# Sura   3 - The Family of Imran

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> SURA III  (3) The Family of Iman - (Medina - 200 verses)   (XCVII - 385) 
>  
>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
>  
>        Elif.  Lam.  Mim.  God! there is no god but He, the Living, the
> Merciful!
>  
>        In truth hath He sent down to thee "the Book," which confirmeth those
> which precede it:  For He had sent down the Law, and the Evangel aforetime, as
> man's Guidance; and now hath He sent down the "Illumination."  (Furkan.)
>  
>        Verily for those who believe not in the signs of God, is a severe
> chastisement!  And God is Mighty, the Avenger!
>  
>        God! nought that is in Earth or that is in Heaven, is hidden unto Him.
> He it is who formeth you in your mothers' wombs.  There is no god but He; the
> Mighty, the Wise!
>  
>        He it is who hath sent down to thee "the Book."  Some of its signs are
> of themselves perspicuous; - these are the basis of the Book - and others are
> figurative.  But they whose hearts are given to err, follow its figures,
> craving discord, craving an interpretation; yet none knoweth its
> interpretation but God.  And the stable in knowledge say, "We believe in it:
> it is all from our Lord."  But none will bear this in mind, save men endued
> with understanding.
>  
>        O our Lord! suffer not our hearts to go astray after that thou hast once
> guided us, and give us mercy from before thee; for verily thou art He who
> giveth.
>  
>        O our Lord!  For the day of whose coming there is not a doubt, thou wilt
> surely gather mankind together.  Verily, God will not fail the promise.
>  
>        As for the infidels, their wealth, and their children, shall avail them
> nothing against God.  They shall be fuel for the fire.
>  
>        After the wont of the people of Pharaoh, and of those who went before
> them, they treated our signs as falsehoods.  Therefore God laid hold of them
> in their sins; and God is severe in punishing!
>  
> 3:10   Say to the infidels:  ye shall be worsted, and to Hell shall ye be
> gathered together; and wretched the couch!
>  
>        Ye have already had a sign in the meeting of the two hosts.  The one
> host fought in the cause of God, and the other was infidel.  To their own
> eyesight, the infidels saw you twice as many as themselves:  And God aided with
> his succour whom He would:  And in this truly was a lesson for men endued with
> discernment.
>  
>        Fair-seeming to men is the love of pleasures from women and children,
> and the treasured treasures of God and silver, and horses of mark, and flocks,
> and cornfields!  Such the enjoyment of this world's life.  But God!  goodly the
> home with Him.
>  
>        Say:  Shall I tell you of better things than these, prepared for those
> who fear God, in His presence?  Theirs shall be gardens, beneath whose
> pavilions the rivers flow, and in which shall they abide for aye:  and wives of
> stainless purity, and acceptance with God:  for God regardeth his servants -
>  
>        Who say, "O our Lord!  we have indeed believed; pardon us our sins, and
> keep us from the torment of the fire;" -
>  
>        The patient, and the truthful, the lowly, and the charitable, and they
> who seek pardon at each daybreak.
>  
>        God witnesseth that there is no god but He:  and the angels, and mean
> endued with knowledge, stablished in righteousness, proclaim "There is no god
> but He, the Mighty, the Wise!"
>  
>        The true religion with God is Islam:  and they to whom the Scriptures
> had been given, differed not till after "the knowledge" had come to them, and
> through mutual jealousy.  But as for him who shall not believe in the signs of
> God - God will be prompt to reckon with him!
>  
>        If they shall dispute with thee, then Say:  I have surrendered myself to
> God, as have they who follow me.
>  
>        Say to those who have received the Book, and to the common folk, Do ye
> surrender yourselves unto God?  If they become Muslims, then are they guided
> aright:  but if they turn away - thy duty is only preaching; and God's eye is
> on His servants.
>  
> 3:20   But to those who believe not in the signs of God, and unjustly slay the
> prophets, and slay those men who enjoin uprightness, - announce an afflictive
> chastisement.
>  
>        These are they whose works come to nought in this world, and in the
> next; and none shall they have to help them!
>  
>        Hast thou not marked those who have received a portion of the
> Scriptures, when they are summoned to the Book of God, that it may settle their
> differences?  Then did a part of them turn back, and withdrew far off.
>  
>        This - because they said, "The fire shall by no means touch us, but for
> certain days:" - Their own devices have deceived them in their religion.
>  
>        But how, when we shall assemble them together for the day of (which)
> whose coming there is no doubt, and when every soul shall be paid what it hath
> earned, and they shall not be wronged?
