# Sura   6 - Cattle

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> SURA VI - THE CATTLE (6) [Mecca - 165 verses]               LXXXIX - 317     
>  
>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>  
>        Praise be to God, who hath created the Heavens and the Earth, and
> ordained the darkness and the light!  Yet unto their Lord do the infidels give
> peers!
>  
>        He it is who created you of clay - then decreed the term of your life:
> and with Him is another prefixed term for the resurrection.  Yet have ye doubts
> thereof!
>  
>        And He is God in the Heavens and on the Earth!  He knoweth your secrets
> and your disclosures! and He knoweth what ye deserve.
>  
>        Never did one single sign from among the signs of their Lord come to
> them, but they turned away from it;
>  
>        And now, after it hath reached them, have they treated the truth itself
> as a lie.  But in the end, a message as to that which they have mocked, shall
> reach them.
>  
>        See they not how many generations we have destroyed before them?  We had
> settled them on the earth as we have not settled you, and we sent down the very
> heavens upon them in copious rains, and we made the rivers to flow beneath
> their feet:  yet we destroyed them in their sins, and raised up other
> generations to succeed them.
>  
>        And had we sent down to thee a Book written on parchment, and they had
> touched it with their hands, the infidels had surely said, "This is nought but
> plain sorcery."
>  
>        They say, too, "Unless an angel be sent down to him...."  But if we had
> sent down an angel, their judgment would have come on them at once, and they
> would have had no respite:
>  
>        And if we had appointed an angel, we should certainly have appointed one
> in the form of a man, and we should have clothed him before them in garments
> like their own.
>  
> 6:10   Moreover, apostles before thee have been laughed to scorn:  but that
> which they laughed to scorn encompassed the mockers among them!
>  
>        Say:  go through the land:  then see what hath been the end of those who
> treated them as liars.
>  
>        Say:  Whose is all that is in the Heavens and the Earth?   Say:  God's.
> He had imposed mercy on Himself as a law.  He will surely assemble you on the
> Resurrection day; there is no doubt of it.  They who are the authors of their
> own ruin, are they who will not believe.
>  
>        His, whatsoever hath its dwelling in the night and in the day! and He,
> the Hearing, the Knowing!
>  
>        Say:  Other than god shall I take as Lord, maker of the Heavens and of
> the Earth, who nourisheth all, and of none is nourished?  Say:  Verily, I am
> bidden to be the first of those who surrender them to God (profess Islam):
> and, be not thou of those who join gods with God.
>  
>        Say:  Verily, I fear, should I rebel against my Lord, the punishment of
> the great day.
>  
>        From whomsoever it shall be averted on that day, He will have had mercy
> on him:  and this will be the manifest bliss.
>  
>        If God touch thee with trouble, none can take it off but He:  and if He
> visit thee with good - it is He whose power is over all things;
>  
>        And He is the Supreme over his servants; and He is the Wise, the
> Cognisant!
>  
>        Say:  What thing is weightiest in bearing witness?  Say:  God is witness
> between me and you; and this Koran hath been revealed to me that I should warn
> you by it, and all whom it shall reach,.  What! will ye really bear witness
> that there are other gods with God?  Say:  I bear no such witness.  Say:
> Verily, He is one God, and I truly am guiltless of what ye join with Him.
>  
> 6:20   They to whom we have given the Book, recognise him (Muhammad) as they do
> their own children:  but they who are the authors of their own perdition are
> they who will not believe.
>  
>        And who more wicked than he who inventeth a lie concerning God, or who
> treateth our signs as lies?  Verily those wicked ones shall not prosper.
>  
>        And on "the Day" we will gather them all together:  then will we say to
> those who joined gods with God, "Where are those companion-gods of yours, as ye
> supposed them?"
>  
>        Then shall they find no other excuse than to say, "By God our Lord! we
> joined not companions with Him."
>  
>        Behold! how they lie against themselves - and the gods of their own
> inventing desert them!
