# Sura   5 - The Table

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> SURA V - THE TABLE (5) [Medina - 120 verses]                CXIV - 485
>  
>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
>  
>        O BELIEVERS!  be faithful to your engagements.  You are allowed the
> flesh of cattle other than what is hereinafter recited, except game, which is
> not allowed you while ye are on pilgrimage.  Verily, God ordaineth what he
> pleaseth.
>  
>        O Believers!  violate neither the rites of God,  nor the sacred month
> Muharram, nor the offering, nor its ornaments, nor those who press on to the
> sacred house seeking favour from their Lord and his good pleasure in them.
>  
>        But when all is over, then take to the chase:  and let not ill will at
> those who would have kept you from the sacred mosque lead you to transgress,
> but rather be helpful to one another according to goodness and piety, but be
> not helpful for evil and malice:  and fear ye God.  Verily, God is severe in
> punishing!
>  
>        That which dieth of itself, and blood, and swine's flesh, and all that
> hath been sacrificed under the invocation of any other name than that of God,
> and the strangled, and the killed by a blow, or by a fall, or by goring, and
> that which hath been eaten by beasts of prey, unless ye make it clean by giving
> the death-stroke yourselves, and that which hath been sacrificed on the blocks
> of stone, is forbidden you:  and to make division of the slain by consulting
> the arrows, is impiety in you.  Woe this day on those who forsake your
> religion!  And fear them not, but fear Me.
>  
>        This day have I perfected your religion for you, and have filled up the
> measure of my favours upon you:  and it is my pleasure that Islam be your
> religion; but whoso without wilful leanings to wrong shall be forced by hunger
> to transgress, to him, verily, will God be Indulgent, Merciful.
>  
>        They will ask thee what is made lawful for them.  Say:  Those things
> which are good are legalised to you, and the prey of beasts of chase which ye
> have trained like dogs, teaching them as God hath taught you.  Eat, therefore,
> of what they shall catch for you, and make mention of the name of God over it,
> and fear God:  Verily, Swift is God to reckon:
>  
>        This day, things healthful are legalised to you, and the meats of those
> who have received the Scriptures are allowed to you, as your meats are to them.
> And you are permitted to marry virtuous women who are believers, and virtuous
> women of those who have received the Scriptures before you, when you shall have
> provided them their portions, living chastely with them without fornication,
> and without taking concubines.  Vain the works of him who shall renounce the
> faith!  and in the next world he shall be of the lost.
>  
>        O Believers!  when ye address yourselves to prayer, wash your faces, and
> your hands up to the elbow, and wipe your heads, and your feet to the ankles.
>  
>        And if ye have become unclean, then purify yourselves.  But if ye are
> sick, or on a journey, or if one of you come from the place of retirement, or
> if ye have touched women, and ye find no water, then take clean sand and rub
> your faces and your hands with it.  God desireth not to lay a burden upon you,
> but he desireth to purify you, and He would fill up the measure of His favour
> upon you, that ye may be grateful.
>  
> 5:10   And remember the favour of God upon you, and His covenant which He hath
> covenanted with you, when ye said, "We have heard and will obey;" and fear God;
> verily, God knoweth the very secrets of the breast.
>  
>        O Believers!  stand up as witnesses for God by righteousness:  and let
> not ill-will at any, induce you not to act uprightly.  Act uprightly. Next will
> this be to the fear of God.  And fear ye God:  verily, God is apprised of what
> ye do.
>  
>        God hath promised to those who believe, and do the things that are
> right, that for them is pardon and a great reward.
>  
>        But they who are Infidels and treat our signs as lies - these shall be
> mated with Hell fire.
>  
>        O Believers!  recollect God's favour upon you, when certain folk were
> minded to stretch forth their hands against you, but He kept their hands from
> you.  Fear God then:  and on God let the faithful trust.
>  
>        Of old did God accept the covenant of the children of Israel, and out of
> them we raised up twelve leaders, and God said, "Verily, I will be with you.
