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Those who disown, it is indeed the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them: they do not believe.

And when it is said to them: "Do not sow corruption on the earth", they say: "We are only making things sound."

Is it not so: it is indeed they who are the corrupters; but they do not sense it.

Is it not so: it is indeed they who are the fools; but they do not know.

and when they are alone with their diverters, they say: "We are indeed with you, we are only mocking."

God is indeed capable of all things.

And announce to those who have believed and done sound deeds that they will have gardens beneath which rivers flow.

God is indeed not shy of multiplying an example, be it that of a gnat or something greater.

As for those who have believed, they know that it is the truth from their Guardian;

And when your Guardian said to the Agents: "I am going to place a successor on the earth."

He said: "I indeed know what you do not know."

They said: "Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us; You, indeed, are the All-Knowing, the Wise."

And when he had informed them of their attributes, He said: "Did I not tell you that I know what escapes the senses in the heavens and on the earth, and that I know what you make appear and what you were withholding?"

He is indeed the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.

that is surely heavy, except for the humble, those who presume that they will meet their Guardian, and that it is to Him that they return.

O Sons of Israel! Remember My blessing, that with which I blessed you, and that I favored you above all beings.

And when Moussa said to his people: "O my people! You have indeed wronged yourselves by taking the calf; turn back, then, to your Giver of existence, and kill one another,

He is indeed the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.

Descend, then, to Egypt, for you will find there what you have asked."

That is because they used to disown the signs of God, and kill the informants without right.

Indeed, those who have believed, the Reoriented, the Helpers, and the Aspirants — whoever has believed in God and the Last Day, and done sound work, their reward is theirs with their Guardian, no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.

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

He said: "He says she is a cow neither old nor virgin,

He said: "He says she is a yellow cow, of a vivid yellow,

They said: "Invoke your Guardian for us, that He make clear to us what it is: the cows all resemble one another to us, and we will surely, if God wills, be among those who let themselves be guided."

He said: "He says she is a cow not made docile to stir up the earth or water the tilth,

And there are surely, among stones, those from which rivers gush forth;

and there are surely, among them, those which split, and water comes out of them;

and there are surely, among them, those which descend, out of dread of God.

Do they not know, then, that God knows what they keep secret and what they disclose?

Say: "Whoever is an enemy of Jibril should know that it is he who brought it down upon your core, with God's permission, confirming what precedes it, and as a guidance and good tidings for the believers."

Whoever is an enemy of God, His Agents, His messengers, Jibril, and Mikal should know that God is indeed the enemy of those who disown.

And when a messenger came to them from God, confirming what is with them, a fraction of those to whom the Scripture was given cast the Scripture of God behind their backs, as if they did not know.

and those two did not teach anyone without first saying: "We are only a trial, do not disown, then."

And had they believed and guarded themselves, a requital from God would indeed have been better, had they known.

Do you not know that God is capable of all things?

Do you not know that to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and that you have, besides God, neither protector nor help?

God is indeed capable of all things.

God is indeed All-Seeing of what you do.

God is indeed Vast, All-Knowing.

When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: "Be",

We have sent you, in truth, as a bearer of good tidings and a warner,

Say: "The guidance of God, that is the guidance."

O Sons of Israel! Remember My blessing, that with which I blessed you, and that I favored you above all beings.

He said: "I am indeed going to make you a guide for mankind."

"Our Guardian, accept this from us; You, indeed, are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

You, indeed, are the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.

You, indeed, are the All-Powerful, the Wise."

and in the last life, he will surely be among those who are sound.

and so did Yaacoub: "O my sons! God has chosen this Law for you; do not die, then, except being true to Him alone."

and if they turn their backs, they are then only in a rupture;

Or do you say: "Ibrahim, Isma'il, Ishaq, Yaacoub, and the bloodlines were Reoriented or Helpers"?

God is surely, toward mankind, full of kindness, Benevolent.

And those to whom the Scripture was given surely know that it is the truth from their Guardian.

And were you to follow their emotions, after what has come to you of knowledge, you would then surely be among the wrongdoers.

and a fraction among them surely withholds the truth, while knowing.

God is indeed capable of all things.

it is surely the truth from your Guardian.

God is indeed with the patient.

and give good news to the patient, those who, when misfortune strikes them, say: "We are indeed God's, and it is to Him that we return."

Safa and Marwa are indeed among the perceptible markers of God.

And whoever does good willingly — God is indeed Grateful, All-Knowing.

Indeed, those who withhold what We have sent down of clear proofs and guidance, after We have made it clear to mankind in the Scripture — those are the ones God curses, and whom those who curse, curse,

Indeed, those who disown and die while disowning — those are the ones upon whom weighs the curse of God, the Agents, and mankind, all together, wherein they will abide eternally;

There are surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, in the alternation of night and day, in the vessel that sails at sea laden with what benefits mankind, in the water that God sends down from the sky and by which He brings the earth back to life after its death, spreading in it every kind of living being, in the diversity of the winds, and in the cloud subjected between the sky and the earth — signs for a people who reason.

And if the wrongdoers could see, when they see the punishment, that power belongs to God in its entirety, and that God is severe in punishment —

And those who followed will say: "If only we had a return, we would declare ourselves quit of them as they have declared themselves quit of us."

he is indeed for you a manifest enemy.

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

He has prohibited to you only the dead animal, blood, the flesh of swine, and what has been consecrated to other than God.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Indeed, those who withhold what God has sent down of the Scripture, and buy with it a paltry price — those are the ones who swallow nothing into their bellies but the Fire; God will not speak to them on the Day of Appearance, and will not purify them,

That is because God sent down the Scripture in truth,

and those who differ about the Scripture are surely in a far rupture.

And whoever changes it after having heard it, the transgression thereof falls only upon those who change it.

God is indeed the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

And when My obedient ones ask you about Me, I am near:

God knew that you were betraying yourselves; He turned toward you with clemency, then, and overlooked it for you.

God indeed does not love the aggressors.

But if they cease, God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

and guard yourselves toward God, and know that God is with those who guard themselves.

God loves those who do good.

And guard yourselves toward God, and know that God is severe in sanction.

for the best of provisions is guardedness.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

And guard yourselves toward God, and know that it is to Him that you will be gathered.

he is indeed for you a manifest enemy.

And if you falter after the clear proofs have come to you, know then that God is All-Powerful, Wise.

And whoever changes the blessing of God after it has come to him — God is indeed severe in sanction.

Is it not so: the help of God is indeed near!

And whatever good you do, God is indeed All-Knowing of it."

Indeed, those who have believed, those who have emigrated and have striven in the way of God — those are the ones who hope for the benevolence of God.

God is indeed All-Powerful, Wise."

God loves those who turn back, and He loves those who keep themselves clean."

Your women are a tilth for you; unite, then, with your tilth as you will,

and know that you will meet Him.

and if they return, God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

And if they are resolved on repudiation, God is indeed the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

and know that God is All-Knowing of all things.

and know that God is All-Seeing of what you do.

God knows that you will think of them; but do not promise them anything in secret,

And know that God knows what is in your Selves; beware of Him, then.

And know that God is Most-Forgiving, Forbearing.

God is indeed All-Seeing of what you do.

God surely holds a favor toward mankind,

And fight in the way of God, and know that God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

And their informant said to them: "God has indeed raised up for you Talut as king."

They said: "How would he have the dominion over us, when we have more right to it than he, and he has not been given ampleness of goods?"

He said: "God has indeed chosen him over you, and increased him in breadth of knowledge and constitution."

And their informant said to them: "The sign of his dominion will be that the coffer comes to you, wherein is a tranquility from your Guardian, and a remnant of what the clan of Moussa and the clan of Harun left, carried by the Agents."

