# Sura   4 - Women

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> SURA IV  (4)  - Women      (Medina - 175 verses)                (C - 410)
>  
>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
>  
>        O men!  fear your Lord, who hath created you of one man (nafs, soul),
> and of him created his wife, and from these twain hath spread abroad so many
> men and women.  And fear ye God, in whose name ye ask mutual favours, -
> reverence the wombs that bare you.  Verily is God watching over you!
>  
>        And give to the orphans their property; substitute not worthless things
> of your own for their valuable ones, and devour not their property after adding
> it to your own; for this is a great crime.
>  
>        And if ye are apprehensive that ye shall not deal fairly with orphans,
> then, of other women who seem good in your eyes, marry but two, or three, or
> four; and if ye still fear that ye shall not act equitably, then one only; or
> the slaves whom ye have acquired:  this will make justice on your part easier.
> Give women their dowry freely; but if of themselves they give up aught thereof
> to you, then enjoy it as convenient, and profitable.
>  
>        And entrust not to the incapable the substance which God hath placed
> with you for their support; but maintain them therewith, and clothe them, and
> speak to them with kindly speech.
>  
>        And make trial of orphans until they reach the age of marriage; and if
> ye perceive in them a sound judgment, then hand over their substance to them;
> but consume ye it not wastefully, or by hastily entrusting it to them;
>  
>        Because they are growing up.  And let the rich guardian not even touch
> it; and let him who is poor use it for his support (eat of it) with discretion.
>  
>        And when ye make over their substance to them, then take witnesses in
> their presence:  God also maketh a sufficient account.
>  
>        Men ought to have a part of what their parents and kindred leave; and
> women a part of what their parents and kindred leave:  whether it be little or
> much, let them have a stated portion.
>  
>        And when they who are of kin are present at the division, and the
> orphans and the poor, let them too have a share; and speak to them with kindly
> speech.
>  
> 4:10   And let those be afraid to wrong the orphans, who, should they leave
> behind them weakly offspring, would be solicitous on their account.  Let them,
> therefore, fear god, and let them propose what is right.
>  
>        Verily they who swallow the substance of the orphan wrongfully, shall
> swallow down only fire into their belies, and shall burn in the flame!
>  
>        With regard to your children, God commandeth you to give the male the
> portion of two females; and if they be females more than two, then they shall
> have two-thirds of that which their father hath left:  but if she be an only
> daughter, she shall have the half; and the father and mother of the deceased
> shall each of them have a sixth part of what he hath left, if he have a child;
> but if he have no child, and his parents be his heirs, then his mother shall
> have a third:  and if he have brethren, his mother shall have the sixth, after
> paying the bequests he shall have bequeathed, and his debts.  As to your
> fathers, or your children, ye know not which of them is the most advantageous
> to you.  This is the law of God.  Verily, God is Knowing, Wise!
>  
>        Half of what your wives leave shall be your's, if they have no issue;
> but if they have issue, then a fourth of what they leave shall be your's, after
> paying the bequests they shall bequeath, and debts.
>  
>        And your wives shall have a fourth part of what ye leave, if ye have no
> issue; but if ye have issue, then they shall have an eighth part of what ye
> leave, after paying the bequests y shall bequeath, and debts.
>  
>        If a man or a woman make a distant relation their heir, and he or she
> have a brother or a sister, each of these two shall have a sixth; but if there
> are more than this, then shall they be sharers in a third, after payment of the
> bequests he shall have bequeathed, and debts.
>  
>        Without loss to any one.  This is the ordinance of God, and God is
> Knowing, Gracious!
>  
>        These are precepts of God; and whoso obeyeth God and his prophet, him
> shall God bring into gardens beneath whose shades the rivers flow, therein to
> abide for ever:  and this, the great blessedness!
>  
>        And whoso shall rebel against God and his apostle, and shall break His
> bounds, him shall God place in the fire to abide therein for ever; and his
> shall be a shameful torment.
>  
>        If any of your women be guilty of whoredom, then bring four witnesses
> against them from among yourselves; and if they bear witness to the fact, shut
> them up within their houses till death release them, or God make some way for
> them.
>  
> 4:20   And if two men among you commit the same crime, then punish them both;
> but if they turn and amend, then let them be; for God is He who turneth,
> Merciful!
>  
>        With God himself will the repentance of those who have done evil
> ignorantly, and then turn speedily unto Him, but accepted.  These!  God will
> turn unto them:  for God is Knowing, Wise!
