Al-Ahzab

O Informant, guard yourself toward God,

يايها النبي اتق الله

and do not defer to those who disown nor to the hypocrites.

ولا تطع الكفرين والمنفقين

And follow what is revealed to you from your Guardian.

واتبع ما يوحي اليك من ربك

And entrust yourself to God.

وتوكل علي الله

God has not assigned to any man two cores within his breast.

ما جعل الله لرجل من قلبين في جوفه

Nor has He made your wives — those against whom you pronounce the exclusion formula — your mothers,

وما جعل ازوجكم الي تظهرون منهن امهتكم

nor has He made your adopted sons your sons.

وما جعل ادعياكم ابناكم

That is your saying with your mouths;

ذلكم قولكم بافوهكم

Call them by their fathers' names: that is more equitable with God.

ادعوهم لابايهم هو اقسط عند الله

And if you do not know their fathers, then they are your brothers in the Law, and your allies.

فان لم تعلموا اباهم فاخونكم في الدين وموليكم

And no blame upon you in what you may have done by mistake,

وليس عليكم جناح فيما اخطاتم به

but rather in what your cores have premeditated.

ولكن ما تعمدت قلوبكم

The Informant is closer to the believers than they are to themselves,

النبي اولي بالمومنين من انفسهم

and his wives are their mothers.

وازوجه امهتهم

And those bound by kinship are closer to one another under God's Code than the believers and the emigrants — except that you do what is recognized toward your allies.

واولوا الارحام بعضهم اولي ببعض في كتب الله من المومنين والمهجرين الا ان تفعلوا الي اوليايكم معروفا

and We took from them a solemn and firm engagement, so that He might question the veracious about their veracity;

واخذنا منهم ميثقا غليظا ليسل الصدقين عن صدقهم

O you who have believed! Remember God's blessing upon you, when armies came against you, and We sent upon them a wind and armies you did not see.

يايها الذين امنوا اذكروا نعمه الله عليكم اذ جاتكم جنود فارسلنا عليهم ريحا وجنودا لم تروها

When they came upon you from above you and from below you,

اذ جاوكم من فوقكم ومن اسفل منكم

and when a group among them said, "O people of Yathrib, there is no place for you; return,"

واذ قالت طايفه منهم ياهل يثرب لا مقام لكم فارجعوا

and a fraction among them was asking the Informant's leave, saying, "Our houses indeed lack privacy" — when they did not:

ويستذن فريق منهم النبي يقولون ان بيوتنا عوره وما هي بعوره

And they had certainly made a pact with God before, not to turn their backs;

ولقد كانوا عهدوا الله من قبل لا يولون الادبر

Say, "Flight will not benefit you if you flee from death or killing,

قل لن ينفعكم الفرار ان فررتم من الموت او القتل

Say, "Who, then, could safeguard you from God, should He intend for you harm, or intend for you benevolence?"

قل من ذا الذي يعصمكم من الله ان اراد بكم سوا او اراد بكم رحمه

God will surely distinguish those among you who obstruct, and those who say to their brothers, "Come to us," and who come to the fight only a little, being greedy toward you.

قد يعلم الله المعوقين منكم والقايلين لاخونهم هلم الينا ولا ياتون الباس الا قليلا اشحه عليكم

Then, when fear comes, you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like those of one whom death makes swoon.

فاذا جا الخوف رايتهم ينظرون اليك تدور اعينهم كالذي يغشي عليه من الموت

Then, when the fear departs, they assail you with sharp tongues, greedy for any good.

فاذا ذهب الخوف سلقوكم بالسنه حداد اشحه علي الخير

Those have not believed, so God has voided their works,

اوليك لم يومنوا فاحبط الله اعملهم

They think the parties have not gone;

يحسبون الاحزاب لم يذهبوا

and were the parties to come, they would wish they had withdrawn among the notables,

وان يات الاحزاب يودوا لو انهم بادون في الاعراب

And when the believers saw the parties, they said, "This is what God and His messenger promised us, and God and His messenger spoke truly,"

ولما را المومنون الاحزاب قالوا هذا ما وعدنا الله ورسوله وصدق الله ورسوله

Among the believers are men who have been true to the pact they made with God:

من المومنين رجال صدقوا ما عهدوا الله عليه

and they have not changed in the least — so that God may recompense the veracious for their veracity, and punish the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn toward them with clemency.

