1.
O Prophet (Muhammad )!
Keep your duty to Allâh, and obey not the disbelievers and the hypocrites
(i.e., do not follow their advices). Verily! Allâh is Ever AllKnower, AllWise.
2.
And follow that which is inspired in you from your Lord. Verily, Allâh
is WellAcquainted with what you do.
3.
And put your trust in Allâh, and Sufficient is Allâh as a Wakîl
(Trustee, or Disposer of affairs).
4.
Allâh has not put for any man two hearts inside his body. Neither has
He made your wives whom you declare to be like your mothers' backs, your real
mothers. [AzZihâr is the saying of a husband to his wife, "You
are to me like the back of my mother" i.e. You are unlawful for me to
approach.], nor has He made your adopted sons your real sons. That is but
your saying with your mouths. But Allâh says the truth, and He guides to the
(Right) Way.
5.
Call them (adopted sons) by (the names of) their fathers, that is more
just with Allâh. But if you know not their father's (names, call them) your
brothers in faith and Mawâlîkum (your freed slaves). And there is no
sin on you if you make a mistake therein, except in regard to what your hearts
deliberately intend. And Allâh is Ever OftForgiving, Most Merciful.
6.
The Prophet is closer to the believers than their ownselves, and his wives
are their (believers') mothers (as regards respect and marriage). And blood
relations among each other have closer personal ties in the Decree of Allâh
(regarding inheritance) than (the brotherhood of) the believers and the Muhajirûn
(emigrants from Makkah, etc.), except that you do kindness to those brothers
(when the Prophet
joined them in brotherhood ties). This has been written in the (Allâh's Book
of Divine) Decrees (AlLauh AlMahfûz)."
7.
And (remember) when We took from the Prophets their covenant, and from
you (O Muhammad ),
and from Nûh (Noah), Ibrâhim (Abraham), Mûsa (Moses), and 'Iesa (Jesus), son
of Maryam (Mary). We took from them a strong covenant.
8.
That He may ask the truthfuls (Allâh's Messengers and His Prophets) about
their truth (i.e. the conveyance of Allâh's Message that which they were charged
with). And He has prepared for the disbelievers a painful torment (Hell-fire).
9.
O you who believe! Remember Allâh's Favour to you, when there came against
you hosts, and We sent against them a wind and forces that you saw not [i.e.
troops of angels during the battle of AlAhzâb (the Confederates)].
And Allâh is Ever AllSeer of what you do.
10.
When they came upon you from above you and from below you, and when the
eyes grew wild and the hearts reached to the throats, and you were harbouring
doubts about Allâh.
11.
There, the believers were tried and shaken with a mighty shaking.
12.
And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease (of doubts)
said: "Allâh and His Messenger ()
promised us nothing but delusions!"
13.
And when a party of them said: "O people of Yathrib (AlMadinah)!
There is no stand (possible) for you (against the enemy attack!) Therefore
go back!" And a band of them ask for permission of the Prophet ( )
saying: "Truly, our homes lie open (to the enemy)." And they lay
not open. They but wished to flee.
14.
And if the enemy had entered from all sides (of the city), and they had
been exhorted to AlFitnah (i.e. to renegade from Islâm to polytheism)
they would surely have committed it and would have hesitated thereupon but
little.
15.
And indeed they had already made a covenant with Allâh not to turn their
backs, and a covenant with Allâh must be answered for.
16.
Say (O Muhammad
to these hypocrites who ask your permission to run away from you): "Flight
will not avail you if you flee from death or killing, and then you will enjoy
no more than a little while!"
17.
Say: "Who is he who can protect you from Allâh if He intends to harm
you, or intends mercy on you?" And they will not find, besides Allâh,
for themselves any Walî (protector, supporter, etc.) or any helper.
18.
Allâh already knows those among you who keep back (men) from fighting
in Allâh's Cause, and those who say to their brethren "Come here towards
us," while they (themselves) come not to the battle except a little.
19.
Being miserly towards you (as regards help and aid in Allâh's Cause).
Then when fear comes, you will see them looking to you, their eyes revolving
like (those of) one over whom hovers death, but when the fear departs, they
will smite you with sharp tongues, miserly towards (spending anything in any)
good (and only covetous of booty and wealth). Such have not believed. Therefore
Allâh makes their deeds fruitless, and that is ever easy for Allâh.
20.
