# Sura   9 - Immunity

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> SURA IX - IMMUNITY  (9) - [MEDINA - 130 VERSES]             (CXIII - 470)     
>  
>        An Immunity from God and His Apostle to those with whom ye are in
> league, among the Polytheist Arabs! (those who join gods with God).
>  
>        Go ye therefore, at league in the land four months:  but know that God
> ye shall not weaken; and that those who believe not, God will put to shame -
>  
>        And a proclamation on the part of God and His Apostle to the people on
> the day of the greater pilgrimage, that God is free from any engagement with
> the votaries of other gods with God as is His Apostle!  If, therefore, ye turn
> to God it will be better for you; but if ye turn back, then know that ye shall
> not weaken God:  and to those who believe not, announce thou a grievous
> punishment.
>  
>        But this concerneth not those Polytheists with whom ye are in league,
> and who shall have afterwards in no way failed you, nor aided anyone against
> you.  Observe, therefore, engagement with them through the whole time of their
> treaty:  for God loveth those who fear Him.
>  
>        And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods
> with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay
> wait for them with every kind of ambush:  but if they shall convert, and
> observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way, for
> God is Gracious, Merciful.
>  
>        If any one of those who join gods with God ask an asylum of thee, grant
> him an asylum, that he may hear the Word of God, and then let him reach his
> place of safety.  This, for that they are people devoid of knowledge.
>  
>        How shall they who add gods to God be in league with God and with His
> Apostle, save those with whom ye made a league at the sacred temple?  So long
> as they are true to you, be ye true to them; for God loveth those who fear Him.
>  
>        How can they?  since if they prevail against you, they will not regard
> in you either ties of blood or faith.  With their mouths will they content you,
> but their hearts will be averse.  The greater part of them are perverse doers.
>  
>        They sell the signs of God for a mean price, and turn others aside from
> his way:  evil is it that they do!
>  
> 9:10   They regard not in a believer either ties of blood or faith; these are
> the transgressors!
>  
>        Yet if they turn to God and observe prayer, and pay the impost, then are
> they your brethren in religion.  We make clear our signs to those who
> understand.
>  
>        But, if after alliance made, they break their oaths and revile your
> religion, then do battle with the ring-leaders of infidelity - for no oaths are
> binding with them - that they may desist.
>  
>        What!  will ye not fight against those Meccans who have broken their
> oaths and aimed to expel your Apostle, and attacked you first?  Will ye dread
> them?  God is more worthy of your fear, if ye are believers.!
>  
>        So make war on them:  By your hands will God chastise them, and will put
> them to shame, and will give you victory over them, and will heal the bosoms of
> a people who believe;
>  
>        And will take away the wrath of their hearts.  God will be turned unto
> whom He will:  and God is Knowing, Wise.
>  
>        Think ye that ye shall be forsaken as if God did not yet know those
> among you who do valiantly, and take none for their friends beside God, and His
> Apostle, and the faithful?  God is well apprised of your doings.
>  
>        It is not for the votaries of other gods with God, witnesses against
> themselves of infidelity, to visit the temples of God.  These! vain their
> works:  and in the fire shall they abide for ever!
>  
>        He only should visit the temples of God who believeth in God and the
> last day, and observeth prayer, and payeth the legal alms, and dreadeth none
> but God.  These haply will be among the rightly guided.
>  
>        Do ye place the giving drink to the pilgrims, and the visitation of the
> sacred temple, on the same level with him who believeth in God and the last
> day, and fighteth on the way of God?  They shall not be held equal by God:  and
> God guideth not the unrighteous.
>  
> 9:20   They who have believed, and fled their homes, and striven with their
> substance and with their persons on the path of God, shall be of highest grade
> with God:  and these are they who shall be happy!
>  
>        Tidings of mercy from Himself, and of His good pleasure, doth their Lord
> send them, and of gardens in which lasting pleasure shall be theirs;
>  
>        Therein shall they abide for ever; for God! with Him is a great reward.
>  
>        O believers! make not friends of your fathers or your brethren if they
> love unbelief above faith:  and whoso of you shall make them his friends, will
> be wrong doers.
