "As to these folk,- the cult they are in is (but) a fragment of a ruin, and vain 
is the (worship) which they practise."

007.140  He said: "Shall I seek for you a god other than the (true) God, when it is God 
Who hath endowed you with gifts above the nations?"

007.141  And remember We rescued you from Pharaoh's people, who afflicted you 
with the worst of penalties, who slew your male children and saved alive your 
females: in that was a momentous trial from your Lord.

007.142  We appointed for Moses thirty nights, and completed (the period) with ten 
(more): thus was completed the term (of communion) with his Lord, forty nights. And 
Moses had charged his brother Aaron (before he went up): "Act for me amongst my 
people: Do right, and follow not the way of those who do mischief."

007.143  When Moses came to the place appointed by Us, and his Lord addressed 
him, He said: "O my Lord! show (Thyself) to me, that I may look upon thee." God 
said: "By no means canst thou see Me (direct); But look upon the mount; if it abide in 
its place, then shalt thou see Me." When his Lord manifested His glory on the Mount, 
He made it as dust. And Moses fell down in a swoon. When he recovered his senses 
he said: "Glory be to Thee! to Thee I turn in repentance, and I am the first to believe."

007.144  (God) said: "O Moses! I have chosen thee above (other) men, by the mission 
I (have given thee) and the words I (have spoken to thee): take then the (revelation) 
which I give thee, and be of those who give thanks."

007.145  And We ordained laws for him in the tablets in all matters, both 
commanding and explaining all things, (and said): "Take and hold these with 
firmness, and enjoin thy people to hold fast by the best in the precepts: soon shall I 
show you the homes of the wicked,- (How they lie desolate)."

007.146  Those who behave arrogantly on the earth in defiance of right - them will I 
turn away from My signs: Even if they see all the signs, they will not believe in them; 
and if they see the way of right conduct, they will not adopt it as the way; but if they 
see the way of error, that is the way they will adopt. For they have rejected our signs, 
and failed to take warning from them.

007.147  Those who reject Our signs and the meeting in the Hereafter,- vain are their 
deeds: Can they expect to be rewarded except as they have wrought?

007.148  The people of Moses made, in his absence, out of their ornaments, the image 
of calf, (for worship): it seemed to low: did they not see that it could neither speak to 
them, nor show them the way? They took it for worship and they did wrong.

007.149  When they repented, and saw that they had erred, they said: "If our Lord 
have not mercy upon us and forgive us, we shall indeed be of those who perish."

007.150  When Moses came back to his people, angry and grieved, he said: "Evil it is 
that ye have done in my place in my absence: did ye make haste to bring on the 
judgment of your Lord?" He put down the tablets, seized his brother by (the hair of) 
his head, and dragged him to him. Aaron said: "Son of my mother! the people did 
indeed reckon me as naught, and went near to slaying me! Make not the enemies 
rejoice over my misfortune, nor count thou me amongst the people of sin."

007.151  Moses prayed: "O my Lord! forgive me and my brother! admit us to Thy 
mercy! for Thou art the Most Merciful of those who show mercy!"

007.152  Those who took the calf (for worship) will indeed be overwhelmed with 
wrath from their Lord, and with shame in this life: thus do We recompense those who 
invent (falsehoods).

007.153  But those who do wrong but repent thereafter and (truly) believe,- verily thy 
Lord is thereafter Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

007.154  When the anger of Moses was appeased, he took up the tablets: in the 
writing thereon was guidance and Mercy for such as fear their Lord.

007.155  And Moses chose seventy of his people for Our place of meeting: when they 
were seized with violent quaking, he prayed: "O my Lord! if it had been Thy will 
Thou couldst have destroyed, long before, both them and me: wouldst Thou destroy 
us for the deeds of the foolish ones among us? this is no more than Thy trial: by it 
Thou causest whom Thou wilt to stray, and Thou leadest whom Thou wilt into the 
right path. Thou art our Protector: so forgive us and give us Thy mercy; for Thou art 
the best of those who forgive.

007.156  "And ordain for us that which is good, in this life and in the Hereafter: for 
we have turned unto Thee." He said: "With My punishment I visit whom I will; but 
My mercy extendeth to all things. That (mercy) I shall ordain for those who do right, 
and practise regular charity, and those who believe in Our signs;-

007.157  "Those who follow the apostle, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find 
mentioned in their own (scriptures),- in the law and the Gospel;- for he commands 
them what is just and forbids them what is evil; he allows them as lawful what is good 
(and pure) and prohibits them from what is bad (and impure); He releases them from 
their heavy burdens and from the yokes that are upon them. So it is those who believe 
in him, honour him, help him, and follow the light which is sent down with him,- it is 
they who will prosper."

007.158  day: "O men! I am sent unto you all, as the Apostle of God, to Whom 
belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth: there is no god but He: it is He 
That giveth both life and death. So believe in God and His Apostle, the Unlettered 
Prophet, who believeth in God and His words: follow him that (so) ye may be 
guided."

007.159  Of the people of Moses there is a section who guide and do justice in the 
light of truth.

007.160  We divided them into twelve tribes or nations. We directed Moses by 
inspiration, when his (thirsty) people asked him for water: "Strike the rock with thy 
staff": out of it there gushed forth twelve springs: Each group knew its own place  for 
water. We gave them the shade of clouds, and sent down to them manna and quails, 
(saying): "Eat of the good things We have provided for you": (but they rebelled); to 
Us they did no harm, but they harmed their own souls.

007.161  And remember it was said to them: "Dwell in this town and eat therein as ye 
wish, but say the word of humility and enter the gate in a posture of humility: We 
shall forgive you your faults; We shall increase (the portion of) those who do good."

007.162  But the transgressors among them changed the word from that which had 
been given them so we sent on them a plague from heaven. For that they repeatedly 
transgressed.

007.163  Ask them concerning the town  standing close by the sea. Behold! they 
transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath. For on the day of their Sabbath their fish 
did come to them, openly holding up their heads, but on the day they had no Sabbath, 
they came not: thus did We make a trial of them, for they were given to transgression.

007.164  When some of them said: "Why do ye preach to a people whom God will 
destroy or visit with a terrible punishment?"- said the preachers:" To discharge our 
duty to your Lord, and perchance they may fear Him."

007.165  When they disregarded the warnings that had been given them, We rescued 
those who forbade Evil; but We visited the wrong-doers with a grievous punishment 
because they were given to transgression.

007.166  When in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions, We said to 
them: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected."

007.167  Behold! thy Lord did declare that He would send against them, to the Day of 
Judgment, those who would afflict them with grievous penalty. Thy Lord is quick in 
retribution, but He is also Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

007.168  We broke them up into sections on this earth. There are among them some 
that are the righteous, and some that are the opposite. We have tried them with both 
prosperity and adversity: In order that they might turn (to us).

007.169  After them succeeded an (evil) generation: They inherited the Book, but 
they chose (for themselves) the vanities of this world, saying (for excuse): 
"(Everything) will be forgiven us." (Even so), if similar vanities came their way, they 
would (again) seize them.  Was not the covenant of the Book taken from them, that 
they would not ascribe to God anything but the truth? and they study what is in the 
Book. But best for the righteous is the home in the Hereafter. Will ye not understand?

007.170  As to those who hold fast by the Book and establish regular prayer,- never 
shall We suffer the reward of the righteous to perish.

007.171  When We shook the Mount over them, as if it had been a canopy, and they 
thought it was going to fall on them (We said): "Hold firmly to what We have given 
you, and bring (ever) to remembrance what is therein; perchance ye may fear God."

007.172  When thy Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam - from their loins - 
their descendants, and made them testify concerning themselves, (saying): "Am I not 
your Lord (who cherishes and sustains you)?"- They said: "Yea! We do testify!" 
(This), lest ye should say on the Day of Judgment: "Of this we were never mindful":

007.173  Or lest ye should say: "Our fathers before us may have taken false gods, but 
we are (their) descendants after them: wilt Thou then destroy us because of the deeds 
of men who were futile?"

007.174  Thus do We explain the signs in detail; and perchance they may turn (unto 
Us).

007.175  Relate to them the story of the man to whom We sent Our signs, but he 
passed them by: so Satan followed him up, and he went astray.

007.176  If it had been Our will, We should have elevated him with Our signs; but he 
inclined to the earth, and followed his own vain desires. His similitude is that of a 
dog: if you attack him, he lolls out his tongue, or if you leave him alone, he (still) lolls 
out his tongue. That is the similitude of those who reject Our signs; So relate the 
story; perchance they may reflect.

007.177  Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own 
souls.

007.178  Whom God doth guide,- he is on the right path: whom He rejects from His 
guidance,- such are the persons who perish.

007.179  Many are the Jinns and men we have made for Hell: They have hearts 
wherewith they understand not, eyes wherewith they see not, and ears wherewith they 
hear not. They are like cattle,- nay more misguided: for they are heedless (of 
warning).

007.180  The most beautiful names belong to God: so call on him by them; but shun 
such men as use profanity in his names: for what they do, they will soon be requited.

007.181  Of those We have created are people who direct (others) with truth. And 
dispense justice therewith.

007.182  Those who reject Our signs, We shall gradually visit with punishment, in 
ways they perceive not;

007.183  Respite will I grant unto them: for My scheme is strong (and unfailing).

007.184  Do they not reflect? Their companion is not seized with madness: he is but a 
perspicuous warner.

007.185  Do they see nothing in the government of the heavens and the earth and all 
that God hath created? (Do they not see) that it may well be that their terms is nigh 
drawing to an end? In what message after this will they then believe?

007.186  To such as God rejects from His guidance, there can be no guide: He will 
leave them in their trespasses, wandering in distraction.

007.187  They ask thee about the (final) Hour - when will be its appointed time? Say: 
"The knowledge thereof is with my Lord (alone): None but He can reveal as to when 
it will occur. Heavy were its burden through the heavens and the earth. Only, all of a 
sudden will it come to you." They ask thee as if thou  Wert eager in search thereof: 
Say: "The knowledge thereof is with God (alone), but most men know not."

007.188  Say: "I have no power over any good or harm to myself except as God 
willeth. If I had knowledge of the unseen, I should have multiplied all good, and no 
evil should have touched me: I am but a warner, and a bringer of glad tidings to those 
who have faith."

007.189  It is He Who created you from a single person, and made his mate of like 
nature, in order that he might dwell with her (in love). When they are united, she 
bears a light burden and carries it about (unnoticed). When she grows heavy, they 
both pray to God their Lord, (saying): "If Thou givest us a goodly child, we vow we 
shall (ever) be grateful."

007.190  But when He giveth them a goodly child, they ascribe to others a share in 
the gift they have received: but God is exalted high above the partners they ascribe to 
Him.

007.191  Do they indeed ascribe to Him as partners things that can create nothing, but 
are themselves created?

007.192  No aid can they give them, nor can they aid themselves!

007.193  If ye call them to guidance, they will not obey: For you it is the same 
whether ye call them or ye hold your peace!

007.194  Verily those whom ye call upon besides God are servants like unto you: Call 
upon them, and let them listen to your prayer, if ye are (indeed) truthful!

007.195  Have they feet to walk with? Or hands to lay hold with? Or eyes to see with? 
Or ears to hear with? Say: "Call your 'god-partners', scheme (your worst) against me, 
and give me no respite!

007.196  "For my Protector is God, Who revealed the Book (from time to time), and 
He will choose and befriend the righteous.

007.197  "But those ye call upon besides Him, are unable to help you, and indeed to 
help themselves."

007.198  If thou callest them to guidance, they hear not. Thou wilt see them looking 
at thee, but they see not.

007.199  Hold to forgiveness; command what is right; But turn away from the 
ignorant.

007.200  If a suggestion from Satan assail thy (mind), seek refuge with God; for He 
heareth and knoweth (all things).

007.201  Those who fear God, when a thought of evil from Satan assaults them, bring 
God to remembrance, when lo! they see (aright)!

007.202  But their brethren (the evil ones) plunge them deeper into error, and never 
relax (their efforts).

007.203  If thou bring them not a revelation, they say: "Why hast thou not got it 
together?" Say: "I but follow what is revealed to me from my Lord: this is (nothing 
but) lights from your Lord, and Guidance, and mercy, for any who have faith."

007.204  When the Qur'an is read, listen to it with attention, and hold your peace:  
that ye may receive Mercy.

007.205  And do thou (O reader!) Bring thy Lord to remembrance in thy (very) soul, 
with humility and in reverence, without loudness in words, in the mornings and 
evenings; and be not thou of those who are unheedful.

007.206  Those who are near to thy Lord, disdain not to do Him worship: They 
celebrate His praises, and bow down before Him.

SPOILS OF WAR, BOOTY,  CHAPTER NO.  008

008.001  They ask thee concerning (things taken as) spoils of war. Say: "(such) spoils 
are at the disposal of God and the Apostle: So fear God, and keep straight the 
relations between yourselves: Obey God and His Apostle, if ye do believe."

008.002  For, Believers are those who, when God is mentioned, feel a tremor in their 
hearts, and when they hear His signs rehearsed, find their faith strengthened, and put 
(all) their trust in their Lord;

008.003  Who establish regular prayers and spend (freely) out of the gifts We have 
given them for sustenance:

008.004  Such in truth are the believers: they have grades of dignity with their Lord, 
and forgiveness, and generous sustenance:

008.005  Just as thy Lord ordered thee out of thy house in truth, even though a party 
among the Believers disliked it,

008.006  Disputing with thee concerning the truth after it was made manifest, as if 
they were being driven to death and they (actually) saw it.

008.007  Behold! God promised you one of the two (enemy) parties, that it should be 
yours: Ye wished that the one unarmed should be yours, but God willed to justify the 
Truth according to His words and to cut off the roots of the Unbelievers;-

008.008  That He might justify Truth and prove Falsehood false, distasteful though it 
be to those in guilt.

008.009  Remember ye implored the assistance of your Lord, and He answered you: 
"I will assist you with a thousand of the angels, ranks on ranks."

008.010  God made it but a message of hope, and an assurance to your hearts: (in any 
case) there is no help except from God: and God is Exalted in Power, Wise.

008.011  Remember He covered you with a sort of drowsiness, to give you calm as 
from Himself, and he caused rain to descend on you from heaven, to clean you 
therewith, to remove from you the stain of Satan, to strengthen your hearts, and to 
plant your feet firmly therewith.

008.012  Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: 
give firmness to the Believers: I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: 
smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them."

008.013  This because they contended against God and His Apostle: If any contend 
against God and His Apostle, God is strict in punishment.

008.014  Thus (will it be said): "Taste ye then of the (punishment): for those who 
resist God, is the penalty of the Fire."

008.015  O ye who believe! when ye meet the Unbelievers in hostile array, never turn 
your backs to them.

008.016  If any do turn his back to them on such a day - unless it be in a stratagem of 
war, or to retreat to a troop (of his own)- he draws on himself the wrath of God, and 
his abode is Hell,- an evil refuge (indeed)!

008.017  It is not ye who slew them; it was God: when thou threwest (a handful of 
dust), it was not thy act, but God's: in order that He might test the Believers by a 
gracious trial from Himself: for God is He Who heareth and knoweth (all things).

008.018  That, and also because God is He Who makes feeble the plans and stratagem 
of the Unbelievers.

008.019  (O Unbelievers!) if ye prayed for victory and judgment, now hath the 
judgment come to you: if ye desist (from wrong), it will be best for you: if ye return 
(to the attack), so shall We. Not the least good will your forces be to you even if they 
were multiplied: for verily God is with those who believe!

008.020  O ye who believe! Obey God and His Apostle, and turn not away from him 
when ye hear (him speak).

008.021  Nor be like those who say, "We hear," but listen not:

008.022  For the worst of beasts in the sight of God are the deaf and the dumb,- those 
who understand not.

008.023  If God had found in them any good. He would indeed have made them 
listen: (As it is), if He had made them listen, they would but have turned back and 
declined (Faith).

008.024  O ye who believe! give your response to God and His Apostle, when He 
calleth you to that which will give you life; and know that God cometh in between a 
man and his heart, and that it is He to Whom ye shall (all) be gathered.

008.025  And fear tumult or oppression, which affecteth not in particular (only) those 
of you who do wrong: and know that God is strict in punishment.

008.026  Call to mind when ye were a small (band), despised through the land, and 
afraid that men might despoil and kidnap you; But He provided a safe asylum for you, 
strengthened  you with His aid, and gave you Good things for sustenance: that ye 
might be grateful.

008.027  O ye that believe! betray not the trust of God and the Apostle, nor 
misappropriate knowingly things entrusted to you.

008.028  And know ye that your possessions and your progeny are but a trial; and that 
it is God with Whom lies your highest reward.

008.029  O ye who believe! if ye fear God, He will grant you a criterion (to judge 
between right and wrong), remove from you (all) evil (that may afflict) you, and 
forgive you: for God is the Lord of grace unbounded.

008.030  Remember how the Unbelievers plotted against thee, to keep thee in bonds, 
or slay thee, or get thee out (of thy home). They plot and plan, and God too plans; but 
the best of planners is God.

008.031  When Our Signs are rehearsed to them, they say: "We have heard this 
(before): if we wished, we could say (words) like these: these are nothing but tales of 
the ancients."

008.032  Remember how they said: "O God if this is indeed the Truth from Thee, rain 
down on us a shower of stones form the sky, or send us a grievous penalty."

008.033  But God was not going to send them a penalty whilst thou wast amongst 
them; nor was He going to send it whilst they could ask for pardon.

008.034  But what plea have they that God should not punish them, when they keep 
out (men) from the sacred Mosque - and they are not its guardians? No men can be its 
guardians except the righteous; but most of them do not understand.

008.035  Their prayer at the House (of God) is nothing but whistling and clapping of 
hands: (Its only answer can be), "Taste ye the penalty because ye blasphemed."

008.036  The Unbelievers spend their wealth to hinder (man) from the path of God, 
and so will they continue to spend; but in the end they will have (only) regrets and 
sighs; at length they will be overcome: and the Unbelievers will be gathered together 
to Hell;-

008.037  In order that God may separate the impure from the pure, put the impure, 
one on another, heap them together, and cast them into Hell. They will be the ones to 
have lost.

008.038  Say to the Unbelievers, if (now) they desist (from Unbelief), their past 
would be forgiven them; but if they persist, the punishment of those before them is 
already (a matter of warning for them).

008.039  And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there 
prevail justice and faith in God altogether and everywhere; but if they cease, verily 
God doth see all that they do.

008.040  If they refuse, be sure that God is your Protector - the best to protect and the 
best to help.

008.041  And know that out of all the booty that ye may acquire (in war), a fifth share 
is assigned to God,- and to the Apostle, and to near relatives, orphans, the needy, and 
the wayfarer,- if ye do believe in God and in the revelation We sent down to Our 
servant on the Day of Testing,- the Day of the meeting of the two forces. For God 
hath power over all things.

008.042  Remember ye were on the hither side of the valley, and they on the farther 
side, and the caravan on lower ground than ye. Even if ye had made a mutual 
appointment to meet, ye would certainly have failed in the appointment: But (thus ye 
met), that God might accomplish a matter already enacted; that those who died might 
die after a clear Sign (had been given), and those who lived might live after a Clear 
Sign (had been given). And verily God is He Who heareth and knoweth (all things).

008.043  Remember in thy dream God showed them to thee as few: if He had shown 
them to thee as many, ye would surely have been discouraged, and ye would surely 
have disputed in (your) decision; but God saved (you): for He knoweth well the 
(secrets) of (all) hearts.

008.044  And remember when ye met, He showed them to you as few in your eyes, 
and He made you appear as contemptible in their eyes: that God might accomplish a 
matter already enacted. For to God do all questions go back (for decision).

008.045  O ye who believe! When ye meet a force, be firm, and call God in 
remembrance much (and often); that ye may prosper:

008.046  And obey God and His Apostle; and fall into no disputes, lest ye lose heart 
and your power depart; and be patient and persevering: For God is with those who 
patiently persevere:

008.047  And be not like those who started from their homes insolently and to be seen 
of men, and to hinder (men) from the path of God: For God compasseth round about 
all that they do.

008.048  Remember Satan made their (sinful) acts seem alluring to them, and said: 
"No one among men can overcome you this day, while I am near to you": But when 
the two forces came in sight of each other, he turned on his heels, and said: "Lo! I am 
clear of you; lo! I see what ye see not; Lo! I fear God: for God is strict in 
punishment."

008.049  Lo! the hypocrites say, and those in whose hearts is a disease: "These 
people,- their religion has misled them." But if any trust in God, behold! God is 
Exalted in might, Wise.

008.050  If thou couldst see, when the angels take the souls of the Unbelievers (at 
death), (How) they smite their faces and their backs, (saying): "Taste the penalty of 
the blazing Fire-

008.051  "Because of (the deeds) which your (own) hands sent forth; for God is never 
unjust to His servants:

008.052  "(Deeds) after the manner of the people of Pharaoh and of those before 
them: They rejected the Signs of God, and God punished them for their crimes: for 
God is Strong, and Strict in punishment:

008.053  "Because God will never change the grace which He hath bestowed on a 
people until they change what is in their (own) souls: and verily God is He Who 
heareth and knoweth (all things)."

008.054  (Deeds) after the manner of the people of Pharaoh and those before them": 
They treated as false the Signs of their Lord: so We destroyed them for their crimes, 
and We drowned the people of Pharaoh: for they were all oppressors and wrong-
doers.

008.055  For the worst of beasts in the sight of God are those who reject Him: They 
will not believe.

008.056  They are those with whom thou didst make a covenant, but they break their 
covenant every time, and they have not the fear (of God).

008.057  If ye gain the mastery over them in war, disperse, with them, those who 
follow them, that they may remember.

008.058  If thou fearest treachery from any group, throw back (their covenant) to 
them, (so as to be) on equal terms: for God loveth not the treacherous.

008.059  Let not the unbelievers think that they can get the better (of the godly): they 
will never frustrate (them).

008.060  Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, 
including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of God and 
your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom God doth 
know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of God, shall be repaid unto you, and ye 
shall not be treated unjustly.

008.061  But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards 
peace, and trust in God: for He is One that heareth and knoweth (all things).

008.062  Should they intend to deceive thee,- verily God sufficeth thee: He it is That 
hath strengthened thee with His aid and with (the company of) the Believers;

008.063  And (moreover) He hath put affection between their hearts: not if thou hadst 
spent all that is in the earth, couldst thou have produced that affection, but God hath 
done it: for He is Exalted in might, Wise.

008.064  O Apostle! sufficient unto thee is God,- (unto thee) and unto those who 
follow thee among the Believers.

008.065  O Apostle! rouse the Believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, 
patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will 
vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers: for these are a people without understanding.

008.066  For the present, God hath lightened your (task), for He knoweth that there is 
a weak spot in you: But (even so), if there are a hundred of you, patient and 
persevering, they will vanquish two hundred, and if a thousand, they will vanquish 
two thousand, with the leave of God: for God is with those who patiently persevere.

008.067  It is not fitting for an apostle that he should have prisoners of war until he 
hath thoroughly subdued the land. Ye look for the temporal goods of this world; but 
God looketh to the Hereafter: And God is Exalted in might, Wise.

008.068  Had it not been for a previous ordainment from God, a severe penalty would 
have reached you for the (ransom) that ye took.

008.069  But (now) enjoy what ye took in war, lawful and good: but fear God: for 
God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

008.070  O Apostle! say to those who are captives in your hands: "If God findeth any 
good in your hearts, He will give you something better than what has been taken from 
you, and He will forgive you: for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful."

008.071  But if they have treacherous designs against thee, (O Apostle!), they have 
already been in treason against God, and so hath He given (thee) power over them. 
And God so He Who hath (full) knowledge and wisdom.

008.072  Those who believed, and adopted exile, and fought for the Faith, with their 
property and their persons, in the cause of God, as well as those who gave (them) 
asylum and aid,- these are (all) friends and protectors, one of another. As to those who 
believed but came not into exile, ye owe no duty of protection to them until they 
come into exile; but if they seek your aid in religion, it is your duty to help them, 
except against a people with whom ye have a treaty of mutual alliance. And 
(remember) God seeth all that ye do.

008.073  The Unbelievers are protectors, one of another: Unless ye do this, (protect 
each other), there would be tumult and oppression on earth, and great mischief.

008.074  Those who believe, and adopt exile, and fight for the Faith, in the cause of 
God as well as those who give (them) asylum and aid,- these are (all) in very truth the 
Believers: for them is the forgiveness of sins and a provision most generous.

008.075  And those who accept Faith subsequently, and adopt exile, and fight for the 
Faith in your company,- they are of you. But kindred by blood have prior rights 
against each other in the Book of God. Verily God is well-acquainted with all things.

REPENTANCE, DISPENSATION,  CHAPTER NO.  009

009.001  A (declaration) of immunity from God and His Apostle, to those of the 
Pagans with whom ye have contracted mutual alliances:-

009.002  Go ye, then, for four months, backwards and forwards, (as ye will), 
throughout the land, but know ye that ye cannot frustrate God (by your falsehood) but 
that God will cover with shame those who reject Him.

009.003  And an announcement from God and His Apostle, to the people (assembled) 
on the day of the Great Pilgrimage,- that God and His Apostle dissolve (treaty) 
obligations with the Pagans. If then, ye repent, it were best for you; but if ye turn 
away, know ye that ye cannot frustrate God. And proclaim a grievous penalty to those 
who reject Faith.

009.004  (But the treaties are) not dissolved with those Pagans with whom ye have 
entered into alliance and who have not subsequently failed you in aught, nor aided 
any one against you. So fulfil your engagements with them to the end of their term: 
for God loveth the righteous.

009.005  But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans 
wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in 
every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise 
regular charity, then open the way for them: for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

009.006  If one amongst the Pagans ask thee for asylum, grant it to him, so that he 
may hear the word of God; and then escort him to where he can be secure. That is 
because they are men without knowledge.

009.007  How can there be a league, before God and His Apostle, with the Pagans, 
except those with whom ye made a treaty near the sacred Mosque? As long as these 
stand true to you, stand ye true to them: for God doth love the righteous.

009.008  How (can there be such a league), seeing that if they get an advantage over 
you, they respect not in you the ties either of kinship or of covenant? With (fair words 
from) their mouths they entice you, but their hearts are averse from you; and most of 
them are rebellious and wicked.

009.009  The Signs of God have they sold for a miserable price, and (many) have 
they hindered from His way: evil indeed are the deeds they have done.

009.010  In a Believer they respect not the ties either of kinship or of covenant! It is 
they who have transgressed all bounds.

009.011  But (even so), if they repent, establish regular prayers, and practise regular 
charity,- they are your brethren in Faith: (thus) do We explain the Signs in detail, for 
those who understand.

009.012  But if they violate their oaths after their covenant, and taunt you for your 
Faith,- fight ye the chiefs of Unfaith: for their oaths are nothing to them: that thus 
they may be restrained.

009.013  Will ye not fight people who violated their oaths, plotted to expel the 
Apostle, and took the aggressive by being the first (to assault) you? Do ye fear them? 
Nay, it is God Whom ye should more justly fear, if ye believe!

009.014  Fight them, and God will punish them by your hands, cover them with 
shame, help you (to victory) over them, heal the breasts of Believers,

009.015  And still the indignation of their hearts. For God will turn (in mercy) to 
whom He will; and God is All-Knowing, All-Wise.

009.016  Or think ye that ye shall be abandoned, as though God did not know those 
among you who strive with might and main, and take none for friends and protectors 
except God, His Apostle, and the (community of) Believers? But God is well-
acquainted with (all) that ye do.

009.017  It is not for such as join gods with God, to visit or maintain the mosques of 
God while they witness against their own souls to infidelity. The works of such bear 
no fruit: In Fire shall they dwell.

009.018  The mosques of God shall be visited and maintained by such as believe in 
God and the Last Day, establish regular prayers, and practise regular charity, and fear  
none (at all) except God. It is they who are expected to be on true guidance.

