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O mankind: be in prudent fear of your Lord who created you from one soul; and created from it its mate, and scattered from them many men and women; and be in prudent fear of God through whom, and through kinship, you ask one of another; God is over you, watching.

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And give the fatherless their property; and exchange not the bad for the good, nor consume their property into your property; that is a great misdeed.

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And if you fear that you will not do justice by the fatherless, then marry what pleases you of women: two or three or four. But if you fear that you will not do justice, then one — or what your right hands possess; that is more likely that you will not deviate.

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And give the women their dowries as a gift willingly; but if they remit to you anything of it voluntarily, then consume it with satisfaction and pleasure.

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And give not the foolish your wealth which God gave you as sustenance, but feed them and clothe them out of it; and speak to them a fitting word.

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And test the fatherless when they have reached marriage: if you find them to be of sound judgment, deliver to them their property; and consume it not wastefully and hastily before they be grown. And he that is free from need, let him abstain; and he that is poor, let him take according to what is fitting. And when you deliver to them their property, take witnesses over them. And sufficient is God as reckoner.

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To men belongs a share of what parents and relatives leave; and to women belongs a share of what parents and relatives leave — from what is little thereof or much — a share ordained.

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And when present at the division are relatives, and the fatherless, and the poor: give to them therefrom; and speak to them a fitting word.

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And let those fear who, if they left behind them weak progeny, would be afraid for them; so let them be in prudent fear of God, and speak an apposite word.

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Those who consume the property of the fatherless unjustly: they but consume into their bellies Fire; and they will burn in an inferno.

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God charges you concerning your children: for the male is the like of the portion of two females; but if there are women above two, then for them is two-thirds of what he left; and if she is one, then for her is half; and for his parents: for each one of them is one-sixth of what he left if he has a child. Then if he has not a child and there inherit from him his parents, for his mother is one-third; but if he has brothers or sisters: for his mother is one-sixth, after a bequest he has made, or debt — your parents and your children: you know not which of them is nearer to you in benefit — as an obligation from God; God is knowing and wise.

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And for you is half of what your wives left if they have not a child; but if they have a child, then for you is one-fourth of what they left, after a bequest they have made, or debt. And for them: one-fourth of what you left, if you have not a child; but if you have a child: for them is one-eighth of what you left, after a bequest you have made, or debt. And if a man or a woman be inherited with no immediate heir but has a brother or sister, for each of them is one-sixth; but if they are more than that, then are they partners in one-third, after a bequest he has made, or debt, without harm, as a bequest from God; and God is knowing and clement.

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Those are the limits of God. And whoso obeys God and His messenger, He will make him enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, they abiding eternally therein; and that is the Great Achievement.

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And whoso disobeys God and His messenger, and transgresses His limits, He will make him enter a Fire, he abiding eternally therein; and for him is a humiliating punishment.

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And those who commit sexual immorality among your women, call to witness against them four from among you; then if they bear witness, confine them to houses until death takes them, or God makes for them another path.

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And the two who commit it among you, hinder them; but if they repent and make right, let them be; God is accepting of repentance and merciful.

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Upon God is but acceptance of repentance from those who do evil in ignorance then repent soon after; those are they towards whom God turns; and God is knowing and wise.

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And acceptance of repentance is not for those who do evil deeds — when death has come to one of them, he says: “I repent now,” — nor is it for those who die as atheists; for those We have prepared a painful punishment.

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O you who heed warning: it is not lawful for you to inherit from women against their will; and neither constrain them that you might take away part of what you gave them save that they commit manifest sexual immorality. And live with them according to what is fitting. And if you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing and God makes therein much good.

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And if you wish to replace one wife with another and you have given one of them a fortune, take not from it anything; would you take it through false accusation and obvious sin?

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And how can you take it after you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a solemn agreement?

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And marry not what your fathers married among women save what is past; it was sexual immorality, and hateful, and an evil path.

