# ayatafseer

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the path of those to whom You have granted blessings, those who are neither subject to Your anger nor have gone astray.


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the pious who believe in the unseen, attend to prayer, give in charity part of what We have granted them


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who have faith in what has been revealed to you and others before you and have strong faith in the life hereafter.


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They deceive God and the believers. However, they have deceived no one but themselves, a fact of which they are not aware.


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A sickness exists in their hearts to which God adds more sickness. Besides this, they will suffer a painful punishment as a result of the lie which they speak.


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They have traded guidance for error, but their bargain has had no profit and they have missed the true guidance.


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(Their case) is like that of one who kindles a fire and when it grows bright God takes away its light leaving him in darkness (wherein) he cannot see (anything).


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Or it is like that of a rain storm with darkness, thunder, and lightning approaching. They cover their ears for fear of thunder and death. God encompasses those who deny His words.


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The lightning almost takes away their vision. When the lightning brightens their surroundings, they walk and when it is dark, they stand still. Had God wanted, He could have taken away their hearing and their vision. God has power over all things.


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People, worship your Lord who created you and those who lived before you, so that you may become pious.


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Worship God who has rendered the earth as a floor for you and the sky as a dome for you and has sent water down from the sky to produce fruits for your sustenance. Do not knowingly set up anything as an equal to God.


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Should you have any doubt about what We have revealed to Our servant, present one chapter comparable to it and call all your supporters, besides God, if your claim is true.


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If you do not produce such a chapter and you never will then guard yourselves against the fire whose fuel will be people and stones and is prepared for those who hide the Truth.


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(Muhammad), tell the righteously striving believers of the happy news, that for them there are gardens wherein streams flow. Whenever they get any fruit from the gardens as food, they will say, &quot


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God does not hesitate to set forth parables of anything even a gnat. The believers know that it is the truth from their Lord, but those who deny the truth say, &quot


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who break their established covenant with Him and the relations He has commanded to be kept and who spread evil in the land. These are the ones who lose a great deal.


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How dare you deny the existence of God Who gave you life when you initially had no life. He will cause you to die and bring you to life again. Then you will return to His Presence.


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It is He who created everything on earth for you. Then, directing His order towards the realm above, He turned it into seven heavens. He has knowledge of all things.


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He taught Adam all the names. Then He introduced (some intelligent beings) to the angels, asking them to tell Him the names of these beings, if the angels were true to their claim (that they more deserved to be His deputies on earth).


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When We told the angels to prostrate before Adam, they all obeyed except Iblis (Satan) who abstained out of pride and so he became one of those who deny the truth.


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We told Adam to stay with his spouse (Eve) in the garden and enjoy the foods therein, but not to go near a certain tree lest he become one of the transgressors.


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Satan made Adam and his spouse err and caused them to abandon the state in which they had been living. Then We said, &quot


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Adam was inspired by some words (of prayer) through which he received forgiveness from his Lord, for He is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


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We ordered them all to get out of the garden and told them that when Our guidance came to them, those who would follow it would have neither fear nor grief.


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But those who would deny the Truth and reject Our revelations would be the companions of the Fire in which they would live forever.


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Children of Israel, recall My favors which you enjoyed. Fulfill your covenant with Me and I shall fulfill Mine. Revere only Me.


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Believe in My revelations (Quran) that confirms what I revealed to you ( about Prophet Muhammad in your Scripture). Do not be the first ones to deny it nor sell My revelations for a small price, but have fear of Me.


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Be steadfast in prayer, pay the religious tax (zakat) and bow down in worship with those who do the same.


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Would you order people to do good deeds and forget to do them yourselves even though you read the Book? Why do you not think?


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Help yourselves (in your affairs) with patience and prayer. It is a difficult task indeed, but not for the humble ones


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Have fear of the day when every soul will be responsible for itself. No intercession or ransom will be accepted and no one will receive help.


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(Children of Israel, recall My favor) of saving you from the Pharaoh´s people who afflicted you with the worst kind of cruelty, slaying your sons and sparing your women. Your suffering was indeed a great trial from your Lord.


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Then We called Moses for an appointment of forty nights. You began to worship the calf in his absence, doing wrong to yourselves.


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We gave Moses the Book and the criteria (of discerning right from wrong) so that perhaps you would be rightly guided.


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When you argued with Moses, saying that you were not going to believe him unless you could see God with your own eyes, the swift wind struck you and you could do nothing but watch.


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We provided you with shade from the clouds and sent down manna and quails as the best pure sustenance for you to eat. They (children of Israel) did not wrong Us but wronged themselves.


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The unjust ones among you changed what they were told to say. Then, We afflicted them with a torment from the heavens for their evil deeds.


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When Moses prayed for rain, We told him to strike the rock with his staff. Thereupon twelve fountains gushed out of the rock and each tribe knew their drinking place. The Lord told them, &quot


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However, those who have become believers (the Muslims), and the Jews, the Christians and the Sabaeans who believe in God and the Day of Judgment and strive righteously will receive their reward from the Lord and will have nothing to fear nor will they be grieved.


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Children of Israel, recall when We made a covenant with you, raised Mount Tur (Sinai) above you and told you to receive earnestly what We had given to you and bear it in mind so that you would protect yourselves against evil.


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Again you turned away. Had God´s Grace and His Mercy not existed in your favor, you would certainly have been lost.


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You certainly knew about those among you who were transgressors on the Sabbath. We commanded them, &quot


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in order to set up an example for their contemporaries and coming generations and to make it a reminder for the pious.


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When you murdered someone, each one of you tried to accuse others of being guilty. However, God made public what you were hiding.


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Thereafter, your hearts turned as hard as rocks or even harder for some rocks give way to the streams to flow. Water comes out of some rocks when they are torn apart and others tumble down in awe before God. God does not ignore what you do.


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Do you, the believers in truth, desire the unbelievers to believe you? There was a group among them who would hear the word of God and understand it. Then they would purposely misinterpret it.


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Some of them are illiterate and have no knowledge of the Book except for what they know from legends and fantasy. They are only relying on conjecture.


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There is no doubt that evil doers who are engulfed in sins are the companions of hell fire wherein they will live forever.


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As for the righteously striving believers, they will be among the people of Paradise wherein they will live forever.


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We made a covenant with the children of Israel that they should not worship anyone except Me, that they should serve their parents, relatives, orphans, and the destitute, that they should speak righteous words to people, and that they should be steadfast in their prayers and pay the religious tax. But soon after you made this covenant, all but a few of you broke it heedlessly.


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We made a covenant with you that you should not shed each other´s blood or expel each other from your homeland. You accepted and bore witness to this covenant,


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yet you murdered each other and forced a number of your people out of their homeland, helping each other to commit sin and to be hostile to one another. When you had expelled people from their homeland and later they had been made captives (of other people), you then paid their ransom (thinking that it was a righteous deed). God forbade you to expel these people in the first place. Do you believe in one part of the Book and not in the other? Those who behave in this way shall reap disgrace in this world and severe punishment on the Day of Resurrection. God is not unaware of things that you do.


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They have traded the life hereafter in exchange for their worldly life. Their punishment will not be eased nor will they receive help.


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We gave the Book to Moses and made the Messengers follow in his path. To Jesus, the son of Mary, We gave the miracles and supported him by the Holy Spirit. Why do you arrogantly belie some Messengers and murder others whenever they have brought you messages that you dislike?


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They have said that their hearts cannot understand (what you, Muhammad, say). God has condemned them for their denial of the Truth. There are a very few of them who have faith.


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When a Book came to them from God which confirms what is with them (the fact of truthfulness of the Prophet Muhammad in their Scripture), and, despite the fact that they had been praying for victory over the disbelievers (by the help of the truthful Prophet), they refuse to accept this book, even though they know it (to be the Truth). May God condemn those who hide the Truth!


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Evil is that for which they have sold their souls: They have refused to accept God´s revelations in rebellion against the servant of God whom He has, by His Grace, chosen to grant His message. They have brought upon themselves God´s wrath in addition to the wrath that they had incurred upon themselves for their previous sins. The disbelievers will suffer a humiliating torment.


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(Moses) brought you certain miracles. Not very long after, you began worshipping the calf which was nothing but senseless cruelty to yourselves.


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(Children of Israel) when We made a covenant with you, raised Mount Tur (Sinai) above you, and told you to receive devotedly what We had revealed to you and to listen to it, you said that you had listened but you disobeyed. They denied the truth and became totally devoted and full of love for the calf. (Muhammad) tell these people, &quot


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But they can never have a longing for death because of what they have done. God knows the unjust well.


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However, you will find them the greediest of all men, even more than the pagans, for life. They would each gladly live for a thousand years, but such a long life would not save them from the torment. God sees what they do.


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(Muhammad), tell the people, whoever is an enemy to Gabriel who has delivered the Book to your heart as a guide and as joyful news to the believers,


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and as a confirmation of (original) Scripture and whoever is the enemy of God, His angels, His Messenger, Gabriel and Michael, should know that God is the enemy of those who hide the Truth..


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Why is it that every time they (the Jews) make a covenant, some of them abandon it. Most of them do not even believe.


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When a Messenger of God came to them confirming the ( original) revelation that they already had received, a group of those who had the Scripture with them, threw the Book of God behind their backs as if they did not know anything about it.


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They followed the incantations that the devils used against the kingdom of Solomon. Solomon did not hide the truth but the devils did. They taught magic to the people and whatever was revealed to the two angels, Harut and Marut, in Babylon. The two angels did not teach anything to anyone without saying, &quot


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Would that they had known that if they had embraced the faith and avoided evil, they would have received better rewards from God.


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Believers, do not address the Prophet as ra´ina (whereby the Jews, in their own accent, meant: Would that you would never hear, but call him unzurna) (meaning: Please speak to us slowly so that we understand), and then listen. The unbelievers will face a painful torment.


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(Muhammad) the disbelievers among the People of the Book and the pagans do not like to see anything good revealed to you from your Lord. God reserves His mercy for whomever He chooses. The generosity of God is great.


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For whatever sign We change or eliminate or cause to recede into oblivion, We bring forth a better sign, one that is identical. Do you not know that God has power over all things?


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Do you not know that the kingdom of the heavens and the earth belongs to God and that no one is your guardian or helper besides Him?


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Do you want to address the Prophet in the same manner in which Moses was addressed? Anyone who exchanges belief for disbelief has certainly gone down the wrong path.


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Once you have accepted the faith, many of the People of the Book would love, out of envy, to turn you back to disbelief, even after the Truth has become evident to them. Have forgiveness and bear with them until God issues His order. God has power over all things.


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Be steadfast in your prayer and pay the religious tax. You will receive a good reward from God for all your good works. God is Well-aware of what you do.


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They have said that no one can ever go to Paradise except the Jews or Christians, but this is only what they hope. Ask them to prove that their claim is true.


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However, one who accepts Islam in submission to God and does good, will have his reward with God. Such people will have nothing to fear nor to grieve about.


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The Jews accuse the Christians of having no basis for their religion and the Christians accuse the Jews of having no basis for their religion, even though both sides read the Scripture. The ignorant ones say the same thing. God will issue His decree about their dispute on the Day of Judgment.


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Who is more unjust than those who strive to destroy the mosques and prevent others from commemorating the Name of God therein who could not enter the mosques except with fear. They, (the unjust ones), will be disgraced in this life and will receive great torment in the life hereafter.


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The East and the West belong to God. Wherever you turn, you are always in the presence of God. God is Munificent and Omniscient.


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They, (the People of the Book), have said that God has taken for Himself a son. He is too glorious to have a son. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. All pray in obedience to Him.


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God is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. Whenever He decides to do anything, He just commands it to exist and it comes into existence.


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We have sent you (Muhammad) for a genuine purpose to proclaim glad news and warnings. You will not be blamed for the dwellers of blazing hell.


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The Jews and Christians will never be pleased with you unless you follow their faith. (Muhammad) tell them that the guidance of God is the only true guidance. If you follow their wishes after all the knowledge that has come to you, you will no longer have God as your guardian and helper.&quot


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Those (of the People of the Book) who have received Our Book (Quran), and read it thoroughly, believe in it. Those who disbelieve the Book are certainly losers.


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Children of Israel, recall My favor to you and the preference that I gave to you over all the other nations.


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Have fear of the day when every soul will be responsible for itself, no ransom will be accepted for it, no intercession will be of any benefit to it and no one will receive any help.


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We made the house (in Mecca) as a place of refuge and sanctuary for men. Adopt the place where Abraham stood as a place for prayer. We advised Abraham and Ishmael to keep My house clean for the pilgrims, the worshippers and for those who bow down and prostrate themselves in worship.


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Lord, make us good Muslims (one who submits himself to God) and from our descendants make a good Muslim nation. Teach us the rules of worship and accept our repentance


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Lord, send to them (our descendants) a Messenger of their own who will recite to them Your revelations, teach them the Book, give them wisdom, and purify them. You alone are the Majestic and the Most Wise.&quot


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No one turns away from Abraham´s Tradition except one who makes a fool of himself. To Abraham We have granted distinction in this world and in the life hereafter he will be among the righteous ones.


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That nation (children of Abraham) is gone. They have reaped what they sowed, and the same applies to you. You are not responsible for their deeds.


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The Jews and the Christians have asked the Muslims to accept their faith to have the right guidance. (Muhammad) tell them, &quot


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If they have faith in all that you believe, they will have the right guidance, but if they turn away, it would be for no reason other than their own malice. God is a Sufficient defender for you against them


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Everyone will be responsible for his own deeds. Do you (People of the Book) claim that Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and their descendants were Jews or Christians?&quot


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That nation is gone, they have reaped what they sowed and the same applies to you. You are not responsible for their deeds.