> If ye observe prayer and pay the obligatory alms, and believe in my Apostles
> and help them, and lend God a liberal loan, I will surely put away from you
> your evil deeds, and I will bring you into gardens 'neath which the rivers
> flow!  But whoso of you after this believeth not, hath gone astray from the
> even path."
>  
>        But for their breaking their covenant we have cursed them, and have
> hardened their hearts.  They shift the words of Scripture from their places,
> and have forgotten part of what they were taught.  Thou wilt not cease to
> discover deceit on their part, except in a few of them.  But forgive them, and
> pass it over:  verily, God loveth those who act generously!
>  
>        And of those who say, "We are Christians,!  have we accepted the
> covenant.  But they too have forgotten a part of what they were taught;
> wherefore we have stirred up enmity and hatred among them that shall last till
> the day of the Resurrection; and in the end will God tell them of their doings.
>  
>        O people of the Scriptures!  now is our Apostle come to you to clear up
> to you much that ye concealed of those Scriptures, and to pass over many
> things.  Now hath a light and a clear Book come to you from God, by which God
> will guide him who shall follow after his good pleasure, to paths of peace, and
> will bring them out of the darkness to the light, by his will:  and to the
> straight path will he guide them.
>  
>        Infidels now are they who say, "Verily God is the Messiah Ibn Maryam
> (son of Mary)!  Say:  And who could aught obtain from God, if he chose to
> destroy the Messiah Ibn Maryam, and his mother, and all who are on the earth
> together?
>  
> 5:20   For with God is the sovereignty of the Heavens and of the Earth, and of
> all that is between them!  He createth what He will; and over all this is God
> potent.
>  
>        Say the Jews and Christians, "Sons are we of God and his beloved."  Say:
> Why then doth he chastise you for your sins?  Nay!  ye are but a part of the
> men whom he hath created!  He will pardon whom he pleaseth, and chastise whom
> he pleaseth, and with God is the sovereignty of the Heavens and of the Earth,
> and of all that is between them, and unto Him shall all things return.
>  
>        O people of the Book!  now hath our Apostle come to you to clear up to
> year the cessation of Apostles, lest you should say, "There hath come to us no
> bearer of good tidings, nor any warner."  But now hath a bearer of good tidings
> and a warner reached you.  And God is Almighty.
>  
>        And remember when Moses said to his people, "O my people!  call to mind
> the goodness of God towards you when he appointed Prophets among you, and
> appointed you kings, and gave you what never had been given before to any
> human beings:
>  
>        Enter, O my people! the holy land which God hath destined for you.  Turn
> not back, lest ye be overthrown to your ruin."
>  
>        They said, "O Moses! Therein are men of might.  And verily, we can by
> no means enter it till they be gone forth.  But if they go forth from it, then
> verily will we enter in."
>  
>        Then said two men of those who feared their Lord and to whom God had
> been gracious, "Enter in upon them by the gate:  and when ye enter it, ye
> overcome!  If ye be believers, put ye your trust in God."
>  
>        They said, "O Moses!  never can we enter while they remain therein.  Go
> thou and thy Lord and fight; for here will we sit us down."
>  
>        He said, "O my Lord, Verily of none am I master but of myself and my
> brother:  put thou therefore a difference between us and this ungodly people."
>  
>        He said, "Verily the land shall be forbidden them forty years:  they
> shall wander in the earth perplexed.  Fret not thyself therefore for the
> ungodly people."
>  
> 5:30   Relate to them exactly the story of the sons of Adam when they each
> offered an offering; accepted from the one of them, and not accepted from the
> other.  The one said, "I will surely slay thee."  Said the other, "God only
> accepted from those that fear Him.
>  
>        "Even if thou stretch forth thine hand against me to slay me, I will not
> stretch forth my hand against thee to slay thee.  Truly I fear God the Lord of
> the Worlds.
>  
>        "Yea, rather would I that thou shouldest bear my sin and thine own sin,
> and that thou become an inmate of the Fire:  for that is the recompense of the
> unjust doers."