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Forbidden to you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your paternal aunts, and your maternal aunts, and the daughters of your brother, and the daughters of your sister, and your milk-mothers, and your milk-sisters, and the mothers of your wives, and your step-daughters under your protection from your wives unto whom you have gone in (and if you have gone not in unto them, then there is no wrong upon you) and the wives of your sons of your loins, and that you bring two sisters together, save what is past; God is forgiving and merciful;

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And married women save what your right hands possess. The Writ of God is over you. But lawful to you is what is beyond that, if you seek with your wealth in chastity, not being fornicators. And what you enjoy thereby of them: give them their rewards as an obligation. And there is no wrong upon you in what you do by mutual agreement after the obligation; God is knowing and wise.

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And whoso among you has not the means to marry free believing women, then from what your right hands possess of believing maids; and God best knows your faith. You are of one another, so marry them with the leave of their people; and give them their rewards according to what is fitting, they being chaste and not fornicators, nor taking secret friends. But when they are in wedlock, then if they commit sexual immorality: upon them is half what is due the free women of punishment; that is for him who fears hardship among you. And that you be patient is best for you; and God is forgiving and merciful.

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God desires to make plain to you, and to guide you to the established ways of those who were before you, and to turn towards you; and God is knowing and wise.

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And God desires to turn towards you; but those who follow vain lusts desire that you should deviate with great deviation.

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God desires to make lighter for you; and man was created weak.

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O you who heed warning: consume not your wealth among yourselves in vanity, or save by way of trade by mutual consent among you; and kill not yourselves; God is merciful to you;

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And whoso does that in enmity and injustice, him will We burn in a Fire; and that is easy for God.

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If you avoid the enormities of what you are forbidden, We will remove from you your evil deeds and make you enter at a noble entrance.

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And covet not that wherein God has favoured some of you over others. For men is a share of what they have earned, and for women is a share of what they have earned. And ask God of His bounty; God is knower of all things.

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And for all have We appointed heirs to what parents and relatives leave; and those with whom you have entered into contract: give them their share; God is witness over all things.

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Men are responsible for women by what God has favoured one of them over another, and by what they spend of their wealth; and the righteous women are humbly obedient, keeping unseen what God keeps. And those from whom you fear contempt: admonish them; and leave them in beds apart; and strike them. But if they obey you, then seek not a path against them; God is exalted and great.

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And if you fear a breach between them, raise up an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family. If they desire right ordering, God will reconcile them; God is knowing and aware.

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And serve God, and ascribe not a partnership with Him to anything; and towards parents good conduct, and towards relatives, and the fatherless, and the poor, and the neighbour who is kin, and the neighbour who is not kin, and the companion at your side, and the wayfarer, and those whom your right hands possess; God loves not whoso is a conceited boaster:

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Those who are miserly and enjoin miserliness upon men, and conceal what God has bestowed upon them of His bounty; and We have prepared for the false claimers of guidance a humiliating punishment;

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And those who spend their wealth to be seen of men, and believe not in God or the Last Day; and to whom the satan is a companion, then evil is he as a companion.

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And how would it harm them if they believed in God and the Last Day, and spent of what God has provided them? And God is of them knowing.

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God wrongs not the weight of an atom; and if there be any good, He multiplies it and gives of Himself a great reward.

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Then how will it be when We bring of every community a witness, and We bring thee as a witness against these?

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That day, those who ignore warning and oppose the Messenger will wish that the earth might be levelled with them; and they will not conceal from God any statement.

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O you who heed warning: approach not the duty when you are intoxicated until you understand what you say; nor when you are unclean (save passing by upon the path), until you wash. And if you were ill, or on a journey, or one of you comes from the privy, or you have lain with women, then find not water: resort to clean soil, and wipe your faces and your hands; God is pardoning and forgiving.

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Hast thou not considered those given a portion of the Writ, purchasing error and desiring to make you stray from the path?

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And God best knows your enemies; and sufficient is God as ally; and sufficient is God as helper.

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Some of those who hold to Judaism twist words from their places, — and they say: “We hear and we oppose”; and: “Hear thou what is not heard”; and: “Attend thou to us!” — twisting their tongues, and slandering the doctrine. And had they said: “We hear and we obey”; and: “Hear thou”; and: “Look thou upon us,” it would have been better for them, and more upright; but God has cursed them for their denial; and they do not believe save a few.

