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And when Moussa said to his people: "God orders you to slaughter a cow."

And when We took your solemn engagement: "You shall not shed your blood, and shall not expel yourselves from your abodes"; then you acknowledged it, and you are witnesses to it.

Say: "How evil is what your faith orders you, if you are believers!"

as We have sent, among you, a messenger from among yourselves, who recites Our signs to you, purifies you, teaches you the Scripture and the wisdom, and teaches you what you did not know. Remember Me, then, I will remember you; be grateful to Me, and do not disown Me.

He orders you only evil and indecency, and to say about God what you do not know.

And when you have completed your beneficent practices, remember God as you remember your ancestors, or with an even more intense remembrance.

And once they are no longer so, unite with them from where God has ordered you.

The Diverter promises you poverty, and orders you indecency,

It is He who gives you form in the wombs as He wills.

And God warns you against Himself,

Say: "Whether you hide what is in your chests, or make it appear, God knows it.

And God warns you against Himself.

And he would not order you to take the Agents and the informants as masters.

Would he order you to disown, after you have become true to God alone?

But if you are patient and guard yourselves, their scheming will not harm you at all.

God indeed helped you at Badr, when you were humiliated.

Say: "Had you been in your houses, those for whom killing was prescribed would certainly have gone forth to the places where they were to lie down" — and so that God might test what is in your chests, and purify what is in your cores.

If God helps you, none can overcome you;

and if He abandons you, who then could help you after Him?

and it is only on the Day of Appearance that you will be faithfully repaid your rewards.

the mothers of your women, the girls brought up in your household, from women with whom you have consummated marriage —

God orders you to restore trusts to their rightful owners, and, when you judge between men, to judge with justice.

And had We prescribed for them: "Kill one another", or: "Leave your abodes", they would not have done it, except a small number of them.

O you who have believed! Take your precautions, and mobilize in detachments, or mobilize all together.

but take your precautions.

but He wants to purify you, and to complete His blessing upon you, perhaps you will be grateful.

and do not turn back, lest you go back as losers."

Say: "O people of the Scripture! Do you resent us for anything other than that we believed in God, in what has been sent down to us, and in what was sent down before, and that most of you are oversteppers?"

he who strays cannot harm you, so long as you let yourselves be guided.

O you who have believed! Testimony between you, when death presents itself to one of you, at the time of the testament: two just ones among you, or two others, outside your circle, if you travel through the land and the calamity of death strikes you.

in the heavens and on the earth; He knows your secret and what you say aloud, and He knows what you earn.

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

Say: "Do you see? If God took your hearing and your sight, and sealed your cores, what deity, other than God, would bring them back to you?"

Here you have come to Us alone, as We created you the first time, and you have left behind your backs what We had vouchsafed you;

and what makes you sense it?

Do you marvel that a reminder from your Guardian should come to you through a man from among yourselves, that he might warn you, that you might guard yourselves, and that, perhaps, benevolence might be shown to you?"

Do you marvel that a reminder from your Guardian should come to you through a man from among yourselves, that he might warn you?

And remember that you were few, and He made you many.

And those you invoke besides Him can neither help you, nor help themselves."

When He covered you with drowsiness, as a security from Himself, and sent down upon you, from the sky, water, to purify you with it, to remove from you the defilement of the Diverter, to bind your cores, and to make firm your steps with it.

And those who disown will be gathered toward Jahannam, so that God may distinguish the vile from the wholesome, place the vile, part upon part, make of it a whole heap, and put it into Jahannam.

Fight them: God will punish them by your hands, cover them with disgrace, help you against them, heal the chests of a believing people, and remove the rage of their cores.

God indeed helped you in many places, and on the day of Hunayn, when your great number dazzled you, but it availed you nothing, and the earth, despite its vastness, became narrow for you; then you turned your backs, fleeing.

If you do not mobilize, He will punish you with a painful punishment, and replace you with another people, without your harming Him in any way.

God has already informed us of your news.

It is He who makes you travel on land and sea,

So bring together your resolve and your associates,

let your resolve no longer be, for you, a clouded matter,

and my Guardian will substitute in your place another people, without your harming Him in anything:

It is He who brought you into being from the earth and made you live long therein: so ask His forgiveness, then turn back to Him:

But they hamstrung her. He then said: "Enjoy yourselves in your abode for three days:

Their messengers said: "Is there doubt about God, the Originator of the heavens and the earth? He calls you so as to forgive you some of your offenses and adjourn you until an appointed term."

Say: "Enjoy yourselves, for your destination is the Fire."

Say: "Be stone, or iron, or any creation that looms great in your chests."

Say: "He who originated you the first time."

And since you have drawn apart from them and from what they obey besides God, resort to the Cave: your Guardian will deploy over you some of His benevolence and shape for you, in your affair, a support."

He said: "You gave him credit before I gave you permission! He is surely the greatest among you, who taught you illusion.

We have sent down to you a Scripture in which is your remembrance —

Say: "I only warn you by the revelation" —

He said: "Do you, then, obey besides God what neither benefits nor harms you in anything?

He said: "You gave him credit before I gave you permission! He is surely the greatest among you, who taught you illusion.

He said: "Your omen is with God;

God only intends to remove from you filth, People of the House, and to purify you completely.

Did We not grant you a life long enough that whoever wished to remember could remember? And the warner had come to you.

They said: "Your omen lies with yourselves. Is it because you are reminded?

God is He who made for you the earth a stable place and the sky a structure, who gave you form and made your forms excellent, and provided you with wholesome things;

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

You did not hide yourselves from your hearing, your sights, and your skins testifying against you;

but most of you were averse to the truth.

O our people, respond to the caller of God and believe in him: He will forgive you some of your offenses and grant you asylum from a painful punishment.

O you who have believed! If you help God, He will help you and make firm your steps.

And We will surely test you, until We distinguish those among you who strive and those who are patient, and We will test your news.

and He will never defraud you of your works.

And if you believe and guard yourselves, He will give you your rewards and will not ask you for your goods.

And if you turn your backs, He will replace you with another people who will not be like you.

It is He who held back their hands from you, and your hands from them, in the midst of the tumult, after having given you victory over them.

Are those of you who disown better than those, or do you have a quittance in the Formularies?

The Day the hypocrite men and hypocrite women will say to those who believed: "Wait for us that we may borrow from your light." It will be said: "Return behind you and seek a light."

They will say: "Yes, but you put yourselves to trial, and bided your time, and doubted, and vain wishes deluded you until the command of God came, and the great deluder deluded you concerning God."

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. God has certainly heard the saying of the one who argues with you about her husband and complains to God; and God hears your exchange.

God does not forbid you from being virtuous and equitable toward those who did not fight you concerning the Law and did not expel you from your abodes.

God only forbids you from taking as allies those who fought you concerning the Law, expelled you from your abodes, and supported your expulsion.

He created the heavens and the earth in truth, and gave you form, and made your forms excellent,

Or who is it that would be an army for you and help you, besides the All-Benevolent?

He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner: obey God, guard yourselves toward Him, and defer to me. He will forgive you some of your offenses and adjourn you until an appointed term.