>  
>        But no place of repentance shall there be for those who do evil, until,
> when death is close to one of them, he saith, "Now verily am I turned to God;"
> nor to those who die unbelievers.  These!  we have made ready for them a
> grievous torment!
>  
>        O believers!  it is not allowed you to be heirs of your wives against
> their will; nor to hinder them from marrying, in order to take from them part
> of the dowry you had given them, unless they have been guilty of undoubted
> lewdness; but associate kindly with them:  for if ye are estranged from them,
> haply ye are estranged from that in which God hath placed abundant good.
>  
>        And if ye be desirous to exchange one wife for another, and have given
> one of them a talent, make no deduction from it.  Would ye take it by
> slandering her, and with manifest wrong?
>  
>        How, moreover, could ye take it, when one of you hath gone in unto the
> other, and they have received from you a strict bond of union?
>  
>        And marry not women whom your fathers have married:  for this is a
> shame, and hateful, and an evil way: - though what is past may be allowed.
>  
>        Forbidden to you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters,
> and your aunts, both on the father and mother's side, and your nieces on the
> brother and sister's side, and your foster-mothers, and your foster-sisters,
> and the mothers of your wives, and your step-daughters who are your wards, born
> of your wives to whom ye have gone in:  (but if ye have not gone in unto them,
> it shall be no sin in you to marry them;) and the wives of your sons who
> proceed out of your loins; and ye may not have two sisters; except where it is
> already done.  Verily, God is Indulgent, Merciful!
>  
>        Forbidden to you also are married women, except those who are in your
> hands as slaves:  This is the law of God for you.  And it is allowed you,
> beside this, to seek out wives by means of your wealth, with modest conduct,
> and without fornication.  And give those with whom ye have cohabited their
> dowry.  This is the law.  But it shall be no crime in you to make agreements
> over and above the law.  Verily, God is Knowing, Wise!
>  
>        And whoever of you is not rich enough to marry free believing women,
> then let him marry such of your believing maidens as have fallen into your
> hands as slaves; God well knoweth your faith.  Ye are sprung the one from the
> other.  Marry them, then, with the leave of their masters, and give them a fair
> dower:  but let them be chaste and free from fornication, and not entertainers
> of lovers.
>  
> 4:30   If after marriage they commit adultery, then inflict upon them half the
> penalty enacted for free married women.  This law is for him among you who is
> afraid of doing wrong:  but if ye abstain, it will be better for you.  And God
> is Lenient, Merciful.
>  
>        God desireth to make this known to you, and to guide you into the ways
> of those who have been before you, and to turn Him unto you in mercy.  And God
> is Knowing, Wise!
>  
>        God desireth thus to turn him unto you:  but they who follow their own
> lusts, desire that with great swerving should ye swerve!  God desireth to make
> your burden light:  for man hath been created weak.
>  
>        O believers! devour not each other's substance in mutual frivolities;
> unless there be a trafficking among you by your own consent:  and commit not
> suicide:  - of a truth God is merciful to you.
>  
>        And whoever shall do this maliciously and wrongfully, we will in the end
> cast him into the fire; for this is easy with God.
>  
>        If ye avoid the great sins which ye are forbidden, we will blot out your
> faults, and we will cause you to enter Paradise with honourable entry.
>  
>        Covet not the gifts by which God hath raised some of you above others.
> The men shall have a portion according to their deserts, and the women
> according to their deserts.  of God, therefore, ask his gifts.  Verily, God
> hath knowledge of all things.
>  
>        To every one have we appointed kindred, as heirs of which parents and
> relatives, and those with whom ye have joined right hands in contract, leave.
> Give therefore, to each their portion.  Verily, God witnesseth all things.
>  
>        Men are superior to women on account of the qualities with which God
> hath gifted the one above the other, and on account of the outlay they make
> from their substance for them.  Virtuous women are obedient, careful, during
> the husband's absence, because God hath of them been careful.  But chide those
> for whose refractoriness ye have cause to fear; remove them into beds apart,
> and scourge them:  but if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion
> against them:  verily, God is High, Great!
>  
>        And if ye fear a breach between man and wife, then send a judge chosen
> from his family, and a judge chosen from her family:  if they are desirous of
> agreement, God will effect a reconciliation between them; verily, God is
> knowing, apprised of all!
>  
> 4:40   Worship God, and join not aught with Him in worship.  Be good to
> parents, and to kindred, and to orphans, and to the poor, and to a neighbour,
> whether kinsman or new-comer, and to a fellow traveller, and to the wayfarer,
> and to the slaves whom your right hands hold; verily, God loveth not the proud,
> the vain boaster,
>  
>        Who are niggardly themselves, and bid others be niggards, and hide away
> what God of his bounty hath given them.  We have made ready a shameful
> chastisement for the unbelievers,
>  
>        And for those who bestow their substance in alms to be seen of men, and
> believe not in God and in the last day.  Whoever hath Satan for his companion,
> an evil companion hath he!