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O those given the Writ: believe in what We sent down confirming what is with you before We erase faces and turn them towards their backs, or curse them as We cursed the companions of the Sabbath; and the command of God is carried out.

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God forgives not that a partnership be ascribed to Him, but He forgives other than that whom He wills; and whoso ascribes a partnership to God, he has invented a tremendous sin.

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Hast thou not considered those who think themselves pure? The truth is, God increases in purity whom He wills; and they will not be wronged a hair upon a date-stone.

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See thou how they invent lies about God; and it suffices as an obvious sin.

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Hast thou not considered those given a portion of the Writ, believing in fictions and idols, and saying of those who ignore warning: “These are better guided in the path than those who heed warning”?

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Those are they whom God has cursed; and he whom God curses, thou wilt not find for him a helper.

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If they have a portion of dominion: then will they not give mankind a speck on a date-stone.

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If they envy men what God gave them of His bounty: then We had given the house of Abraham the Writ and wisdom; and We gave them great dominion.

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And among them are such as believed in it; and among them are such as turned away from it; and sufficient is Gehenna as an inferno.

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Those who deny Our proofs, We will burn them in a Fire; as often as their skins are burnt through We will change them for other skins, that they might taste the punishment; God is exalted in might and wise.

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And those who heed warning and do righteous deeds, We will make them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, they abiding eternally therein forever; they will have therein purified spouses, and We will make them enter a protecting canopy of shade.

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God commands you that you deliver up trusts to their owners; and when you judge between men, that you judge with justice. Excellent is what God admonishes you to do; God is hearing and seeing.

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O you who heed warning: obey God and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. And if you differ in anything, refer it to God and the Messenger, if you believe in God and the Last Day; that is best, and best in respect of result.

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Hast thou not considered those who claim to believe in what is sent down to thee, and what was sent down before thee, desiring to go for judgment to idols when they were commanded to reject it? And the satan desires to lead them far astray.

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And when it is said to them: “Come to what God has sent down, and to the Messenger,” thou seest the waverers turn away from thee in aversion.

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How will it be when calamity befalls them because of what their hands have sent ahead? Then will they come to thee, swearing by God: “We intended only good conduct and success!”

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Those are they of whom God knows what is in their hearts; turn thou away from them; but admonish thou them, and speak thou to them concerning their souls an effective word.

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And We sent any messenger only that he be obeyed by the leave of God. And had they, when they wronged their souls, come to thee and asked forgiveness of God, and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found God accepting of repentance and merciful.

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But no, by thy Lord, they do not believe until they make thee judge in what arises between them, then find in their souls no distress at what thou decidest, and submit fully!

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And had We prescribed for them: “Kill yourselves,” or: “Go forth from your homes,” there would have done it only a few among them; and had they done what they were exhorted, it would have been better for them and a stronger confirmation,

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And then would We have given them from Us a great reward

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And guided them by a straight path.

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And whoso obeys God and the Messenger, those are with them whom God has favoured of the prophets, and the men of truth, and the witnesses, and the righteous; and good are those as companions.

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That is the bounty from God; and sufficient is God as knower.

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O you who heed warning: take your precautions, and advance in groups or advance all together.

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And among you is he who delays; then if calamity befalls you, he says: “God was gracious to me in that I was not present with them.”

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But if there reaches you bounty from God, he will say as if there had never been any affection between you and him: “Would that I had been with them, so I could have achieved a great achievement!”

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And let fight in the cause of God those who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter; and whoso fights in the cause of God, be he killed or victorious, We will bestow upon him a great reward.

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And why should you not fight in the cause of God, and of the oppressed among the men, and the women, and the children who say: “Our Lord: take Thou us out of this city whose people are wrongdoers; and give Thou us from Thyself an ally; and give Thou us from Thyself a helper”?

