{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq004.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq004.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq004.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious\n Most Merciful.\n1. O mankind! reverence\n Your Guardian-Lord,\n Who created you\n From a single Person,\n Created, of like nature,\n His mate, and from them twain\n Scattered (like seeds)\n Countless men and women;\u2014\n Reverence God, through Whom\n Ye demand your mutual (rights),\n And (reverence) the wombs\n (That bore you): for God\n Ever watches over you.\n2. To orphans restore their property\n (When they reach their age),\n Nor substitute (your) worthless things\n For (their) good ones; and devour not\n Their substance (by mixing it up)\nWith your own. For this is\n I ndeed a great sin.\n3. If ye fear that ye shall not\n Be able to deal justly\n With the orphans,\n Marry women of your choice,\n Two, or three, or four;\n But if ye fear that ye shall not\n Be able to deal justly (with them),\n Then only one, or (a captive)\n That your right hands possess.\n That will be more suitable,\n To prevent you\n From doing injustice.\n4. And give the women\n (On marriage) their dower\n As a free gift; but if they,\n Of their own good pleasure,\n Remit any part of it to you,\n Take it and enjoy it\n With right good cheer.\n5. To those weak of understanding\n Make not over your property,\n Which God hath made\n A means of support for you,\n But feed and clothe them\n Therewith, and speak to them\n Words of kindness and justice.\n6. Make trial of orphans\n Until they reach the age\n Of marriage; if then ye find\n Sound judgment in them,\n Release their property to them;\n But consume it not wastefully,\n Nor in haste against their growing up.\n If the guardian is well-off,\n Let him claim no remuneration,\n But if he is poor, let him\n Have for himself what is\n Just and reasonable.\n When ye release their property\n To them, take witnesses\n In their presence:\n But all-sufficient\n Is God in taking account.\n7. From what is left by parents\n And those nearest relateds,\n There is a share for men\n And a share for women,\n Whether the property be small\n Or large,\u2014a determinate share.\n8. But if at the time of division\n Other relatives, or orphans,\n Or poor, are present,\n Feed them out of the (property),\n And speak to them\n Words of kindness and justice.\n9. Let those (disposing of an estate)\n Have the same fear in their minds\n As they would have for their own\n If they had left a helpless family behind:\n Let them fear God, and speak\n Words of appropriate (comfort),\n10. Those who unjustly\n Eat up the property\n Of orphans, eat up\n A Fire into their own\n Bodies: they will soon\n Be enduring a blazing Fire!\n11. God (thus) directs you\n As regards your children's\n (Inheritance): to the male,\n A portion equal to that\n Of two females: if only\n Daughters, two or more,\n Their share is two-thirds\n Of the inheritance;\n If only one, her share\n Is a half.\nFor parents, a sixth share\n Of the inheritance to each,\n If the deceased left children;\n If no children, and the parents\n Are the (only) heirs, the mother\n Has a third; if the deceased\n Left brothers (or sisters)\n The mother has a sixth.\n (The distribution in all cases\n Is) after the payment\n Of legacies and debts.\n Ye know not whether\n Your parents or your children\n Are nearest to you\n In benefit. These are\n Settled portions ordained\nBy God; and God is\n All-knowing, All-wise.\n12. In what your wives leave,\n Your share is a half,\n 1f they leave no child;\n But if they leave a child,\n Ye get a fourth; after payment\n Of legacies and debts.\n In what ye leave,\n Their share is a fourth,\n If ye leave no child;\n But if ye leave a child,\n They get an eighth; after payment\n Of legacies and debts.\nIf the man or woman\n Whose inheritance is in question,\n Has left neither ascendants nor descendants,\n But has left a brother\n Or a sister, each one of the two\n Gets a sixth; but if more\n Than two, they share in a third;\n After payment of legacies\n And debts; so that no loss\n Is caused (to any one).\n Thus is it ordained by God;\n And God is All-knowing,\n Most Forbearing.\n13. Those are limits\n Set by God: those who\n Obey God and His Apostle\n Will be admitted to Gardens\n With rivers flowing beneath,\n To abide therein (for ever)\n And that will be\n The Supreme achievement.\n14. But those who disobey\n God and His Apostle\n And transgress His limits\n Will be admitted\n To a Fire, to abide therein:\n And they shall have\n A humiliating punishment.\n15. If any of your women\n Are guilty of lewdness,\n Take the evidence of four\n (Reliable) witnesses from amongst you\n Against them; and if they testify,\n Confine them to houses until\n Death do claim them,\nOr God ordain for them\n Some (other) way.\n16. If two men among you\n Are guilty of lewdness,\n Punish them both.\n If they repent and amend,\n Leave them alone; for God\n Is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.\n17. God accepts the repentance\n Of those who do evil\n In ignorance and repent\n Soon afterwards; to them\n Will God turn in mercy:\n For God is full of knowledge\n And wisdom.\n18. Of no effect is the repentance\n Of those who continue\n To do evil, until Death\n Faces one of them, and he says,\n \"Now have I repented indeed;\"\n Nor of those who die\n Rejecting Faith: for them\n Have we prepared\n A punishment most grievous.\n19. O ye who believe!