009.019  Do ye make the giving of drink to pilgrims, or the maintenance of the 
Sacred Mosque, equal to (the pious service of) those who believe in God and the Last 
Day, and strive with might and main in the cause of God? They are not comparable in 
the sight of God: and God guides not those who do wrong.

009.020  Those who believe, and suffer exile and strive with might and main, in 
God's cause, with their goods and their persons, have the highest rank in the sight of 
God: they are the people who will achieve (salvation).

009.021  Their Lord doth give them glad tidings of a Mercy from Himself, of His 
good pleasure, and of gardens for them, wherein are delights that endure:

009.022  They will dwell therein for ever. Verily in God's presence is a reward, the 
greatest (of all).

009.023  O ye who believe! take not for protectors your fathers and your brothers if 
they love infidelity above Faith: if any of you do so, they do wrong.

009.024  Say: If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your mates, or your 
kindred; the wealth that ye have gained; the commerce in which ye fear a decline: or 
the dwellings in which ye delight - are dearer to you than God, or His Apostle, or the 
striving in His cause;- then wait until God brings about His decision: and God guides 
not the rebellious.

009.025  Assuredly God did help you in many battle-fields and on the day of Hunain: 
Behold! your great numbers elated you, but they availed you naught: the land, for all 
that it is wide, did constrain you, and ye turned back in retreat.

009.026  But God did pour His calm on the Apostle and on the Believers, and sent 
down forces which ye saw not: He punished the Unbelievers; thus doth He reward 
those without Faith.

009.027  Again will God, after this, turn (in mercy) to whom He will: for God is Oft-
forgiving, Most Merciful.

009.028  O ye who believe! Truly the Pagans are unclean; so let them not, after this 
year of theirs, approach the Sacred Mosque. And if ye fear poverty, soon will God 
enrich you, if He wills, out of His bounty, for God is All-knowing, All-wise.

009.029  Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that 
forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the 
religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya 
with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

009.030  The Jews call 'Uzair a son of God, and the Christians call Christ the son of 
God. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers 
of old used to say. God's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the 
Truth!

009.031  They take their priests and their anchorites to be their lords in derogation of 
God, and (they take as their Lord) Christ the son of Mary; yet they were commanded 
to worship but One God: there is no god but He. Praise and glory to Him: (Far is He) 
from having the partners they associate (with Him).

009.032  Fain would they extinguish God's light with their mouths, but God will not 
allow but that His light should be perfected, even though the Unbelievers may detest 
(it).

009.033  It is He Who hath sent His Apostle with guidance and the Religion of Truth, 
to proclaim it over all religion, even though the Pagans may detest (it).

009.034  O ye who believe! there are indeed many among the priests and anchorites, 
who in Falsehood devour the substance of men and hinder (them) from the way of 
God. And there are those who bury gold and silver and spend it not in the way of 
God: announce unto them a most grievous penalty-

009.035  On the Day when heat will be produced out of that (wealth) in the fire of 
Hell, and with it will be branded their foreheads, their flanks, and their backs, their 
flanks, and their backs.- "This is the (treasure) which ye buried for yourselves: taste 
ye, then, the (treasures) ye buried!"

009.036  The number of months in the sight of God is twelve (in a year)- so ordained 
by Him the day He created the heavens and the earth; of them four are sacred: that is 
the straight usage. So wrong not yourselves therein, and fight the Pagans all together 
as they fight you all together. But know that God is with those who restrain 
themselves.

009.037  Verily the transposing (of a prohibited month) is an addition to Unbelief: the 
Unbelievers are led to wrong thereby: for they make it lawful one year, and forbidden 
another year, in order to adjust the number of months forbidden by God and make 
such forbidden ones lawful. The evil of their course seems pleasing to them. But God 
guideth not those who reject Faith.

009.038  O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go 
forth in the cause of God, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this 
world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the 
Hereafter.

009.039  Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put 
others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For God hath power 
over all things.

009.040  If ye help not (your leader), (it is no matter): for God did indeed help him, 
when the Unbelievers drove him out: he had no more than one companion; they two 
were in the cave, and he said to his companion, "Have no fear, for God is with us": 
then God sent down His peace upon him, and strengthened him with forces which ye 
saw not, and humbled to the depths the word of the Unbelievers. But the word of God 
is exalted to the heights: for God is Exalted in might, Wise.

009.041  Go ye forth, (whether equipped) lightly or heavily, and strive and struggle, 
with your goods and your persons, in the cause of God. That is best for you, if ye 
(but) knew.

009.042  If there had been immediate gain (in sight), and the journey easy, they 
would (all) without doubt have followed thee, but the distance was long, (and 
weighed) on them. They would indeed swear by God, "If we only could, we should 
certainly have come out with you": They would destroy their own souls; for God doth 
know that they are certainly lying.

009.043  God give thee grace! why didst thou grant them until those who told the 
truth were seen by thee in a clear light, and thou hadst proved the liars?

009.044  Those who believe in God and the Last Day ask thee for no exemption from 
fighting with their goods and persons. And God knoweth well those who do their 
duty.

009.045  Only those ask thee for exemption who believe not in God and the Last Day, 
and whose hearts are in doubt, so that they are tossed in their doubts to and fro.

009.046  If they had intended to come out, they would certainly have made some 
preparation therefor; but God was averse to their being sent forth; so He made them 
lag behind, and they were told, "Sit ye among those who sit (inactive)."

009.047  If they had come out with you, they would not have added to your (strength) 
but only (made for) disorder, hurrying to and fro in your midst and sowing sedition 
among you, and there would have been some among you who would have listened to 
them. But God knoweth well those who do wrong.

009.048  Indeed they had plotted sedition before, and upset matters for thee, until,- 
the Truth arrived, and the Decree of God became manifest much to their disgust.

009.049  Among them is (many) a man who says: "Grant me exemption and draw me 
not into trial." Have they not fallen into trial already? and indeed Hell surrounds the 
Unbelievers (on all sides).

009.050  If good befalls thee, it grieves them; but if a misfortune befalls thee, they 
say, "We took indeed our precautions beforehand," and they turn away rejoicing.

009.051  Say: "Nothing will happen to us except what God has decreed for us: He is 
our protector": and on God let the Believers put their trust.

009.052  Say: "Can you expect for us (any fate) other than one of two glorious things- 
(Martyrdom or victory)? But we can expect for you either that God will send his 
punishment from Himself, or by our hands. So wait (expectant); we too will wait with 
you."

009.053  Say: "Spend (for the cause) willingly or unwillingly: not from you will it be 
accepted: for ye are indeed a people rebellious and wicked."

009.054  The only reasons why their contributions are not accepted are: that they 
reject God and His Apostle; that they come to prayer without earnestness; and that 
they offer contributions unwillingly.

009.055  Let not their wealth nor their (following in) sons dazzle thee: in reality God's 
plan is to punish them with these things in this life, and that their souls may perish in 
their (very) denial of God.

009.056  They swear by God that they are indeed of you; but they are not of you: yet 
they are afraid (to appear in their true colours).

009.057  If they could find a place to flee to, or caves, or a place of concealment, they 
would turn straightaway thereto, with an obstinate rush.

009.058  And among them are men who slander thee in the matter of (the distribution 
of) the alms: if they are given part thereof, they are pleased, but if not, behold! they 
are indignant!

009.059  If only they had been content with what God and His Apostle gave them, 
and had said, "Sufficient unto us is God! God and His Apostle will soon give us of 
His bounty: to God do we turn our hopes!" (that would have been the right course).

009.060  Alms are for the poor and the needy, and those employed to administer the 
(funds); for those whose hearts have been (recently) reconciled (to Truth); for those in 
bondage and in debt; in the cause of God; and for the wayfarer: (thus is it) ordained 
by God, and God is full of knowledge and wisdom.

009.061  Among them are men who molest the Prophet and say, "He is (all) ear." Say, 
"He listens to what is best for you: he believes in God, has faith in the Believers, and 
is a Mercy to those of you who believe." But those who molest the Apostle will have 
a grievous penalty.

009.062  To you they swear by God. In order to please you: But it is more fitting that 
they should please God and His Apostle, if they are Believers.

009.063  Know they not that for those who oppose God and His Apostle, is the Fire of 
Hell?- wherein they shall dwell. That is the supreme disgrace.

009.064  The Hypocrites are afraid lest a Sura should be sent down about them, 
showing them what is (really passing) in their hearts. Say: "Mock ye! But verily God 
will bring to light all that ye fear (should be revealed).

009.065  If thou dost question them, they declare (with emphasis): "We were only 
talking idly and in play." Say: "Was it at God, and His Signs, and His Apostle, that ye 
were mocking?"

009.066  Make ye no excuses: ye have rejected Faith after ye had accepted it. If We 
pardon some of you, We will punish others amongst you, for that they are in sin.

009.067  The Hypocrites, men and women, (have an understanding) with each other: 
They enjoin evil, and forbid what is just, and are close with their hands. They have 
forgotten God; so He hath forgotten them. Verily the Hypocrites are rebellious and 
perverse.

009.068  God hath promised the Hypocrites men and women, and the rejecters, of 
Faith, the fire of Hell: Therein shall they dwell: Sufficient is it for them: for them is 
the curse of God, and an enduring punishment,-

009.069  As in the case of those before you: they were mightier than you in power, 
and more flourishing in wealth and children. They had their enjoyment of their 
portion: and ye have of yours, as did those before you; and ye indulge in idle talk as 
they did. They!- their work are fruitless in this world and in the Hereafter, and they 
will lose (all spiritual good).

009.070  Hath not the story reached them of those before them?- the People of Noah, 
and 'Ad, and Thamud; the People of Abraham, the men of Midian, and the cities 
overthrown. To them came their apostles with clear signs. It is not God Who wrongs 
them, but they wrong their own souls.

009.071  The Believers, men and women, are protectors one of another: they enjoin 
what is just, and forbid what is evil: they observe regular prayers, practise regular 
charity, and obey God and His Apostle. On them will God pour His mercy: for God is 
Exalted in power, Wise.

009.072  God hath promised to Believers, men and women, gardens under which 
rivers flow, to dwell therein, and beautiful mansions in gardens of everlasting bliss. 
But the greatest bliss is the good pleasure of God: that is the supreme felicity.

009.073  O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be 
firm against them. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed.

009.074  They swear by God that they said nothing (evil), but indeed they uttered 
blasphemy, and they did it after accepting Islam; and they meditated a plot which they 
were unable to carry out: this revenge of theirs was (their) only return for the bounty 
with which God and His Apostle had enriched them! If they repent, it will be best for 
them; but if they turn back (to their evil ways), God will punish them with a grievous 
penalty in this life and in the Hereafter: They shall have none on earth to protect or 
help them.

009.075  Amongst them are men who made a covenant with God, that if He bestowed 
on them of His bounty, they would give (largely) in charity, and be truly amongst 
those who are righteous.

009.076  But when He did bestow of His bounty, they became covetous, and turned 
back (from their covenant), averse (from its fulfilment).

009.077  So He hath put as a consequence hypocrisy into their hearts, (to last) till the 
Day, whereon they shall meet Him: because they broke their covenant with God, and 
because they lied (again and again).

009.078  Know they not that God doth know their secret (thoughts) and their secret 
counsels, and that God knoweth well all things unseen?

009.079  Those who slander such of the believers as give themselves freely to (deeds 
of) charity, as well as such as can find nothing to give except the fruits of their 
labour,- and throw ridicule on them,- God will throw back their ridicule on them: and 
they shall have a grievous penalty.

009.080  Whether thou ask for their forgiveness, or not, (their sin is unforgivable): if 
thou ask seventy times for their forgiveness, God will not forgive them:  because they 
have rejected God and His Apostle: and God guideth not those who are perversely 
rebellious.

009.081  Those who were left behind (in the Tabuk expedition) rejoiced in their 
inaction behind the back of the Apostle of God: they hated to strive and fight, with 
their goods and their persons, in the cause of God: they said, "Go not forth in the 
heat."  Say, "The fire of Hell is fiercer in heat." If only they could understand!

009.082  Let them laugh a little: much will they weep: a recompense for the (evil) that 
they do.

009.083  If, then, God bring thee back to any of them, and they ask thy permission to 
come out (with thee), say: "Never shall ye come out with me, nor fight an enemy with 
me:  for ye preferred to sit inactive on the first occasion: Then sit ye (now) with those 
who lag behind."

009.084  Nor do thou ever pray for any of them that dies, nor stand at his grave; for 
they rejected God and His Apostle, and died in a state of perverse rebellion.

009.085  Nor let their wealth nor their (following in) sons dazzle thee: God's plan is to 
punish them with these things in this world, and that their souls may perish in their 
(very) denial of God.

009.086  When a Sura comes down, enjoining them to believe in God and to strive 
and fight along with His Apostle, those with wealth and influence among them ask 
thee for exemption, and say: "Leave us (behind): we would be with those who sit (at 
home)."

009.087  They prefer to be with (the women), who remain behind (at home): their 
hearts are sealed and so they understand not.

009.088  But the Apostle, and those who believe with him, strive and fight with their 
wealth and their persons: for them are (all) good things: and it is they who will 
prosper.

009.089  God hath prepared for them gardens under which rivers flow, to dwell 
therein: that is the supreme felicity.

009.090  And there were, among the desert Arabs (also), men who made excuses and 
came to claim exemption; and those who were false to God and His Apostle (merely) 
sat inactive. Soon will a grievous penalty seize the Unbelievers among them.

009.091  There is no blame on those who are infirm, or ill, or who find no resources 
to spend (on the cause), if they are sincere (in duty) to God and His Apostle: no 
ground (of complaint) can there be against such as do right: and God is Oft-forgiving, 
Most Merciful.

009.092  Nor (is there blame) on those who came to thee to be provided with mounts, 
and when thou saidst, "I can find no mounts for you," they turned back, their eyes 
streaming with tears of grief that they had no resources wherewith to provide the 
expenses.

009.093  The ground (of complaint) is against such as claim exemption while they are 
rich. They prefer to stay with the (women) who remain behind: God hath sealed their 
hearts; so they know not (What they miss).

009.094  They will present their excuses to you when ye return to them. Say thou: 
"Present no excuses: we shall not believe you: God hath already informed us of the 
true state of matters concerning you: It is your actions that God and His Apostle will 
observe: in the end will ye be brought back to Him Who knoweth what is hidden and 
what is open: then will He show you the truth of all that ye did."

009.095  They will swear to you by God, when ye return to them, that ye may leave 
them alone. So leave them alone: For they are an abomination, and Hell is their 
dwelling-place,-a fitting recompense for the (evil)  that they did.

009.096  They will swear unto you, that ye may be pleased with them but if ye are 
pleased with them, God is not pleased with those who disobey.

009.097  The Arabs of the desert are the worst in Unbelief and hypocrisy, and most 
fitted to be in ignorance of the command which God hath sent down to His Apostle: 
But God is All-knowing, All-Wise.

009.098  Some of the desert Arabs look upon their payments as a fine, and watch for 
disasters for you: on them be the disaster of evil: for God is He That heareth and 
knoweth (all things).

009.099  But some of the desert Arabs believe in God and the Last Day, and look on 
their payments as pious gifts bringing them nearer to God and obtaining the prayers 
of the Apostle. Aye, indeed they bring them nearer (to Him): soon will God admit 
them to His Mercy: for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

009.100  The vanguard (of Islam)- the first of those who forsook (their homes) and of 
those who gave them aid, and (also) those who follow them in (all) good deeds,- well-
pleased is God with them, as are they with Him: for them hath He prepared gardens 
under which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever: that is the supreme felicity.

009.101  Certain of the desert Arabs round about  you are hypocrites, as well as 
(desert Arabs) among the Medina folk: they are obstinate in hypocrisy: thou knowest 
them not: We know them: twice shall We punish them: and in addition shall they be 
sent to a grievous penalty.

009.102  Others (there are who) have acknowledged their wrong-doings: they have 
mixed an act that was good with another that was evil. Perhaps God will turn unto 
them (in Mercy): for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

009.103  Of their goods, take alms, that so thou mightest purify and sanctify them; 
and pray on their behalf. Verily thy prayers are a source of security for them: And 
God is One Who heareth and knoweth.

009.104  Know they not that God doth accept repentance from His votaries and 
receives their gifts of charity, and that God is verily He, the Oft-Returning, Most 
Merciful?

009.105  And say: "Work (righteousness): Soon will God observe your work, and His 
Apostle, and the Believers: Soon will ye be brought back to the knower of what is 
hidden and what is open: then will He show you the truth of all that ye did."

009.106  There are (yet) others, held in suspense for the command of God, whether 
He will punish them, or turn in mercy to them: and God is All-Knowing, Wise.

009.107  And there are those who put up a mosque by way of mischief and infidelity - 
to disunite the Believers - and in preparation for one who warred against God and His 
Apostle aforetime. They will indeed swear that their intention is nothing but good; 
But God doth declare that they are certainly liars.

009.108  Never stand thou forth therein. There is a mosque whose foundation was 
laid from the first day on piety; it is more worthy of the standing forth (for prayer) 
therein. In it are men who love to be purified; and God loveth those who make 
themselves pure.

009.109  Which then is best? - he that layeth his foundation on piety to God and His 
good pleasure? - or he that layeth his foundation on an undermined sand-cliff ready to 
crumble to pieces? and it doth crumble to pieces with him, into the fire of Hell. And 
God guideth not people that do wrong.

009.110  The foundation of those who so build is never free from suspicion and 
shakiness in their hearts, until their hearts are cut to pieces. And God is All-Knowing, 
Wise.

009.111  God hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs 
(in return) is the garden (of Paradise):  they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: 
a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur'an: and 
who is more faithful to his covenant than God? then rejoice in the bargain which ye 
have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.

009.112  Those that turn (to God) in repentance; that serve Him, and praise Him; that 
wander in devotion to the cause of God,: that bow down and prostrate themselves in 
prayer; that enjoin good and forbid evil; and observe the limit set by God;- (These do 
rejoice). So proclaim the glad tidings to the Believers.

009.113  It is not fitting, for the Prophet and those who believe, that they should pray 
for forgiveness for Pagans, even though they be of kin, after it is clear to them that 
they are companions of the Fire.

009.114  And Abraham prayed for his father's forgiveness only because of a promise 
he had made to him. But when it became clear to him that he was an enemy to God, 
he dissociated himself from him: for Abraham was most tender-hearted, forbearing.

009.115  And God will not mislead a people after He hath guided them, in order that 
He may make clear to them what to fear (and avoid)- for God hath knowledge of all 
things.

009.116  Unto God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He giveth 
life and He taketh it. Except for Him ye have no protector nor helper.

009.117  God turned with favour to the Prophet, the Muhajirs, and the Ansar,- who 
followed him in a time of distress, after that the hearts of a part of them had nearly 
swerved (from duty); but He turned to them (also): for He is unto them Most Kind, 
Most Merciful.

009.118  (He turned in mercy also) to the three who were left behind; (they felt 
guilty) to such a degree that the earth seemed constrained to them, for all its 
spaciousness, and their (very) souls seemed straitened to them,- and they perceived 
that there is no fleeing from God (and no refuge) but to Himself. Then He turned to 
them, that they might repent: for God is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful.

009.119  O ye who believe! Fear God and be with those who are true (in word and 
deed).

009.120  It was not fitting for the people of Medina and the Bedouin Arabs of the 
neighbourhood, to refuse to follow God's Apostle, nor to prefer their own lives to his: 
because nothing could they suffer or do, but was reckoned to their credit as a deed of 
righteousness,- whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of God, 
or trod paths to raise the ire of the Unbelievers, or received any injury whatever from 
an enemy: for God suffereth not the reward to be lost of those who do good;-

009.121  Nor could they spend anything (for the cause) - small or great- nor cut 
across a valley, but the deed is inscribed to their credit: that God may requite their 
deed with the best (possible reward).

009.122  Nor should the Believers all go forth together: if a contingent from every 
expedition remained behind, they could devote themselves to studies in religion, and 
admonish the people when they return to them,- that thus they (may learn) to guard 
themselves (against evil).

009.123  O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them 
find firmness in you: and know that God is with those who fear Him.

009.124  Whenever there cometh down a sura, some of them say: "Which of you has 
had His faith increased by it?" Yea, those who believe,- their faith is increased and 
they do rejoice.

009.125  But those in whose hearts is a disease,- it will add doubt to their doubt, and 
they will die in a state of Unbelief.

009.126  See they not that they are tried every year once or twice? Yet they turn not 
in repentance, and they take no heed.

009.127  Whenever there cometh down a Sura, they look at each other, (saying), 
"Doth anyone see you?" Then they turn aside: God hath turned their hearts (from the 
light); for they are a people that understand not.

009.128  Now hath come unto you an Apostle from amongst yourselves: it grieves 
him that ye should perish: ardently anxious is he over you: to the Believers is he most 
kind and merciful.

009.129  But if they turn away, Say: "God sufficeth me: there is no god but He: On 
Him is my trust,- He the Lord of the Throne (of Glory) Supreme!"

JONAH,  CHAPTER NO.  010

010.001  A.L.R. These are the ayats of the Book of Wisdom.

010.002  Is it a matter of wonderment to men that We have sent Our inspiration to a 
man from among themselves?- that he should warn mankind (of their danger), and 
give the good news to the Believers that they have before their Lord the lofty rank of 
truth. (But) say the Unbelievers: "This is indeed an evident sorcerer!"

010.003  Verily your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, 
and is firmly established on the throne (of authority), regulating and governing all 
things. No intercessor (can plead with Him) except after His leave (hath been 
obtained). This is God your Lord; Him therefore serve ye: will ye not receive 
admonition?

010.004  To Him will be your return- of all of you. The promise of God is true and 
sure. It is He Who beginneth the process of creation, and repeateth it, that He may 
reward with justice those who believe and work righteousness; but those who reject 
Him will have draughts of boiling fluids, and a penalty grievous, because they did 
reject Him.

010.005  It is He Who made the sun to be a shining glory and the moon to be a light 
(of beauty), and measured out stages for her; that ye might know the number of years 
and the count (of time). Nowise did God create this but in truth and righteousness. 
(Thus) doth He explain His Signs in detail, for those who understand.

010.006  Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that God hath 
created, in the heavens and the earth, are signs for those who fear Him.

010.007  Those who rest not their hope on their meeting with Us, but are pleased and 
satisfied with the life of the present, and those who heed not Our Signs,-

010.008  Their abode is the Fire, because of the (evil) they earned.

010.009  Those who believe, and work righteousness,- their Lord will guide them 
because of their faith: beneath them will flow rivers in gardens of bliss.

010.010  (This will be) their cry therein: "Glory to Thee, O God!"  And "Peace" will 
be their greeting therein! and the close of their cry will be: "Praise be to God, the 
Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds!"

010.011  If God were to hasten for men the ill (they have earned) as they would fain 
hasten on the good,- then would their respite be settled at once. But We leave those 
who rest not their hope on their meeting with Us, in their trespasses, wandering in 
distraction to and fro.

010.012  When trouble toucheth a man, He crieth unto Us (in all postures)- lying 
down on his side, or sitting, or standing. But when We have solved his trouble, he 
passeth on his way as if he had never cried to Us for a trouble that touched him! thus 
do the deeds of transgressors seem fair in their eyes!

010.013  Generations before you We destroyed when they did wrong: their apostles 
came to them with clear-signs, but they would not believe! thus do We requite those 
who sin!

010.014  Then We made you heirs in the land after them, to see how ye would 
behave!

010.015  But when Our Clear Signs are rehearsed unto them, those who rest not their 
hope on their meeting with Us, Say: "Bring us a reading other than this, or change 
this," Say: "It is not for me, of my own accord, to change it: I follow naught but what 
is revealed unto me: if I were to disobey my Lord, I should myself fear the penalty of 
a Great Day (to come)."

010.016  Say: "If God had so willed, I should not have rehearsed it to you, nor would 
He have made it known to you. A whole life-time before this have I tarried amongst 
you: will ye not then understand?"

010.017  Who doth more wrong than such as forge a lie against God, or deny His 
Signs? But never will prosper those who sin.

010.018  They serve, besides God, things that hurt them not nor profit them, and they 
say: "These are our intercessors with God." Say: "Do ye indeed inform God of 
something He knows not, in the heavens or on earth?- Glory to Him! and far is He 
above the partners they ascribe (to Him)!"

010.019  Mankind was but one nation, but differed (later). Had it not been for a word 
that went forth before from thy Lord, their differences would have been settled 
between them.

010.020  They say: "Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?" Say: "The 
Unseen is only for God (to know),  then wait ye: I too will wait with you."

010.021  When We make mankind taste of some mercy after adversity hath touched 
them, behold! they take to plotting against Our Signs! Say:  "Swifter to plan is God!" 
Verily, Our messengers record all the plots that ye make!

010.022  He it is Who enableth you to traverse through land and sea; so that ye even 
board ships;- they sail with them with a favourable wind, and they rejoice thereat; 
then comes a stormy wind and the waves come to them from all sides, and they think 
they are being overwhelmed: they cry unto God, sincerely offering (their) duty unto 
Him saying, "If thou dost deliver us from this, we shall truly show our gratitude!"

010.023  But when he delivereth them, behold! they transgress insolently through the 
earth in defiance of right! O mankind! your insolence is against your own souls,- an 
enjoyment of the life of the present: in the end, to Us is your return, and We shall 
show you the truth of all that ye did.

010.024  The likeness of the life of the present is as the rain which We send down 
from the skies: by its mingling arises the produce of the earth- which provides food 
for men and animals: (It grows) till the earth is clad  with its golden ornaments and is 
decked out (in beauty): the people to whom it belongs think they have all powers of 
disposal over it: There reaches it Our command by night or by day, and We make it 
like a harvest clean-mown, as if it had not flourished only the day before! thus do We 
explain the Signs in detail for those who reflect.

010.025  But God doth call to the Home of Peace: He doth guide whom He pleaseth 
to a way that is straight.

010.026  To those who do right is a goodly (reward)- Yea, more (than in measure)! 
No darkness nor shame shall cover their faces! they are companions of the garden; 
they will abide therein (for aye)!

010.027  But those who have earned evil will have a reward of like evil: ignominy 
will cover their (faces): No defender will they have from (the wrath of) God:  Their 
faces will be covered, as it were, with pieces from the depth of the darkness of night: 
they are companions of the Fire: they will  abide therein (for aye)!

010.028  One day shall We gather them all together. Then shall We say to those who 
joined gods (with Us): "To your place! ye and those ye joined as 'partners' We shall 
separate them, and their "Partners" shall say: "It was not us that ye worshipped!

010.029  "Enough is God for a witness between us and you: we certainly knew 
nothing of your worship of us!"

010.030  There will every soul prove (the fruits of) the deeds it sent before: they will 
be brought back to God their rightful Lord, and their invented falsehoods will leave 
them in the lurch.

010.031  Say: "Who is it that sustains you (in life) from the sky and from the earth? or 
who is it that has power over hearing and sight? And who is it that brings out the 
living from the dead and the dead from the living? and who is it that rules and 
regulates all affairs?" They will soon say, "God". Say, "will ye not then show piety (to 
Him)?"

010.032  Such is God, your real Cherisher and Sustainer: apart from truth, what 
(remains) but error? How then are ye turned away?

010.033  Thus is the word of thy Lord proved true against those who rebel: Verily 
they will not believe.

010.034  Say: "Of your 'partners', can any originate creation and repeat it?" Say:  "It is 
God Who originates creation and repeats it: then how are ye deluded away (from the 
truth)?"

010.035  Say: "Of your 'partners' is there any that can give any guidance towards 
truth?" Say: "It is God Who gives guidance towards truth, is then He Who gives 
guidance to truth more worthy to be followed, or he who finds not guidance (himself) 
unless he is guided? what then is the matter with you? How judge ye?"

010.036  But most of them follow nothing but fancy: truly fancy can be of no avail 
against truth. Verily God is well aware of all that they do.