>  
>        But what blessedness would be theirs, if they should believe in God and
> in the last day, and bestow alms out of what God hath vouchsafed them; for God
> taketh knowledge of them!
>  
>        God truly will not wrong any one of the weight of a mote; and if there
> be any good deed, he will repay it doubly; and from his presence shall be given
> a great recompense.
>  
>        How!  when we shall bring up against them, witnesses from all peoples,
> and when we shall bring thee up as a witness against these?  On that day they
> who were Infidels and rebelled against the prophet, shall wish that the earth
> were levelled with them!  But nothing shall they hide from God.
>  
>        O ye true believers, come not to prayer when ye are drunken, but wait
> till ye can understand what ye utter; nor when ye are polluted, unless ye be
> travelling on the road, until ye have washed you.  If ye be sick, or on a
> journey, or have come from the unclean place, or have touched a woman, and ye
> find not water, then rub pure sand, and bathe your face and your hands with it:
> verily, God is Lenient, Merciful.
>  
>        Hast thou not remarked those to whom a part of the Scriptures hath been
> given?  Vendors are they of error, and are desirous that ye go astray from the
> way.  But God knoweth your enemies; and God is a sufficient patron, and God is
> a sufficient helper!
>  
>        Among the Jews are those who displace the words of their Scriptures, and
> say, "We have heard, and we have not obeyed.  Hear thou, but as one that
> heareth not; and look at us;" perplexing with their tongues, and wounding the
> Faith by their revilings.
>  
>        But if they would say, "We have heard, and we obey; hear thou, and
> regard us;" it were better for them, and more right.  But God hath cursed them
> for their unbelief.  Few only of them are believers!
>  
> 4:50   O ye to whom the Scriptures have been given!  believe in what we have
> sent down confirmatory of the Scripture which is in your hands, ere we efface
> your features, and twist your head round backward, or curse you as we cursed
> the sabbath-breakers:  and the command of God was carried into effect.
>  
>        Verily, God will not forgive the union of other gods with Himself!  But
> other that this will He forgive to whom He pleaseth.  And He who uniteth gods
> with God hath devised a great wickedness.
>  
>        Hast thou not marked those who hold themselves to be righteous?  But God
> holdeth righteous whom He will; and they shall not be wronged the husk of a
> date stone.
>  
>        Behold how they devise a lie of God!  Therein is wickedness manifest
> enough!
>  
>        Hast thou not observed those to whom a part of the Scriptures hath been
> given?  They believe in Djibt and Thagout, and say of the infidels, "These are
> guided in a better path than those who hold the faith."
>  
>        These are they whom God hath cursed:  and for him whom God hath cursed,
> thou shalt by no means find a helper.
>  
>        Shall they have a share in the kingdom who would not bestow on their
> fellow men even the speck in a date stone?
>  
>        Envy they other men what God of his bounty hath given them?  We gave of
> old the Scriptures and wisdom to the line of Abraham, and we gave them a grand
> kingdom:
>  
>        - Some of them believe on the prophet and some turn aside from him: -
> the flame of Hell is their sufficing punishment!
>  
>        Those who disbelieve our signs we will in the end cast into the fire:
> so oft as their skins shall be well burnt, we will change them for fresh skins,
> that they may taste the torment.  Verily God is Mighty, Wise!
>  
> 4:60   But as for those who have believed, and done the things that are right,
> we will bring them into gardens 'neath which the rivers flow - therein to abide
> eternally; therein shall they have wives of stainless purity:  and we will
> bring them into aye-shadowing shades.
>  
>        Verily, God enjoineth you to give back your trusts to their owners, and
> when ye judge between men, to judge with fairness.  Excellent is the practice
> to which God exhorteth you.  God Heareth, Beholdeth!
>  
>        O ye who believe!  obey God and obey the apostle, and those among you
> invested with authority; and in in aught ye differ, bring it before God and the
> apostle, if ye believe in God and in the latter day.  This is the best and
> fairest way to settlement.
>  
>        Hast thou not marked those who profess that they believe in what hath
> been sent down to thee, and what hath been sent down before thee?  Fain would
> they be judged before Thagout, though commanded not to believe in him; and fain
> would Satan make them wander with wanderings wide of truth.