There is surely in that a sign for you, if you are believers.

When Talut set out with the armies, he said: "God is going to test you with a river: whoever drinks from it is not one of mine, and whoever does not feed on it is indeed one of mine — except one who draws a scoop with his hand."

Those who presumed that they would meet God said: "How many a small battalion has overcome a large battalion, with God's permission!"

and you are surely among the envoys.

Ibrahim said: "God indeed brings the sun from the east; bring it, then, from the west"; so the one who disowned was left with his words unraveled.

He said: "How will God bring this back to life, after its death?" God then caused him to die for a hundred years, then He raised him.

When this had become clear to him, he said: "I know that God is capable of all things."

And know that God is All-Powerful, Wise."

And know that God is Self-Sufficient, Praiseworthy.

And whatever expenditure you spend, or vow you make, God indeed knows it.

And whatever good you spend, God is indeed All-Knowing of it.

That is because they said: "Selling is only ever like usury";

Indeed, those who have believed, done sound deeds, maintained the Contact, and given pure liberality, have their reward with their Guardian; no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.

And if you do, it is indeed an overstepping on your part.

And whoever withholds it has indeed a transgressive core.

Indeed, those who have disowned the signs of God will have a severe punishment.

Indeed, nothing is hidden from God, neither on earth nor in the sky.

You, indeed, are the Bestower.

Our Guardian, You are the One who brings mankind together for a day about which there is no doubt.

God indeed does not fail His promise."

Indeed, those who disown, neither their goods nor their children will avail them at all against God.

There is surely a lesson in that for the possessors of sight.

those who say: "Our Guardian, we have indeed believed; forgive us, then, our offenses, and protect us from the punishment of the Fire",

God bears witness, and so do the Agents and the possessors of knowledge, that there is no deity but Him, maintaining equity.

The Law, with God, is indeed being true to Him alone.

And whoever disowns the signs of God — God is indeed swift in reckoning.

and if they turn their backs, only the transmission is incumbent upon you.

Indeed, those who disown the signs of God, kill the informants without right, and kill those who, among men, order equity — announce to them a painful punishment.

That is because they said: "The Fire will touch us only for numbered days"; and what they used to invent deluded them in their Law.

You are indeed capable of all things.

and what it has done of evil, it would wish there were between that and itself a distant span.

and if they turn their backs, God indeed does not love those who disown.

God has chosen Adam, Nuh, the clan of Ibrahim, and the clan of Imran, above all beings, descendants one from another.

When the wife of Imran said: "My Guardian, I make a vow to You of what is in my belly, made independent of all; accept it, then, from me.

You, indeed, are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing."

Then, when she gave birth to her, she said: "My Guardian, I have indeed given birth to her, a girl" — God knew better, though, what she had given birth to —

I have given her the attribute Maryam,

and I place her, and her descendants, in Your refuge, against the banished Diverter."

He said: "O Maryam! From where does this come to you?"

God provides for whom He wills, without reckoning."

He said: "My Guardian, bestow on me, from Yourself, wholesome descendants; You are indeed the Hearer of invocation."

The Agents called him while he was making contact in the oratory: "God announces to you Yahya, confirming a word from God, a chief, a man of total continence, and an informant, among those who are sound."

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

And when the Agents said: "O Maryam! God has chosen you, purified you, and chosen you above the women of all beings.

and you were not with them when they quarreled. When the Agents said: "O Maryam! God announces to you a word from Himself,

She said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a child, when no human has touched me?"

When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: 'Be',

"And He will teach him the Code, wisdom, the Tawrah and the Injil, and a messenger to the Sons of Israel: I bring you a sign from your Guardian:

I create for you, from clay, the form of a bird, then I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird, with God's permission.

There is surely in that a sign for you, if you are believers.

God is indeed my Guardian and your Guardian; obey Him, then.

We believe in God, and bear witness that we are true to Him alone.

When God said: "O Issa! I am indeed going to keep you faithfully, elevate you to Me, and purify you from those who disowned,

The example of Issa, with God, is indeed like that of Adam:

This is surely the true account,

And God is surely the All-Powerful, the Wise.

If they turn their backs, God is indeed All-Knowing of the corrupters.

If they turn their backs, say then: "Bear witness that we are true to God alone."

Of mankind, those closest to Ibrahim are surely those who followed him, as well as this informant and those who have believed.

Say: "The guidance is indeed the guidance of God" — lest anyone be given the like of what you were given, or lest they dispute with you before your Guardian.

Say: "Favor is in the hand of God,

That is because they say: "We have, toward the people without a prior Scripture, no obligation",

But yes: whoever is faithful to his pact and guards himself — God indeed loves those who guard themselves.

Indeed, those who buy, with the pact of God and their oaths, a paltry price — those are the ones who will have no allotment in the last life; God will not speak to them, will not look at them on the Day of Appearance, and will not purify them.

And among them, there is surely a fraction who twist their tongues with the Scripture, so that you might take it for an extract of the Scripture, when it is not part of it,

How would God guide a people who disowned after having believed, and after having testified that the messenger is true, when the clear proofs had come to them?

Those are the ones whose recompense is that upon them will weigh the curse of God, the Agents, and mankind, all together, wherein they will abide eternally; the punishment will not be lightened for them, and they will not be granted a delay — except those who turn back after that, and become sound: God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Indeed, those who disown after having believed, then increase in disowning, their repentance will never be accepted,

Indeed, those who disown and die while disowning, there will never be accepted from any of them the whole earth filled with gold, even were he to offer it as ransom.

And whatever you spend, God is indeed All-Knowing of it.

The first House set down for mankind is surely that at the place of the throng, blessed and a guidance for all beings; in it are clear signs.

and whoever disowns — God is indeed Self-Sufficient, independent of all beings.

That is because they used to disown the signs of God, and kill the informants without right.

Indeed, those who disown, neither their goods nor their children will avail them at all against God,

God is indeed All-Knowing of what the chests contain.

God indeed encompasses perfectly what they do.

But help comes only from God, the All-Powerful, the Wise, so that He may cut off a part of those who disown, or lay them low, and they depart disappointed. You have, in this matter, no power: either He turns toward them with clemency, or He punishes them, for they are wrongdoers.

Say: "The matter, entirely, indeed belongs to God."

Those among you who turned their backs, on the day the two forces met, it was only the Diverter who made them slip, for a part of what they had earned.

God is Most-Forgiving, Forbearing.

God loves those who entrust themselves.

How then, when misfortune strikes you, after you had caused double that to strike, do you say: "From where, then, does this come?"

God is indeed capable of all things.

They exult in a blessing from God and a favor, and that God does not let the reward of the believers dissipate, those who responded to God and to the messenger after the wound had struck them.

Those to whom men said: "Men have indeed come together against you, so dread them" — that increased their faith.

It is only that Diverter who frightens his allies; do not fear them, then,

they will not harm God at all.

Indeed, those who have bought disowning at the price of faith will not harm God at all, and they will have a painful punishment.

And let those who disown by no means think that the delay We grant them is a good for themselves:

We grant it to them only so that they may increase in transgression,

God has certainly heard the saying of those who said: "God is poor, and we are rich."

That is for what your hands have prepared; and God is in no way one to wrong the constrained under compulsion."

Those who said: "God has bound us by a pact not to give credit to any messenger, until he brings us an offering that the fire consumes",

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

But if you are patient and guard yourselves, that is indeed among the matters requiring resolve.

There are surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, signs for the possessors of intelligence, those who remember God, standing, sitting, or lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth:

Our Guardian, whoever You admit into the Fire, You have indeed covered him with disgrace,

Our Guardian, we have heard a herald calling to faith: Believe in your Guardian — and we have believed.