>  
>        Some among them hearken unto thee:  but we have cast veils over their
> hearts that they should not understand the Koran, and a weight into their ears:
> and though they should see all kinds of signs, they will refuse all faith in
> them, until when they come to thee, to dispute with thee, the infidels say,
> "Verily, this is nothing but fables of the ancients."
>  
>        And they will forbid it, and depart from it: - but they6 are only the
> authors of their own perdition, and know it not.
>  
>        If thou couldst see when they shall be set over the fire, and shall say,
> "Oh! would we might be sent back! we would not treat the signs of our Lord as
> lies! we would be of the believers."
>  
>        Aye!  that hath become clear to them which they before concealed; but
> though they should return, they would surely go back to that which was
> forbidden them; for they are surely liars!
>  
>        And they say, "There is no other than our life in world, neither shall
> we be raised again."
>  
> 6:30   But if thou couldest see when they shall be set before their Lord!  He
> shall say to them, "Is not this it in truth."  They shall say, "Yea, by our
> Lord!"  "Taste then," saith He, "the torment, for that ye believed not!"
>  
>        Lost are they who deny the meeting with God until "the Hour" cometh
> suddenly upon them!  Then will they say, "Oh, our signs for past negligence of
> this hour!" and they shall bear their burdens on their back!  Will not that be
> evil with which they shall be burdened?
>  
>        The life in this world is but a play and pastime; and better surely for
> men of godly fear will be the future mansion!  Will ye not then comprehend?
>  
>        Now know we that what they speak vexeth thee:  But it is not merely thee
> whom they charge with falsehood, but the ungodly gainsay the signs of God.
>  
>        Before thee have apostles already been charged with falsehood:  but they
> bore the charge and the wrong with constancy, till our help came to them; - for
> none can change the words of God.  But this history of His Sent Ones hath
> already reached thee.
>  
>        But if their estrangement be grievous to thee, and if thou art able to
> seek out an opening into the earth or a ladder into Heaven, that thou mightest
> bring them a sign.... Yes!  But if God pleased, He would surely bring them, one
> and all, to the guidance! therefore be not thou one of the ignorant.
>  
>        To those only who shall lend an ear will He make answer:  as for the
> dead, God will raise them up; then unto Him shall they return.
>  
>        They say, "Unless a sign be sent down to him from his Lord...."  Say:
> Verily, God is able to send down a sign; but the greater part of them know it
> not.
>  
>        No kind of beast is there on earth nor fowl that flieth with its wings,
> but is a folk like you:  nothing have we passed over in the Book:  then unto
> their Lord shall they be gathered.
>  
>        They who gainsay our signs are deaf, and dumb, in darkness:  God will
> mislead whom He pleaseth, and whom He pleaseth He will place upon the straight
> path.
>  
> 6:40   Say:  What think ye?  If the punishment of God were to come upon you, or
> "the Hour" were to come upon you, will ye cry to any other than God?  Tell me,
> if ye speak the truth?
>  
>        Yes! to Him will ye cry:  and if He please He will deliver you from that
> ye shall cry to Him to avert, and ye shall forget the partners ye have joined
> with Him.
>  
>        Already have we sent apostles to nations that were before thee, and we
> laid hold on them with troubles and with straits in order that they might
> humble themselves:
>  
>        Yet, when our trouble came upon them, they did not humble themselves;
> but their hearts were hardened, and Satan pre-arranged for them their course of
> conduct.
>  
>        And when they had forgotten their warnings, we set open to them the
> gates of all things, until, as they were rejoicing in our gifts, we suddenly
> laid hold upon them, and lo!  they were plunged into despair.
>  
>        And the uttermost part of that impious people was cut off.  All praise
> be to God, the Lord of the Worlds!
>  
>        Say:  What think ye?  If God should take away your hearing and your
> sight and set a seal upon your hearts, what god beside God would restore them
> to you?  See!  how we vary our wondrous verses (signs)!  yet they turn away
> from them!
