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but to bar from the way of God, to disown Him, to bar from the inviolable place of prostration, and to expel its inhabitants from it, is graver still with God;

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?"

Among them, there are some who believed in it, and some who held back from it.

And when it is said to them: "Come to what God has sent down, and to the messenger", you see the hypocrites hold back from you, resolutely.

It is for the wrongdoing of the Reoriented that We prohibited to them wholesome things that had been permitted to them, and for having greatly barred from the way of God, and for having practiced usury, though they had been forbidden it, and devoured the goods of men through falsehood.

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

And let not the hatred of a people, for having barred you from the inviolable place of prostration, drive you to aggression.

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.

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.

And what reason would they have for God not to punish them, while they bar from the inviolable place of prostration, without even being its allies?

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

And do not be like those who came out of their abodes in wantonness and for show before mankind, and who bar from the way of God.

They bought, with the signs of God, a paltry price, and they barred from His way.

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

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

It is nothing of the sort: their plot has been embellished for those who disown, and they have been barred from the way.

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.

They said: "You are only humans like us; you want to bar us from what our ancestors obeyed. So bring us a manifest authority."

and every obstinate tyrant failed; behind him, Jahannam, and he will be given to drink there a purulent water, which he will sip little by little, hardly able to swallow it; death will come to him from every side without his dying; and behind that, a harsh punishment.

Those who disown and who barred from God's way — We shall add for them a punishment upon the punishment, for the corruption they sowed.

And do not take your oaths as a means of deceit among yourselves, or a foot would slip after having been firm, and you would taste evil for having barred from God's way; and you would have an immense punishment.

Let not him who does not believe in it and follows his emotion bar you from it, or it would be your fall.

Indeed, those who disown and bar from the way of God and from the inviolable place of prostration, which We made for mankind equally, whether one dwells there or is passing through —

I found her and her people prostrating before the sun, besides God; and the Diverter has embellished their works for them, and thus barred them from the way, so that they do not let themselves be guided, so that they do not prostrate before God, who brings forth what is hidden in the heavens and the earth, and who knows what they hide and what they disclose.

And what she used to obey, besides God, had barred her from it;

And let them not bar you from the signs of God after they have been sent down to you;

And the Aad and the Thamud — this has become clear to you through their dwellings; the Diverter had embellished their works for them, and thus barred them from the way, though they had clear sight.

Those who grew proud will say to those who were deemed weak, "Was it we who barred you from guidance after it had come to you? No — you were rather severed."

And when Our clear signs are recited to them, they say, "This is nothing but a man who wants to bar you from what your ancestors used to obey"; and they say, "This is nothing but an invented distortion."

Thus was the evil of his deed made appealing to Fir'awn, and he was barred from the way;

and these surely bar them from the way, while they think they are among those who let themselves be guided.

And when the son of Maryam was multiplied as an example, your people held back from it.

And let not the Diverter bar you;

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Those who disown and bar from the way of God — He renders their works astray.

Those who disown, bar from the way of God, and set themselves in breach against the messenger after guidance has become clear to them, will not harm God in the least,

Those who disown, bar from the way of God, then die while they disown — God will never forgive them.

It is they who disowned and barred you from the inviolable place of prostration, and barred the offering, detained, from reaching its place of delivery.

They have taken their oaths as a shield and barred from the way of God; theirs is a degrading punishment.

They have taken their oaths as a shield and barred from the way of God.

And when it is said to them: "Come, that the messenger of God may ask forgiveness for you," they turn their heads aside, and you see them holding back, growing proud.