\n Ye are forbidden to inherit\n Women against their will.\n Nor should ye treat them\nWith harshness, that ye may\n Take away part of the dower\n Ye have given them,\u2014except\n Where they have been guilty\n Of open lewdness;\n On the contrary live with them\n On a footing of kindness and equity.\n If ye take a dislike to them\n It may be that ye dislike\n A thing, and God brings about\n Through it a great deal of good.\n20. But if ye decide to take\n One wife in place of another,\n Even if ye had given the latter\n A whole treasure for dower,\n Take not the least bit of it back:\n Would ye take it by slander\n And a manifest wrong?\n21. And how could ye take it\n When ye have gone in\n Unto each other, and they have\n Taken from you a solemn covenant?\n22. And marry not women\n Whom your fathers married,\u2014\n Except what is past:\n It was shameful and odious,\u2014\n An abominable custom indeed.\n23. Prohibited to you\n (For marriage) are:\u2014\n Your mothers, daughters,\n Sisters; father's sisters,\n Mother's sisters; brother's daughters,\n Sister's daugters; foster-mothers\n (Who gave you suck), foster-sisters;\n Your wives\u2019 mothers;\n Your step-daughters under your\n Guardianship, born of your wives\n To whom ye have gone in,\n No prohibition if ye have not gone in;\u2014\n (Those who have been)\n Wives of your sons proceeding\n From your loins;\n And two sisters in wedlock\n At one and the same time,\n Except for what is past;\n For God is Oft-forgiving,\n Most Merciful;\u2014\n24. Also (prohibited are)\n Women already married,\n Except those\n Whom your right hands possess:\n Thus hath God ordained\n (Prohibitions) against you:\n Except for these, all others\n Are lawful, provided\n Ye seek (them in marriage)\n With gifts from your property,\u2014\n Desiring chastity, not lust.\n Seeing that ye derive\n Benefit from them, give them\n Their dowers (at least)\n As prescribed; but if,\n After a dower is prescribed, ye agree\n Mutually (to vary it),\n There is no blame on you,\n And God is All-knowing\n All-wise.\n25. If any of you have not\n The means wherewith\n To wed free believing women,\n They may wed believing\n Girls from among those\n Whom your right hands possess:\n God hath full knowledge\n About your Faith.\n Ye are one from another:\n Wed them with the leave\n Of their owners, and give them\n Their dowers, according to what\nIs reasonable: they should be\n Chaste, not lustful, nor taking\n Paramours: when they\n Are taken in wedlock,\n If they fall into shame,\n Their punishment is half\n That for free women.\n This (permission) is for those\n Among you who fear sin;\n But it is better for you\n That ye practise self-restraint.\n And God is Oft-forgiving,\n Most Merciful.\n26. God doth wish\n To make clear to you\n And to show you\n The ordinances of those\n Before you; and (He\n Doth wish to) turn to you\n (In Mercy): and God\n Is All-knowing, All-wise.\n27. God doth wish\n To turn to you,\n But the wish of those\n Who follow their lusts\n Is that ye should turn\n Away (from Him),\n Far, far away.\n28. God doth wish\n To lighten your (difficulties);\n For man was created\n Weak (in flesh).\n29. O ye who believe! sot\n Eat not up your property\nAmong yourselves in vanities:\n But let there be amongst you\n Traffic and trade\n By mutual good-will:\n Nor kill (or destroy)\n Yourselves: for verily\n God hath been to you\n Most Merciful!\n30. If any do that\n In rancour and injustice,\u2014\n Soon shall We cast them\n Into the Fire: and easy\n It is for God.\n31. If ye (but) eschew\n The most heinous\n Of the things\n Which ye are forbidden to do,\n We shall expel\n Out of you\n All the evil in you,\n And admit you to a Gate\n Of great honour.\n32. And in no wise covet\n Those things in which God\n Hath bestowed His gifts\n More freely on some of you\n Than on others: to men\n Is allotted what they earn,\n And to women what they earn:\n But ask God of His bounty.\n For God hath full knowledge\n Of all things.\n33. To (benefit) every one,\n We have appointed\n Sharers and heirs\n To property left\nBy parents and relatives.\n To those, also, to whom\n Your right hand was pledged,\n Give their due portion.\n For truly God is witness\n To all things.\n34. Men are the protectors\n And maintainers of women,\n Because God has given\n The one more (strength)\n Than the other, and because\n They support them\n From their means.\n Therefore the righteous women\n Are devoutly obedient, and guard\n In (the husband's) absence\n What God would have them guard.\n As to those women\n On whose part ye fear\n Disloyalty and ill-conduct,\n Admonish them (first),\n (Next), refuse to share their beds,\n (And last) beat them (lightly);\n But if they return to obedience,\n Seek not against them\n Means (of annoyance):\nFor God is Most High,\n Great (above you all).\n35. If ye fear a breach\n Between them twain,\n Appoint (two) arbiters,\n One from his family,\n And the other from hers;\n If they wish for peace,\n God will cause\n Their reconciliation:\n For God hath full knowledge,\n And is acquainted\n With all things.\n36. serve God, and join not\n Any partners with Him;\n And do good\n To parents, kinsfolk,\n Orphans, those in need,\n Neighbours who are near,\n Neighbours who are strangers,\n The Companion by your side,\n The way-farer (ye meet),\n And what your right hands possess:\n For God loveth not\n The arrogant, the vainglorious;\u2014\n37. (Nor) those who are niggardly\n Or enjoin niggardliness on others,\n Or hide the bounties\n Which God hath bestowed\n On them; for We have prepared,\n For those who resist Faith,\n A Punishment that steeps\n Them in contempt;\u2014\n38. Not those who spend\n Of their substance, to be seen\n Of men, but have no faith\n In God and the Last Day:\n If any take the Evil One\n For their intimate,\n What a dreadful intimate he is!