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We have made you (true Muslims) a moderate nation so that you could be an example for all people and the Prophet an example for you. The direction which you had been facing during your prayers (the qibla) was only made in order that We would know who would follow the Messenger and who would turn away. It was a hard test but not for those to whom God has given guidance. God did not want to make your previous prayers worthless


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We certainly saw you (Muhammad) often turn your face to the sky, so We shall instruct you to face a qibla that you will like. (Muhammad) during prayer, turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque (in Makkah). Muslims, also, wherever you are, during your prayers, turn your faces towards the Sacred Mosque. The People of the Book certainly know that this command (to change the qibla) is truly from their Lord. God is not unaware of what they do.


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Even if you were to bring all kinds of authoritative proof to the People of the Book, they still would not accept your qibla, nor would you accept theirs, nor would they accept each others. Were you to follow their desires after all the knowledge that has come to you, you would certainly have been one of the unjust.


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Those to whom We have given the Book (Bible), know you (Muhammad) just as a well as they know their sons. It is certain that some of them deliberately hide the truth.


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Every one pursues his goal. Compete with each other in performing good deeds. Wherever you are, God will bring you all together. God has power over all things.


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(Muhammad), wherever you go, turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque (in Mecca). This is the truth from your Lord who is not unaware of what you do


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(Muhammad) wherever you go, turn your face to the Sacred Mosque and Muslims, wherever you are, turn your faces in the same direction so that no group of people, except the unjust among them, would have any reason against you and so that I may establish My commandments for your people to have proper guidance. (The unjust may criticize you) but do not fear them, fear only Me.


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As We have sent a Messenger from your own people to show you evidence about Me, to purify you from sins, to teach you the Book, give you wisdom and instruct you in that which you did not know,


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Do not consider those who are slain for the cause of God to be dead. They are alive but you are unaware of them.


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We shall test you through fear, hunger, loss of life, property, and crops . (Muhammad), give glad news to the people who have patience


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Safa and Marwah (names of two places in Mecca) are reminders of God. It is no sin for one who visits the Sacred House (in Mecca) to walk seven times between (Safa and Marwah.) Whoever willingly does a good deed in obedience to God, will find God All-knowing and Fully Appreciative.


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Those who hide the authoritative proofs and the guidance that We have revealed, after it has been made clear for the People of the Book, will be condemned by God and those who have the right to condemn.


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However, I shall accept the repentance of those of them who repent for their sins, reform their manners, and preach the truth


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Those who deny My existence and die with such attitude will be subject to the condemnation of God, the angels, and all people.


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They will live condemned forever, will have no relief from the torment, and no attention will be paid to them.


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The creation of the heavens and the earth, the alternation of nights and days, the ships that sail in the sea for the benefit of the people, the water that God sends from the sky to revive the dead earth where He has scattered all kinds of animals, the winds of all directions, and the clouds rendered for service between the sky and the earth are all evidence (of His existence) for those who use their reason.


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Some people consider certain things equal to God and love them just as one should love God. However, the strongest of the believers´ love is their love of God. Had the unjust been able to reflect about their condition, when facing the torment, they would have had no doubt that to God belongs All-power and that He is stern in His retribution.


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Preaching to unbelievers is like talking to someone who cannot hear anything except yells and shouts. They are deaf, dumb, and blind


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Believers, eat from the good things that We have given you and give thanks to God if you worship only Him.


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God has forbidden you to eat that which has not been properly slaughtered, blood, pork, and the flesh of any animal which has not been consecrated with a mention of the Name of God. However, in an emergency, without the intention of transgression or repeating transgression, one will not be considered to have committed a sin. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


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Those who receive some small gain by hiding the Books which God has revealed, have, in fact, filled up their stomachs with fire. God will not speak with them on the Day of Judgment, nor will He purify them


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They have exchanged guidance for error and forgiveness for torment. What makes them seek the fire so earnestly (for they are doomed to be punished)?


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God has revealed the Book in all Truth and those who dispute it are filled with malice which has taken them far away from the truth.


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Righteousness is not determined by facing East or West during prayer. Righteousness consists of the belief in God, the Day of Judgment, the angels, the Books of God, His Prophets


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Believers, in case of murder, the death penalty is the sanctioned retaliation: a free man for a free man, a slave for a slave, and a female for a female. However, if the convicted person receives pardon from the aggrieved party, the prescribed rules of compensation must be followed accordingly. This is a merciful alteration from your Lord. Whoever transgresses against it will face a painful punishment.


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People of understanding, the law of the death penalty as retaliation grants you life so that perhaps you will have fear of God.


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If one of you facing death can leave a legacy, he should bequeath it to his parents and relatives, according to the law. This is the duty of the pious.


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Whoever intentionally changes the will of a deceased person, he has committed a sin. God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


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One who is afraid of the testator´s deviations and sin and settles the matter among the parties involved, he has not committed a sin. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


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Believers, fasting has been made mandatory for you as it was made mandatory for the people before you, so that you may have fear of God.


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Fasting is only for a certain number of days. One who is sick or on a journey has to fast the same number of days at another time. Those who can afford a redemption should feed a poor person. Good deeds performed on one´s own initiative will be rewarded. However, fasting is better and will be rewarded. Would that you knew this!


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It is made lawful for you, during the nights of fasting, to have carnal relations with your wives. They are your garments and you are their garments. God knew that you were deceiving yourselves. He relented towards you and forgave you. Now it is lawful for you to have carnal relations with your wives and follow what God has commanded. Eat and drink until the white streak of dawn becomes distinguishable from darkness. Complete your fast, starting from dawn to dusk. It is not lawful to have carnal relations with your wives during i´tikaf in the mosque. Such are the limits of the laws of God. Do not come close to transgressing them. Thus has God explained His evidence to men so that perhaps they will have fear of God.


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Do not use your property among yourselves in illegal ways and then deliberately bribe the rulers with your property so that you may wrongly acquire the property of others.


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(Muhammad), they ask you about the different phases of the moon. Tell them that they are there to indicate to people the phases of time and the pilgrimage season. It is not a righteous act to enter houses from the back. Righteousness is to be pious and enter the houses from the front door. Have fear of God so that perhaps you will have lasting happiness.


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Fight for the cause of God, those who fight you, but do not transgress, for God does not love the transgressors.


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Slay them wherever you may catch them and expel them from the place from which they expelled you. The sin of disbelief in God is greater than committing murder. Do not fight them in the vicinity of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca unless they start to fight. Then slay them for it is the recompense that the disbelievers deserve.


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Fight them so that there will be no disbelief in God and God´s religion will become dominant. If they change their behavior, there would be no hostility against anyone except the unjust.


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It is because of their disrespect of a sacred month that you are also allowed to retaliate against them in a sacred month. If any one transgresses against you, you also may retaliate against them to an equal extent. Have fear of God and know that He supports the pious.


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Complete the hajj and umrah (two parts of the rituals of pilgrimage to Makka ) in obedience to God. If you are prevented from completing the duty of hajj, offer whatever sacrifice is possible and do not shave your heads before the sacrificial animal is delivered to the prescribed place. If one of you is ill or is suffering because of some ailment in your head, you must redeem the shaving of the head by fasting, or paying money, or offering a sheep as a sacrifice. When all is well with you and you want to complete the umrah in the hajj season, offer whatever sacrifice is possible. If you do not find an animal, you have to fast for three days during the days of the pilgrimage rituals and seven days at home to complete the required ten fasting days. This rule is for those who live beyond (a distance of twelve miles from) the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. Have fear of God and know that He is stern in His retribution.


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The months of the hajj (pilgrimage) season are well known. Whoever undertakes to complete the hajj rituals, must know that, after commencing the acts of Hajj, he is not allowed to have carnal relations or to lie or to swear by the Name of God. God knows all your good deeds. Supply yourselves for the journey. The best supply is piety. People of understanding have fear of Me.


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It is not a sin if you try to make a profit out of the bounty of your Lord (by trading during hajj). When you leave Arafah, commemorate the name of your Lord in Mash´ar, the sacred reminder of God. Commemorate His name as He has given you guidance while prior to that you had been in error.


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After you complete the acts of your Hajj, also commemorate God, just as you would remember your father, or even more earnestly. Some people say, &quot


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Commemorate (the names of) God in the prescribed days. For one who observes piety, it is not a sin to be hasty or tardy during the two days. Have fear of God and know that before Him you will all be raised after death.


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There are some people whose words about this life may please you. They say that God knows what they have in their hearts. But, in fact, they are the most quarrelsome opponents.


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As soon as they leave you, they quickly commit evil in the land, destroying the farms and people. God does not love evil.


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When they are asked to have fear of God, sinful pride prevents them from paying heed to such advice. It is enough for them to have hell as a terrible dwelling place.


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There are those among people who give their lives to seek God´s pleasure. God is Affectionate to His servants.


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If you are seduced after you have received the authoritative guidance, know that God is Majestic and Wise.


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Have they decided not to believe until God comes down in a shadow of clouds with the angels so that then the matter is settled? To God do all matters return.


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(Muhammad), ask the children of Israel about how many visible miracles We had shown them. God is certainly stern in His retribution to those who change the bounty of God (His revelation), after having received His guidance.


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The worldly life is made to seem attractive to the disbelievers who scoff at the faithful, but the pious, in the life hereafter, will have a position far above them. God grants sustenance (without account) to anyone He wants.


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At one time all people were only one nation. God sent Prophets with glad news and warnings. He sent the Book with them for a genuine purpose to provide the people with the ruling about disputed matters among them. No one disputed this matter except those who had already received evidence before. Their dispute was only because of their own hostility. To deal with this dispute, God, through His will, sent guidance to the believers. God guides to the right path whomever He wants.


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Would you think that you could go to Paradise without experiencing the kind of suffering others have experienced before you? Distress and afflictions battered them until the Messenger and the believers said, &quot


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They ask you what to spend for the cause of God. (Muhammad) tell them that whatever you spend, give it to your parents, the orphans, the destitute, and those who may be in urgent need of money whilst on a journey. Whatever good you do, God certainly is Aware of it.


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Fighting is made mandatory for you, but you dislike it. You may not like something which, in fact, is for your good and something that you may love, in fact, may be evil. God knows, but you do not know.


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(Muhammad), they ask you about fighting in the sacred month. Tell them that it is a great sin. However, creating an obstacle in the way of God, disbelief in Him and the Sacred Mosque, and driving away the neighbors of the Sacred Mosque is an even greater sin in the sight of God: Disbelief in God is worse than committing murder. (The pagans) still try to fight you to make you give up your religion. The deeds in this life of those of you who give up their religion and who die disbelievers will be made void and in the life hereafter. These people will be the dwellers of Hell wherein they will remain forever.


tafseer:
The believers and the Emigrants from Mecca who fight for the cause of God, indeed have hope in receiving the mercy of God


tafseer:
(Muhammad), they ask you about wine and gambling. Tell them that there is great sin in them. Although they have benefits for men, the sin therein is far greater than the benefit. They ask you about what they should give for the cause of God. Tell them, &quot


tafseer:
Do not marry pagan women unless they believe in God. A believing slave girl is better than an idolater, even though the idolaters may attract you. Do not marry pagan men unless they believe in God. A believing slave is better than an idolater, even though the idolater may attract you. The pagans invite you to the fire, but God invites you to Paradise and forgiveness through His will. God shows His evidence to people so that they may take heed.


tafseer:
Your wives are as fields for you. You may enter your fields from any place you want. Reserve something good for your souls (for the life hereafter). Have fear of God and know that you are going to meet Him. (Muhammad) give the glad news to the believers.


tafseer:
Do not swear by God not to do good things, or have piety, or make peace among people. God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


tafseer:
God will not take into account your inattentive oath. However, He will question you about what your hearts have gained. God is All-forgiving and Lenient.


tafseer:
Those who swear by God not to ever have any carnal relations with their wives (will not be punished), if they decide to resume marital relations again within four months. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
The divorced women must wait up to three menstrual cycles before another marriage. If they believe in God and the Day of Judgment, it is not lawful for them to hide what God has created in their wombs. Within their waiting period their husbands have the right to resume marital relations, if they want reconciliation. Women have benefits as well as responsibilities. Men have a status above women. God is Majestic and Wise.


tafseer:
A marital relation can only be resumed after the first and second divorce, otherwise it must be continued with fairness or terminated with kindness. It is not lawful for you to take back from women what you have given them unless you are afraid of not being able to observe God´s law. In this case, it would be no sin for her to pay a ransom to set herself free from the bond of marriage. These are the laws of God. Do not transgress against them


tafseer:
After a divorce for the third time, it is not lawful for the husband to resume marital relations with her or remarry her until she has been married and divorced by another husband. In that case, there is no sin for the former husband to marry her if they (both) think that they can abide by the law. These are the laws of God. He explains them for the people of knowledge.


tafseer:
When you divorce your wives and their waiting period has almost ended, you may resume marital relations with honor or leave them with kindness. Do not force them to live with you in suffering to satisfy your hostility. Whoever commits such transgressions, he has only harmed himself. Do not make jest of God´s words. Remember the favors that God has done to you and the Book and wisdom He has revealed for your guidance. Have fear of God and know that God has knowledge of all things.


tafseer:
When the waiting period of the divorced women has ended, you (her relatives) must not prevent them from marrying their (previous) husbands again if they might reach an honorable agreement. This is an advice for those of you who believe in God and the Day of Judgment. It is the most beneficial and pure way of treating each other. God knows but you do not know.


tafseer:
Mothers will breast feed their babies for two years if the fathers want them to complete this term. The father has to pay them reasonable expenses. No soul is responsible for what is beyond its ability. None of the parents should suffer any loss from the other because of the baby. The heirs are responsible to look after the children of a deceased. It is no sin for the parents to have a mutual agreement about weaning the baby. There is no sin in hiring a woman to breast feed your children for a reasonable payment. Have fear of God and know that God is well aware of what you do.


tafseer:
The wives of those of you who die have to wait for a period of four months and ten days. After this appointed time, it is no sin for the relatives of the deceased to let the widows do what is reasonable. God knows well what you do.