>  
>        And when it is said to them, "Accede to that which God hath sent down,
> and to the apostle," thou seest the hypocrites avert them from thee with utter
> aversion.
>  
>        But how, when some misfortune shall fortune them, for their previous
> handywork?  Then will they come to thee, swearing by God, "We desire nothing
> but to promote good and concord!"
>  
>        These are they whose hearts God knoweth.  Therefore break off from them,
> and warn them, and speak words that may penetrate their souls.
>  
>        We have not sent any apostle but to be obeyed, if God so will:  but if
> they, after they have sinner to their own hurt by unbelief, come to thee and
> ask pardon of God, and the apostle ask pardon for them, they shall surely find
> that God is He who turneth unto man, Merciful.
>  
>        And they will not - I sear by thy Lord - they will not believe, until
> they have set thee up as judge between them on points where they differ.  Then
> shall they not find in their own minds any difficulty in thy decisions, and
> shall submit with entire submission.
>  
>        Had we laid down such a law for them as "Kill yourselves, or abandon
> your dwellings," but few of them would have done it.  But had they done that to
> which they were exhorted, better had it been for them, and stronger for the
> confirmation of their faith.
>  
> 4:70   In that case we had surely given them from ourself a great recompense,
> and on the straight path should we surely have guided them.
>  
>        And whoever shall obey God and the Apostle, these shall be with those of
> the Prophets, and of the Sincere, and of the Martyrs, and of the Just, to whom
> God hath been gracious.  These are a goodly band!
>  
>        This is the bounty of God; and in knowledge doth God suffice.
>  
>        O ye who believe! make use of precautions; and advance in detachments,
> or, advance in a body.
>  
>        There is of you who will be a laggard:  and if a reverse befall you he
> saith, "Now hath God dealt graciously with me, since I was not with you in the
> fight:"
>  
>        But if a success from God betide you, he will say, as if there had never
> been any friendship between you and him, "Would I had been with them! a rich
> prize should I have won!"
>  
>        Let those then fight on the path of God, who barter this present life
> for that which is to come; for whoever fighteth on God's path, whether he be
> slain or conquer, we will in the end give him a great reward.
>  
>        But what hath come to you that ye fight not on the path of God, and for
> the weak among men, women and children, who say, "O our Lord! bring us forth
> from this city whose inhabitants are oppressors; give us a champion from thy
> presence; and give us from thy presence a defender."
>  
>        They who believe, fight on the path of God; and they who believe not,
> fight on the path of Thagout:  Fight therefore against the friends of Satan.
> Verily the craft of Satan shall be powerless!
>  
>        Hast thou not marked those to whom it was said, "Withhold your hands
> while from war; and observe prayer, and pay the stated alms.":  But when war is
> commanded them, lo! a portion of them fear men as with the fear of God, or with
> a yet greater fear, and say:  "O our Lord! why hast thou commanded us war?
> Couldst thou not have given us respite till our not distant end?"  Say:  Small
> the fruition of this world; but the next life is the true good for him who
> feareth God! and ye shall not be wronged so much as the skin of a date stone.
>  
> 4:80   Wherever ye be, death will overtake you - although ye be in lofty
> towers!  If good fortune betide them, they say, "This is from God;" and if evil
> betide them, they say, "This is from thee." Say:  All is from God:  But what
> hath come to these people that they are not near to understanding what is told
> them?
>  
>        Whatever good betideth thee is from God, and whatever betideth thee of
> evil is from thyself; and we have sent thee to mankind as an apostle:  God is
> thy sufficing witness.
>  
>        Whoso obeyeth the Apostle, in so doing obeyeth God:  and as to those who
> turn back from thee, we have not sent thee to be their keeper.
>  
>        Moreover, they say:  "Obedience!" but when they come forth from thy
> presence, a party of them brood by night over other than thy words; but God
> writeth down what they brood over:  therefore separate thyself from them, and
> put thou thy trust in God.  God is a sufficient protector!
>  
>        Can they not consider the Koran?  Were it from any other than God, they
> would surely have found in it many contradictions.
>  
>        And when tidings, either of security or alarm, reach them, they tell
> them abroad; but if they would report them to the apostle, and to those who are
> in authority among them, those who desire information would learn it from them.
> But for the goodness and mercy of God towards you, ye would have followed Satan
> except a few!
>  
>        Fight, therefore, on God's path:O  lay not burdens on any but thyself;
> and stir up the faithful.  The might of the infidels haply will God restrain,
> for God is the stronger in prowess, and the stronger to punish.
>  
>        He who shall mediate between men for a good purpose shall be the gainer
> by it.  But he would sho mediate with an evil mediation shall reap the fruit of
> it.  And God keepeth watch over everything.