>  
>        Say:  O God, possessor of all power, thou givest power to whom thou
> wilt, and whom thou wilt thou dost abase!  In thy hand is good; for thou art
> over all thing potent.
>  
>        Thou causest the night to pass into the day, and thou causest the day to
> pass into the night.  Thou bringest the living out of the dead, and thou
> bringest the dead out of the living; and thou givest sustenance to whom thou
> wilt, without measure.
>  
>        Let not believers take infidels for their friends rather than believers:
> whoso shall do this hath nothing to hope from God - unless, indeed, ye fear a
> fear from them:  But God would have you beware of Himself:  for to God ye
> return.  Say:  Whether ye hide what is in your breasts, or whether ye publish
> it abroad, God knoweth it:  He knoweth what is in the heavens and what is in
> the earth; and over all things is God potent.
>  
>        On that day shall every soul find present to it, whatever it hath
> wrought of good:  and as to what it hath wrought of evil, it will wish that
> wide were the space between itself and it!  But God would have you beware of
> Himself; for God is kind to His servants.
>  
>        Say:  If ye love God, then follow me:  God will love you, and forgive
> your sins, for God is Forgiving, Merciful.  Say:  Obey God and the Apostle; but
> if ye turn away, then verily, God loveth not the unbelievers.
>  
> 3:30   Verily above all human beings did God choose Adam, and Noah, and the
> family of Abraham, and the family of Imran, the one the posterity of the other:
> And God Heareth, Knoweth.
>  
>        Remember when the wife of Imran said, "O my Lord!  I vow to thee what is
> in my womb, for thy special service.  Accept it from me, for thou Hearest,
> Knowest!"  And when she had given birth to it, she said, "O my Lord!  Verily I
> have brought forth a female," - God knew what she had brought forth; a male is
> not as a female - "and I have named her Mary, and I take refuge with thee for
> her and for her offspring, from Satan the stoned."
>  
>        So with goodly acceptance did her Lord accept her, and with goodly
> growth did he make her grow.  Zacharias reared her.  So oft as Zacharias went
> in to Mary at the sanctuary, he found her supplied with food.  "Oh, Mary!" said
> he, "whence hast thou this?" She said, "It is from God; for God supplieth whom
> He will, without reckoning!"
>  
>        There did Zacharias call upon his Lord:  "O my Lord!" said he,
> "vouchsafe me from thyself good descendants, for thou art the hearer of
> prayer." Then did the angels call to him, as he stood praying in the
> sanctuary.:
>  
>        "God announceth John (Yahia) to thee, who shall be a verifier of the
> word from God, and a greater one, chaste, and a prophet of the number of the
> just."
>  
>        He said, "O my Lord! how shall I have a son, now that old age hath come
> upon me, and my wife is barren?"  He said, "Thus will God do His pleasure."
>  
>        He said, "Lord! give me a token."  He said, "Thy token shall be, that
> for three days thou shalt speak to no man but by signs:  But remember thy Lord
> often, and praise him at even and at morn:"
>  
>        And remember when the angels said, "O Mary! verily hath God chosen thee,
> and purified thee, and chosen thee above the women of the worlds!
>  
>        O Mary! be devout towards thy Lord, and prostrate thyself, and bow down
> with those who bow."
>  
>        This is one of the announcements of things unseen by thee:  To thee, O
> Muhammad! do we reveal it; for thou wast not with them when they cast lots with
> reeds which of them should rear Mary; nor wast thou with them when they
> disputed about it.
>  
> 3:40   Remember when the angel said, "O Mary!  Verily God announceth to thee
> the Word from Him:  His name shall be, Messiah Jesus the son of Mary,
> illustrious in this world, and in the next, and one of those who have near
> access to God;
>  
>        And He shall speak to men alike when in the cradle and when grown up;
> And he shall be one of the just."
>  
>        She said, "How, O my Lord! shall I have a son, when man hath not touched
> me?"  He said, "Thus:  God will create why He will; When He decreeth a thing,
> He only saith, 'Be,' and it is."
>  
>        And he will teach him the Book, and the Wisdom, and the Law, and the
> Evangel; and he shall be an apostle to the children of Israel.  "Now have I
> come," he will say, "to you with a sign from your Lord:  Out of clay will I
> make for you, as it were, the figure of a bird:  and I will breathe into it,
> and it shall become, by God's leave, a bird.  And I will heal the blind, and
> the leper; and by God's leave will I quicken the dead; and I will tell you what
> ye eat, and what ye store up in your houses!  Truly in this will be a sign for
> you, if ye are believers.