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Those who heed warning fight in the cause of God; and those who ignore warning fight in the cause of idols. Then fight the allies of the satan; the plan of the satan is weak.

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Hast thou not considered those to whom it was said: “Restrain your hands; and uphold the duty, and render the purity,” but when fighting is prescribed for them, then a faction among them fears men like the fear of God, or a stronger fear? And they said: “Our Lord: why hast Thou prescribed fighting for us? Oh, that Thou wouldst but delay us a little while!” Say thou: “Little is the enjoyment of the World”; and the Hereafter is better for him who is in prudent fear; and you will not be wronged a hair upon a date-stone.

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Wherever you be, death will overtake you, though you be in castles built high. And if good befalls them, they say: “This is from God”; and if evil befalls them, they say: “This is from thee.” Say thou: “All is from God.” Then what ails these people that they scarcely understand a statement?

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What befalls thee of good, it is from God; and what befalls thee of evil, it is from thyself. And We have sent thee to mankind as a messenger; and sufficient is God as witness.

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Whoso obeys the Messenger, he has obeyed God; and whoso turns away: We sent thee not as a custodian over them.

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And they talk obedience; but when they emerge from thy presence, a number among them plans by night other than what thou sayest. And God records what they plan by night; so turn thou away from them, and place thou thy trust in God; and God is sufficient as disposer of affairs.

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(Will they then not consider the Qur’an with care! And had it been from other than God, they would have found therein much contradiction.)

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And when there comes to them a matter of security or fear, they spread it about; and had they referred it to the Messenger and to those in authority among them, there would have known it those who draw correct conclusions among them; and were it not for the bounty of God to you, and His mercy, you would have followed the satan, save a few.

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So fight thou in the cause of God; thou art not charged save with thyself. And rouse thou the believers: it may be that God will restrain the might of those who ignore warning; and God is stronger in might, and stronger in exemplary punishment.

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Whoso intercedes in a good cause has a share thereof; and whoso intercedes in an evil cause has a portion thereof; and God is over all things, nourisher.

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And when you are greeted with a greeting, greet with better than it, or return it; God takes account of all things.

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God, there is no god save He. He will gather you all to the Day of Resurrection whereof there is no doubt; and who is more truthful than God in statement?

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What ails you who, concerning the waverers, are two parties? And God turned them back for what they earned. Seek you to guide him whom God sent astray? And he whom God sends astray, for him thou wilt not find a path.

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They would that you should deny even as they deny, so you might be the same. And take not allies among them until they emigrate in the cause of God; then if they turn back: take them and kill them wheresoever you find them. And take no ally or helper among them

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Save those who join a people between whom and you is an agreement, or they come to you, their hearts restraining them from fighting you or fighting their people. And had God willed, He would have given them power over you; then would they have fought you. And if they withdraw from you and fight you not and extend to you peace, then has God made no path for you against them.

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You will find others desiring safety from you, and safety from their people; as often as they are turned back to the means of denial, they are turned over to it. And if they withdraw not from you and extend to you peace and restrain their hands, take them and kill them wheresoever you find them; and over those have We given you a clear authority.

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It is not for a believer to kill a believer save in error; and whoso kills a believer in error: the manumission of a believing slave, and blood-money delivered to his family save if they forgive by way of charity. And if he be of a people at enmity with you and a believer: the manumission of a believing slave; and if he be of a people between whom and you is a treaty: blood-money delivered to his family, and the manumission of a believing slave. And whoso has not the means: a fast of two months consecutively as repentance from God; and God is knowing and wise.

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And whoso kills a believer intentionally: his reward is Gehenna, he abiding eternally therein; and God is wroth with him, and has cursed him, and has prepared for him a great punishment.

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O you who heed warning: when you go forth in the cause of God, verify; and say not to one who offers you peace: “Thou art not a believer,” seeking the transitory things of the life of this world; for with God are many spoils. Thus were you before, but God was gracious to you. So verify; God is aware of what you do.

