{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq058.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq058.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq058.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. God has indeed\n Heard (and accepted) the statement\n Of the woman who pleads\n With thee concerning her husband\n And carries her complaint\n (In prayer) to God:\n And God (always) hears\n The arguments between both\n Sides among you: for God\n Hears and sees (all things).\n2. If any men among you\n Divorce their wives by\n (Calling them mothers),\n They cannot be their mothers:\n None can be their mothers\n Except those who gave them\n Birth. And in fact\n They use words (both) iniquitous\n And false: but truly\n God is One that blots out\n(Sins), and forgives\n (Again and again).\n3. But those who divorce\n Their wives by Zih\u0101r,\n Then wish to go back\n On the words they uttered,\u2014\n (It is ordained that\n Such a one)\n Should free a slave\n Before they touch each other:\n This are ye admonished\n To perform: and God is\n Well-acquainted with (all)\n That ye do.\n4. And if any has not\n (The wherewithal),\n He should fast for\n Two months consecutively\n Before they touch each other.\n But if any is unable\n To do so, he should feed\n Sixty indigent ones.\n This, that ye may show\n Your faith in God\nAnd His Apostle.\n Those are limits (set\n By) God. For those who\n Reject (Him), there is\n A grievous Penalty.\n5. Those who resist God\n And His Apostle will be\n Humbled to dust, as were\n Those before them: for We\n Have already sent down\n Clear Signs. And the Unbelievers\n (Will have) a humiliating Penalty,\u2014\n6. On the Day that\n God will raise them\n All up (again) and show\n Them the truth (and meaning)\n Of their conduct. God has\n Reckoned its (value), though\n They may have forgotten it,\n For God is Witness\n To all things.\n7. Seest thou not that\n God doth know (all) that is\n In the heavens and\n On earth? There is not\n A secret consultation\n Between three, but He\n Makes the fourth among them,\u2014\n Nor between five but\nHe makes the sixth,\u2014\n Nor between fewer nor more,\n But He is in their midst,\n Wheresoever they be:\n In the end will He\n Tell them the truth\n Of their conduct, on the Day\n Of Judgment. For God\n Has full knowledge\n Of all things.\n8. Turnest thou not thy sight\n Towards those who were\n Forbidden secret counsels\n Yet revert to that which\n They were forbidden (to do)?\n And they hold secret counsels\n Among themselves for iniquity\n And hostility, and disobedience\n To the Apostle. And when\n They come to thee,\n They salute thee,\n Not as God salutes thee,\n (But in crooked ways):\n And they say to themselves,\n \"Why does not God\n Punish us for our words?\"\n Enough for them is Hell:\n In it will they burn,\n And evil is that destination!\n9. O ye who believe!\n When ye hold secret counsel,\n Do it not for iniquity\n And hostility, and disobedience\nTo the Prophet; but do it\n For righteousness and self-restraint;\n And fear God, to Whom\n Ye shall be brought back.\n10. Secret counsels are only\n (Inspired) by the Evil One,\n In order that he may\n Cause grief to the Believers;\n But he cannot harm them\n In the least, except as\n God permits; and on God\n Let the Believers\n Put their trust.\n11. O ye who believe!\n When ye are told\n To make room\n In the assemblies,\n (Spread out and) make room:\n (Ample) room will God provide\n For you. And when\n Ye are told to rise up,\n Rise up: God will\n Raise up, to (suitable) ranks\n (And degrees), those of you\n Who believe and who have\nBeen granted (mystic) Knowledge.\n And God is well-acquainted\n With all ye do.\n12. O ye who believe\n When ye consult\n The Apostle in private,\n Spend something in charity\n Before your private consultation.\n That will be best for you,\n And most conducive\n To purity (of conduct).\n But if ye find not\n (The wherewithal), God is\n Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.\n13. Is it that ye are\n Afraid of spending sums\n In charity before your\n Private consultation (with him)\nIf, then, ye do not so,\n And God forgives you,\n Then (at least) establish\n Regular prayer; practise\n Regular charity; and obey\n God and His Apostle.\n And God is well-acquainted\n With all that ye do.\n14. Turnest thou not\n Thy attention to those\n Who turn (in friendship)\n To such as have the Wrath\n Of God upon them?\n They are neither of you\n Nor of them, and they\n Swear to falsehood knowingly.\n15. God has prepared for them\n A severe Penalty: evil\n Indeed are their deeds.\n16. They have made their oaths\n A screen (for their misdeeds):\n Thus they obstruct (men)\n From the Path of God:\n Therefore shall they have\n A humiliating Penalty.\n17. Of no profit whatever\n To them, against God,\n Will be their riches\n Nor their sons:\nThey will be Companions\n Of the Fire, to dwell\n Therein (for aye)!\n18. One Day will God\n Raise them all up\n (For Judgment): then\n Will they swear to Him\n As they swear to you:\n And they think that they\n Have something (to stand upon).\n No, indeed! they are\n But liars!\n19. The Evil One has\n Got the better of them:\n So he has made them\n Lose the remembrance\n Of God. They are the Party\n Of the Evil One. Truly,\n It is the Party\n Of the Evil One\n That will perish!\n20. Those who resist\n God and His Apostle\n Will be among those\n Most humiliated.\n21. God has decreed:\n \"It is I and My apostles\n Who must prevail\":\n For God is One\n Full of strength,\n Able to enforce His Will.\n22. Thou wilt not find\n Any people who believe\n In God and the Last Day,\n Loving those who resist\n God and His Apostle,\n Even though they were\n Their fathers or their sons,\n Or their brothers, or\n Their kindred. For such\n He has written Faiths\n In their hearts, and strengthened\n Them with a spirit\n From Himself. And He\n Will admit them to Gardens\n Beneath which Rivers flow,\n To dwell therein (for ever).\n God will be well pleased\n With them, and they with Him.\n They are the Party\n Of God. Truly it is\n The Party of God that\n Will achieve Felicity.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LVIII. Muj\u0101dila, or The Wo...","type":"page"}