>  
>        And his passion led him to slay his brother:  and he slew him; and he
> became one of those who perish.
>  
>        And God sent a raven which scratched upon the ground, to shew him how he
> might hide his brother's wrong.  He said:  "O woe is me! am I too weak to
> become like this raven, and to hide away my brother's wrong?"  And he became
> one of the repentant.
>  
>        For this cause have we ordained to the children of Israel that he who
> slayeth any one, unless it be a person guilty of manslaughter, or of spreading
> disorders in the land, shall be as though he had slain all mankind; but that he
> who saveth a life, shall be as though he had saved all mankind alive.
>  
>        Of old our Apostles came to them with the proofs of their mission; then
> verily after this most of them committed excesses in the land.
>  
>        Only, the recompense of those who war against god and his Apostle, and
> go about to commit disorders on the earth, shall be that they shall be slain or
> crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished the
> land:  This their disgrace in this world, and in the next a great torment shall
> be theirs -
>  
>        Except those who,e re you have them in your power, shall repent; for
> know that God is Forgiving, Merciful.
>  
>        O ye who believe! fear God.  Desire union with Him.  Contend earnestly
> on his path, that you may attain to happiness.
>  
> 5:40   As to the infidels - if that they had twice the riches of the earth to
> be their ransom from torment on the day of resurrection, it should not be
> accepted from them!  And a dolorous torment shall be their's.
>  
>        Fain would they come forth from the Fire; but forth from it they shall
> not come:  and a lasting torment shall be their's.
>  
>        As to the thief, whether man or woman, cut ye off their hands in
> recompense for their doings   This is a penalty by way of warning from God
> himself.  And God is Mighty, Wise.
>  
>        But whoever shall turn him to God after this his wickedness, and amend,
> God truly will be turned to him:  for God is Forgiving, Merciful.
>  
>        Knowest thou not that the sovereignty of the Heavens and of the Earth is
> God"s?  He chastiseth whom He will, and whom He will He forgiveth.  And God
> hath power over all things.
>  
>        O Apostle! let not those who vie with one another in speeding to
> infidelity vex this; - of those who say with their mouths, "We believe," but
> whose hearts believe not; - of of the Jews - listeners to a lie - listeners to
> others - but who come not to thee.  They shift the words of the law from their
> places, and say, "If this be brought to you, receive it; but if this be not
> brought to you, then beware of it."  For him whom God would mislead, thou canst
> in no wise prevail with God!  They whose hearts God shall not please to
> cleanse, shall suffer disgrace in this world, and in the next a grievous
> punishment;
>  
>        Listeners to a falsehood and greedy devourers of the forbidden!  If,
> therefore, they have recourse to thee, then judge between them, or withdraw
> from them.  If thou withdraw from them, then can they have no power to injure
> thee.  But if thou judge, then judge between them with equity.  Verily, God
> loveth those who deal equitably.
>  
>        But how shall they make thee their judge, since they possess already the
> Law, in which are the behests of God, and have not obeyed it?  After this, they
> will turn their backs; but such are not believers.
>  
>        Verily, we have sent down the law (Towrat) wherein are guidance and
> light.  By it did the prophets who professed Islam judge the Jews; and the
> doctors and the teachers judged by that portion of the Book of God, of which
> they were the keepers and the witnesses.  Therefore, O Jews!  fear not men but
> fear Me; and barter not away my signs for a mean price!  And whoso will not
> judge by what God hath sent down - such are the Infidels.
>  
>        And therein have we enacted for them, "Life for life, and eye for eye,
> and nose for nose, and ear for ear, and tooth for tooth, and for wounds
> retaliation:" - Whoso shall compromise it as alms shall have therein the
> expiation of his sin; and whoso will not judge by what God hath sent down -
> such are the transgressors.
>  
> 5:50   And in the footsteps of the prophets caused we Jesus, the son of Mary,
> to follow, confirming the law which was before him:  and we gave him the
> Evangel with its guidance and light, confirmatory of the preceding Law; a
> guidance and warning to those who fear God; -
>  
>        And that the people of the Evangel may judge according to what God hath
> sent down therein.  And whoso will not judge by what God hath sent down - such
> are the perverse.