>  
>        Say:  What think ye?  If the punishment of God come on you suddenly or
> foreseen, shall any perish except the impious?
>  
>        We send not our Sent Ones but as heralds of good news and warners; and
> whoso shall believe and amend, on them shall come no fear, neither shall they
> be sorrowful:
>  
>        But whoso shall charge our signs with falsehood, on them shall fall a
> punishment for their wicked doings.
>  
> 6:50   Say:  I say not to you, "In my possession are the treasures of God;"
> neither say I, "I know things secret;" neither do I say to you, "Verily, I am
> an angel:"  Only what is revealed to me do I follow.  Say:  Shall the blind and
> the seeing be esteemed alike?  Will ye not then reflect?
>  
>        And warn those who dread their being gathered to their Lord, that patron
> or intercessor they shall have none but Him, - to the intent that they may fear
> Him!
>  
>        And thrust not thou away those who cry to their Lord at morn and even,
> craving to behold his face.  It is not for thee in anything to judge of their
> motives, nor for them in anything to judge of thee.  If thou thrust them away
> thou wilt be of the doers of wrong.
>  
>        Thus have we made proof of some of them by others, that they may say,
> "Are these they among us to whom God hath been gracious?" Doth not God best
> know the thankful?
>  
>        And when they who believe in our signs come to thee, Say:  Peace be upon
> you!  Your Lord hath laid down for himself a law of mercy; so that if any one
> of you commit a fault through ignorance, and afterwards turn and amend, He
> surely will be Gracious, Merciful.
>  
>        Thus have we distinctly set forth our signs, that the way of the wicked
> might be made known.
>  
>        Say:  Forbidden am I to worship those whom ye call on beside God.  Say:
> I will not follow your wishes; for then should I have gone astray, and should
> not be of the guided.
>  
>        Say:  I act upon proofs from my Lord, but ye treat them as falsehoods.
> That punishment which ye desire to be hastened is not in my power; judgment is
> with God only:  He will declare the truth; and He is the best settler of
> disputes.
>  
>        Say:  If what ye would hasten on, were in my power, the matter between
> me and you had been decided:  but God best knoweth the impious.
>  
>        And with Him are the keys of the secret things; none knoweth them but
> He:  He knoweth whatever is on the land and in the sea; and no leaf falleth
> but He knoweth it; neither is there a grain in the darknesses of the earth,
> nor a thing green or sere, but it is noted in a distinct writing.
>  
> 6:60   It is He who taketh your souls at night, and knoweth what ye have
> merited in the day:  then he awaketh you therein, that the set life-term may be
> fulfilled:  then unto Him shall ye return; and then shall he declare to you
> that which ye have wrought.
>  
>        Supreme over his servants He sendeth forth guardians who watch over you,
> until, when death overtaketh any one of you, our messengers take his soul, and
> fail not:
>  
>        Then are they returned to God their Lord, the True.  Is not judgment
> His?  Swiftest He, of those who take account!
>  
>        Say:  Who rescueth you from the darkness of the land and of the sea,
> when humbly and secretly ye cry to Him - "If thou rescue us from this, we will
> surely be of the thankful?"
>  
>        Say:  God rescueth you from them, and from every strait:  yet afterwards
> ye give Him companions!
>  
>        Say:  It is He who hath power to send on you a punishment from above
> you, or from beneath your feet, or to clothe you with discord, and to make some
> of you to taste the violence of others.  See how variously we handle the
> wondrous verses, that haply they may become wise!
>  
>        But thy people hath accused the Koran of falsehood, though it be the
> truth:  Say:  I am not in charge of you:  To every prophecy is its set time,
> and bye-and-bye ye shall know it!
>  
>        And when thou seest those who busy themselves with cavilling at our
> signs, withdraw from them till they busy themselves in some other subject:  and
> if Satan cause thee to forget this, sit not, after recollection, with the
> ungodly people:
>  
>        Not that they who fear God are to pass any judgment upon them, but the
> object of recollection is that they may continue to fear Him.