>  
>        If ye are greeted with a greeting, then greet ye with a better greeting,
> or at least return it; God taketh county of all things.
>  
>        God! there is no god but He!  He will certainly assemble you on the day
> of resurrection.  There is no doubt of it.  And whose word is more true than
> God's?
>  
> 4:90   Why are ye two parties on the subject of the hypocrites, when God hath
> cast them off for their doings?  Desire ye to guide those whom God hath led
> astray?  But for him whom God leadeth astray, thou shalt by no means find a
> pathway.
>  
>        They desire that ye should be infidels as they are infidels, and that ye
> should be alike.  Take therefore none of them for friends, till they have fled
> their homes for the cause of God.  If they turn back, then seize them, and slay
> them wherever ye find them; but take none of them as friends or helpers,
>  
>        Except those who shall seek an asylum among your allies, and those who
> come over to you - their hearts forbidding them to make war on you, or to
> make war on their own people.  Had God pleased, he would have given them power
> against you, and they would have made war upon you!  But, if they depart from
> you, and make not war against you and offer you peace, then God alloweth you no
> occasion against them.
>  
>        Ye will find others who seek to gain your confidence as well as that of
> their own people:  So oft as they return to sedition, they shall be overthrown
> in it:  But if they leave you not, nor propose terms of peace to you nor
> withhold their hands, then seize them, and slay them, wherever ye find them.
> Over these have we given you undoubted power.
>  
>        A believer killeth not a believer but by mischance:  and whoso killeth a
> believer by mischance shall be bound to free a believer from slavery; and the
> blood-money shall be paid to the family of the slain, unless they convert it
> into alms.  But if the slain believer be of a hostile people, then let him
> confer freedom on a slave who is a believer; and if he be of a people between
> whom and yourselves there is an alliance, then let the blood-money be paid to
> his family, and let him set free a slave who is a believer:  and let him who
> hath not the means, fast two consecutive months.  This is the penance enjoined
> by God; and God is Knowing, Wise!
>  
>        But whoever shall kill a believer of set purpose, his recompense shall
> be hell; for ever shall he abide in it; God shall be wrathful with him, and
> shall curse him, and shall get ready for him a great torment.
>  
>        O believers!  when ye go forth to the fight for the cause of God, be
> discerning, and say not to every one who meeteth you with a greeting, "Thou art
> not a believer" in your greed after the chance good things of this present
> life!  With God are abundant spoils.  Such hath been your wont in times past;
> but God hath been gracious to you.  Be discerning, then, for God well knoweth
> what ye do.
>  
>        Those believers who sit at home free from trouble, and those who do
> valiantly in the cause of God with their substance and their persons, shall not
> be treated alike.  God hath assigned to those who contend earnestly with their
> persons and with their substance, a rank above those who sit at home.  Goodly
> promises hath He made to all.  But God hath assigned to the strenuous a rich
> recompense, above those who sit still at home,
>  
>        Rank of his own bestowal, and forgiveness, and mercy; for God is
> Indulgent, Merciful.
>  
>        The angels, when they took the souls of those who had been unjust to
> their own weal, demanded, "What hath been your state?"  They said, "We were
> the weak ones of the earth."  They replied, "Was not God's earth broad enough
> for you to flee away in?"  These! their home shall be Hell, and evil the
> passage to it -
>  
> 4:100  Except the men and women and children who were not able, through their
> weakness, to find the mean of escape, and were not guided on their way.  These
> haply God will forgive:  for God is Forgiving, Gracious.
>  
>        Whoever flieth his country for the cause of God, will find in the earth
> many under like compulsion, and abundant resources; and if any one shall quit
> his home and fly to God and his apostle, and then death overtake him, - his
> reward from God is sure:  for God is Gracious, Merciful!
>  
>        And when ye go forth to war in the land, it shall be no crime in you to
> cut short your prayers, if ye fear lest the infidels come upon you; Verily, the
> infidels are your undoubted enemies!
>  
>        And when thou, O apostle! shalt be among them, and shalt pray with them,
> then let a party of them rise up with thee, but let them take their arms; and
> when they shall have made their prostrations, let them retire to your rear:
> then let another party that hath not prayed come forward, and let them pray
> with you; but let them take their precautions and their arms.  Pleased would
> the infidels be for you to neglect your arms and your baggage, that they might
> turn upon you at once!  And it shall be no crime in you to lay down your arms
> if rain annoy you, or if ye be sick.  But take your precautions.  Verily, God
> hath made ready a shameful torment for the infidels.