>  
>        And I have come to attest the law which was before me; and to allow you
> part of that which had been forbidden you; and I come to you with a sign from
> your Lord:  Fear God, then, and obey me; of a truth God is my Lord, and your
> Lord; Therefore worship Him.  This is a right way."
>  
>        And when Jesus perceived unbelief on their part, He said, "Who my
> helpers with God?" The apostles said, "We will be God's helpers!  We believe in
> God, and bear thou witness that we are Muslims.
>  
>        O our Lord!  we believe in what thou hast sent down, and we follow the
> apostle; write us up, then, with those who bear witness to him."
>  
>        And the Jews plotted, and God plotted:  But of those who plot is God the
> best.
>  
>        Remember when God said, "O Jesus! verily I will cause thee to die, and
> will take thee up to myself and deliver thee from those who believe not; and I
> will place those who follow thee above those who believe not, until the day of
> resurrection.  Then, to me is your return, and wherein ye differ will I decide
> between you.
>  
>        And as to those who believe not, I will chastise them with a terrible
> chastisement in this world and in the next; and none shall they have to help
> them."
>  
> 3:50   But as to those who believe, and do the things that are right, He will
> pay them their recompense.  God loveth not the doers of evil.
>  
>        These signs, and this wise warning do we rehearse to thee.
>  
>        Verily, Jesus is as Adam in the sight of God.  He created him of dust:
> He then said to him, "Be" - and he was.
>  
>        The truth from thy Lord!  Be not thou, therefore, of those who doubt.
>  
>        As for those who dispute with thee about Him, after "the knowledge" hath
> come to thee, Say:  Come, let us summon our sons and your sons, our wives and
> your wives, and ourselves and yourselves.  Then will we invoke and lay the
> malison of God on those that lie!
>  
>        This recital is very truth, and there is no god but God; and verily God
> is the Mighty, the Wise.
>  
>        But if they turn away, then verily God hath knowledge of the corrupt
> doers.
>  
>        Say:  O people of the Book!  come ye to a just judgment between us and
> you - That we worship not aught but God, and that we join no other god with
> Him, and that the one of us take not the other for lords, beside God.  Then if
> they turn their backs, Say:  Bear ye witness that we are Muslims.
>  
>        O people of the Book!  Why dispute about Abraham, when the Law and the
> Evangel were not sent down till after him?  Do ye not then understand?
>  
>        Lo!  ye are they who dispute about that in which ye have knowledge; but
> why dispute about that of which ye have no knowledge?  God hath knowledge, but
> ye know nothing.
>  
> 3:60   Abraham was neither Jew nor Christian; but he was sound in the faith, a
> Muslim; and not of those who add gods to God.
>  
>        They among men, who are nearest of kin to Abraham, are surely those who
> follow him, and this prophet Muhammad, and they who believe on him.  And God is
> the protector of the faithful.
>  
>        A party among the people of the Book would fain mislead you: but they
> only mislead themselves, and perceive it not.
>  
>        O people of the Book!  why clothe ye the truth with falsehood?  Why
> wittingly hide the truth?
>  
>        Others of the people of the Book say:  "Believe in what hath been sent
> down to the believers, at daybreak, and deny it at its close" - Thus do they go
> back -
>  
>        "And believe in those only who follow your Religion" Say:  True guidance
> is guidance from God - that to others may be imparted the like of what hath
> been imparted to you.  Will they wrangle then with you in the presence of their
> Lord?  Say:  Plenteous gifts are in the hands of God:  He imparteth them unto
> whom He will, and God is Bounteous, Wise.
>  
>        He will vouchsafe His mercy to whom He will, for God is of great
> bounteousness.
>  
>        Among the people of the Book are some, to one of whom if thou entrust a
> thousand dinars, he will restore them to thee:  And there is of them to whom if
> thou entrust a dinar, he will not restore it to thee, unless thou be ever
> instant with him.
>  
>        This - because they say, "We are not bound to keep faith with the
> ignorant (Pagan) folk, and they utter a lie against God, and know they do so;"
>  
> 3:70   But whoso is true to his engagement, and feareth God, - verily God
> loveth those that fear Him.
>  
>        Verily they who barter their engagement with God, and their oaths, for
> some paltry price - These! no portion for them in the world to come! and God
> will not speak to them, and will not look on them, on the day of resurrection,
> and will not assoil them! for them, a grievous chastisement!