وما بدلوا تبديلا ليجزي الله الصدقين بصدقهم ويعذب المنفقين ان شا او يتوب عليهم

And God turned back those who disowned, in their rage, without any good accruing to them;

ورد الله الذين كفروا بغيظهم لم ينالوا خيرا

and God spared the believers the fight.

وكفي الله المومنين القتال

And He brought down from their strongholds those, among the People of the Scripture, who had supported them, and hurled terror into their cores:

وانزل الذين ظهروهم من اهل الكتب من صياصيهم وقذف في قلوبهم الرعب

and He made you inherit their land, their abodes, and their goods, and a land you had not trodden.

واورثكم ارضهم وديرهم وامولهم وارضا لم تطوها

O women of the Informant, whoever among you commits a manifest indecency, We would double the punishment for her, twice over;

ينسا النبي من يات منكن بفحشه مبينه يضعف لها العذاب ضعفين

So do not let the tone of your saying be yielding, lest he in whose core is a sickness should covet; and speak a recognized saying, and remain in your houses,

فلا تخضعن بالقول فيطمع الذي في قلبه مرض وقلن قولا معروفا وقرن في بيوتكن

and do not flaunt yourselves as was flaunted in the former ignorance.

ولا تبرجن تبرج الجهليه الاولي

And maintain the Contact, and give pure liberality,

واقمن الصلوه واتين الزكوه

and defer to God and His messenger.

واطعن الله ورسوله

And remember what is recited in your houses of God's signs and wisdom.

واذكرن ما يتلي في بيوتكن من ايت الله والحكمه

And it is not for any believing man or believing woman, when God and His messenger have decided a matter, to have the option in their own affair.

وما كان لمومن ولا مومنه اذا قضي الله ورسوله امرا ان يكون لهم الخيره من امرهم

And when you said to the one God had favored and you had favored, "Retain your wife and guard yourself toward God," while hiding within yourself what God was going to make appear, and dreading mankind, when God is more deserving that you dread Him.

واذ تقول للذي انعم الله عليه وانعمت عليه امسك عليك زوجك واتق الله وتخفي في نفسك ما الله مبديه وتخشي الناس والله احق ان تخشيه

Then when Zayd had ended all ties with her, We gave her to you in marriage, so that there would be no discomfort for the believers concerning the wives of their adopted sons, once they have ended all ties with them.

فلما قضي زيد منها وطرا زوجنكها لكي لا يكون علي المومنين حرج في ازوج ادعيايهم اذا قضوا منهن وطرا

There is no discomfort for the Informant in what God has fixed for him —

ما كان علي النبي من حرج فيما فرض الله له

such is God's norm with those who passed before.

سنه الله في الذين خلوا من قبل

Those who convey God's messages, and dread Him, and dread no one but God —

الذين يبلغون رسلت الله ويخشونه ولا يخشون احدا الا الله

Muhammad is not the father of any of your men,

ما كان محمد ابا احد من رجالكم

but rather the messenger of God and the seal of the informants.

ولكن رسول الله وخاتم النبين

It is He who is in contact with you, He and His Agents, so as to bring you out of the darknesses into the light;

هو الذي يصلي عليكم ومليكته ليخرجكم من الظلمت الي النور

Their greeting, the day they meet Him, will be, "Peace."

تحيتهم يوم يلقونه سلم

And do not defer to those who disown nor to the hypocrites,

ولا تطع الكفرين والمنفقين

and disregard their nuisance,

ودع اذيهم

and entrust yourself to God.

وتوكل علي الله

O you who have believed! When you marry believing women and then repudiate them before you have touched them, you have no waiting period against them for you to number.

يايها الذين امنوا اذا نكحتم المومنت ثم طلقتموهن من قبل ان تمسوهن فما لكم عليهن من عده تعتدونها

O Informant, We have permitted to you your wives to whom you have given their rewards, she who is bound to you by oath among what God has restored to you, and the daughters of your paternal uncle, the daughters of your paternal aunts, the daughters of your maternal uncle, and the daughters of your maternal aunts who emigrated with you, and any believing woman if she bestows herself on the Informant — provided the Informant wishes to marry her:

يايها النبي انا احللنا لك ازوجك التي اتيت اجورهن وما ملكت يمينك مما افا الله عليك وبنات عمك وبنات عمتك وبنات خالك وبنات خلتك التي هاجرن معك وامراه مومنه ان وهبت نفسها للنبي ان اراد النبي ان يستنكحها

exclusively for you, to the exclusion of the believers.