tafseer:
It is not a sin if you make an indirect marriage proposal or have such an intention in your hearts. God knows that you will cherish their memories in your hearts. Do not have secret dates unless you behave lawfully. Do not decide for a marriage before the appointed time is over. Know that God knows what is in your hearts. Have fear of Him and know that He is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Also, it is not a sin if you divorce your wives before the consummation of the marriage or the fixing of the dowry. But the dowry will be due from a husband whether he is rich or poor. It is payable in a reasonable amount according to the husband´s financial ability. This is an obligation for the righteous ones.


tafseer:
If you divorce your wives before the consummation of the marriage and the amount of dowry has been fixed, pay your wives half of the amount of their dowry unless she or her guardians drop their demand for payment. To drop such a demand is closer to piety. Be generous to each other. God is Well-Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
Pay due attention to your prayers, especially the middle prayer and stand up while praying, in obedience to God.


tafseer:
Those who are about to die and leave widows behind should bequeath for their wives the expenses of one year´s maintenance. The widows must not be expelled from the house for up to one year. It is no sin for the relatives of the deceased to permit the widows to leave the house before the appointed time and do what is reasonable. God is Majestic and Wise.


tafseer:
The divorced women have the right to receive reasonable provisions. It is an obligation for the pious.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), consider the thousands who left their homes for fear of death, who were then caused by God to die and brought back to life. God is generous to men but most people are not grateful.


tafseer:
One who generously lends to God will be paid back in many multiples of the loan. It is God who reduces and expands things and to Him you will all return.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), remember that group of the Israelites after Moses who demanded a Prophet of their own to appoint a king for them who would lead them in the fight for the cause of God. Their Prophet then said, &quot


tafseer:
Advancing towards Goliath and his army, they prayed to God for patience, steadfastness in battle, and for victory over the unbelievers.


tafseer:
They defeated their enemy through God´s will. David slew Goliath and God granted David the kingdom and wisdom and also taught him whatever He wanted. Had God not made one group of people repel the other, the earth would have become full of corruption, but God is generous to His creatures.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), these are the revelations which We recite to you for a genuine purpose. Certainly you are one of Our Messengers.


tafseer:
We gave some of Our Messengers preference over others. To some of them God spoke and He raised the rank of some others. We gave authoritative proofs to Jesus, son of Mary, and supported him by the Holy Spirit. Had God wanted, the generations who lived after those Messengers would not have fought each other after the authority had come to them. But they differed among themselves, some of them believed in the authority and others denied it. They would not have fought each other had God wanted, but God does as He wills.


tafseer:
Believers, out of what We have given you, spend for the cause of God before the coming of the day when there will be no trading, no friendship, and no intercession. Those who deny the Truth are unjust.


tafseer:
God exists. There is no God but He, the Everlasting and the Guardian of life. Drowsiness or sleep do not seize him. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. No one can intercede with Him for others except by His permission. He knows about people´s present and past. No one can grasp anything from His knowledge besides what He has permitted them to grasp. The heavens and the earth are under His dominion. He does not experience fatigue in preserving them both. He is the Highest and the Greatest.


tafseer:
There is no compulsion in religion. Certainly, right has become clearly distinct from wrong. Whoever rejects the devil and believes in God has firmly taken hold of a strong handle that never breaks. God is All-hearing and knowing.


tafseer:
God is the Guardian of the believers and it is He who takes them out of darkness into light. The Devil is the guardian of those who deny the Truth and he leads them from light to darkness. These are the dwellers of hell wherein they will live forever.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), have you heard about the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord for His granting him authority? Abraham said, &quot


tafseer:
Spending money for the cause of God is as the seed from which seven ears may grow, each bearing one hundred grains. God gives in multiples to those whom He wants. God is Munificent and All-knowing.


tafseer:
Those who spend their property for the cause of God and do not make the recipient feel obliged or insulted shall receive their reward from God. They will have no fear nor will they be grieved.


tafseer:
Instructive words and forgiveness are better than charity that may cause an insult to the recipient. God is Rich and Forbearing.


tafseer:
Believers, do not make your charities fruitless by reproachfully reminding the recipient of your favor or making them feel insulted, like the one who spends his property to show off and who has no faith in God or belief in the Day of Judgment. The example of his deed is as though some soil has gathered on a rock and after a rain fall it turns hard and barren. Such people can not benefit from what they have earned. God does not guide the unbelievers.


tafseer:
The example of those who spend their property to please God out of their firm and sincere intention is as the garden on a fertile land which, after a heavy rainfall or even a drizzle, yields double produce. God is Well-Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
(What do you think of the case) of one of you who wishes to have a garden of palm-trees and grapes with water flowing therein and producing all kinds of fruits, especially if he is well advanced in age and has weak children who need support, and then a hurricane with fire in it strikes the garden and burns it to the ground? This is how God explains to you His evidence so that you may think.


tafseer:
Believers, spend for the cause of God from the good things that you earn and from what we have made the earth yield for you. Do not even think of spending for the cause of God worthless things that you yourselves would be reluctant to accept. Know that God is Self-sufficient and Glorious.


tafseer:
Satan threatens you with poverty and commands you to commit sin. God promises you forgiveness and favors. God is Munificent and All-knowing.


tafseer:
God gives wisdom to anyone whom He wants. Whoever is given wisdom, certainly, has received much good. Only people of reason can grasp this.


tafseer:
God knows all about whatever you spend for His cause or any vows that you make. The unjust people have no helper.


tafseer:
It is not bad to give alms in public. However if you give them privately to the poor, it would be better for you and an expiation for some of your sins. God is Well-Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), you do not have to guide them. God guides whomever He wants. Whatever you spend for the cause of God is for your own good, provided you do not spend anything but to please God. For anything good that you may give for the cause of God, you will receive sufficient reward and no injustice will be done to you.


tafseer:
(If the recipients of charity are) the poor whose poverty, because of their striving for the cause of God, has become an obstacle for them, and who do not have the ability to travel in the land, they seem rich compared to the ignorant, because of their modest behavior. You would know them by their faces. They would never earnestly ask people for help. God knows well whatever wealth you spend for the cause of God.


tafseer:
Those who spend their property for the cause of God, any time during the day or night, in public or in private, will receive their reward from their Lord. There will be no fear for them nor will they grieve.


tafseer:
Those who take unlawful interest will stand before God (on the Day of Judgment) as those who suffer from a mental imbalance because of Satan´s touch


tafseer:
God makes unlawful interest devoid of all blessings and causes charity to increase. God does not love sinful unbelievers.


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers who are steadfast in their prayers and pay the zakat, will receive their reward from God. They will have no fear nor will they grieve.


tafseer:
Believers, have fear of God and give up whatever unlawful interest you still demand from others, if you are indeed true believers.


tafseer:
If you will not give up the unlawful interest which you demand, know that you are in the state of war with God and His Messenger. But if you repent, you will have your capital without being wronged or having done wrong to others.


tafseer:
One who faces hardship in paying his debts must be given time until his financial condition improves. Would that you knew that waiving such a loan as charity would be better for you!


tafseer:
Safeguard yourselves against the day when you will return to God and every soul will be rewarded according to its deeds without being wronged.


tafseer:
Believers, if you take a loan for a known period of time, have a just scribe write it down for you. The scribe should not refuse to do this as God has taught him. The debtor should dictate without any omission and have fear of God, his Lord. If the debtor is a fool, a minor, or one who is unable to dictate, his guardian should act with justice as his representative. Let two men or one man and two women whom you choose, bear witness to the contract so that if one of them makes a mistake the other could correct him. The witness must not refuse to testify when their testimony is needed. Do not disdain writing down a small or a large contract with all the details. A written record of the contract is more just in the sight of God, more helpful for the witness, and a more scrupulous way to avoid doubt. However, if everything in the contract is exchanged at the same time, there is no sin in not writing it down. Let some people bear witness to your trade contracts but the scribe or witness must not be harmed


tafseer:
If you are on a journey where you cannot find a scribe, finalize your contract in the form of a deposit in which the goods are already given to the parties. If you trust each other in such a contract, let him pay back what he has entrusted you with and have fear of God, his Lord. Do not refuse to testify to what you bore witness. Whoever does so has committed a sin. God knows what you do.


tafseer:
God belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. God will call you to account for all that you may reveal from your souls and all that you may conceal. God will forgive or punish whomever He wants. God has power over all things.


tafseer:
The Messengers and the believers have faith in what was revealed to them from their Lord. Everyone of them believed in God, His angels, His Books, and His Messengers, saying, &quot


tafseer:
God does not impose on any soul a responsibility beyond its ability. Every soul receives whatever it gains and is liable for whatever it does. Lord, do not hold us responsible for our forgetfulness and mistakes. Lord, do not lay upon us the burden that You laid on those who lived before us. Lord, do not lay on us what we cannot afford. Ignore and forgive our sins. Have mercy on us. You are our Lord. Help us against the unbelievers.


tafseer:
He has sent the Book (Quran) to you (Muhammad) in all Truth. It confirms the original Bible. He revealed the Torah and the Gospel


tafseer:
before as a guide for the people and now He has revealed the criteria of discerning right from wrong. Those who reject the revelations of God will face the most severe torment. God is Majestic and capable to revenge.


tafseer:
It is God who has revealed the Book to you in which some verses are clear statements (which accept no interpretation) and these are the fundamental ideas of the Book, while other verses may have several possibilities. Those whose hearts are perverse, follow the unclear statements in pursuit of their own mischievous goals by interpreting them in a way that will suit their own purpose. No one knows its true interpretations except God and those who have a firm grounding in knowledge say, &quot


tafseer:
Lord, it is certain that one day You will gather all the people together. God does not break His promise.&quot


tafseer:
The wealth and children of the unbelievers will never serve them as a substitute for their belief in God. Such people will be the fuel for the fire.


tafseer:
They do as the people of Pharaoh and those who lived before them did. They called Our revelations mere lies. God punished them for their sins. God is stern in His retribution.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), tell the unbelievers that they will soon be defeated and driven into Hell, a terrible dwelling.


tafseer:
There, certainly, is evidence (of the existence of God) for you in the case of the two armies. One of them fought for the cause of God. The other were disbelievers. The disbelievers appeared to be twice the size of the believers. However, God supports through His help whomever He wants. It is a good lesson for the people of true vision.


tafseer:
Worldly desires, wives, children, accumulated treasures of gold and silver, horses of noble breed, cattle, and farms are all made to seem attractive to men. All these are the bounties of the worldly life but in the life to come God has the best place for people to dwell.


tafseer:
who exercise patience, speak the truth, who are devoted in prayer, spend their property for the cause of God and seek forgiveness from God during the last part of the night.


tafseer:
God Himself testifies that He is the only Lord. The angels and the men of knowledge and justice testify that God is the only Lord, the Majestic, and All-wise.


tafseer:
In the sight of God Islam is the religion. The People of the Book created differences in the matters (of religion) because of their hostility among themselves, only after knowledge had come to them. Let whoever denies the revelations of God know that the reckoning of God is swift.


tafseer:
Warn those who deny the revelations of God and unjustly slay the Prophets and those who call people to be just, that they will suffer a painful torment.


tafseer:
The deeds of such people are made devoid of all virtue in both this life and the life to come. There will be no one to help them.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), consider those who have received a share of the Book. When they refer to the Book in order to judge amongst themselves, a group of them turn away with disregard


tafseer:
because of their belief that the fire will only touch them for a few days. This fabricated belief has deceived them in matters of their religion.


tafseer:
What will happen to their belief when We bring them together on the Inevitable Day when every soul will be justly recompensed for its deeds?


tafseer:
You cause the day to enter into the night and the night to enter into the day. You cause the living to come out of the dead and the dead to come out of the living. You give sustenance to whomever You want without keeping an account.


tafseer:
The believers must not establish friendship with the unbelievers in preference to the faithful. Whoever does so has nothing to hope for from God unless he does it out of fear or taqiyah (pious dissimulation). God warns you about Himself. To God do all things return.


tafseer:
On the day when every soul will see its good and bad deeds right before its very eyes, it will wish for the longest period of time to separate it from its bad deeds. God warns you about Himself. God is Compassionate to His servants.


tafseer:
God chose (and gave distinction to) Adam, Noah, the family of Abraham, and Imran over all the people of the world.


tafseer:
Her Lord graciously accepted the offer and made Mary grow up, pure, and beautiful. Zachariah took custody of her. Whenever he went to visit her in her place of worship, he would find with her some food. He would ask her, &quot


tafseer:
Mary, pray devotedly to your Lord, prostrate yourself before Him and bow down with those who bow down before Him.&quot


tafseer:
(Muhammad), that was some of the news about the unseen, that We have revealed to you. You were not among those who cast lots by throwing their arrows to find out who would take custody of Mary, nor were you among those who disputed the matter.


tafseer:
He will speak to the people while in his cradle and preach to them when he will be a man. He will be one of the righteous ones.


tafseer:
I shall sternly punish the unbelievers in this life and in the life to come and no one will help them.


tafseer:
This is the true story (of Jesus). There is no Lord but God. It is God who is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
You even argue about what is already known to you. What can you learn from arguing about that which you have no knowledge? God knows but you do not know.&quot


tafseer:
Abraham was not a Jew or a Christian. He was an upright person who had submitted himself to the will of God. Abraham was not a pagan.


tafseer:
The nearest people to Abraham, among mankind, are those who followed him, this Prophet (Muhammad) and the true believers. God is the Guardian of the true believers.


tafseer:
A group among the People of the Book would love to mislead you but they mislead no one but themselves. However, they do not realize it.


tafseer:
If you entrust some of the People of the Book, with a large quantity of gold, they will return it to you while if you entrust others among them with a small quantity of gold, they will not give it back to you unless you keep insisting on its return. For they say, &quot


tafseer:
Those who sell their covenant with God and their promises for a small price will have no share in the life hereafter. God will not speak to them nor will He look at them on the Day of Judgment nor will He purify them. They will face a painful torment.