>  
>        And some truly are there among them who torture the Scriptures with
> their tongues, in order that ye may suppose it to be from the Scripture, yet it
> is not from the Scripture.  And they say, "This is from God;" yet it is not
> from God:  and they utter a lie against God, and they know they do so.
>  
>        It beseemeth not a man, that God should give him the Scriptures and the
> Wisdom, and the gift of prophecy, and that then he should say to his followers,
> "Be ye worshippers of me, as well as of God;" but rather, "Be ye perfect in
> things pertaining to God, since ye know the Scriptures, and have studied deep."
>  
>        God doth not command you to take the angels or the prophets as lord.
> What! would he command you to become infidels after ye have been Muslims?
>  
>        When God entered into covenant with the prophets, he said, "This is the
> Book and the Wisdom which I give you.  Hereafter shall a prophet come unto you
> to confirm the Scriptures already with you.  Ye shall surely believe on him,
> and ye shall surely aid him.  Are ye resolved?" said he, "and do ye accept the
> covenant on these terms?"  They said, "We are resolved;"  "Be ye then the
> witnesses," said he, "and I will be a witness as well as you.
>  
>        And whoever turneth back after this, these are surely the perverse."
>  
>        Other religion than that of God desire they?  To him doth everything
> that is in the Heavens and in the Earth submit, in willing or forced obedience!
> and to Him do they return.
>  
>        Say:  We believe in God, and in what hath been sent down to us, and what
> hath been sent down to Abraham, and Ismael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the
> tribes, and in what was given to Moses, and Jesus, and the Prophets, from their
> Lord.  We make no difference between them.  And to Him are we resigned
> (Muslims).
>  
>        Whoso desireth any other religion than Islam, that religion shall never
> be accepted from him, and in the next world he shall be among the lost.
>  
> 3:80   How shall God guide a people who, after they had believed and bore
> witness that the apostle was true, and after that clear proofs of his mission
> had reached them, disbelieved?  God guideth not the people who transgress.
>  
>        These!  their recompense, that the curse of God, and of angels, and of
> all men, is on them!
>  
>        Under it shall they abide for ever; their torment shall not be assuaged!
> nor shall God even look upon them! -
>  
>        Save those who after this repent and amend; for verily God is Gracious,
> Merciful!
>  
>        As for those who become infidels, after having believed, and then
> increase their infidelity - their repentance shall never be accepted. These!
> they are the erring ones.
>  
>        As for those who are infidels, and die infidels, from no one of them
> shall as much gold as the earth could contain be accepted, though he should
> offer it in ransom.  These!  a grievous punishment awaiteth them; and they
> shall have none to help them.
>  
>        Ye shall never attain to goodness till ye give alms of that which ye
> love; and whatever ye give, of a truth God knoweth.
>  
>        All food was allowed to the children of Israel, except what Jacob forbad
> himself, ere the law was sent down; Say:  Bring ye then the law and read it, if
> ye be men of truth.
>  
>        And whoso after this inventeth the lie about God: - These are evil
> doers.
>  
>        Say:  God speaketh truth.  Follow, therefore, the religion of Abraham,
> the sound in faith, who was not one of those who joined other gods to God.
>  
> 3:90   The first temple that was founded for mankind, was that in Becca, -
> Blessed, and guidance to human beings.
>  
>        In it are evident signs, even the standing-place of Abraham: and he who
> entereth it is safe.  And the pilgrimage to the temple, is a service due to God
> from those who are able to journey thither.
>  
>        And as to them who believeth not - verily God can afford to dispense
> with all creatures!
>  
>        Say:  O people of the Book! why disbelieve ye the signs of God?  But God
> is witness of your doings.
>  
>        Say:  O people of the Book! why repel believers from the way of God?  Ye
> fain would make it crooked, and yet ye are its witnesses!  But God is not
> regardless of what ye do.
>  
>        O believers! if ye obey some amongst those who have received the
> Scripture, after your very Faith will they make you infidels!
>  
>        But how can ye become infidels, when the signs of God are recited to
> you, and his prophet is among you?  Whoever holdest fast by God, is already
> guided to a straight path.
>  
>        O ye believers! fear God as He deserveth to be feared! and die not till
> ye have become Muslims.