\n39. And what burden\n Were it on them if they\n Had faith in God\n And in the Last Day,\n And they spent\n Out of what God hath\n Given them for sustenance?\n For God hath full\n Knowledge of them.\n40. God is never unjust\n In the least degree:\n If there is any good (done),\n He doubleth it,\n And giveth from His own\n Presence a great reward.\n41. How then if We brought\n From each People a witness,\nAnd We brought thee\n As a witness against\n These People!\n42. On that day\n Those who reject Faith\n And disobey the Apostle\n Will wish that the earth\n Were made one with them:\n But never will they hide\n A single fact from God!\n43. O ye who believe!\n Approach not prayers\n With a mind befogged,\n Until ye can understand\n All that ye say,\n Nor in a state\n Of ceremonial impurity\n (Except when travelling on the road),\n Until after washing\n Your whole body.\n If ye are ill,\n Or on a journey,\n Or one of you cometh\n From offices of nature,\nOr ye have been\n In contact with women,\n And ye find no water,\n Then take for yourselves\n Clean sand or earth,\n And rub therewith\n Your faces and hands.\n For God doth blot out sins\n And forgive again and again.\n44. Hast thou not turned\n Thy vision to those\n Who were given a portion\n Of the Book? They traffic\n In error, and wish that ye\n Should lose the right path.\n45. But God hath full knowledge\n Of your enemies:\n God is enough for a Protector,\n And God is enough for a Helper.\n46. Of the Jews there are those\n Who displace words\n From their (right) places,\n And say: \"We hear\n And we disobey\";\n And \"Hear what is not\n Heard\"; and \"R\u0101\u2019in\u0101\";\u2014\n With a twist of their tongues\n And a slander to Faith.\n If only they had said:\n \"We hear and we obey;\n And \"Do hear\";\nAnd \"Do look at us\":\n It would have been better\n For them, and more proper;\n But God hath cursed them\n For their Unbelief; and but few\n Of them will believe.\n47. O ye People of the Book!\n Believe in what We\n Have (now) revealed, confirming\n What was (already) with you,\n Before We change the face and fame\n Of some (of you) beyond all recognition,\n And turn them hindwards,\n Or curse them as We cursed\n The Sabbath-breakers,\n For the decision of God\n Must be carried out.\n48. God forgiveth not\n That partners should be set up\n With Him; but He forgiveth\n Anything else, to whom\n He pleaseth; to set up\n Partners with God\n Is to devise a sin\n Most heinous indeed.\n49. Hast thou not turned\n Thy vision to those\n Who claim sanctity\n For themselves?\nNay\u2014but God\n Doth sanctify\n Whom He pleaseth.\n But never will they\n Fail to receive justice\n In the least little thing.\n50. Behold! how they invent\n A lie against God!\n But that by itself\n Is a manifest sin!\n51. Hast thou not turned\n Thy vision to those\n Who were given a portion\n Of the Book? They believe\n In Sorcery and Evil,\n And say to the Unbelievers\n That they are better guided\n In the (right) way\n Than the Believers!\n52. They are (men) whom\n God hath cursed:\n And those whom God\n Hath cursed, thou wilt find,\n Have no one to help.\n53. Have they a share\n In dominion or power?\n Behold, they give not a farthing\n To their fellow-men?\n54. Or do they envy mankind\n For what God hath given them\n Of his bounty? But We\n Had already given the people\n Of Abraham the Book\n And Wisdom, and conferred\n Upon them a great kingdom.\n55. Some of them believed,\n And some of them averted\n Their faces from him: and enough\n Is Hell for a burning fire.\n56. Those who reject\n Our Signs, We shall soon\n Cast into the Fire:\n As often as their skins\n Are roasted through,\n We shall change them\n For fresh skins,\n That they may taste\n The Penalty: for God\n Is Exalted in Power, Wise.\n57. But those who believe\n And do deeds of righteousness,\n We shall soon admit to Gardens,\n With rivers flowing beneath,\u2014\n Their eternal home:\n Therein shall they have\n Companions pure and holy: ye\n We shall admit them\n To shades, cool and ever deepening.\n58. God doth command you\n To render back your Trusts\n To those to whom they are due;\n And when ye judge\nBetween man and man,\n That ye judge with justice:\n Verily how excellent\n Is the teaching which He giveth you!\n For God is He Who heareth\n And seeth all things.\n59. O ye who believe!\n Obey God, and obey the Apostle,\n And those charged\n With authority among you.\n If ye differ in anything\n Among yourselves, refer it\n To God and His Apostle,\n If ye do believe in God\n And the Last Day:\n That is best, and most suitable\n For final determination.\n60. Hast thou not turned\n Thy vision to those\n Who declare that they believe\n In the revelations\n That have come to thee\n And to those before thee?\n Their (real) wish is\n To resort together for judgment\n (In their disputes)\n To the Evil One,\n Though they were ordered\n To reject him.\n But Satan's wish\n Is to lead them astray\n Far away (from the Right).\n61. When it is said to them:\n \"Come to what God hath revealed,\nAnd to the Apostle\":\n Thou seest the Hypocrites avert\n Their faces from thee in disgust.\n62. How then, when they are\n Seized by misfortune,\n Because of the deeds\n Which their hands have sent forth?