>  
>        And quit those who make their religion a sport and a pastime, and whom
> this present life hath deceived:  warn them hereby that every soul will be
> consigned to doom for its own works:  patron or intercessor, beside God, shall
> it have none:  and could it compensate with fullest compensation, it would not
> be accepted from it.  They who for their deeds shall be consigned to doom - for
> them are draughts of boiling water, and a grievous torment; for that they
> believed not!
>  
> 6:70   Say:  Shall we, beside God, call upon those who can neither help nor
> hurt us?  Shall we turn upon our heel after that God hath guided us?  Like some
> bewildered man whom the Satans have spell-bound in the desert, though his
> companions call him to the true guidance, with, "Come to us!"  Say:  Verily,
> guidance from God, that is the true guidance; and we are commanded to surrender
> ourselves to the Lord of the Worlds.
>  
>        And observe ye the times of prayer, and fear ye God:  for it is He to
> whom ye shall be gathered.
>  
>        And it is He who hath created the Heavens and the Earth, in truth, and
> when He saith to a thing, "Be," it is.
>  
>        His word is the truth:  and His the kingdom, on the day when there shall
> be a blast on the trumpet:  He knoweth alike the unseen and the seen:  and He
> is the Wise, the Cognisant.
>  
>        And remember when Abraham said to his father Azar, Takest thou images as
> gods?  Verily, I see that thou and thy people are in manifest error.
>  
>        And thus did we shew Abraham the kingdom of the Heavens and of the
> Earth, that he might be stablished in knowledge.
>  
>        And when the night overshadowed him, he beheld a star.  "This," said he,
> "is my Lord:"  but when it set, he said, "I love not gods which set."
>  
>        And when he beheld the moon uprising, "This," said he, "is my Lord:" but
> when it set, he said, "Surely, if my Lord guide me not, I shall surely be of
> those who go astray."
>  
>        And when he beheld the sun uprise, he said, "This is my Lord; this is
> greatest."  But when it set, he said, "O my people!  I share not with you the
> guilt of joining gods with God;
>  
>        I turn my face to him who hath created the Heavens and the Earth,
> following the right religion:  I am not one of those who add gods to God.
>  
> 6:80   And his people disputed with him.  - He said:  "Dispute ye with me about
> God, when He hath guided me?  And I fear not the deities whom ye join with Him,
> for only by the will of m,y Lord have they any power:  My Lord embraceth all
> things in His knowledge.  Will ye not then consider?
>  
>        And how should I fear what ye have joined with God, since ye fear not
> for having joined with Him that for which He hath sent you down no warranty?
> Which, therefore, of the two parties is more worthy of safety?  Know ye that?
>  
>        They who believe, and who clothe not their faith with error.  theirs is
> safety, and they are guided aright."
>  
>        This is our reasoning with which we furnished Abraham against his
> people:  We uplift to grades of wisdom whom we will; Verily thy Lord is Wise,
> Knowing.
>  
>        And we gave him Isaac and Jacob, and guided both aright; and we had
> before guided Noah; and among the descendants of Abraham, David and Solomon,
> and Job and Joseph, and Moses and Aaron:  Thus do we recompense the righteous:
>  
>        And Zachariah, John, Jesus, and Elias:  all were just persons:
>  
>        And Ismael and Elisha and Jonas and Lot:  all these have we favoured
> above mankind:
>  
>        And some of their fathers, and of their offspring, and of their
> brethren:  and we chose them, and guided them into the straight way.
>  
>        This is God's guidance:  He guideth by it such of his servants as he
> will:  But if they join other gods with Him, vain assuredly shall be all their
> works.
>  
>        These are they to whom we gave the Scripture and Wisdom and Prophecy:
> but if these their posterity believe not therein, we will entrust these gifts
> to a people who will not disbelieve therein.
>  
> 6:90   These are they whom God hath guided:  follow therefore their guidance.
> Say:  No pay do I ask of you for this:  Verily it is no other than the teaching
> for all creatures.