tafseer:
A group among the People of the Book when reading the Bible, deliberately mispronounce words in order to change their meaning, try to show that what they have read is from the true Bible. In fact, what they have read is not from the true Bible. They say, &quot


tafseer:
God would never give the Book, authority, or prophesy to any person who would tell others to be his servants instead of being the servants of God. He would rather tell them to worship God for they had been teaching and studying the Book.


tafseer:
A Prophet would never order you to take the angels and the Prophets as your Lords. Would he order you to disbelieve after you have submitted yourselves to God?


tafseer:
Do they want a religion other than the religion of God when all that is in the heavens and the earth have submitted themselves to His will, either by their own free will or by force? To God do all things return.


tafseer:
No religion other than Islam (submission to the will of God) will be accepted from anyone. Whoever follows a religion other than Islam will be lost on the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
Why would God guide a people who disbelieves after having had faith, who have found the Messenger to be truthful, and who have received authoritative evidence? God does not guide the unjust.


tafseer:
with which they will live forever. Their torment will not be relieved and no attention will be paid to them.


tafseer:
However, to those who repent afterwards and reform themselves, God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Those who disbelieve, after having been believers and increase their disbelief, are lost and their repentance will not be accepted.


tafseer:
From those who have rejected the truth and died in disbelief, no ransom will be accepted even though they may pay a whole earth of gold. They will suffer a painful torment and no one will help them.


tafseer:
You can never have extended virtue and righteousness unless you spend part of what you dearly love for the cause of God. God knows very well whatever you spend for His cause.


tafseer:
All food was lawful for the children of Israel except for what Israel had deemed unlawful for himself before the Torah was revealed. (Muhammad), ask them to bring the Torah and read it, if they are true in their claim (that all food was not unlawful for the children of Israel).


tafseer:
The first house (of worship) that God assigned to men was in Bakka (another name of Mecca). It is a blessed one and a guide for all people.


tafseer:
In (Bakka), there are many clear signs (evidence of the existence of God). Among them is the spot where Abraham stood. Whoever seeks refuge therein will be protected by the laws of amnesty. Those who have the means and ability have a duty to God to visit the House and perform the hajj (pilgrimage) rituals. The unbelievers should know that God is Independent of all creatures.


tafseer:
Believers, if you obey a certain group among the People of the Book, they will turn you back to disbelief.


tafseer:
How could you turn back to disbelief when the words of God are recited to you and you have in your midst His Messenger? Those who seek the protection of God will certainly be guided to the right path.


tafseer:
Believers, have fear of God as you should and die only as Muslims (having submitted to the will of God).


tafseer:
All of you united hold fast to the rope of God (the Quran and His Messenger), and recall how He favored you when your hostility to each other had torn you apart. He united your hearts in one faith and through His Grace you became brothers. You were on the verge of falling headlong into the abyss of fire, but God saved you. This is how God explains to you His revelations so that you may have the right guidance.


tafseer:
Let there be a group among you who will invite others to do good deeds, command them to obey the Law, and prohibit them from committing sins. These people will have eternal happiness.


tafseer:
Do not be like those who turned into quarrelling sects after receiving clear authoritative evidence. They will suffer a great torment.


tafseer:
On the day when some faces will become white and others black, God will ask the people with the faces which have become black, &quot


tafseer:
The people whose faces have become white will enjoy the mercy of God with which they will live forever.


tafseer:
Such are God´s revelations which We explain to you, (Muhammad), for a genuine purpose. God does not want injustice for any of His creatures.


tafseer:
You are the best nation that ever existed among humanity. You command people to good and prohibit them from evil, and you believe in God. Had the People of the Book accepted the faith (Islam), it would certainly have been better for them. Some of them have faith, but most of them are evil doers.


tafseer:
They can never harm you beyond annoyance. In a fight, they will turn back in defeat and they will not be helped.


tafseer:
Humiliation will strike them wherever they seek protection, except when they seek protection from God and the people. They have incurred the wrath of God unto themselves and have been struck with destitution for their rejection of the revelations of God and for unjustly murdering the Prophets. It is all because of their transgression and rebellion.


tafseer:
The People of the Book are not all the same. Some of them are straightforward. They recite the words of God in prostration at night.


tafseer:
They believe in God and the Day of Judgment. They command people to follow good, prohibit others from committing evil and compete with each other in doing good deeds. These are the righteous ones.


tafseer:
The wealth and the children of the unbelievers can never make them independent of God. They are the dwellers of hell wherein they will live forever.


tafseer:
What they spend in this life is like the freezing wind that may strike and destroy the farms of the people who have wronged themselves. God has not done injustice to them, but they have wronged themselves.


tafseer:
Believers, do not expose your privacy to the unbelievers. They like to mislead you and see that you are seriously harmed. Signs of animosity from their mouths have already become audible, but what they hide in their heads is even worse. We have certainly made Our evidence clear, if only you would consider it.


tafseer:
There are people whom you love, but they do not love you, despite your belief in all the (heavenly) Books. On meeting you They proclaim belief on meeting you, but in private, bite their fingers at you in anger. Tell them, &quot


tafseer:
They hate to see your success and rejoice if any misfortune befalls you. If you will be patient and pious, their plots can cause no harm to you. God has control over all their actions.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), remember the morning when you left home to show the believers their position in the battle? God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


tafseer:
Two groups among you almost lost courage despite having God as their Guardian. The believers should always have trust in God.


tafseer:
God gave you victory in the battle of Badr where your forces were much weaker than those of the enemy. Have fear of God so that you may give Him thanks.


tafseer:
Certainly, if you have patience and piety, even if the enemy attacks immediately after this, God will help you with another force of five thousand angels, all splendidly ( and or distinctly marked) dressed.


tafseer:
The sending of the angels is a glad news from your Lord so that you would have more confidence in Him. No victory is real unless it is from God, the Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
(They are sent) to break the power of the unbelievers or disgrace them and make them return after having lost all hope.&quot


tafseer:
To God belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. He may forgive or punish whomever He wants. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Believers, do not accept illegal interest in order to increase your wealth many times over. Have fear of God so that you will have everlasting happiness.


tafseer:
Hasten to obtain forgiveness from your Lord and to qualify yourselves for Paradise. Paradise, vast as the heavens and the earth, is prepared for the pious


tafseer:
who spend their property for the cause of God in prosperity as well as in adversity and who also harness their anger and forgive the people. God loves the righteous ones.


tafseer:
(Paradise) is also for those who, when committing a sin or doing injustice to themselves, remember God and ask Him to forgive their sins. Who can forgive sins besides God? And who do not knowingly persist in their mistakes?


tafseer:
Their reward will be forgiveness from their Lord and gardens wherein streams flow and wherein they will live forever. How blessed is the reward of those who labor.


tafseer:
Different traditions existed in the past. Travel in the land and find out about the fate of those who rejected the Truth.


tafseer:
If you get hurt, certainly others have also experienced injuries. We have made people pass through the different turns of history so that God would know the true believers, have some of you bear witness to the people´s deeds, {God does not love the unjust}


tafseer:
Did you think that you could go to Paradise before God knew which of you fought for His cause and which of you bore patience?


tafseer:
You certainly wished to die (for the cause of God) before you actually faced death. Then you faced death (in the battlefield and only a few of you had the true desire to die).


tafseer:
Muhammad is only a Messenger. There lived other Messengers before him. Should (Muhammad) die or be slain, would you then turn back to your pre-Islamic behavior? Whoever does so can cause no harm to God. God will reward those who give thanks.


tafseer:
No one can die without the permission of God. This is a written decree of the appointed term for life. We shall give worldly gains to whoever wants them. Those who want rewards in the life hereafter will also receive them. We reward those who give thanks.


tafseer:
Many godly people fought to help the Prophets in the cause of God. They did not lose courage, show weakness, or give in when facing hardships in their fight for the cause of God. God loves those who have patience.


tafseer:
God gave them their reward in this world and the best reward of the life to come. God loves the righteous ones.


tafseer:
Believers, if you obey the unbelievers, they will turn you back to disbelief and you will become lost.


tafseer:
We shall cause terror to enter the hearts of the faithless for their considering things equal to God without authoritative evidence. Their abode will be fire, a terrible dwelling for the unjust.


tafseer:
God certainly fulfilled His promise to you when you were fighting the unbelievers, by His permission. Even after We showed you what you wanted, you began to lose courage, started quarreling with each other, and disobeyed God´s orders. Some of you want worldly gains and others of you want rewards in the hereafter. Then He let you face defeat in order to test you. However, He forgave you. God is Gracious to the believers.


tafseer:
(Believers remember) when you were fleeing without even glancing to either side even though the Messengers were calling you back, God made you suffer sorrow upon sorrow to make you forget your grief of what you had lost and the injuries you had suffered. God is Well-Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
After the sorrows you suffered, He sent you relief and some of you were encompassed by slumber. To some others of you, your lives were so important that you, like ignorant people, began thinking suspiciously of God saying, &quot


tafseer:
God knows what the hearts contain. Because of some of your bad deeds, those of you who ran away, when you faced the enemy, were misled by Satan. God forgave you for He is All-forgiving and Forbearing.&quot


tafseer:
Believers, do not be like the unbelievers, who said of their brothers who travelled in the land or took part in a fight, &quot


tafseer:
If you were to die or to be killed for the cause of God, certainly His forgiveness and mercy is far better than your worldly gains.


tafseer:
Only through the Divine Mercy have you (Muhammad) been able to deal with your followers so gently. If you had been stern and hard-hearted, they would all have deserted you a long time ago. Forgive them and ask God to forgive (their sins) and consult with them in certain matters. But ,when you reach a decision, trust God. God loves those who trust Him.


tafseer:
If God is your helper, no one can defeat you. However, if He abandons you, who would help you? The true believers trust in God.


tafseer:
No Prophet can ever be treacherous. A treacherous person will be brought before God on the Day of Judgment with his treacherous deeds. Then every soul will be recompensed for its works without being wronged.


tafseer:
Are those who seek God´s pleasure equal to those who incur His wrath and whose dwelling will be hell, the terrible destination?


tafseer:
God granted a great favor to the believers by sending a Messenger from their own people to recite to them God´s revelations, to purify them of moral defects, to teach them the Book, and to give them wisdom. Before this they had lived in manifest error.


tafseer:
If misfortune befell you (the believers) your enemies had suffered twice as much (in the battle of Badr) but you asked, &quot


tafseer:
What befell you, when the two armies confronted each other, was by the permission of God so that He would know who were the true believers


tafseer:
and who were the hypocrites. When the hypocrites were asked to fight for the cause of God or to defend the city, they replied, &quot


tafseer:
There are those who themselves did not join the others in fighting for the cause of God and said about their brothers, &quot


tafseer:
Do not think of those slain for the cause of God as dead. They are alive with their Lord and receive sustenance from Him.


tafseer:
They are pleased with the favor from their Lord and have received the glad news that those who follow them will have no fear nor will they be grieved,


tafseer:
that they will be rewarded with bounties and favors from their Lord and that God will not neglect the reward of the true believers.


tafseer:
The righteous and pious of those who have pledged obedience to God and the Messenger, after injury had befallen them, will receive a great reward.


tafseer:
Such people, when warned to fear those who are gathered against them, are strengthened in their faith and say, &quot


tafseer:
They returned with the favors and the bounties of God untouched by evil and followed by the pleasure of God. God´s favor is great.


tafseer:
It is Satan who frightens his friends. Do not be afraid of them (enemies) but have fear of Me if you truly believe.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), do not be grieved because of some people´s haste to disbelieve. They can do no harm to God. God has decided not to give them any share in the life hereafter. There will be a great torment for them.


tafseer:
Those who have traded faith in exchange for disbelief can never do any harm to God. There will be a painful torment for them.


tafseer:
The unbelievers must not think that Our respite is for their good. We only give them time to let them increase their sins. For them there will be a humiliating torment.


tafseer:
God left the believers in their existing state for no other reason than to distinguish the evil-doers from the virtuous ones. God does not inform you of the unseen. He chooses for such information anyone of His Messengers that He wants. Have faith in God and in His Messengers. If you have faith and are pious, there will be a great reward for you.


tafseer:
Those who are avaricious of the favors that God has given them should not think that this is good for them. Avarice is evil and whatever they are avaricious about will be tied to their necks on the Day of Judgment. To God belongs the heritage of the heavens and the earth. God is Well Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), say to those who say, ´God has commanded us not to believe any Messenger unless he offers a burnt offering,´ (Muhammad) say, &quot


tafseer:
If they reject you, they had certainly rejected the Messengers who lived before you and who showed them authoritative evidence, smaller Books, and the Book of enlightenment.


tafseer:
Every soul is destined to experience the agony of death. You (Muslims) will receive the recompense for your deeds on the Day of Judgment. To be saved from the fire and admitted to Paradise is certainly a great triumph. The worldly life is no more than a deceitful possession.


tafseer:
You (believers) will certainly be tested by the loss of your property and lives and you will hear a great many grieving words from the People of the Book and the pagans. If you will have patience and piety, it will be a sign of firm determination and steadfastness (in life).


tafseer:
Do not think that those who are happy with their possessions and positions and those who love to be praised for what they themselves have not done can ever be saved from torment. For them there will be a painful punishment.


tafseer:
The creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the day and the night are evidence (of the existence of God) for people of reason.


tafseer:
It is these who commemorate God while standing, sitting, or resting on their sides and who think about the creation of the heavens and the earth and say, &quot


tafseer:
Lord, grant us the victory that You have promised your Messenger and do not disgrace us on the Day of Judgment


tafseer:
(Muhammad), do not be deceived by the changing activities of the unbelievers in different parts of the land.


