{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq060.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq060.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq060.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most, Merciful.\n1. O ye who believe!\n Take not My enemies\n And yours as friends\n (Or protectors),\u2014offering them\n (Your) love, even though\n They have rejected the Truth\n That has come to you,\n And have (on the contrary)\n Driven out the Prophet\n And yourselves (from your homes),\n (Simply) because ye believe\n In God your Lord!\n If ye have come out\n To strive in My Way\n And to seek My Good Pleasure,\n (Take them not as friends),\n Holding secret converse\n Of love (and friendship)\n With them: for I know\n Full well all that ye\n Conceal and all that ye\n Reveal. And any of you\n That does this has strayed\n From the Straight Path.\n2. If they were to get\n The better of you,\nThey would behave to you\n As enemies, and stretch forth\n Their hands and their tongues\n Against you for evil;\n And they desire that ye\n Should reject the Truth.\n3. Of no profit to you\n Will be your relatives\n And your children\n On the Day of Judgment:\n He will judge between you:\n For God sees well\n All that ye do.\n4. There is for you\n An excellent example (to follow)\n In Abraham and those with him,\n When they said\n To their people:\n \"We are clear of you\n And of whatever ye worship\n Besides God: we have rejected\n You, and there has arisen,\n Between us and you, enmity\n And hatred for ever,\u2014unless\n Ye believe in God\n And Him alone\":\n But not when Abraham\n Said to his father:\n \"I will pray for forgiveness\nFor thee, though I have\n No power (to get) aught\n On thy behalf from God.\"\n (They prayed): \"Our Lord!\n In Thee do we trust,\n And to Thee do we turn\n In repentance: to Thee\n Is (our) final Goal.\n5. \"Our Lord! Make us not\n A (test and) trial\n For the Unbelievers,\n But forgive us, our Lord!\n For Thou art the Exalted\n In Might, the Wise.\"\n6. There was indeed in them\n An excellent example for you\n To follow,\u2014for those\n Whose hope is in God\n And in the Last Day.\n But if any turn away,\n Truly God is Free of all\n Wants, Worthy of all Praise.\n7. It may be that God\n Will grant love (and friendship)\n Between you and those whom\n Ye (now) hold as enemies.\n For God has power\n (Over all things); And God is\n Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.\n8. God forbids you not,\n With regard to those who\n Fight you not for (your) Faith\n Nor drive you out\n Of your homes,\n From dealing kindly and justly\n With them: For God loveth\n Those who are just.\n9. God only forbids you,\n With regard to those who\n Fight you for (your) Faith,\n And drive you out\n Of your homes, and support\n (Others) in driving you out,\n From turning to them\n (For friendship and protection).\n It is such as turn to them\n (In these circumstances),\n That do wrong.\n10. O ye who believe!\n When there come to you\n Believing women refugees,\n Examine (and test) them:\n God knows best as to\n Their Faith: if ye ascertain\n That they are Believers,\n Then send them not back\n To the Unbelievers.\n They are not lawful (wives)\nFor the Unbelievers, nor are\n The (Unbelievers) lawful (husbands)\n For them. But pay\n The Unbelievers what they\n Have spent (on their dower).\n And there will be no blame\n On you if ye marry them\n On payment of their dower\n To them. But hold not\n To the guardianship of\n Unbelieving women: ask\n For what ye have spent\n On their dowers, and let\n The (Unbelievers) ask for\n What they have spent\n (On the dowers of women\n Who come over to you).\n Such is the command\n Of God: He judges\n (With justice) between you.\n And God is Full of\n Knowledge and Wisdom.\n11. And if any\n Of your wives deserts you\n To the Unbelievers,\n And ye have an accession\n (By the coming over of\n A woman from the other side),\n Then pay to those\n Whose wives have deserted\nThe equivalent of what they\n Had spent (on their dower).\n And fear God,\n In Whom ye believe.\n12. O Prophet!\n When believing women come\n To thee to take the oath\n Of fealty to thee, that they\n Will not associate in worship\n Any other thing whatever\n With God, that they\n Will not steal, that they\n Will not commit adultery\n (Or fornication), that they\n Will not kill their children,\n That they will not utter\n Slander, intentionally forging\n Falsehood, and that they\n Will not disobey thee\n In any just matter,\n Then do thou receive\n Their fealty, and pray to God\n For the forgiveness (of\n Their sins): for God is\n Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.\n13. O ye who believe!\n Turn not (for friendship)\n To people on whom\n Is the Wrath of God.\nOf the Hereafter they are\n Already in despair, just as\n The Unbelievers are\n In despair about those\n (Buried) in graves.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LX. Mumta\u1e25ana, or the Wom...","type":"page"}