>  
>        And when ye shall have ended the prayer, make mention of God, standing,
> and sitting, and reclining:  and as soon as ye are secure, observe prayer; for
> to the faithful, prayer is a prescribe dduty, and for stated hours.
>  
>        Slacken not in pursuit of the foe.  If ye suffer, assuredly they suffer
> also as ye suffer; but ye hope from God for what they cannot hope!  And God is
> Knowing, Wise!
>  
>        Verily, we have sent down the Book to thee with the truth, thou that
> mayest judge between men according as God hath given thee insight:  But with
> the deceitful ones dispute not:  and implore pardon of God.  Verily, God is
> Forgiving, Merciful.
>  
>        And plead not with us for those who are self-deceivers; for God loveth
> not him who is deceitful, criminal.
>  
>        From men they hide themselves; but they cannot hide themselves from God:
> and when they hold nightly discourses which please Him not, He is with them.
> God is round about their doings!
>  
>        Oh!  ye are they who plead in their favour in this present life; but who
> shall plead with God for them on the day of the resurrection?  Who will be the
> guardian over them?
>  
> 4:110  Yet he who doth evil, or shall have acted against his own weal, and then
> shall ask pardon of God, will find God Forgiving, Merciful:
>  
>        And whoever committeth a crime, committeth it to his own hurt.  And God
> is Knowing, Wise!
>  
>        And whoever committeth an involuntary fault or a crime, and then layeth
> it on the innocent, shall surely bear the guilt of calumny and of a manifest
> crime.
>  
>        But for the grace and mercy of God upon thee, a party among them had
> resolved to mislead thee, but they shall only mislead themselves; nor in aught
> shall they harm thee.  God hath caused the Book and the wisdom to descend upon
> thee:  and what thou knowest not He hath caused thee to know:  and the grace of
> God toward thee hath been great.
>  
>        In most of their secret talk is nothing good; but only in his who
> enjoineth almsgiving, or that which is right, or concord among men.  Whoso doth
> this, out of desire to please God, we will give him at the last a great reward:
>  
>        But whoso shall sever himself from the prophet after that "the guidance"
> hath been manifested to him, and shall follow any other path than that of the
> faithful, we will turn our back on him as he hath turned his back on us, and we
> will cast him into Hell; - an evil journey thither!
>  
>        God truly will not forgive the joining other gods with Himself.  Other
> wins He will forgive to whom He will:  but he who joineth gods with God, hath
> erred with far-gone error.
>  
>        They call, beside Him, upon mere goddesses!  they invoke a rebel Satan!
>  
>        On them is the malison of God.  For he said, "A portion of thy servants
> will I surely take, and will lead them astray, and will stir desires within
> them, and will command them and they shall cut the ears of animals; and I will
> command them, and they shall alter the creation of God."  He who taketh Satan
> rather than God for his patron, is ruined with palpable ruin:
>  
>        He hath made them promises, and he hath stirred desires within them; but
> Satan promiseth, only to beguile!
>  
> 4:120  These!  their dwelling Hell!  no escape shall they find from it!
>  
>        But they who believe and do the things that are right, we will bring
> them into gardens beneath which the rivers flow; For ever shall they abide
> therein.  Truly it is the promise of God:  And whose word is more sure than
> God's?
>  
>        Not according to your wishes, or the wishes of the people of the Book,
> shall these things be.  He who doth evil shall be recompensed for it.  Patron
> or helper, beside God, shall he find none.
>  
>        But whoso doth the things that are right, whether male or female, and he
> or she a believer, - these shall enter Paradise, nor shall they be wronged the
> skin of a date stone.
>  
>        And who hath a better religion than he who resigneth himself to God, who
> doth what is good, and followeth the faith of Abraham in all sincerity?  And
> God took Abraham for his friend.
>  
>        All that is in the Heavens and all that is on the Earth is God's:  and
> God encompasseth all things!
>  
>        Moreover, they will consult thee in regard to women:  Say:  God hath
> instructed you about them; and His will is rehearsed to you, in the Book,
> concerning female orphans to whom ye give not their legal due, and whom ye
> refuse to marry; also with regard to weak children; and that ye deal with
> fairness towards orphans.  Ye cannot do a good action, but verily God knoweth
> it.
>  
>        And if a wife fear ill usage or aversion on the part of her husband,
> then shall it be no fault in them if they can agree with mutual agreement, for
> agreement is best.  Men's souls are prone to avarice; but if ye act kindly and
> fear God, then, verily, your actions are not unnoticed by God!