\n Then they come to thee,\n Swearing by God:\n \"We meant no more\n Than good-will and conciliation!\"\n63. Those men,\u2014God knows\n What is in their hearts;\n So keep clear of them,ss:\n But admonish them,\n And speak to them a word\n To reach their very souls.\n64. We sent not an Apostle,\n But to be obeyed, in accordance\n With the Will of God.\n If they had only,\n When they were unjust\n To themselves,\n Come unto thee\n And asked God's forgiveness,\n And the Apostle had asked\n Forgiveness for them,\n They would have found\n God indeed Oft-returning,\n Most Merciful.\n65. But no, by thy Lord,\n They can have\n No (real) Faith,\n Until they make thee judge\n In all disputes between them,\n And find in their souls\n No resistance against\n Thy decisions, but accept\n Them with the fullest conviction.\n66. If We had ordered them\n To sacrifice their lives\n Or to leave their homes,\n Very few of them\n Would have done it:\n But if they had done\n What they were (actually) told,\n It would have been best\n For them, and would have gone\n Farthest to strengthen their (faith);\n67. And We should then have\n Given them from Our Presence\n A great reward;\n68. And We should have\n Shown them the Straight Way.\n69. All who obey God\n And the Apostle\n Are in the company\n Of those on whom\n Is the Grace of God,\u2014\n Of the Prophets (who teach),\n The Sincere (lovers of Truth),\n The Witnesses (who testify),\n And the Righteous (who do good):\n Ah! what a beautiful Fellowship!\n70. Such is the Bounty\n From God: and sufficient\n Is it that God knoweth all.\n71. O ye who believe!\n Take your precautions,\n And either go forth in parties\n Or go forth all together.\n72. There are certainly among you\n Men who would tarry behind:\n If a misfortune befalls you,\n They say: \"God did favour us\n In that we were not\n Present among them.\"\n73. But if good fortune comes to you\n From God, they would be sure\n To say\u2014as if there had never been\n Ties of affection between you and them\u2014\n\"Oh! I wish I had been with them;\n A fine thing should I then\n Have made of it!\"\n74. Let those fight\n In the cause of God\n Who sell the life of this world\n For the Hereafter.\n To him who fighteth\n In the cause of God,\u2014\n Whether he is slain\n Or gets victory\n Soon shall We give him\n A reward of great (value).\n75. And why should ye not\n Fight in the cause of God\n And of those who, being weak,\n Are ill-treated (and oppressed)?\u2014\n Men, women, and children,\n Whose cry is: \"Our Lord!\n Rescue us from this town,\n Whose people are oppressors;\n And raise for us from Thee\n One who will protect;\n And raise for us from Thee\n One who will help!\"\n76. Those who believe\n Fight in the cause of God,\n And those who reject Faith\n Fight in the cause of Evil:\n So fight ye against the\n Friends of Satan: feeble indeed\n Is the cunning of Satan.\n77. Hast thou not turned\n Thy vision to those\nWho were told to hold back\n Their hands (from fight)\n But establish regular prayers\n And spend in regular Charity?\n When (at length) the order\n For fighting was issued to them,\n Behold! a section of them\n Feared men as\n Or even more than\n They should have feared God:\n They said: \"Our Lord!\n Why hast Thou ordered us\n To fight? Wouldst Thou not\n Grant us respite\n To our (natural) term,\n Near (enough)?\" Say: \"Short\n Is the enjoyment of this world:\n The Hereafter is the best\n For those who do right:\n Never will ye be\n Dealt with unjustly\n In the very least!\n78. \"Wherever ye are,\n Death will find you out,\n Even if ye are in towers\n Built up strong and high!\"\nIf some good befalls them,\n They say, \"This is from God\";\n But if evil, they say,\n \"This is from thee\" (O Prophet).\nSay: \"All things are from God.\"\n But what hath come\n To these people,\n That they fail\n To understand\n A single fact?\n79. Whatever good, (O man!)\n Happens to thee, is from God;\n But whatever evil happens\n To thee, is from thy (own) soul.\n And We have sent thee\n As an Apostle\n To (instruct) mankind.\n And enough is God\n For a witness.\n80 He who obeys\n The Apostle, obeys God:\n But if any turn away,\n We have not sent thee\n To watch over\n Their (evil deeds).\n81. They have \"Obedience\"\n On their lips; but\n When they leave thee,\n A section of them\n Meditate all night\n On things very different\n From what thou tellest them.\n But God records\n Their nightly (plots):\n So keep clear of them,\n And put thy trust in God,\n And enough is God\nAs a disposer of affairs.\n82. Do they not consider\n The Qur-\u0101n (with care)?\n Had it been from other\n Than God, they would surely\n Have found therein\n Much discrepancy.\n83. When there comes to them\n Some matter touching\n (Public) safety or fear,\n They divulge it.\n If they had only referred it\n To the Apostle, or to those\n Charged with authority\n Among them, the proper\n Investigators would have\n Tested it from them (direct).\n Were it not for the Grace\n And Mercy of God unto you,\n All but a few of you\n Would have fallen\n Into the clutches of Satan.\n84. Then fight in God's cause\u2014\n Thou art held responsible\n Only for thyself\u2014\n And rouse the Believers.\n It may be that God\n Will restrain the fury\nOf the Unbelievers;\n For God is the strongest\n In might and in punishment.\n85. Whoever recommends\n And helps a good cause\n Becomes a partner therein:\n And whoever recommends\n And helps an evil cause,\n Shares in its burden:\n And God hath power\n Over all things.