010.037  This Qur'an is not such as can be produced by other than God; on the 
contrary it is a confirmation of (revelations) that went before it, and a fuller 
explanation of the Book - wherein there is no doubt - from the Lord of the worlds.

010.038  Or do they say, "He forged it"? say: "Bring then a Sura like unto it, and call 
(to your aid) anyone you can besides God, if it be ye speak the truth!"

010.039  Nay, they charge with falsehood that whose knowledge they cannot 
compass, even before the elucidation thereof hath reached them: thus did those before 
them make charges of falsehood: but see what was the end of those who did wrong!

010.040  Of them there are some who believe therein, and some who do not: and thy 
Lord knoweth best those who are out for mischief.

010.041  If they charge thee with falsehood, say: "My work to me, and yours to you! 
ye are free from responsibility for what I do, and I for what ye do!"

010.042  Among them are some who (pretend to) listen to thee: But canst thou make 
the deaf to hear,- even though they are without understanding?

010.043  And  among them are some who look at thee: but canst thou guide the 
blind,- even though they will not see?

010.044  Verily God will not deal unjustly with man in aught: It is man that wrongs 
his own soul.

010.045  One day He will gather them together: (It will be) as if they had tarried but 
an hour of a day:  they will recognise each other: assuredly those will be lost who 
denied the meeting with God and refused to receive true guidance.

010.046  Whether We show thee (realised in thy life-time) some part of what We 
promise them,- or We take thy soul (to Our Mercy) (Before that),- in any case, to Us 
is their return: ultimately God is witness, to all that they do.

010.047  To every people (was sent) an apostle: when their apostle comes (before 
them), the matter will be judged between them with justice, and they will not be 
wronged.

010.048  They say: "When will this promise come to pass,- if ye speak the truth?"

010.049  Say: "I have no power over any harm or profit to myself except as God 
willeth. To every people is a term appointed: when their term is reached, not an hour 
can they cause delay, nor (an hour) can they advance (it in anticipation)."

010.050  Say: "Do ye see,- if His punishment should come to you by night or by day,- 
what portion of it would the sinners wish to hasten?

010.051  "Would ye then believe in it at last, when it actually cometh to pass? (It will 
then be said): 'Ah! now? and ye wanted (aforetime) to hasten it on!'

010.052  "At length will be said to the wrong-doers: 'Taste ye the enduring 
punishment! ye get but the recompense of what ye earned!'"

010.053  They seek to be informed by thee: "Is that true?" Say: "Aye! by my Lord!  it 
is the very truth! and ye cannot frustrate it!"

010.054  Every soul that hath sinned, if it possessed all that is on earth, would fain 
give it in ransom: They would declare (their) repentance when they see the penalty:  
but the judgment between them will be with justice, and no wrong will be done unto 
them.

010.055  Is it not (the case) that to God belongeth whatever is in the heavens and on 
earth? Is it not (the case) that God's promise is assuredly true? Yet most of them 
understand not.

010.056  It is He Who giveth life and who taketh it, and to Him shall ye all be brought 
back.

010.057  O mankind! there hath come to you a direction from your Lord and a healing 
for the (diseases) in your hearts,- and for those who believe, a guidance and a Mercy.

010.058  Say: "In the bounty of God. And in His Mercy,- in that let them rejoice": 
that is better than the (wealth) they hoard.

010.059  Say: "See ye what things God hath sent down to you for sustenance? Yet ye 
hold forbidden some things thereof and (some things) lawful." Say: "Hath God indeed 
permitted you, or do ye invent (things) to attribute to God?"

010.060  And what think those who invent lies against God, of the Day of Judgment? 
Verily God is full of bounty to mankind, but most of them are ungrateful.

010.061  In whatever business thou mayest be, and whatever portion thou mayest be 
reciting from the Qur'an,- and whatever deed ye (mankind) may be doing,- We are 
witnesses thereof when ye are deeply engrossed therein. Nor is hidden from thy Lord 
(so much as) the weight of an atom on the earth or in heaven. And not the least and 
not the greatest of these things but are recorded in a clear record.

010.062  Behold! verily on the friends of God there is no fear, nor shall they grieve;

010.063  Those who believe and (constantly) guard against evil;-

010.064  For them are glad tidings, in the life of the present and in the Hereafter; no 
change can there be in the words of God. This is indeed the supreme felicity.

010.065  Let not their speech grieve thee: for all power and honour belong to God: It 
is He Who heareth and knoweth (all things).

010.066  Behold! verily to God belong all creatures, in the heavens and on earth. 
What do they follow who worship as His "partners" other than God? They follow 
nothing but fancy, and they do nothing but lie.

010.067  He it is That hath made you the night that ye may rest therein, and the day to 
make things visible (to you). Verily in this are signs for those who listen (to His 
Message).

010.068  They say: "God hath begotten a son!" - Glory be to Him!  He is self-
sufficient! His are all things in the heavens and on earth! No warrant have ye for this! 
say ye about God what ye know not?

010.069  Say: "Those who invent a lie against God will never prosper."

010.070  A little enjoyment in this world!- and then, to Us will be their return, then 
shall We make them taste the severest penalty for their blasphemies.

010.071  Relate to them the story of Noah. Behold! he said to his people: "O my 
people, if it be hard on your (mind) that I should stay (with you) and commemorate 
the signs of God,- yet I put my trust in God.  Get ye then an agreement about your 
plan and among your partners, so your plan be on to you dark and dubious. Then pass 
your sentence on me, and give me no respite.

010.072  "But if ye turn back, (consider): no reward have I asked of you: my reward 
is only due from God, and I have been commanded to be of those who submit to 
God's will (in Islam)."

010.073  They rejected Him, but We delivered him, and those with him, in the Ark, 
and We made them inherit (the earth), while We overwhelmed in the flood those who 
rejected Our Signs. Then see what was the end of those who were warned (but heeded 
not)!

010.074  Then after him We sent (many) apostles to their peoples: they brought them 
Clear Signs, but they would not believe what they had already rejected beforehand. 
Thus do We seal the hearts of the transgressors.

010.075  Then after them sent We Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his chiefs with 
Our Signs. But they were arrogant: they were a people in sin.

010.076  When the Truth did come to them from Us, they said: "This is indeed 
evident sorcery!"

010.077  Said Moses: "Say ye (this) about the truth when it hath (actually) reached 
you? Is sorcery (like) this? But sorcerers will not prosper."

010.078  They said: "Hast thou come to us to turn us away from the ways we found 
our fathers following,- in order that thou and thy brother may have greatness in the 
land? But not we shall believe in you!"

010.079  Said Pharaoh: "Bring me every sorcerer well versed."

010.080  When the sorcerers came, Moses said to them: "Throw ye what ye (wish) to 
throw!"

010.081  When they had had their throw, Moses said: "What ye have brought is 
sorcery: God will surely make it of no effect: for God prospereth not the work of 
those who make mischief.

010.082  "And God by His words doth prove and establish His truth, however much 
the sinners may hate it!"

010.083  But none believed in Moses except some children of his people, because of 
the fear of Pharaoh and his chiefs, lest they should persecute them; and certainly 
Pharaoh was mighty on the earth and one who transgressed all bounds.

010.084  Moses said: "O my people! If ye do (really) believe in God, then in Him put 
your trust if ye submit (your will to His)."

010.085  They said: "In God do we put out trust. Our Lord! make us not a trial for 
those who practise oppression;

010.086  "And deliver us by Thy Mercy from those who reject (Thee)."

010.087  We inspired Moses and his brother with this Message: "Provide dwellings 
for your people  in Egypt, make your dwellings into places of worship, and establish 
regular prayers: and give glad tidings to those who believe!"

010.088  Moses prayed: "Our Lord! Thou hast indeed bestowed on Pharaoh and his 
chiefs splendour and wealth in the life of the present, and so, Our Lord, they mislead 
(men) from Thy Path. Deface our Lord, the features of their wealth, and send 
hardness to their hearts, so they will not believe until they see the grievous penalty."

010.089  God said: "Accepted is your prayer (O Moses and Aaron)! So stand ye 
straight, and follow not the path of those who know not."

010.090  We took the Children of Israel across the sea: Pharaoh and his hosts 
followed them in insolence and spite. At length, when overwhelmed with the flood, 
he said: "I believe that there is no god except Him Whom the Children of Israel 
believe in: I am of those who submit (to God in Islam)."

010.091  (It was said to him): "Ah now!- But a little while before, wast thou in 
rebellion!- and thou didst mischief (and violence)!

010.092  "This day shall We save thee in the body, that thou mayest be a sign to those 
who come after thee! but verily, many among mankind are heedless of Our Signs!"

010.093  We settled the Children of Israel in a beautiful dwelling-place, and provided 
for them sustenance of the best: it was after knowledge had been granted to them, that 
they fell into schisms. Verily God will judge between them as to the schisms amongst 
them, on the Day of Judgment.

010.094  If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those 
who have been reading the Book from before thee:  the Truth hath indeed come to 
thee from thy Lord: so be in no wise of those in doubt.

010.095  Nor be of those who reject the signs of God, or thou shalt be of those who 
perish.

010.096  Those against whom the word of thy Lord hath been verified would not 
believe-

010.097  Even if every Sign was brought unto them,- until they see (for themselves) 
the penalty grievous.

010.098  Why was there not a single township (among those We warned), which 
believed,- so its faith should have profited it,- except the people of Jonah? When they 
believed, We removed from them the penalty of ignominy in the life of the present, 
and permitted them to enjoy (their life) for a while.

010.099  If it had been thy Lord's will, they would all have believed,- all who are on 
earth! wilt thou then compel mankind, against their will, to believe!

010.100  No soul can believe, except by the will of God, and He will place doubt (or 
obscurity) on those who will not understand.

010.101  Say: "Behold all that is in the heavens and on earth"; but neither Signs nor 
Warners profit those who believe not.

010.102  Do they then expect (any thing) but (what happened in) the days of the men 
who passed away before them? Say: "Wait ye then: for I, too, will wait with you."

010.103  In the end We deliver Our apostles and those who believe: Thus is it fitting 
on Our part that We should deliver those who believe!

010.104  Say: "O ye men! If ye are in doubt as to my religion, (behold!)  I worship 
not what ye worship, other than God! But I worship God - Who will take your souls 
(at death): I am commanded to be (in the ranks) of the Believers,

010.105  "And further (thus): 'set thy face towards religion with true piety, and never 
in any wise be of the Unbelievers;

010.106  "'Nor call on any, other than God;- Such will neither profit thee nor hurt 
thee: if thou dost, behold! thou shalt certainly be of those who do wrong.'"

010.107  If God do touch thee with hurt, there is none can remove it but He: if He do 
design some benefit for thee, there is none can keep back His favour:  He causeth it to 
reach whomsoever of His servants He pleaseth. And He is the Oft-Forgiving, Most 
Merciful.

010.108  Say: "O ye men! Now Truth hath reached you from your Lord! those who 
receive guidance, do so for the good of their own souls; those who stray, do so to their 
own loss: and I am not (set) over you to arrange your affairs."

010.109  Follow thou the inspiration sent unto thee, and be patient and constant, till 
God do decide: for He is the best to decide.

HUD,  CHAPTER NO.  011

011.001  A. L. R. (This is) a Book, with verses basic or fundamental (of established 
meaning), further explained in detail,- from One Who is Wise and Well-acquainted 
(with all things):

011.002  (It teacheth) that ye should worship none but God. (Say): "Verily I am (sent) 
unto you from Him to warn and to bring glad tidings:

011.003  "(And to preach thus), 'Seek ye the forgiveness of your Lord, and turn to 
Him in repentance; that He may grant you enjoyment, good (and true), for a term 
appointed, and bestow His abounding grace on all who abound in merit! But if ye turn 
away, then I fear for you the penalty of a great day:

011.004  'To God is your return, and He hath power over all things.'"

011.005  Behold! they fold up their hearts, that they may lie hid from Him! Ah even 
when they cover themselves with their garments, He knoweth what they conceal, and 
what they reveal: for He knoweth well the (inmost secrets) of the hearts.

011.006  There is no moving creature on earth but its sustenance dependeth on God: 
He knoweth the time and place of its definite abode and its temporary deposit: All is 
in a clear Record.

011.007  He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days - and His Throne 
was over the waters - that He might try you, which of you is best in conduct. But if 
thou wert to say to them, "Ye shall indeed be raised up after death", the Unbelievers 
would be sure to say, "This is nothing but obvious sorcery!"

011.008  If We delay the penalty for them for a definite term, they are sure to say, 
"What keeps it back?" Ah! On the day it (actually) reaches them, nothing will turn it 
away from them, and they will be completely encircled by that which they used to 
mock at!

011.009  If We give man a taste of Mercy from Ourselves, and then withdraw it from 
him, behold! he is in despair and (falls into) blasphemy.

011.010  But if We give him a taste of (Our) favours after adversity hath touched him, 
he is sure to say, "All evil has departed from me:" Behold! he falls into exultation and 
pride.

011.011  Not so do those who show patience and constancy, and work righteousness; 
for them is forgiveness (of sins) and a great reward.

011.012  Perchance thou mayest (feel the inclination) to give up a part of what is 
revealed unto thee, and thy heart feeleth straitened lest they say, "Why is not a 
treasure sent down unto him, or why does not an angel come down with him?" But 
thou art there only to warn! It is God that arrangeth all affairs!

011.013  Or they may say, "He forged it," Say, "Bring ye then ten suras forged, like 
unto it, and call (to your aid) whomsoever ye can, other than God!- If ye speak the 
truth!

011.014  "If then they (your false gods) answer not your (call), know ye that this 
revelation is sent down (replete) with the knowledge of God, and that there is no god 
but He! will ye even then submit (to Islam)?"

011.015  Those who desire the life of the present and its glitter,- to them we shall pay 
(the price of) their deeds therein,- without diminution.

011.016  They are those for whom there is nothing in the Hereafter but the Fire: vain 
are the designs they frame therein, and of no effect and the deeds that they do!

011.017  Can they be (like) those who accept a Clear (Sign) from their Lord, and 
whom a witness from Himself doth teach, as did the Book of Moses before it,- a 
guide and a mercy? They believe therein; but those of the Sects that reject it,- the Fire 
will be their promised meeting-place. Be not then in doubt thereon: for it is the truth 
from thy Lord: yet many among men do not believe!

011.018  Who doth more wrong than those who invent a life against God? They will 
be turned back to the presence of their Lord, and the witnesses will say, "These are 
the ones who lied against their Lord! Behold! the Curse of God is on those who do 
wrong!-

011.019  "Those who would hinder (men) from the path of God and would seek in it 
something crooked: these were they who denied the Hereafter!"

011.020  They will in no wise frustrate (His design) on earth, nor have they protectors 
besides God! Their penalty will be doubled! They lost the power to hear, and they did 
not see!

011.021  They are the ones who have lost their own souls: and the (fancies) they 
invented have left them in the lurch!

011.022  Without a doubt, these are the very ones who will lose most in the 
Hereafter!

011.023  But those who believe and work righteousness, and humble themselves 
before their Lord,- They will be companions of the gardens, to dwell therein for aye!

011.024  These two kinds (of men) may be compared to the blind and deaf, and those 
who can see and hear well. Are they equal when compared?  Will ye not then take 
heed?

011.025  We sent Noah to his people (with a mission): "I have come to you with a 
Clear Warning:

011.026  "That ye serve none but God: Verily I do fear for you the penalty of a 
grievous day."

011.027  But the chiefs of the Unbelievers among his people said: "We see (in) thee 
nothing but a man like ourselves:  Nor do we see that any follow thee but the meanest 
among us, in judgment immature:  Nor do we see in you (all) any merit above us: in 
fact we thing ye are liars!"

011.028  He said: "O my people! See ye if (it be that) I have a Clear Sign from my 
Lord, and that He hath sent Mercy unto me from His own presence, but that the 
Mercy hath been obscured from your sight? shall we compel you to accept it when ye 
are averse to it?

011.029  "And O my people! I ask you for no wealth in return: my reward is from 
none but God: But I will not drive away (in contempt) those who believe: for verily 
they are to meet their Lord, and ye I see are the ignorant ones!

011.030  "And O my people! who would help me against God if I drove them away? 
Will ye not then take heed?

011.031  "I tell you not that with me are the treasures of God, nor do I know what is 
hidden, nor claim I to be an angel. Nor yet do I say, of those whom your eyes do 
despise that God will not grant them (all) that is good:  God knoweth best what is in 
their souls: I should, if I did, indeed be a wrong-doer."

011.032  They said: "O Noah! thou hast disputed with us, and (much) hast thou 
prolonged the dispute with us: now bring upon us what thou threatenest us with, if 
thou speakest the truth!?"

011.033  He said: "Truly, God will bring it on you if He wills,- and then, ye will not 
be able to frustrate it!

011.034  "Of no profit will be my counsel to you, much as I desire to give you (good) 
counsel, if it be that God willeth to leave you astray: He is your Lord! and to Him will 
ye return!"

011.035  Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Say: "If I had forged it, on me were my 
sin! and I am free of the sins of  which ye are guilty!

011.036  It was revealed to Noah: "None of thy people will believe except those who 
have believed already! So grieve no longer over their (evil) deeds.

011.037  "But construct an Ark under Our eyes and Our inspiration, and address Me 
no (further) on behalf of those who are in sin: for they are about to be overwhelmed 
(in the Flood)."

011.038  Forthwith he (starts) constructing the Ark: Every time that the chiefs of his 
people passed by him,  they threw ridicule on him. He said: "If ye ridicule us now, we 
(in our turn) can look down on you with ridicule likewise!

011.039  "But soon will ye know who it is on whom will descend a penalty that will 
cover them with shame,- on whom will be unloosed a penalty lasting:"

011.040  At length, behold! there came Our command, and the fountains of the earth 
gushed forth! We said: "Embark therein, of each kind two, male and female, and your 
family - except those against whom the word has already gone forth,- and the 
Believers." but only a few believed with him.

011.041  So he said: "Embark ye on the Ark, In the name of God, whether it move or 
be at rest! For my Lord is, be sure, Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful!"

011.042  So the Ark floated with them on the waves (towering) like mountains, and 
Noah called out to his son, who had separated himself (from the rest): "O my son! 
embark with us, and be not with the unbelievers!"

011.043  The son replied: "I will betake myself to some mountain: it will save me 
from the water." Noah said: "This day nothing can save, from the command of God, 
any but those on whom He hath mercy! "And the waves came between them, and the 
son was among those overwhelmed in the Flood.

011.044  Then the word went forth: "O earth! swallow up thy water, and O sky! 
Withhold (thy rain)!" and the water abated, and the matter was ended. The Ark rested 
on Mount Judi, and the word went forth: "Away with those who do wrong!"

011.045  And Noah called upon his Lord, and said: "O my Lord! surely my son is of 
my family! and Thy promise is true, and Thou art the justest of Judges!"

011.046  He said: "O Noah! He is not of thy family: For his conduct is unrighteous. 
So ask not of Me that of which thou hast no knowledge! I give thee counsel, lest thou 
act like the ignorant!"

011.047  Noah said: "O my Lord! I do seek refuge with Thee, lest I ask Thee for that 
of which I have no knowledge. And unless thou forgive me and have Mercy on me, I 
should indeed be lost!"

011.048  The word came: "O Noah! Come down (from the Ark) with peace from Us, 
and blessing on thee and on some of the peoples (who will spring) from those with 
thee: but (there will be other) peoples to whom We shall grant their pleasures (for a 
time), but in the end will a grievous penalty reach them from Us."

011.049  Such are some of the stories of the unseen, which We have revealed unto 
thee: before this, neither thou nor thy people knew them. So persevere patiently: for 
the End is for those who are righteous.

011.050  To the 'Ad People (We sent) Hud, one of their own brethren. He said: "O my 
people! worship God! ye have no other god but Him. (Your other gods) ye do nothing 
but invent!

011.051  "O my people! I ask of you no reward for this (Message). My reward is from 
none but Him who created me: Will ye not then understand?

011.052  "And O my people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord, and turn to Him (in 
repentance): He will send you the skies pouring abundant rain, and add strength to 
your strength: so turn ye not back in sin!"

011.053  They said: "O Hud! No Clear (Sign) that hast thou brought us, and we are 
not the ones to desert our gods on thy word! Nor shall we believe in thee!

011.054  "We say nothing but that (perhaps) some of our gods may have seized thee 
with imbecility." He said: "I call God to witness, and do ye bear witness, that I am 
free from the sin of ascribing, to Him,

011.055  "Other gods as partners! so scheme (your worst) against me, all of you, and 
give me no respite.

011.056  "I put my trust in God, My Lord and your Lord! There is not a moving 
creature, but He hath grasp of its fore-lock. Verily, it is my Lord that is on a straight 
Path.

011.057  "If ye turn away,- I (at least) have conveyed the Message with which I was 
sent to you. My Lord will make another people to succeed you, and you will not harm 
Him in the least. For my Lord hath care and watch over all things."

011.058  So when Our decree issued, We saved Hud and those who believed with 
him, by (special) Grace from Ourselves: We saved them from a severe penalty.

011.059  Such were the 'Ad People: they rejected the Signs of their Lord and 
Cherisher; disobeyed His apostles; And followed the command of every powerful, 
obstinate transgressor.

011.060  And they were pursued by a Curse in this life,- and on the Day of Judgment. 
Ah! Behold! for the 'Ad rejected their Lord and Cherisher! Ah! Behold! removed 
(from sight) were 'Ad the people of Hud!

011.061  To the Thamud People (We sent) Salih, one of their own brethren. He said: 
"O my people! Worship God: ye have no other god but Him. It is He Who hath 
produced you from the earth and settled you therein: then ask forgiveness of Him, and 
turn to Him (in repentance): for my Lord is (always) near, ready to answer."

011.062  They said: "O Salih! thou hast been of us! a centre of our hopes hitherto! 
dost thou (now) forbid us the worship of what our fathers worshipped? But we are 
really in suspicious (disquieting) doubt as to that to which thou invitest us."

011.063  He said: "O my people! do ye see? if I have a Clear (Sign) from my Lord 
and He hath sent Mercy unto me from Himself,- who then can help me against God if 
I were to disobey Him? What then would ye add to my (portion) but perdition?

011.064  "And O my people! This she-camel of God is a symbol to you: leave her to 
feed on God's (free) earth, and inflict no harm on her, or a swift penalty will seize 
you!"

011.065  But they did ham-string her. So he said: "Enjoy yourselves in your homes 
for three days: (Then will be your ruin): (Behold) there a promise not to be belied!"

011.066  When Our Decree issued, We saved Salih and those who believed with him, 
by (special) Grace from Ourselves - and from the Ignominy of that day. For thy Lord 
- He is the Strong One, and able to enforce His Will.

011.067  The (mighty) Blast overtook the wrong-doers, and they lay prostrate in their 
homes before the morning,-

011.068  As if they had never dwelt and flourished there. Ah! Behold! for the 
Thamud rejected their Lord and Cherisher! Ah! Behold! removed (from sight) were 
the Thamud!

011.069  There came Our messengers to Abraham with glad tidings. They said, 
"Peace!" He answered, "Peace!" and hastened to entertain them with a roasted calf.

011.070  But when he saw their hands went not towards the (meal), he felt some 
mistrust of them, and conceived a fear of them. They said: "Fear not: We have been 
sent against the people of Lut."

011.071  And his wife was standing (there), and she laughed: But we gave her glad 
tidings of Isaac, and after him, of Jacob.

011.072  She said: "Alas for me! shall I bear a child, seeing I am an old woman, and 
my husband here is an old man? That would indeed be a wonderful thing!"

011.073  They said: "Dost thou wonder at God's decree? The grace of God and His 
blessings on you, o ye people of the house! for He is indeed worthy of all praise, full 
of all glory!"

011.074  When fear had passed from (the mind of) Abraham and the glad tidings had 
reached him, he began to plead with us for Lut's people.

011.075  For Abraham was, without doubt, forbearing (of faults), compassionate, and 
given to look to God.

011.076  O Abraham! Seek not this. The decree of thy Lord hath gone forth: for them 
there cometh a penalty that cannot be turned back!

011.077  When Our messengers came to Lut, he was grieved on their account and felt 
himself powerless (to protect) them. He said: "This is a distressful day."

011.078  And his people came rushing towards him, and they had been long in the 
habit of practising abominations. He said: "O my people! Here are my daughters: they 
are purer for you (if ye marry)! Now fear God, and cover me not with shame about 
my guests! Is there not among you a single right-minded man?"

011.079  They said: "Well dost thou know we have no need of thy daughters: indeed 
thou knowest quite well what we want!"

011.080  He said: "Would that I had power to suppress you or that I could betake 
myself to some powerful support."

011.081  (The Messengers) said: "O Lut! We are Messengers from thy Lord!  By no 
means shall they reach thee! now travel with thy family while yet a part of the night 
remains, and let not any of you look back: but thy wife (will remain behind): To her 
will happen what happens to the people. Morning is their time appointed: Is not the 
morning nigh?"

011.082  When Our Decree issued, We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained 
down on them brimstones hard as baked clay, spread, layer on layer,-

011.083  Marked as from thy Lord: Nor are they ever far from those who do wrong!

011.084  To the Madyan People (We sent) Shu'aib, one of their own brethren: he said: 
"O my people! worship God: Ye have no other god but Him. And give not short 
measure or weight: I see you in prosperity, but I fear for you the penalty of a day that 
will compass (you) all round.

011.085  "And O my people! give just measure and weight, nor withhold from the 
people the things that are their due: commit not evil in the land with intent to do 
mischief.

011.086  "That which is left you by God is best for you, if ye (but) believed! but I am 
not set over you to keep watch!"

011.087  They said: "O Shu'aib! Does thy (religion of) prayer command thee that we 
leave off the worship which our fathers practised, or that we leave off doing what we 
like with our property? truly, thou art the one that forbeareth with faults and is right-
minded!"

011.088  He said: "O my people! see ye whether I have a Clear (Sign) from my Lord, 
and He hath given me sustenance (pure and) good  as from Himself? I wish not, in 
opposition to you, to do that which I forbid you to do. I only desire (your) betterment 
to the best of my power; and my success (in my task) can only come from God. In 
Him I trust, and unto Him I look.

011.089  "And O my people! let not my dissent (from you) cause you to sin, lest ye 
suffer a fate similar to that of the people of Noah or of Hud or of Salih, nor are the 
people of Lut far off from you!

011.090  "But ask forgiveness of your Lord, and turn unto Him (in repentance): For 
my Lord is indeed full of mercy and loving-kindness."

011.091  They said: "O Shu'aib! much of what thou sayest we do not understand! In 
fact among us we see that thou hast no strength! Were it not for thy family, we should 
certainly have stoned thee! for thou hast among us no great position!"

011.092  He said: "O my people! is then my family of more consideration with you 
than God? For ye cast Him away behind your backs (with contempt). But verily my 
Lord encompasseth on all sides all that ye do!

011.093  "And O my people! Do whatever ye can: I will do (my part): Soon will ye 
know who it is on whom descends the penalty of ignominy; and who is a liar! and 
watch ye! for I too am watching with you!"

011.094  When Our decree issued, We saved Shu'aib and those who believed with 
him, by (special) mercy from Ourselves: But the (mighty) blast did seize the wrong-
doers, and they lay prostrate in their homes by the morning,-

011.095  As if they had never dwelt and flourished there! Ah! Behold! How the 
Madyan were removed (from sight) as were removed the Thamud!

011.096  And we sent Moses, with Our Clear (Signs) and an authority manifest,

011.097  Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs: but they followed the command of Pharaoh 
and the command of Pharaoh was no right (guide).

011.098  He will go before his people on the Day of Judgment, and lead them into the 
Fire (as cattle are led to water): But woeful indeed will be the place to which they are 
led!

011.099  And they are followed by a curse in this (life) and on the Day of Judgment: 
and woeful is the gift which shall be given (unto them)!