>  
>        Say:  If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives,
> and your kindred, and the wealth which ye have gained, and merchandise which ye
> fear may be unsold, and dwellings wherein ye delight, be dearer to you than God
> and His Apostle and efforts on his Path, then wait until God shall Himself
> enter on His work:  and God guideth not the impious.
>  
>        Now hath God helped you in many battlefields, and on the day of Honein,
> when ye prided yourselves on your numbers; but it availed you nothing; and the
> earth, with all its breadth, became too straight for you:  then turned ye your
> backs in flight:
>  
>        Then did God send down His spirit of repose upon His Apostle, and upon
> the faithful, and He sent down the hosts which ye saw not, and He punished the
> Infidels:  This, the Infidels' reward!
>  
>        Yet, after this, will God be turned to whom He pleaseth; for God is
> Gracious, Merciful!
>  
>        O Believers!  only they who join gods with God are unclean!  Let them
> not, therefore, after this their year, come near the sacred Temple. And if ye
> fear want, God, if He please, will enrich you of His abundance:  for God is
> Knowing, Wise.
>  
>        Make war upon such of those to whom the Scriptures have been given as
> believe not in God, or in the last day, and who forbid not that which God and
> His Apostle have forbidden, and who profess not the professions of the truth,
> until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be humbled.
>  
> 9:30   The Jews say, "Ezra (Ozair) is a son of God"; and the Christians say,
> "The Messiah is a son of God." Such the sayings in their mouths!  They resemble
> the saying of the Infidels of old!  God do battle with them!  How are they
> misguided!
>  
>        They take their teachers, and their monks, and the Messiah, son of Mary,
> for Lords beside God, though bidden to worship one God only.  There is no God
> but He!  Far from His glory be what they associated with Him!
>  
>        Fain would they put out God's light with their mouths:  but God only
> desireth to perfect His light, albeit the Infidels abhor it.
>  
>        He it is who hath sent His Apostle with the Guidance and a religion of
> the truth, that He may make it victorious over every other religion, albeit
> they who assign partners to God be averse from it.
>  
>        O Believers! of a truth, many of the teachers and monks do devour man's
> substance in vanity, and turn them from the Way of God.  But to those who
> treasure up gold and silver and expend it not in the Way of God, announce
> tidings of a grievous torment.
>  
>        On that day their treasures shall be heated in hell fire, and their
> foreheads, and their sides, and their back, shall be branded with them....
> "This is what ye have treasured up for yourselves:  taste, therefore, your
> treasures!"
>  
>        Twelve months is the number of months with God, according to God's book,
> since the day when He created the Heavens and the Earth:  of these four are
> sacred:  this is the right usage:  But wrong not yourselves therein; attack
> those who join gods with God in all, as they attack you in all:  and know that
> God is with those who fear Him.
>  
>        To carry over a sacred month to another, is only a growth of infidelity.
> The Infidels are led into error by it.  They allow it one year, and forbid it
> another, that they may make good the number of months which God hath hallowed,
> and they allow that which God hath prohibited.  The evil of their deeds hath
> been prepared for them by Satan:  for God guideth not the people who do not
> believe.
>  
>        O Believers! what possessed you, that when it was said to you, "March
> forth on the Way of God," ye sank heavily earthwards?  What! prefer ye the life
> of this world to the next?  But the fruition of this mundane life, in respect
> of that which is to come, is but little.
>  
>        Unless ye march forth, with a grievous chastisement will He chastise
> you; and He will place another people in your stead, and ye shall in no way
> harm Him:  for over everything is God potent.
>  
> 9:40   If ye assist not your Prophet ... God assisted him formerly, when the
> unbelievers drove him forth, in company with a second only! when they two were
> in the cave; when the Prophet said to his companion, "Be not distressed;
> verily, God is with us."  And God sent down His tranquility upon him, and
> strengthened him with hosts ye saw not, and made the word of those who
> believed not the abased, and the word of God was the exalted:  for God is
> Mighty, Wise.
>  
>        March ye forth the light and heavy armed, and contend with your
> substance and your persons on the Way of God.  This, if ye know it, will be
> better for you.
>  
>        Had there been a near advantage and a short journey, they would
> certainly have followed thee; but the way seemed long to them.  Yet will they
> sear by God, "Had we been able, we had surely gone forth with you:" they are
> self-destroyers!  And God knoweth that they are surely liars!