\n86. When a (courteous) greeting\n Is offered you, meet it\n With a greeting still more\n Courteous, or (at least)\n Of equal courtesy.\n God takes careful account\n Of all things.\n87. God! There is no god\n But He: of a surety\n He will gather you together\n Against the Day of Judgment,\n About which there is no doubt.\n And whose word can be\n Truer than God's?\n88. Why should ye be\n Divided into two parties\nAbout the Hypocrites?\n God hath upset them\n For their (evil) deeds.\n Would ye guide those\n Whom God hath thrown\n Out of the Way? For those\n Whom God hath thrown\n Out of the Way, never\n Shalt thou find the Way.\n89. They but wish that ye\n Should reject Faith,\n As they do, and thus be\n On the same footing (as they):\n But take not friends\n From their ranks\n Until they flee\n In the way of God\n (From what is forbidden).\n But if they turn renegades,\n Seize them and slay them\n Wherever ye find them;\n And (in any case) take\n No friends or helpers\n From their ranks:\u2014\n90. Except those who join\n A group between whom\n And you there is a treaty\n(Of peace), or those who approach\n You with hearts restraining\n Them from fighting you\n As well as fighting their own\n People. If God had pleased,\n He could have given them\n Power over you, and they\n Would have fought you:\n Therefore if they withdraw\n From you but fight you not,\n And (instead) send you\n (Guarantees of) peace, then God\n Hath opened no way\n For you (to war against them).\n91. Others you will find\n That wish to gain\n Your confidence as well\n As that of their people:\n Every time they are sent back\n To temptation, they succumb\n Thereto: if they withdraw not\n From you nor give you (guarantees)\n Of peace besides\n Restraining their hands,\n Seize them and slay them\n Wherever ye get them:\n In their case\n We have provided you\n With a clear argument\n Against them.\n92. Never should a Believer\n Kill a Believer; but\n (If it so happens) by mistake,\n (Compensation is due):\n If one (so) kills a Believer,\n It is ordained that he\n Should free a believing slave,\n And pay compensation\n To the deceased's family,\n Unless they remit it freely.\n If the deceased belonged\n To a people at war with you,\n And he was a Believer,\n The freeing of a believing slave\n (Is enough). If he belonged\n To a people with whom\n Ye have a treaty of mutual\n Alliance, compensation should\n Be paid to his family,\n And a believing slave be freed.\n For those who find this\n Beyond their means, (is prescribed)\n A fast for two months\n Running: by way of repentance\n To God: for God hath\n All knowledge and all wisdom.\n93.1f a man kills a Believer\n Intentionally, his recompense\n Is Hell, to abide therein\n (For ever): and the wrath\n And the curse of God\n Are upon him, and\n A dreadful penalty\n Is prepared for him.\n94. O ye who believe!\n When ye go abroad\n In the cause of God,\n Investigate carefully,\n And say not to any one\n Who offers you a salutation:\n \"Thou art none of a Believer!\"\n Coveting the perishable goods\n Of this life: with God\n Are profits and spoils abundant.\n Even thus were ye yourselves\n Before, till God conferred\n On you His favours: therefore\n Carefully investigate.\n For God is well aware\n Of all that ye do.\n95. Not equal are those\n Believers who sit (at home)\n And receive no hurt,\n And those who strive\n And fight in the cause\n Of God with their goods\n And their persons.\n God hath granted\n A grade higher to those\n Who strive and fight\nWith their goods and persons\n Than to those who sit (at home).\n Unto all (in Faith)\n Hath God promised good:\n But those who strive and fight\n Hath He distinguished\n Above those who sit (at home)\n By a special reward,\u2014\n96. Ranks specially bestowed\n By Him. And Forgiveness\n And Mercy. For God is\n Oft forgiving, Most Merciful.\n97. When angels take\n The souls of those\n Who die in sin\n Against their souls,\n They say: \"In what (plight)\n Were ye?\" They reply:\n \"Weak and oppressed\n Were we in the earth.\"\n They say: \"Was not\n The earth of God\n Spacious enough for you\n To move yourselves away\n (From evil)?\" Such men\n Will find their abode\n In Hell,\u2014What an evil\n Refuge!\u2014\n98. Except those who are\n (Really) weak and oppressed\u2014\n Men, women, and children\u2014\n Who have no means\n In their power, nor (a guide-post)\n To direct their way.\n99. For these, there is hope\n That God will forgive:\n For God doth blot out (sins)\n And forgive again and again.\n100. He who forsakes his home\n In the cause of God,\n Finds in the earth\n Many a refuge,\n Wide and spacious:\n Should he die\n As a refugee from home\n For God and His Apostle,\n His reward becomes due\n And sure with God:\n And God is Oft-forgiving,\n Most Merciful.\n101. When ye travel\n Through the earth,\n There is no blame on you\n If ye shorten your prayers,\n For fear the Unbelievers\n May attack you:\n For the Unbelievers are\n Unto you open enemies.\n102. When thou (O Apostle)\n Art with them, and standest\n To lead them in prayer,\n Let one party of them\n Stand up (in prayer) with thee,\n Taking their arms with them:\n When they finish\n Their prostrations, let them\n Take their position in the rear.\n And let the other party come up\n Which hath not yet prayed\u2014\n And let them pray with thee,\n Taking all precautions,\n And bearing arms:\n The Unbelievers wish,\n If ye were negligent\n Of your arms and your baggage,\n To assault you in a single rush.