011.100  These are some of the stories of communities which We relate unto thee: of 
them some are standing, and some have been mown down (by the sickle of time).

011.101  It was not We that wronged them: They wronged their own souls: the 
deities, other than God, whom they invoked, profited them no whit when there issued 
the decree of thy Lord: Nor did they add aught (to their lot) but perdition!

011.102  Such is the chastisement of thy Lord when He chastises communities in the 
midst of their wrong: grievous, indeed, and severe is His chastisement.

011.103  In that is a Sign for those who fear the penalty of the Hereafter: that is a Day 
for which mankind will be gathered together: that will be a Day of Testimony.

011.104  Nor shall We delay it but for a term appointed.

011.105  The day it arrives, no soul shall speak except by His leave: of those 
(gathered) some will be wretched and some will be blessed.

011.106  Those who are wretched shall be in the Fire: There will be for them therein 
(nothing but) the heaving of sighs and sobs:

011.107  They will dwell therein for all the time that the heavens and the earth 
endure, except as thy Lord willeth: for thy Lord is the (sure) accomplisher of what He 
planneth.

011.108  And those who are blessed shall be in the Garden: They will dwell therein 
for all the time that the heavens and the earth endure, except as thy Lord willeth: a gift 
without break.

011.109  Be not then in doubt as to what these men worship. They worship nothing 
but what their fathers worshipped before (them): but verily We shall pay them back 
(in full) their portion without (the least) abatement.

011.110  We certainly gave the Book to Moses, but differences arose therein: had it 
not been that a word had gone forth before from thy Lord, the matter would have been 
decided between them, but they are in suspicious doubt concerning it.

011.111  And, of a surety, to all will your Lord pay back (in full the recompense) of 
their deeds: for He knoweth well all that they do.

011.112  Therefore stand firm (in the straight Path) as thou art commanded,- thou and 
those who with thee turn (unto God); and transgress not (from the Path): for He seeth 
well all that ye do.

011.113  And incline not to those who do wrong, or the Fire will seize you; and ye 
have no protectors other than God, nor shall ye be helped.

011.114  And establish regular prayers at the two ends of the day and at the 
approaches of the night: For those things, that are good remove those that are evil: Be 
that the word of remembrance to those who remember (their Lord):

011.115  And be steadfast in patience; for verily God will not suffer the reward of the 
righteous to perish.

011.116  Why were there not, among the generations before you, persons possessed 
of balanced good sense, prohibiting (men) from mischief in the earth - except a few 
among them whom We saved (from harm)? But the wrong-doers pursued the 
enjoyment of the good things of life which were given them, and persisted in sin.

011.117  Nor would thy Lord be the One to destroy communities for a single wrong-
doing, if its members were likely to mend.

011.118  If thy Lord had so willed, He could have made mankind one people: but 
they will not cease to dispute.

011.119  Except those on whom thy Lord hath bestowed His Mercy: and for this did 
He create them: and the Word of thy Lord shall be fulfilled: "I will fill Hell with jinns 
and men all together."

011.120  All that we relate to thee of the stories of the apostles,- with it We make firm 
thy heart: in them there cometh to thee the Truth, as well as an exhortation and a 
message of remembrance to those who believe.

011.121  Say to those who do not believe: "Do what ever ye can: We shall do our 
part;

011.122  "And wait ye! We too shall wait."

011.123  To God do belong the unseen (secrets) of the heavens and the earth, and to 
Him goeth back every affair (for decision):  then worship Him, and put thy trust in 
Him: and thy Lord is not unmindful of aught that ye do.

JOSEPH,  CHAPTER NO.  012

012.001  A.L.R. These are the symbols (or Verses) of the perspicuous Book.

012.002  We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an, in order that ye may learn 
wisdom.

012.003  We do relate unto thee the most beautiful of stories, in that We reveal to thee 
this (portion of the) Qur'an: before this, thou too was among those who knew it not.

012.004  Behold! Joseph said to his father: "O my father! I did see eleven stars and 
the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrate themselves to me!"

012.005  Said (the father): "My (dear) little son! relate not thy vision to thy brothers, 
lest they concoct a plot against thee: for Satan is to man an avowed enemy!

012.006  "Thus will thy Lord choose thee and teach thee the interpretation of stories 
(and events) and perfect His favour to thee and to the posterity of Jacob - even as He 
perfected it to thy fathers Abraham and Isaac aforetime! for God is full of knowledge 
and wisdom."

012.007  Verily in Joseph and his brethren are signs (or symbols) for seekers (after 
Truth).

012.008  They said: "Truly Joseph and his brother are loved more by our father than 
we: But we are a goodly body! really our father is obviously wandering (in his mind)!

012.009  "Slay ye Joseph or cast him out to some (unknown) land, that so the favour 
of your father may be given to you alone: (there will be time enough) for you to be 
righteous after that!"

012.010  Said one of them: "Slay not Joseph, but if ye must do something, throw him 
down to the bottom of the well: he will be picked up by some caravan of travellers."

012.011  They said: "O our father! why dost thou not trust us with Joseph,- seeing we 
are indeed his sincere well-wishers?

012.012  "Send him with us tomorrow to enjoy himself and play, and we shall take 
every care of him."

012.013  (Jacob) said: "Really it saddens me that ye should take him away: I fear lest 
the wolf should devour him while ye attend not to him."

012.014  They said: "If the wolf were to devour him while we are (so large) a party, 
then should we indeed (first) have perished ourselves!"

012.015  So they did take him away, and they all agreed to throw him down to the 
bottom of the well:  and We put into his heart (this Message): 'Of a surety thou shalt 
(one day) tell them the truth of this their affair while they know (thee) not'

012.016  Then they came to their father in the early part of the night, weeping.

012.017  They said: "O our father! We went racing with one another, and left Joseph 
with our things; and the wolf devoured him.... But thou wilt never believe us even 
though we tell the truth."

012.018  They stained his shirt with false blood. He said: "Nay, but your minds have 
made up a tale (that may pass) with you, (for me) patience is most fitting: Against that 
which ye assert, it is God (alone) Whose help can be sought"..

012.019  Then there came a caravan of travellers: they sent their water-carrier (for 
water), and he let down his bucket (into the well)...He said: "Ah there! Good news! 
Here is a (fine) young man!" So they concealed him as a treasure! But God knoweth 
well all that they do!

012.020  The (Brethren) sold him for a miserable price, for a few dirhams counted 
out: in such low estimation did they hold him!

012.021  The man in Egypt who bought him, said to his wife: "Make his stay (among 
us) honourable:  may be he will bring us much good, or we shall adopt him as a son."  
Thus did We establish Joseph in the land, that We might teach him the interpretation 
of stories (and events). And God hath full power and control over His affairs; but 
most among mankind know it not.

012.022  When Joseph attained His full manhood, We gave him power and 
knowledge: thus do We reward those who do right.

012.023  But she in whose house he was, sought to seduce him from his (true) self: 
she fastened the doors, and said: "Now come, thou (dear one)!" He said: "God forbid!  
truly (thy husband) is my lord! he made my sojourn agreeable!  truly to no good come 
those who do wrong!"

012.024  And (with passion) did she desire him, and he would have desired her, but 
that he saw the evidence of his Lord: thus (did We order) that We might turn away 
from him (all) evil and shameful deeds: for he was one of Our servants, sincere and 
purified.

012.025  So they both raced each other to the door, and she tore his shirt from the 
back: they both found her lord near the door. She said: "What is the (fitting) 
punishment for one who formed an evil design against thy wife, but prison or a 
grievous chastisement?"

012.026  He said: "It was she that sought to seduce me - from my (true) self." And 
one of her household saw (this) and bore witness, (thus):- "If it be that his shirt is rent 
from the front, then is her tale true, and he is a liar!

012.027  "But if it be that his shirt is torn from the back, then is she the liar, and he is 
telling the truth!"

012.028  So when he saw his shirt,- that it was torn at the back,- (her husband) said: 
"Behold!  It is a snare of you women! truly, mighty is your snare!

012.029  "O Joseph, pass this over! (O wife), ask forgiveness for thy sin, for truly 
thou hast been at fault!"

012.030  Ladies said in the City: "The wife of the (great) 'Aziz is seeking to seduce 
her slave from his (true) self: Truly hath he inspired her with violent love: we see she 
is evidently going astray."

012.031  When she heard of their malicious talk, she sent for them and prepared a 
banquet  for them: she gave each of them a knife: and she said (to Joseph), "Come out 
before them." When they saw him, they did extol him, and (in their amazement) cut 
their hands: they said, "God preserve us! no mortal is this! this is none other than a 
noble angel!"

012.032  She said: "There before you is the man about whom ye did blame me! I did 
seek to seduce him from his (true) self but he did firmly save himself guiltless!....and 
now, if he doth not my bidding, he shall certainly be cast into prison, and (what is 
more) be of the company of the vilest!"

012.033  He said: "O my Lord! the prison is more to my liking than that to which they 
invite me: Unless Thou turn away their snare from me, I should (in my youthful folly) 
feel inclined towards them and join the ranks of the ignorant."

012.034  So his Lord hearkened to him (in his prayer), and turned away from him 
their snare: Verily He heareth and knoweth (all things).

012.035  Then it occurred to the men, after they had seen the signs, (that it was best) 
to imprison him for a time.

012.036  Now with him there came into the prison two young men. Said one of them: 
"I see myself (in a dream) pressing wine." said the other: "I see myself (in a dream) 
carrying bread on my head, and birds are eating, thereof." "Tell us" (they said) "The 
truth and meaning thereof: for we see thou art one that doth good (to all)."

012.037  He said: "Before any food comes (in due course) to feed either of you, I will 
surely reveal to you the truth and meaning of this ere it befall you: that is part of the 
(duty) which my Lord hath taught me. I have (I assure you) abandoned the ways of a 
people that believe not in God and that (even) deny the Hereafter.

012.038  "And I follow the ways of my fathers,- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and 
never could we attribute any partners whatever to God: that (comes) of the grace of 
God to us and to mankind: yet most men are not grateful.

012.039  "O my two companions of the prison! (I ask you): are many lords differing 
among themselves better, or the One God, Supreme and Irresistible?

012.040  "If not Him, ye worship nothing but names which ye have named,- ye and 
your fathers,- for which God hath sent down no authority: the command is for none 
but God: He hath commanded that ye worship  none but Him: that is the right 
religion, but most men understand not...

012.041  "O my two companions of the prison! As to one of you, he will pour out the 
wine for his lord to drink: as for the other, he will hang from the cross, and the birds 
will eat from off his head. (so) hath been decreed that matter whereof ye twain do 
enquire"...

012.042  And of the two, to that one whom he consider about to be saved, he said: 
"Mention me to thy lord." But Satan made him forget to mention him to his lord: and 
(Joseph) lingered in prison a few (more) years.

012.043  The king (of Egypt) said: "I do see (in a vision) seven fat kine, whom seven 
lean ones devour, and seven green ears of corn, and seven (others) withered. O ye 
chiefs! Expound to me my vision if it be that ye can interpret visions."

012.044  They said: "A confused medley of dreams: and we are not skilled in the 
interpretation of dreams."

012.045  But the man who had been released, one of the two (who had been in prison) 
and who now bethought him after (so long) a space of time, said: "I will tell you the 
truth of its interpretation: send ye me (therefore)."

012.046  "O Joseph!" (he said) "O man of truth! Expound to us (the dream) of seven 
fat kine whom seven lean ones devour, and of seven green ears of corn and (seven) 
others withered: that I may return to the people, and that they may understand."

012.047  (Joseph) said: "For seven years shall ye diligently sow as is your wont: and 
the harvests that ye reap, ye shall leave them in the ear,- except a little, of which ye 
shall eat.

012.048  "Then will come after that (period) seven dreadful (years), which will 
devour what ye shall have laid by in advance for them,- (all) except a little which ye 
shall have (specially) guarded.

012.049  "Then will come after that (period) a year in which the people will have 
abundant water, and in which they will press (wine and oil)."

012.050  So the king said: "Bring ye him unto me."  But when the messenger came to 
him, (Joseph) said: "Go thou back to thy lord, and ask him, 'What is the state of mind 
of the ladies who cut their hands'? For my Lord is certainly well aware of their snare."

012.051  (The king) said (to the ladies): "What was your affair when ye did seek to 
seduce Joseph from his (true) self?" The ladies said: "God preserve us! no evil know 
we against him!" Said the 'Aziz's wife: "Now is the truth manifest (to all): it was I 
who sought to seduce him from his (true) self: He is indeed of those who are (ever) 
true (and virtuous).

012.052  "This (say I), in order that He may know that I have never been false to him 
in his absence,  and that God will never guide the snare of the false ones.

012.053  "Nor do I absolve my own self (of blame): the (human) soul is certainly 
prone to evil, unless my Lord do bestow His Mercy: but surely my Lord is Oft-
forgiving, Most Merciful."

012.054  So the king said: "Bring him unto me; I will take him specially to serve 
about my own person." Therefore when he had spoken to him, he said: "Be assured 
this day, thou art, before our own presence, with rank firmly established, and fidelity 
fully proved!

012.055  (Joseph) said: "Set me over the store-houses of the land: I will indeed guard 
them, as one that knows (their importance)."

012.056  Thus did We give established power to Joseph in the land, to take possession 
therein as, when, or where he pleased. We bestow of our Mercy on whom We please, 
and We suffer not, to be lost, the reward of those who do good.

012.057  But verily the reward of the Hereafter is the best, for those who believe, and 
are constant in righteousness.

012.058  Then came Joseph's brethren: they entered his presence, and he knew them, 
but they knew him not.

012.059  And when he had furnished them forth with provisions (suitable) for them, 
he said: "Bring unto me a brother ye have, of the same father as yourselves, (but a 
different mother): see ye not that I pay out full measure, and that I do provide the best 
hospitality?

012.060  "Now if ye bring him not to me, ye shall have no measure (of corn) from 
me, nor shall ye (even) come near me."

012.061  They said: "We shall certainly seek to get our wish about him from his 
father: Indeed we shall do it."

012.062  And (Joseph) told his servants to put their stock-in-trade (with which they 
had bartered) into their saddle-bags, so they should know it only when they returned 
to their people, in order that they might come back.

012.063  Now when they returned to their father, they said: "O our father! No more 
measure of grain shall we get (unless we take our brother): So send our brother with 
us, that we may get our measure; and we will indeed take every care of him."

012.064  He said: "Shall I trust you with him with any result other than when I trusted 
you with his brother aforetime? But God is the best to take care (of him), and He is 
the Most Merciful of those who show mercy!"

012.065  Then when they opened their baggage, they found their stock-in-trade had 
been returned to them. They said: "O our father! What (more) can we desire? this our 
stock-in-trade has been returned to us: so we shall get (more) food for our family; We 
shall take care of our brother; and add (at the same time) a full camel's load (of grain 
to our provisions). This is but a small quantity.

012.066  (Jacob) said: "Never will I send him with you until ye swear a solemn oath 
to me, in God's name, that ye will be sure to bring him back to me unless ye are 
yourselves hemmed in (and made powerless). And when they had sworn their solemn 
oath, he said: "Over all that we say, be God the witness and guardian!"

012.067  Further he said: "O my sons! enter not all by one gate: enter ye by different 
gates. Not that I can profit you aught against God (with my advice): None can 
command except God:  On Him do I put my trust: and let all that trust put their trust 
on Him."

012.068  And when they entered in the manner their father had enjoined, it did not 
profit them in the least against (the plan of) God: It was but a necessity of Jacob's 
soul, which he discharged. For he was, by our instruction, full of knowledge (and 
experience): but most men know not.

012.069  Now when they came into Joseph's presence, he received his (full) brother to 
stay with him. He said (to him): "Behold! I am thy (own) brother; so grieve not at 
aught of their doings."

012.070  At length when he had furnished them forth with provisions (suitable) for 
them, he put the drinking cup into his brother's saddle-bag. Then shouted out a crier: 
"O ye (in) the caravan! behold! ye are thieves, without doubt!"

012.071  They said, turning towards them: "What is it that ye miss?"

012.072  They said: "We miss the great beaker of the king; for him who produces it, 
is (the reward of) a camel load; I will be bound by it."

012.073  (The brothers) said: "By God! well ye know that we came not to make 
mischief in the land, and we are no thieves!"

012.074  (The Egyptians) said: "What then shall be the penalty of this, if ye are 
(proved) to have lied?"

012.075  They said: "The penalty should be that he in whose saddle-bag it is found, 
should be held (as bondman) to atone for the (crime). Thus it is we punish the wrong-
doers!"

012.076  So he began (the search) with their baggage, before (he came to) the 
baggage of his brother: at length he brought it out of his brother's baggage. Thus did 
We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that 
God  willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all 
endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing.

012.077  They said: "If he steals, there was a brother of his who did steal before 
(him)." But these things did Joseph keep locked in his heart, revealing not the secrets 
to them. He (simply) said (to himself): "Ye are the worse situated; and God knoweth 
best the truth of what ye assert!"

012.078  They said: "O exalted one! Behold! he has a father, aged and venerable, 
(who will grieve for him); so take one of us in his place; for we see that thou art 
(gracious) in doing good."

012.079  He said: "God forbid that we take other than him with whom we found our 
property: indeed (if we did so), we should be acting wrongfully.

012.080  Now when they saw no hope of his (yielding), they held a conference in 
private. The leader among them said: "Know ye not that your father did take an oath 
from you in God's name, and how, before this, ye did fail in your duty with Joseph? 
Therefore will I not leave this land until my father permits me, or God commands me; 
and He is the best to command.

012.081  "Turn ye back to your father, and say, 'O our father! behold! thy son 
committed theft! we bear witness only to what we know, and we could not well guard 
against the unseen!

012.082  "'Ask at the town where we have been and the caravan in which we returned, 
and (you will find) we are indeed telling the truth.'"

012.083  Jacob said: "Nay, but ye have yourselves contrived a story (good enough) 
for you. So patience is most fitting (for me). Maybe God will bring them (back) all to 
me (in the end). For He is indeed full of knowledge and wisdom."

012.084  And he turned away from them, and said: "How great is my grief for 
Joseph!"  And his eyes became white with sorrow, and he fell into silent melancholy.

012.085  They said: "By God! (never) wilt thou cease to remember Joseph until thou 
reach the last extremity of illness, or until thou die!"

012.086  He said: "I only complain of my distraction and anguish to God, and I know 
from God that which ye know not...

012.087  "O my sons! go ye and enquire about Joseph and his brother, and never give 
up hope of God's Soothing Mercy: truly no one despairs of God's Soothing Mercy, 
except those who have no faith."

012.088  Then, when they came (back) into (Joseph's) presence they said: "O exalted 
one! distress has seized us and our family: we have (now) brought but scanty capital: 
so pay us full measure, (we pray thee), and treat it as charity to us: for God doth 
reward the charitable."

012.089  He said: "Know ye how ye dealt with Joseph and his brother, not knowing 
(what ye were doing)?"

012.090  They said: "Art thou indeed Joseph?" He said, "I am Joseph, and this is my 
brother: God has indeed been gracious to us (all): behold, he that is righteous and 
patient,- never will God suffer the reward to be lost, of those who do right."

012.091  They said: "By God! indeed has God preferred thee above us, and we 
certainly have been guilty of sin!"

012.092  He said: "This day let no reproach be (cast) on you: God will forgive you, 
and He is the Most Merciful of those who show mercy!

012.093  "Go with this my shirt, and cast it over the face of my father: he will come to 
see (clearly). Then come ye (here) to me together with all your family."

012.094  When the caravan left (Egypt), their father said: "I do indeed scent the 
presence of Joseph: Nay, think me not a dotard."

012.095  They said: "By God! truly thou art in thine old wandering mind."

012.096  Then when the bearer of the good news came, He cast (the shirt) over his 
face, and he forthwith regained clear sight. He said: "Did I not say to you, 'I know 
from God that which ye know not?'"

012.097  They said: "O our father!  ask for us forgiveness for our sins, for we were 
truly at fault."

012.098  He said: "Soon will I ask my Lord for forgiveness for you: for he is indeed 
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

012.099  Then when they entered the presence of Joseph, he provided a home for his 
parents with himself, and said: "Enter ye Egypt (all) in safety if it please God."

012.100  And he raised his parents high on the throne (of dignity), and they fell down 
in prostration, (all) before him. He said: "O my father! this is the fulfilment of my 
vision of old! God hath made it come true! He was indeed good to me when He took 
me out of prison and brought you (all here) out of the desert, (even) after Satan had 
sown enmity between me and my brothers. Verily my Lord understandeth best the 
mysteries of all that He planneth to do, for verily He is full of knowledge and 
wisdom.

012.101  "O my Lord! Thou hast indeed bestowed on me some power, and taught me 
something of the interpretation of dreams and events,- O Thou Creator of the heavens 
and the earth! Thou art my Protector in this world and in the Hereafter. Take Thou my 
soul (at death) as one submitting to Thy will (as a Muslim), and unite me with the 
righteous."

012.102  Such is one of the stories of what happened unseen, which We reveal by 
inspiration unto thee; nor wast thou (present) with them then when they concerted 
their plans together in the process of weaving their plots.

012.103  Yet no faith will the greater part of mankind have, however ardently thou 
dost desire it.

012.104  And no reward dost thou ask of them for this: it is no less than a message for 
all creatures.

012.105  And how many Signs in the heavens and the earth do they pass by? Yet they 
turn (their faces) away from them!

012.106  And most of them believe not in God without associating (other as partners) 
with Him!

012.107  Do they then feel secure from the coming against them of the covering veil 
of the wrath of God,- or of the coming against them of the (final) Hour all of a sudden 
while they perceive not?

012.108  Say thou: "This is my way: I do invite unto God,- on evidence clear as the 
seeing with one's eyes,- I and whoever follows me. Glory to God! and never will I 
join gods with God!"

012.109  Nor did We send before thee (as apostles) any but men, whom we did 
inspire,- (men) living in human  habitations. Do they not travel through the earth, and 
see what was the end of those before them? But the home of the hereafter is best, for 
those who do right. Will ye not then understand?

012.110  (Respite will be granted) until, when the apostles give up hope (of their 
people) and (come to) think that they were treated as liars, there reaches them Our 
help, and those whom We will are delivered into safety. But never will be warded off 
our punishment from those who are in sin.

012.111  There is, in their stories, instruction for men endued with understanding. It is 
not a tale invented, but a confirmation of what went before it,- a detailed exposition of 
all things, and a guide and a mercy to any such as believe.

THE THUNDER,  CHAPTER NO.  013

013.001  A.L.M.R. These are the signs (or verses) of the Book: that which hath been 
revealed unto thee from thy Lord is the Truth; but most men believe not.

013.002  God is He Who raised the heavens without any pillars that ye can see; is 
firmly established on the throne (of authority); He has subjected the sun and the moon 
(to his Law)! Each one runs (its course) for a term appointed. He doth regulate all 
affairs, explaining the signs in detail, that ye may believe with certainty in the 
meeting with your Lord.

013.003  And it is He who spread out the earth, and set thereon mountains standing 
firm and (flowing) rivers: and fruit of every kind He made in pairs, two and two: He 
draweth the night as a veil o'er the Day. Behold, verily in these things there are signs 
for those who consider!

013.004  And in the earth are tracts (diverse though) neighbouring, and gardens of 
vines and fields sown with corn, and palm trees - growing out of single roots or 
otherwise: watered with the same water, yet some of them We make more excellent 
than others to eat. Behold, verily in these things there are signs for those who 
understand!

013.005  If thou dost marvel (at their want of faith), strange is their saying: "When we 
are (actually) dust, shall we indeed then be in a creation renewed?" They are those 
who deny their Lord! They are those round whose necks will be yokes (of servitude): 
they will be Companions of the Fire, to dwell therein (for aye)!

013.006  They ask thee to hasten on the evil in preference to the good:  Yet have 
come to pass, before them, (many) exemplary punishments! But verily thy Lord is full 
of forgiveness for mankind for their wrong-doing, and verily thy Lord is (also) strict 
in punishment.

013.007  And the Unbelievers say: "Why is not a sign sent down to him from his 
Lord?" But thou art truly a warner, and to every people a guide.

013.008  God  doth know what every female (womb) doth bear, by how much the 
wombs fall short (of their time or number) or do exceed. Every single thing is before 
His sight, in (due) proportion.

013.009  He knoweth the unseen and that which is open: He is the Great, the Most 
High.

013.010  It is the same (to Him) whether any of you conceal his speech or declare it 
openly; whether he lie hid by night or walk forth freely by day.

013.011  For each (such person) there are (angels) in succession, before and behind 
him: They guard him by command of God. Verily never will God change the 
condition of a people until they change it themselves (with their own souls). But when 
(once) God willeth a people's punishment, there can be no turning it back, nor will 
they find, besides Him, any to protect.

013.012  It is He Who doth show you the lightning, by way both of fear and of hope: 
It is He Who doth raise up the clouds, heavy with (fertilising) rain!

013.013  Nay, thunder repeateth His praises, and so do the angels, with awe: He 
flingeth the loud-voiced thunder-bolts, and therewith He striketh whomsoever He 
will..yet these (are the men) who (dare to) dispute about God, with the strength of His 
power (supreme)!

013.014  For Him (alone) is prayer in Truth: any others that they call upon besides 
Him hear them no more than if they were to stretch forth their hands for water to 
reach their mouths but it reaches them not: for the prayer of those without Faith is 
nothing but (futile) wandering (in the mind).

013.015  Whatever beings there are in the heavens and the earth do prostrate 
themselves to God (Acknowledging subjection),- with good-will or in spite of 
themselves: so do their shadows in the morning and evenings.

013.016  Say: "Who is the Lord and Sustainer of the heavens and the earth?" Say: "(It 
is) God." Say: "Do ye then take (for worship) protectors other than Him, such as have 
no power either for good or for harm to themselves?" Say: "Are the blind equal with 
those who see? Or the depths of darkness equal with light?" Or do they assign to God 
partners who have created (anything) as He has created, so that the creation seemed to 
them similar? Say: "God is the Creator of all things: He is the One, the Supreme and 
Irresistible."

013.017  He sends down water from the skies, and the channels flow, each according 
to its measure: But the torrent bears away to foam that mounts up to the surface. Even 
so, from that (ore) which they heat in the fire, to make ornaments or utensils 
therewith, there is a scum likewise. Thus doth God (by parables) show forth Truth 
and Vanity. For the scum disappears like forth cast out; while that which is for the 
good of mankind remains on the earth. Thus doth God set forth parables.

013.018  For those who respond to their Lord, are (all) good things. But those who 
respond not to Him,- Even if they had all that is in the heavens and on earth, and as 
much more, (in vain) would they offer it for ransom. For them will the reckoning be 
terrible: their abode will be Hell,- what a bed of misery!

013.019  Is then one who doth know that that which hath been revealed unto thee 
from thy Lord is the Truth, like one who is blind? It is those who are endued with 
understanding that receive admonition;-

013.020  Those who fulfil the covenant of God and fail not in their plighted word;

013.021  Those who join together those things which God hath commanded to be 
joined, hold their Lord in awe, and fear the terrible reckoning;

013.022  Those who patiently persevere, seeking the countenance of their Lord; 
Establish regular prayers; spend, out of (the gifts) We have bestowed for their 
sustenance, secretly and openly; and turn off Evil with good: for such there is the 
final attainment of the (eternal) home,-

013.023  Gardens of perpetual bliss: they shall enter there, as well as the righteous 
among their fathers, their spouses, and their offspring: and angels shall enter unto 
them from every gate (with the salutation):

013.024  "Peace unto you for that ye persevered in patience! Now how excellent is 
the final home!"

013.025  But those who break the Covenant of God, after having plighted their word 
thereto, and cut asunder those things which God has commanded to be joined, and 
work mischief in the land;- on them is the curse; for them is the terrible home!

013.026  God doth enlarge, or grant by (strict) measure, the sustenance (which He 
giveth) to whomso He pleaseth. (The wordly) rejoice in the life of this world: But the 
life of this world is but little comfort in the Hereafter.