You indeed do not fail Your promise."

Their Guardian answered them, then: "I do not let the deed of one of you who acts dissipate, male or female —

And among the people of the Scripture, there are surely some who believe in God, in what has been sent down to you, and in what was sent down to them, humble toward God,

God is indeed swift in reckoning.

God is indeed, over you, an Observer.

that is a great crime.

Those who devour the goods of orphans wrongfully are only devouring fire in their bellies,

God is indeed All-Knowing, Wise.

God is indeed the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.

The repentance accepted by God concerns only those who do evil out of ignorance, then turn back without delay:

And repentance is not accepted for those who commit evil deeds until, when death presents itself to one of them, he says: "I indeed turn back now" — nor for those who die while disowning:

It was an indecency and an abomination,

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

God is indeed All-Knowing, Wise.

God is indeed, toward you, Benevolent.

God is indeed All-Knowing of all things.

God is indeed witness over all things.

God is indeed Most High, Great.

God is All-Knowing, Intimately Acquainted.

God indeed does not love him who is arrogant, boastful.

God does no wrong, even the weight of a grain.

God is indeed Ever-Overlooking, Most-Forgiving.

And had they said: "We have heard and we have deferred", and: "Listen", and: "Look at us", it would have been better for them, and more upright;

God indeed does not forgive that anything be associated with Him,

Those who disowned Our signs, We will indeed burn them in a fire.

God is indeed All-Powerful, Wise.

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

How excellent is that to which God exhorts you!

God is indeed the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.

Have you not seen those who claim to have believed in what has been sent down to you and in what was sent down before you, and who want to bring their dispute before the Overreacher, though they have been ordered to disown it?

And had they come to you, after having wronged themselves, to ask God's forgiveness, and had the messenger asked forgiveness for them, they would certainly have found God the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.

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.

And had they done what they were exhorted to do, it would have been better for them, and would have made them firmer;

And there is surely among you one who deliberately lags behind;

the scheming of the Diverter is indeed weak.

God is indeed, over all things, a reckoner.

God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what you do.

Indeed, those whom the Agents keep faithfully while they are wronging themselves — they say: "In what situation were you?"

Those who disown are indeed, for you, a manifest enemy.

God has indeed prepared, for those who disown, a degrading punishment.

The Contact is, for the believers, a prescription at fixed times.

If you suffer, they indeed suffer as you suffer; but you hope from God what they do not hope.

We have sent down to you the Scripture in truth, so that you may judge between men according to what God has shown you.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

God indeed does not love him who is a grand traitor, a transgressor.

And whoever acquires a transgression acquires it only against his own Self.

God indeed does not forgive that anything be associated with Him,

And whatever good you do, God is indeed All-Knowing of it."

but if you do good and guard yourselves, God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what you do.

And if you reconcile and guard yourselves, God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

And if you disown, to God indeed belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.

And if you twist or turn away, God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what you do.

Indeed, those who have believed, then disowned, then believed, then disowned, then increased in disowning — it is not for God to forgive them, nor to guide them to a way.

Announce to the hypocrites that they will have a painful punishment — those who take those who disown as allies, besides the believers.

Do they seek might with them? Might indeed belongs to God in its entirety.

you would then indeed be like them.

God will indeed bring together the hypocrites and those who disown, all together, in Jahannam — those who bide their time: if an opening comes to you from God, they say: "Were we not with you?" and if a portion falls to those who disown, they say: "Did we not take hold of you, and did we not shield you from the believers?"

The hypocrites seek to deceive God, and it is He who deceives them.

The hypocrites are indeed in the lowest stratum of the Fire, and you will never find for them any help —

Whether you make a good appear, or hide it, or overlook an evil, God is indeed Ever-Overlooking, Capable.

Those who disown God and His messengers, and want to separate God from His messengers, saying: "We believe in part, and we disown part", wanting to carve out a way between the two — those are the true disowners.

It is for having broken their solemn engagement, disowned the signs of God, killed the informants without right, and said: "Our cores are wrapped up" — no, it is God who stamped their cores for their disowning, so that they believe only a little — and for their disowning, and their imputation against Maryam of an immense slander, and for having said: "We indeed killed Al-Massih, Issa, son of Maryam, the messenger of God",

And those who differ about it are surely in doubt concerning it.

We have indeed revealed to you, as We revealed to Nuh and the informants after him,

Those who disowned and barred from the way of God have indeed strayed far astray.

Indeed, those who disowned and did wrong — it is not for God to forgive them, nor to guide them to a road, except the road of Jahannam, wherein they will abide eternally, forever.

And if you disown, to God indeed belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth.

Al-Massih, Issa, son of Maryam, is only the messenger of God, and His word,

God is only one deity.

God decides what He wants.

God is indeed severe in sanction.

But whoever is compelled by dearth, without inclination to transgression — God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

God is indeed swift in reckoning."

God is indeed All-Knowing of what the chests contain.

God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what you do.

And God said: "I am indeed with you.

God loves those who do good.

And among those who said: "We are indeed the Helpers", We took their solemn engagement, but they forgot a share of what they had been reminded of; We then unleashed among them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Appearance;

They have indeed disowned, those who said: "God, that is Al-Massih, son of Maryam."

They said: "O Moussa! There is indeed there a people of tyrants,

and we will indeed not enter it until they have left it;

if they leave it, then we will enter it."

once you have entered it, you will indeed be the victors.

They said: "O Moussa! We will indeed never enter it, as long as they are there; go, then, you and your Guardian, and fight, both of you; we, we will stay here, sitting."

He said: "My Guardian, I indeed possess power only over my own Self

He said: "It is, then, prohibited to them, forever,

The former said: "God accepts only from those who guard themselves.

I indeed fear God, Guardian of all beings.

I want you to return burdened with my transgression and yours, and to be among the companions of the Fire:

That is why We prescribed for the Sons of Israel that whoever kills a Self, without it being for another Self, or for corruption on the earth, it is as if he had killed all mankind together,

Our messengers indeed came to them with clear proofs; then many of them, after that, are surely excessive on the earth.

The only recompense of those who wage war against God and His messenger, and endeavour to sow corruption on the earth, is that they be massacred, or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be exiled from the earth.

and they will have, in the last life, an immense punishment — except those who turn back before you have power over them; know then that God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Indeed, those who disown, were they to possess all that is on earth, and its equivalent with it, to ransom themselves from the punishment of the Day of Appearance, it would not be accepted from them,

But whoever turns back after his wrongdoing, and becomes sound, God turns toward him with clemency.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Do you not know that to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth?

God indeed loves the equitable.

We sent down the Tawrah, wherein is guidance and light; the informants, who were true to God alone, judged by it the Reoriented, as did the spiritual masters and the rabbis, according to what they were entrusted to preserve of God's Scripture, and they were witnesses to it.

And We prescribed for them, in it: the Self in exchange for the Self, the eye in exchange for the eye, the nose in exchange for the nose, the ear in exchange for the ear, the tooth in exchange for the tooth, and for wounds, an investigation.

And if they turn their backs, know then that God wants only to strike them for a part of their offenses.

And many men are surely oversteppers.

And whoever among you takes them as allies is then of them.

God indeed does not guide the wrongdoing people.

And those who have believed will say: "Are these the ones who swore by God, with the utmost strength of their oaths, to be surely with you?" Their works have collapsed, and they have found themselves losers.

Your protector is only God, and His messenger, and those who have believed, those who maintain the Contact and give pure liberality, while kneeling.

And whoever takes as ally God, His messenger, and those who have believed — the party of God, those are the victors.

that is because they are a people who do not reason.

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?"