\n But there is no blame on you\n If ye put away your arms\n Because of the inconvenience\n Of rain or because ye are ill;\n But take (every) precaution\n For yourselves. For the\n Unbelievers\n God hath prepared\n A humiliating punishment.\n103. When ye pass\n (Congregational) prayers,\n Celebrate God's praises,\n Standing, sitting down,\n Or lying down on your sides;\n But when ye are free\n From danger, set up\n Regular Prayers:\n For such prayers\n Are enjoined on Believers\n At stated times.\n104. And slacken not\n In following up the enemy:\n If ye are suffering hardships,\n They are suffering similar\n Hardships; but ye have\n Hope from God, while they\n Have none. And God\n Is full of knowledge and wisdom.\n105. We have sent down\n To thee the Book in truth,\n That thou might test judge\n Between men, as guided\n By God: so be not (used)\n As an advocate by those\n Who betray their trust;\n106. But seek the forgiveness\n Of God; for God is\n Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.\n107. Contend not on behalf\n Of such as betray\n Their own souls;\n For God loveth not\n One given to perfidy\n And crime;\n108. They may hide\n (Their crimes) from men,\n But they cannot hide\n (Them) from God, seeing that\n He is in their midst\n When they plot by night,\n In words that He cannot\n Approve: and God\n Doth compass round\n All that they do.\n109. Ah! these are the sort\n Of men on whose behalf\n Ye may contend in this world;\n But who will contend with God\n On their behalf on the Day\n Of Judgment, or who\n Will carry their affairs through?\n110. If any one does evil\n Or wrongs his own soul\n But afterwards seeks\n God's forgiveness, he will find\n God Oft-forgiving,\n Most Merciful.\n111. And if any one earns\n Sin, he earns it against\nHis own soul: for God\n Is full of knowledge and wisdom.\n112. But if any one earns\n A fault or a sin\n And throws it on to one\n That is innocent,\n He carries (on himself)\n (Both) a falsehood\n And a flagrant sin.\n113. But for the Grace of God\n To thee and His Mercy,\n A party of them would\n Certainly have plotted\n To lead thee astray.\n But (in fact) they will only\n Lead their own souls astray,\n And to thee they can do\n No harm in the least.\n For God hath sent down\n To thee the Book and Wisdom\n And taught thee what thou\n Knewest not (before):\n And great is the Grace\n Of God unto thee.\n114. In most of their secret talks\n There is no good: but if\n One exhorts to a deed\n Of charity or justice\n Or conciliation between men,\n (Secrecy is permissible):\n To him who does this,\n Seeking the good pleasure\n Of God, We shall soon give\n A reward of the highest (value).\n115. If anyone contends with\n The Apostle even after\n Guidance has been plainly\n Conveyed to him, and follows\n A path other than that\n Becoming to men of Faith,\n We shall leave him\n In the path he has chosen,\n And land him in Hell,\u2014\n What an evil refuge!\n116. God forgiveth not\n (The sin of) joining other gods\n With Him; but He forgiveth\n Whom He pleaseth other sins\n Than this: one who joins\n Other gods with God,\n Hath strayed far, far away\n (From the Right).\n117. (The Pagans), leaving Him,\n Call but upon female deities:\n They call but upon Satan\n The persistent rebel!\n118. God did curse him,\n But he said: \"I will take\n Of Thy servants a portion\n Marked off;\n119. \"I will mislead them,\n And I will create\nIn them false desires; I will\n Order them to slit the ears\n Of cattle, and to deface\n The (fair) nature created\n By God.\" Whoever,\n Forsaking God, takes Satan\n For a friend, hath\n Of a surety suffered\n A loss that is manifest.\n120. Satan makes them promises,\n And creates in them false desires;\n But Satan's promises\n Are nothing but deception.\n121. They (his dupes)\n Will have their dwelling\n In Hell, and from it\n They will find no way\n Of escape.\n122. But those who believe\n And do deeds of righteousness,\u2014\n We shall soon admit them\n To Gardens, with rivers\n Flowing beneath,\u2014to dwell\n Therein for ever.\n God's promise is the truth,\n And whose word can be\n Truer than God's?\n123. Not your desires, nor those\n Of the People of the Book\n(Can prevail): whoever\n Works evil, will be\n Requited accordingly.\n Nor will he find, besides God,\n Any protector or helper.\n124. If any do deeds\n Of righteousness,\n Be they male or female\u2014\n And have faith,\n They will enter Heaven,\n And not the least injustice\n Will be done to them.\n125. Who can be better\n In religion than one\n Who submits his whole self\n To God, does good,\n And follows the way\n Of Abraham the true in faith?\n For God did take\n Abraham for a friend.\n126. But to God belong all things\n In the heavens and on earth:\n And He it is that\n Encompasseth all things.\n127. They ask thy instruction\n Concerning the Women\n Say: God doth\n Instruct you about them:\n And (remember) what hath\n Been rehearsed unto you\n In the Book, concerning\n The orphans of women to whom\n Ye give not the portions\n Prescribed, and yet whom ye\n Desire to marry, as also\n Concerning the children\n Who are weak and oppressed:\n That ye stand firm\n For justice to orphans.\n There is not a good deed\n Which ye do, but God\n Is well-acquainted therewith.\n128. If a wife fears\n Cruelty or desertion\n On her husband's part,\n There is no blame on them\n If they arrange\n An amicable settlement\n Between themselves;\n And such settlement is best;\nEven though men's souls\n Are swayed by greed.\n But if ye do good\n And practise self-restraint,\n God is well-acquainted\n With all that ye do.