>  
>        God forgive there!  Why didst thou give them leave to stay behind, ere
> they who make true excuses had become known to thee, and thou hadst known the
> liars?
>  
>        They who believe in God and in the last day will not ask leave of thee
> to be exempt from contending with their substance and their persons.  But God
> knoweth those who fear Him!
>  
>        They only will ask thy leave who believe not in God and the last day,
> and whose hearts are full of doubts, and who are tossed up and down in their
> doubtings.
>  
>        Moreover, had they been desirous to take the field, they would have got
> ready for that purpose the munitions of war.  But God was averse to their
> marching forth, and made them laggards; and it was said, "Sit ye at home with
> those who sit."
>  
>        Had they taken the field with you, they would only have added a burden
> to you, and have hurried about among you, stirring you up to sedition; and some
> there are among you who would have listened to them:  and God knoweth the evil
> doers.
>  
>        Of old aimed they at sedition, and deranged thy affairs, until the truth
> arrived, and the behest of God became apparent, averse from it though they
> were.
>  
>        Some of them say to thee, "Allow me to remain at home, and expose me not
> to the trial."  Have they not fallen into a trial already?  But verily, Hell
> shall environ the Infidels!
>  
> 9:50   If a success betide thee, it annoyeth them:  but if a reverse betide
> thee, they say, "We took our own measures before:" and they turn their backs
> and are glad.
>  
>        Say:  Nothing can befall us but what God hath destined for us.  Our
> liege-lord is He; and on God let the faithful trust!
>  
>        Say:  Await ye for us, other than one of the two best things?  But we
> await for you the infliction of a chastisement by God, from himself, or at our
> hands.  Wait ye then; we verily will wait with you.
>  
>        Say:  Make ye your offerings willingly or by constraint; it cannot be
> accepted from you, because ye are a wicked people:
>  
>        And nothing hindreth the acceptance of their offerings, but that they
> believe not in God and His Apostle, and discharge not the duty of prayer but
> with sluggishness, and make not offerings but with reluctance.
>  
>        Let not, therefore, their riches or their children amaze thee.  God is
> only minded to punish them by means of these, in this life present, and that
> their souls may depart while they are unbelievers.
>  
>        And they swear by God that they are indeed of you, yet they are not of
> you, but they are people who are afraid of you:
>  
>        If they find a place of refuge, or caves, or a hiding place, they
> assuredly turn towards it and haste thereto.
>  
>        Some of them also defame thee in regard to the alms; yet if a part be
> given them, they are content, but if no part be given them, behold, they are
> angry!
>  
>        Would that they were satisfied with that which God and His Apostle had
> given them, and would say "God sufficeth us!  God will vouchsafe unto us of His
> favour, and so will His Apostle:  verily until God do we make our suit!"
>  
> 9:60   But alms are only to be given to the poor and needy, and those who
> collect them, and to those whose hearts are won to Islam, and for ransoms, and
> for debtors, and for the cause of God, and the wayfarer. This is an ordinance
> from God:  and God is Knowing, Wise.
>  
>        There are some of them who injure the Prophet and say, "He is all ear."
> Say:  An ear of good to you!  He believeth in God, and believeth the believers:
>  and is a mercy to such of you as believe:
>  
>        But they who injure the Apostle of God, shall suffer a dolorous
> chastisement.
>  
>        They swear to you by God to please you; but worthier is God, and His
> Apostle, that they should please Him, if they are believers.
>  
>        Know they not, that for him who opposeth God and His Apostle, is surely
> the fire of Hell, in which he shall remain for ever?  This is the great
> ignominy!
>  
>        The hypocrites are afraid lest a Sura should be sent down concerning
> them, to tell them plainly what is in their hearts.  Say:  Scoff ye; but God
> will bring to light that which ye are afraid of.
>  
>        And if thou question them, they will surely say, "We were only
> discoursing and jesting." Say:  What!  do ye scoff at God, and His signs, and
> His Apostle?
>  
>        Make no excuse:  from faith ye have passed to infidelity!  If we forgive
> some of you, we will punish others:L  for that they have been evil doers.
