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How evil is that with which they bought their own Selves: to disown what God sent down, out of iniquity, because God sends down of His favor upon whom He wills among His obedient ones!

But whoever is hard-pressed into it, without being rebellious or crossing the limits, no transgression upon him.

and seek what God has prescribed for you.

No blame upon you for seeking a favor from your Guardian.

And among mankind, there is one who sells his own Self, seeking the good pleasure of God.

after the clear proofs had come to them, out of iniquity among themselves.

And the example of those who spend their goods, seeking the good pleasure of God and the strengthening of their own Selves, is that of a garden on a height: a torrential rain strikes it, and it gives its fare twofold; and if no torrential rain strikes it, then a drizzle.

And you spend only seeking the direction of God.

As for those in whose cores is a deviation, they follow what, in the Scripture, lends itself to resemblance, in pursuit of the trial and in pursuit of its interpretation;

out of iniquity among themselves.

Would they seek then a Law other than God's, while whoever is in the heavens and the earth is true to Him alone, willingly or unwillingly,

And whoever seeks a Law other than being true to God alone, it will never be accepted from him,

Say: "O people of the Scripture! Why do you bar from the way of God him who has believed, seeking to make it crooked, while you are witnesses to it?"

And permitted to you are all beyond these categories, whom you seek with your goods, as men who commit to the marital bond, not in debauchery.

then, if they defer to you, seek no further way against them.

and do not say to one who offers you peace: "You are not a believer", seeking the fleeting goods of the present life; but, with God, there are abundant spoils.

And do not slacken in seeking that people.

And whoever does that seeking the good pleasure of God, We will give him an immense reward.

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

O you who have believed! Do not hold as permitted the perceptible markers of God, nor the inviolable month, nor the voluntary offerings, nor the vow-bound offerings, nor those heading toward the Inviolable House, seeking a favor from their Guardian and a good pleasure.

O you who have believed! Guard yourselves toward God, seek toward Him the means of nearness, and strive in His way, perhaps you will succeed.

Would they then seek the judgment of the age of ignorance?

And if their turning away weighs upon you, then, if you have the capacity, seek a tunnel into the earth, or a ladder into the sky, to bring them a sign.

Should I then seek a judge other than God, when it is He who sent down to you the Scripture, detailed?

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

Thus did We recompense them for their iniquity,

Say: "Should I seek a Guardian other than God, when He is the Guardian of every thing?"

Say: "My Guardian has prohibited only indecencies, uncovered 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."

Then a herald will proclaim among them: "The curse of God is upon the wrongdoers, who bar from the way of God, seeking to make it crooked, and who disown the last life."

And do not sit in wait on every path, threatening and barring from the way of God whoever believes in Him, and seeking to make it crooked.

He said: "Should I seek for you a deity other than God, while He has favored you above all beings?"

Had they gone out among you, they would only have increased your confusion, and would have rushed about among you, seeking to put you to the trial — and among you are some who listen to them.

They had already sought the trial before, and had turned matters over for you in every direction, until the truth came and God's command stood uncovered, though they were averse.

But as soon as He saves them, there they are, committing iniquity on earth, without right.

O mankind! Your iniquity falls back only upon yourselves,

And We made the Sons of Israel traverse the sea; Fir'awn and his armies pursued them in iniquity and hostility,

Is it not that God's curse is upon the wrongdoers, those who bar from God's way and seek to make it crooked, and who disown the last life?

When they opened their baggage, they found their merchandise, which had been restored to them. They said: "O our father, what more could we seek?

and of what is heated in the fire, seeking an ornament or a use, there is likewise a froth.

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.

those who love the present life more than the last life, who bar from God's way and seek to make it crooked: those are the ones in far error.

and you see the vessels cleaving through it, so that you may seek of His favor, and perhaps you will be grateful.

and He forbids indecency, what is disavowed, and iniquity:

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

And We have made the night and the day two signs; We blotted out the sign of the night and made the sign of the day fit for seeing clearly, so that you might seek a favor from your Guardian and know the number of years and the reckoning.

