# Sura  58 - She Who Pleaded

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> SURA LVIII (58) - She Who Pleaded       (Medina - 22 Verses)      (CVI - 450)  
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        God hath heard the words of her who pleaded with thee against her
>        God hath heard the words of her who pleaded with thee against her
> husband, and made her plaint to God; and God hath heard your mutual
> intercourse:  for God Heareth, Beholdeth.
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>        As to those of you who put away their wives by say, "Be thou to me as my
> mother's back" - their mothers they are not; they only are their mothers who
> gave them birth! they certainly say a blameworthy thing and an untruth:
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>        But truly, God is Forgiving, Indulgent.
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>        And those who thus put away their wives, and afterwards would recall
> their words, must free a captive before they can come together again.  To this
> are ye warned to confirm: and God is aware of what ye do.
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>        And he who findeth not a captive to set free, shall fast two months in
> succession before they two come together.  And he who shall not be able to do
> so, shall feed sixty poor men.  This, that he may believe in God and His
> Apostle.  These are the statutes of God: and for the unbelievers is an
> afflictive chastisement!
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>        Truly they who oppose God and His Apostle shall be brought low, as those
> who were before them were brought low.  And now have we sent down demonstrative
> signs: and, for the Infidels is a shameful chastisement.
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>        On the day when God shall raise them all to life, and shall tell them of
> their doings.  God hath taken county of them, though they have forgotten them!
> and God is witness over all things.
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>        Dost thou not see that God knoweth all that is in the Heavens and all
> that is in the Earth?  Three persons speak not privately together, but He is
> their fourth; nor five, but He is their sixth; nor fewer nor more, but wherever
> they be He is with them.  Then on the day of resurrection He will tell them of
> their deeds: for God knoweth all things.
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>        Hast thou not marked those who have been forbidden secret talk, and
> return to what they have been forbidden, and talk privately together with
> wickedness, and hate, and disobedience towards the Apostle?  And when they come
> to thee, they greet thee not as God greeteth thee: and they say among
> themselves, "Why doth not God punish us for what we say?"  Hell shall be their
> meed: they shall be burned at its fire: and a wretched passage thither!
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> 58:10  O Believers!  when ye hold private converse together, let it not be with
> wickedness, and hate, and disobedience towards the Apostle; but let your
> private talk be with justice and the fear of God: aye, fear ye God unto whom ye
> shall be gathered!
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>        Only of Satan is this clandestine talk, that he may bring the faithful
> to grief: but, unless by God's permission, not aught shall he harm them! in God
> then let the faithful trust.
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>        O ye who believe! when it is said to you, "Make room in your
> assemblies," then make ye room.  God will make room for you in Paradise!  And
> when it is said to you, "Rise up," then rise ye up.  God will uplift those of
> you who believe, and those to whom "the Knowledge" is given, to lofty grades!
> and God is cognisant of your actions.
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>        O ye who believe! when ye go to confer in private with the Apostle, give
> alms before such conference.  Better will this be for you, and more pure.  But
> if ye have not the means, then truly God is Lenient, Merciful.
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>        Do ye hesitate to give alms previously to your private conference?  Then
> if ye do it not (and God will excuse it in you), at least observe prayer,
> and pay the stated impost, and obey God and His Apostle: for God is cognisant
> of your actions.
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>        Hast thou not remarked those who make friends of that people with whom
> God is angered?  They are neither of your party nor of theirs; and they sear to
> a lie, knowing it to be such.
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>        God hath got ready for them a severe torment: for, evil is that they do.
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>        They make a cloak of their faith, and turn others aside from the way of
> God: wherefore a shameful torment awaiteth them.
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>        Not at all shall their wealth or their children avail them aught against
> God.  Companions shall they be of the fire: they shall abide therein for ever.
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>        On the day when God shall raise them all, they will swear to Him as they
> now swear to you, deeming that it will avail them.  Are they not - yes they -
> the liars?
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> 58:20  Satan hath gotten mastery over them, and made them forget the
> remembrance of God.  These are Satan's party.  What! shall not verily the party
> of Satan be for ever lost.
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>        Verily, they who oppose God and His Apostle shall be among the most
> vile.  God hath written this decree:  "I will surely prevail, and my Apostles
> also."  Truly God is Strong, Mighty.
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>        Thou shalt not find that any of those who believe in God, and in the
> last day, love him who opposeth God and His Apostle, even though they be their
> fathers, or their sons, or their brethren, or their nearest kin.  On the hearts
> of these hath God graven the Faith, and with His own Spirit hath He
> strengthened them; and He will bring them into gardens, beneath whose shades
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> the rivers flow, to remain therein eternally.  God is well pleased in them, and
> they in Him.  These are God's party!  Shall not, of a truth, a part of God be
> for ever blessed?
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> — *Sura  58 - She Who Pleaded*