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Not equal are those among the believers who sit — those without injury — and those who strive in the cause of God with their wealth and their lives. God has favoured those who strive with their wealth and their lives with a degree above those who sit; and each has God promised good, but He has favoured those who strive over those who sit with a great reward,

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Degrees from Him, and forgiveness and mercy; and God is forgiving and merciful.

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Those whom the angels take wronging their souls — they say: “In what condition were you?” Say they: “We were oppressed in the land.” They say: “Was not God’s earth spacious for you to emigrate therein?” — those: their shelter is Gehenna; and evil is it as a journey’s end;

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Save the oppressed among the men, and the women, and the children — without means, nor guided to a path;

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Those: it may be that God will pardon them; and God is pardoning and forgiving.

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And whoso emigrates in the cause of God will find in the earth much refuge and abundance; and whoso leaves his house as an émigré to God and His messenger, then death overtakes him: his reward is upon God; and God is forgiving and merciful.

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And when you are travelling in the earth, you do no wrong to cut short some of the duty if you fear that those who ignore warning will subject you to means of denial — the false claimers of guidance are an open enemy to you —

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And when thou art among them, uphold thou the duty for them; then let there stand a number of them with thee, and let them take their arms; then when they have submitted, let them be behind you and let another number come that has not performed the duty, and let them perform the duty with thee; and let them take their precautions and their arms. (Those who ignore warning wish that you would neglect your arms and your equipment, so they might assault you in a single assault; but you do no wrong if there is a hindrance to you from rain or you are sick, that you lay aside your arms; but take your precautions: God has prepared for the false claimers of guidance a humiliating punishment.)

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And when you have concluded the duty, remember God standing, and sitting, and upon your sides, and when you are at ease; but uphold the duty — the duty is upon the believers a time-limited Writ —

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And faint not in seeking the people; if you are suffering, then are they suffering even as you are suffering; but you hope from God for that for which they hope not; and God is knowing and wise.

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We have sent down to thee the Writ with the truth, that thou mightest judge between men by what God has shown thee; and be thou not an advocate for the treacherous;

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And ask thou forgiveness of God; God is forgiving and merciful.

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And argue thou not on behalf of those who deceive themselves; God loves not him who is treacherous and sinful.

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They conceal from men, but they conceal not from God; and He is with them when they plan by night what is displeasing to Him of speech; and God encompasses what they do.

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Here you are, those who have argued on their behalf in the life of this world; but who will argue with God on their behalf on the Day of Resurrection, or who will be their guardian?

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And whoso does evil or wrongs his soul then seeks forgiveness of God, he will find God forgiving and merciful.

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And whoso commits a sin only commits it against himself; and God is knowing and wise.

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And whoso commits an offence or any sin then casts it upon an innocent, he has laid upon himself calumny and obvious sin.

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And were it not for the bounty of God and His mercy upon thee, a number of them had purposed to lead thee astray; and they lead astray only themselves, and they harm thee not at all. And God sent down upon thee the Writ and wisdom; and He has taught thee what thou knewest not. And the bounty of God towards thee is tremendous.

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There is no good in much of their private conversation — save whoso enjoins charity or what is fitting, or right ordering among men; and whoso does that, seeking the good pleasure of God, We will bestow upon him a great reward.

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And whoso makes a breach with the Messenger after the guidance has become clear to him and follows other than the path of the believers: We will turn him to that to which he turns, and burn him in Gehenna; and evil is it as a journey’s end.

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God forgives not that a partnership be ascribed to Him; but He forgives other than that whom He wills. And whoso ascribes a partnership to God, he has strayed far away.

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They call besides to Him save to females; and they call save to a rebellious satan

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Whom God cursed; and he said: “I will take of Thy servants an appointed portion”;

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And: “I will lead them astray”; and: “I will arouse desires in them”; and: “I will command them and they will slit the ears of cattle”; and: “I will command them and they will change the creation of God.” And whoso takes the satan for ally instead of God, he has suffered clear loss.

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He promises them, and arouses desires in them; and the satan promises them only delusion.

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Those: their shelter is Gehenna; and they will find therefrom no place of refuge.

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But those who heed warning and do righteous deeds: We will make them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, they abiding eternally therein forever. The promise of God is true; and who is more truthful than God in speech?