tafseer:
Their gains are only a means of enjoyment in this life. However, their destination is hell, the terrible dwelling.


tafseer:
For those who have fear of their Lord, there will be gardens wherein streams flow and they will live therein forever as a gift from their Lord. God has the best reward for the virtuous people.


tafseer:
There are some among the People of the Book who believe in God and what is revealed to you and to them. They are humble before God and do not trade God´s revelations for a small price. They will receive their reward from their Lord. God´s reckoning is swift.


tafseer:
Believers, have patience, help each other with patience, establish good relations with one another, and have fear of God so that you may have everlasting happiness.


tafseer:
People, have fear of your Lord who has created you from a single soul. From it He created your spouse and through them He populated the land with many men and women. Have fear of the One by whose Name you swear to settle your differences and have respect for your relatives. God certainly keeps watch over you.


tafseer:
Give to the orphans their property. Do not exchange the pure for the filthy and do not spend the property of orphans along with your own


tafseer:
With respect to marrying widows, if you are afraid of not being able to maintain justice with her children, marry another woman of your choice or two or three or four (who have no children). If you cannot maintain equality with more than one wife, marry only one or your slave-girl. This keeps you from acting against justice.


tafseer:
Pay the women their dowry as though it were a gift. However, if they allow you to keep a part of it as a favor to you, you may spend it with pleasure.


tafseer:
Do not give to people weak of understanding your property for which God has made you to supervise. Feed and clothe such people and speak to them in a reasonable way.


tafseer:
Before returning orphan´s property to them, make sure that they have reached maturity. Do not consume their property wastefully until such a time. The rich (guardian) should not take any of his ward´s property. However, a poor (guardian) may use a reasonable portion. When you return their property, make sure you have witness. God is a perfect in taking accounts.


tafseer:
Male and female are entitled to their legal share in the legacy of their parents and relatives, whether it be small or large.


tafseer:
If relatives, orphans or destitute people, are present at the distribution of the legacy, give them something and speak kindly to them.


tafseer:
Those who are concerned about the welfare of their own children after their death, should have fear of God (when dealing with the orphans) and guide them properly.


tafseer:
Those who wrongfully consume the property of orphans are, in fact, consuming fire in their bellies and they will suffer the blazing fire.


tafseer:
This is a commandment from your Lord: After the payment of debts or anything bequeathed, let the male inherit twice as much as the female. If there are more than two girls, they will have two-thirds of the legacy. If there is only one girl, she will inherit half of the legacy. Parents of the deceased will each inherit one-sixth of the legacy, if the deceased has a surviving child, however, if no children survive the deceased, and the heirs are the parents, the mother will receive one-third of the legacy. The mother will receive one-sixth of the legacy if the deceased has more than one surviving brother. These are the decreed shares according to the laws of God. Regardless of how you feel about your parents or children, you do not know which of them is more beneficial to you. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
If your wives die without any surviving children, you will inherit half of their legacy. If they have children, you will inherit one-fourth of their legacy after the debts and things bequeathed have been excluded from the legacy. After the payment of debts and things bequeathed have been excluded from the legacy, your wives will inherit one-fourth of your legacy if you have no surviving children. If you leave a child, they will inherit one eighth of your legacy. If the deceased, either male or female, has no surviving heirs such as parents or children but has a brother or a sister, the brother or sister will each inherit one-sixth of the legacy. If there are more than just a brother or a sister, they will share one-third of the legacy. This is after the payment of any debts and things bequeathed have been excluded from the legacy, so that no one will be caused to suffer any loss. It is a guide from God, the All-knowing and Forbearing.


tafseer:
These are the laws of God. Whoever obeys God and His Messenger will be admitted to the gardens wherein streams flow and wherein they will live forever. This is the greatest triumph.


tafseer:
Whoever disobeys God and His Messenger and breaks His rules will be admitted to the fire wherein they will live forever, suffering a humiliating torment.


tafseer:
Those of your women who commit fornication, let four (Muslim) witness testify to their act. If there is sufficient testimony, confine them to their homes until they die, or until God provides a way for their freedom.


tafseer:
If any two people commit fornication, punish them. If they repent and reform, let them go. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
God will only accept the repentance of those who commit evil in ignorance, if they repent immediately. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
There is no forgiveness for those who commit sin and do not repent until the last moment of their lives nor for those who die as unbelievers. For these people We have prepared a painful torment.


tafseer:
Believers, it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will as part of the legacy. Do not create difficulties for your wives in order to force them to give-up part of what you had given to them to set themselves free from the bond of marriage, unless they have clearly committed adultery. Always treat them reasonably. If you dislike them, you could be disliking that which God has filled with abundant good.


tafseer:
If you want to divorce a woman so that you can marry another, do not take back the dowry which you had paid even if what you paid was a large amount of gold. To do this is a slanderous act and a manifest sin.


tafseer:
How can you take it back when you have had intimate relations and made a solemn agreement with each other?


tafseer:
Do not marry, from now on, the ex-wives of your fathers for that custom was sinful, loathsome, and abominable.


tafseer:
You are forbidden to marry your mothers, daughters, sisters, paternal aunts, maternal aunts, nieces, your foster-mothers, your foster-sisters, your mothers-in-law, your step-daughters whom you have brought up and with whose mothers you have had carnal relations. It would not be a sin to marry her if you did not have carnal relations with her mother. You are forbidden to marry the wives of your own sons and to marry two sisters at the same time without any adverse affect to the such relations of the past. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
You are forbidden to marry married women except your slave-girls. This is the decree of God. Besides these, it is lawful for you to marry other women if you pay their dower, maintain chastity and do not commit indecency. If you marry them for the appointed time you must pay their dowries. There is no harm if you reach an understanding among yourselves about the dowry, God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
If any of you do not have the means to marry a chaste believing woman, marry your believing slave-girls. God knows best about your faith. You have the same faith. Marry them with the permission of their masters and if they are chaste and have avoided fornication and amorous activities, give them their just dowries. If after marriage they commit adultery, they should receive half of the punishment of a free woman who has committed the same crime. This is for those who fear falling into evil. It is better for you to have self-control. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
God wants to guide you, explain to you the customs of those who lived before you, and grant you forgiveness. He is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
Believers, do not exchange your property in wrongful ways unless it is in trade by mutual agreement. Do not kill one another. God is All-merciful to you.


tafseer:
Whoever commits murder out of animosity and injustice will be burnt in hell fire. This is a very easy thing for God to do.


tafseer:
If you avoid violating that which has been prohibited, your (lesser) sins will be forgiven and you will be admitted into an exalted dwelling.


tafseer:
Do not envy the favors which God has granted to some of you. Men and women will both be rewarded according to their deeds, rather pray to God for His favors. God knows all things.


tafseer:
We have chosen heirs for every legacy that parents and relatives may leave. Let those who have been promised a bequest receive their share of the legacy. God is Omnipresent.


tafseer:
Men are the protectors of women because of the greater preference that God has given to some of them and because they financially support them. Among virtuous women are those who are steadfast in prayer and dependable in keeping the secrets that God has protected. Admonish women who disobey (God´s laws), do not sleep with them and beat them. If they obey (the laws of God), do not try to find fault in them. God is High and Supreme.


tafseer:
If there appears to be discord between a wife and her husband and if they desire reconciliation choose arbiters from the families of both sides. God will bring them together


tafseer:
Worship God and consider no one equal to Him. Be kind to your parents, relatives, orphans, the destitute, your near and distant neighbors, your companions, wayfarers, and your slaves. God does not love the proud and boastful ones,


tafseer:
the stingy ones who try to make others stingy or those who hide the favors that God has bestowed on them. We have prepared a humiliating torment for the disbelievers,


tafseer:
those who spend their property out of a desire to show off and not because of their belief in God and the Day of Judgment, and (lastly) those who choose Satan for a friend


tafseer:
How could it have harmed them if they had believed in God and the Last Day and spent their property for the cause of God? God knows them very well


tafseer:
God does not do even an atom´s weight of injustice. A good deed is multiplied by God and richly rewarded.


tafseer:
How will it be when We call for a witness from every nation and have you, (Muhammad), testify against them all?


tafseer:
At that time the disbelievers who disobeyed the Messenger will wish that they could be turned into dust and they will be able to hide nothing from God.


tafseer:
Believers, do not pray when you are drunk, but, instead, wait until you can understand what you say. Also, do not pray when you have experienced a seminal discharge until after you have taken a bath, unless you are on a journey. If, while sick or on a journey, you can find no water after having defecated or after having had carnal relations, perform tayammum by touching your palms on the pure earth and wipe the (upper part of) your face and the backs of your hands. God is Gracious and All-forgiving.


tafseer:
Have you seen those who had received a portion of the Book trade misguidance and try to make you, too, go astray?


tafseer:
Some Jews take certain words out of context and by twisting their tongues to make a jest out of the true religion, say, &quot


tafseer:
People of the Book, have faith in the Quran that We have revealed to confirm your Book, before certain faces are changed and turned back. We shall condemn them as We did the people of the Sabbath about whom God´s decree had decisively been ordained.


tafseer:
God does not forgive the sin of considering others equal to Him, but He may choose to forgive other sins. Whoever believes in other gods besides Him has indulged in a great sin.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), have you seen those who try to purify themselves? They should know that God only purifies whomever He wants and that the slightest wrong will not be done to such people.


tafseer:
Have you seen how those who had been given a share of the Book believe in idols and Satan and who say, &quot


tafseer:
Even if they had a share in the Kingdom (Divine authority), they would not have given the smallest thing to anyone.


tafseer:
Are they jealous of the favors that God has done to some people? We have given to the family of Abraham the Book, Wisdom, and a great Kingdom.


tafseer:
Some have believed, others have disbelieved and tried to prevent people from believing. For these people, only the intense fire of hell is a sufficient punishment.


tafseer:
We will make the rejectors of Our revelations suffer in hell fire. As soon as the fire destroys their skins, We will give them new skins so that they may suffer more of the torment. God is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
We will admit the righteously striving believers into the gardens wherein streams flow. They will live therein forever in a cool shade with their pure spouses.


tafseer:
God commands you to return that which had been entrusted to you to the rightful owners. Be just when passing judgment among people. God´s advice is the most noble. He sees and hears everything.


tafseer:
Believers, obey God, His Messenger, and your (qualified) leaders. If you have faith in God and the Day of Judgment, refer to God and His Messenger concerning matters in which you differ. This would be a more virtuous and a better way of settling differences.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), have you seen those who think that they have faith in what is revealed to you and to others before you, yet choose to take their affairs to Satan for judgment even though they are commanded to deny him. Satan wants to lead them far away from the right path.


tafseer:
When the (hypocrites) are told to refer to God´s revelations and to the Messenger, they try to find excuses to stay away from you (Muhammad).


tafseer:
What would happen if they were to be afflicted by a disaster brought about by their own hands? They would then come to you swearing by God, &quot


tafseer:
God knows what is in their hearts. (Muhammad), ignore their faults, advise them, and tell them frankly about what is in their souls.


tafseer:
We did not send any Messengers for any reason other than to be obeyed because of the will of God. If they ever do injustice to themselves and come to you (Muhammad) asking for God´s forgiveness and if the Messenger also was to ask God to forgive them, they would certainly find God All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
I swear by your Lord that they will not be considered believers until they let you judge their disputes and then they will find nothing in their souls to prevent them from accepting your judgment, thus, submitting themselves to the will of God.


tafseer:
Had We commanded them to kill themselves or abandon their homes, only a few of them would have done it. If they had done what they had been advised to do, it would have strengthened their faith,


tafseer:
One who obeys God and the Messenger is the friend of the Prophets, saints, martyrs, and the righteous ones to whom God has granted His favors. They are the best friends that one can have.


tafseer:
There are some among you who lag behind (in battle) and if you were to experience hardship, they would say, &quot


tafseer:
Those who want to buy the life hereafter with this life should fight for the cause of God. We will give them a great reward whether they are killed or whether they are victorious.


tafseer:
Why do you not fight for the cause of God or save the helpless men, women, and children who cry out, &quot


tafseer:
The believers fight for the cause of God. The unbelievers fight for the cause of the Satan. So fight against the friends of Satan for the evil plans of Satan are certainly weak.


tafseer:
Have you not seen those who were told to stop fighting, to say their prayers, and pay the religious tax? When they were ordered to fight, some of them feared other men as much as or more than they feared God and so they said, &quot


tafseer:
Wherever you are, death will find you even if you hide yourselves in firmly constructed towers. Whenever people experience good fortune, they say that it is from God but whenever they experience misfortune, they say it is because of you, (Muhammad). Tell them, &quot


tafseer:
Whatever good you may receive is certainly from God and whatever you suffer is from yourselves. We have sent you, (Muhammad), as a Messenger to people. God is a Sufficient witness to your truthfulness.


tafseer:
One who obeys the Messenger has certainly obeyed God. You have not been sent to watch over those who turn away from you.


tafseer:
They proclaim obedience to you but as soon as they leave at night, a group of them make secret plans to do the contrary of what you have told them to do. God keeps the record of their nocturnal plans. Therefore, leave them alone and put your trust in God


tafseer:
Will they not ponder on the Quran? Had it not come from someone other than God, they would have certainly found therein many contradictions.


tafseer:
When they receive any news of peace or war, they announce it in public. Had they told it to the Messenger or to their (qualified) leaders, they could have used that information more properly. Were it not for the favor and mercy of God, all but a few of them would have followed Satan.


tafseer:
Thus, (Muhammad), fight for the cause of God. You are only responsible for yourself. Rouse the believers and perhaps God will stop the evil designs of the unbelievers. God´s punishment and retribution is the most severe.


tafseer:
Whoever intercedes for a good purpose will receive his share of the reward but the intercession for an evil purpose only adds more to one´s burden. God has control over all things.


tafseer:
Answer a greeting in kinder words than those said to you in the greeting or at least as kind. God keeps account of all things.


