An-Nur

The fornicatress and the fornicator, inflict on each of them a hundred strokes on the skin,

الزانية والزاني فاجلدوا كل وحد منهما ماية جلدة

and let no kindness for them seize you in the Law of God, if you believe in God and the Last Day;

ولا تاخذكم بهما رافة في دين الله ان كنتم تومنون بالله واليوم الءاخر

The fornicator takes as wife only a fornicatress or an associator,

الزاني لا ينكح الا زانية او مشركة

and the fornicatress, only a fornicator or an associator takes her as wife;

والزانية لا ينكحها الا زان او مشرك

Those who came with the distortion are indeed a group from among you; do not think it is an ill for you,

ان الذين جاءو بالافك عصبة منكم لا تحسبوه شرا لكم

no, it is a good for you.

بل هو خير لكم

To each person among them, what they have earned of transgression,

لكل امري منهم ما اكتسب من الاثم

If only they had brought four witnesses concerning it!

لولا جاءو عليه باربعة شهداء

And God makes the signs clear to you,

ويبين الله لكم الءايت

Those who love that indecency should spread among those who believe will indeed have a painful punishment, in the present life and the last life,

ان الذين يحبون ان تشيع الفحشة في الذين ءامنوا لهم عذاب اليم في الدنيا والءاخرة

and God knows,

والله يعلم

O you who have believed! Do not follow the footsteps of the Diverter;

يايها الذين ءامنوا لا تتبعوا خطوت الشيطن

and whoever follows the footsteps of the Diverter — he indeed commands indecency and what is disavowed.

ومن يتبع خطوت الشيطن فانه يامر بالفحشاء والمنكر

And were it not for the favor of God upon you and His benevolence, not one of you would ever have been purified,

ولولا فضل الله عليكم ورحمته ما زكى منكم من احد ابدا

but God purifies whom He wills,

ولكن الله يزكي من يشاء

And let not those among you who have favor and ampleness swear not to give to their relatives, the destitute, and those who emigrated in the way of God,

ولا ياتل اولوا الفضل منكم والسعة ان يوتوا اولي القربى والمسكين والمهجرين في سبيل الله

and let them rather overlook and turn the page.

وليعفوا وليصفحوا

Would you not love for God to forgive you?

الا تحبون ان يغفر الله لكم

That day, God will faithfully repay them their just due,

يوميذ يوفيهم الله دينهم الحق

The vile for the vile, and the vile for the vile;

الخبيثت للخبيثين والخبيثون للخبيثت

and the wholesome for the wholesome, and the wholesome for the wholesome.

والطيبت للطيبين والطيبون للطيبت

Those are made quit of what is said;

اوليك مبرءون مما يقولون

O you who have believed! Do not enter houses other than your own until you have made yourselves known and greeted their occupants —

يايها الذين ءامنوا لا تدخلوا بيوتا غير بيوتكم حتى تستانسوا وتسلموا على اهلها

If you find no one therein, do not enter until you are given permission;

فان لم تجدوا فيها احدا فلا تدخلوها حتى يوذن لكم

and if you are told: "Return," then return — it is purer for you.

وان قيل لكم ارجعوا فارجعوا هو ازكى لكم

No blame upon you for entering uninhabited houses in which there is a use for you.

ليس عليكم جناح ان تدخلوا بيوتا غير مسكونة فيها متع لكم

Say to the believing men to cast down their sights and preserve their private parts — that is purer for them.

قل للمومنين يغضوا من ابصرهم ويحفظوا فروجهم ذلك ازكى لهم

And say to the believing women to cast down their sights and preserve their private parts,

وقل للمومنت يغضضن من ابصرهن ويحفظن فروجهن

and not to make appear that which, in them, arouses desire, except what of it is uncovered,

ولا يبدين زينتهن الا ما ظهر منها

and let them multiply their covering cloth over the neckline of their chest,

وليضربن بخمرهن على جيوبهن

and let them not make appear what, in them, arouses desire, except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands' fathers, or their sons, or their husbands' sons, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or the women of their circle, or those bound by oath, or male attendants devoid of desire, or children to whom women's private matters are not yet uncovered.

ولا يبدين زينتهن الا لبعولتهن او ءابايهن او ءاباء بعولتهن او ابنايهن او ابناء بعولتهن او اخونهن او بني اخونهن او بني اخوتهن او نسايهن او ما ملكت ايمنهن او التبعين غير اولي الاربة من الرجال او الطفل الذين لم يظهروا على عورت النساء

And let them not multiply their steps so as to make known what they hide of what arouses desire in them.

ولا يضربن بارجلهن ليعلم ما يخفين من زينتهن

And marry the unmarried among you, as well as those who are sound among your male and female obedient ones.