>  
>        Hypocritical men and women imitate one another.  They enjoin what is
> evil, and forbid what is just, and shut up their hands.  They have forgotten
> God, and He hath forgotten them.  Verily, the hypocrites are the perverse
> doers.
>  
>        God promiseth the hypocritical men and women, and the unbelievers, the
> fire of Hell - therein shall they abide - this their sufficing portion!  And
> God hath cursed them, and a lasting torment shall be theirs.
>  
> 9:70   Ye act like those who flourished before you.  Mightier were they than
> you in prowess, and more abundant in wealth and children, and they enjoyed
> their portion:  so ye also enjoy your portion, as they were were before you
> enjoyed theirs; and ye hold discourses like their discourses.  These!  vain
> their works both for this world and for that which is to come!  These!  they
> are the lost ones.
>  
>        Hath not the history reached them of those who were before them?  - of
> the people of Noah, and of Ad, and of Themoud, and of the people of Abraham,
> and of the inhabitants of Madian, and of the overthrown cities?  Their apostles
> came to them with clear proofs of their mission:  God would not deal wrongly by
> them, but they dealt wrongly by themselves.
>  
>        The faithful of both sexes are mutual friends:  they enjoin what is
> just, and forbid what is evil; they observe prayer, and pay the legal impost,
> and they obey God and His Apostle.  On these will God have mercy:  verily, God
> is Mighty, Wise.
>  
>        To the faithful, both men and women, God promiseth gardens 'neath which
> the rivers flow, in which they shall abide, and goodly mansions in the gardens
> of Eden.  But best of all will be God's good pleasure in them.  This will be
> the great bliss.
>  
>        O Prophet! contend against the infidels and the hypocrites, and be
> rigorous with them:  Hell shall be their dwelling place!  Wretched the journey
> thither!
>  
>        They swear by God that they said no such thing:  yet spake they the word
> infidelity, and from Muslims became unbelievers!  They planned what they could
> not effect; and only disapproved of it because God and His Apostle had enriched
> them by His bounty!  If they repent it will be better for them; but if they
> fall back into their sin, with a grievous chastisement will God chastise them
> in this world and the next, and on earth they shall have neither friend nor
> protector!
>  
>        Some there are of them who made this agreement with God - "If truly He
> give us of His bounties, we will surely give alms and surely be of the
> righteous."
>  
>        Yet when he had vouchsafed them of His bounty, they became covetous
> thereof, and turned their backs, and withdrew afar off:
>  
>        So He caused hypocrisy to take its turn in their hearts, until the day
> on which they shall meet Him - for that they failed their promise to God, and
> for that they were liars!
>  
> 9:80   They who traduce such of the faithful as give their alms freely, and
> those who find nothing to give but their earnings, and scoff at them, God shall
> scoff at them; and there is a grievous torment in store for them.
>  
>        Ask thou forgiveness for them, or ask it not, it will be the same.  If
> thou ask forgiveness for them seventy times, God will by no means forgive them.
> This, for that they believe not in God and His Apostle!  And God guideth not
> the ungodly people.
>  
>        They who were left at home were delighted to stay behind God's Apostle,
> and were averse from contending with their riches and their persons for the
> cause of God, and said, "March not out in the heat."  Say:  A fiercer heat will
> be the fire of Hell."  Would that they understood this.
>  
>        Little, therefore, let them laugh, and much let them weep, as the meed
> of their doings!
>  
>        If God bring thee back from the fight to some of them, and they ask thy
> leave to take the field, Say:  By no means shall ye ever take the field with
> me, and by no means shall ye fight an enemy with me:  ye were well pleased to
> sit at home at the first crisis:  sit ye at home, then, with those who lag
> behind.
>  
>        Never pray thou over anyone of them who dieth, or stand at his grave -
> because they believed not in God and His Apostle, and died in their wickedness.
>  
>        Let not their riches or their children astonish thee:  through these God
> is fain only to punish them in this world, and that their souls should depart
> while they are still infidels.
>  
>        When a Sura was sent down with "Believe in God and go forth to war with
> His Apostle," those of them who are possessed of riches demanded exemption, and
> said, "Allow us to be with those who sit at home.
>  
>        Well content were they to be with those who stay behind:  for a seal
> hath been set on their hearts so that they understand not: -
>  
>        But the Apostle and those who share his faith, contend for the faith
> with purse and person; and these!  all good things await them:  and these are
> they who shall be happy.
