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Those are the ones who bought error at the price of guidance; their trade did not, then, prove lucrative, and they did not let themselves be guided.

That is more equitable with God, more upright for testimony, and closer to not doubting — except if it is an immediate trade that you conduct among yourselves: no blame then upon you for not writing it down.

unless it is a trade arising from mutual satisfaction among you.

Say: "If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your kinsmen, the goods you have acquired, a trade whose decline you dread, and dwellings with which you are satisfied, are dearer to you than God, His messenger, and striving in His way, then bide your time, until God brings His command."

In houses whose elevation God has authorized, and in which His name is remembered — there glorify Him, morning and evening, men whom neither trade nor selling distracts from the remembrance of God, the maintaining of the Contact, and the giving of pure liberality,

Those who recite the Scripture of God, maintain the Contact, and spend, secretly and openly, from what We have provided them, hope for a trade that will never be blighted, so that He may faithfully repay them their rewards and give them more of His favor.

O you who have believed! Shall I point you to a trade that will save you from a painful punishment? You believe in God and His messenger, and strive in the way of God with your goods and your Selves — that is better for you, if you knew. He will forgive you your offenses and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, and wholesome dwellings in Gardens of permanence.

But when they see a trade or a distraction, they disperse toward it and leave you standing.

Say: "What is with God is better than distraction and than trade.