>  
>        And ye will not have it at all in your power to treat your wives alike,
> even though you fain would do so; but yield not wholly to disinclination, so
> that ye leave one of them as it were in suspense; if ye come to an
> understanding, and fear God, then, verily, God is Forgiving, Merciful;
>  
>        But if they separate, God can compensate both out of His abundance; for
> God is Vast, Wise;
>  
> 4:130  And whatever is in the Heavens and in the Earth is God's!  We have
> already enjoined those to whom the Scriptures were given before you, and
> yourselves, to fear God.  But if ye become unbelievers, yet know that whatever
> is in the Heavens and in the Earth is God's:  and God is Rich, Praiseworthy.
>  
>        All that is in Heaven and all that is in Earth is God's!  God is a
> sufficient protector!
>  
>        If he pleased, he could cause you to pass away, O mankind!  and create
> others in your stead:  for this hath God power.
>  
>        If any one desire the reward of this world, yet with God is the reward
> of this world and of the next!  And God Heareth, Beholdeth.
>  
>        O ye who believe!  stand fast to justice, when ye bear witness before
> God, though it be against yourselves, or your parents, or your kindred, whether
> the party be rich or poor.  God is nearer than you to both.  Therefore follow
> not passion, lest ye swerve from truth. And if ye wrest your testimony or stand
> aloof, God verily is well aware of what ye do.
>  
>        O ye who believe!  believe in God and his Apostle, and the Book which he
> hath sent down to his Apostle, and the Book which he hath sent down aforetime.
> Whoever believeth not on God and his Angels and his Books and his Apostles, and
> in the last day, he verily hath erred with far-gone error.
>  
>        Verily, they who believed, then became unbelievers, then believed, and
> against became unbelievers, and then increased their unbelief - it is not God
> who will forgive them or guide them into the way.
>  
>        Announce to the hypocrites that a dolorous torment doth await them.
>  
>        Those who take the unbelievers for friends besides the faithful - do
> they seek honour at their hands?  Verily, all honour belongeth unto God!
>  
>        And already hath He sent this down to you in the Book "WHEN YE SHALL
> HEAR THE SIGNS OF GOD THEY SHALL NOT BE BELIEVED BUT SHALL BE MOCKED AT." Sit
> ye not therefore with such, until they engage in other discourse; otherwise, ye
> will become like them.  Verily God will gather the hypocrites and the infidels
> all together in Hell.
>  
> 4:40  They watch your narrowly.  Then if God grant you a victory, they say,
> "Are we not with you?" and if the infidels meet with a success, they say to
> them, "Were we not superior to you:  and did we not defend you from those
> believers?" God shall judge betwixt ye on the day of the resurrection, and God
> will by no means make a way for the infidels over the believers.
>  
>        The hypocrites would deceive God, but He will deceive them!  When they
> stand up for prayer, they stand carelessly, to be seen of men, and they
> remember God but little:
>  
>        Wavering between the one and the other - belonging neither to these nor
> those!  and by no means shalt thou find a path for him whom God misleadeth.
>  
>        O believers!  take not infidels for friends rather than believers.
> Would ye furnish God with clear right to punish you?
>  
>        Verily the hypocrites shall be in the lowest abyss of the fire:  and, by
> no means shalt thou find a helper for them;
>  
>        Save for those who turn and amend, and lay fast hold on God, and approve
> the sincerity of their religion to God; these shall be numbered with the
> faithful, and God will at last bestow on the faithful a great reward.
>  
>        Why should God inflict a chastisement upon you, if ye are grateful, and
> believe?  God is Grateful, Wise!
>  
>        God loveth not that evil be matter of public talk, unless any one hath
> been wronged:  God it is who Heareth, Knoweth!
>  
>        Whether ye publish what is good, or conceal it, or pardon evil, verily
> God is Pardoning, Powerful!
>  
>        Of a truth they who believe not on God and his Apostles, and seek to
> separate God from his Apostles, and say, "Some we believe, and some we believe
> not," and desire to take a middle way;
>  
> 4:150  These!  they are veritable infidels!  and for the infidels have we
> prepared a shameful punishment.
>  
>        And they who believe on God and his Apostles, and make no difference
> between them - these!  we will bestow on them their reward at last.  God is
> Gracious, Merciful!
>  
>        The people of the Book will ask of thee to cause a Book to come down
> unto them out of Heaven.  But a greater thing that this did they ask of Moses!
> for they said, "Shew us God plainly!" and for this their wickedness did the
> fire-storm lay hold on them.  Then took they the calf as the object of their
> worship, after that our clear tokens had come to them; but we forgave them
> this, and conferred on Moses undoubted power.