وانكحوا الايمى منكم والصلحين من عبادكم وامايكم

If they are poor, God will enrich them from His favor.

ان يكونوا فقراء يغنهم الله من فضله

And let those who do not find marriage refrain, until God enriches them from His favor.

وليستعفف الذين لا يجدون نكاحا حتى يغنيهم الله من فضله

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,

والذين يبتغون الكتب مما ملكت ايمنكم فكاتبوهم ان علمتم فيهم خيرا

and give them from the goods of God which He has given you.

وءاتوهم من مال الله الذي ءاتىكم

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

ولا تكرهوا فتيتكم على البغاء ان اردن تحصنا لتبتغوا عرض الحيوة الدنيا

God is the Light of the heavens and the earth.

الله نور السموت والارض

The example of His Light is like a niche wherein is a lamp.

مثل نوره كمشكوة فيها مصباح

The lamp is in a glass.

المصباح في زجاجة

The glass is like a brilliant heavenly body, kindled from a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is about to glow forth even without fire touching it.

الزجاجة كانها كوكب دري يوقد من شجرة مبركة زيتونة لا شرقية ولا غربية يكاد زيتها يضيء ولو لم تمسسه نار

Light upon light.

نور على نور

God guides to His Light whom He wills,

يهدي الله لنوره من يشاء

and God multiplies examples for mankind,

ويضرب الله الامثل للناس

fearing a day when the cores and the sights will capsize, so that God may recompense them according to the most beautiful of what they have done, and give them more of His favor.

يخافون يوما تتقلب فيه القلوب والابصر ليجزيهم الله احسن ما عملوا ويزيدهم من فضله

And those who disown, their works are like a mirage in a desert plain, which the thirsty one takes for water, until, when he comes to it, he finds nothing, but he finds God there, who faithfully squares his account.

والذين كفروا اعملهم كسراب بقيعة يحسبه الظمان ماء حتى اذا جاءه لم يجده شيا ووجد الله عنده فوفىه حسابه

Or like darknesses on a deep, surging sea: a wave covers it, above which is another wave, above which is a cloud —

او كظلمت في بحر لجي يغشىه موج من فوقه موج من فوقه سحاب

darknesses, one above another:

ظلمت بعضها فوق بعض

when he puts out his hand, he can hardly see it.

اذا اخرج يده لم يكد يرىها

Have you not seen that God — He is glorified by those in the heavens and on the earth, and the birds aligning their wings?

الم تر ان الله يسبح له من في السموت والارض والطير صفت

Each one knows its Contact and its glorification,

كل قد علم صلاته وتسبيحه

And to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth,

ولله ملك السموت والارض

Have you not seen that God makes the clouds glide, then joins them together, then makes them into a mass, and you see the shower come out from within it?

الم تر ان الله يزجي سحابا ثم يولف بينه ثم يجعله ركاما فترى الودق يخرج من خلله

And He sends down from the sky, from mountains therein, hail, with which He strikes whom He wills, and which He turns away from whom He wills;

وينزل من السماء من جبال فيها من برد فيصيب به من يشاء ويصرفه عن من يشاء

God alternates the night and the day.

يقلب الله اليل والنهار

And God created every living being from water.

والله خلق كل دابة من ماء

Among them is one that walks on its belly,

فمنهم من يمشي على بطنه

and among them is one that walks on two feet,

ومنهم من يمشي على رجلين

and among them is one that walks on four.

ومنهم من يمشي على اربع

God creates what He wills,

يخلق الله ما يشاء

We have sent down clear signs,

لقد انزلنا ءايت مبينت

And they say: "We believe in God and in the messenger, and we defer" — then a fraction among them turns its back after that;

ويقولون ءامنا بالله وبالرسول واطعنا ثم يتولى فريق منهم من بعد ذلك

Is there a sickness in their cores, or do they doubt, or do they fear that God and His messenger will lean against them?

افي قلوبهم مرض ام ارتابوا ام يخافون ان يحيف الله عليهم ورسوله

The only saying of the believers, when they are called to God and His messenger so that he may judge between them, is to say: "We have heard and we have deferred."

انما كان قول المومنين اذا دعوا الى الله ورسوله ليحكم بينهم ان يقولوا سمعنا واطعنا

And they swore by God, with the utmost strength of their oaths, that if you ordered them, they would surely go forth.

واقسموا بالله جهد ايمنهم لين امرتهم ليخرجن

Say: "Do not swear;

قل لا تقسموا

a recognized deference!

طاعة معروفة

Say: "Defer to God and defer to the messenger;

قل اطيعوا الله واطيعوا الرسول

but if you turn your backs, upon him rests only what he has been made to carry, and upon you rests only what you have been made to carry.