And had the people of the Scripture believed and guarded themselves, We would indeed have covered their evil deeds, and We would indeed have admitted them into the Gardens of bliss.

And had they maintained the Tawrah, the Injil, and what was sent down to them from their Guardian, they would indeed have eaten of what is above them and of what is beneath their feet.

God indeed does not guide the people who disown.

Indeed, those who have believed, the Reoriented, the Aspirants, and the Helpers — whoever has believed in God and the Last Day, and done sound work, no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.

They have indeed disowned, those who said: "God, that is Al-Massih, son of Maryam."

Whoever associates with God, God indeed prohibits the Garden to him, and his refuge will be the Fire."

They have indeed disowned, those who said: "God is the third of three."

Look how We detail the signs to them, then look how they are turned away!

and you will certainly find that the closest in affection toward those who have believed are those who say: "We are indeed the Helpers."

That is because there are, among them, priests and monks, and they do not grow proud.

God indeed does not love those who cross the limits.

O you who have believed! The combination of wine and games of chance, as well as the sharing by lot of common goods, are nothing but filth, the work of the Diverter; avoid them, then, perhaps you will succeed.

The Diverter wants only to cast, among you, by wine and games of chance, enmity and hatred, and to bar you from the remembrance of God and from the Contact.

But if you turn your backs, know then that only the clear transmission is incumbent upon Our messenger.

That, so that you may know that God knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth, and that God is All-Knowing of all things.

Know that God is severe in sanction, and that God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

and we will not withhold the testimony of God; we would then surely be among the transgressors."

But if it is discovered that both have been guilty of a transgression, two others will take their place, from among those against whom the wrong was committed, the two nearest, and they will both swear

we would then surely be among the wrongdoers."

They will say: "We have no knowledge of it; You, indeed, are the great Knower of what escapes the senses."

they said: "We believe, and bear witness that we are true to God alone."

God said: "I am sending it down to you; but whoever among you disowns thereafter, I will indeed punish him with a punishment with which I will punish none other among all beings."

You, indeed, are the great Knower of what escapes the senses.

If You punish them, they are Your obedient ones;

and if You forgive them, You, indeed, are the All-Powerful, the Wise."

Say: "I have been commanded to be the first of those who are true to God alone",

Say: "I indeed fear, if I disobey my Guardian, the punishment of an immense day."

Do you really bear witness that there are, with God, other deities?" Say: "I do not bear witness."

Say: "He is only one deity,

and I am indeed quit of what you associate."

The wrongdoers indeed do not succeed.

and they are surely liars.

We will indeed know that what they say surely grieves you;

but it is not you they deny,

Only those who hear respond.

Say: "God is indeed capable of sending down a sign",

Say: "I do not tell you that I hold the treasuries of God, nor that I know what escapes the senses, nor do I tell you that I am an Agent;

Your Guardian has prescribed benevolence upon Himself: whoever among you commits evil out of ignorance, then repents after that and becomes sound — He is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."

Say: "I have indeed been forbidden to obey those you invoke besides God."

Say: "I indeed rely on clear evidence from my Guardian, and you have denied it.

Say: "If I held what you seek to hasten, the matter would already have been decided between me and you."

Say: "The guidance of God, that is the guidance; and we have been commanded to be true to the Guardian of all beings alone, and to maintain the Contact, and to guard ourselves toward Him."

I see you indeed, you and your people, in manifest error."

but when it disappeared, he said: "O my people! I am indeed quit of what you associate.

I have set my direction toward the One who originated the heavens and the earth, wholly turned toward Him,

while you do not fear having associated with God that for which He has sent down upon you no authority?

Your Guardian is indeed Wise, All-Knowing.

and We do not see with you your intercessors, whom you claimed to be associates among you.

God is He who splits open the seed and the kernel.

How then are you turned away?

There are surely signs in that for a people who believe.

How would He have a child, when He has no consort,

Say: "The signs are only with God";

Indeed, when it comes, they will not believe in it.

And even had We sent down to them the Agents, and the dead had spoken to them, and We had gathered before them everything, face to face, they would not have believed, unless God willed it;

And those to whom We gave the Scripture know that it was sent down from your Guardian in truth;

Your Guardian indeed knows best who strays from His way,

And many surely lead astray by their emotions, without knowledge.

Your Guardian knows best those who cross the limits.

Those who acquire transgression will indeed be recompensed for what they used to commit.

And do not eat of that over which the name of God has not been mentioned: it is surely an overstepping.

And the Diverters surely inspire their allies to argue with you;

and if you deferred to them, you would surely be among those who associate.

and whomever He wants to lead astray, He makes his chest narrow and constricted, as if he were ascending into the sky.

Your Guardian is indeed Wise, All-Knowing.

and the present life deluded them, and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disowning.

What is promised to you will surely come,

Say: "O my people! Act according to your position; I too am indeed acting.

The wrongdoers indeed do not succeed."

He is Wise, All-Knowing.

He indeed does not love the wasteful.

he is indeed for you a manifest enemy.

God indeed does not guide the wrongdoing people.

Say: "I find, in what has been revealed to me, nothing prohibited to one who wants to feed on it, except that it be a dead animal, or spilled blood, or the flesh of swine — for that is filth —

But whoever is compelled to it, without being rebellious or crossing the limits — your Guardian is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."

and We are surely veracious.

Say: "Bring your witnesses, those who testify that God has prohibited this."

And: this is my path, straight; follow it, then,

And here is a Scripture We have sent down, blessed; follow it, then, and guard yourselves, perhaps benevolence will be shown to you — lest you say: "The Scripture was sent down only upon two groups before us, and we were indeed heedless of their study", or lest you say: "Had the Scripture been sent down upon us, we would have been better guided than they."

we are indeed waiting."

Indeed, those who have divided their Law and become factions, you are in no way linked to them.

Their matter rests only with God,

Say: "My Guardian has indeed guided me to a straight path,

Say: "My Contact, my beneficent practice, my life, and my death indeed belong to God, Guardian of all beings; no associate to Him.

Your Guardian is indeed swift in sanction,

and He is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Their only cry, when Our rigor came to them, was to say: "We have indeed been wrongdoers."

He said: "Then descend from here: it is not for you to act proudly here; go out, then, you are indeed among the diminished."

He said: "You are among those granted a delay."

And he swore to them both: "I am surely, for you two, among the sincere advisors" — thus he brought them down by delusion.

And their Guardian called out to them: "Did I not forbid you that tree, and did I not tell you that the Diverter is, for you two, a manifest enemy?"

He indeed sees you, he and his tribe, from where you do not see them.

We have made the Diverters allies for those who do not believe.

Say: "God indeed does not order indecency.

That is because they took the Diverters as allies besides God, while thinking they are among those who let themselves be guided.

He indeed does not love the wasteful.

Say: "My Guardian has prohibited only indecencies, apparent or hidden, transgression, iniquity without right, that you associate with God that for which He has sent down no authority, and that you say about God what you do not know."

and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disowning.

Indeed, those who denied Our signs and grew too proud for them, the gates of heaven will not open for them, and they will not enter the Garden, until the camel passes through the eye of the needle.

They will say: "God has indeed prohibited both to those who disown, those who took their Law for distraction and play, and whom the present life deluded.

Your Guardian is indeed God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice.

He indeed does not love those who cross the limits.

The benevolence of God is indeed near to those who do good.

I indeed fear for you the punishment of an immense day."

The court of his people said: "We see you surely in manifest error."

They were indeed a blind people.

The court of his people, those who had disowned, said: "We see you surely in sheer foolishness, and we surely presume you to be among the liars."

Wait then: I am indeed, with you, among those who wait."

The court of his people, those who had grown proud, said to those who had been reduced to weakness, to those among them who had believed: "Do you know that Salih is sent by his Guardian?"