And if you must turn away from them, seeking a benevolence from your Guardian that you hope for, then speak to them an easy saying.

Say: "If there were, with Him, deities, as they say, they would then have sought a way to the Holder of the Edifice."

Those very ones they invoke seek, toward their Guardian, the means of nearness — whichever of them is nearest — and hope for His benevolence and fear His punishment,

Your Guardian is the One who makes the vessel glide for you on the sea, so that you may seek His favor.

And do not speak too loudly in your Contact, nor say it in an undertone either: seek, between the two, a way.

He said: "That is what we were seeking."

Those who have believed and done sound deeds will indeed have, as a lodging, the Gardens of the Firdaws, wherein they will abide eternally, not seeking to be shifted from it.

She said: "How shall I have a boy, when no human has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"

O sister of Harun, your father was not a man of evil, nor your mother unchaste."

It does not befit the All-Benevolent to take a child.

And whoever pays back in kind to the exact measure of what was done to him, and then suffers iniquity — God will surely help him.

but whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the ones who cross the limits.

And those, among those bound by oath, who seek the written deed of marriage, draw up that deed with them if you know good in them,

And do not compel your young women to prostitution, if they wish to be protected, seeking merely the goods of the present life.

They will say: "Glory be to You! It was not fitting for us to take, besides You, any allies;

And it is not the Diverters who descended with it; that does not suit them, and they cannot do it.

And when they hear idle talk, they turn away from it and say: "To us our works, to you yours; peace upon you, we do not seek the ignorant."

And it is out of His benevolence that He made for you the night and the day, so that you might rest and seek of His favor, and perhaps you will be grateful.

Qaroon was of the people of Moussa; he committed iniquity against them —

seek instead, in what God has given you, the last abode,

and do not seek corruption in the land;

so seek provision with God,

And among His signs are your sleep by night and by day, and your seeking of His favor;

And among His signs is that He sends the winds as bearers of good tidings, so as to let you taste of His benevolence, and so that the vessels may sail by His command, and so that you may seek His favor, and perhaps you will be grateful.

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

and you see the vessels cleaving through it, so that you may seek of His favor, and perhaps you will be grateful.

It does not befit the sun to overtake the moon, nor the night to outrun the day.

We did not teach him the art of seduction; it does not befit him.

we are two opposing parties, one of us has committed iniquity against the other; so judge between us with truth, without excess,

and surely, many of those who mix their affairs commit iniquity against one another, except those who have believed and done sound deeds —

He said: "My Guardian, forgive me, and bestow on me a dominion that will not befit anyone after me;

out of iniquity among themselves.

And were God to extend provision to His obedient ones, they would commit iniquity on the earth;

and for those who, when iniquity strikes them, help themselves.

The way is open only against those who wrong men and commit iniquity on the earth without right.

God is the One who subjected the sea for you, so that vessels may sail upon it by His command, and so that you may seek of His favor, and perhaps you will be grateful.

out of iniquity among themselves.

You see them kneeling, prostrating, seeking favor from God and His pleasure.

If one of the two commits iniquity against the other, fight the one that commits iniquity until it reverts to the command of God.

He made the two seas flow together, meeting; between them a barrier; they do not encroach on each other.

And We placed in the cores of those who followed him kindness and benevolence; as for monasticism, it is they who invented it — We did not prescribe it for them — except in seeking the good pleasure of God.

For the poor emigrants who were expelled from their abodes and goods, seeking favor from God and His pleasure, and who help God and His messenger.

If you went forth to strive in My way and seek My pleasure, you confide your affection to them secretly, while I know best what you have hidden and what you have disclosed.

Then when the Contact is concluded, deploy within the land and seek from the favor of God, and remember God often, perhaps you will succeed.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O Informant! Why do you hold as prohibited what God has permitted you, seeking the approval of your wives?

but whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the ones who cross the limits;

He knows that there will be among you those who are sick, and others traveling through the land seeking the favor of God, and others fighting in the way of God.

and no one has with him any blessing to be recompensed, except to seek the direction of his Guardian, the Most High.