>  
>        And to thee we have sent down the Book of the Koran with truth,
> confirmatory of previous Scriptures, and their safeguard.  Judge therefore
> between them by what God hath sent down, and follow not their desires by
> deserting the truth which hath come unto thee.  To every one of you have we
> given a rule and a beaten track.
>  
>        And if God had pleased He had surely made you all one people; but He
> would test you by what He hath given to each.  Be emulous, then, in good deeds.
> To God shall ye all return, and He will tell you concerning the subjects of
> your disputes.
>  
>        Wherefore do thou judge between them, by what God hath sent down, and
> follow not their wishes! but he on thy guard against them lest they beguile
> thee from any of those precepts which God hath sent down to thee; and if they
> turn back, then know thou that for some of their crimes doth God choose to
> punish them:  for truly most men are perverse.
>  
>        Desire they, therefore, the judgments of the times of (pagan) ignorance?
> But what better judge can there be than God for those who believe firmly?
>  
>        O Believers!  take not the Jews or Christians as friends.  They are but
> one another's friends.  If any one of you taketh them for his friends, he
> surely is one of them!  God will not guide the evil doers.
>  
>        So shalt thou see the diseased at heart speed away to them, and say, "We
> fear lest a change of fortune befall us."  But haply God will of himself bring
> about some victory or event of His own ordering:  then soon will they repent
> them of their secret imaginings.
>  
>        Then will the faithful say, "What! are these they who swore, by their
> most solemn oath, that they were surely with you?"  Vain their works; and
> themselves shall come to ruin.
>  
>        O ye who believe! should any of you desert His religion, God will then
> raise up a people loved by Him, and loving Him, lowly towards the faithful,
> haughty towards the Infidels.  For the cause of God will they contend, and not
> fear the blame of the blamer.  This is the Grace of God!  On whom He will He
> bestoweth it!  God is Vast, Omniscient!
>  
> 5:60   Verily, your protector is God and His Apostle, and those who believe,
> who observe prayer, and pay the alms of obligation, and who bow in worship.
>  
>        And whoso take God and His Apostle, and those who believe for friends,
> they truly are the people of God; they shall have the upper hand.
>  
>        O ye who believe!  take not such of those who have received the
> Scriptures before you, as scoff and jest at your religion, or the Infidels, for
> your friends, but fear God if ye are believers:
>  
>        Nor those who when ye call to prayer, make it an object of raillery and
> derision.  This they do because they are a people who understand not.
>  
>        Say:  O people of the Book! do ye not disavow us only because we believe
> in God, and in what He hath sent down to us, and in what He hath sent down
> aforetime, and because most of you are doers of ill?
>  
>        Say:  Can I announce to you any retribution worse than that which
> awaiteth them with God?  They whom God hath cursed and with whom He hath been
> angry - some of them hath He changed into apes and swine; and they who worship
> Thagout are in evil plight, and have gone far astray from the right path!
>  
>        When they presented themselves to you they said, "We believe;" but
> Infidels they come in unto you, and Infidels they went forth!  God well knew
> what they concealed.
>  
>        Many of them shalt thou see hastening together to wickedness and malice,
> and to eat unlawful things.  Shame on them for what they have done!
>  
>        Had not their doctors and teachers forbidden their uttering wickedness,
> and their eating unlawful food, bad indeed would have been their doings!
>  
>        "The hand of God," say the Jews, "is chained up."  Their own hands shall
> be chained up - and for that which they have said shall they be cursed.  Nay!
> outstretched are both His hands!  At His own pleasure does He bestow gifts.
> That which hath been sent down to thee from thy Lord will surely increase the
> rebellion and unbelief of many of them; and we have put enmity and hatred
> between them that shall last till the day of the Resurrection.  Oft as they
> kindle a beacon fire for war shall God quench it! and their aim will be to abet
> disorder on the earth:  but God loveth not the abettors of disorder.