They said: "We indeed believe in what he was sent with."

Those who had grown proud said: "We, for our part, indeed disown what you believe in."

You surely come to men out of desire, instead of women.

they are men who want to purify themselves."

And the court of his people, those who disowned, said: "If you follow Shu'ayb, you will then surely be losers."

And had the inhabitants of the cities believed and guarded themselves, We would indeed have opened upon them blessings from the sky and the earth;

And Moussa said: "O Fir'awn! I am indeed a messenger from the Guardian of all beings, in truth,

The court of Fir'awn's people said: "This is surely a knowledgeable worker of illusion, who wants to bring you out of your land."

And the workers of illusion came to Fir'awn; they said: "Will we surely have a reward, if we are the victors?"

He said: "Yes, and you will surely be among those brought near."

Fir'awn said: "You have believed in him before I gave you permission! This is surely a plot you plotted in the Capital, so as to drive out its inhabitants; you will soon know.

They said: "It is to our Guardian that we turn.

He said: "We will massacre their sons and violate the modesty of their women; we hold indeed the upper hand over them."

the earth indeed belongs to God; He gives it as inheritance to whom He wills among His obedient ones,

Is it not that in reality their omen is with God?

We then took vengeance upon them, and We drowned them in the deep, for having denied Our signs and remained heedless of them.

He said: "You are indeed an ignorant people.

What these practice is doomed to devastation,

He said: "O Moussa! I have chosen you among mankind for My messages and for My word; take, then, what I have given you, and be among the grateful."

That is because they denied Our signs and remained heedless of them.

Did they not see that it did not speak to them and did not guide them to any way?

And when they were struck with regret, seeing that they had gone astray, they said: "If our Guardian does not have benevolence on us and does not forgive us, we will certainly be among the losers."

He said: "Son of my mother! The people indeed reduced me to weakness, and almost killed me; do not, then, let the enemies gloat over me, and do not place me with the wrongdoing people."

Those who took the calf, an anger from their Guardian will indeed accrue to them, as well as a humiliation in the present life.

And those who committed evil deeds, then repented after that and believed — your Guardian, after that, is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

we indeed return to You."

Say: "O mankind! I am indeed the messenger of God to all of you, Him to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.

Your Guardian is surely swift in sanction,

and He is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

And those who hold firmly to the Scripture and maintain the Contact — We indeed do not let the reward of those who make things sound dissipate.

And when We tore the mountain out above them, as though it were a canopy, and they presumed it was going to topple upon them:

Lest they say, on the Day of Appearance: "We were indeed heedless of this", or that they say: "It was our ancestors who, before, associated, and we were only descendants after them.

My scheme is indeed solid.

Say: "Knowledge of it is only with my Guardian;

Say: "Knowledge of it is only with God,

Those you invoke besides God are indeed obedient ones like yourselves;

My protector is indeed God, who sent down the Scripture,

He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

Indeed, those who guard themselves, when a procession from the Diverter touches them, remember, and there they are, clear-sighted;

Say: "I only follow what is revealed to me from my Guardian;

Those who are with your Guardian do not grow too proud to obey Him, they glorify Him, and it is before Him that they prostrate.

The believers are only those whose cores tremble when God is remembered, whose faith increases when His signs are recited to them, and who entrust themselves to their Guardian,

As when your Guardian brought you out of your house in truth, while a fraction of believers were surely averse to it, arguing with you about the truth once it had become clear, as if they were being driven toward death, while they looked on.

And when God promised you that one of the two groups would be yours, while you wished it would be the one without arms.

When you called on your Guardian to rescue you, and He answered you: "I reinforce you with a thousand Agents, following one another."

God is indeed All-Powerful, Wise.

When your Guardian revealed to the Agents: "I am with you; so make firm those who have believed.

That is because they set themselves in breach against God and His messenger.

And whoever sets himself in breach against God and His messenger — God is indeed severe in sanction.

And for those who disown is reserved the punishment of the Fire.

God is indeed the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

That is for you! And God makes frail the scheming of those who disown.

for God is with the believers.

The worst of living beings, with God, are indeed the deaf, the mute, those who do not reason.

and know that God interposes between man and his core, and that it is to Him that you will be gathered.

and know that God is severe in sanction.

And know that your goods and your children are but a trial, and that with God there is an immense reward.

Those who disown indeed spend their goods so as to bar from the way of God.

But if they cease, then God is indeed All-Seeing of what they do.

And if they turn their backs, know then that God is your nearest Guarantor.

And know that, of everything you take as spoils, a fifth belongs to God, to the messenger, to relatives, to orphans, to the destitute, and to the stranded traveler — if you believe in God and in what We sent down upon Our obedient one, on the day of the Discernment, the day the two forces met.

And God is surely the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

He is All-Knowing of what the chests contain.

God is indeed with the patient.

And when the Diverter embellished their works for them, and said: "None, today, among mankind, can overcome you, and I am indeed for you a neighbor who grants asylum";

but when the two battalions saw one another, he stepped back on his heels, and said: "I am indeed quit of you; I see what you do not see; I fear God."

But whoever entrusts himself to God — God is indeed All-Powerful, Wise.

That is for what your hands have prepared; and God is in no way one to wrong the constrained under compulsion.

God is indeed strong, severe in sanction.

That is because God never changes a blessing He has granted a people, until they change what is in themselves; and God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

The worst of living beings, with God, are indeed those who disowned and who, henceforth, do not believe — those with whom you made a pact, and who, every time, break their pact, and who do not guard themselves.

God does not love the traitors.

They indeed cannot render Him powerless.

It is indeed He, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

And if they want to deceive you, then God suffices you.

He is All-Powerful, Wise.

and if there are a hundred among you, they will overcome a thousand of those who disown, for they are a people who do not understand.

Now, God has lightened things for you, and He has known that there was weakness in you.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Indeed, those who have believed, emigrated, and striven with their goods and their Selves in the way of God, and those who gave refuge and helped — those are allies of one another.

God is indeed All-Knowing of all things.

and know that you cannot render God powerless, and that God covers with disgrace those who disown.

And a proclamation from God and His messenger to mankind, on the day of the Great Convergence of the Hajj: God is quit of the associators, and so is His messenger.

but if you turn your backs, know that you cannot render God powerless.

God indeed loves those who guard themselves.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

That is because they are a people who do not know.

God indeed loves those who guard themselves.

How evil is what they used to do!

for their oaths are not valid — perhaps they will cease.

Only he populates the places of prostration of God who has believed in God and the Last Day, has maintained the Contact, given pure liberality, and dreaded none but God alone — it may be that those are among those who let themselves be guided.

With God there is an immense reward.

O you who have believed! The associators are nothing but impurity: let them not approach the inviolable place of prostration, after this year of theirs.

God is indeed All-Knowing, Wise.

How then are they turned away?

O you who have believed! Many rabbis and monks surely devour the goods of men through falsehood, and bar from the way of God.

The number of months, with God, is indeed twelve months, in God's Code, since the day He created the heavens and the earth;

and know that God is with those who guard themselves.

The deferred is only an increase in disowning: by it, those who disown lead astray; they make it permitted one year and make it inviolable one year, so as to trample the number of what God has made inviolable, and thus make permitted what God has made inviolable.

If you do not help him, God has already helped him, when those who disowned expelled him, the second of two, when they were both in the cave, when he said to his companion: "Do not grieve, God is indeed with us."

and God knows that they are surely liars.

Only those who do not believe in God nor in the Last Day ask you for permission, whose cores are seized with doubt, so that they waver in their doubt.

And Jahannam surely encompasses those who disown.

we are indeed biding our time with you."

for you are a people of oversteppers."