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It is not according to your vain desires, nor the vain desires of the doctors of the Law; whoso does evil has the recompense thereof and will not find, besides God, ally or helper.

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And whoso does any righteous deeds, whether male or female, and is a believer: those enter the Garden, and they are not wronged a speck on a date-stone.

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And who is better in doctrine than he who submits his face to God, and is a doer of good, and follows the creed of Abraham, inclining to truth? And God took Abraham as a friend.

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And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and God encompasses all things.

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And they ask thee for a ruling concerning women. Say thou: “God gives you the ruling concerning them,” — and what is recited to you in the Writ concerning the fatherless women (to whom you give not what is prescribed for them, and yet desire to marry them) and concerning the oppressed among children; and that you stand up for equity for the fatherless. And whatever you do of good, God knows it.

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But if a woman fears contempt or aversion from her husband, they do no wrong that they do right between themselves in peace; and making right is better; and avarice is present in the souls. But if you do good and are in prudent fear, then is God aware of what you do.

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And you will not be able to deal equally between wives, though you be desirous; but turn not entirely away leaving one as if suspended. And if you do right and are in prudent fear, God is forgiving and merciful.

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But if they part, God will enrich each out of His abundance; and God is encompassing and wise.

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And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and We have enjoined those given the Writ before you, and you yourselves, that you be in prudent fear of God. And if you deny, then to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and God is free from need and praiseworthy.

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And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and God is sufficient as disposer of affairs.

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If He wills, He will remove you, O mankind, and bring forth others; and God has power over that.

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Whoso desires the reward of the World: — then with God is the reward of the World and the Hereafter; and God is hearing and seeing.

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O you who heed warning: stand firm with equity, witnesses to God, though it be against yourselves, or parents, or relatives; whether he be rich or poor, God is closer to both. So follow not vain desire lest you be unjust; and if you distort or evade, God is aware of what you do.

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O you who heed warning: believe in God and His messenger and the Writ that He has sent down upon His messenger, and the Writ that He sent down before; and whoso denies God and His angels, and His Writs, and His messengers, and the Last Day: he has strayed far away.

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Those who heed warning; then deny; then believe; then deny; then increase in denial: God will not forgive them, nor guide them on a path.

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Bear thou tidings to the waverers that they have a painful punishment;

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Those who take the false claimers of guidance as allies rather than the believers, do they seek with them power and glory? But power and glory belong to God altogether.

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(And He has sent down upon you in the Writ that when you hear the proofs of God denied and mocked: “Sit not with them until they discourse vainly concerning a subject other than that; then would you be like them.”) God will gather the waverers and the false claimers of guidance into Gehenna all together:

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Those who watch and wait with regard to you. Then if there be a victory for you from God they say: “Were we not with you?” but if there be for the false claimers of guidance a portion they say: “Did we not gain mastery over you, but defended you against the believers?” And God will judge between you on the Day of Resurrection; and God makes not for the false claimers of guidance any path against the believers.

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The waverers seek to deceive God, but He is deceiving them; and when they rise up for the duty, they rise up to be seen of men, and remember not God save a little,

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Wavering in-between — neither to these, nor to those; and he whom God causes to go astray, thou wilt not find for him a path.

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O you who heed warning: take not the false claimers of guidance as allies instead of the believers; would you give God over you a clear authority?

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The waverers will be in the lowest depths of the Fire; and thou wilt find no helper for them

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Save those who repent, and make right, and hold fast to God, and are sincere in their doctrine to God; those are with the believers, and God will give the believers a great reward.

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What has God to do with your punishment if you are grateful and believe? And God is grateful and knowing.

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God likes not the public mention of evil save by one wronged; and God is hearing and knowing.

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If you reveal good, or keep it secret, or forgive evil — God is pardoning and powerful.

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Those who deny God and His messengers and wish to make a distinction between God and His messengers, and say: “We believe in some and deny some,” and wish to choose a path in-between:

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It is they who are the false claimers of guidance in truth; and We have prepared for the false claimers of guidance a humiliating punishment.