tafseer:
God exists. He is the only Lord. He will gather you all together on the Day of Judgment which will certainly come. Who is more truthful than God?


tafseer:
Why are you divided into two different parties concerning the hypocrites, when God Himself has turned them to disbelief because of their misdeeds. Do you want to guide those whom God has caused to go astray? You cannot find guidance for those whom God has made to err.


tafseer:
They wish you to become unbelievers as they themselves are. Do not establish friendship with them until they have abandoned their homes for the cause of God. If they betray you, seize them and slay them wherever you find them. Do not establish friendship with them or seek their help


tafseer:
except with those who attach themselves to your allies or come to you with no desire to fight you or their own people. God could have given them power to fight you. Thus, if they retreat, stop fighting and come forward expressing faith in Islam God will not allow you to fight them.


tafseer:
You will soon find others who seek security from you as well as from their own people, but when they are invited to return to idol worship, they do so enthusiastically. Thus, if they do not keep away from you nor come forward with a peace proposal nor desist from harming you, apprehend and slay them wherever you find them, for We have given you full control over them.


tafseer:
A believer cannot slay another believer except by mistake for which the retaliation is to set free a believing slave and pay the appointed blood money to the relatives of the deceased unless the relatives wave aside the payment. If the person slain is from your enemies but himself is a believer, the penalty is to set free a believing slave. If the person slain is one of those with whom you have a peace treaty, the penalty is the same as that for a slain believer. If this is not possible, the defendant has to fast for two consecutive months, asking God to accept his repentance. He is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
The punishment for one who purposely slays a believer will be to live in hell fire forever. God is angry with him and has condemned him. He has prepared for him a great torment.


tafseer:
Believers, if you march with arms for the cause of God, make sure that you know whom to fight. Do not accuse anyone who claims himself to be a Muslim of disbelief just for worldly gains. There is abundant bounty with God. Before, you were also like them, but God bestowed His favors upon you. Thus, make sure that you know whom to fight. God is Well Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
Among the believers, those who stay at home without a good reason are not equal to those who strive for the cause of God in person or with their property. To those who strive for His cause in person or with their property, God has granted a higher rank than to those who stay at home. God has promised that everyone will receive his proper share of the reward but He will grant a much greater reward to those striving for His cause than to those who stay home (for no reason).


tafseer:
God will grant those who strive high ranks, forgiveness, and mercy. He is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
When the angels take away from their bodies the souls of those who have wronged themselves, they will ask them, &quot


tafseer:
As for the really weak and oppressed men, women, and children who were not able to find any means of obtaining their freedom or of having the right guidance,


tafseer:
One who abandons his home for the cause of God will find many places of refuge in the vast land and one who dies, after having abandoned his home to get near to God and His Messenger, will receive his reward from God. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
When you are on a journey, it is no sin to shorten your prayers if you are afraid of the mischief of the unbelievers. The unbelievers have always been your sworn enemies


tafseer:
(Muhammad), if you are among them (your followers during a battle) and you call them for prayer, let a group of them carry their arms during prayer. After they have made their prostrations, let them go back to watch the enemy and let the other group who has not yet prayed, join you, carrying their arms with due precaution. The unbelievers would love to find you neglecting your arms and property and would attack you suddenly. If rain or illness make you suffer, you may place your arms aside during prayer but still observe due precaution. God has prepared a humiliating torment for the unbelievers.


tafseer:
When you complete your prayer, remember God all the time while standing, sitting, or reclining. When you are safe, say your prayers properly. It is a constant duty of the believers.


tafseer:
Do not neglect the pursuit of the enemy. If you have suffered, they too have suffered but you can, at least, expect from God what they can never expect. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
We have revealed to you the Book in all Truth so that you judge among people by the laws of God. However, never defend the treacherous ones.


tafseer:
They hide their sins from other people but they cannot hide themselves from God who is constantly with them, even when they hold nocturnal meetings, a thing which God does not like. God comprehends all that they do.


tafseer:
You defend them in this life but who will defend them against God on the Day of Judgment and who will be their attorney?


tafseer:
One who commits a sin or does wrong to himself and then seeks forgiveness from God, will find God All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
One who makes a mistake or commits a sin and ascribes it to an innocent person, he only burdens himself with slander and a grave sin.


tafseer:
Were it not for the favor and mercy of God, some of them would have certainly tried to make you (Muhammad) go astray. However, they cannot lead any one astray but themselves nor can they harm you. God has revealed the Book to you, has given you wisdom, and has taught you what you did not know. Certainly God´s favor to you has been great.


tafseer:
There is nothing good in much of their secret talks except for that which is for charity, justice, or for reconciliation among people to seek thereby the pleasure of God for which We will give a great reward.


tafseer:
Whoever gives the Messenger a hard time, even after having received clear guidance, and follows a path other than that of the believers, will be left alone. We will cast him into hell, a terrible destination.


tafseer:
God will not forgive the sin of considering something equal to Him, but He may forgive the other sins of whomever He wants. One who considers anything equal to God has certainly gone far away from the right path.


tafseer:
I will lead them astray, induce in their hearts prolonged, worldly desires, command them to pierce the ears of their animals, sacrificed for the idols, and order them to change the religion of God.&quot


tafseer:
We will admit the righteously striving believers to Paradise wherein streams flow and they will live therein forever. God´s promise is true for no one is more truthful than Him.


tafseer:
Believers and People of the Book, wishes alone can never provide you with salvation. Whoever commits evil will be punished accordingly and no one besides God will be his guardian or helper.


tafseer:
Any believer, male or female, who acts righteously, will enter Paradise and will not suffer the least bit of injustice.


tafseer:
Whose religion is better than that in which one submits himself to God, behaves righteously, and follows the upright religion of Abraham, God´s chosen friend?


tafseer:
If a woman is afraid of her husband´s ill treatment and desertion, it will be no sin for both of them to reach a reconciliation. Reconciliation is good even though men´s souls are swayed by greed. If you act righteously and be pious, God is Well Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
You will never be able to maintain justice among your wives and love them all equally, no matter how hard you try. Do not give total preference to one of them, leaving the other as if in suspense. If you do bring about reconciliation and maintain piety, God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
If the marriage is terminated, God will make each one of them financially independent. God is Munificent and Wise.


tafseer:
To God belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. We have told you and the People of the Book to have fear of God. If you all refuse to believe in Him, know that to God belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. God is Self-sufficient and Praiseworthy.


tafseer:
Be it known to those who want worldly rewards that God holds the rewards for this life as well as the life to come. God is All-hearing and All-seeing.


tafseer:
Believers, be the supporters of justice and the testify to what you may have witnessed, for the sake of God, even against yourselves, parents, and relatives


tafseer:
Believers, have faith in God and His Messenger, the Book which is revealed to him, and the Bible which has been revealed before. Whoever refuses to believe in God, His angels, Books, Messengers and the Day of Judgment, has gone far away from the right path.


tafseer:
God will not forgive or guide to the right path those who first believe, then disbelieve, again believe and disbelieve, and then increase their disbelief.


tafseer:
Do those who establish friendship with the disbelievers instead of the believers seek honor? Let them know that all honor belongs to God.


tafseer:
God has told you (believers) in the Book that when you hear people disbelieving and mocking God´s revelations, do not sit with them unless they change the subject. You will become like them. God will gather all the hypocrites and the disbelievers together in hell fire.


tafseer:
The hypocrites try to deceive God but He, in fact, deceives them. They stand up in prayer lazily just to show that they pray, but, in truth they remember God very little.


tafseer:
They are hesitant people belonging to neither side. You can find no other way for one whom God has caused to go astray.


tafseer:
Believers, do not make unbelievers your intimate friends and supporters rather than believers. Do you want to establish clear evidence against yourselves before God?


tafseer:
The hypocrites will be placed in the lowest bottom of the fire and none of you will ever find a helper for them, except


tafseer:
those (hypocrites) who have repented, put their trust in God, and sincerely followed only His religion will live with the believers to whom God will give a great reward.


tafseer:
Why should God punish you if you give thanks and believe in Him? God is All-rewarding and All-forgiving.


tafseer:
God does not love public accusation unless one is truly wronged. God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


tafseer:
Whether you act virtuously, in public or in private, or pardon (people´s) faults, God is All-forgiving and All-powerful.


tafseer:
Those who disbelieve in God and His Messengers try to create differences between God and His Messengers (by rejecting their message). They say, &quot


tafseer:
As for those who believe in God and make no distinction between His Messengers, they will receive His reward. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), the People of the Book ask you to make a Book descend to them from the heavens. However, they had asked Moses for things much harder to do than this, by saying, &quot


tafseer:
We raised Mount (Sinai) above them because of Our solemn promise to them. Also, We told them to prostrate themselves when entering the gate (of the holy house) and not to commit transgression on the Sabbath. We made a solemn covenant with them.


tafseer:
However, because of their disbelief, disregard of their covenant, denial of God´s revelations, murdering the Prophets without reason, and their saying that their hearts were covered, We sealed up their hearts. Only a few of them believe.


tafseer:
Their hearts were also sealed because of their lack of faith, their gravely slanderous accusation against Mary,


tafseer:
and their statement that they murdered Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of God, when, in fact, they could not have murdered him or crucified him. They, in fact, murdered someone else by mistake. Even those who disputed (the question of whether or not Jesus was murdered) did not have a shred of evidence. All that they knew about it was mere conjecture. They certainly could not have murdered Jesus.


tafseer:
There will be no one among the People of the Book who will not believe (a belief of no value) in him (Jesus) before their deaths. On the Day of Judgment, (Jesus) will testify against them.


tafseer:
We made unlawful for the Jews certain pure things which had been lawful for them before, because of the injustice which they had committed, their obstructing many people from the way of God,


tafseer:
their taking usury which was prohibited for them, and their consuming people´s property unjustly. For the unbelievers among them, We have prepared a painful torment.


tafseer:
However, the learned among them (the Jews) and the faithful believe in what God has revealed to you (Muhammad) and to the others before you and those who are steadfast in prayer, pay their religious tax, and believe in God and the Day of Judgment. They all will receive a great reward from Us.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), We have sent revelations to you just as were sent to Noah and the Prophets who lived after him and to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, his descendants, Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon. We gave the Psalms to David.


tafseer:
(We sent revelations to) the Messengers mentioned to you before and also to Messengers who have not been mentioned to you. God spoke to Moses in words.


tafseer:
The Messengers were sent to give people the glad news (of God´s mercy) and warn them (of His punishment) so that the human being would not have any objections against God, after the coming of the Messengers, (that they did not have any knowledge of His mercy and punishment). God is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
God testifies that whatever He has revealed to you (Muhammad) He has revealed it on purpose and the angels also testify to it but God´s testimony alone is Sufficient.


tafseer:
Those who have rejected the faith and have obstructed people from the way of God, have certainly gone far away from the right path.


tafseer:
God will not forgive those who have rejected the faith and committed injustice, nor will He guide them to any way


tafseer:
other than that of hell wherein they will live forever. For God this is not in the least bit difficult.


tafseer:
Mankind, the Messenger has come to you from your Lord in all Truth. It is for your own good to believe in him, but if you disbelieve, know that to God belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
People of the Book, do not exceed the limits of devotion in your religion or say anything about God which is not the Truth. Jesus, son of Mary, is only a Messenger of God, His Word, and a spirit from Him whom He conveyed to Mary. So have faith in God and His Messengers. Do not say that there are three gods. It is better for you to stop believing in the Trinity. There is only One God. He is too glorious to give birth to a son. To God belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. God alone is a Sufficient Guardian for all.


tafseer:
Jesus never disdained the worship of God nor did the nearest angels to God. Whoever, out of pride, disdains the worship of God should know that everyone will be brought before Him.


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers will receive the reward for their deeds and extra favors from God. But those who disdain the worship of God out of pride will suffer the most painful torment. They will find no guardian or helper besides God.


tafseer:
Those who believe in God and seek His protection will receive His mercy, favors, and His guidance to the right path.


tafseer:
Believers, stand by your contracts (and obligations). Of all animals, cattle has been made lawful for you as food with certain exceptions. Hunting is not lawful for you during ihram (a part of the rituals during pilgrimage). God decrees as He wills.


tafseer:
Believers, do not disrespect the reminders of God, the sacred months, the animals brought for sacrifice, or what is marked for sacrificial offering or the people heading to the precinct of the Sacred House to seek the favor and pleasure of their Lord. Once the restrictions of ihram are over, you may hunt. Do not let the hostility of a group of people keep you away from the Sacred Mosque or make you express animosity. Co-operate with each other in righteousness and piety, not in sin and hostility. Have fear of God


tafseer:
It is unlawful for you to consume the following as food: an animal that has not been properly slaughtered, blood, pork, an animal slaughtered and consecrated in the name of someone other than God, an animal killed by strangulation or a violent blow, an animal killed by falling down, an animal which has been gored to death, an animal partly eaten by a wild beast before being properly slaughtered, an animal which has been sacrificed on the stone blocks (which pagans worshipped), and any flesh divided by casting superstitious and gambling arrows (a pagan tradition), which is a sin. Today, the unbelievers have lost hope about your religion. Do not be afraid of them but have fear of Me. On this day I have perfected your religion, completed My favors to you, and have chosen Islam as your religion. If anyone not (normally) inclined to sin is forced by hunger to eat unlawful substances instead of proper food, he may do so to spare his life. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
On this day, all pure things are made lawful for you (as food). The food of the People of the Book is made lawful for you and your food is made lawful for them. It is lawful for you to marry chaste Muslim women and chaste women of the People of the Book, provided, you pay their dowry, maintain chastity, and avoid fornication or lustful relations outside of marriage. The deeds of anyone who rejects the faith, certainly, become fruitless. He will be of those who lose on the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
Believers, when you are about to pray, wash your face and your hands along with the elbows and wipe your head and your feet to the ankles. If you experience a seminal discharge, manage to take (the required) bath. If you are sick, or on a journey, or have just defecated, or have had intercourse with women and cannot find any water, perform a tayammum by: touching clean natural earth with both palms and wiping (the upper part) of your face and (the back of) your hands. God does not want you to suffer hardship. He wants you to be purified. He wants to complete His favors to you so that perhaps you would give Him thanks.