And nothing prevented their contributions from being accepted, except that they disowned God and His messenger, that they come to the Contact only lazily, and spend only reluctantly.

God wants only, through this, to punish them in the present life, and that their Selves depart while they disown.

And they take oaths by God that they are surely of you, when they are not of you; but they are a people who separate themselves.

And had they instead been satisfied with what God and His messenger gave them, and said: "God suffices us; God will grant us of His favor, and His messenger too;

it is toward God that we turn in yearning."

The acts of charity are destined only for the poor, the destitute, those who administer them, those whose cores have been united, those under the burden of a debt, those indebted by an unforeseen expense, in the way of God, and the stranded traveler — an obligation from God.

Do they not know that whoever sets himself against God and His messenger will have the fire of Jahannam, wherein he will abide eternally?

God will indeed bring out into the open what you are wary of."

And if you question them, they will certainly say: "We were only immersing ourselves and playing."

If it is overlooked for one group among you, another group will be punished, for having been severed.

The hypocrites are indeed the oversteppers.

God is indeed All-Powerful, Wise.

Do they not know that God knows their secret and their secret talks, and that God is the great Knower of what escapes the senses?

That is because they disowned God and His messenger.

You were satisfied with remaining seated the first time;

they disowned God and His messenger, and died as oversteppers.

God wants only, through this, to punish them in the present life, and that their Selves depart while they disown.

The way is open only against those who ask you permission while they are rich.

they are filth,

They take oaths to you, so that you may be satisfied with them; but even if you were satisfied with them, God would indeed not be satisfied with the people of the oversteppers.

Is it not so: it is indeed, for them, a drawing-near.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

your visits are a comfort for them.

Do they not know that God, He, accepts the repentance of His obedient ones and takes the acts of charity, and that God, He, is the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent?

and God testifies that they are surely liars.

God has indeed bought from the believers their Selves and their goods, in exchange for the Garden that belongs to them.

It was not for the Informant, nor for those who believed, to ask forgiveness for the associators, even if they were close relatives, once it had become clear to them that they were the companions of the Blaze.

but when it became clear to him that he was an enemy of God, he declared himself quit of him.

Ibrahim was surely full of sighs, forbearing.

God is indeed All-Knowing of all things.

To God indeed belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth;

God has indeed turned with clemency toward the Informant, the emigrants, and the Auxiliaries, who followed him in the hour of hardship, after the cores of a fraction among them had almost deviated; then He turned toward them with clemency — He is, toward them, full of kindness, Benevolent — and toward the three who had been left behind,

God, He, is the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.

That is because no thirst, no fatigue, no dearth touches them in the way of God, no step they tread irritates those who disown, and no gain from an enemy accrues to them, without a sound deed being inscribed for them because of it.

God indeed does not let the reward of those who do good dissipate.

And know that God is with those who guard themselves.

Do they not see that they are tried every year, once or twice? Yet they do not turn back, and they do not remember.

God has turned away their cores, for they are a people who do not understand.

and give good news to those who have believed that they have, with their Guardian, a firm step of veracity"?

Those who disown say: "This is surely a manifest illusion."

Your Guardian is indeed God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice.

It is He who begins creation, then remakes it, so as to recompense with equity those who believed and did sound deeds.

In the alternation of night and day, and in what God created in the heavens and the earth, there are surely signs for a people who guard themselves.

Indeed, those who do not hope for Our meeting, who were content with the present life and were calmed by it, and those who are heedless of Our signs — those are the ones whose refuge will be the Fire, for what they used to earn.

Indeed, those who believed and did sound deeds, their Guardian guides them by reason of their faith.

I indeed fear, if I disobey my Guardian, the punishment of an immense day."

The severed indeed do not succeed.

Say: "What escapes the senses belongs only to God.

I am indeed, with you, among those who wait."

Our envoys indeed write down what you plot.

until, when you are in the vessel and it sails with them by a wholesome wind, and they rejoice in it, a violent wind comes upon it, the swell comes at them from every side, and they presume they are encompassed — then they call upon God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him: "If You save us from this, we will certainly be among the grateful."

O mankind! Your iniquity falls back only upon yourselves,

The example of the present life is that of water which We send down from the sky, and which mixes

until, when the earth has taken on its gilding and become embellished, and its people presume they have mastery over it, Our command comes to it, by night or by day, and We make it a mown field, as if it had not flourished the day before.

As for those who earned evil deeds, the recompense of an evil deed will be its equivalent, and humiliation will cover them; they will have no safeguard against God — as if their faces were covered with a dark piece of the night.

How then are you turned away?

Thus did the word of your Guardian prove true concerning the oversteppers: they do not believe.

How then are you turned away?"

and presumption does not avail at all against the truth.

God is indeed All-Knowing of what they do.

God indeed does not wrong men in anything;

Say: "Yes, by my Guardian! It is surely so, and you will not be able to render Him powerless."

And if every Self that has done wrong possessed all that is on earth, it would ransom itself with it.

Is it not so: to God belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth.

Is it not so: God's promise is true;

God surely holds a favor toward mankind,

Is it not so: the allies of God, no fear upon them, and they will not grieve,

might indeed belongs to God in its entirety.

Is it not so: to God belongs whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth;

There are surely in that signs for a people who hear.

Say: "Those who invent the lie against God indeed do not succeed."

When the truth came to them from Us, they said: "This is surely a manifest illusion."

God will render it vain.

God indeed does not make the work of corrupters sound."

And Fir'awn was surely highly placed on earth,

and he was surely among the excessive ones.

And Moussa said: "Our Guardian, You have given Fir'awn and his court adornment and goods in the present life,

until, when the drowning overtook him, he said: "I believe that there is no deity but He in whom the Sons of Israel have believed, and I am among those true to God alone."

But many men are surely heedless of Our signs.

Your Guardian will indeed decide between them, on the Day of Appearance, concerning what they used to differ over.

Those on whom the word of your Guardian has proven true will not believe, even if every sign came to them, until they see the painful punishment.

Say: "Wait then, I am indeed, with you, among those who wait."

if you did so, you would indeed then be among the wrongdoers.

whoever lets himself be guided lets himself be guided only for himself,

and whoever strays only strays against himself.

A Scripture whose signs have been made unassailable, then detailed, from a Wise, Intimately Acquainted One: "Obey none but God; I am for you, from Him, a warner and a bearer of good tidings; ask forgiveness of your Guardian, then turn back to Him: He will let you enjoy a fine enjoyment until an appointed term, and grant every possessor of favor his favor.

But if you turn your backs, I indeed fear for you the punishment of a great day."

Is it not so: they indeed fold their chests to hide from Him.

He is All-Knowing of what the chests contain.

And if you say: "You will be raised after death," those who disown will surely say: "This is nothing but a manifest illusion."

And if We let the human being taste a benevolence from Us, then pull it away from him, he surely becomes hopeless, a great disowner.

he surely becomes joyful, boastful.

You are, yourself, only a warner;

If they do not answer you, then know that it has been sent down only with God's knowledge, and that there is no deity but Him.

it is indeed the truth from your Guardian, but most men do not believe.

There is no doubt that, in the last life, they are the greatest losers.

Those who have believed, done sound deeds, and lowered themselves before their Guardian: those are the companions of the Garden,

"I am for you a clear warner:

I indeed fear for you the punishment of a painful day."

And I am not of those who chase away those who believe: they will indeed meet their Guardian;

And I do not tell you that I hold God's treasuries, nor that I know what escapes the senses, nor that I am an Agent;

I would then surely be among the wrongdoers."

He said: "It is God alone who will bring it to you, if He wills, and you will not be able to render Him powerless.

