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

and wherever you are, set your course for it, so that men may have no argument against you — except those among them who do wrong; do not dread them, then, but dread Me —

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

And let those dread who, if they left behind them weak descendants, would fear for them:

That, for whoever among you dreads being overwhelmed;

Then, when combat was prescribed for them, behold, a fraction among them dreads men as one dreads God, or with an even more intense dread,

so do not dread them, but dread Me.

So do not dread men, but dread Me,

You see those in whose cores is a sickness speeding among them, saying: "We dread that a setback may strike us";

Will you then not fight a people who violated their oaths, who were minded to expel the messenger, and who attacked you first? Would you dread them?

God is more worthy that you should dread Him, if you are believers.

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.

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."

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.

And do not kill your children for dread of penury:

Say: "If you possessed the treasuries of my Guardian's benevolence, you would then hold them back, for dread of spending."

As for the boy, his father and mother were believers, and we dreaded that he would crush them with immoderation and disowning,

but as a reminder for whoever dreads,

Go, both of you, to Fir'awn: he has exceeded all measure. Speak to him gently; perhaps he will remember, or feel dread."

And We had revealed to Moussa: "Set out by night with My obedient ones, and strike out for them a dry road through the sea; do not fear being overtaken, and do not dread."

He said: "Son of my mother, do not seize me by the beard nor by the head; I indeed dreaded you would say: 'You have divided the Sons of Israel, and you did not heed my saying.'"

and they intercede only for whom He approves, while they, dreading Him, are apprehensive.

We certainly gave Moussa and Harun the Discernment, a brightness, and a remembrance for those who guard themselves, who dread their Guardian even though He escapes their senses, and are apprehensive of the Hour.

Those who, dreading their Guardian, are apprehensive, and those who believe in the signs of their Guardian, and those who associate nothing with their Guardian, and those who give what they give, their core trembling because they are returning to their Guardian — those speed toward the good,

And whoever defers to God and His messenger, dreads God and guards himself toward Him — those are the triumphant.

O mankind, guard yourselves toward your Guardian, and dread a day when no parent will avail his child, nor any child avail his parent at all.

And when you said to the one God had favored and you had favored, "Retain your wife and guard yourself toward God," while hiding within yourself what God was going to make appear, and dreading mankind, when God is more deserving that you dread Him.

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

You only warn those who dread their Guardian even though He escapes their senses, and maintain the Contact,

Only those who know, among His obedient ones, dread God.

You only warn one who follows the Reminder and dreads the All-Benevolent even though He escapes his senses: give him good news of forgiveness and a generous reward.

at which the skins of those who dread their Guardian shiver; then their skins and their cores soften toward the remembrance of God;

Whoever dreaded the All-Benevolent even though He escapes his senses, and came with a core ever having recourse to Him: "Enter it in peace."

Had We sent down this Recitation upon a mountain, you would have seen it become humble and split apart out of dread of God.

Those who dread their Guardian even though He escapes their senses will indeed have forgiveness and a great reward.

"Go to Fir'awn; he has exceeded all measure. And say to him, 'Would you purify yourself, that I may guide you to your Guardian, so that you may dread Him?'"

Surely, in that is a lesson for whoever dreads.

You are only the warner of whoever dreads it.

But as for him who came to you hurrying, and he dreads, from him you are distracted. By no means!

He who dreads will remember, and the most wretched will keep at a distance from it, who will burn in the greatest Fire, then he will neither die therein nor live.

That is for whoever dreads his Guardian.