tafseer:
Remember God´s favors to you and the firm covenant that He has made with you. You said because of this covenant, &quot


tafseer:
Believers, be steadfast for the cause of God and just in bearing witness. Let not a group´s hostility to you cause you to deviate from justice. Be just, for it is closer to piety. Have fear of God


tafseer:
Believers, recall God´s favors to you when a group of people were about to harm you and God made their evil plots against you fail. Have fear of God. Believers, only trust in God.


tafseer:
God certainly made a solemn covenant with the children of Israel and raised among them twelve elders. God said to them, &quot


tafseer:
For their disregard of their solemn covenant with God, We condemned the Israelites and made their hearts hard as stone. Now they displace the words of God and have forgotten their share of the guidance that they had received. Still you receive news of the treachery of all but a few of them. Forgive and ignore them. God loves the righteous ones.


tafseer:
We had made a solemn covenant with those who call themselves Christians, but they forgot their share of the guidance that was sent to them. We have induced hatred and animosity among them which will remain with them until the Day of Judgment when God will tell them about what they had done.


tafseer:
People of the Book, Our Messenger has come to you. He tells you about the many things that you had been hiding of the Book and forgives you much. A light and a clarifying Book has come to you from God


tafseer:
to show the way of peace to those who seek His pleasure, to bring them out of darkness into light through His will and to guide them to the right path.


tafseer:
Those who have said that the Messiah, son of Mary, is God, have, in fact, committed themselves to disbelief. (Muhammad), ask them, &quot


tafseer:
People of the Book, Our Messenger has come to you to guide you at a time when none of Our other Messengers are living among you. (We sent him) so that you will not complain about having no one to tell you of what is good or warn you of what is bad. Now a bearer of good news has come to you. God has power over all things.


tafseer:
Enter the sacred promised land which God has designated for you. Do not return to disbelief lest you become lost&quot


tafseer:
(Muhammad) tell them the true story of the two sons of Adam (Abel and Cain). Each one of them offered a sacrifice. God accepted the sacrifice of one of them (Abel) but not that of the other (Cain) who then said to his brother, &quot


tafseer:
Even if you try to kill me, I certainly shall not try to kill you. I have fear of God, the Lord of the creation.


tafseer:
God sent down a raven which started to dig up the earth to show the killer how to bury the corpse of his brother. On seeing the raven, (Cain) said, &quot


tafseer:
For this reason, We made it a law for the children of Israel that the killing of a person for reasons other than legal retaliation or for stopping corruption in the land is as great a sin as murdering all of mankind. However, to save a life would be as great a virtue as to save all of mankind. Our Messengers had come to them with clear authoritative evidence but many of them (Israelites) thereafter started doing wrong in the land.


tafseer:
The only proper recompense for those who fight against God and His Messenger and try to spread evil in the land is to be killed, crucified, or either to have one of their hands and feet cut from the opposite side or to be sent into exile. These are to disgrace them in this life and they will suffer a great torment in the life hereafter.


tafseer:
As for those who repent before you (the legal authorities) have control over them (by proving their guilts). They should know that God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Believers, have fear of God. Find the means to reach Him and strive hard for His cause so that you may have everlasting happiness.


tafseer:
Had the unbelievers had twice as much as the wealth of the whole earth in order to ransom themselves from the torment in the life hereafter, still their ransom would not have been accepted. For them there will be a painful torment.


tafseer:
They will wish to get out of the fire but they will not have such a choice. Their torment will be constant.


tafseer:
Cut off the hands of a male or female thief as a punishment for their deed and a lesson for them from God. God is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
However, God will accept the repentance of whoever repents and reforms himself after committing injustice


tafseer:
Do you not know that to God belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth and that He punishes or forgives whomever He wants? God has power over all things.


tafseer:
Messenger, do not be grieved about the people who run back to disbelief. They only say that they believe but, in fact, they have no faith in their hearts. Some Jews knowingly listen to lies and accept the lies which come from others, (Jews), who have no relation with you and who distort certain words of the Bible and say to the people, &quot


tafseer:
They deliberately listen to lies (for deceitful purposes) and live on usury. If they come to you (seeking your judgment to settle their differences), you may settle their disputes or keep aloof from them. Should you choose not to bother with them, it will not harm you in the least. If you decide to issue your decree, decide their case with justice. God loves those who are just.


tafseer:
How can they come to you for judgment when they already have the Torah which contains the decree of God! It does not take them long to disregard your judgment


tafseer:
We had revealed the Torah, containing guidance and light. The Prophets who had submitted themselves to the will of God, judged the Jews by the laws of the Torah. So did the godly people and the Jewish scholars who remembered some parts of the Book of God and bore witness to it. Mankind, do not be afraid of people but have fear of Me. Do not sell My revelations for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by the laws of God are disbelievers.


tafseer:
In the Torah We made mandatory for the Jews these rules of retaliation: Capital punishment for the murder of a person


tafseer:
We made Jesus, son of Mary, follow in the footsteps (of the earlier Prophets) and confirm what existed in the Torah in his time. We gave him the Gospel containing guidance and light, as a confirmation of the Torah and instruction and advice for the pious ones.


tafseer:
The followers of the Gospels (the New Testament) must judge according to what God has revealed in it. Those who do not judge by the laws of God are evil doers.


tafseer:
We have revealed the Book to you (Muhammad) in all Truth. It confirms the (original) Bible and has the authority to preserve or abrogate what the Bible contains. Judge among them by what God has revealed to you and do not follow their desires instead of the Truth which has come to you. We have given a law and a way of life to each of you. Had God wanted, He could have made you into one nation, but He wanted to see who are the more pious ones among you. Compete with each other in righteousness. All of you will return to God who will tell you the truth in the matter of your differences.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), you must judge among them by what God has revealed. Do not follow their desires. Beware of their mischievous deception concerning some of the matters that God has revealed to you. If they turn away, know that what God wants is to punish them for some of their sins. Many human beings are evil-doers.


tafseer:
Do they want judgments that are issued out of ignorance? Who is a better judge for the people whose belief is based on certainty, than God?


tafseer:
Believers, do not consider the Jews and Christians as your intimate friends for they are only friends with each other. Whoever does so will be considered as one of them. God does not guide the unjust people.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), you have seen those whose hearts are sick, running around among the people (Jews) saying, &quot


tafseer:
Believers, whichever of you turns away from his faith should know that God will soon raise a people whom He loves and who love Him, who are humble towards the believers, dignified to the unbelievers, who strive hard for the cause of God, and who have no fear of anyone´s accusations. This is a favor from God. He bestows His favors upon whomever He wants. God is Munificent and All-knowing.


tafseer:
Only God, His Messenger, and the true believers who are steadfast in prayer and pay alms, while they kneel during prayer, are your guardians.


tafseer:
One whose guardians are God, His Messenger ,and the true believers should know that God´s party will certainly triumph.


tafseer:
Believers, do not consider those among the People of the Book and the unbelievers who mock at your religion and treat it as useless, as your protectors. Have fear of God if you are true believers.


tafseer:
Because they are devoid of understanding, they ridicule your call for prayers saying that it is a useless act.


tafseer:
You can see many of them competing with each other in sin, hostility, and in taking usury. What they had been doing is certainly evil.


tafseer:
Why did the men of God and rabbis not forbid them from following their sinful words and their consuming of unlawful gains. Evil was their (rabbis and priests) profession!


tafseer:
Had the People of the Book accepted the faith and observed piety, certainly, We would have redeemed their bad deeds and admitted them into a blissful Paradise.


tafseer:
Had they followed the Laws of the Old and New Testaments and what was revealed to them from their Lord, they would have received Our bounties from above and below in abundance. Some of them are modest people, but many of them commit the worst sins.


tafseer:
Messenger, preach what is revealed to you from your Lord. If you will not preach, it would be as though you have not conveyed My message. God protects you from men. He does not guide the unbelieving people.


tafseer:
The believers, Jews, Sabaeans, and the Christians who believe in God and the Day of Judgment and who do what is right will have nothing to fear nor will they be grieved.


tafseer:
We made a covenant with the Israelites and sent Messengers to them. Whenever a Messenger came to them with a message which did not suit their desires, they would reject some of the Messengers and kill others.


tafseer:
They were blind and deaf in their pride, thinking themselves (to be the chosen nation of God) and thus safe from calamities. God forgave them but many of them out, of pride, again became blind and deaf. God is Well Aware of what they do.


tafseer:
Those who say that Jesus, the son of Mary, is God, have, in fact, turned to disbelief. Jesus said to the Israelites, &quot


tafseer:
Those who say that God is the third of the Three, have, in fact, turned to disbelief. There is no Lord but God, the only One Lord. If they will not give-up such belief, the disbelievers among them will suffer a painful torment.


tafseer:
Jesus, the son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger before whom there lived many other Messengers. His mother was a truthful woman and both of them ate earthly food. Consider how We explain the evidence (of the Truth) to them and see where they then turn.


tafseer:
The unbelievers among the Israelites, because of their disobedience and transgression, were condemned by David and Jesus, the son of Mary for their disobedience


tafseer:
They did not prevent each other from committing sins nor would they themselves stay away from them. Evil was what they had done!


tafseer:
You have seen many of them establishing friendship with the unbelievers. Vile is what their souls have gained! They have invoked the wrath of God upon themselves and they will live forever in torment.


tafseer:
Had they had faith in God, the Prophet, and what was revealed to him, they would not have been the friends of the unbelievers. However, many of them are evil-doers.


tafseer:
You find Jews and pagans among the worst of the enemies of the believers. (Of the non-believers) nearest to them (the believers) in affection you find those who say, &quot


tafseer:
When they hear what is revealed to the Messenger, you can see their eyes flood with tears, as they learn about the Truth. They say, &quot


tafseer:
Why should we not believe in God and the Truth that has come to us and hope that the Lord will admit us into the company of the righteous people?&quot


tafseer:
Thus, God has given them as their reward, gardens wherein streams flow and wherein they will live forever. Such will be the recompense of the righteous people.


tafseer:
Believers, do not make unlawful the pure things which God has made lawful for you. Do not transgress for God does not love the transgressors.


tafseer:
Eat from the pure and lawful things that God has given to you. Have fear of God in Whom you believe.


tafseer:
God will not hold you responsible for your thoughtless oaths. However, He will question you about your deliberate oaths. The expiation for breaking an oath is to feed ten needy people with food, typical of that which you feed to your own people, to clothe them or to set a slave free. One who cannot pay this, he must fast for three days to expiate his oaths. Keep your oaths. Thus, does God explain His Laws so that you will give Him thanks.


tafseer:
Believers, wine, gambling, the stone altars and arrows (that the pagans associate with certain divine characters) are all abominable acts associated with satanic activities. Avoid them so that you may have everlasting happiness.


tafseer:
Satan wants to induce hostility and hatred among you through wine and gambling and to prevent you from remembering God and prayer. Will you then avoid such things?


tafseer:
Obey God and the Messenger and be cautious (of the harmful things). If you turn away (from Our laws), know that the duty of the Messenger is only to preach in clear words.


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers will not be blamed for what they have eaten, if they maintain piety, do good deeds, have faith, and be charitable. God loves the generous people.


tafseer:
Believers, God will test you (to see the strength of your obedience) concerning what you hunt by hand or spear, so that He would know who has fear of Him in private. Whoever transgresses will suffer a painful torment.


tafseer:
Believers, do not hunt when you are in the holy precinct. Whichever of you purposely kills game in the holy precinct has to offer, as an expiation, a sacrifice in the holy precinct which two just people among you would consider equal to the prey or food to a destitute person or has to fast (for an appointed time) to bear the burden of the penalty for his deed. God forgives whatever was done in the past, but He will take revenge on whoever returns to transgression, for He is Majestic and Capable of taking revenge.


tafseer:
It is lawful for you to hunt from the sea and to eat seafood. This is for your benefit and for the benefit of travellers. However, it is not lawful for you to hunt on land as long as you are in the sacred precinct. Have fear of God before whom you will all be raised.


tafseer:
God has made the Kabah, the Sacred House, the sacred months, the unmarked and marked sacrificial animals for the welfare of men and in order to inform you that God knows all that is in the heavens and the earth. He has the knowledge of all things.


tafseer:
Believers, do not ask about things which, if revealed to you, would disappoint you. If you ask about such things when the Prophet is receiving revelations, they will also be revealed to you. God has exempted you (from the responsibilities of the things you wanted to know). He is All-forgiving and Forbearing.


tafseer:
God has not instituted the rites of Bahirah, Sa´ibah, Wasilah, nor of Hami (names of certain animals that the pagans would offer as sacrifice). It is the pagans who have attributed falsehood to God. Many of them have no understanding.


tafseer:
Believers, save your own souls, for if you have the right guidance, no one who strays can harm you. You will all return to God who will tell you about what you have done.


tafseer:
Believers, when death approaches any one of you, let two just men from your own people (Muslims) or any two other men (People of the Book) if death befalls you on a journey, bear witness to the bequest. If you have any doubts as to their honesty, detain them and let them take an oath after the prayer, each one of them saying, &quot


tafseer:
If their honesty is challenged, two others from the relatives of the deceased should swear in the same way and testify to the bequest saying, &quot


tafseer:
This will help preserve a proper testimony because the witness will be afraid of the denial of their own testimony by a second pair of witness. Have fear of God and listen (properly). God does not guide the evil doing people.


tafseer:
To God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them and He has power over all things.