فان تولوا فانما عليه ما حمل وعليكم ما حملتم

And if you defer to him, you will let yourselves be guided.

وان تطيعوه تهتدوا

And God has promised those among you who believe and do sound deeds that He will surely make them successors on the earth, as He made successors those before them, that He will surely establish firmly for them their Law which He has approved for them, and that He will surely change their state, after their fear, into security.

وعد الله الذين ءامنوا منكم وعملوا الصلحت ليستخلفنهم في الارض كما استخلف الذين من قبلهم وليمكنن لهم دينهم الذي ارتضى لهم وليبدلنهم من بعد خوفهم امنا

They obey Me without associating anything with Me.

يعبدونني لا يشركون بي شيا

And maintain the Contact, and give pure liberality,

واقيموا الصلوة وءاتوا الزكوة

Do not ever think that those who disown can render Him powerless on the earth;

لا تحسبن الذين كفروا معجزين في الارض

and their resort is the Fire,

وماوىهم النار

O you who have believed! Let those bound by oath and those among you who have not yet reached the age of composure ask your permission at three times: before the Contact of dawn, when you lay aside your clothes at midday, and after the Contact of evening —

يايها الذين ءامنوا ليستذنكم الذين ملكت ايمنكم والذين لم يبلغوا الحلم منكم ثلث مرت من قبل صلوة الفجر وحين تضعون ثيابكم من الظهيرة ومن بعد صلوة العشاء

three times of privacy for you.

ثلث عورت لكم

No blame, neither upon you nor upon them, outside these times,

ليس عليكم ولا عليهم جناح بعدهن

being visitors among you,

طوفون عليكم

one with another.

بعضكم على بعض

Thus does God make the signs clear to you,

كذلك يبين الله لكم الءايت

And when the children among you reach the age of composure, let them ask permission as those before them asked permission.

واذا بلغ الاطفل منكم الحلم فليستذنوا كما استذن الذين من قبلهم

Thus does God make His signs clear to you,

كذلك يبين الله لكم ءايته

And the elderly women, among women, who no longer hope for marriage, no blame upon them for laying aside their clothes, without ostentatiously displaying what, in them, arouses desire;

والقوعد من النساء التي لا يرجون نكاحا فليس عليهن جناح ان يضعن ثيابهن غير متبرجت بزينة

but that they refrain is better for them.

وان يستعففن خير لهن

There is no discomfort for the blind, nor discomfort for the lame, nor discomfort for the sick, nor for yourselves, in eating in your own houses, or the houses of your fathers, or the houses of your mothers, or the houses of your brothers, or the houses of your sisters, or the houses of your paternal uncles, or the houses of your paternal aunts, or the houses of your maternal uncles, or the houses of your maternal aunts, or in what you hold the keys of, or at your friend's.

ليس على الاعمى حرج ولا على الاعرج حرج ولا على المريض حرج ولا على انفسكم ان تاكلوا من بيوتكم او بيوت ءابايكم او بيوت امهتكم او بيوت اخونكم او بيوت اخوتكم او بيوت اعممكم او بيوت عمتكم او بيوت اخولكم او بيوت خلتكم او ما ملكتم مفاتحه او صديقكم

No blame upon you for eating together or separately.

ليس عليكم جناح ان تاكلوا جميعا او اشتاتا

And when you enter houses, greet one another with a greeting from God, blessed and wholesome.

فاذا دخلتم بيوتا فسلموا على انفسكم تحية من عند الله مبركة طيبة

The believers are only those who believe in God and His messenger, and who, when they are with him for a common matter, do not leave until they have asked his permission.

انما المومنون الذين ءامنوا بالله ورسوله واذا كانوا معه على امر جامع لم يذهبوا حتى يستذنوه

Those who ask your permission, those are indeed the ones who believe in God and His messenger.

ان الذين يستذنونك اوليك الذين يومنون بالله ورسوله

And when they ask your permission for some matter concerning them, grant it to whom you will among them, and ask God's forgiveness for them.

فاذا استذنوك لبعض شانهم فاذن لمن شيت منهم واستغفر لهم الله

Do not consider the call of the messenger among yourselves as the call of one of you to another.

لا تجعلوا دعاء الرسول بينكم كدعاء بعضكم بعضا

God will surely distinguish those among you who slip away furtively.

قد يعلم الله الذين يتسللون منكم لواذا

Is it not so: to God belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth.

الا ان لله ما في السموت والارض

He will surely know the state you are in,

قد يعلم ما انتم عليه

and the day when they are returned to Him, He will inform them of what they did.

ويوم يرجعون اليه فينبيهم بما عملوا