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And do not shave your heads until the offering has reached its place of delivery;

And when you repudiate women, and they reach their term, retain them according to what is recognized, or release them according to what is recognized;

And when you repudiate women, and they reach their term, do not put obstacles to their marrying their spouses, once there is mutual satisfaction between them according to what is recognized.

and once they reach their term, no blame upon you for what they do with themselves according to what is recognized.

And do not conclude the marriage contract before the document reaches its term.

He said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a boy, when old age has already reached me, and my wife is barren?"

And test the orphans until they reach the age of marriage; if you then discern in them a rectitude of judgment, hand over to them their goods, and do not devour them wastefully and hastily, before they grow up.

O messenger! Convey what has been sent down to you from your Guardian,

and if you do not do so, you will not have conveyed His message.

And this Recitation was revealed to me so that I might warn you by it, and whoever it reaches.

and their allies among humans will say: "Our Guardian, we enjoyed one another, and we have reached our term, the one You had set for us."

And do not approach the goods of the orphan, except in the best way, until he reaches his full maturity;

I convey to you the messages of my Guardian, I advise you sincerely, and I know, from God, what you do not know.

I convey to you the messages of my Guardian, and I am for you a trustworthy advisor.

He turned his back on them and said: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the message of my Guardian, and I advised you,

He turned his back on them and said: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the messages of my Guardian, and I advised you.

And if one of the associators asks you for asylum, grant him asylum, until he hears the word of God, then convey him to his place of safety.

If you turn your backs, I have already conveyed to you that with which I was sent to you;

And when he reached his full maturity, We gave him judgment and knowledge:

and those they invoke besides Him respond to them in nothing, except like one who stretches out his palms toward water so that it may reach his mouth, never reaching it.

If either of them, or both, reach old age with you, do not say to them "fie!" and do not rebuke them,

And do not approach the goods of the orphan, except in the best way, until he reaches his full maturity,

you will never make a hole in the earth, nor reach the mountains in height.

And when Moussa said to his young companion: "I will not stop until I reach the meeting-place of the two seas, though I journey for a prolonged period."

When they had reached the meeting-place of the two seas, they forgot their fish, which then took its way into the sea, like a mirage vanishing.

He said: "If I question you about anything after this, do not keep me as a companion; you will then have, from me, an excuse."

their father was sound, and your Guardian wanted them to reach their full maturity and extract their treasure themselves, as a benevolence from your Guardian;

We established him on the earth, and gave him, of everything, a link; he then followed a link, until, having reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found by it a people.

Then he followed a link, until, having reached the rising-place of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had made, on the near side of it, no shelter. So it was.

Then he followed a link, until, having reached the space between the two barriers, he found, on the near side of them, a people who could hardly understand any saying.

He said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a boy, when my wife is barren and I have reached, in old age, utter decrepitude?"

then We bring you out as a child, that you may then reach your full maturity.

O you who have believed! Let those bound by oath and those among you who have not yet reached the age of composure ask your permission at three times: before the Contact of dawn, when you lay aside your clothes at midday, and after the Contact of evening —

And when the children among you reach the age of composure, let them ask permission as those before them asked permission.

When he reached his full maturity and had become established, We gave him judgment and knowledge —

and when sights deviated, and cores reached the throats, and you formed about God all manner of presumptions.

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

And those before them denied — they have not attained a tenth of what We had given them —

And when he reached the age of endeavouring with him, he said: "O my little one, I see in a dream that I am slaughtering you; consider, then, what you think."

And Fir'awn said: "O Haman, build me a belvedere, that I may reach the means, the means of the heavens, and glimpse the deity of Moussa; I surely presume he is lying."

It is He who created you from earth, then from a drop, then from a clinging form, then brings you out as a child, then lets you reach your full strength, then become old men —

and some of you are kept faithfully before — so that you may reach an appointed term, and perhaps you will reason.

and that you may satisfy on them a need in your chests,

Until, when he reaches his full maturity and reaches forty years, he says: "My Guardian, inspire me to be grateful for Your blessing which You bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do a sound deed that pleases You.

He said: "The knowledge is with God alone; I convey to you what I was sent with, but I see you to be an ignorant people."

It is they who disowned and barred you from the inviolable place of prostration, and barred the offering, detained, from reaching its place of delivery.

That is the extent of their knowledge.

Then why, when it reaches the throat, and you at that moment are looking on, and We are nearer to him than you, but you do not see clearly — then why, if you were not indebted, do you not make it return, if you are veracious?

Then, when they reach their term, retain them according to what is recognized or part from them according to what is recognized,

Knower of what escapes the senses, and He makes none of it appear to anyone, except a messenger He has approved of. He then makes lookouts go before him and behind him, so that He may know that they have conveyed the messages of their Guardian; and He encompasses whatever is with them and enumerates all things with exactness.

By no means! When it reaches the collarbones, and it is said, "Who will raise up?" and he presumes that it is the parting, and the leg is intertwined with the leg — to your Guardian, that Day, will be the drive.