They think that AlAhzâb (the Confederates) have not yet withdrawn,
and if AlAhzâb (the Confederates) should come (again), they would
wish they were in the deserts (wandering) among the bedouins, seeking news
about you (from a far place); and if they (happen) to be among you, they would
not fight but little.
21.
Indeed in the Messenger of Allâh (Muhammad )
you have a good example to follow for him who hopes in (the Meeting with)
Allâh and the Last Day and remembers Allâh much.
22.
And when the believers saw AlAhzâb (the Confederates), they said:
"This is what Allâh and His Messenger (Muhammad )
had promised us, and Allâh and His Messenger (Muhammad )
had spoken the truth, and it only added to their faith and to their submissiveness
(to Allâh).
23.
Among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with
Allâh [i.e. they have gone out for Jihâd (holy fighting), and showed
not their backs to the disbelievers], of them some have fulfilled their obligations
(i.e. have been martyred), and some of them are still waiting, but they have
never changed [i.e.they never proved treacherous to their covenant which they
concluded with Allâh] in the least.
24.
That Allâh may reward the men of truth for their truth (i.e. for their
patience at the accomplishment of that which they covenanted with Allâh),
and punish the hypocrites if He will or accept their repentance by turning
to them in Mercy. Verily, Allâh is OftForgiving, Most Merciful.
25.
And Allâh drove back those who disbelieved in their rage, they gained
no advantage (booty, etc.). Allâh sufficed for the believers in the fighting
(by sending against the disbelievers a severe wind and troops of angels).
And Allâh is Ever AllStrong, AllMighty.
26.
And those of the people of the Scripture who backed them (the disbelievers)
Allâh brought them down from their forts and cast terror into their hearts,
(so that) a group (of them) you killed, and a group (of them) you made captives.
27.
And He caused you to inherit their lands, and their houses, and their
riches, and a land which you had not trodden (before). And Allâh is Able to
do all things.
28.
O Prophet (Muhammad )!
Say to your wives: If you desire the life of this world, and its glitter,
Then come! I will make a provision for you and set you free in a handsome
manner (divorce).
29.
But if you desire Allâh and His Messenger, and the home of the Hereafter,
then verily, Allâh has prepared for AlMuhsinât (gooddoers) amongst
you an enormous reward.
30.
O wives of the Prophet! Whoever of you commits an open illegal sexual
intercourse, the torment for her will be doubled, and that is ever easy for
Allâh.
31.
And whosoever of you is obedient to Allâh and His Messenger
, and does righteous good deeds, We shall give her, her reward twice over,
and We have prepared for her Rizqan Karima (a noble provision Paradise).
32.
O wives of the Prophet! You are not like any other women. If you keep
your duty (to Allâh), then be not soft in speech, lest he in whose heart is
a disease (of hypocrisy, or evil desire for adultery, etc.) should be moved
with desire, but speak in an honourable manner.
33.
And stay in your houses, and do not display yourselves like that of the
times of ignorance, and perform As-Salât (IqamâtasSalât),
and give Zakât and obey Allâh and His Messenger. Allâh wishes only
to remove ArRijs (evil deeds and sins, etc.) from you, O members of
the family (of the Prophet ),
and to purify you with a thorough purification.
34.
And remember (O you the members of the Prophet's family, the Graces of
your Lord), that which is recited in your houses of the Verses of Allâh and
AlHikmah (i.e. Prophet's Sunnah legal ways, etc. so give your thanks
to Allâh and glorify His Praises for this Qur'an and the Sunnah). Verily,
Allâh is Ever Most Courteous, WellAcquainted with all things.
35.
Verily, the Muslims (those who submit to Allâh in Islâm) men and women,
the believers men and women (who believe in Islâmic Monotheism), the men and
the women who are obedient (to Allâh), the men and women who are truthful
(in their speech and deeds), the men and the women who are patient (in performing
all the duties which Allâh has ordered and in abstaining from all that Allâh
has forbidden), the men and the women who are humble (before their Lord Allâh),
the men and the women who give Sadaqât (i.e. Zakât, and alms,
etc.), the men and the women who observe Saum (fast) (the obligatory
fasting during the month of Ramadân, and the optional Nawâfil fasting),
the men and the women who guard their chastity (from illegal sexual acts)
and the men and the women who remember Allâh much with their hearts and tongues
(while sitting, standing, lying, etc. for more than 300 times extra over the
remembrance of Allâh during the five compulsory congregational prayers) or
praying extra additional Nawâfil prayers of night in the last part
of night, etc.) Allâh has prepared for them forgiveness and a great reward
(i.e. Paradise).