>  
> 9:90   God hath made ready for them gardens 'neath which the rivers flow,
> wherein they shall remain for ever:  this will be the great bliss.
>  
>        Some Arabs of the desert came with excuses, praying exemption; and they
> who had gainsaid God and His Apostle sat at home:  a grievous punishment shall
> light on such of them as believe not.
>  
>        It shall be no crime in the weak, and in the sick, and in those who find
> not the means of contributing, to stay at home, provided they are sincere with
> God and His Apostle.  Against those who act virtuously, there is no cause of
> blame:  and God is Gracious, Merciful: -
>  
>        Nor against those, to whom when they came to thee that thou shouldst
> mount them, thou didst say "I find not wherewith to mount you," and they turned
> away their eyes shedding floods of tears for grief, because they found no means
> to contribute.
>  
>        On is there cause of blame against those who, though they are rich, ask
> thee for exemption.  They are pleased to be with those who stay behind; and God
> hath set a seal upon their hearts:  they have no knowledge.
>  
>        They will excuse themselves to you when ye come back to them.  Say:
> Excuse yourselves not; we cannot believe you:  now hath God informed us about
> you:  God will behold your doings, and so will His Apostle:  to Him who
> knoweth alike things hidden and things manifest shall ye hereafter be brought
> back:  and He will tell you what ye have done.
>  
>        They will adjure you by God when ye are come back to them, to withdraw
> from them:  Withdraw from them, then, for they are unclean:  their dwelling
> shall be Hell, in recompense for their deserts.
>  
>        They will adjure you to take pleasure in them; but if ye take pleasure
> in them, God truly will take no pleasure in those who act corruptly.
>  
>        The Arabs of the desert are most stout in unbelief and dissimulation;
> and likelier it is that they should be unaware of the laws which God hath sent
> down to His Apostle:  and God is Knowing, Wise.
>  
>        Of the Arabs of the desert there are some who reckon what they expend in
> the cause of God as tribute, and wait for some change of fortune to befall you:
> a change for evil shall befall them!  God is the Hearer, the Knower.
>  
> 9:100  And of the Arabs of the desert, some believe in God and in the last day,
> and deem those alms an approach to God and to the Apostle's prayers.  Are they
> not their approach?  Into His mercy shall God lead them:  yes, God is
> Indulgent, Merciful.
>  
>        As for those who led the way, the first of the Mohadjers, and the
> Ansars, and those who have followed their noble conduct, God is well pleased
> with them, and they with Him:  He hath made ready for them gardens under whose
> trees the rivers flow:  to abide therein for aye:  this shall be the great
> bliss:
>  
>        And of the Arabs of the desert round about you, some are hypocrites:
> and of the people of Medina, some are stubborn in hypocrisy.  thou knowest them
> not, Muhammad:  we know them:  twice will we chastise them:  then shall they be
> given over to a great chastisement.
>  
>        Others have owned their faults, and with an action that is right they
> have mixed another that is wrong.  God will haply be turned to them:  for God
> is Forgiving, Merciful.
>  
>        Take alms of their substance, that thou mayst cleanse and purify them
> thereby, and pray for them; for thy prayers shall assure their minds:  and God
> Heareth, Knoweth.
>  
>        Know they not that when his servants turn to Him with repentance, God
> accepteth it, and that He accepteth alms, and that God is He who turneth, the
> Merciful?
>  
>        Say:  Work ye:  but God will behold your work, and so will His Apostle,
> and the faithful:  and ye shall be brought before Him who knoweth alike the
> Hidden and the Manifest, and He will tell you of all your works.
>  
>        And others await the decision of God; whether He will punish them, or
> whether He will be turned unto them:  but God is Knowing, Wise.
>  
>        There are some who have built a Mosque for mischief and for infidelity,
> and to disunite the faithful, and in expectation of him who, in time past,
> warned against God and His Apostle.  They will surely sear, "Our aim was only
> good:" but God is witness that they are liars.
>  
>        Never set thou foot in it.  There is a Mosque founded from tis first day
> in piety.  More worthy is it that thou enter therein:  therein are men who
> aspire to purity, and God loveth the purified.
