# Sura  66 - The Forbidding

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> SURA LXVI (66) - The Forbidding    (Medina - 12 Verses)           (CIX - 464)
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        Why, O Prophet! dost thou hold that to be forbidden which God hath made
> lawful to thee, from a desire to please thy wives, since God is Lenient,
> Merciful?
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>        God hath allowed you release from your oaths; and God is your master:
> and He is the Knowing, the Wise.
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>        When the prophet told a recent occurrence as a secret to one of his
> wives, and when she divulged it and God informed him of this, he acquainted her
> with part and withheld part.  And when he had told her of it, she said, "Who
> told thee this?"  He said, "The Knowing, the Sage hath told it me.
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>        "If ye both be turned to God in penitence, for now have your hearts gone
> astray.... but if ye conspire against the Prophet, then know that God is his
> Protector, and Gabriel, and every just man among the faithful; and the angels
> are his helpers besides.
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>        "Haply if he put you both away, his Lord will give him in exchange other
> wives better than you, Muslims, believers, devout, penitent, obedient,
> observant of fasting, both known of men and virgins."
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>        O Believers! save yourselves and your families from the fire whose fuel
> is men and stones, over which are set angels fierce and mighty: they disobey
> not God in what He hath commanded them, but execute His behests.
>  
>        O ye Infidels! make no excuses for yourselves this day; ye shall surely
> be recompensed according to your works.
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>        O Believers!  turn to God with the turning of true penitence; haply your
> Lord will cancel your evil deeds, and will bring you into the gardens 'neath
> which the rivers flow, on the day when God will not shame the Prophet, nor
> those who have shared his faith:  their light shall run before them, and on
> their rights hands!  they shall say, "Lord perfect our light, and pardon us:
> for thou hat power over all things."
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>        O Prophet! make war on the infidels and hypocrites, and deal rigorously
> with them.  Hell shall be their abode! and wretched the passage to it!
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> 66:10  God setteth forth as an example to unbelievers the wife of Noah and the
> wife of Lot; they were under two of our righteous servants, both of whom they
> deceived: but their husbands availed them nought against God: and it shall be
> said "Enter ye into the fire with those who enter."
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>        God also holdeth forth to those who believe the example of the wife of
> Pharaoh, when she said, "Lord, build me an house with thee in Paradise, and
> deliver me from Pharaoh and his doings; and deliver me from the wicked:"
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>        And Mary, the daughter of Imran, who kept her maidenhood, and into
> whose womb we breathed of our spirit, and who believed in the words of her
> Lord and His Scriptures, and was one of the devout.
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> — *Sura  66 - The Forbidding*