36.
It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allâh and His Messenger have
decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever
disobeys Allâh and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error.
37.
And (remember) when you said to him (Zaid bin Hârithah; the freedslave
of the Prophet ) on
whom Allâh has bestowed Grace (by guiding him to Islâm) and you (O Muhammad
too) have done favour
(by manumitting him) "Keep your wife to yourself, and fear Allâh."
But you did hide in yourself (i.e. what Allâh has already made known to you
that He will give her to you in marriage) that which Allâh will make manifest,
you did fear the people (i.e., Muhammad
married the divorced wife of his manumitted slave) whereas Allâh had a better
right that you should fear Him. So when Zaid had accomplished his desire from
her (i.e. divorced her), We gave her to you in marriage, so that (in future)
there may be no difficulty to the believers in respect of (the marriage of)
the wives of their adopted sons when the latter have no desire to keep them
(i.e. they have divorced them). And Allâh's Command must be fulfilled.
38.
There is no blame on the Prophet ()
in that which Allâh has made legal for him.That has been Allâh's Way with
those who have passed away of (the Prophets of) old. And the Command of Allâh
is a decree determined.
39.
Those who convey the Message of Allâh and fear Him, and fear none save
Allâh. And Sufficient is Allâh as a Reckoner.
40.
Muhammad () is
not the father of any man among you, but he is the Messenger of Allâh and
the last (end) of the Prophets. And Allâh is Ever AllAware of everything.
41.
O you who believe! Remember Allâh with much remembrance.
42.
And glorify His Praises morning and afternoon [the early morning (Fajr)
and 'Asr prayers].
43.
He it is Who sends Salât (His blessings) on you, and His angels
too (ask Allâh to bless and forgive you), that He may bring you out from darkness
(of disbelief and polytheism) into light (of Belief and Islâmic Monotheism).
And He is Ever Most Merciful to the believers.
44.
Their greeting on the Day they shall meet Him will be "Salâm:
Peace (i.e. the angels will say to them: Salâmu 'Alaikum)!" And
He has prepared for them a generous reward (i.e. Paradise).
45.
O Prophet (MuhammadSAW )! Verily, We have sent you as witness,
and a bearer of glad tidings, and a warner,
46.
And as one who invites to Allâh [Islâmic Monotheism, i.e. to worship none
but Allâh (Alone)] by His Leave, and as a lamp spreading light (through your
instructions from the Qur'ân and the Sunnah the legal ways of the Prophet
).
47.
And announce to the believers (in the Oneness of Allâh and in His Messenger
Muhammad ) the glad
tidings, that they will have from Allâh a Great Bounty.
48.
And obey not the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and harm them not (till
you are ordered). And put your trust in Allâh, and Sufficient is Allâh as
a Wakîl (Trustee, or Disposer of affairs).
49.
O you who believe! When you marry believing women, and then divorce them
before you have sexual intercourse with them, no 'Iddah [divorce prescribed
period, see (V.65:4)] have you to count in respect of them. So give them a
present, and set them free i.e. divorce, in a handsome manner.
50.
O Prophet (Muhammad )!
Verily, We have made lawful to you your wives, to whom you have paid their
Mahr (bridal money given by the husband to his wife at the time of
marriage), and those (captives or slaves) whom your right hand possesses -
whom Allâh has given to you, and the daughters of your 'Amm (paternal
uncles) and the daughters of your 'Ammah (paternal aunts) and the daughters
of your Khâl (maternal uncles) and the daughters of your Khâlah
(maternal aunts) who migrated (from Makkah) with you, and a believing woman
if she offers herself to the Prophet, and the Prophet wishes to marry her;
a privilege for you only, not for the (rest of) the believers. Indeed We know
what We have enjoined upon them about their wives and those (captives or slaves)
whom their right hands possess, - in order that there should be no difficulty
on you. And Allâh is Ever OftForgiving, Most Merciful.
51.
You (O Muhammad )
can postpone (the turn of) whom you will of them (your wives), and you may
receive whom you will. And whomsoever you desire of those whom you have set
aside (her turn temporarily), it is no sin on you (to receive her again),
that is better; that they may be comforted and not grieved, and may all be
pleased with what you give them. Allâh knows what is in your hearts. And Allâh
is Ever AllKnowing, Most Forbearing.