\n129. Ye are never able\n To be fair and just\n As between women,\n Even if it is\n Your ardent desire:\n But turn not away\n (From a woman) altogether,\n So as to leave her (as it were)\n Hanging (in the air).\n If ye come to a friendly\n Understanding, and practise\n Self-restraint, God is\n Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.\n130. But if they disagree\n (And must part), God\n Will provide abundance\n For all from His\n All-reaching bounty:\n For God is He\n That careth for all\n And is Wise.\n131. To God belong all things\n In the heavens and on earth.\nVerily We have directed\n The People of the Book\n Before you, and you (O Muslims).\n To fear God. But if ye\n Deny Him, to! unto God\n Belong all things\n In the heavens and on earth,\n And God is free\n Of all wants, worthy\n Of all praise.\n132. Yea, unto God belong\n All things in the heavens\n And on earth, and enough\n Is God to carry through\n All affairs.\n133. If it were His Will,\n He could destroy you,\n O mankind, and create\n Another race; for He\n Hath power this to do.\n134. If any one desires\n A reward in this life,\n In God's (gift) is the reward\n (Both) of this life\n And of the Hereafter:\n For God is He that heareth\n And seeth (all things).\n135. O ye who believe!\n Stand out firmly\n For justice, as witnesses\n To God, even as against\n Yourselves, or your parents,\n Or your kin, and whether\n It be (against) rich or poor:\n For God can best protect both.\n Follow not the lusts\n (Of your hearts), lest ye\n Swerve, and if ye\n Distort (justice) or decline\n To do justice, verily\n God is well-acquainted\n With all that ye do.\n136. O ye who believe!\n Believe in God\n And His Apostle,\n And the scripture which He\n Hath sent to His Apostle\n And the scripture which He sent\n To those before (him)\n Any who denieth God,\n His angels, His Books,\n His Apostles, and the Day\n Of Judgment, hath gone\n Far, far astray.\n137. Those who believe,\n Then reject Faith,\n Then believe (again)\n And (again) reject Faith,\n And go on increasing\n In Unbelief,\u2014God\n Will not forgive them\n Nor guide them on the Way.\n138. To the Hypocrites give\n The glad tidings that\n There is for them\n (But) a grievous Penalty;\u2014\n139. Yea, to those who take\n For friends Unbelievers\n Rather than Believers:\n Is it honour they seek\n Among them? Nay,\u2014\n All honour is with God.\n140. Already has He sent you\n Word in the Book, that when\n Ye hear the Signs of God\n Held in defiance and ridicule,\n Ye are not to sit with them\n Unless they turn to a different\n Theme: if ye did, ye would be\n Like them. For God will\n Collect the Hypocrites and those\n Who defy Faith\u2014all in Hell;\u2014\n141. (These are) the ones who\n Wait and watch about you:\n If ye do gain\n A victory from God,\n They say: \"Were we not\n With you?\"\u2014but if\n The Unbelievers gain\n A success, they say\n (To them): \"Did we not\n Gain an advantage over you,\n And did we not guard\n You from the Believers?\"\n But God will judge\n Betwixt you on the Day\n Of Judgment. And never\n Will God grant\n To the Unbelievers\n A way (to Triumph)\n Over the Believers.\n142. The Hypocrites\u2014they think\n They are over-reaching God,\n But He will over-reach them:\n When they stand up to prayer,\n They stand without earnestness,\n To be seen of men,\n But little do they hold\n God in remembrance;\n143. (They are) distracted in mind\n Even in the midst of it,\u2014\n Being (sincerely) for neither\n One group nor for another.\n Whom God leaves straying,\u2014\n Never wilt thou find\nFor him the Way.\n144. O ye who believe!\n Take not for friends\n Unbelievers rather than\n Believers: do ye wish\n To offer God an open\n Proof against yourselves?\n145. The Hypocrites will be\n In the lowest depths\n Of the Fire: no helper\n Wilt thou find for them;\u2014\n146. Except for those who repent,\n Mend (their life), hold fast\n To God, and purify their religion\n As in God's sight: if so\n They will be (numbered)\n With the Believers.\n And soon will God\n Grant to the Believers\n A reward of immense value.\n147. What can God gain\n By your punishment,\n If ye are grateful\n And ye believe?\n Nay, it is God\n That recogniseth\n (All good), and knoweth\n All things.\n148. God loveth not that evil\n Should be noised abroad\n In public speech, except\n Where injustice hath been\n Done; for God\n Is He who heareth\n And knoweth all things.\n149. Whether ye publish\n A good deed or conceal it\n Or cover evil with pardon,\n Verily God doth blot out\n (Sins) and hath power\n (In the judgment of values),\n150. Those who deny God\n And His apostles, and (those\n Who) wish to separate\n God from His apostles,\n Saying: \"We believe in some\n But reject others\":\n And (those who) wish\n To take a course midway,\u2014\n151. They are in truth\n (Equally) Unbelievers;\nAnd We have prepared\n For Unbelievers a humiliating\n Punishment.\n152. To those who believe\n In God and His apostles\n And make no distinction\n Between any of the apostles,\n We shall soon give\n Their (due) rewards:\n For God is Oft-forgiving,\n Most Merciful.\n153. The People of the Book\n Ask thee to cause\n A book to descend to them\n From heaven: indeed\n They asked Moses\n For an even greater\n (Miracle), for they said:\n \"Show us God in public,\"\n But they were dazed\n For their presumption,\n With thunder and lightning.\n Yet they worshipped the calf\n Even after Clear Signs\n Had come to them;\n Even so We forgave them;\n And gave Moses manifest\n Proofs of authority.