013.027  The Unbelievers say: "Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?" 
Say: "Truly God leaveth, to stray, whom He will; But He guideth to Himself those 
who turn to Him in penitence,-

013.028  "Those who believe, and whose hearts find satisfaction in the remembrance 
of God: for without doubt in the remembrance of God do hearts find satisfaction.

013.029  "For those who believe and work righteousness, is (every) blessedness, and 
a beautiful place of (final) return."

013.030  Thus have we sent thee amongst a People before whom (long since) have 
(other) Peoples (gone and) passed away; in order that thou mightest rehearse unto 
them what We send down unto thee by inspiration; yet do they reject (Him), the Most 
Gracious! Say: "He is my Lord! There is no god but He! On Him is my trust, and to 
Him do I turn!"

013.031  If there were a Qur'an with which mountains were moved, or the earth were 
cloven asunder, or the dead were made to speak, (this would be the one!) But, truly, 
the command is with God in all things! Do not the Believers know, that, had God (so) 
willed, He could have guided all mankind (to the right)? But the Unbelievers,- never 
will disaster cease to seize them for their (ill) deeds, or to settle close to their homes, 
until the promise of God come to pass, for, verily, God will not fail in His promise.

013.032  Mocked were (many) apostles before thee: but I granted respite to the 
unbelievers, and finally I punished them: Then how (terrible) was my requital!

013.033  Is then He who standeth over every soul (and knoweth) all that it doth, (like 
any others)? And yet they ascribe partners to God. Say: "But name them! is it that ye 
will inform Him of something he knoweth not on earth, or is it (just) a show of 
words?" Nay! to those who believe not, their pretence seems pleasing, but they are 
kept back (thereby) from the path. And those whom God leaves to stray, no one can 
guide.

013.034  For them is a penalty in the life of this world, but harder, truly, is the penalty 
of the Hereafter: and defender have they none against God.

013.035  The parable of the Garden which the righteous are promised!- beneath it 
flow rivers: perpetual is the enjoyment thereof and the shade therein: such is the end 
of the Righteous; and the end of Unbelievers in the Fire.

013.036  Those to whom We have given the Book rejoice at what hath been revealed 
unto thee: but there are among the clans those who reject a part thereof. Say: "I am 
commanded to worship God, and not to join partners with Him. Unto Him do I call, 
and unto Him is my return."

013.037  Thus have We revealed it to be a judgment of authority in Arabic. Wert thou 
to follow their (vain) desires after the knowledge which hath reached thee, then 
wouldst thou find neither protector nor defender against God.

013.038  We did send apostles before thee, and appointed for them wives and 
children: and it was never the part of an apostle to bring a sign except as God 
permitted (or commanded). For each period is a Book (revealed).

013.039  God doth blot out or confirm what He pleaseth: with Him is the Mother of 
the Book.

013.040  Whether We shall show thee (within thy life-time) part of what we promised 
them or take to ourselves thy soul (before it is all accomplished),- thy duty is to make 
(the Message) reach them: it is our part to call them to account.

013.041  See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in their control) from its 
outlying borders? (Where) God commands, there is none to put back His Command: 
and He is swift in calling to account.

013.042  Those before them did (also) devise plots; but in all things the master-
planning is God's He knoweth the doings of every soul: and soon will the Unbelievers 
know who gets home in the end.

013.043  The Unbelievers say: "No apostle art thou." Say: "Enough for a witness 
between me and you is God, and such as have knowledge of the Book."

ABRAHAM,  CHAPTER NO.  014

014.001  A. L. R. A Book which We have revealed unto thee, in order that thou 
mightest lead mankind out of the depths of darkness into light - by the leave of their 
Lord - to the Way of (Him) the Exalted in power, worthy of all praise!-

014.002  Of God, to Whom do belong all things in the heavens and on earth! But alas 
for the Unbelievers for a terrible penalty (their Unfaith will bring them)!-

014.003  Those who love the life of this world more than the Hereafter, who hinder 
(men) from the Path of God and seek therein something crooked: they are astray by a 
long distance.

014.004  We sent not an apostle except (to teach) in the language of his (own) people, 
in order to make (things) clear to them. Now God leaves straying those whom He 
pleases and guides whom He pleases: and He is Exalted in power, full of Wisdom.

014.005  We sent Moses with Our signs (and the command). "Bring out thy people 
from the depths of darkness into light, and teach them to remember the Days of God." 
Verily in this there are Signs for such as are firmly patient and constant,- grateful and 
appreciative.

014.006  Remember! Moses said to his people: "Call to mind the favour of God to 
you when He delivered you from the people of Pharaoh: they set you hard tasks and 
punishments, slaughtered your sons, and let your women-folk live: therein was a 
tremendous trial from your Lord."

014.007  And remember! your Lord caused to be declared (publicly): "If ye are 
grateful, I will add more (favours) unto you; But if ye show ingratitude, truly My 
punishment is terrible indeed."

014.008  And Moses said: "If ye show ingratitude, ye and all on earth together, yet is 
God free of all wants, worthy of all praise.

014.009  Has not the story reached you, (O people!), of those who (went) before you? 
- of the people of Noah, and 'Ad, and Thamud? - And of those who (came) after 
them? None knows them but God. To them came apostles with Clear (Signs); but they 
put their hands up to their mouths, and said: "We do deny (the mission) on which ye 
have been sent, and we are really in suspicious (disquieting) doubt as to that to which 
ye invite us."

014.010  Their apostles said: "Is there a doubt about God, The Creator of the heavens 
and the earth? It is He Who invites you, in order that He may forgive you your sins 
and give you respite for a term appointed!" They said: "Ah! ye are no more than 
human, like ourselves! Ye wish to turn us away from the (gods) our fathers used to 
worship: then bring us some clear authority."

014.011  Their apostles said to them: "True, we are human like yourselves, but God 
doth grant His grace to such of his servants as He pleases. It is not for us to bring you 
an authority except as God permits. And on God let all men of faith put their trust.

014.012  "No reason have we why we should not put our trust on God. Indeed He Has 
guided us to the Ways we (follow). We shall certainly bear with patience all the hurt 
you may cause us. For those who put their trust should put their trust on God."

014.013  And the Unbelievers said to their apostles: "Be sure we shall drive you out 
of our land, or ye shall return to our religion." But their Lord inspired (this Message) 
to them: "Verily We shall cause the wrong-doers to perish!

014.014  "And verily We shall cause you to abide in the land, and succeed them. This 
for such as fear the Time when they shall stand before My tribunal,- such as fear the 
punishment denounced."

014.015  But they sought victory and decision (there and then), and frustration was 
the lot of every powerful obstinate transgressor.

014.016  In front of such a one is Hell, and he is given, for drink, boiling fetid water.

014.017  In gulps will he sip it, but never will he be near swallowing it down his 
throat: death will come to him from every quarter, yet will he not die: and in front of 
him will be a chastisement unrelenting.

014.018  The parable of those who reject their Lord is that their works are as ashes, 
on which the wind blows furiously on a tempestuous day: No power have they over 
aught that they have earned: that is the straying far, far (from the goal).

014.019  Seest thou not that God created the heavens and the earth in Truth? If He so 
will, He can remove you and put (in your place) a new creation?

014.020  Nor is that for God any great matter.

014.021  They will all be marshalled before God together: then will the weak say to 
those who were arrogant, "For us, we but followed you; can ye then avail us to all 
against the wrath of God?" They will reply, "If we had received the Guidance of God, 
we should have given it to you: to us it makes no difference (now) whether we rage, 
or bear (these torments) with patience: for ourselves there is no way of escape."

014.022  And Satan will say when the matter is decided: "It was God Who gave you a 
promise of Truth: I too promised, but I failed in my promise to you. I had no authority 
over you except to call you but ye listened to me: then reproach not me, but reproach 
your own souls. I cannot listen to your cries, nor can ye listen to mine. I reject your 
former act in associating me with God. For wrong-doers there must be a grievous 
penalty."

014.023  But those who believe and work righteousness will be admitted to gardens 
beneath which rivers flow,- to dwell therein for aye with the leave of their Lord. Their 
greeting therein will be: "Peace!"

014.024  Seest thou not how God sets forth a parable? - A goodly word like a goodly 
tree, whose root is firmly fixed, and its branches (reach) to the heavens,- of its Lord. 
So God sets forth parables for men, in order that they may receive admonition.

014.025  It brings forth its fruit at all times, by the leave of its Lord. So God sets forth 
parables for men, in order that they may receive admonition.

014.026  And the parable of an evil Word is that of an evil tree: It is torn up by the 
root from the surface of the earth: it has no stability.

014.027  God will establish in strength those who believe, with the word that stands 
firm, in this world and in the Hereafter; but God will leave, to stray, those who do 
wrong: God doeth what He willeth.

014.028  Hast thou not turned thy vision to those who have changed the favour of 
God. Into blasphemy and caused their people to descend to the House of Perdition?-

014.029  Into Hell? They will burn therein,- an evil place to stay in!

014.030  And they set up (idols) as equal to God, to mislead (men) from the Path! 
Say: "Enjoy (your brief power)! But verily ye are making straightway for Hell!"

014.031  Speak to my servants who have believed, that they may establish regular 
prayers, and spend (in charity) out of the sustenance we have given them, secretly and 
openly, before the coming of a Day in which there will be neither mutual bargaining 
nor befriending.

014.032  It is God Who hath created the heavens and the earth and sendeth down rain 
from the skies, and with it bringeth out fruits wherewith to feed you; it is He Who 
hath made the ships subject to you, that they may sail through the sea by His 
command; and the rivers (also) hath He made subject to you.

014.033  And He hath made subject to you the sun and the moon, both diligently 
pursuing their courses; and the night and the day hath he (also) made subject to you.

014.034  And He giveth you of all that ye ask for. But if ye count the favours of God, 
never will ye be able to number them. Verily, man is given up to injustice and 
ingratitude.

014.035  Remember Abraham said: "O my Lord! make this city one of peace and 
security: and preserve me and my sons from worshipping idols.

014.036  "O my Lord! they have indeed  led astray many among mankind; He then 
who follows my (ways) is of me, and he that disobeys me,- but Thou art indeed Oft-
forgiving, Most Merciful.

014.037  "O our Lord! I have made some of my offspring to dwell in a valley without 
cultivation, by Thy Sacred House; in order, O our Lord, that they may establish 
regular Prayer: so fill the hearts of some among men with love towards them, and 
feed them with fruits: so that they may give thanks.

014.038  "O our Lord! truly Thou dost know what we conceal and what we reveal: for 
nothing whatever is hidden from God, whether on earth or in heaven.

014.039  "Praise be to God, Who hath granted unto me in old age Isma'il and Isaac: 
for truly my Lord is He, the Hearer of Prayer!

014.040  O my Lord! make me one who establishes regular Prayer, and also (raise 
such) among my offspring O our Lord! and accept Thou my Prayer.

014.041  "O our Lord! cover (us) with Thy Forgiveness - me, my parents, and (all) 
Believers, on the Day that the Reckoning will be established!

014.042  Think not that God doth not heed the deeds of those who do wrong. He but 
giveth them respite against a Day when the eyes will fixedly stare in horror,-

014.043  They running forward with necks outstretched, their heads uplifted, their 
gaze returning not towards them, and their hearts a (gaping) void!

014.044  So warn mankind of the Day when the Wrath will reach them: then will the 
wrong-doers say: "Our Lord! respite us (if only)  for a short term: we will answer Thy 
call, and follow the apostles!" "What! were ye not wont to swear aforetime that ye 
should suffer no decline?

014.045  "And ye dwelt in the dwellings of men who wronged their own souls; ye 
were clearly shown how We dealt with them; and We put forth (many) parables in 
your behoof!"

014.046  Mighty indeed were the plots which they made, but their plots were (well) 
within the sight of God, even though they were such as to shake the hills!

014.047  Never think that God would fail his apostles in His promise: for God is 
Exalted in power, - the Lord of Retribution.

014.048  One day the earth will be changed to a different earth, and so will be the 
heavens, and (men) will be marshalled forth, before God, the One, the Irresistible;

014.049  And thou wilt see the sinners that day bound together in fetters;-

014.050  Their garments of liquid pitch, and their faces covered with Fire;

014.051  That God may requite each soul according to its deserts; and verily God is 
swift in calling to account.

014.052  Here is a Message for mankind: Let them take warning therefrom, and let 
them know that He is (no other than) One God: let men of understanding take heed.

AL-HIJR, STONELAND, ROCK CITY,  CHAPTER NO.  015

015.001  A. L. R. These are the Ayats of Revelation,- of a Qur'an that makes things 
clear.

015.002  Again and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed (to 
God's will) in Islam.

015.003  Leave them alone, to enjoy (the good things of this life) and to please 
themselves: let (false) hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (undeceive them).

015.004  Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned 
beforehand.

015.005  Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it.

015.006  They say: "O thou to whom the Message is being revealed! truly thou art 
mad (or possessed)!

015.007  "Why bringest thou not angels to us if it be that thou hast the Truth?"

015.008  We send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the 
ungodly), behold! no respite would they have!

015.009  We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly 
guard it (from corruption).

015.010  We did send apostles before thee amongst the religious sects of old:

015.011  But never came an apostle to them but they mocked him.

015.012  Even so do we let it creep into the hearts of the sinners -

015.013  That they should not believe in the (Message); but the ways of the ancients 
have passed away.

015.014  Even if We opened out to them a gate from heaven, and they were to 
continue (all day) ascending therein,

015.015  They would only say: "Our eyes have been intoxicated: Nay, we have been 
bewitched by sorcery."

015.016  It is We Who have set out the zodiacal signs in the heavens, and made them 
fair-seeming to (all) beholders;

015.017  And (moreover) We have guarded them from every evil spirit accursed:

015.018  But any that gains a hearing by stealth, is pursued by a flaming fire, bright 
(to see).

015.019  And the earth We have spread out (like a carpet); set thereon mountains firm 
and immovable; and produced therein all kinds of things in due balance.

015.020  And We have provided therein means of subsistence,- for you and for those 
for whose sustenance ye are not responsible.

015.021  And there is not a thing but its (sources and) treasures (inexhaustible) are 
with Us; but We only send down thereof in due and ascertainable measures.

015.022  And We send the fecundating winds, then cause the rain to descend from the 
sky, therewith providing you with water (in abundance), though ye are not the 
guardians of its stores.

015.023  And verily, it is We Who give life, and Who give death: it is We Who 
remain inheritors (after all else passes away).

015.024  To Us are known those of you who hasten forward, and those who lag 
behind.

015.025  Assuredly it is thy Lord Who will gather them together: for He is perfect in 
Wisdom and Knowledge.

015.026  We created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape;

015.027  And the Jinn race, We had created before, from the fire of a scorching wind.

015.028  Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from 
sounding clay from mud moulded into shape;

015.029  "When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of 
My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him."

015.030  So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together:

015.031  Not so Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated themselves.

015.032  (God) said: "O Iblis! what is your reason for not being among those who 
prostrated themselves?"

015.033  (Iblis) said: "I am not one to prostrate myself to man, whom Thou didst 
create from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape."

015.034  (God) said: "Then get thee out from here; for thou art rejected, accursed.

015.035  "And the curse shall be on thee till the day of Judgment."

015.036  (Iblis) said: "O my Lord! give me then respite till the Day the (dead) are 
raised."

015.037  (God) said: "Respite is granted thee

015.038  "Till the Day of the Time appointed."

015.039  (Iblis) said: "O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong, I will 
make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong,-

015.040  "Except Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace)."

015.041  (God) said: "This (way of My sincere servants) is indeed a way that leads 
straight to Me.

015.042  "For over My servants no authority shalt thou have, except such as put 
themselves in the wrong and follow thee."

015.043  And verily, Hell is the promised abode for them all!

015.044  To it are seven gates: for each of those gates is a (special) class (of sinners) 
assigned.

015.045  The righteous (will be) amid gardens and fountains (of clear-flowing water).

015.046  (Their greeting will be): "Enter ye here in peace and security."

015.047  And We shall remove from their hearts any lurking sense of injury: (they 
will be) brothers (joyfully) facing each other on thrones (of dignity).

015.048  There no sense of fatigue shall touch them, nor shall they (ever) be asked to 
leave.

015.049  Tell My servants that I am indeed the Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful;

015.050  And that My Penalty will be indeed the most grievous Penalty.

015.051  Tell them about the guests of Abraham.

015.052  When they entered his presence and said, "Peace!" He said, "We feel afraid 
of you!"

015.053  They said: "Fear not! We give thee glad tidings of a son endowed with 
wisdom."

015.054  He said: "Do ye give me glad tidings that old age has seized me? Of what, 
then, is your good news?"

015.055  They said: "We give thee glad tidings in truth: be not then in despair!"

015.056  He said: "And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord, but such as go 
astray?"

015.057  Abraham said: "What then is the business on which ye (have come), O ye 
messengers (of God)?"

015.058  They said: "We have been sent to a people (deep) in sin,

015.059  "Excepting the adherents of Lut: them we are certainly (charged) to save 
(from harm),- All -

015.060  "Except his wife, who, We have ascertained, will be among those who will 
lag behind."

015.061  At length when the messengers arrived among the adherents of Lut,

015.062  He said: "Ye appear to be uncommon folk."

015.063  They said: "Yea, we have come to thee to accomplish that of which they 
doubt.

015.064  "We have brought to thee that which is inevitably due, and assuredly we tell 
the truth.

015.065  "Then travel by night with thy household, when a portion of the night (yet 
remains), and do thou bring up the rear: let no one amongst you look back, but pass 
on whither ye are ordered."

015.066  And We made known this decree to him, that the last remnants of those 
(sinners) should be cut off by the morning.

015.067  The inhabitants of the city came in (mad) joy (at news of the young men).

015.068  Lut said: "These are my guests: disgrace me not:

015.069  "But fear God, and shame me not."

015.070  They said: "Did we not forbid thee (to speak) for all and sundry?"

015.071  He said: "There are my daughters (to marry), if ye must act (so)."

015.072  Verily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their wild intoxication, they wander in 
distraction, to and fro.

015.073  But the (mighty) Blast overtook them before morning,

015.074  And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them 
brimstones hard as baked clay.

015.075  Behold! in this are Signs for those who by tokens do understand.

015.076  And the (cities were) right on the high-road.

015.077  Behold! in this is a sign for those who believed.

015.078  And the Companions of the Wood were also wrong-doers;

015.079  So We exacted retribution from them. They were both on an open highway, 
plain to see.

015.080  The Companions of the Rocky Tract also rejected the apostles:

015.081  We sent them Our Sings, but they persisted in turning away from them.

015.082  Out of the mountains did they hew (their) edifices, (feeling themselves) 
secure.

015.083  But the (mighty) Blast seized them of a morning,

015.084  And of no avail to them was all that they did (with such art and care)!

015.085  We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, but for just 
ends. And the Hour is surely coming (when this will be manifest). So overlook (any 
human faults) with gracious forgiveness.

015.086  For verily it is thy Lord who is the Master-Creator, knowing all things.

015.087  And We have bestowed upon thee the Seven Oft-repeated (verses) and the 
Grand Qur'an.

015.088  Strain not thine eyes. (Wistfully) at what We have bestowed on certain 
classes of them, nor grieve over them: but lower thy wing (in gentleness) to the 
believers.

015.089  And say: "I am indeed he that warneth openly and without ambiguity,"-

015.090  (Of just such wrath) as We sent down on those who divided (Scripture into 
arbitrary parts),-

015.091  (So also on such) as have made Qur'an into shreds (as they please).

015.092  Therefore, by the Lord, We will, of a surety, call them to account,

015.093  For all their deeds.

015.094  Therefore expound openly what thou art commanded, and turn away from 
those who join false gods with God.

015.095  For sufficient are We unto thee against those who scoff,-

015.096  Those who adopt, with God, another god: but soon will they come to know.

015.097  We do indeed know how thy heart is distressed at what they say.

015.098  But celebrate the praises of thy Lord, and be of those who prostrate 
themselves in adoration.

015.099  And serve thy Lord until there come unto thee the Hour that is Certain.

THE BEE,  CHAPTER NO.  016

016.001  (Inevitable) cometh (to pass) the Command of God: seek ye not then to 
hasten it: Glory to Him, and far is He above having the partners they ascribe unto 
Him!

016.002  He doth send down His angels with inspiration of His Command, to such of 
His servants as He pleaseth, (saying): "Warn (Man) that there is no god but I: so do 
your duty unto Me."

016.003  He has created the heavens and the earth for just ends: Far is He above 
having the partners they ascribe to Him!

016.004  He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) 
becomes an open disputer!

016.005  And cattle He has created for you (men): from them ye derive warmth, and 
numerous benefits, and of their (meat) ye eat.

016.006  And ye have a sense of pride and beauty in them as ye drive them home in 
the evening, and as ye lead them forth to pasture in the morning.

016.007  And they carry your heavy loads to lands that ye could not (otherwise) reach 
except with souls distressed: for your Lord is indeed Most Kind, Most Merciful,

016.008  And (He has created) horses, mules, and donkeys, for you to ride and use for 
show; and He has created (other) things of which ye have no knowledge.

016.009  And unto God leads straight the Way, but there are ways that turn aside: if 
God had willed, He could have guided all of you.

016.010  It is He who sends down rain from the sky: from it ye drink, and out of it 
(grows) the vegetation on which ye feed your cattle.

016.011  With it He produces for you corn, olives, date-palms, grapes and every kind 
of fruit: verily in this is a sign for those who give thought.

016.012  He has made subject to you the Night and the Day; the sun and the moon; 
and the stars are in subjection by His Command: verily in this are Signs for men who 
are wise.

016.013  And the things on this earth which He has multiplied in varying colours (and 
qualities): verily in this is a sign for men who celebrate the praises of God (in 
gratitude).

016.014  It is He Who has made the sea subject, that ye may eat thereof flesh that is 
fresh and tender, and that ye may extract therefrom ornaments to wear; and thou seest 
the ships therein that plough the waves, that ye may seek (thus) of the bounty of God 
and that ye may be grateful.

016.015  And He has set up on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake 
with you; and rivers and roads; that ye may guide yourselves;

016.016  And marks and sign-posts; and by the stars (men) guide themselves.

016.017  Is then He Who creates like one that creates not? Will ye not receive 
admonition?

016.018  If ye would count up the favours of God, never would ye be able to number 
them: for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

016.019  And God doth know what ye conceal, and what ye reveal.

016.020  Those whom they invoke besides God create nothing and are themselves 
created.

016.021  (They are things) dead, lifeless: nor do they know when they will be raised 
up.

016.022  Your God is one God: as to those who believe not in the Hereafter, their 
hearts refuse to know, and they are arrogant.

016.023  Undoubtedly God doth know what they conceal, and what they reveal: 
verily He loveth not the arrogant.

016.024  When it is said to them, "What is it that your Lord has revealed?" they say, 
"Tales of the ancients!"

016.025  Let them bear, on the Day of Judgment, their own burdens in full, and also 
(something) of the burdens of those without knowledge, whom they misled. Alas, 
how grievous the burdens they will bear!

016.026  Those before them did also plot (against God's Way): but God took their 
structures from their foundations, and the roof fell down on them from above; and the 
Wrath seized them from directions they did not perceive.

016.027  Then, on the Day of Judgment, He will cover them with shame, and say: 
"Where are My 'partners' concerning whom ye used to dispute (with the godly)?" 
Those endued with knowledge will say: "This Day, indeed, are the Unbelievers 
covered with shame and misery,-

016.028  "(Namely) those whose lives the angels take in a state of wrong-doing to 
their own souls." Then would they offer submission (with the pretence), "We did no 
evil (knowingly)." (The angels will reply), "Nay, but verily God knoweth all that ye 
did;

016.029  "So enter the gates of Hell, to dwell therein. Thus evil indeed is the abode of 
the arrogant."

016.030  To the righteous (when) it is said, "What is it that your Lord has revealed?" 
they say, "All that is good." To those who do good, there is good in this world, and 
the Home of the Hereafter is even better and excellent indeed is the Home of the 
righteous,-

016.031  Gardens of Eternity which they will enter: beneath them flow (pleasant) 
rivers: they will have therein all that they wish: thus doth God reward the righteous,-

016.032  (Namely) those whose lives the angels take in a state of purity, saying (to 
them), "Peace be on you; enter ye the Garden, because of (the good) which ye did (in 
the world)."

016.033  Do the (ungodly) wait until the angels come to them, or there comes the 
Command of thy Lord (for their doom)? So did those who went before them. But God 
wronged them not: nay, they wronged their own souls.

016.034  But the evil results of their deeds overtook them, and that very (Wrath) at 
which they had scoffed hemmed them in.

016.035  The worshippers of false gods say: "If God had so willed, we should not 
have worshipped aught but Him - neither we nor our fathers,- nor should we have 
prescribed prohibitions other than His." So did those who went before them. But what 
is the mission of apostles but to preach the Clear Message?

016.036  For We assuredly sent amongst every People an apostle, (with the 
Command), "Serve God, and eschew Evil": of the People were some whom God 
guided, and some on whom error became inevitably (established). So travel through 
the earth, and see what was the end of those who denied (the Truth).

016.037  If thou art anxious for their guidance, yet God guideth not such as He leaves 
to stray, and there is none to help them.

016.038  They swear their strongest oaths by God, that God will not raise up those 
who die: Nay, but it is a promise (binding) on Him in truth: but most among mankind 
realise it not.

016.039  (They must be raised up), in order that He may manifest to them the truth of 
that wherein they differ, and that the rejecters of Truth may realise that they had 
indeed (surrendered to) Falsehood.

016.040  For to anything which We have willed, We but say the word, "Be", and it is.

016.041  To those who leave their homes in the cause of God, after suffering 
oppression,- We will assuredly give a goodly home in this world; but truly the reward 
of the Hereafter will be greater. If they only realised (this)!

016.042  (They are) those who persevere in patience, and put their trust on their Lord.

016.043  And before thee also the apostles We sent were but men, to whom We 
granted inspiration: if ye realise this not, ask of those who possess the Message.

016.044  (We sent them) with Clear Signs and Books of dark prophecies; and We 
have sent down unto thee (also) the Message; that thou mayest explain clearly to men 
what is sent for them, and that they may give thought.

016.045  Do then those who devise evil (plots) feel secure that God will not cause the 
earth to swallow them up, or that the Wrath will not seize them from directions they 
little perceive?-

016.046  Or that He may not call them to account in the midst of their goings to and 
fro, without a chance of their frustrating Him?-

016.047  Or that He may not call them to account by a process of slow wastage - for 
thy Lord is indeed full of kindness and mercy.

016.048  Do they not look at God's creation, (even) among (inanimate) things,- How 
their (very) shadows turn round, from the right and the left, prostrating themselves to 
God, and that in the humblest manner?

016.049  And to God doth obeisance all that is in the heavens and on earth, whether 
moving (living) creatures or the angels: for none are arrogant (before their Lord).

016.050  They all revere their Lord, high above them, and they do all that they are 
commanded.

016.051  God has said: "Take not (for worship) two gods: for He is just One God: 
then fear Me (and Me alone)."

016.052  To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and on earth, and to Him is duty 
due always: then will ye fear other than God?

016.053  And ye have no good thing but is from God: and moreover, when ye are 
touched by distress, unto Him ye cry with groans;

016.054  Yet, when He removes the distress from you, behold! some of you turn to 
other gods to join with their Lord-

016.055  (As if) to show their ingratitude for the favours we have bestowed on them! 
then enjoy (your brief day): but soon will ye know (your folly)!

016.056  And they (even) assign, to things they do not know, a portion out of that 
which We have bestowed for their sustenance! By God, ye shall certainly be called to 
account for your false inventions.

016.057  And they assign daughters for God! - Glory be to Him! - and for themselves 
(sons,- the issue) they desire!

016.058  When news is brought to one of them, of (the birth of) a female (child), his 
face darkens, and he is filled with inward grief!