And it was revealed to Nuh that none of your people will believe anymore, except those who have already believed:

and do not address Me about those who have done wrong: they will indeed be drowned.

He said: "If you scoff at us, we will indeed scoff at you as you scoff.

My Guardian is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."

And Nuh called upon his Guardian and said: "My Guardian, my son is indeed of my family, and Your promise is truth,

He said: "O Nuh, he is indeed not of your family:

he has done what is unsound.

I exhort you not to be among the ignorant."

He said: "My Guardian, I indeed take refuge with You from asking You about what I have no knowledge of,

the outcome indeed belongs to those who guard themselves.

He said: "I indeed call God to witness,

and bear witness that I am quit of what you associate besides Him:

I indeed entrust myself to God, my Guardian and yours:

My Guardian is upon a straight path.

my Guardian indeed preserves everything."

is it not so: the Aad indeed disowned their Guardian.

my Guardian is indeed near, and He answers."

They said: "O Salih, you were among us a hope before this; do you forbid us to obey what our ancestors obeyed? We are surely in a troubling doubt about what you call us to."

Your Guardian is indeed the Strong, the All-Powerful.

Is it not so: the Thamud indeed disowned their Guardian.

we are sent to the people of Lut."

That is surely an astonishing thing!"

He is indeed Praiseworthy, full of glory."

Ibrahim is surely forbearing, full of sighs, ever having recourse to Him.

the command of your Guardian has already come,

and a punishment that cannot be turned back indeed comes to them."

They said: "You already know what right we have over your daughters, and you surely know what we want."

He said: "Would that I had some strength against you, or could take refuge in a strong support!"

They said: "O Lut, we are indeed the messengers of your Guardian: they will never reach you.

What strikes them will also strike her.

Their appointment is the morning:

I indeed see you in prosperity, and I fear for you the punishment of an encompassing day.

You are surely, yourself, the forbearing, the well-advised one!"

my Guardian is indeed Benevolent, Loving."

They said: "O Shu'ayb, we do not understand much of what you say, and we surely see you weak among us; were it not for your kindred, we would have banished you; and you have no power over us."

My Guardian encompasses perfectly what you do.

O my people, act according to your position; I too am acting:

I indeed watch with you."

His seizure is indeed painful, severe.

There is surely in that a sign for whoever fears the punishment of the last life:

your Guardian is ever doing what He wants.

And We shall surely repay them faithfully their portion, undiminished.

and they are surely, about it, in a troubling doubt.

And to each, your Guardian will surely faithfully repay their works:

He is Intimately Acquainted with what they do.

He is indeed All-Seeing of what you do.

good deeds dispel bad ones:

for God does not let the reward of those who do good dissipate.

And say to those who do not believe: "Act according to your position; we act; and wait: we too are indeed waiting."

We have sent it down as a flawless Recitation, perhaps you will reason.

When Youssof said to his father: "O my father, I saw eleven heavenly bodies, and the sun and the moon,

the Diverter is, to the human being, a manifest enemy.

Your Guardian is indeed All-Knowing, Wise."

our father is surely in manifest error.

They said: "O our father, what is it with you, that you do not trust us with Youssof, when we are surely sincere counselors to him?

Send him with us tomorrow, that he may enjoy himself and play; we will surely be his preservers."

He said: "It surely grieves me that you take him, and I fear the wolf may devour him while you are heedless of him."

They said: "If the wolf were to devour him, while we are a close-knit group, we would then surely be losers."

they came to their father in the evening, weeping, and said: "O our father, we indeed went off racing and left Youssof with our baggage, and the wolf devoured him.

He is my master: he has made my sojourn excellent:

the wrongdoers indeed do not succeed."

he was indeed among Our refined obedient ones.

When he saw that his shirt was torn from behind, he said: "This is of your scheme: your scheme is indeed immense.

and you, ask forgiveness for your offense: you are among those at fault."

we surely see her in manifest error."

it is indeed He, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

One of them said: "I saw myself pressing wine."

And the other said: "I saw myself carrying bread on my head, from which the birds were eating.

Inform us of its prediction: we see you among those who do good."

I have indeed left the doctrine of a people who do not believe in God, and who disown the last life,

And he said to the one of the two he presumed would be saved: "Remember me to your master."

And the king said: "I see seven fat cows being devoured by seven lean ones, and seven green ears of grain and others withered:

my Guardian is indeed All-Knowing of their scheme."

The wife of the Powerful One said: "Now the truth breaks out: it is I who sought to obtain him from himself, and he is surely among the veracious.

This, so that he may know that I did not betray him in his absence, and that God does not guide the scheme of traitors.

the Self surely incites to evil, except one to whom my Guardian shows benevolence.

My Guardian is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."

When he had spoken to him, he said: "You are, today, with us, in a position of authority, trustworthy."

He said: "Place me in charge of the treasuries of this land: I am a knowledgeable preserver."

Do you not see that I give the measure faithfully and am the best of hosts?

They said: "We shall seek to obtain him from his father, we shall surely do it."

When they returned to their father, they said: "O our father, measure has been withheld from us; so send our brother with us, we shall obtain measure, and we will surely be his preservers."

he surely possessed knowledge We had taught him,

and said: "I am, indeed, your brother: so do not grieve over what they were doing."

When he had outfitted them with their supplies, he placed the cup in his brother's saddlebag; then a herald proclaimed: "O caravan, you are surely thieves!"

They said: "O Powerful One, he has a father, a very old man; so take one of us in his place: we see you among those who do good."

He said: "Refuge in God from our taking anyone other than the one with whom we found our item: we would then surely be wrongdoers."

The eldest among them said: "Do you not know that your father took a solemn engagement from you before God,

Return to your father, and say: 'O our father, your son has indeed been declared a thief;

And ask the city where we were, and the caravan with which we returned: we are surely veracious.'"

it is indeed He, the All-Knowing, the Wise."

He said: "I complain of my outpouring and my grief only to God,

none loses hope of God's rest, except the people who disown."

God recompenses those who give in charity."

They said: "Is it really you, Youssof?"

whoever guards himself and is patient — God indeed does not let the reward of those who do good dissipate."

When the caravan had set off, their father said: "I surely sense the scent of Youssof, if you do not think me a dotard."

They said: "By God, you are surely in your old error."

He said: "Did I not tell you that I know, from God, what you do not know?"

They said: "O our father, ask forgiveness for our offenses: we were indeed at fault."

it is indeed He, the Most-Forgiving, the Benevolent."

My Guardian is Subtle in what He wills:

it is indeed He, the All-Knowing, the Wise.

Until, when the messengers had lost all hope and presumed they had been denied, Our help came to them, and whom We willed was saved,

There are surely in that signs for a people who reflect.

There are surely in that signs for a people who reason.

And if you marvel, marvelous is their saying: "When we are earth, shall we really be in a new creation?"

And your Guardian is surely possessed of forgiveness for mankind, despite their wrongdoing;

and your Guardian is surely severe in sanction.

You are, yourself, only a warner,

God indeed does not change what is in a people until they change what is in themselves;

and those who do not respond to Him, if they possessed all that is on the earth, and its equivalent with it, they would give it as ransom.

Is he who knows that what has been sent down to you from your Guardian is the truth then like one who is blind?

Only the possessors of intelligence remember, those who are faithful to God's pact and do not break the solemn engagement, those who join what God has commanded to be joined, dread their Guardian and fear the worst of reckonings, those who were patient seeking the direction of their Guardian, maintained the Contact, spent from what We provided them, secretly and openly, and push back evil with good.

Say: "God indeed leads astray whom He wills, and guides to Himself whoever has recourse to Him,

And even if there were a Recitation by which the mountains were set in motion, or the earth split, or the dead spoken to…

God indeed does not fail His promise.