>  
>        And hold ye fast by the cord of God, all of you, and break not loose
> from it; and remember God's goodness towards you, how that when ye were
> enemies, He united your hearts, and by his favour ye became brethren;
>  
>        And when ye were on the brink of the pit of fire, he drew you back from
> it.  Thus God clearly sheweth you his signs that ye may be guided;
>  
> 3:100  And that there may be among you a people who invite to the Good, and
> enjoin the Just, and forbid the Wrong.  These are they with whom it shall be
> well.
>  
>        And be ye not like those who have formed divisions, and fallen to
> variance after the clear proofs have come to them.  These!  a terrible
> chastisement doth await them,
>  
>        On the day when faces shall turn white, and faces shall turn black!  And
> as to those whose faces shall have turned black "....What! after your belief
> have ye become infidels?  Taste then the chastisement, for that ye have been
> unbelievers."
>  
>        And as to those whose faces shall have become white, they shall be
> within the mercy of God:  therein shall they abide for ever.
>  
>        These are the signs of God: we recite them to thee in truth: And God
> willeth not injustice to mankind.
>  
>        Whatever is in the Heavens, and whatever is on the Earth, is God's.  And
> to God shall all things return.
>  
>        Ye are the best folk that hath been raised up unto mankind.  Ye enjoin
> the Just, and ye forbid the Evil, and ye believe in God:  And if the people of
> the Book had believed, it had surely been better for them!  Believers there are
> among them, but most of them are perverse.
>  
>        They will never inflict on you but a trifling damage; and if they do
> battle with you, they shall turn their backs to you: then they shall not be
> succoured.
>  
>        Shame shall be stamped upon them wherever found, unless they ally them
> with God and men!  And the wrath of God will they incur, and poverty shall be
> stamped upon them!  This - for that they believed not in the signs of God, and
> slew the prophets unjustly:  This - because they rebelled, and became
> transgressors.
>  
>        Yet all are not alike:  Among the people of the Book is an upright folk,
> who recite the signs of God in the night-season, and adore:
>  
> 3:110  They believe in God and in the latter day, and enjoin justice, and
> forbid evil, and speed on in good works.  These are of the righteous.
>  
>        And of whatever good ye do, ye shall not be denied the meed.  God
> knoweth those who fear Him.
>  
>        But as for the infidels, their wealth, and their children shall avail
> them nothing against God.  They shall be the inmates of the fire, to abide
> therein eternally.
>  
>        The alms which they bestow in this present life, are like a freezing
> wind, which falleth upon and destroyeth the cornfields of a people who have
> been to themselves unjust.  God doeth them to injustice, to to themselves are
> they unjust.
>  
>        O ye who have believed!  form not intimacies among others than
> yourselves.  They will not fail to corrupt you.  They long for your ruin.
> Hatred hath already shewn itself out of their mouths, but more grievous is what
> their breasts conceal.  The tokens thereof we have already made plain to you,
> if ye will comprehend.
>  
>        See now!  ye love them, but they love not you.  Ye believe the entire
> Book.  And when they meet you, they say, "We believe;" but when they are apart,
> they bite their fingers' ends at you, out of wrath.  Say:  "Die in your wrath!"
> God truly knoweth the very recesses of your breasts.
>  
>        If good befalleth you it grieveth them, and when ill lighteth on you,
> they rejoice in it.  But if ye be steadfast and fear God, their craft shall in
> no way harm you.  For God is round about their doings.
>  
>        And remember when thou didst leave thy household at early morn, that
> thou mightest prepare the faithful a camp for the war; - God heard, knew it -
>  
>        When two troops of you became full of anxious thoughts, and lost heart,
> and when God became the protector of both!  In God, then, let the faithful
> trust.
>  
>        God had already succoured you at Bedr, when ye were the weaker!  Fear
> God,.  then, that ye may be thankful.
>  
> 3:120  Then thou didst say to the faithful, "is it not enough for you that your
> Lord aideth you with three thousand angels sent down from on high?"
>  
>        Aye:  but if ye be steadfast and fear God, and the foe come upon you in
> hot haste, your Lord will help you with five thousand angels in their
> cognisances!
>  
>        This, as pure good tidings for you, did God appoint, that your hearts
> might be assured - for only from God, the Mighty, the Wise, cometh the Victory
> - and that He might cut off the uttermost part of those who believed not, or
> cast them down so that they should be overthrown, defeated without resource.
>  
>        It is none of thy concern whether He be turned unto them in kindness or
> chastise them: for verily they are wrongful doers.
>  
>        Whatever is in the Heavens and the Earth is God's!  He forgiveth whom He
> will, and whom He will, chastiseth: for God is Forgiving, Merciful.