016.059  With shame does he hide himself from his people, because of the bad news 
he has had! Shall he retain it on (sufferance and) contempt, or bury it in the dust? Ah! 
what an evil (choice) they decide on?

016.060  To those who believe not in the Hereafter, applies the similitude of evil: to 
God applies the highest similitude: for He is the Exalted in Power, full of Wisdom.

016.061  If God were to punish men for their wrong-doing, He would not leave, on 
the (earth), a single living creature: but He gives them respite for a stated Term: When 
their Term expires, they would not be able to delay (the punishment) for a single 
hour, just as they would not be able to anticipate it (for a single hour).

016.062  They attribute to God what they hate (for themselves), and their tongues 
assert the falsehood that all good things are for themselves: without doubt for them is 
the Fire, and they will be the first to be hastened on into it!

016.063  By God, We (also) sent (Our apostles) to Peoples before thee; but Satan 
made, (to the wicked), their own acts seem alluring: He is also their patron today, but 
they shall have a most grievous penalty.

016.064  And We sent down the Book to thee for the express purpose, that thou 
shouldst make clear to them those things in which they differ, and that it should be a 
guide and a mercy to those who believe.

016.065  And God sends down rain from the skies, and gives therewith life to the 
earth after its death: verily in this is a Sign for those who listen.

016.066  And verily in cattle (too) will ye find an instructive sign. From what is 
within their bodies between excretions and blood, We produce, for your drink, milk, 
pure and agreeable to those who drink it.

016.067  And from the fruit of the date-palm and the vine, ye get out wholesome 
drink and food: behold, in this also is a sign for those who are wise.

016.068  And thy Lord taught the Bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in 
(men's) habitations;

016.069  Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth), and find with skill the spacious 
paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, 
wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought.

016.070  It is God who creates you and takes your souls at death; and of you there are 
some who are sent back to a feeble age, so that they know nothing after having known 
(much): for God is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.

016.071  God has bestowed His gifts of sustenance more freely on some of you than 
on others: those more favoured are not going to throw back their gifts to those whom 
their right hands possess, so as to be equal in that respect. Will they then deny the 
favours of God?

016.072  And God has made for you mates (and companions) of your own nature, and 
made for you, out of them, sons and daughters and grandchildren, and provided for 
you sustenance of the best: will they then believe in vain things, and be ungrateful for 
God's favours?-

016.073  And worship others than God,- such as have no power of providing them, 
for sustenance, with anything in heavens or earth, and cannot possibly have such 
power?

016.074  Invent not similitudes for God: for God knoweth, and ye know not.

016.075  God sets forth the Parable (of two men: one) a slave under the dominion of 
another; He has no power of any sort; and (the other) a man on whom We have 
bestowed goodly favours from Ourselves, and he spends thereof (freely), privately 
and publicly: are the two equal? (By no means;) praise be to God. But most of them 
understand not.

016.076  God sets forth (another) Parable of two men: one of them dumb, with no 
power of any sort; a wearisome burden is he to his master; whichever way be directs 
him, he brings no good: is such a man equal with one who commands Justice, and is 
on a Straight Way?

016.077  To God belongeth the Mystery of the heavens and the earth. And the 
Decision of the Hour (of Judgment) is as the twingkling of an eye, or even quicker: 
for God hath power over all things.

016.078  It is He Who brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers when ye 
knew nothing; and He gave you hearing and sight and intelligence and affections: that 
ye may give thanks (to God).

016.079  Do they not look at the birds, held poised in the midst of (the air and) the 
sky? Nothing holds them up but (the power of) God. Verily in this are signs for those 
who believe.

016.080  It is God Who made your habitations homes of rest and quiet for you; and 
made for you, out of the skins of animals,  (tents for) dwellings, which ye find so light 
(and handy) when ye travel and when ye stop (in your travels); and out of their wool, 
and their soft fibres (between wool and hair), and their hair, rich stuff and articles of 
convenience (to serve you) for a time.

016.081  It is God Who made out of the things He created, some things to give you 
shade; of the hills He made some for your shelter; He made you garments to protect 
you from heat, and coats of mail to protect you from your (mutual) violence. Thus 
does He complete His favours on you, that ye may bow to His Will (in Islam).

016.082  But if they turn away, thy duty is only to preach the clear Message.

016.083  They recognise the favours of God; then they deny them; and most of them 
are (creatures) ungrateful.

016.084  One Day We shall raise from all Peoples a Witness: then will no excuse be 
accepted from Unbelievers, nor will they receive any favours.

016.085  When the wrong-doers (actually) see the Penalty, then will it in no way be 
mitigated, nor will they then receive respite.

016.086  When those who gave partners to God will see their "partners", they will 
say: "Our Lord! these are our 'partners,' those whom we used to invoke besides Thee." 
But they will throw back their word at them (and say): "Indeed ye are liars!"

016.087  That Day shall they (openly) show (their) submission to God; and all their 
inventions shall leave them in the lurch.

016.088  Those who reject God and hinder (men) from the Path of God - for them 
will We add Penalty to Penalty; for that they used to spread mischief.

016.089  One day We shall raise from all Peoples a witness against them, from 
amongst themselves: and We shall bring thee as a witness against these (thy people): 
and We have sent down to thee the Book explaining all things, a Guide, a Mercy, and 
Glad Tidings to Muslims.

016.090  God commands justice, the doing of good, and liberality to kith and kin, and 
He forbids all shameful deeds, and injustice and rebellion: He instructs you, that ye 
may receive admonition.

016.091  Fulfil the Covenant of God when ye have entered into it, and break not your 
oaths after ye have confirmed them; indeed ye have made God your surety; for God 
knoweth all that ye do.

016.092  And be not like a woman who breaks into untwisted strands the yarn which 
she has spun, after it has become strong. Nor take your oaths to practise deception 
between yourselves, lest one party should be more numerous than another: for God 
will test you by this; and on the Day of Judgment He will certainly make clear to you 
(the truth of) that wherein ye disagree.

016.093  If God so willed, He could make you all one people: But He leaves straying 
whom He pleases, and He guides whom He pleases: but ye shall certainly be called to 
account for all your actions.

016.094  And take not your oaths, to practise deception between yourselves, with the 
result that someone's foot may slip after it was firmly planted, and ye may have to 
taste the evil (consequences) of having hindered (men) from the Path of God, and a 
Mighty Wrath descend on you.

016.095  Nor sell the covenant of God for a miserable price: for with God is (a prize) 
far better for you, if ye only knew.

016.096  What is with you must vanish: what is with God will endure. And We will 
certainly bestow, on those who patiently persevere, their reward according to the best 
of their actions.

016.097  Whoever works righteousness, man or woman, and has Faith, verily, to him 
will We give a new Life, a life that is good and pure and We will bestow on such their 
reward according to the best of their actions.

016.098  When thou dost read the Qur'an, seek God's protection from Satan the 
rejected one.

016.099  No authority has he over those who believe and put their trust in their Lord.

016.100  His authority is over those only, who take him as patron and who join 
partners with God.

016.101  When We substitute one revelation for another,- and God knows best what 
He reveals (in stages),- they say, "Thou art but a forger": but most of them understand 
not.

016.102  Say, the Holy Spirit has brought the revelation from thy Lord in Truth, in 
order to strengthen those who believe, and as a Guide and Glad Tidings to Muslims.

016.103  We know indeed that they say, "It is a man that teaches him." The tongue of 
him they wickedly point to is notably foreign, while this is Arabic, pure and clear.

016.104  Those who believe not in the Signs of God,- God will not guide them, and 
theirs will be a grievous Penalty.

016.105  It is those who believe not in the Signs of God, that forge falsehood: it is 
they who lie!

016.106  Any one who, after accepting faith in God, utters Unbelief,- except under 
compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith - but such as open their breast to 
Unbelief, on them is Wrath from God, and theirs will be a dreadful Penalty.

016.107  This because they love the life of this world better than the Hereafter: and 
God will not guide those who reject Faith.

016.108  Those are they whose hearts, ears, and eyes God has sealed up, and they take 
no heed.

016.109  Without doubt, in the Hereafter they will perish.

016.110  But verily thy Lord,- to those who leave their homes after trials and 
persecutions,- and who thereafter strive and fight for the faith and patiently 
persevere,- Thy Lord, after all this is oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

016.111  One Day every soul will come up struggling for itself, and every soul will be 
recompensed (fully) for all its actions, and none will be unjustly dealt with.

016.112  God sets forth a Parable: a city enjoying security and quiet, abundantly 
supplied with sustenance from every place: Yet was it ungrateful for the favours of 
God: so God made it taste of hunger and terror (in extremes) (closing in on it) like a 
garment (from every side), because of the (evil) which (its people) wrought.

016.113  And there came to them an Apostle from among themselves, but they falsely 
rejected him; so the Wrath seized them even in the midst of their iniquities.

016.114  So eat of the sustenance which God has provided for you, lawful and good; 
and be grateful for the favours of God, if it is He Whom ye serve.

016.115  He has only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and 
any (food) over which the name of other than God has been invoked. But if one is 
forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then 
God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

016.116  But say not - for any false thing that your tongues may put forth,- "This is 
lawful, and this is forbidden," so as to ascribe false things to God. For those who 
ascribe false things to God, will never prosper.

016.117  (In such falsehood) is but a paltry profit; but they will have a most grievous 
Penalty.

016.118  To the Jews We prohibited such things as We have mentioned to thee 
before: We did them no wrong, but they were used to doing wrong to themselves.

016.119  But verily thy Lord,- to those who do wrong in ignorance, but who 
thereafter repent and make amends,- thy Lord, after all this, is Oft-Forgiving, Most 
Merciful.

016.120  Abraham was indeed a model, devoutly obedient to God, (and) true in Faith, 
and he joined not gods with God:

016.121  He showed his gratitude for the favours of God, who chose him, and guided 
him to a Straight Way.

016.122  And We gave him Good in this world, and he will be, in the Hereafter, in the 
ranks of the Righteous.

016.123  So We have taught thee the inspired (Message), "Follow the ways of 
Abraham the True in Faith, and he joined not gods with God."

016.124  The Sabbath was only made (strict) for those who disagreed (as to its 
observance); But God will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their 
differences.

016.125  Invite (all) to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; 
and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth 
best, who have strayed from His Path, and who receive guidance.

016.126  And if ye do catch them out, catch them out no worse than they catch you 
out: But if ye show patience, that is indeed the best (course) for those who are patient.

016.127  And do thou be patient, for thy patience is but from God; nor grieve over 
them: and distress not thyself because of their plots.

016.128  For God is with those who restrain themselves, and those who do good.

ISRA', THE NIGHT JOURNEY, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,  CHAPTER NO.  017

017.001  Glory to (God) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the 
Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless,- in order that 
We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all 
things).

017.002  We gave Moses the Book, and made it a Guide to the Children of Israel, 
(commanding): "Take not other than Me as Disposer of (your) affairs."

017.003  O ye that are sprung from those whom We carried (in the Ark) with Noah! 
Verily he was a devotee most grateful.

017.004  And We gave (Clear) Warning to the Children of Israel in the Book, that 
twice would they do mischief on the earth and be elated with mighty arrogance (and 
twice would they be punished)!

017.005  When the first of the warnings came to pass, We sent against you Our 
servants given to terrible warfare: They entered the very inmost parts of your homes; 
and it was a warning (completely) fulfilled.

017.006  Then did We grant you the Return as against them: We gave you increase in 
resources and sons, and made you the more numerous in man-power.

017.007  If ye did well, ye did well for yourselves; if ye did evil, (ye did it) against 
yourselves. So when the second of the warnings came to pass, (We permitted your 
enemies) to disfigure your faces, and to enter your Temple as they had entered it 
before, and to visit with destruction all that fell into their power.

017.008  It may be that your Lord may (yet) show Mercy unto you; but if ye revert (to 
your sins), We shall revert (to Our punishments): And we have made Hell a prison for 
those who reject (all Faith).

017.009  Verily this Qur'an doth guide to that which is most right (or stable), and 
giveth the Glad Tidings to the Believers who work deeds of righteousness, that they 
shall have a magnificent reward;

017.010  And to those who believe not in the Hereafter, (it announceth) that We have 
prepared for them a Penalty Grievous (indeed).

017.011  The prayer that man should make for good, he maketh for evil; for man is 
given to hasty (deeds).

017.012  We have made the Night and the Day as two (of Our) Signs: the Sign of the 
Night have We obscured, while the Sign of the Day We have made to enlighten you; 
that ye may seek bounty from your Lord, and that ye may know the number and count 
of the years: all things have We explained in detail.

017.013  Every man's fate We have fastened on his own neck: On the Day of 
Judgment We shall bring out for him a scroll, which he will see spread open.

017.014  (It will be said to him:) "Read thine (own) record: Sufficient is thy soul this 
day to make out an account against thee."

017.015  Who receiveth guidance, receiveth it for his own benefit: who goeth astray 
doth so to his own loss: No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another: nor 
would We visit with Our Wrath until We had sent an apostle (to give warning).

017.016  When We decide to destroy a population, We (first) send a definite order to 
those among them who are given the good things of this life and yet transgress; so 
that the word is proved true against them: then (it is) We destroy them utterly.

017.017  How many generations have We destroyed after Noah? and enough is thy 
Lord to note and see the sins of His servants.

017.018  If any do wish for the transitory things (of this life), We readily grant them - 
such things as We will, to such person as We will: in the end have We provided Hell 
for them: they will burn therein, disgraced and rejected.

017.019  Those who do wish for the (things of) the Hereafter, and strive therefor with 
all due striving, and have Faith,- they are the ones whose striving is acceptable (to 
God).

017.020  Of the bounties of thy Lord We bestow freely on all- These as well as those: 
The bounties of thy Lord are not closed (to anyone).

017.021  See how We have bestowed more on some than on others; but verily the 
Hereafter is more in rank and gradation and more in excellence.

017.022  Take not with God another object of worship; or thou (O man!) wilt sit in 
disgrace and destitution.

017.023  Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none but Him, and that ye be kind to 
parents. Whether one or both of them attain old age in thy life, say not to them a word 
of contempt, nor repel them, but address them in terms of honour.

017.024  And, out of kindness, lower to them the wing of humility, and say: "My 
Lord! bestow on them thy Mercy even as they cherished me in childhood."

017.025  Your Lord knoweth best what is in your hearts: If ye do deeds of 
righteousness, verily He is Most Forgiving to those who turn to Him again and again 
(in true penitence).

017.026  And render to the kindred their due rights, as (also) to those in want, and to 
the wayfarer: But squander not (your wealth) in the manner of a spendthrift.

017.027  Verily spendthrifts are brothers of the Evil Ones; and the Evil One is to his 
Lord (himself) ungrateful.

017.028  And even if thou hast to turn away from them in pursuit of the Mercy from 
thy Lord which thou dost expect, yet speak to them a word of easy kindness.

017.029  Make not thy hand tied (like a niggard's) to thy neck, nor stretch it forth to 
its utmost reach, so that thou become blameworthy and destitute.

017.030  Verily thy Lord doth provide sustenance in abundance for whom He 
pleaseth, and He provideth in a just measure. For He doth know and regard all His 
servants.

017.031  Kill not your children for fear of want: We shall provide sustenance for 
them as well as for you. Verily the killing of them is a great sin.

017.032  Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening 
the road (to other evils).

017.033  Nor take life - which God has made sacred - except for just cause. And if 
anyone is slain wrongfully, we have given his heir authority (to demand qisas or to 
forgive): but let him nor exceed bounds in the matter of taking life; for he is helped 
(by the Law).

017.034  Come not nigh to the orphan's property except to improve it, until he attains 
the age of full strength; and fulfil (every) engagement, for (every) engagement will be 
enquired into (on the Day of Reckoning).

017.035  Give full measure when ye measure, and weigh with a balance that is 
straight: that is the most fitting and the most advantageous in the final determination.

017.036  And pursue not that of which thou hast no knowledge; for every act of 
hearing, or of seeing or of (feeling in) the heart will be enquired into (on the Day of 
Reckoning).

017.037  Nor walk on the earth with insolence: for thou canst not rend the earth 
asunder, nor reach the mountains in height.

017.038  Of all such things the evil is hateful in the sight of thy Lord.

017.039  These are among the (precepts of) wisdom, which thy Lord has revealed to 
thee. Take not, with God, another object of worship, lest thou shouldst be thrown into 
Hell, blameworthy and rejected.

017.040  Has then your Lord (O Pagans!) preferred for you sons, and taken for 
Himself daughters among the angels? Truly ye utter a most dreadful saying!

017.041  We have explained (things) in various (ways) in this Qur'an, in order that 
they may receive admonition, but it only increases their flight (from the Truth)!

017.042  Say: If there had been (other) gods with Him, as they say,- behold, they 
would certainly have sought out a way to the Lord of the Throne!

017.043  Glory to Him! He is high above all that they say!- Exalted and Great 
(beyond measure)!

017.044  The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: 
there is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye understand not how they 
declare His glory! Verily He is Oft-Forbear, Most Forgiving!

017.045  When thou dost recite the Qur'an, We put, between thee and those who 
believe not in the Hereafter, a veil invisible:

017.046  And We put coverings over their hearts (and minds) lest they should 
understand the Qur'an, and deafness into their ears: when thou dost commemorate thy 
Lord and Him alone in the Qur'an, they turn on their backs, fleeing (from the Truth).

017.047  We know best why it is they listen, when they listen to thee; and when they 
meet in private conference, behold, the wicked say, "Ye follow none other than a man 
bewitched!"

017.048  See what similes they strike for thee: but they have gone astray, and never 
can they find a way.

017.049  They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really 
be raised up (to be) a new creation?"

017.050  Say: "(Nay!) be ye stones or iron,

017.051  "Or created matter which, in your minds, is hardest (to be raised up),- (Yet 
shall ye be raised up)!" then will they say: "Who will cause us to return?" Say: "He 
who created you first!" Then will they wag their heads towards thee, and say, "When 
will that be?" Say, "May be it will be quite soon!

017.052  "It will be on a Day when He will call you, and ye will answer (His call) 
with (words of) His praise, and ye will think that ye tarried but a little while!"

017.053  Say to My servants that they should (only) say those things that are best: for 
Satan doth sow dissensions among them: For Satan is to man an avowed enemy.

017.054  It is your Lord that knoweth you best: If He please, He granteth you mercy, 
or if He please, punishment: We have not sent thee to be a disposer of their affairs for 
them.

017.055  And it is your Lord that knoweth best all beings that are in the heavens and 
on earth: We did bestow on some prophets more (and other) gifts than on others: and 
We gave to David (the gift of) the Psalms.

017.056  Say: "Call on those - besides Him - whom ye fancy:  they have neither the 
power to remove your troubles from you nor to change them."

017.057  Those whom they call upon do desire (for themselves) means of access to 
their Lord, - even those who are nearest: they hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath: 
for the Wrath of thy Lord is something to take heed of.

017.058  There is not a population but We shall destroy it before the Day of Judgment 
or punish it with a dreadful Penalty: that is written in the (eternal) Record.

017.059  And We refrain from sending the signs, only because the men of former 
generations treated them as false: We sent the she-camel to the Thamud to open their 
eyes, but they treated her wrongfully: We only send the Signs by way of terror (and 
warning from evil).

017.060  Behold! We told thee that thy Lord doth encompass mankind round about: 
We granted the vision which We showed thee, but as a trial for men,- as also the 
Cursed Tree (mentioned) in the Qur'an:  We put terror (and warning) into them, but it 
only increases their inordinate transgression!

017.061  Behold! We said to the angels: "Bow down unto Adam": They bowed down 
except Iblis: He said, "Shall I bow down to one whom Thou didst create from clay?"

017.062  He said: "Seest Thou? this is the one whom Thou hast honoured above me! 
If Thou wilt but respite me to the Day of Judgment, I will surely bring his 
descendants under my sway - all but a few!"

017.063  (God) said: "Go thy way; if any of them follow thee, verily Hell will be the 
recompense of you (all)- an ample recompense.

017.064  "Lead to destruction those whom thou canst among them, with thy 
(seductive) voice; make assaults on them with thy cavalry and thy infantry; mutually 
share with them wealth and children; and make promises to them." But Satan 
promises them nothing but deceit.

017.065  "As for My servants, no authority shalt thou have over them:" Enough is thy 
Lord for a Disposer of affairs.

017.066  Your Lord is He That maketh the Ship go smoothly for you through the sea, 
in order that ye may seek of his Bounty. For he is unto you most Merciful.

017.067  When distress seizes you at sea, those that ye call upon - besides Himself - 
leave you in the lurch! but when He brings you back safe to land, ye turn away (from 
Him). Most ungrateful is man!

017.068  Do ye then feel secure that He will not cause you to be swallowed up 
beneath the earth when ye are on land, or that He will not send against you a violent 
tornado (with showers of stones) so that ye shall find no one to carry out your affairs 
for you?

017.069  Or do ye feel secure that He will not send you back a second time to sea and 
send against you a heavy gale to drown you because of your ingratitude, so that ye 
find no helper. Therein against Us?

017.070  We have honoured the sons of Adam; provided them with transport on land 
and sea; given them for sustenance things good and pure; and conferred on them 
special favours, above a great part of our creation.

017.071  One day We shall call together all human beings with their (respective) 
Imams: those who are given their record in their right hand will read it (with 
pleasure), and they will not be dealt with unjustly in the least.

017.072  But those who were blind in this world, will be blind in the hereafter, and 
most astray from the Path.

017.073  And their purpose was to tempt thee away from that which We had revealed 
unto thee, to substitute in our name something quite different; (in that case), behold! 
they would certainly have made thee (their) friend!

017.074  And had We not given thee strength, thou wouldst nearly have inclined to 
them a little.

017.075  In that case We should have made thee taste an equal portion (of 
punishment) in this life, and an equal portion in death: and moreover thou wouldst 
have found none to help thee against Us!

017.076  Their purpose was to scare thee off the land, in order to expel thee; but in 
that case they would not have stayed (therein) after thee, except for a little while.

017.077  (This was Our) way with the apostles We sent before thee: thou wilt find no 
change in Our ways.

017.078  Establish regular prayers - at the sun's decline till the darkness of the night, 
and the morning prayer and reading: for the prayer and reading in the morning carry 
their testimony.

017.079  And pray in the small watches of the morning: (it would be) an additional 
prayer (or spiritual profit) for thee: soon will thy Lord raise thee to a Station of Praise 
and Glory!

017.080  Say: "O my Lord! Let my entry be by the Gate of Truth and Honour, and 
likewise my exit by the Gate of Truth and Honour; and grant me from Thy Presence 
an authority to aid (me)."

017.081  And say: "Truth has (now) arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is 
(by its nature) bound to perish."

017.082  We send down (stage by stage) in the Qur'an that which is a healing and a 
mercy to those who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss.

017.083  Yet when We bestow Our favours on man, he turns away and becomes 
remote on his side (instead of coming to Us), and when evil seizes him he gives 
himself up to despair!

017.084  Say: "Everyone acts according to his own disposition: But your Lord knows 
best who it is that is best guided on the Way."

017.085  They ask thee concerning the Spirit (of inspiration). Say: "The Spirit 
(cometh) by command of my Lord: of knowledge it is only a little that is 
communicated to you, (O men!)"

017.086  If it were Our Will, We could take away that which We have sent thee by 
inspiration:then wouldst thou find none to plead thy affair in that matter as against 
Us,-

017.087  Except for Mercy from thy Lord: for his bounty is to thee (indeed) great.

017.088  Say: "If the whole of mankind and Jinns were to gather together to produce 
the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up 
each other with help and support.

017.089  And We have explained to man, in this Qur'an, every kind of similitude: yet 
the greater part of men refuse (to receive it) except with ingratitude!

017.090  They say: "We shall not believe in thee, until thou cause a spring to gush 
forth for us from the earth,

017.091  "Or (until) thou have a garden of date trees and vines, and cause rivers to 
gush forth in their midst, carrying abundant water;

017.092  "Or thou cause the sky to fall in pieces, as thou sayest (will happen), against 
us; or thou bring God and the angels before (us) face to face:

017.093  "Or thou have a house adorned with gold, or thou mount a ladder right into 
the skies. No, we shall not even believe in thy mounting until thou send down to us a 
book that we could read." Say: "Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but a man,- an 
apostle?"

017.094  What kept men back from belief when Guidance came to them, was nothing 
but this: they said, "Has God sent a man (like us) to be (His) Apostle?"

017.095  Say, "If there were settled, on earth, angels walking about in peace and 
quiet, We should certainly have sent them down from the heavens an angel for an 
apostle."

017.096  Say: "Enough is God for a witness between me and you: for He is well 
acquainted with His servants, and He sees (all things).

017.097  It is he whom God guides, that is on true Guidance; but he whom He leaves 
astray - for such wilt thou find no protector besides Him. On the Day of Judgment We 
shall gather, them together, prone on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf: their abode 
will be Hell: every time it shows abatement, We shall increase from them the 
fierceness of the Fire.

017.098  That is their recompense, because they rejected Our signs, and said, "When 
we are reduced to bones and broken dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new 
Creation?"

017.099  See they not that God, Who created the heavens and the earth, has power to 
create the like of them (anew)? Only He has decreed a term appointed, of which there 
is no doubt. But the unjust refuse (to receive it) except with ingratitude.

017.100  Say: "If ye had control of the Treasures of the Mercy of my Lord, behold, ye 
would keep them back, for fear of spending them: for man is (every) niggardly!"

017.101  To Moses We did give Nine Clear Sings: As the Children of Israel: when he 
came to them, Pharaoh said to him: "O Moses! I consider thee, indeed, to have been 
worked upon by sorcery!

017.102  Moses said, "Thou knowest well that these things have been sent down by 
none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth as eye-opening evidence: and I 
consider thee indeed, O Pharaoh, to be one doomed to destruction!"

017.103  So he resolved to remove them from the face of the earth: but We did drown 
him and all who were with him.

017.104  And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel, "Dwell securely in the land 
(of promise)": but when the second of the warnings came to pass, We gathered you 
together in a mingled crowd.

017.105  We sent down the (Qur'an) in Truth, and in Truth has it descended: and We 
sent thee but to give Glad Tidings and to warn (sinners).

017.106  (It is) a Qur'an which We have divided (into parts from time to time), in 
order that thou mightest recite it to men at intervals: We have revealed it by stages.

017.107  Say: "Whether ye believe in it or not, it is true that those who were given 
knowledge beforehand, when it is recited to them, fall down on their faces in humble 
prostration,

017.108  "And they say: 'Glory to our Lord! Truly has the promise of our Lord been 
fulfilled!'"

017.109  They fall down on their faces in tears, and it increases their (earnest) 
humility.

017.110  Say: "Call upon God, or call upon Rahman: by whatever name ye call upon 
Him, (it is well): for to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Neither speak thy 
Prayer aloud, nor speak it in a low tone, but seek a middle course between."

017.111  Say: "Praise be to God, who begets no son, and has no partner in (His) 
dominion: Nor (needs) He any to protect Him from humiliation: yea, magnify Him 
for His greatness and glory!"

THE CAVE,  CHAPTER NO.  018

018.001  Praise be to God, Who hath sent to His Servant the Book, and hath allowed 
therein no Crookedness:

018.002  (He hath made it) Straight (and Clear) in order that He may warn (the 
godless) of a terrible Punishment from Him, and that He may give Glad Tidings to the 
Believers who work righteous deeds, that they shall have a goodly Reward,

018.003  Wherein they shall remain for ever:

018.004  Further, that He may warn those (also) who say, "God hath begotten a son":

018.005  No knowledge have they of such a thing, nor had their fathers. It is a 
grievous thing that issues from their mouths as a saying what they say is nothing but 
falsehood!

018.006  Thou wouldst only, perchance, fret thyself to death, following after them, in 
grief, if they believe not in this Message.

018.007  That which is on earth we have made but as a glittering show for the earth, 
in order that We may test them - as to which of them are best in conduct.