>  
>        And we uplifted the mountain over them when we made a covenant with
> them, and we said to them, "Enter the gate adoring;" and we said to them,
> "Transgress not on the Sabbath," and we received from them a strict covenant.
>  
>        So, for that they have broken their covenant, and have rejected the
> signs of God, and have put the prophets to death unjustly, saying the while,
> "Our hearts are uncircumcised," - Nay, but God hath sealed them up for their
> unbelief, so that but few believe.
>  
>        And for their unbelief, - and for their having spoken against Mary a
> grievous calumny, -
>  
>        And for their saying, "Verily we have slain the Messiah, Jesus the son
> of Mary, an Apostle of God." Yet they slew him not, and they crucified him not,
> but they had only his likeness.  And they who differed about him were in doubt
> concerning him:  No sure knowledge had they about him, but followed only an
> opinion, and they did not really slay him, but God took him up to Himself.  And
> God is Mighty, Wise!
>  
>        These shall not be one of the people of the Book but shall believe in
> Him before his death, and in the day of resurrection, He will be a witness
> against them.
>  
>        For the wickedness of certain Jews, and because they turn many from the
> way of God, we have forbidden them goodly viands which had been before allowed
> them.
>  
>        And because they have taken usury, though they were forbidden it, and
> have devoured men's substance in frivolity, we have got ready for the infidels
> among them a grievous torment.
>  
> 4:160  But their men of solid knowledge, and the believers who believe in that
> which hath been sent down to thee, and in what hath been sent down before thee,
> and who observe prayer, and pay the alms of obligation, and believe in God and
> the latter day, - these!  we will give them a great reward.
>  
>        Verily we have revealed to thee as we revealed to Noah and the Prophets
> after him, and as we revealed to Abraham, and Isma\uel and Isaac, and Jacob,
> and the tribes, and Jesus, and Job, and Jonah, and Aaron, and Solomon; and to
> David gave we Psalms.
>  
>        Of some apostles we have told thee before:  of other apostles we have
> not told thee - And discoursing did God discourse with Moses -
>  
>        Apostles charged to announce and to warn, that men, after those
> apostles, might have no plea against god.  And God is Mighty, Wise!
>  
>        But God is himself witness of what He hath sent down to thee:  In His
> knowledge hath He sent it down to thee.  The angels are also its witnesses:
> but God is a sufficient witness!
>  
>        Verily, they who believe not and pervert from the way of God, have
> indeed erred with error wide of truth.
>  
>        Verily, those who believe not, and act wrongfully, God will never
> pardon, and never will he guide them on path,
>  
>        Than the path to Hell, in which they shall abide for ever!  And this is
> easy for God.
>  
>        O men!  now hath an apostle come to you with truth from your Lord.
> Believe then, it will be better for you.  But if ye believe not, then, all that
> is in the Heavens and the Earth is God's; and God is Knowing, Wise!
>  
>        O ye people of the Book!  overstep not bounds in your religion; and of
> God, speak only truth.  The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, is only an apostle of
> God, and his Word which he conveyed into Mary, and a Spirit proceeding from
> himself.  Believe therefore in God and his apostles, and say not, "Three:"
> (there is a Trinity) - Forebear - it will be better for you.  God is only one
> God!  Far be it from His glory that He should have a son!  His, whatever is in
> 
> the Heavens, and whatever is in the Earth!  And God is a sufficient Guardian.
>  
> 4:170  The Messiah disdaineth not to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who
> are nigh unto Him.
>  
>        And whoso disdaineth His service, and is filled with pride, God will
> gather them all to Himself.
>  
>        And to those who believe and do the things that are right, will He pay
> them their due recompense, and out of His bounty will He increase them:  but as
> for those who are disdainful and proud, with a grievous chastisement will He
> chastise them;
>  
>        And none beside God shall they find to protect or to help them.
>  
>        O men!  now hath a proof come to you from your Lord, and we have sent
> down to you a clear light.  As to those who believe in God, and lay fast nhold
> on Him, these will He cause to enter into his mercy and grace, and along the
> straight way unto Himself will He guide them.
>  
>        They will consult thee.  Say:  God instructeth you as to distant
> kindred.  If a man die childless, but have a sister, half what he shall have
> shall be her's; and if she die childless he shall be her heir.  But if there be
> two sisters, two-third parts of what he shall have shall be theirs; and if
> there be both brothers and sisters, the male shall have the portion of two
> females.  God teacheth you plainly, that ye err not!  God knoweth all things.
>
> — *Sura   4 - Women*