>  
>        O ye who believe! devour not usury, doubling it again and again!  But
> fear God, that ye may prosper.
>  
>        And fear the fire which is prepared for them that believe not; and obey
> God and the apostle, that ye may find mercy:
>  
>        And vie in haste for pardon from your Lord, and a Paradise, vast as the
> Heavens and the Earth, prepared for the God-fearing.
>  
>        Who give alms, alike in prosperity and in success, and who master their
> anger, and forgive others!  God loveth the doers of good.
>  
>        They who, after they have done a base deed or committed a wrong against
> their own selves, remember God and implore forgiveness of their sins - and who
> will forgive sins but God only? - persevere not in what they have wittingly
> done amiss.
>  
> 3:130  As for these!  Pardon from their Lord shall be their recompense, and
> gardens 'neath which the rivers flow; for ever shall they abide therein:  And
> goodly the reward of those who labour!
>  
>        Already, before your time, have examples been made!  Traverse the earth,
> then, and see what hath been the end of those who treat prophets as liars.
>  
>        This Koran is a manifest to man, and a guidance, and a warning to the
> God-fearing!
>  
>        And be not fainthearted, and be not sorrowful:  For ye shall gain the
> upper hand if ye be believers.
>  
>        If a wound hath befallen you, a wound like it hath already befallen
> others: we alternate these days of successes and reverses among men, that God
> may know those who have believed, and that He may take martyrs from among you,
> - but God loveth not the wrongful doers -
>  
>        And that God may test those who believe, and destroy the infidels.
>  
>        Thought ye that ye should enter Paradise ere God had taken knowledge of
> those among you who did valiantly, and of those who steadfastly endure?
>  
>        Ye had desired death ere ye met it.  But ye have now seen it - and ye
> have beheld it - and fled from it!
>  
>        Muhammad is no more than an apostle; other apostles have already passed
> away before him:  if he die, therefore, or be slain, will ye turn on your
> heels?  But he who turneth on his heels shall not injure God at all:  And God
> will certainly reward the thankful!
>  
> 
>        No one can die except by God's permission, according to the Book that
> fixeth the term of life.  He who desireth the recompense of this world, we will
> give him thereof; And he who desireth the recompense of the next life, we will
> give him thereof!  And we will certainly reward the thankful.
>  
> 3:140  How many a prophet hath combated those who had with them many myriads!
> Yet were they not daunted at what befel them on the path of God, nor were they
> weakened, nor did they basely submit!  God loveth those who endure with
> steadfastness.
>  
>        Nor said they more than this:  "O our Lord! forgive us our sins and our
> mistakes in this our work; and set our feet firm; and help us against the
> unbelieving people."  And God gave them the recompense of this world, and the
> excellence of the recompense of the next.  For God loveth the doers of what is
> excellent.
>  
>        O ye who have believed!  if ye obey the infidels, they will cause you to
> turn upon your heels, and ye will fall back into perdition:
>  
>        But God is your liege lord, and He is the best of helpers.
>  
>        We will cast a dread into hearts of the infidels because they have
> joined gods with God without warranty sent down; their abode shall be the fire;
> and wretched shall be the mansion of the evil doers.
>  
>        Already had God made good to you His promise, when by His permission ye
> destroyed your foes, until your courage failed you, and ye disputed about the
> order, and disobeyed, after that the Prophet had brought you within view of
> that for which ye longed.
>  
>        Some of you were for this world, and some for the next.  Then, in order
> to make trial of you, He turned you to flight from them, - yet hath He now
> forgiven you; for all-bounteous is God to the faithful -
>  
>        When ye came up the height and took no heed of any one, while the
> Prophet in your rear was calling you to the fight!  God hath rewarded you with
> trouble upon trouble, that ye might learn not to be chagrined at your loss of
> booty, or at what befel you!  God is acquainted with your actions.
>  
>        Then after the trouble God sent down security upon you.  Slumber fell
> upon a part of you:  as to the other part - their own passions stirred them up
> to think unjustly of God with thoughts of ignorance!  They said - What gain we
> by this affair?  Say:  Verily the affair resteth wholly with God.  They hid in
> their minds what they did not speak out to thee, saying, "Were we to have
> gained aught in this affair, none of us had been slain at this place."  Say:
> Had ye remained in your homes, they who were decreed to be slain would have
> gone forth to the places where they lie: - in order that God might make trial
> of what was in your breasts, and might discover what was in your hearts, for
> God knoweth the very secrets of the breast.