>  
>        No just estimate do they form of God when they say, "Nothing hath God
> sent down to man." Say:  Who sent down the Book which Moses brought, a light
> and guidance to man, which ye set down on paper, publishing part, but
> concealing most; though ye have now been taught that which neither ye nor your
> fathers knew?  Say:  It is God:  then leave them in their pastime of
> cavillings.
>  
>        And this Book which we have sent down is blessed, confirming that which
> was before it; and in order that thou mightest warn the mother-city and those
> who dwell round about it.  They who believe in the next life will believe in
> It, and will keep strictly to their Prayers.
>  
>        But is any more wicked than he who deviseth a lie of God, or saith, "I
> have had a revelation," when nothing was revealed to him?  And who saith, "I
> can bring down a book like that which God hath sent down"?  But couldst thou
> see when the ungodly are in the floods of death, and the angels reach forth
> their hands saying, "Yield up your souls:  - this day shall ye be recompensed
> with a humiliating punishment for your untrue sayings about God, and for
> proudly rejecting his signs!"
>  
>        "And now are ye come back to us, alone, as we created you at first, and
> ye leave behind you the good things which we had given you, and we see not with
> you your intercessors whom ye regarded as the companions of God among you.
> There is a severance between you  now, and those whom ye regarded as partners
> with God have deserted you."
>  
>        Verily God causeth the grain and the date stone to put forth:  He
> bringeth forth the living from the dead, and the dead from the living!  This is
> God!  Why, then, are ye turned aside from Him?
>  
>        He causeth the dawn to appear, and hath ordained the night for rest, and
> the sun and the moon for computing time!  The ordinance of the Mighty, the
> Wise!
>       Andit is He who hath ordained the stars for you that ye may be guided
> thereby in the darknesses of the land and of the sea! clear have we made our
> signs to men of knowledge.
>  
>        And it is He who hath produced you from one man, and hath provided for
> you an abode and resting-place!  Clear have we made our signs for men of
> insight.
>  
>        And it is He who sendeth down rain from Heaven:  and we bring forth by
> it the buds of all the plants, and from them bring we forth the green foliage,
> and the close growing grain, and palm trees with sheaths of clustering dates,
> and gardens of grapes, and the olive and the pomegranate, like and unlike.
> Look ye on their fruits when they fruit and ripen.  Truly herein are signs unto
> 
> people who believe.
>  
> 6:100  Yet have they assigned the Djinn to God as his associates, though He
> created them; and in their ignorance have they falsely ascribed to him sons and
> daughters.  Glory be to Him!  And high let Him be exalted above that which they
> attribute to Him!
>  
>        Sole maker of the Heavens and of the Earth!  how, when He hath no
> consort, should He have a son?  He hath created everything, and He knoweth
> everything!
>  
>         This God your Lord.  There is no God but He, the creator of all things:
> therefore worship Him alone; - and He watcheth over all things.
>  
>        No vision taketh in Him, but He taketh in all vision:  and He is the
> Subtile, the All-informed.
>  
>        Now have proofs that may be seen, come to you from your Lord; whoso
> seeth them, the advantage will be his own:  and whoso is blind to them, his own
> will be the loss:  I am not made a keeper over you.
>  
>        Thus variously do we apply our signs, that they may say, " Thou hast
> studied deep:" and that to people of understanding we may make them clear.
>  
>        Follow thou that which hath been revealed to thee by thy Lord:  there is
> no god but He! and withdraw from those who join other gods with Him.
>  
>        Had God pleased, they had not joined other gods with Him:  and we have
> not made thee keeper over them, neither art thou a guardian over them.
>  
>        Revile not those whom they call on beside God, lest they, in their
> ignorance, despitefully revile Him.  Thus have we planned out their actions for
> every people; then shall they return to their Lord, and He will declare to
> them what those actions have been.
>  
>        With their most solemn oath have they sworn by God, that if a sign come
> unto them they will certainly believe it;  Say:  Signs are in the power of God
> alone; and He teacheth you not thereby, only because when they were wrought, ye
> did not believe.