>  
> 5:70   But if the people of the Book believe and have the fear of God, we will
> surely put away their sins from them, and will bring them into gardens of
> delight:  and if that they observe the law and the Evangel, and what hath been
> sent down to them from their Lord, they shall surely have their fill of good
> things from above them and from beneath their feet.  Some there are among them
> who act aright; but many of them - how evil are their doings!
>  
>        O Apostle! proclaim all that hath been sent down to thee from thy Lord:
> for it thou do it not, thou hast not proclaimed His message at all.  And God
> will protect thee from evil men:  verily, God guideth not the unbelievers.
>  
>        Say:  O people of the Book! ye have no ground to stand on, until ye
> observe the Law and the Evangel, and that which hath been sent down to you from
> your Lord.  The Book which hath been sent down to thee from thy Lord will
> certainly increase the rebellion and unbelief of many of them; but, be not thou
> troubled for the unbelievers.
>  
>        Verily, they who believe, and the Jews, and the Sabeites, and the
> Christians - whoever of them believeth in God and in the last day, and doth
> what is right, on them shall come no fear, neither shall they be put to grief.
>  
>        Of old we accepted the covenant of the children of Israel, and sent
> Apostles to them.  Oft as an Apostle came to them with that for which they had
> no desire, some they treated as liars, and some they slew;
>  
>        And they reckoned that no harm would come of it: - but they became blind
> and deaf!  Then was God turned unto them:  then many of them again became blind
> and deaf! but God beheld what they did.
>  
>        Infidels now are they who say, "God is the Messiah, Son of Mary;" for
> the Messiah said, "O children of Israel! worship God, my Lord and your Lord."
> Whoever shall join other gods with God, God shall forbid him the Garden, and
> his abode shall be the Fire; and the wicked shall have no helpers.
>  
>        They surely are Infidels who say, "God is the third of three:" for there
> is no God but one God: and if they refrain not from what they say, a grievous
> chastisement shall light on such of them as are Infidels.
>  
>        Will they not, therefore, be turned unto God, and ask pardon of Him?
> since God is Forgiving, Merciful!
>  
>        The Messiah, Son of Mary, is but an Apostle; other Apostles have
> flourished before him; and his mother was a just person:  they both ate food.
> Behold! how we make clear to them the signs! then behold how they turn aside!
>  
> 5:80   Say:  Will ye worship, beside God, that which can neither hurt nor help?
> But God!  He only Heareth, Knoweth.
>  
>        Say:  O people of the Book!  outstep not bounds of truth in your
> religion; neither follow the desires of those who have already gone astray, and
> who have caused many to go astray, and have themselves gone astray from the
> evenness of the way.
>  
>        Those among the children of Israel who believed not were cursed by the
> tongue of David, and of Jesus, Son of Mary.  This, because they were
> rebellious, and became transgressors:  they forbade not one another the
> iniquity which they wrought! detestable are their actions!
>  
>        Thou shalt see many of them make friends of the infidels.  Evil the
> actions which their own passions have sent on beforehand; for God is angry with
> them, and in torment shall they abide for ever:
>  
>        But, if they had believed in God, and the Prophet, and the Koran which
> hath been sent down to him, they had not taken them for their friends; but
> perverse are most of them.
>  
>        Of all men thou wilt certainly find the Jews, and those who join other
> gods with God, to be the most intense in hatred of those who believe; and thou
> shalt certainly find those to be nearest in affection to them who say, "We are
> Christians."  This, because some of them are priests and monks, and because
> they are free from pride.
>  
>        And when they hear that which hath been sent down to the Apostle, thou
> seest their eyes overflow with tears at the truth they recognise therein,
> saying, "O our Lord! we believe; write us down therefore with those who bear
> witness to it.
>  
>        And why should we not believe in God, and in the truth which hath come
> down to us, and crave that our Lord would bring us into Paradise with the
> Just?"