52.
It is not lawful for you (to marry other) women after this, nor to change
them for other wives even though their beauty attracts you, except those (captives
or slaves) whom your right hand possesses. And Allâh is Ever a Watcher over
all things.
53.
O you who believe! Enter not the Prophet's houses, except when leave is
given to you for a meal, (and then) not (so early as) to wait for its preparation.
But when you are invited, enter, and when you have taken your meal, disperse,
without sitting for a talk. Verily, such (behaviour) annoys the Prophet, and
he is shy of (asking) you (to go), but Allâh is not shy of (telling you) the
truth. And when you ask (his wives) for anything you want, ask them from behind
a screen, that is purer for your hearts and for their hearts. And it is not
(right) for you that you should annoy Allâh's Messenger, nor that you should
ever marry his wives after him (his death). Verily! With Allâh that shall
be an enormity.
54.
Whether you reveal anything or conceal it, verily, Allâh is Ever AllKnower
of everything.
55.
It is no sin on them (the Prophet's wives, if they appear unveiled) before
their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their brother's sons,
or the sons of their sisters, or their own (believing) women, or their (female)
slaves, and keep your duty to Allâh. Verily, Allâh is Ever AllWitness over
everything.
56.
Allâh sends His Salât (Graces, Honours, Blessings, Mercy, etc.)
on the Prophet (Muhammad )
and also His angels too (ask Allâh to bless and forgive him). O you who believe!
Send your Salât on (ask Allâh to bless) him (Muhammad ),
and (you should) greet (salute) him with the Islâmic way of greeting (salutation
i.e. AsSalâmu 'Alaikum).
57.
Verily, those who annoy Allâh and His Messenger ()
Allâh has cursed them in this world, and in the Hereafter, and has prepared
for them a humiliating torment.
58.
And those who annoy believing men and women undeservedly, bear on themselves
the crime of slander and plain sin.
59.
O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers
to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e.screen themselves
completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better,
that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed.
And Allâh is Ever OftForgiving, Most Merciful.
60.
If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease (evil desire
for adultery, etc.), and those who spread false news among the people in AlMadinah,
cease not, We shall certainly let you overpower them, then they will not be
able to stay in it as your neighbours but a little while.
61.
Accursed, wherever found, they shall be seized and killed with a (terrible)
slaughter.
62.
That was the Way of Allâh in the case of those who passed away of old,
and you will not find any change in the Way of Allâh.
63.
People ask you concerning the Hour, say: "The knowledge of it is
with Allâh only. What do you know? It may be that the Hour is near!"
64.
Verily, Allâh has cursed the disbelievers, and has prepared for them a
flaming Fire (Hell).
65.
Wherein they will abide for ever, and they will find neither a Walî
(a protector) nor a helper.
66.
On the Day when their faces will be turned over in the Fire, they will
say: "Oh, would that we had obeyed Allâh and obeyed the Messenger (Muhammad
)."
67.
And they will say: "Our Lord! Verily, we obeyed our chiefs and our
great ones, and they misled us from the (Right) Way.
68.
Our Lord! give them double torment and curse them with a mighty curse!"
69.
O you who believe! Be not like those who annoyed Mûsa (Moses), but Allâh
cleared him of that which they alleged, and he was honourable before Allâh.
70.
O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allâh and fear Him, and speak (always)
the truth.
71.
He will direct you to do righteous good deeds and will forgive you
your sins. And whosoever obeys Allâh and His Messenger ()
he has indeed achieved a great achievement (i.e. he will be saved from the
Hell-fire and made to enter Paradise).
72.
Truly, We did offer AlAmânah (the trust or moral responsibility
or honesty and all the duties which Allâh has ordained) to the heavens and
the earth, and the mountains, but they declined to bear it and were afraid
of it (i.e. afraid of Allâh's Torment). But man bore it. Verily, he was unjust
(to himself) and ignorant (of its results).
73. So
that Allâh will punish the hypocrites, men and women, and the men and women
who are AlMushrikûn (the polytheists, idolaters, pagans, disbelievers
in the Oneness of Allâh, and in His Messenger Muhammad
). And Allâh will pardon (accept the repentance of) the true believers of
the Islâmic Monotheism, men and women. And Allâh is Ever OftForgiving, Most
Merciful.