018.008  Verily what is on earth we shall make but as dust and dry soil (without 
growth or herbage).

018.009  Or dost thou reflect that the Companions of the Cave and of the Inscription 
were wonders among Our Sign?

018.010  Behold, the youths betook themselves to the Cave: they said, "Our Lord! 
bestow on us Mercy from Thyself, and dispose of our affair for us in the right way!"

018.011  Then We draw (a veil) over their ears, for a number of years, in the Cave, 
(so that they heard not):

018.012  Then We roused them, in order to test which of the two parties was best at 
calculating the term of years they had tarried!

018.013  We relate to thee their story in truth: they were youths who believed in their 
Lord, and We advanced them in guidance:

018.014  We gave strength to their hearts: Behold, they stood up and said: "Our Lord 
is the Lord of the heavens and of the earth: never shall we call upon any god other 
than Him: if we did, we should indeed have uttered an enormity!

018.015  "These our people have taken for worship gods other than Him: why do they 
not bring forward an authority clear (and convincing) for what they do? Who doth 
more wrong than such as invent a falsehood against God?

018.016  "When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than God, 
betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and 
disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease."

018.017  Thou wouldst have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from 
their Cave, and when it set, turning away from them to the left, while they lay in the 
open space in the midst of the Cave. Such are among the Signs of God: He whom 
God, guides is rightly guided; but he whom God leaves to stray,- for him wilt thou 
find no protector to lead him to the Right Way.

018.018  Thou wouldst have deemed them awake, whilst they were asleep, and We 
turned them on their right and on their left sides: their dog stretching forth his two 
fore-legs on the threshold: if thou hadst come up on to them, thou wouldst have 
certainly turned back from them in flight, and wouldst certainly have been filled with 
terror of them.

018.019  Such (being their state), we raised them up (from sleep), that they might 
question each other. Said one of them, "How long have ye stayed (here)?" They said, 
"We have stayed (perhaps) a day, or part of a day." (At length) they (all) said, "God 
(alone) knows best how long ye have stayed here.... Now send ye then one of you 
with this money of yours to the town: let him find out which is the best food (to be 
had) and bring some to you, that (ye may) satisfy your hunger therewith: And let him 
behave with care and courtesy, and let him not inform any one about you.

018.020  "For if they should come upon you, they would stone you or force you to 
return to their cult, and in that case ye would never attain prosperity."

018.021  Thus did We make their case known to the people, that they might know 
that the promise of God is true, and that there can be no doubt about the Hour of 
Judgment. Behold, they dispute among themselves as to their affair. (Some) said, 
"Construct a building over them": Their Lord knows best about them: those who 
prevailed over their affair said, "Let us surely build a place of worship over them."

018.022  (Some) say they were three, the dog being the fourth among them; (others) 
say they were five, the dog being the sixth,- doubtfully guessing at the unknown; (yet 
others) say they were seven, the dog being the eighth. Say thou: "My Lord knoweth 
best their number; It is but few that know their (real case)." Enter not, therefore, into 
controversies concerning them, except on a matter that is clear, nor consult any of 
them about (the affair of) the Sleepers.

018.023  Nor say of anything, "I shall be sure to do so and so tomorrow"-

018.024  Without adding, "So please God!" and call thy Lord to mind when thou 
forgettest, and say, "I hope that my Lord will guide me ever closer (even) than this to 
the right road."

018.025  So they stayed in their Cave three hundred years, and (some) add nine 
(more)

018.026  Say: "God knows best how long they stayed: with Him is (the knowledge of) 
the secrets of the heavens and the earth: how clearly He sees, how finely He hears 
(everything)! They have no protector other than Him; nor does He share His 
Command with any person whatsoever.

018.027  And recite (and teach) what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy 
Lord: none can change His Words, and none wilt thou find as a refuge other than 
Him.

018.028  And keep thy soul content with those who call on their Lord morning and 
evening, seeking His Face; and let not thine eyes pass beyond them, seeking the pomp 
and glitter of this Life; no obey any whose heart We have permitted to neglect the 
remembrance of Us, one who follows his own desires, whose case has gone beyond 
all bounds.

018.029  Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him 
who will, reject (it): for the wrong-doers We have prepared a Fire whose (smoke and 
flames), like the walls and roof of a tent, will hem them in: if they implore relief they 
will be granted water like melted brass, that will scald their faces, how dreadful the 
drink! How uncomfortable a couch to recline on!

018.030  As to those who believe and work righteousness, verily We shall not suffer 
to perish the reward of any who do a (single) righteous deed.

018.031  For them will be Gardens of Eternity; beneath them rivers will flow; they 
will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and they will wear green garments of 
fine silk and heavy brocade: They will recline therein on raised thrones. How good 
the recompense! How beautiful a couch to recline on!

018.032  Set forth to them the parable of two men: for one of them We provided two 
gardens of grape-vines and surrounded them with date palms; in between the two We 
placed corn-fields.

018.033  Each of those gardens brought forth its produce, and failed not in the least 
therein: in the midst of them We caused a river to flow.

018.034  (Abundant) was the produce this man had : he said to his companion, in the 
course of a mutual argument: "more wealth have I than you, and more honour and 
power in (my following of) men."

018.035  He went into his garden in a state (of mind) unjust to his soul: He said, "I 
deem not that this will ever perish,

018.036  "Nor do I deem that the Hour (of Judgment) will (ever) come: Even if I am 
brought back to my Lord, I shall surely find (there) something better in exchange."

018.037  His companion said to him, in the course of the argument with him: "Dost 
thou deny Him Who created thee out of dust, then out of a sperm-drop, then fashioned 
thee into a man?

018.038  "But (I think) for my part that He is God, My Lord, and none shall I 
associate with my Lord.

018.039  "Why didst thou not, as thou wentest into thy garden, say: 'God's will (be 
done)! There is no power but with God!' If thou dost see me less than thee in wealth 
and sons,

018.040  "It may be that my Lord will give me something better than thy garden, and 
that He will send on thy garden thunderbolts (by way of reckoning) from heaven, 
making it (but) slippery sand!-

018.041  "Or the water of the garden will run off underground so that thou wilt never 
be able to find it."

018.042  So his fruits (and enjoyment) were encompassed (with ruin), and he 
remained twisting and turning his hands over what he had spent on his property, 
which had (now) tumbled to pieces to its very foundations, and he could only say, 
"Woe is me! Would I had never ascribed partners to my Lord and Cherisher!"

018.043  Nor had he numbers to help him against God, nor was he able to deliver 
himself.

018.044  There, the (only) protection comes from God, the True One. He is the Best 
to reward, and the Best to give success.

018.045  Set forth to them the similitude of the life of this world: It is like the rain 
which we send down from the skies: the earth's vegetation absorbs it, but soon it 
becomes dry stubble, which the winds do scatter: it is (only) God who prevails over 
all things.

018.046  Wealth and sons are allurements of the life of this world: But the things that 
endure, good deeds, are best in the sight of thy Lord, as rewards, and best as (the 
foundation for) hopes.

018.047  One Day We shall remove the mountains, and thou wilt see the earth as a 
level stretch, and We shall gather them, all together, nor shall We leave out any one 
of them.

018.048  And they will be marshalled before thy Lord in ranks, (with the 
announcement), "Now have ye come to Us (bare) as We created you first: aye, ye 
thought We shall not fulfil the appointment made to you to meet (Us)!":

018.049  And the Book (of Deeds) will be placed (before you); and thou wilt see the 
sinful in great terror because of what is (recorded) therein; they will say, "Ah! woe to 
us! what a Book is this! It leaves out nothing small or great, but takes account 
thereof!" They will find all that they did, placed before them: And not one will thy 
Lord treat with injustice.

018.050  Behold! We said to the angels, "Bow down to Adam": They bowed down 
except Iblis. He was one of the Jinns, and he broke the Command of his Lord. Will ye 
then take him and his progeny as protectors rather than Me? And they are enemies to 
you! Evil would be the exchange for the wrong-doers!

018.051  I called them not to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor 
(even) their own creation: nor is it for helpers such as Me to take as lead (men) astray!

018.052  One Day He will say, "Call on those whom ye thought to be My partners," 
and they will call on them, but they will not listen to them; and We shall make for 
them a place of common perdition.

018.053  And the Sinful shall see the fire and apprehend that they have to fall therein: 
no means will they find to turn away therefrom.

018.054  We have explained in detail in this Qur'an, for the benefit of mankind, every 
kind of similitude: but man is, in most things, contentious.

018.055  And what is there to keep back men from believing, now that Guidance has 
come to them, nor from praying for forgiveness from their Lord, but that (they ask 
that) the ways of the ancients be repeated with them, or the Wrath be brought to them 
face to face?

018.056  We only send the apostles to give Glad Tidings and to give warnings: But 
the unbelievers dispute with vain argument, in order therewith to weaken the truth, 
and they treat My Signs as a jest, as also the fact that they are warned!

018.057  And who doth more wrong than one who is reminded of the Signs of his 
Lord, but turns away from them, forgetting the (deeds) which his hands have sent 
forth? Verily We have set veils over their hearts lest they should understand this, and 
over their ears, deafness, if thou callest them to guidance, even then will they never 
accept guidance.

018.058  But your Lord is Most forgiving, full of Mercy. If He were to call them (at 
once) to account for what they have earned, then surely He would have earned, then 
surely He would have hastened their punishment: but they have their appointed time, 
beyond which they will find no refuge.

018.059  Such were the populations we destroyed when they committed iniquities; 
but we fixed an appointed time for their destruction.

018.060  Behold, Moses said to his attendant, "I will not give up until I reach the 
junction of the two seas or (until) I spend years and years in travel."

018.061  But when they reached the Junction, they forgot (about) their Fish, which 
took its course through the sea (straight) as in a tunnel.

018.062  When they had passed on (some distance), Moses said to his attendant: 
"Bring us our early meal; truly we have suffered much fatigue at this (stage of) our 
journey."

018.063  He replied: "Sawest thou (what happened) when we betook ourselves to the 
rock? I did indeed forget (about) the Fish: none but Satan made me forget to tell (you) 
about it: it took its course through the sea in a marvellous way!"

018.064  Moses said: "That was what we were seeking after:" So they went back on 
their footsteps, following (the path they had come).

018.065  So they found one of Our servants, on whom We had bestowed Mercy from 
Ourselves and whom We had taught knowledge from Our own Presence.

018.066  Moses said to him: "May I follow thee, on the footing that thou teach me 
something of the (Higher) Truth which thou hast been taught?"

018.067  (The other) said: "Verily thou wilt not be able to have patience with me!"

018.068  "And how canst thou have patience about things about which thy 
understanding is not complete?"

018.069  Moses said: "Thou wilt find me, if God so will, (truly) patient: nor shall I 
disobey thee in aught."

018.070  The other said: "If then thou wouldst follow me, ask me no questions about 
anything until I myself speak to thee concerning it."

018.071  So they both proceeded: until, when they were in the boat, he scuttled it. 
Said Moses: "Hast thou scuttled it in order to drown those in it? Truly a strange thing 
hast thou done!"

018.072  He answered: "Did I not tell thee that thou canst have no patience with me?"

018.073  Moses said: "Rebuke me not for forgetting, nor grieve me by raising 
difficulties in my case."

018.074  Then they proceeded: until, when they met a young man, he slew him. 
Moses said: "Hast thou slain an innocent person who had slain none? Truly a foul 
(unheard of) thing hast thou done!"

018.075  He answered: "Did I not tell thee that thou canst have no patience with me?"

018.076  (Moses) said: "If ever I ask thee about anything after this, keep me not in thy 
company: then wouldst thou have received (full) excuse from my side."

018.077  Then they proceeded: until, when they came to the inhabitants of a town, 
they asked them for food, but they refused them hospitality. They found there a wall 
on the point of falling down, but he set it up straight. (Moses) said: "If thou hadst 
wished, surely thou couldst have exacted some recompense for it!"

018.078  He answered: "This is the parting between me and thee: now will I tell thee 
the interpretation of (those things) over which thou wast unable to hold patience.

018.079  "As for the boat, it belonged to certain men in dire want: they plied on the 
water: I but wished to render it unserviceable, for there was after them a certain king 
who seized on every boat by force.

018.080  "As for the youth, his parents were people of Faith, and we feared that he 
would grieve them by obstinate rebellion and ingratitude (to God and man).

018.081  "So we desired that their Lord would give them in exchange (a son) better in 
purity (of conduct) and closer in affection.

018.082  "As for the wall, it belonged to two youths, orphans, in the Town; there was, 
beneath it, a buried treasure, to which they were entitled: their father had been a 
righteous man: So thy Lord desired that they should attain their age of full strength 
and get out their treasure - a mercy (and favour) from thy Lord. I did it not of my own 
accord. Such is the interpretation of (those things) over which thou wast unable to 
hold patience."

018.083  They ask thee concerning Zul-qarnain. Say, "I will rehearse to you 
something of his story."

018.084  Verily We established his power on earth, and We gave him the ways and 
the means to all ends.

018.085  One (such) way he followed,

018.086  Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of 
murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast 
authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."

018.087  He said: "Whoever doth wrong, him shall we punish; then shall he be sent 
back to his Lord; and He will punish him with a punishment unheard-of (before).

018.088  "But whoever believes, and works righteousness,- he shall have a goodly 
reward, and easy will be his task as We order it by our Command."

018.089  Then followed he (another) way,

018.090  Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people 
for whom We had provided no covering protection against the sun.

018.091  (He left them) as they were: We completely understood what was before 
him.

018.092  Then followed he (another) way,

018.093  Until, when he reached (a tract) between two mountains, he found, beneath 
them, a people who scarcely understood a word.

018.094  They said: "O Zul-qarnain! the Gog and Magog (People) do great mischief 
on earth: shall we then render thee tribute in order that thou mightest erect a barrier 
between us and them?

018.095  He said: "(The power) in which my Lord has established me is better (than 
tribute): Help me therefore with strength (and labour): I will erect a strong barrier 
between you and them:

018.096  "Bring me blocks of iron." At length, when he had filled up the space 
between the two steep mountain-sides, He said, "Blow (with your bellows)" Then, 
when he had made it (red) as fire, he said: "Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten 
lead."

018.097  Thus were they made powerless to scale it or to dig through it.

018.098  He said: "This is a mercy from my Lord: But when the promise of my Lord 
comes to pass, He will make it into dust; and the promise of my Lord is true."

018.099  On that day We shall leave them to surge like waves on one another: the 
trumpet will be blown, and We shall collect them all together.

018.100  And We shall present Hell that day for Unbelievers to see, all spread out,-

018.101  (Unbelievers) whose eyes had been under a veil from remembrance of Me, 
and who had been unable even to hear.

018.102  Do the Unbelievers think that they can take My servants as protectors 
besides Me? Verily We have prepared Hell for the Unbelievers for (their) 
entertainment.

018.103  Say: "Shall we tell you of those who lose most in respect of their deeds?-

018.104  "Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that 
they were acquiring good by their works?"

018.105  They are those who deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having 
to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of 
Judgment, give them any weight.

018.106  That is their reward, Hell, because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs 
and My Messengers by way of jest.

018.107  As to those who believe and work righteous deeds, they have, for their 
entertainment, the Gardens of Paradise,

018.108  Wherein they shall dwell (for aye): no change will they wish for from them.

018.109  Say: "If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord, 
sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if we 
added another ocean like it, for its aid."

018.110  Say: "I am but a man like yourselves, (but) the inspiration has come to me, 
that your God is one God: whoever expects to meet his Lord, let him work 
righteousness, and, in the worship of his Lord, admit no one as partner.

MARY,  CHAPTER NO.  019

019.001  Kaf. Ha. Ya. 'Ain. Sad.

019.002  (This is) a recital of the Mercy of thy Lord to His servant Zakariya.

019.003  Behold! he cried to his Lord in secret,

019.004  Praying: "O my Lord! infirm indeed are my bones, and the hair of my head 
doth glisten with grey: but never am I unblest, O my Lord, in my prayer to Thee!

019.005  "Now I fear (what) my relatives (and colleagues) (will do) after me: but my 
wife is barren: so give me an heir as from Thyself,-

019.006  "(One that) will (truly) represent me, and represent the posterity of Jacob; 
and make him, O my Lord! one with whom Thou art well-pleased!"

019.007  (His prayer was answered): "O Zakariya! We give thee good news of a son: 
His name shall be Yahya: on none by that name have We conferred distinction 
before."

019.008  He said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren and I 
have grown quite decrepit from old age?"

019.009  He said: "So (it will be) thy Lord saith, 'that is easy for Me: I did indeed 
create thee before, when thou hadst been nothing!'"

019.010  (Zakariya) said: "O my Lord! give me a Sign." "Thy Sign," was the answer, 
"Shall be that thou shalt speak to no man for three nights, although thou art not 
dumb."

019.011  So Zakariya came out to his people from him chamber: He told them by 
signs to celebrate God's praises in the morning and in the evening.

019.012  (To his son came the command): "O Yahya! take hold of the Book with 
might": and We gave him Wisdom even as a youth,

019.013  And piety (for all creatures) as from Us, and purity: He was devout,

019.014  And kind to his parents, and he was not overbearing or rebellious.

019.015  So Peace on him the day he was born, the day that he dies, and the day that 
he will be raised up to life (again)!

019.016  Relate in the Book (the story of) Mary, when she withdrew from her family 
to a place in the East.

019.017  She placed a screen (to screen herself) from them; then We sent her our 
angel, and he appeared before her as a man in all respects.

019.018  She said: "I seek refuge from thee to (God) Most Gracious: (come not near) 
if thou dost fear God."

019.019  He said: "Nay, I am only a messenger from thy Lord, (to announce) to thee 
the gift of a holy son.

019.020  She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I 
am not unchaste?"

019.021  He said: "So (it will be): Thy Lord saith, 'that is easy for Me: and (We wish) 
to appoint him as a Sign unto men and a Mercy from Us':It is a matter (so) decreed."

019.022  So she conceived him, and she retired with him to a remote place.

019.023  And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried 
(in her anguish):  "Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a 
thing forgotten and out of sight!"

019.024  But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm-tree): "Grieve not! for thy 
Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee;

019.025  "And shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree: It will let fall fresh 
ripe dates upon thee.

019.026  "So eat and drink and cool (thine) eye. And if thou dost see any man, say, 'I 
have vowed a fast to (God) Most Gracious, and this day will I enter into not talk with 
any human being'"

019.027  At length she brought the (babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms). 
They said: "O Mary! truly an amazing thing hast thou brought!

019.028  "O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a 
woman unchaste!"

019.029  But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a 
child in the cradle?"

019.030  He said: "I am indeed a servant of God: He hath given me revelation and 
made me a prophet;

019.031  "And He hath made me blessed wheresoever I be, and hath enjoined on me 
Prayer and Charity as long as I live;

019.032  "(He) hath made me kind to my mother, and not overbearing or miserable;

019.033  "So peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I 
shall be raised up to life (again)"!

019.034  Such (was) Jesus the son of Mary: (it is) a statement of truth, about which 
they (vainly) dispute.

019.035  It is not befitting to (the majesty of) God that He should beget a son. Glory 
be to Him! when He determines a matter, He only says to it, "Be", and it is.

019.036  Verily God is my Lord and your Lord: Him  therefore serve ye: this is a 
Way that is straight.

019.037  But the sects differ among themselves: and woe to the unbelievers because 
of the (coming) Judgment of a Momentous Day!

019.038  How plainly will they see and hear, the Day that they will appear before Us! 
but the unjust today are in error manifest!

019.039  But warn them of the Day of Distress, when the matter will be determined: 
for (behold,) they are negligent and they do not believe!

019.040  It is We Who will inherit the earth, and all beings thereon: to Us will they all 
be returned.

019.041  (Also mention in the Book (the story of) Abraham: He was a man of Truth, a 
prophet.

019.042  Behold, he said to his father: "O my father! why worship that which heareth 
not and seeth not, and can profit thee nothing?

019.043  "O my father! to me hath come knowledge which hath not reached thee: so 
follow me: I will guide thee to a way that is even and straight.

019.044  "O my father! serve not Satan: for Satan is a rebel against (God) Most 
Gracious.

019.045  "O my father! I fear lest a Penalty afflict thee from (God) Most Gracious, so 
that thou become to Satan a friend."

019.046  (The father) replied: "Dost thou hate my gods, O Abraham? If thou forbear 
not, I will indeed stone thee: Now get away from me for a good long while!"

019.047  Abraham said: "Peace be on thee: I will pray to my Lord for thy forgiveness: 
for He is to me Most Gracious.

019.048  "And I will turn away from you (all) and from those whom ye invoke 
besides God: I will call on my Lord: perhaps, by my prayer to my Lord, I shall be not 
unblest."

019.049  When he had turned away from them and from those whom they worshipped 
besides God, We bestowed on him Isaac and Jacob, and each one of them We made a 
prophet.

019.050  And We bestowed of Our Mercy on them, and We granted them lofty 
honour on the tongue of truth.

019.051  Also mention in the Book (the story of) Moses: for he was specially chosen, 
and he was an apostle (and) a prophet.

019.052  And we called him from the right side of Mount (Sinai), and made him draw 
near to Us, for mystic (converse).

019.053  And, out of Our Mercy, We gave him his brother Aaron, (also) a prophet.

019.054  Also mention in the Book (the story of) Isma'il: He was (strictly) true to 
what he promised, and he was an apostle (and) a prophet.

019.055  He used to enjoin on his people Prayer and Charity, and he was most 
acceptable in the sight of his Lord.

019.056  Also mention in the Book the case of Idris: He was a man of truth (and 
sincerity), (and) a prophet:

019.057  And We raised him to a lofty station.

019.058  Those were some of the prophets on whom God did bestow His Grace,- of 
the posterity of Adam, and of those who We carried (in the Ark) with Noah, and of 
the posterity of Abraham and Israel of those whom We guided and chose. Whenever 
the Signs of (God) Most Gracious were rehearsed to them, they would fall down in 
prostrate adoration and in tears.

019.059  But after them there followed a posterity who missed prayers and followed 
after lusts soon, then, will they face Destruction,-

019.060  Except those who repent and believe, and work righteousness: for these will 
enter the Garden and will not be wronged in the least,-

019.061  Gardens of Eternity, those which (God) Most Gracious has promised to His 
servants in the Unseen: for His promise must (necessarily) come to pass.

019.062  They will not there hear any vain discourse, but only salutations of Peace: 
And they will have therein their sustenance, morning and evening.

019.063  Such is the Garden which We give as an inheritance to those of Our servants 
who guard against Evil.

019.064  (The angels say:) "We descend not but by command of thy Lord: to Him 
belongeth what is before us and what is behind us, and what is between: and thy Lord 
never doth forget,-

019.065  "Lord of the heavens and of the earth, and of all that is between them; so 
worship Him, and be constant and patient in His worship: knowest thou of any who is 
worthy of the same Name as He?"

019.066  Man says: "What! When I am dead, shall I then be raised up alive?"

019.067  But does not man call to mind that We created him before out of nothing?

019.068  So, by thy Lord, without doubt, We shall gather them together, and (also) 
the Evil Ones (with them); then shall We bring them forth on their knees round about 
Hell;

019.069  Then shall We certainly drag out from every sect all those who were worst 
in obstinate rebellion against (God) Most Gracious.

019.070  And certainly We know best those who are most worthy of being burned 
therein.

019.071  Not one of you but will pass over it: this is, with thy Lord, a Decree which 
must be accomplished.

019.072  But We shall save those who guarded against evil, and We shall leave the 
wrong-doers therein, (humbled) to their knees.

019.073  When Our Clear Signs  are rehearsed to them, the Unbelievers say to those 
who believe, "Which of the two sides is best in point of position? Which makes the 
best show in council?"

019.074  But how many (countless) generations before them have we destroyed, who 
were even better in equipment and in glitter to the eye?

019.075  Say: "If any men go astray, (God) Most Gracious extends (the rope) to them, 
until, when they see the warning of God (being fulfilled) - either in punishment or in 
(the approach of) the Hour,- they will at length realise who is worst in position, and 
(who) weakest in forces!

019.076  "And God doth advance in guidance those who seek guidance: and the 
things that endure, Good Deeds, are best in the sight of thy Lord, as rewards, and best 
in respect of (their) eventual return."

019.077  Hast thou then seen the (sort of) man who rejects Our Signs, yet says: "I 
shall certainly be given wealth and children?"

019.078  Has he penetrated to the Unseen, or has he taken a contract with (God) Most 
Gracious?

019.079  Nay! We shall record what he says, and We shall add and add to his 
punishment.

019.080  To Us shall return all that he talks of and he shall appear before Us bare and 
alone.

019.081  And they have taken (for worship) gods other than God, to give them power 
and glory!

019.082  Instead, they shall reject their worship, and become adversaries against 
them.

019.083  Seest thou not that We have set the Evil Ones on against the unbelievers, to 
incite them with fury?

019.084  So make no haste against them, for We but count out to them a (limited) 
number (of days).

019.085  The day We shall gather the righteous to (God) Most Gracious, like a band 
presented before a king for honours,

019.086  And We shall drive the sinners to Hell, like thirsty cattle driven down to 
water,-

019.087  None shall have the power of intercession, but such a one as has received 
permission (or promise) from (God) Most Gracious.

019.088  They say: "(God) Most Gracious has begotten a son!"

019.089  Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!

019.090  At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the 
mountains to fall down in utter ruin,

019.091  That they should invoke a son for (God) Most Gracious.

019.092  For it is not consonant with the majesty of (God) Most Gracious that He 
should beget a son.

019.093  Not one of the beings in the heavens and the earth but must come to (God) 
Most Gracious as a servant.

019.094  He does take an account of them (all), and hath numbered them (all) exactly.

019.095  And everyone of them will come to Him singly on the Day of Judgment.

019.096  On those who believe and work deeds of righteousness, will (God) Most 
Gracious bestow love.

019.097  So have We made the (Qur'an) easy in thine own tongue, that with it thou 
mayest give Glad Tidings to the righteous, and warnings to people given to 
contention.

019.098  But how many (countless) generations before them have We destroyed? 
Canst thou find a single one of them (now) or hear (so much as) a whisper of them?

TA-HA,  CHAPTER NO.  020

020.001  Ta-Ha.

020.002  We have not sent down the Qur'an to thee to be (an occasion) for thy 
distress,

020.003  But only as an admonition to those who fear (God),-

020.004  A revelation from Him Who created the earth and the heavens on high.

020.005  (God) Most Gracious is firmly established on the throne (of authority).

020.006  To Him belongs what is in the heavens and on earth, and all between them, 
and all beneath the soil.

020.007  If thou pronounce the word aloud, (it is no matter): for verily He knoweth 
what is secret and what is yet more hidden.

020.008  God! there is no god but He! To Him belong the most Beautiful Names.

020.009  Has the story of Moses reached thee?

020.010  Behold, he saw a fire: So he said to his family, "Tarry ye; I perceive a fire; 
perhaps I can bring you some burning brand therefrom, or find some guidance at the 
fire."

020.011  But when he came to the fire, a voice was heard: "O Moses!

020.012  "Verily I am thy Lord! therefore (in My presence)  put off thy shoes: thou 
art in the sacred valley Tuwa.

020.013  "I have chosen thee: listen, then, to the inspiration (sent to thee).

020.014  "Verily, I am God: There is no god but I: So serve thou Me (only), and 
establish regular prayer for celebrating My praise.

020.015  "Verily the Hour is coming - My design is to keep it hidden - for every soul 
to receive its reward by the measure of its Endeavour.

020.016  "Therefore let not such as believe not therein but follow their own lusts, 
divert thee therefrom, lest thou perish!"..

020.017  "And what is that in the right hand, O Moses?"

020.018  He said, "It is my rod: on it I lean; with it I beat down fodder for my flocks; 
and in it I find other uses."

020.019  (God) said, "Throw it, O Moses!"