>  
>        Therefore hath God rewarded them for these their words, with gardens
> 'neath which the rivers flow; they shall abide therein for ever:  this the
> reward of the righteous!  But they who believe not and treat our signs as lies
> shall be the inmates of Hell-fire.
>  
>        O ye who believe! interdict not the healthful viands which God hath
> allowed you; go not beyond this limit.  God loveth not those who outstep it.
>  
> 5:90   And eat of what God hath given you for food, that which is lawful and
> wholesome:  and fear God, in whom ye believe.
>  
>        God will not punish you for a mistaken word in your oaths:  but he will
> punish you in regard to an oath taken seriously.  Its expiation shall be to
> feed ten poor persons with such middling food as ye feed your own families
> with, or to clothe them; or to set free a captive.  But he who cannot find
> means, shall fast three days.  This is the expiation of your oaths when ye
> shall have sworn.  Keep then your oaths.  Thus God maketh his signs clear to
> you, that ye may give thanks.
>  
>         O believers! surely wine and games of chance, and statues and the
> divining arrows, are an abomination of Satan's work! Avoid them, that ye may
> prosper.
>  
>        Only would Satan sow hatred and strife among you, by wine and games of
> chance, and turn you aside from the remembrance of God, and from prayer:  will
> ye not, therefore abstain from them?  Obey God and obey the Apostle, and be on
> your guard:  but if ye turn back, know that our Apostle is only bound to
> deliver a plain announcement.
>  
>        No blame shall attach to those who believe and do good works, in regard
> to any food they have taken, in case they fear God and believe, and do the
> things that are right, and shall still fear God and believe, and shall still
> fear him, and do good; for God loveth those who do good.
>  
>        O ye who believe!  God will surely make trial of you with such game as
> ye may take with your hands, or your lances, that God may know who feareth him
> in secret:  and whoever after this transgresseth, shall suffer a grievous
> chastisement.
>  
>        O believers!  kill no game while ye are on pilgrimage.  Whosoever among
> you shall purposely kill it, shall compensate for it in domestic animals of
> equal value (according to the judgment of two just persons among you), to be
> brought as an offering to the Caaba; or in expiation thereof shall feed the
> poor; or as the equivalent of this shall fast, that he may taste the ill
> consequence of his deed. God forgiveth what is past; but whoever doth it again,
> God will take vengeance on him; for God is mighty and vengeance is His.
>  
>        It is lawful for you to fish in the sea, and to eat fish, as provision
> for you and for those who travel; but it is unlawful for you to hunt by land
> while ye are still on pilgrimage:  fear ye God, therefore, before whom ye shall
> be assembled.
>  
>        God hath appointed the Caaba, the sacred house, to be a station for
> mankind, and the sacred month, and the offering, and its ornaments.  This, that
> ye may know that God knoweth all that is in the heavens and on the earth, and
> that God hath knowledge of everything.  Know that God is severe in punishing,
> and that God is Forgiving, Merciful.
>  
>        The Apostle is only bound to preach:  and God knoweth what ye bring to
> light, and what ye conceal
>  
> 5:100  Say:  The evil and the good shall not be valued alike, even though the
> abundance of evil please thee; therefore fear God, O ye of understanding! that
> it may be well with you.
>  
>        O believers!  ask us not of things which if they were told might only
> pain you; but if ye ask of such things when the entire Koran shall have been
> sent down, they will be declared to you:  God will pardon you for this, for God
> is Forgiving, Gracious.  They who were before you, asked concerning such
> things, and afterwards quickly disbelieved therein.
>  
>        God hath not ordained anything on the subject of Bahira, or Saiba, or
> Wasila, or Hami; but the unbelievers have invented this lie against God:  and
> most of them had no understanding.
>  
>        And when it ws said to them, "Accede to that which God hath sent down,
> and to the Apostle:" they said, "Sufficient for us in the faith in which we
> found our fathers." What!  though their fathers knew nothing, and had no
> guidance?
>  
>        O believers! take heed to yourselves.  He who erreth shall not hurt you
> when ye have the "guidance:"  to God shall ye all return, and He will tell you
> that which ye have done.