>  
>        Of a truth it was Satan alone who caused those of you to fail in duty
> who turned back on the day when the hosts met, for some of their doings!  But
> now hath God pardoned them; For God is Forgiving, Gracious.
>  
> 3:150  O ye who believe!  be not like the infidels, who said of their brethren
> when they had travelled by land or had gone forth to war, "Had they kept with
> us, they had not died, and had not been slain!"|  God purposed that this affair
> should cause them heart sorrow!  God maketh alive and killeth; and God
> beholdeth your actions.
>  
>        And if ye shall be slain or die on the path of God, then pardon from God
> and mercy is better than all your amassings;
>  
>        For if ye die or be slain, verily unto God shall ye be gathered.
>  
>        Of the mercy of God thou hast spoken to them in gentle terms.  Hadst
> thou been severe and harsh-hearted, they would have broken away from thee.
> Therefore, forgive and ask for pardon for them, and consult them in the affair
> of warn, and when thou art resolved, then put thou thy trust in God, for God
> loveth those who trust in Him.
>  
>        If God help you, none shall overcome you; but if He abandon you, who is
> he that shall help you when He is gone?  In God, then, let the faithful trust.
>  
>        It is not the Prophet who will defraud you; - But he who shall defraud,
> shall come forth with his defraudings on the day of the resurrection:  then
> shall every soul be paid what it hath merited, and they shall not be treated
> with injustice.
>  
>        Shall he who hath followed the good pleasure of God be as he who hath
> brought on himself wrath from God, and whose abode shall be Hell?  and wretched
> the journey thither!
>  
>        There are varying grades with God: and God beholdeth what ye do.
>  
>        Now hath God been gracious to the faithful, when he raised up among them
> an apostle out of their own people, to rehearse unto them his signs, and to
> cleanse them, and to give them knowledge of the Book and of Wisdom: for before
> they were in manifest error.
>  
>        When a reverse hath befallen you, the like of which ye had before
> inflicted, say ye, "Whence is this?"  Say:  It is from yourselves.  For God
> hath power over all things.
>  
> 3:160  And that which befel you on the day when the armies met, was certainly
> by the will of God, and that he might know the faithful, and that he might know
> the hypocrites!  And when the word was "Advance, fight on the path of God, or
> drive back the foe," - they said "Had we known how to fight, we would have
> followed you."  Nearer were some of them on that day to unbelief than to faith:
>  
>        They said with their lips what was not in their hearts!  But God knew
> what they concealed,
>  
>        Who said of their brethren while themselves sat at home, "Had they
> obeyed us, they had not been slain." Say:  Keep back death from yourselves if
> ye speak truth.
>  
>        And repute not those slain on God's path to be dead.  Nay, alive with
> their Lord, are they richly sustained;
>  
>        Rejoicing in what God of his bounty hath vourchsafed them, filled with
> joy for those who follow after them, but have not yet overtaken them, that on
> them nor fear shall come, nor grief;
>  
>        Filled with joy at the favours of God, and at his bounty: and that God
> suffereth not the reward of the faithful to perish.
>  
>        As to those who after the reverse which befel them, respond to God and
> the Apostle - such of them as do good works and fear God, shall have a great
> reward:
>  
>        Who, when men said to them, "Now are the Meccans mustering against you;
> therefore fear them!" it only increased their faith, and they said, "Our
> sufficiency is God, and He is an excellent protector."
>  
>        They returned, therefore, with the favour of God, enriched by Him, and
> untouched by harm; and they followed what was well pleasing to God.  And God is
> of great Munificence.
>  
>        Only would that Satan instill the fear of his adherents:  Fear them not,
> but fear me if ye are believers.
>  
> 3:170  Let not those who view in haste after infidelity grieve thee: Verily not
> one whit shall they injure God!  God will refuse them all part in the life to
> come:  a severe chastisement shall be their lot.
>  
>        They truly who purchase infidelity at the price of their faith, shall
> not injure God on whit! and a grievous chastisement shall be their lot.
>  
>        Let not the infidels deem that the length of days we give them is good
> for them!  We only give them length of days that they may increase their sins!
> and a shameful chastisement shall be their lot.
>  
>        It is not in God to leave the faithful in the state in which they are,
> until he sever the bad from the good:
>  
>        Nor is God minded to lay open the secret things to you, but God chooseth
> whom he will of his apostles to know them.  Believe, therefore, in God and his
> apostles: and if ye believe and fear God, a great reward awaited you.