\n154. And for their Covenant\n We raised over them\n (The towering height)\n Of Mount (Sinai);\n And (on another occasion)\n We said: \"Enter the gate\n With humility\"; and (once again)\n We commanded them:\n \"Transgress not in the matter\n Of the Sabbath.\"\n And We took from them\n A solemn Covenant.\n155. (They have incurred divine\n Displeasure): in that they\n Broke their Covenant;\n That they rejected the Signs\n Of God; that they slew\n The Messengers in defiance\n Of right; that they said,\n \"Our hearts are the wrappings\n (Which preserve God's Word;\n We need no more)\";\u2014nay,\n God hath set the seal on their hearts\n For their blasphemy,\n And little is it they believe;\u2014\n156. That they rejected Faith;\n That they uttered against Mary\nA grave false charge;\n157. That they said (in boast),\n \"We killed Christ Jesus\n The son of Mary,\n The Apostle of God\";\u2014\n But they killed him not,\n Nor crucified him,\n But so it was made\n To appear to them,\n And those who differ\n Therein are full of doubts,\n With no (certain) knowledge,\n But only conjecture to follow,\n For of a surety\n They killed him not:\u2014\n158. Nay, God raised him up\n Unto Himself; and God\n Is Exalted in Power, Wise;\u2014\n159. And there is none\n Of the People of the Book\nBut must believe in him\n Before his death;\n And on the Day of Judgment\n He will be a witness\n Against them;\u2014\n160. For the iniquity of the Jews\n We made unlawful for them\n Certain (foods) good and wholesome\n Which had been lawful for them;\u2014\n In that they hindered many\n From God's Way;\u2014\n161. That they took usury,\n Though they were forbidden;\n And that they devoured\n Men's substance wrongfully;\u2014\n We have prepared for those\n Among them who reject Faith\n A grievous punishment.\n162. But those among them\n Who are well-grounded in knowledge,\n And the Believers,\n Believe in what hath been\n Revealed to thee and what was\n Revealed before thee:\n And (especially) those\n Who establish regular prayer\n And practise regular charity\n And believe in God\n And in the Last Day:\n To them shall We soon\n Give a great reward.\n163. We have sent thee\n Inspiration, as We sent it\n To Noah and the Messengers\n After him: We sent\n Inspiration to Abraham,\n Ismail, Isaac, Jacob\n And the Tribes, to Jesus,\n Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon,\n And to David We gave\n The Psalms.\n164. Of some apostles We have\n Already told thee the story;\n Of others we have not;\u2014\n And to Moses God spoke direct;\u2014\n165. Apostles who gave good news\n As well as warning,\n That mankind, after (the coming)\n Of the apostles, should have\n No plea against God:\n For God is Exalted in Power,\n Wise.\n166. But God beareth witness\n That what He hath sent\n Unto thee He hath sent\n From His (own) knowledge,\nAnd the angels bear witness:\n But enough is God for a witness.\n167. Those who reject Faith\n And keep off (men)\n From the Way of God,\n Have verily strayed far,\n Far away from the Path.\n168. Those who reject Faith\n And do wrong,\u2014God\n Will not forgive them\n Nor guide them\n To any way\u2014\n169. Except the way of Hell,\n To dwell therein for ever.\n And this to God is easy.\n170. O mankind! the Apostle\n Hath come to you in truth\n From God: believe in him:\n It is best for you. But if\n Ye reject Faith, to God\n Belong all things in the heavens\n And on earth: and God\n Is All-knowing, All-wise.\n171. O People of the Book!\n Commit no excesses\n In your religion: nor say\n Of God aught but the truth.\nChrist Jesus the son of Mary\n Was (no more than)\n An apostle of God,\n And His Word,\n Which He bestowed on Mary,\n And a Spirit proceeding\n From Him: so believe\n In God and His apostles.\n Say not \"Trinity\": desist:\n It will be better for you:\n For God is One God:\n Glory be to Him:\n (Far Exalted is He) above\n Having a son, To Him\n Belong all things in the heavens\n And on earth. And enough\n Is God as a Disposer of affairs.\n172. Christ disdaineth not\n To serve and worship God,\n Nor do the angels, those\n Nearest (to God):\n Those who disdain\n His worship and are arrogant,\u2014\n He will gather them all\n Together unto Himself\n To (answer).\n173. But to those who believe\n And do deeds of righteousness,\n He will give their (due)\n Rewards,\u2014and more,\n Out of His bounty:\n But those who are\n Disdainful and arrogant,\n He will punish\nWith a grievous penalty;\n Nor will they find,\n Besides God, any\n To protect or help them.\n174. O mankind! Verily\n There hath come to you\n A convincing proof\n From your Lord:\n For We have sent unto you\n A light (that is) manifest.\n175. Then those who believe\n In God, and hold fast\n To Him,\u2014soon will He\n Admit them to Mercy\n And Grace from Himself,\n And guide them to Himself\n By a straight Way.\n176. They ask thee\n For a legal decision.\n Say: God directs (thus)\n About those who leave\n No descendants or ascendants\n As heirs. If it is a man\n That dies, leaving a sister\n But no child, she shall\nHave half the inheritance:\n If (such a deceased was)\n A woman, who left no child,\n Her brother takes her inheritance:\n If there are two sisters,\n They shall have two-thirds\n Of the inheritance\n (Between them): if there are\n Brothers and sisters, (they share),\n The male having twice\n The share of the female.\n Thus doth God make clear\n To you (His law), lest\n Ye err. And God\n Hath knowledge of all things.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra IV. Nis\u0101a, or The Women","type":"page"}