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Those are the ones who have a portion of what they have earned.

Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the Scripture was given, called to the Scripture of God so that it may judge between them, then a fraction of them turns its back, turning away?

To men belongs a portion of what the two parents and relatives leave, and to women belongs a portion of what the two parents and relatives leave, whether little or much —

a fixed portion.

To men a portion of what they have earned,

and to women a portion of what they have earned.

And those with whom your oaths have bound you, give them their portion.

Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the Scripture was given, buying error and wanting you to stray from the way?

Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the Scripture was given, who believe in the Idol and the Overreacher, and say of those who disown: "These are better guided, as to the way, than those who have believed"?

Or do they have a portion of the dominion? They would then not give men even the groove of a date-stone.

Whoever intercedes with a good intercession will have a portion of it;

who said: "I will certainly take, among Your obedient ones, a fixed portion; I will certainly lead them astray, I will certainly give them vain hopes, I will certainly order them to slit the ears of cattle, and I will certainly order them to alter God's creation."

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?"

Prohibited to you are: the dead animal, blood, the flesh of swine, that which has been consecrated to other than God, the strangled animal, the animal on the brink of death, the animal in a declining state from illness, the animal dead from a blow of the horn, and what a wild beast has devoured — except what you have purified by fire — as well as the animal slaughtered in common whose shares are then drawn by lot with arrows.

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.

And they assigned to God, of what He scattered as tilth and cattle, a portion, saying: "This is for God" — according to their claim — "and this is for our associates";

Those are the ones to whom their portion of the register will accrue,

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.

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

We grant Our benevolence to whom We will, and We do not let the reward of those who do good dissipate.

No fatigue will touch them therein,

And they assign, to what they do not know, a portion of what We have provided them.

When they had traversed it, he said to his young companion: "Bring us our meal; we have indeed met, on this journey, much fatigue."

without forgetting your portion of the present life;

who has lodged us, by His favor, in the abode of the station, where no fatigue touches us, nor any weariness."

And remember Our obedient one Ayyub, when he called upon his Guardian: "The Diverter has touched me with fatigue and suffering."

And when they dispute with one another in the Fire, the weak will say to those who grew proud: "We were indeed your followers; can you then be of use to us against a portion of the Fire?"

but he will have no portion in the last life.

So let them be: let them immerse themselves and play until they meet their Day which they are promised — the Day they will emerge from the sepulchres rapidly as if racing toward an erected marker, their sights humble, humiliation veiling them.

Some faces, that Day, will be humble, toiling, exhausted. They will burn in a scorching fire, given drink from a boiling spring.

Do they not look at the massive animals, how they were created? And at the sky, how it was elevated? And at the mountains, how they were set up? And at the earth, how it was laid flat?

As soon as you are freed, direct your effort, and to your Guardian turn your yearning.