Say: "I have only been commanded to obey God, and to associate nothing with Him:

And whether We show you a part of what We promise them, or whether We keep you faithfully, only the transmission is incumbent upon you, and the reckoning belongs to Us.

Have they not seen that We come to the earth, diminishing it from its extremities?

There are surely in that signs for every very patient, very grateful one.

And when your Guardian made known: "If you are grateful, I shall surely increase you; but if you disown, My punishment is surely severe."

And Moussa said: "If you disown, you and all who are on the earth, God is surely Self-Sufficient, He is Praiseworthy."

Their messengers came to them with clear proofs, but they put their hands to their mouths and said: "We disown that with which you have been sent, and we are surely in a troubling doubt about what you call us to."

Have you not seen that God created the heavens and the earth with truth?

And they will all appear before God, and the weak will say to those who grew proud: "We were indeed your followers; can you then be of any use to us against God's punishment?"

And the Diverter will say, when the matter is decided: "God indeed made you a true promise, and I made you a promise, but I failed you; I had no authority over you, except to call you, and you answered me. So do not censure me, but censure yourselves: I cannot answer your cry, nor can you answer mine. I indeed disown that you associated me with God before."

The wrongdoers will indeed have a painful punishment.

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

The human being is surely a great wrongdoer, a great disowner.

My Guardian, they have indeed led astray a great number of men. Whoever follows me is then of mine, and whoever disobeys me — You are then indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Our Guardian, I have made part of my descendants dwell in a valley without cultivation, near Your House made inviolable,

Our Guardian, You know what we keep hidden and what we disclose;

My Guardian surely hears the invocation.

He only adjourns them until a day when the sights will be fixed; they will rush forward, heads lifted, their gaze never given back to them, and their Consciences will be gaping.

God is indeed All-Powerful, possessor of vengeance.

God is indeed swift in reckoning.

This is a transmission for mankind, so that they may be warned by it, know that He is but a single deity, and that the possessors of intelligence may remember.

And they said: "O you upon whom the Reminder has been sent down, you are surely deranged! Why do you not bring us the Agents, if you are among the veracious?"

It is We who have sent down the Reminder,

and We are surely its preservers.

And even if We opened for them a gate of the sky, through which they would stay ascending, they would say: "Our sight is only befuddled; we are rather a people abused by illusion."

And it is surely We who give life and cause death, and it is We who are the heirs.

And it is your Guardian who will gather them:

He is Wise, All-Knowing.

And when your Guardian said to the Agents: "I am indeed going to create a human from resonant clay, from molded mud; when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My Influx, bow before him in prostration."

He said: "So get out of here, for you are now banished, and the curse will indeed weigh upon you until the Day of the Due."

He said: "You are among those granted a delay, until the day of the known moment."

Over My obedient ones, you indeed have no authority, except over whoever follows you among the errant."

And Jahannam is surely their meeting-place, all of them; it has seven gates,

Those who guarded themselves will indeed be in gardens and springs: "Enter therein in peace, in security."

Inform My obedient ones that it is I, the Most-Forgiving, the Benevolent, and that My punishment is the painful punishment.

He said: "We are indeed trembling because of you."

They said: "Do not tremble: we bring you glad tidings of a knowledgeable boy."

They said: "We are sent to a severed people, except the clan of Lut.

We shall surely save them all, except his wife: We have determined that she is indeed among those who linger behind."

And when the envoys came to the clan of Lut, he said: "You are people I do not recognize."

They said: "We bring you rather that about which they used to contend. We have come to you with the truth, and we are surely veracious.

And We decreed to him this command: the last remnant of those people would be cut off, by morning.

He said: "These are my guests: do not dishonor me,

By your life, they were surely going about blindly in their intoxication.

There are surely in that signs for those who can read the marks.

And it is surely upon a way that endures.

There is surely in that a sign for the believers.

and both are surely upon a manifest reference.

And the Hour is surely coming:

Your Guardian is indeed the Great Creator, the All-Knowing.

And say: "I am, indeed, the clear warner" — as We sent it down upon those who divided it among themselves, those who made of this Recitation disparate fragments.

We have indeed sufficed you against the mockers, those who place, alongside God, another deity:

We will indeed know that your chest tightens from what they say:

He sends down the Agents with the Influx, by His command, upon whom He wills among His obedient ones: "Warn that there is no deity but Me; so guard yourselves before Me."

your Guardian is surely full of kindness, Benevolent.

there is surely in that a sign for a people who reflect.

There are surely in that signs for a people who reason.

there is surely in that a sign for a people who remember.

God is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

There is no doubt that God knows what they keep secret and what they disclose:

He does not love those who grow proud.

Those to whom knowledge was given will say: "Disgrace, today, and misfortune, are indeed upon those who disown" — those the Agents keep faithfully, wronging themselves.

God is indeed All-Knowing of what you were doing.

If you are keen on their guidance, God indeed does not guide him whom He leads astray,

But yes! It is a promise incumbent upon Him, in truth — but most men do not know — so that He may make clear to them that on which they differ, and so that those who disown may know that they were liars.

Our only saying, for a thing, when We want it, is to say to it: "Be",

Your Guardian is surely full of kindness, Benevolent.

He is but a single deity;

and their tongues describe the lie, claiming that to them belongs the best:

there is no doubt that to them belongs the Fire, and that they will be sent forth into it first.

there is surely in that a sign for a people who hear.

And there is surely, for you, a lesson in the cattle:

There is surely in that a sign for a people who reason.

there is surely in that a sign for a people who reflect.

God is All-Knowing, Capable.

God indeed knows,

God is indeed capable of all things.

There are surely in that signs for a people who believe.

If they turn their backs, only the clear transmission is incumbent upon you.

These will then address this saying to them: "You are surely liars."

God commands justice, beneficence, and giving to the close relative,

God indeed knows what you do.

God only thereby tests you,

what is with God is better for you, if you knew.

He indeed has no authority over those who believe and who entrust themselves to their Guardian.

His authority is exercised only over those who take him as ally, and over those who make him an associate.

And when We substitute one sign for another sign — God knows best what He sends down — they say: "You are but an inventor."

We will indeed know that they say: "It is only a human who teaches it to him."

Those who do not believe in God's signs, God indeed does not guide them,

Those who invent the lie are those who do not believe in God's signs,

That, because they loved the present life more than the last life, and because God does not guide the people who disown.

There is no doubt that, in the last life, they are the losers.

Then, your Guardian, toward those who emigrated after having been tried, then strove and were patient — your Guardian, after that, is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

He has prohibited to you only the dead animal, blood, the flesh of swine, and what has been consecrated to other than God.

But whoever is compelled to it, without being rebellious or crossing the limits, God is then indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

those who invent the lie against God will indeed not succeed.

Then, your Guardian, toward those who did evil out of ignorance, then repented after that and became sound — your Guardian, after that, is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Ibrahim was a community, devoted to God, wholly turned toward Him, and he was not among those who associate,

and in the last life, he will surely be among those who are sound.

The Rest was laid only upon those who differed about it:

your Guardian will surely judge between them, on the Day of Appearance, concerning that in which they differed.

Your Guardian knows best who has strayed from His way,

God is indeed with those who guard themselves and those who do good.

It is indeed He, the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.

He was a grateful obedient one.

This Recitation indeed guides to what is most upright, and gives the believers who do sound deeds the glad tidings that they will have a great reward, and that those who do not believe in the last life — We have made ready for them a painful punishment.

Whoever lets himself be guided lets himself be guided only for himself,

and whoever strays only strays against himself.

If you are sound, He is indeed, toward those ever-returning to Him, Most-Forgiving.