>  
> 9:110  Which of the two is best?  He who hath founded his building on the fear
> of God and the desire to please Him, or he who hath founded his building on the
> brink of an undermined bank washed away by torrents, so that it rusheth with
> him into the fire of Hell?  But God guided not the doers of wrong.
>  
>        Their building which they have built will not cease to cause uneasiness
> in their hearts, until their hearts are cut in pieces.  God is Knowing, Wise.
>  
>        Verily, of the faithful hath God bought their persons and their
> substances, on condition of Paradise for them in return:  on the path of God
> shall they fight, and slay, and be slain:  a promise for this is pledged in the
> Law, and in the Evangel, and in the Koran - and who more faithful to his
> engagement than God?  Rejoice, therefore, in the contract that ye have
> contracted:  for this shall be the great bliss.
>  
>        Those who turn to God, and those who serve, who praise, who fast, who
> bow down, who prostrate themselves, who enjoin what is just and forbid what is
> evil, and keep to the bounds of God...  Wherefore bear these good tidings to
> the faithful.
>  
>        It is not for the prophet or the faithful to pray for the forgiveness of
> those, even though they be of kin, who associate other beings with God, after
> it hath been made clear to them that they are to be the inmates of Hell.
>  
>        For neither did Abraham ask forgiveness for his father, but in pursuance
> of a promise which he had promised to him:  but when it was shewn him that he
> was an enemy to God, he declared himself clear of him.  Yet Abraham was
> pitiful, kind.
>  
>        Nor is it for God to lead a people into error, after he hath guided them
> aright, until that which they ought to dread hath been clearly shewn them.
> Verily, God knoweth all things.
>  
>        God!  His the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth!  He maketh alive
> and killeth!  Ye have no patron or helper save God.
>  
>        Now hath God turned Him unto the Prophet and unto the refugees
> (Mohadjers), and unto the helpers (Ansars), who followed him in the hour of
> distress, after that the hearts of a part of them had well nigh failed them.
> Then turned He unto them, for He was Kind to them, Merciful.
>  
>        He hath also turned Him unto the three who were left behind, so that the
> earth, spacious as it is, became to strait for them; and their souls became so
> straitened within them, that they bethought them that there was no refuge from
> God but unto Himself.  Then was He turned to them, that they might be turned to
> Him, for God is He that turneth, the Merciful.
>  
> 9:120  Believers! fear God, and be with the sincere.
>  
>        No cause had the people of Medina and the Arabs of the desert around
> them, to abandon God's Apostle, or to prefer their own lives to his; because
> neither thirst, nor the labour, nor hunger, could come upon them when on path
> of God; neither do they step a step which may anger the unbelievers, neither do
> they receive from the enemy any damage, but it is written down to them as a
> good work.  Verily, God suffereth not the reward of the righteous to perish.
>  
>        Nor give they alms either small or great, nor traverse they a torrent,
> but it is thus reckoned to them; that God may reward them with better than they
> have wrought.
>  
>        The faithful must not march forth all together to the wars:  and if a
> party of every band of them march not out, it is that they may instruct
> themselves in their religion, and may warn their people when they come back to
> them, that they take heed to themselves.
>  
>        Believers! wage war against such of the infidels as are your neighbours,
> and let them find you rigorous:  and know that God is with those who fear him.
>  
>        Whenever a Sura is sent down, there are some of them who say, "Whose
> faith hath it increased?" It will increase the faith of those who believe, and
> they shall rejoice.
>  
>        But as to those in whose hearts is a disease, it will add doubt to their
> doubt, and they shall die infidels.
>  
>        Do they not see that they are proved every year once or twice?  Yet they
> turn not, neither are they warned.
>  
>        And whenever a Sura is sent down, they look at one another.... "Doth any
> one see you?" then turn they aside.  God shall turn their hearts aside,
> because they are a people devoid of understanding.
>  
>        Now hath an Apostle come unto you from among yourselves:  your
> iniquities press heavily upon him.  He is careful over you, and towards the
> faithful, compassionate, merciful.
>  
> 9:130  If they turn away, Say:  God sufficeth me:  there is no God but He.  In
> Him put I my trust.  He is the possessor of the Glorious Throne!
>
> — *Sura   9 - Immunity*