>  
> 6:110  And we will turn their hearts and their eyes away from the truth,
> because they did not believe therein at first, and we will leave them in their
> transgressions, wandering in perplexity.
>  
>        And though we had sent down the angels to them, and the dead had spoken
> to them, and we had gathered all things about them in tribes, they had not
> believed, unless God had willed it! but most of them do not know it.
>  
>        Thus have we given an enemy to every prophet - Satans among men and
> among Djinn:  tinsel discourses do they suggest the one to the other, in order
> to deceive:  and had they Lord willed it, they would not have done it.
> Therefore, leave them and their vain imaginings -
>  
>        And let the hearts of those who believe not in the life to come incline
> thereto, and let them find their content in this, and let them gain what they
> are gaining.
>  
>        What!  shall I seek other judge than God, when it is He who hath sent
> down to you the distinguishing Book?  They to whom we have given the Book know
> that it is sent down from thy Lord with truth.  Be not thou then of those we
> doubt.
>  
>        And the words of thy Lord are perfect in truth and in justice:  none can
> change his words:  He is the Hearing, Knowing.
>  
>        But if thou obey most men in this land, from the path of God will they
> mislead thee:  they follow but a conceit, and they are only liars.
>  
>        Thy Lord!  He best knoweth those who err from his path, and He knoweth
> the rightly guided.
>  
>        Eat of that over which the name of God hath been pronounced, if ye
> believe in his sings.
>  
>        And why eat ye not of that over which the name of God hath been
> pronounced, since He hath made plain to you what He hath forbidden you, save as
> to that which is forced upon you?  But indeed many mislead others by their
> appetites, through lack of knowledge.  Verily, thy Lord!  He best knoweth the
> transgressors.
>  
> 6:120  And abandon the semblance of wickedness, and wickedness itself.  They,
> verily, whose only acquirement is iniquity, shall be rewarded for what they
> shall have gained.
>  
>        Eat not therefore of that on which the name of God has not been named,
> for that is assuredly a crime:  the Satans will indeed suggest to their
> votaries to wrangle with you; but if ye obey them, ye will indeed be of those
> who join gods with God.
>  
>        Shall the dead, whom we have quickened, and for whom we have ordained a
> light whereby he may walk among men, be like him, whose likeness is in the
> darkness, whence he will not come forth?  Thus have the doings of the
> unbelievers been prepared for them.
>  
>        Even so have we placed in every city, ringleaders of its wicked ones, to
> scheme therein:  but only against themselves shall they scheme! and they know
> it not.
>  
>        And when a sign cometh to them they say, "We will not believe, till the
> like of what was accorded to the apostles of God, be accorded to us."  God best
> knoweth where to place his mission.  Disgrace with God, and a vehement
> punishment shall come upon the transgressors for their crafty plottings.
>  
>        And whom God shall please to guide, that man's breast will He open to
> Islam; but whom He shall please to mislead, strait and narrow will He make his
> breast, as though he were mounting up into the very Heavens!  Thus doth God
> inflict dire punishment on those who believe not.
>  
>        And this is the right way of thy Lord.  Now have we detailed our signs
> unto those who will consider.
>  
>        For them is a dwelling of peace with their Lord! and in recompense for
> their works, shall he be their protector.
>  
>        On the day whereon God shall gather them all together... "O race of
> Djinn," will He say, "much did ye exact from mankind."  And their votaries from
> among men shall say, "O our Lord! we rendered one another mutual services:  but
> we have reached our set term, which thou hast set for us."  He will say, "Your
> abode the fire! therein abide ye for ever:  unless as God shall will."  Verily,
> thy Lord is Wise, Knowing.
>  
>        Even thus place we some of the wicked over others, as the meed of their
> doings.
>  
> 6:130  O race of Djinn and men! came not apostles to you from among yourselves,
> rehearsing my signs to you, and warning you of the meeting of this your day?