>  
>        O believers! let there be witnesses between you, when death draweth nigh
> to any of you, at the time of making the testament; two witnesses - just men
> from among yourselves, or two others of a different tribe from yourselves - if
> ye be journeying the earth, and the calamity of death surprise you.  Ye shall
> shut them both up, after the prayer; and if ye doubt them, they shall swear by
> God, "We will not take a bribe though the party be of kin to us, neither will
> we conceal the testimony of God, for then we should be among the wicked."
>  
>        But if it shall be made clear that both have been guilty of a falsehood,
> two others of those who have convicted them thereof, the two nearest in blood
> shall stand up in their place, and they shall swear by God, "Verily our witness
> is more true than the witness of these two; neither have we advanced anything
> untrue, for then should we be of the unjust."
>  
>        Thus will it be easier for men to bear a true witness, or fear lest
> after their oath another oath be given.  Therefore fear God and hearken; for
> God guideth not the perverse.
>  
>        One say will God assemble the Apostles, and say, "What reply was made to
> you?"  They shall say, "We have no knowledge, but Thou art the Knower of
> Secrets."
>  
>        When He shall say:  O Jesus!  Son of Mary!  call to mind my favour upon
> thee and upon thy mother, when I strengthened thee with the Holy Spirit, that
> thou shouldest speak to men alike in the cradle, and when grown up; -
>  
> 5:110  And when I taught thee the Scripture, and Wisdom, and the Law, and the
> Evangel:  and thou didst create of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by
> my leave, and didst breathe into it, and by my leave it became a bird, and thou
> didst heal the blind and the leper, by my leave; and when, by my leave, thou
> didst bring forth the dead; and when I withheld the children of Israel from
> thee, when thou hadst come to them with clear tokens:  and such of them as
> believed not said, "This is nought but plain sorcery;"
>  
>        And when I revealed unto the Apostles, "Believe on me and on my Sent
> One," they said, "We believed; and bear thou witness that we are Muslims."
>  
>        Remember when the Apostles said - "O Jesus, son of Mary!  is thy Lord
> able to send down a furnished table to us out of Heaven?" He said - "Fear God
> if ye be believers."
>  
>        They said - "We desire to eat therefrom, and to have our hearts assured;
> and to know that thou hast indeed spoken truth to us, and to be witnesses
> thereof."
>  
>        Jesus, Son of Mary, said - "O God, our Lord! send down a table to us out
> of Heaven, that it may become a recurring festival to us, to the first of us
> and to the last of us, and a sign from thee; and do thou nourish us, for thou
> art the best of nourishers."
>  
>        And God said - Verily, I will cause it to descend unto you; but whoever
> among you after that shall disbelieve, I will surely chastise him with a
> chastisement, wherewith I will not chastise any other creature.
>  
>        And when God shall say - "O Jesus, Son of Mary:  hast thou said unto
> mankind - 'Take me and my mother as two Gods, beside God?'"  He shall say -
> "Glory be unto Thee! it is not for me to say that which I know to be not the
> truth; had I said that, verily thou wouldest have known it:  Thou knowest what
> is in me, but I know not what is in Thee; for Thou well knowest things unseen!
>  
>        "I spake not to them aught but that which thou didst bid me - 'Worship
> God, my Lord and your Lord;' and I was a witness of their actions while I
> stayed among them; but since thou hast taken me to Thyself, Thou hast Thyself
> watched them, and Thou art witness of all things:
>  
>        "If Thou punish them, they are Thy servants, and if Thou forgive
> them.... Thou, verily, art the Mighty, the Wise!"
>  
>        God will say - This day shall their truth advantage the truthful.
> Gardens shall have have 'neath which the rivers flow, and remain therein for
> ever:  God is well pleased with them and they with Him.  This shall be the
> great bliss.
>  
> 5:120  Unto God belongeth the sovereignty of the Heavens and of the Earth, and
> of all that they contain; and He hath power over all things.
>
> — *Sura   5 - The Table*