خالصه لك من دون المومنين

We certainly know what We have fixed for them concerning their wives and those bound to them by oath, so that there may be no discomfort for you;

قد علمنا ما فرضنا عليهم في ازوجهم وما ملكت ايمنهم لكيلا يكون عليك حرج

You may postpone whom you will of them, and take to yourself whom you will;

ترجي من تشا منهن وتوي اليك من تشا

and whomever you seek of those you had set aside, no blame upon you.

ومن ابتغيت ممن عزلت فلا جناح عليك

That is nearer so that their gaze may rest, and they not grieve, and they be satisfied, all of them, with what you give them.

ذلك ادني ان تقر اعينهن ولا يحزن ويرضين بما اتيتهن كلهن

And God knows what is in your cores;

والله يعلم ما في قلوبكم

Women are not permitted to you after this, nor to exchange them for other wives, even were their beauty to dazzle you — except she who is bound to you by oath.

لا يحل لك النسا من بعد ولا ان تبدل بهن من ازوج ولو اعجبك حسنهن الا ما ملكت يمينك

O you who have believed! Do not enter the houses of the Informant unless permission is given you for food, without awaiting its readiness;

يايها الذين امنوا لا تدخلوا بيوت النبي الا ان يوذن لكم الي طعام غير نظرين انيه

but when you are invited, enter; and when you have fed, deploy, without tarrying for discourse.

ولكن اذا دعيتم فادخلوا فاذا طعمتم فانتشروا ولا مستنسين لحديث

That indeed used to trouble the Informant, though he felt shy toward you,

ان ذلكم كان يوذي النبي فيستحي منكم

whereas God is not shy of the truth.

والله لا يستحي من الحق

And when you ask them for an item, ask them from behind a veil:

واذا سالتموهن متعا فسلوهن من ورا حجاب

that is cleaner for your cores and their cores.

ذلكم اطهر لقلوبكم وقلوبهن

And it is not for you to trouble the messenger of God, nor to marry his wives after him, ever;

وما كان لكم ان توذوا رسول الله ولا ان تنكحوا ازوجه من بعده ابدا

No blame upon them concerning their fathers, nor their sons, nor their brothers, nor their brothers' sons, nor their sisters' sons, nor the women of their circle, nor those bound to them by oath.

لا جناح عليهن في ابايهن ولا ابنايهن ولا اخونهن ولا ابنا اخونهن ولا ابنا اخوتهن ولا نسايهن ولا ما ملكت ايمنهن

And guard yourselves toward God:

واتقين الله

God and His Agents are in constant contact with the Informant.

ان الله ومليكته يصلون علي النبي

O Informant, tell your wives, your daughters, and the women of the believers to draw over themselves part of their outer garments:

يايها النبي قل لازوجك وبناتك ونسا المومنين يدنين عليهن من جلبيبهن

that is nearer so that they will be recognized and not be troubled.

ذلك ادني ان يعرفن فلا يوذين

If the hypocrites, those in whose cores is a sickness, and the rumor-mongers in the Capital do not cease, We will certainly unleash you against them; then they will not remain your neighbors there except a little, being cursed.

لين لم ينته المنفقون والذين في قلوبهم مرض والمرجفون في المدينه لنغرينك بهم ثم لا يجاورونك فيها الا قليلا ملعونين

Such is God's norm with those who passed before,

سنه الله في الذين خلوا من قبل

Men ask you about the Hour.

يسلك الناس عن الساعه

Say: "Knowledge of it is only with God,

قل انما علمها عند الله

and what gives you an idea?

وما يدريك

O you who have believed! Do not be like those who troubled Moussa; God made him quit of what they said,

يايها الذين امنوا لا تكونوا كالذين اذوا موسي فبراه الله مما قالوا

O you who have believed! Guard yourselves toward God and speak a straight saying: He will make your deeds sound for you and forgive you your offenses.

يايها الذين امنوا اتقوا الله وقولوا قولا سديدا يصلح لكم اعملكم ويغفر لكم ذنوبكم

and the human being bore it: he was indeed a great wrongdoer, deeply ignorant — so that God may punish the hypocrites, men and women, and the associators, men and women, and that God turn with clemency toward the believing men and the believing women.

وحملها الانسن انه كان ظلوما جهولا ليعذب الله المنفقين والمنفقت والمشركين والمشركت ويتوب الله علي المومنين والمومنت