> They shall say, "We bear witness against ourselves."  This world's life
> deceived them; and they shall bear witness against themselves that they were
> infidels: -
>  
>        This, because thy Lord would not destroy the cities in their sin, while
> their people were yet careless.
>  
>        And for all, are grades of recompense as the result of their deeds; and
> of what they do, thy Lord is not regardless.
>  
>        And thy Lord is the Rich one, full of compassion!  He can destroy you if
> He please, and cause whom He will to succeed you, as he raised you up from the
> offspring of other people:
>  
>        Verily, that which is threatened you shall surely come to pass, neither
> shall ye weaken its might.
>  
>        Say:  O my people!  Act as ye best can:  I verily will act my part, and
> hereafter shall ye know
>  
>        Whose will be the recompense of the abode!  Verily, the ungodly shall
> not prosper.
>  
>        Moreover, they set apart a portion of the fruits and cattle which he
> hath produced, and say, "This is for God" - so deem they - "And this for his
> companions, whom we associate with Him"  But that which is for these
> companions of theirs, cometh not to God; yet that which is for God, cometh to
> the companions!  Ill do they judge.
>  
>        Thus have the companion-gods induced many of these, who join them with
> God, to slay their children, that they might ruin them, and throw the cloak of
> confusion over their religion.  But if God had pleased, they had not done this.
> Therefore, leave them and their devices.
>  
>        They also say, "These cattle and fruits are sacred:  none may taste them
> but whom we please:"  so deem they - "And there are cattle, whose backs should
> be exempt from labour."  And there are cattle over which they do not pronounce
> the name of God:  inventing in all this a lie against Him.  For their
> inventions shall He reward them.
>  
> 6:140  And they say, "That which is in the wombs of these cattle is allowed to
> our males, and forbidden to our wives;" but if it prove abortive, both partake
> of it.  God shall reward them for their distinctions!  Knowing, Wise is He.
>  
>        Lost are they who, in their ignorance, have foolishly slain their
> children, and have forbidden that which God hath given them for food, devising
> an untruth against God!  Now have they erred; and they were not rightly guided.
>  
>        He it is who produceth gardens of the vine trellised and untrellised,
> and the palm trees, and the corn of various food, and olives, and pomegranates,
> like and unlike.  East of their fruit when they bear fruit, and pay the due
> thereof on the day of its ingathering:  and be no prodigal, for God loveth not
> the prodigal.
>  
>        And there are cattle for burdens and for journeys.  Eat of what God hath
> given you for food; and follow not the steps of Satan, for he is your declared
> enemy.
>  
>        You have four sorts of cattle in pairs:  of sheep a pair, and of goals a
> pair.  Say:  Hath He forbidden the two males or the two females; or that which
> the wombs of the two females enclose?  Tell me with knowledge, if ye speak the
> truth:
>  
>        And of camels a pair, and of oxen a pair.  Say:  Hath He forbidden the
> two males or the two females; or that which the wombs of the two females
> enclose?  Were ye witnesses when God enjoined you this?  Who then is more
> wicked that he who, in his ignorance, inventeth a lie against God, to mislead
> men?  God truly guideth not the wicked.
>  
>        Say:  I find not in what hath been revealed to me aught forbidden to the
> eater to eat, except it be that which dieth of itself, or blood poured forth,
> or swine's flesh; for this is unclean or profane, being slain in the name of
> other than God.  But whoso shall be a forced partaker, if it be without
> wilfulness, and not in transgression, - verily, thy Lord is Indulgent,
> Merciful!
>  
>        To the Jews did we forbid every beast having an entire hoof, and of both
> bullocks and sheep we forbade them the fat, save what might be on their back,s
> or their entrails, and the fat attached to the bone.  With this have we
> recompensed them, because of their transgressions:  and verily, we are indeed
> equitable.
>  
>        If they treat thee as an impostor, then Say:  Your Lord is of
> all-embracing mercy:  but his severity shall not be turned aside from the
> wicked.