>  
>        And let not those who are niggard of what God hath vouchsafed them in
> his bounty, think that this will be good for them - Nay, it will be bad for
> them -
>  
>        That of which they have been niggard shall be their collar on the day of
> the resurrection.  God's, the heritage of the Heavens and of the Earth!  And
> God is well-informed of all ye do.
>  
>        Now hath God heard the saying of those who said:  "Aye, God is poor and
> we are rich." We will surely write down their sayings, and their unjust
> slaughter of the prophets; and we will say, "Taste ye the torment of the
> burning.
>  
>        This, for what your hands have sent before you; and because God will not
> inflict a wrong upon his servants!:
>  
>        To those who say, "Verily, God hath enjoined us that we are not to
> credit an apostle until he present us a sacrifice which fire out of Heaven
> shall devour,"
>  
> 3:180  Say:  Already have apostles before me come to you with miracles, and
> with that of which ye speak.  Wherefore slew ye them?  Tell me, if ye are men
> of truth.
>  
>        And if they treat thee as a liar, then verily apostles have been treated
> as liars before thee, though they came with clear proofs of their mission, and
> with Scriptures, and with the light-giving Book.
>  
>        Every soul shall taste of death:  and ye shall only receive your
> recompenses on the day of resurrection.  And whoso shall scape the fire, and be
> brought into Paradise, shall be happy.  And the life of this world is but a
> cheating fruition!
>  
>        Ye shall assuredly be tried in your possessions and in yourselves.  And
> many hurtful things shall ye assuredly hear from those to whom the Scriptures
> were given before you, and from those who join other gods with God.  But if ye
> be steadfast, and fear God - this verily is needed in the affairs of life.
>  
>        Moreover, when God entered into a covenant with those to whom the
> Scriptures had been given, and said, "Ye shall surely make it known to mankind
> and not hide it," they cast it behind their backs, and sold it for a sorry
> price!  But vile is that for which they have sold it.
>  
>        Suppose not that they who rejoice in what they have brought to pass, and
> love to be praised for what they have not done - suppose not they shall escape
> the chastisement.  And afflictive chastisement doth await them,
>  
>        For the Kingdom of the Heavens and the Earth is God's, and God hath
> power over all things.
>  
>        Verily, in the creation of the Heavens and of the Earth, and in the
> succession of the night and of the day, are signs for men of understanding
> heart;
>  
>        Who standing, and sitting, and reclining, bear God in mind, and muse on
> the creation of the Heavens and of the Earth.  "O our Lord!" say they, "thou
> hast not created this in vain.  No. Glory be to Thee!  Keep us, then, from the
> torment of the fire.
>  
>        O our Lord! surely thou wilt put him to shame whom thou shalt cause to
> enter into the Fire, and the wrong-doers shall have none to help them.
>  
> 3:190  O our Lord!  we have indeed heard the voice of one that called.  He
> called us to the faith - 'Believe ye on your Lord' - and we have believed.
>  
>        O our Lord! forgive us then our sin, and hide away from us our evil
> deeds, and cause us to die with the righteous.
>  
>        O our Lord! and give us what thou has promised us by thine apostles, and
> put us not to shame on the day of the resurrection.  Verily, Thou wilt not fail
> thy promise."
>  
>        And their Lord answereth them, "I will not suffer the work of him among
> you that worketh, whether of male or female, to be lost.  The one of you is the
> issue of the other.
>  
>        And they who have fled their country and quitted their homes and
> suffered in my cause, and have fought and fallen, I will blot out their sins
> from them, and I will bring them into gardens beneath which the streams do
> flow."
>  
>        A recompense from God!  and God!  with Him is the perfection of
> recompense!
>  
>        Let not prosperity in the land on the part of those who believe not,
> deceive thee.  'Tis but a brief enjoyment!  Then shall Hell be their abode; and
> wretched the bed!
>  
>        But as to those who fear their Lord - for them are the gardens 'neath
> which the rivers flow:  therein shall they abide for aye.  Such their reception
> with God - and that which is with God is best for the righteous.
>  
>        Among the people of the Book are those who believe in God, and in what
> He hath sent down to you, and in what He hath sent down to them, humbling
> themselves before God.  they barter not the signs of God for a mean price.
>  
>        These!  their recompense awaiteth them with their Lord:  aye! God is
> swift to take account.
>  
> 3:200  O ye who believe! be patient and vie in patience, and be firm, and fear
> God, that it may be well with you.
>
> — *Sura   3 - The Family of Imran*