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And those who believe in God and His messengers and make not a distinction between any of them, those will God give their rewards; and God is forgiving and merciful.

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The doctors of the Law ask thee to bring down upon them a Writ from the sky; and they asked of Moses greater than that; they said: “Show thou us God openly”; so the thunderbolt seized them for their injustice. Then took they up the calf after clear signs had come to them, and We pardoned that; and We gave Moses a clear authority.

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And We raised above them the mount for their agreement; and We said to them: “Enter the gate in submission”; and We said to them: “Transgress not the Sabbath”; and We took from them a stern agreement.

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So, because of their violation of their agreement, and their denial of the proofs of God, and their killing of the prophets without cause, and their saying: “Our hearts are covered,” — nay, God sealed them for their denial, so they do not believe save a few —

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And because of their denial, and their saying against Mary a tremendous calumny,

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And for their saying: “We killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of God,” — and they killed him not nor crucified him, but it seemed so to them; and those who dispute concerning it are in doubt thereof, no knowledge have they thereof save the pursuit of conjecture — and they killed him not of a certainty;

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(Nay, God brought it before Him; and God is exalted in might and wise.

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And there is no doctor of the Law save will believe therein before his death; and on the Day of Resurrection it will be witness against them.)

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So, for injustice among those who hold to Judaism, We made unlawful to them good things which had been lawful to them, and for their turning away from the path of God much,

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And for their taking of usury when they had been forbidden it, and their consuming the wealth of men in vanity; and We have prepared for the false claimers of guidance among them a painful punishment.

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But those firm in knowledge and the believers among them believe in what is sent down to thee, and what was sent down before thee, as do the upholders of the duty, and the renderers of the purity, and the believers in God and the Last Day — those will We give a great reward.

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We have revealed to thee as We revealed to Noah and the prophets after him, and We revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac, and Jacob and the Grandsons, and Jesus and Job and Jonah and Aaron and Solomon, and We gave David writings,

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And messengers We have related to thee before, and messengers We have not related to thee, — and God spoke to Moses with speech —

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Messengers as bearers of glad tidings and warners, that men might have no argument against God after the messengers; and God is exalted in might and wise.

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But God bears witness to what He has sent down to thee: He sent it down with His knowledge; and the angels bear witness, but sufficient is God as witness.

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Those who ignore warning and turn away from the path of God have strayed into far error.

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Those who ignore warning and do wrong — God will not forgive them, nor will He guide them on a road

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Save the road to Gehenna, they abiding eternally therein forever; and that is easy for God.

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O mankind: the Messenger has come to you with the truth from your Lord; so believe, it is better for you. And if you deny, to God belongs what is in the heavens and the earth; and God is knowing and wise.

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O doctors of the Law: exceed not bounds in your doctrine, nor ascribe to God save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary was only the messenger of God, and His word which He conveyed to Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His messengers, and say not: “Three.” Desist; it is best for you. God is but One God. Glory be to Him that He should have a son! To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and God is sufficient as disposer of affairs.

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The Messiah would not disdain to be a servant to God, nor would the angels brought near; and whoso disdains His service and waxes proud, He will gather them to Him all together.

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Then as for those who heed warning and do righteous deeds: He will give them their rewards in full, and increase them out of His bounty; and as for those who disdain and wax proud: He will punish them with a painful punishment; and they will not find for them, besides God, ally or helper.

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O mankind: there has come to you evidence from your Lord; and We have sent down to you a clear light.

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Then as for those who believe in God and hold fast to Him: He will make them enter into mercy from Him, and bounty; and He will guide them to Him by a straight path.

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They ask thee for a ruling. Say thou: “God gives you the ruling concerning those without an immediate heir: if a man perishes without a child but has a sister: for her is half of what he left, and he inherits from her if she has not a child. But if there are two females: for them is two-thirds of what he left. And if they are brethren, men and women: for the male is the like of the share of two females.” And God makes plain to you lest you go astray; and God knows all things.

Nisa Suresi