020.020  He threw it, and behold! It was a snake, active in motion.

020.021  (God) said, "Seize it, and fear not: We shall return it at once to its former 
condition"..

020.022  "Now draw thy hand close to thy side: It shall come forth white (and 
shining), without harm (or stain),- as another Sign,-

020.023  "In order that We may show thee (two) of our Greater Signs.

020.024  "Go thou to Pharaoh, for he has indeed transgressed all bounds."

020.025  (Moses) said: "O my Lord! expand me my breast;

020.026  "Ease my task for me;

020.027  "And remove the impediment from my speech,

020.028  "So they may understand what I say:

020.029  "And give me a Minister from my family,

020.030  "Aaron, my brother;

020.031  "Add to my strength through him,

020.032  "And make him share my task:

020.033  "That we may celebrate Thy praise without stint,

020.034  "And remember Thee without stint:

020.035  "For Thou art He that (ever) regardeth us."

020.036  (God) said: "Granted is thy prayer, O Moses!"

020.037  "And indeed We conferred a favour on thee another time (before).

020.038  "Behold! We sent to thy mother, by inspiration, the message:

020.039  "'Throw (the child) into the chest, and throw (the chest) into the river: the 
river will cast him up on the bank, and he will be taken up by one who is an enemy to 
Me and an enemy to him': But I cast (the garment of) love over thee from Me: and 
(this) in order that thou mayest be reared under Mine eye.

020.040  "Behold! thy sister goeth forth and saith, 'shall I show you one who will 
nurse and rear the (child)?' So We brought thee back to thy mother, that her eye might 
be cooled and she should not grieve. Then thou didst slay a man, but We saved thee 
from trouble, and We tried thee in various ways. Then didst thou tarry a number of 
years with the people of Midian. Then didst thou come hither as ordained, O Moses!

020.041  "And I have prepared thee for Myself (for service)"..

020.042  "Go, thou and thy brother, with My Signs, and slacken not, either of you, in 
keeping Me in remembrance.

020.043  "Go, both of you, to Pharaoh, for he has indeed transgressed all bounds;

020.044  "But speak to him mildly; perchance he may take warning or fear (God)."

020.045  They (Moses and Aaron) said: "Our Lord! We fear lest he hasten with 
insolence against us, or lest he transgress all bounds."

020.046  He said: "Fear not: for I am with you: I hear and see (everything).

020.047  "So go ye both to him, and say, 'Verily we are apostles sent by thy Lord: 
Send forth, therefore, the Children of Israel with us, and afflict them not: with a Sign, 
indeed, have we come from thy Lord! and peace to all who follow guidance!

020.048  "'Verily it has been revealed to us that the Penalty (awaits) those who reject 
and turn away.'"

020.049  (When this message was delivered), (Pharaoh) said: "Who, then, O Moses, 
is the Lord of you two?"

020.050  He said: "Our Lord is He Who gave to each (created) thing its form and 
nature, and further, gave (it) guidance."

020.051  (Pharaoh) said: "What then is the condition of previous generations?"

020.052  He replied: "The knowledge of that is with my Lord, duly recorded: my 
Lord never errs, nor forgets,-

020.053  "He Who has, made for you the earth like a carpet spread out; has enabled 
you to go about therein by roads (and channels); and has sent down water from the 
sky." With it have We produced diverse pairs of plants each separate from the others.

020.054  Eat (for yourselves) and pasture your cattle: verily, in this are Signs for men 
endued with understanding.

020.055  From the (earth) did We create you, and into it shall We return you, and 
from it shall We bring you out once again.

020.056  And We showed Pharaoh all Our Signs, but he did reject and refuse.

020.057  He said: "Hast thou come to drive us out of our land with thy magic, O 
Moses?

020.058  "But we can surely produce magic to match thine! So make a tryst between 
us and thee, which we shall not fail to keep - neither we nor thou - in a place where 
both shall have even chances."

020.059  Moses said: "Your tryst is the Day of the Festival, and let the people be 
assembled when the sun is well up."

020.060  So Pharaoh withdrew: He concerted his plan, and then came (back).

020.061  Moses said to him: Woe to you! Forge not ye a lie against God, lest He 
destroy you (at once) utterly by chastisement: the forger must suffer frustration!"

020.062  So they disputed, one with another, over their affair, but they kept their talk 
secret.

020.063  They said: "These two are certainly (expert) magicians: their object is to 
drive you out from your land with their magic, and to do away with your most 
cherished institutions.

020.064  "Therefore concert your plan, and then assemble in (serried) ranks: He wins 
(all along) today who gains the upper hand."

020.065  They said: "O Moses! whether wilt thou that thou throw (first) or that we be 
the first to throw?"

020.066  He said, "Nay, throw ye first!" Then behold their ropes and their rods-so it 
seemed to him on account of their magic - began to be in lively motion!

020.067  So Moses conceived in his mind a (sort of) fear.

020.068  We said: "Fear not! for thou hast indeed the upper hand:

020.069  "Throw that which is in thy right hand: Quickly will it swallow up that 
which they have faked what they  have faked is but a magician's trick: and the 
magician thrives not, (no matter) where he goes."

020.070  So the magicians were thrown down to prostration: they said, "We believe in 
the Lord of Aaron and Moses".

020.071  (Pharaoh) said: "Believe ye in Him before I give you permission? Surely this 
must be your leader, who has taught you magic! be sure I will cut off your hands and 
feet on opposite sides, and I will have you crucified on trunks of palm-trees: so shall 
ye know for certain, which of us can give the more severe and the more lasting 
punishment!"

020.072  They said: "Never shall we regard thee as more than the Clear Sings that 
have come to us, or than Him Who created us! so decree whatever thou desirest to 
decree: for thou canst only decree (touching) the life of this world.

020.073  "For us, we have believed in our Lord: may He forgive us our faults, and the 
magic to which thou didst compel us: for God is Best and Most Abiding."

020.074  Verily he who comes to his Lord as a sinner (at Judgment),- for him is Hell: 
therein shall he neither die nor live.

020.075  But such as come to Him as Believers who have worked righteous deeds,- 
for them are ranks exalted,-

020.076  Gardens of Eternity, beneath which flow rivers: they will dwell therein for 
aye: such is the reward of those who purify themselves (from evil).

020.077  We sent an inspiration to Moses: "Travel by night with My servants, and 
strike a dry path for them through the sea, without fear of being overtaken (by 
Pharaoh) and without (any other) fear."

020.078  Then Pharaoh pursued them with his forces, but the waters completely 
overwhelmed them and covered them up.

020.079  Pharaoh led his people astray instead of leading them aright.

020.080  O ye Children of Israel! We delivered you from your enemy, and We made a 
Covenant with you on the right side of Mount (Sinai), and We sent down to you 
Manna and quails:

020.081  (Saying): "Eat of the good things We have provided for your sustenance, but 
commit no excess therein, lest My Wrath should justly descend on you: and those on 
whom descends My Wrath do perish indeed!

020.082  "But, without doubt, I am (also) He that forgives again and again, to those 
who repent, believe, and do right, who,- in fine, are ready to receive true guidance."

020.083  (When Moses was up on the Mount, God said:) "What made thee hasten in 
advance of thy people, O Moses?"

020.084  He replied: "Behold, they are close on my footsteps: I hastened to thee, O 
my Lord, to please thee."

020.085  (God) said: "We have tested thy people in thy absence: the Samiri has led 
them astray."

020.086  So Moses returned to his people in a state of indignation and sorrow. He 
said: "O my people! did not your Lord make a handsome promise to you? Did then 
the promise seem to you long (in coming)? Or did ye desire that Wrath should 
descend from your Lord on you, and so ye broke your promise to me?"

020.087  They said: "We broke not the promise to thee, as far as lay in our power: but 
we were made to carry the weight of the ornaments of the (whole) people, and we 
threw them (into the fire), and that was what the Samiri suggested.

020.088  "Then he brought out (of the fire) before the (people) the image of a calf: It 
seemed to low: so they said: This is your god, and the god of Moses, but (Moses) has 
forgotten!"

020.089  Could they not see that it could not return them a word (for answer), and that 
it had no power either to harm them or to do them good?

020.090  Aaron had already, before this said to them: "O my people! ye are being 
tested in this: for verily your Lord is (God) Most Gracious; so follow me and obey my 
command."

020.091  They had said: "We will not abandon this cult, but we will devote ourselves 
to it until Moses returns to us."

020.092  (Moses) said: "O Aaron! what kept thee back, when thou sawest them going 
wrong,

020.093  "From following me? Didst thou then disobey my order?"

020.094  (Aaron) replied: "O son of my mother! Seize (me) not by my beard nor by 
(the hair of) my head! Truly I feared lest thou shouldst say, 'Thou has caused a 
division among the children of Israel, and thou didst not respect my word!'"

020.095  (Moses) said: "What then is thy case, O Samiri?"

020.096  He replied: "I saw what they saw not: so I took a handful (of dust) from the 
footprint of the Apostle, and threw it (into the calf): thus did my soul suggest to me."

020.097  (Moses) said: "Get thee gone! but thy (punishment) in this life will be that 
thou wilt say, 'touch me not'; and moreover (for a future penalty) thou hast a promise 
that will not fail: Now look at thy god, of whom thou hast become a devoted 
worshipper: We will certainly (melt) it in a blazing fire and scatter it broadcast in the 
sea!"

020.098  But the god of you all is the One God: there is no god but He: all things He 
comprehends in His knowledge.

020.099  Thus do We relate to thee some stories of what happened before: for We 
have sent thee a Message from Our own Presence.

020.100  If any do turn away therefrom, verily they will bear a burden on the Day of 
judgment;

020.101  They will abide in this (state): and grievous will the burden be to them on 
that Day,-

020.102  The Day when the Trumpet will be sounded: that Day, We shall gather the 
sinful, blear-eyed (with terror).

020.103  In whispers will they consult each other: "Yet tarried not longer than ten 
(Days);

020.104  We know best what they will say, when their leader most eminent in 
conduct will say: "Ye tarried not longer than a day!"

020.105  They ask thee concerning the Mountains: say, "My Lord will uproot them 
and scatter them as dust;

020.106  "He will leave them as plains smooth and level;

020.107  "Nothing crooked or curved wilt thou see in their place."

020.108  On that Day will they follow the Caller (straight): no crookedness (can they 
show) him: all sounds shall humble themselves in the Presence of (God) Most 
Gracious: nothing shalt thou hear but the tramp of their feet (as they march).

020.109  On that Day shall no intercession avail except for those for whom 
permission has been granted by (God) Most Gracious and whose word is acceptable 
to Him.

020.110  He knows what (appears to His creatures as) before or after or behind them: 
but they shall not compass it with their knowledge.

020.111  (All) faces shall be humbled before (Him) - the Living, the Self-Subsisting, 
Eternal: hopeless indeed will be the man that carries iniquity (on his back).

020.112  But he who works deeds of righteousness, and has faith, will have no fear of 
harm nor of any curtailment (of what is his due).

020.113  Thus have We sent this down - an arabic Qur'an - and explained therein in 
detail some of the warnings, in order that they may fear God, or that it may cause 
their remembrance (of Him).

020.114  High above all is God, the King, the Truth! Be not in haste with the Qur'an 
before its revelation to thee is completed, but say, "O my Lord! advance me in 
knowledge."

020.115  We had already, beforehand, taken the covenant of Adam, but he forgot: and 
We found on his part no firm resolve.

020.116  When We said to the angels, "Prostrate yourselves to Adam", they prostrated 
themselves, but not Iblis: he refused.

020.117  Then We said: "O Adam! verily, this is an enemy to thee and thy wife: so let 
him not get you both out of the Garden, so that thou art landed in misery.

020.118  "There is therein (enough provision) for thee not to go hungry nor to go 
naked,

020.119  "Nor to suffer from thirst, nor from the sun's heat."

020.120  But Satan whispered evil to him: he said, "O Adam!  shall I lead thee to the 
Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?"

020.121  In the result, they both ate of the tree, and so their nakedness appeared to 
them: they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden: thus did 
Adam disobey his Lord, and allow himself to be seduced.

020.122  But his Lord chose him (for His Grace): He turned to him, and gave him 
Guidance.

020.123  He said: "Get ye down, both of you,- all together, from the Garden, with 
enmity one to another: but if, as is sure, there comes to you Guidance from Me, 
whosoever follows My Guidance, will not lose his way, nor fall into misery.

020.124  "But whosoever turns away from My Message, verily for him is a life 
narrowed down, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Judgment."

020.125  He will say: "O my Lord! why hast Thou raised me up blind, while I had 
sight (before)?"

020.126  (God) will say: "Thus didst Thou, when Our Signs came unto thee, disregard 
them: so wilt thou, this day, be disregarded."

020.127  And thus do We recompense him who transgresses beyond bounds and 
believes not in the Signs of his Lord: and the Penalty of the Hereafter is far more 
grievous and more enduring.

020.128  Is it not a warning to such men (to call to mind) how many generations 
before them We destroyed, in whose haunts they (now) move? Verily, in this are 
Signs for men endued with understanding.

020.129  Had it not been for a Word that went forth before from thy Lord, (their 
punishment) must necessarily have come; but there is a Term appointed (for respite).

020.130  Therefore be patient with what they say, and celebrate (constantly) the 
praises of thy Lord, before the rising of the sun, and before its setting; yea, celebrate 
them for part of the hours of the night, and at the sides of the day: that thou mayest 
have (spiritual) joy.

020.131  Nor strain thine eyes in longing for the things We have given for enjoyment 
to parties of them, the splendour of the life of this world, through which We test 
them: but the provision of thy Lord is better and more enduring.

020.132  Enjoin prayer on thy people, and be constant therein. We ask thee not to 
provide sustenance: We provide it for thee. But the (fruit of) the Hereafter is for 
righteousness.

020.133  They say: "Why does he not bring us a sign from his Lord?" Has not a Clear 
Sign come to them of all that was in the former Books of revelation?

020.134  And if We had inflicted on them a penalty before this, they would have said: 
"Our Lord! If only Thou hadst sent us an apostle, we should certainly have followed 
Thy Signs before we were humbled and put to shame."

020.135  Say: "Each one (of us) is waiting: wait ye, therefore, and soon shall ye know 
who it is that is on the straight and even way, and who it is that has received 
Guidance."

THE PROPHETS,  CHAPTER NO.  021

021.001  Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning: yet they heed not and 
they turn away.

021.002  Never comes (aught) to them of a renewed Message from their Lord, but 
they listen to it as in jest,-

021.003  Their hearts toying as with trifles. The wrong-doers conceal  their private 
counsels, (saying),  "Is this (one) more than a man like yourselves? Will ye go to 
witchcraft with your eyes open?"

021.004  Say:  "My Lord knoweth (every) word (spoken) in the heavens and on earth: 
He is the One that heareth and knoweth (all things)."

021.005  "Nay," they say, "(these are) medleys of dream! - Nay, He forged it! - Nay, 
He is (but) a poet! Let him then bring us a Sign like the ones that were sent to 
(Prophets) of old!"

021.006  (As to those) before them, not one of the populations which We destroyed 
believed: will these believe?

021.007  Before thee, also, the apostles We sent were but men, to whom We granted 
inspiration: If ye realise this not, ask of those who possess the Message.

021.008  Nor did We give them bodies that ate no food, nor were they exempt from 
death.

021.009  In the end We fulfilled to them Our Promise, and We saved them and those 
whom We pleased, but We destroyed those who transgressed beyond bounds.

021.010  We have revealed for you (O men!) a book in which is a Message for you: 
will ye not then understand?

021.011  How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their 
iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?

021.012  Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee 
from it.

021.013  Flee not, but return to the good things of this life which were given you, and 
to your homes in order that ye may be called to account.

021.014  They said: "Ah! woe to us! We were indeed wrong-doers!"

021.015  And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, 
as ashes silent and quenched.

021.016  Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is 
between!

021.017  If it had been Our wish to take (just) a pastime, We should surely have taken 
it from the things nearest to Us, if We would do (such a thing)!

021.018  Nay, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and 
behold, falsehood doth perish! Ah! woe be to you for the (false) things ye ascribe (to 
Us).

021.019  To Him belong all (creatures) in the heavens and on earth: Even those who 
are in His (very) Presence are not too proud to serve Him, nor are they (ever) weary 
(of His service):

021.020  They celebrate His praises night and day, nor do they ever flag or intermit.

021.021  Or have they taken (for worship) gods from the earth who can raise (the 
dead)?

021.022  If there were, in the heavens and the earth, other gods besides God, there 
would have been confusion in both! but glory to God, the Lord of the Throne:  (High 
is He) above what they attribute to Him!

021.023  He cannot be questioned for His acts, but they will be questioned (for 
theirs).

021.024  Or have they taken for worship (other) gods besides him? Say, "Bring your 
convincing proof: this is the Message of those with me and the Message of those 
before me." But most of them know not the Truth, and so turn away.

021.025  Not an apostle did We send before thee without this inspiration sent by Us to 
him: that there is no god but I; therefore worship and serve Me.

021.026  And they say: "(God) Most Gracious has begotten offspring." Glory to Him! 
they are (but) servants raised to honour.

021.027  They speak not before He speaks, and they act (in all things) by His 
Command.

021.028  He knows what is before them, and what is behind them, and they offer no 
intercession except for those who are acceptable, and they stand in awe and reverence 
of His (Glory).

021.029  If any of them should say, "I am a god besides Him", such a one We should 
reward with Hell: thus do We reward those who do wrong.

021.030  Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined 
together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from 
water every living thing. Will they not then believe?

021.031  And We have set on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake 
with them, and We have made therein broad highways (between mountains) for them 
to pass through: that they may receive Guidance.

021.032  And We have made the heavens as a canopy well guarded: yet do they turn 
away from the Signs which these things (point to)!

021.033  It is He Who created the Night and the Day, and the sun and the moon: all 
(the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its rounded course.

021.034  We granted not to any man before thee permanent life (here): if then thou 
shouldst die, would they live permanently?

021.035  Every soul shall have a taste of death: and We test you by evil and by good 
by way of trial. to Us must ye return.

021.036  When the Unbelievers see thee, they treat thee not except with ridicule. "Is 
this," (they say), "the one who talks of your gods?" and they blaspheme at the 
mention of (God) Most Gracious!

021.037  Man is a creature of haste: soon (enough) will I show you My Signs; then ye 
will not ask Me to hasten them!

021.038  They say: "When will this promise come to pass, if ye are telling the truth?"

021.039  If only the Unbelievers knew (the time) when they will not be able to ward 
off the fire from their faces, nor yet from their backs, and (when) no help can reach 
them!

021.040  Nay, it may come to them all of a sudden and confound them: no power will 
they have then to avert it, nor will they (then) get respite.

021.041  Mocked were (many) apostle before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in 
by the thing that they mocked.

021.042  Say: "Who can keep you safe by night and by day from (the Wrath of) (God) 
Most Gracious?" Yet they turn away from the mention of their Lord.

021.043  Or have they gods that can guard them from Us? They have no power to aid 
themselves, nor can they be defended from Us.

021.044  Nay, We gave the good things of this life to these men and their fathers until 
the period grew long for them; See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in 
their control) from its outlying borders? Is it then they who will win?

021.045  Say, "I do but warn you according to revelation": But the deaf will not hear 
the call, (even) when they are warned!

021.046  If but a breath of the Wrath of thy Lord do touch them, they will then say, 
"Woe to us! we did wrong indeed!"

021.047  We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment, so that not a soul 
will be dealt with unjustly in the least, and if there be (no more than) the weight of a 
mustard seed, We will bring it (to account): and enough are We to take account.

021.048  In the past We granted to Moses and Aaron the criterion (for judgment), and 
a Light and a Message for those who would do right,-

021.049  Those who fear their Lord in their most secret thoughts, and who hold the 
Hour (of Judgment) in awe.

021.050  And this is a blessed Message which We have sent down: will ye then reject 
it?

021.051  We bestowed aforetime on Abraham his rectitude of conduct, and well were 
We acquainted with him.

021.052  Behold! he said to his father and his people, "What are these images, to 
which ye are (so assiduously) devoted?"

021.053  They said, "We found our fathers worshipping them."

021.054  He said, "Indeed ye have been in manifest error - ye and your fathers."

021.055  They said, "Have you brought us the Truth, or are you one of those who 
jest?"

021.056  He said, "Nay, your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, He Who 
created them (from nothing): and I am a witness to this (Truth).

021.057  "And by God, I have a plan for your idols - after ye go away and turn your 
backs"..

021.058  So he broke them to pieces, (all) but the biggest of them, that they might 
turn (and address themselves) to it.

021.059  They said, "Who has done this to our gods? He must indeed be some man of 
impiety!"

021.060  They said, "We heard a youth talk of them: He is called Abraham."

021.061  They said, "Then bring him before the eyes of the people, that they may bear 
witness."

021.062  They said, "Art thou the one that did this with our gods, O Abraham?"

021.063  He said: "Nay, this was done by - this is their biggest one! ask them, if they 
can speak intelligently!"

021.064  So they turned to themselves and said, "Surely ye are the ones in the 
wrong!"

021.065  Then were they confounded with shame: (they said), "Thou knowest full 
well that these (idols) do not speak!"

021.066  (Abraham) said, "Do ye then worship, besides God, things that can neither 
be of any good to you nor do you harm?

021.067  "Fie upon you, and upon the things that ye worship besides God! Have ye no 
sense?"..

021.068  They said, "Burn him and protect your gods, If ye do (anything at all)!"

021.069  We said, "O Fire! be thou cool, and (a means of) safety for Abraham!"

021.070  Then they sought a stratagem against him: but We made them the ones that 
lost most!

021.071  But We delivered him and (his nephew) Lut (and directed them) to the land 
which We have blessed for the nations.

021.072  And We bestowed on him Isaac and, as an additional gift, (a grandson), 
Jacob, and We made righteous men of every one (of them).

021.073  And We made them leaders, guiding (men) by Our Command, and We sent 
them inspiration to do good deeds, to establish regular prayers, and to practise regular 
charity; and they constantly served Us (and Us only).

021.074  And to Lut, too, We gave Judgment and Knowledge, and We saved him 
from the town which practised abominations: truly they were a people given to Evil, a 
rebellious people.

021.075  And We admitted him to Our Mercy: for he was one of the Righteous.

021.076  (Remember) Noah, when he cried (to Us) aforetime: We listened to his 
(prayer) and delivered him and his family from great distress.

021.077  We helped him against people who rejected Our Signs: truly they were a 
people given to Evil: so We drowned them (in the Flood) all together.

021.078  And remember David and Solomon, when they gave judgment in the matter 
of the field into which the sheep of certain people had strayed by night: We did 
witness their judgment.

021.079  To Solomon We inspired the (right) understanding of the matter: to each (of 
them) We gave Judgment and Knowledge; it was Our power that made the hills and 
the birds celebrate Our praises, with David: it was We Who did (all these things).

021.080  It was We Who taught him the making of coats of mail for your benefit, to 
guard you from each other's violence: will ye then be grateful?

021.081  (It was Our power that made) the violent (unruly) wind flow (tamely) for 
Solomon, to his order, to the land which We had blessed: for We do know all things.

021.082  And of the evil ones, were some who dived for him, and did other work 
besides; and it was We Who guarded them.

021.083  And (remember) Job, when He cried to his Lord, "Truly distress has seized 
me, but Thou art the Most Merciful of those that are merciful."

021.084  So We listened to him: We removed the distress that was on him, and We 
restored his people to him, and doubled their number,- as a Grace from Ourselves, 
and a thing for commemoration, for all who serve Us.

021.085  And (remember) Isma'il, Idris, and Zul-kifl, all (men) of constancy and 
patience;

021.086  We admitted them to Our mercy: for they were of the righteous ones.

021.087  And remember Zun-nun, when he departed in wrath: He imagined that We 
had no power over him! But he cried through the deptHs of darkness, "There is no 
god but thou: glory to thee: I was indeed wrong!"

021.088  So We listened to him: and delivered him from distress: and thus do We 
deliver those who have faith.

021.089  And (remember) Zakariya, when he cried to his Lord: "O my Lord! leave me 
not without offspring, though thou art the best of inheritors."

021.090  So We listened to him: and We granted him Yahya: We cured his wife's 
(Barrenness) for him. These (three) were ever quick in emulation in good works; they 
used to call on Us with love and reverence, and humble themselves before Us.

021.091  And (remember) her who guarded her chastity: We breathed into her of Our 
spirit, and We made her and her son a sign for all peoples.

021.092  Verily, this brotherhood of yours is a single brotherhood, and I am your 
Lord and Cherisher: therefore serve Me (and no other).

021.093  But (later generations) cut off their affair (of unity), one from another: (yet) 
will they all return to Us.

021.094  Whoever works any act of righteousness and has faith,- His endeavour will 
not be rejected: We shall record it in his favour.

021.095  But there is a ban on any population which We have destroyed: that they 
shall not return,

021.096  Until the Gog and Magog (people) are let through (their barrier), and they 
swiftly swarm from every hill.

021.097  Then will the true promise draw nigh (of fulfilment): then behold! the eyes 
of the Unbelievers will fixedly stare in horror: "Ah! Woe to us! we were indeed 
heedless of this; nay, we truly did wrong!"

021.098  Verily ye, (unbelievers), and the (false) gods that ye worship besides God, 
are (but) fuel for Hell! to it will ye (surely) come!

021.099  If these had been gods, they would not have got there! but each one will 
abide therein.

021.100  There, sobbing will be their lot, nor will they there hear (aught else).

021.101  Those for whom the good (record) from Us has gone before, will be 
removed far therefrom.

021.102  Not the slightest sound will they hear of Hell: what their souls desired, in 
that will they dwell.

021.103  The Great Terror will bring them no grief: but the angels will meet them 
(with mutual greetings): "This is your Day,- (the Day) that ye were promised."

021.104  The Day that We roll up the heavens like a scroll rolled up for books 
(completed),- even as We produced the first creation, so shall We produce a new one: 
a promise We have undertaken: truly shall We fulfil it.

021.105  Before this We wrote in the Psalms, after the Message (given to Moses): My 
servants the righteous, shall inherit the earth."

021.106  Verily in this (Qur'an) is a Message for people who would (truly) worship 
God.

021.107  We sent thee not, but as a Mercy for all creatures.

021.108  Say: "What has come to me by inspiration is that your God is One God: will 
ye therefore bow to His Will (in Islam)?"

021.109  But if they turn back, Say: "I have proclaimed the Message to you all alike 
and in truth; but I know not whether that which ye are promised is near or far.

021.110  "It is He Who knows what is open in speech and what ye hide (in your 
hearts).

021.111  "I know not but that it may be a trial for you, and a grant of (worldly) 
livelihood (to you) for a time."

021.112  Say: "O my Lord! judge Thou in truth!"  "Our Lord Most Gracious is the 
One Whose assistance should be sought against the blasphemies ye utter!"

THE PILGRIMAGE,  CHAPTER NO.  022

022.001  O mankind! fear your Lord! for the convulsion of the Hour (of Judgment) 
will be a thing terrible!

022.002  The Day ye shall see it, every mother giving suck shall forget her suckling-
babe, and every pregnant female shall drop her load (unformed): thou shalt see 
mankind as in a drunken riot, yet not drunk: but dreadful will be the Wrath of God.

022.003  And yet among men there are such as dispute about God, without 
knowledge, and follow every evil one obstinate in rebellion!

022.004  About the (Evil One) it is decreed that whoever turns to him for friendship, 
him will he lead astray, and he will guide him to the Penalty of the Fire.

022.005  O mankind! if ye have a doubt about the Resurrection, (consider) that We 
created you out of dust, then out of sperm, then out of a leech-like clot, then out of a 
morsel of flesh, partly formed and partly unformed, in order that We may manifest 
(our power) to you; and We cause whom We will to rest in the wombs for an 
appointed term, then do We bring you out as babes, then (foster you) that ye may 
reach your age of full strength; and some of you are called to die, and some