>  
>        They who add gods to God will say, "If God had pleased, neither we nor
> our fathers had given him companions, nor should we have interdicted
> anything.," thus did they who flourished before them charge with imposture,
> until they had tasted our severity!  Say:  Have ye any knowledge that ye can
> produce to us?  Verily, ye follow only a conceit:  ye utter only lies!
>  
> 6:150  Say:  Peremptory proof is God's!  Had He pleased He had guided you all
> aright.
>  
>        Say:  Bring hither your witnesses who can witness that God hath
> forbidden these animals; but if they bear witness, witness not thou with them
> nor witness to the conceits of those who charge our signs with falsehood, and
> who believe not in the life to come, and give equals to our Lord.
>  
>        Say:  Come, I will rehearse what your Lord hath made binding on you -
> that ye assign not aught to Him as partner; and that ye be good to your
> parents; and that ye slay not your children because of poverty:  for them and
> for you will we provide:  and that ye come not near to pollutions, outward or
> inward:  and that ye slay not anyone whom God hath forbidden you, unless for a
> just cause.  This hath he enjoined on you, to the intent that ye may
> understand.
>  
>        And come not nigh to the substance of the orphan, but to improve it,
> until he come of age:  and use a full measure, and a just balance:  We will not
> task a soul beyond its ability.  And when ye give judgment, observe justice,
> even though it be the affair of a kinsman, and fulfil the covenant of God.
> this hath God enjoined you for your monition -
>  
>        And, "this is my right way."  Follow it then; and follow not other paths
> lest ye be scattered from His path.  This hath he enjoined you, that ye may
> fear Him.
>  
>        Then gave we the Book to Moses - complete for him who should do right,
> and a decision for all matters, and a guidance, and a mercy, that they might
> believe in the meeting with their Lord.
>  
>        Blessed, too, this Book which we have sent down.  Wherefore follow it
> and fear God, that ye may find mercy:
>  
>        Lest ye should say, "The Scriptures were indeed sent down only unto two
> peoples before us, but we were not able to go deep into their studies:"
>  
>        Or lest ye should say, "If a book had been sent down to us, we had
> surely followed the guidance better than they." But now hath a clear exposition
> come to you from your Lord, and a guidance and a mercy.  Who then is more
> wicked than he who treateth the signs of God as lies, and turneth aside from
> them?  We will recompense those who turn aside from our signs with an evil
> punishment, because they have turned aside.
>  
>        What wait they for, but the coming of the angels to them, or the coming
> of thy Lord Himself, or that some of the signs of thy Lord should come to pass?
> On the day when some of thy Lord's signs shall come to pass, its faith shall
> not profit a soul which believed not before, nor wrought good works in virtue
> of its faith.  Say:  Wait ye.  Verily, we will wait also.
>  
> 6:160  As to those who split up their religion and become sects, have thou
> nothing to do with them:  their affair is with God only.  Hereafter shall he
> tell them what they have done.
>  
>        He who shall present himself with good works shall receive a tenfold
> reward; but he who shall present himself with evil works shall receive none
> other than a like punishment:  and they shall not be treated unjustly.
>  
>        Say:  As for me, my Lord hath guided me into a straight path; a true
> religion, the creed of Abraham, the sound in faith; for he was not of those
> who join gods with God.
>  
>        Say:  My prayers and my worship and my life and my death are unto God,
> Lord of the Worlds.  He hath no associate.  This am I commanded, and I am the
> first of the Muslims.
>  
>        Say:  Shall I seek any other Lord than God, when He is Lord of all
> things?  No soul shall labour but for itself; and no burdened one shall bear
> another's burden.  At last ye shall return to your Lord, and he will declare
> that to you about which you differ.
>  
>        And it is He who hath made you the successors of others on the earth,
> and hath raised some of you above others by various grades, that he may prove
> you by his gifts.  Verily thy Lord is swift to punish.  But He is also
> Gracious, Merciful!
>
> — *Sura   6 - Cattle*