tafseer:
Only God Who has created the heavens, the earth, darkness, and light deserves all praise. The disbelievers consider other things equal to Him.


tafseer:
It is He who has created you from clay to live for a life-time and the span of your life is only known to Him. You are still suspicious!.


tafseer:
(The unbelievers) have always turned away from the revelations and the evidence (of the Truth) that has been sent to them from time to time.


tafseer:
They have refused the Truth (Muhammad´s message) that has come to them but they will soon learn the consequences of their mocking.


tafseer:
Why do they not consider how many generations living before them We have destroyed. We established those nations in the land with abilities far beyond those given to you. We sent down plenty of rain from the sky for them and made streams flow therein, but, then, We destroyed them for their sins and established other nations after them.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), had We sent you a Book on paper, the unbelievers would have touched it with their hands but would still have said, &quot


tafseer:
Were We to have made him (Our Messenger) an angel, We would have made him resemble a human being and they would have again complained that the matter was as confusing to them as it is to them now.


tafseer:
They mocked the Messengers who lived before you (Muhammad), but those who received warnings of punishment and mocked the warnings, all suffered their torments accordingly.


tafseer:
One who will be saved from the torment on the Day of Judgment will certainly have received God´s mercy and this will be a manifest triumph.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), if God afflicts you with hardship, no one besides Him will be able to relieve you. If He bestows a favor on you, know that He has power over all things.


tafseer:
The People of the Book know him (Muhammad) just as well as they know their own children, but those who have lost their souls will not believe.


tafseer:
Who are more unjust than those who ascribe falsehood to God or reject His revelations? The unjust will certainly have no happiness.


tafseer:
Some of them listen to you, but We have veiled their hearts so that they cannot understand and made them deaf. They disbelieve all the evidence (of Our existence) that they may have seen. They only come to you for the sake of argument and the disbelievers say that (whatever Muhammad says) is no more than ancient legends.


tafseer:
They keep away from the faith and forbid others to accept it. They destroy no one except themselves, yet they do not realize it.


tafseer:
Whatever they had concealed will be revealed to them. If they were to return to (the worldly life), they would again worship idols, for they are liars.


tafseer:
Those who do not believe in the Day of Judgment have incurred upon themselves a great loss. When the Day of Judgment suddenly comes upon them, they will sink under the burden of their sins in grief for their neglecting that day. Terrible indeed will be their burden!


tafseer:
The worldly life is but useless amusement and sport (compared to) the life hereafter which is far better and is only for the pious. Will you not then understand?


tafseer:
We certainly know that you (Muhammad) are sad about what they (the unbelievers) say. It is not you (alone) who has been accused of lying. The unjust have always rejected God´s revelations.


tafseer:
The Messengers who lived before you were also accused of lying, but they exercised patience. They were cruelly persecuted before We gave them victory. No one can change the words of God. You have already received news about the Messengers.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), if their refusal of the faith is so grievous to you and if you can dig up the earth or ascend into the sky in search of further evidence to inevitably make them believe you, you should have done so, but note that had God wanted, He could have made them all follow the same guidance. Do not ever be unaware (of this fact).


tafseer:
Only those who have understanding will accept your faith. (Those who have no understanding) are like the dead whom God will resurrect and to Him will all return.


tafseer:
All the beasts on land and flying birds have different communities, just as you (people) do. Nothing is left without a mention in the Book. They will all be brought into the presence of their Lord.


tafseer:
Those who disbelieve Our revelations are, in fact, deaf and dumb. They wander in darkness. God leads astray or guides to the right path whomever He wants.


tafseer:
You will certainly ask Him for help. He will save you from hardship if He decides to do so and you will forget all about your gods.&quot


tafseer:
We had sent (Our guidance) to the nations who lived before you and afflicted them with distress and adversity so that they might submit themselves (to God).


tafseer:
Why did they not submit themselves (to God) when Our torment struck them. Instead, their hearts were hardened and Satan made their evil deeds seem attractive to them.


tafseer:
When they forgot (all) the advice that they had received, We granted them all means of happiness but they were left in despair when We suddenly took Our bounties back from them.


tafseer:
Thus, the transgressing people were destroyed. It is only God, the Lord of creation who deserves all praise.


tafseer:
We did not send the Messengers for any other reason than to bring (people) the glad news (of God´s mercy) and to warn (them of the torment brought on by disobedience to God). Whoever accepts the faith and lives a righteous life will have nothing to fear, nor will he be grieved.


tafseer:
Preach the Quran to those who are concerned about the Day of Judgment at which time they will be brought before their Lord. Tell them that their only guardian and intercessor is God so that they may become pious.


tafseer:
Do not disregard those who pray to their Lord in the mornings and evenings, seeking their Lord´s pleasure. You will not be held responsible for them nor will they be held responsible for you. Do not disregard them lest you become unjust.


tafseer:
We test some of them by the conditions of the others so that the rich and proud ones (seeing your poor and humble followers) would say, &quot


tafseer:
He has with Him the keys to the unseen which no one knows besides Him. He knows all that is in the land and the sea. Not a single leaf falls which He would not know. No single seed exists even in the darkest places of the land, nor anything in the world either wet or dry, that is not kept recorded in the self-evident Book (the tablet preserved in the heavens).


tafseer:
It is He who keeps you alive in your sleep at night and knows all that you do during the day. He wakes you up from your sleep to complete your worldly life, after which you will all return to Him. He will let you know all about what you had done in your worldly life.


tafseer:
He is Dominant over all His creatures and He sends guards to watch over you until death approaches you. Then His angelic Messengers will, without fail, take away your souls.


tafseer:
(After death) you will all be returned to God, your true Guardian. Know that judgment will be in His Hands and that His reckoning is swift.


tafseer:
(Some of) your people have rejected the Quran, although it is the Truth. Tell them that you are not their guardian


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and that for every prophecy (about you which comes from God) there is an appointed time (to come true) and that they will soon experience it.


tafseer:
When you see people mocking Our revelations, turn away from them so that they may change the subject. If Satan causes you to forget this, do not sit with the unjust people when you remember.


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But those who observe piety (commit no sin) by sitting with the (unbelievers) in order to preach (the Truth) so that they, too, may become pious.


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(Muhammad), leave alone those to whom their religion is no more than a useless plaything and who are deceived by the lure of the worldly life. Remind them of Our revelation so that a soul will not bring about its own destruction because of its deeds. No one besides God will be its guardian or intercessor, nor will any kind of ransom be accepted from it. Those who have entangled themselves in their evil deeds will drink boiling water and live in painful torment for their hiding the Truth.


tafseer:
It is He Who has created the heavens and the earth for a genuine purpose. When He commands the Day of Judgment to take place, it will come into existence. His Word is the Truth. The kingdom will be His alone on the day when the trumpet will be sounded. He has all knowledge of the unseen as well as the seen. He is All-wise and All-aware.


tafseer:
I have up-rightly submitted myself to the One who has created the heavens and the earth and I am not an idol worshipper.&quot


tafseer:
Why should I be afraid of your idols when you are not afraid of worshipping them without any authority from heaven? Would that you knew which of us is more deserving to receive amnesty&quot


tafseer:
Those who have accepted the faith and have kept it pure from injustice, have achieved security and guidance.


tafseer:
Such was the authoritative reasoning that We gave Abraham over his people. We raise whomever We want to a higher rank. Your Lord is All-wise and All-knowing.


tafseer:
We gave (Abraham) Isaac and Jacob. Both had received Our guidance. Noah received Our guidance before Abraham and so did his descendants:David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, and Aaron. Thus is the reward for the righteous people.


tafseer:
From their fathers, descendants, and brothers, We chose (certain) people and guided them to the right path.


tafseer:
Such is the guidance of God by which He guides whichever of His servants He wants. If people worship idols, their deeds will be turned devoid of all virtue.


tafseer:
These were the people to whom We gave the Book, Authority, and Prophesy. If some people do not accept Our guidance, it should not grieve you, (Muhammad), for We have made others who accept and protect Our guidance.


tafseer:
We have blessed this Book (the Quran) and revealed it to confirm that which was revealed to the Prophets who lived before you and to warn the people of the mother land (Mecca) and those living around it. Those who believe in the Day of Judgment accept this and are steadfast in their prayers.


tafseer:
Who are more unjust than those who ascribe lies to God or say that God has sent them revelations when nothing has been sent to them, or those who say that they can also bring down (from heaven) a book like that which God has revealed? Would that you could see the unjust in the agonies of death when the angels will come forward with their hands outstretched to take their souls out of their bodies and say, &quot


tafseer:
It is God who makes all kinds of seeds grow, brings forth the living from the dead, and the dead from the living. It is God who does such things, so how can you turn away from Him?


tafseer:
It is He who kindles the light of dawn, and has made the night for you to rest, and the sun and moon as a means of calculation. This is the design of the Majestic and All-knowing God.


tafseer:
It is God who created the stars so that you could find your way thereby in the darkness of the land and sea. We have explained Our evidence to the people of knowledge.


tafseer:
It is He who has created you from a single soul. Some of you are settled (on earth) and some are still in the depository system of (their parents). We have shown the evidence (of Our existence) to the people who understand.


tafseer:
(Some) people considered the jinn to be equal to God even though God created them and they unknowingly ascribed to Him children, both boys and girls. God is too glorious to have the attributes which they ascribe to Him.


tafseer:
How could the One Who is the Originator of the heavens and the earth and who has no companion, have a son? He created all things and has absolute knowledge of all things.


tafseer:
He is God your Lord. There is no God but He. He has created all things. Worship Him for He is the Guardian of all things.


tafseer:
Had God wanted, they would not consider anything equal to Him. God has not appointed you to watch over them nor are you their guardian.


tafseer:
Believers, do not say bad words against the idols lest they (pagans) in their hostility and ignorance say such words against God. We have made every nation´s deeds seem attractive to them. One day they will all return to their Lord who will inform them of all that they have done.


tafseer:
The unbelievers solemnly swear by God that if they were to be shown some miracle, they would certainly believe. (Muhammad), tell them, &quot


tafseer:
Had We sent the angels to them, made the dead speak to them, and resurrected all things before their very eyes, they still would not believe unless God willed it to be so. But, in fact, most of them ignore (the evidence).


tafseer:
We have made devilish enemies for every Prophet from among people and jinn. They whisper attractive but and deceitful words to each other. Had your Lord wanted, the devils would not have seduced people. Keep away from them and the falsehood which they invent.


tafseer:
Let those who do not believe in the Day of Judgment listen to the deceitful words with pleasure and indulge in whatever sins they want.


tafseer:
(After having revealed the Quran to you) in all truth and justice, your Lord´s Word has been completed. No one can change His Words. He is All-hearing and All-knowing.


tafseer:
If you have faith in God´s revelations, eat the flesh of the animal which has been slaughtered with a mention of His Name.


tafseer:
Why should you not eat such flesh when God has told you in detail what is unlawful to eat under normal conditions. Most people, out of ignorance, are led astray by their desires. Your Lord knows best those who transgress.


tafseer:
Can the dead to whom We have given life and light so that they may walk among the people, be considered equal to those who can never come out of darkness? The deeds of the unbelievers are made to seem attractive to them.


tafseer:
In every town We have placed some sinful leaders who always make evil plans. These plans will only work against their own souls but they do not realize this.


tafseer:
God will open the hearts of whomever He wants to guide to Islam, but He will tighten the chest of one whom He has led astray, as though he was climbing high up into the sky. Thus, God places wickedness on those who do not accept the faith.


tafseer:
This is the path of your Lord and it is straight. We have explained Our revelations to those who take heed.


tafseer:
On the day when every one will be resurrected and the jinn will be told that they have made many people go astray, their friends from among people will say, &quot


tafseer:
Your Lord did not want to destroy the towns, unjustly, without informing their inhabitants (of His guidance).


tafseer:
Your Lord is Self-sufficient and Merciful. Had He wanted, He could have destroyed you and replaced you by other people, just as He had created you from the offspring of others.


tafseer:
To many of the pagans, the murder of their children was made to seem attractive by the idols. This led them (the pagans) to confusion in their religion and to face their own destruction. Had God wanted, they would not have murdered their children. Keep away from them and their evil gains.


tafseer:
They, (the pagans), have said that their cattle and farms are dedicated to private idols and that no one can consume (the produce) except those whom We wanted, in their opinion. They prohibited the riding of certain animals and they ate the flesh of certain animals slaughtered without a mention of the Name of God. Instead, they ascribed falsehood to Him. They will all be given an evil recompense for their sinful invention.


tafseer:
Those who foolishly and ignorantly murdered their children, ascribed falsehood to God and made unlawful what He had given to them for their sustenance, have certainly lost much. They had gone far away from the right guidance.


tafseer:
It is He who has created all kinds of gardens, those raised on trellises and those without, palm-trees and the crops of different seasons, and olives and pomegranates of all types. You may eat their fruits that they produce but pay God´s share on the harvest day. Do not be excessive for God does not love those who are excessive.


tafseer:
God has created animals, both small and large. Eat from what God has given you for your sustenance and do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is your sworn enemy.


tafseer:
(Supposing) that there are eight pairs of cattle, two pairs of sheep, and two pairs of goats. Tell Me (which is lawful and which is not)? Are the two males unlawful (to eat) or the two females or those that are in the wombs of the females? If you are truthful, then, answer Me exactly.


tafseer:
Of the two pairs of camels and cows, are the males unlawful (to eat) or the females or that which exists in the wombs of the females? Were you present when God commanded you to do this? Who are more unjust than those who ascribe falsehood to God and out of ignorance make others go astray? God does not guide the unjust.


tafseer:
We made unlawful for the Jews all the claw-footed animals, fat of the cows, sheep and goats except what is found on their backs, intestines and whatever is mixed with their bones. Thus, did We recompense them for their rebellion and We are certainly truthful.


tafseer:
Ask them to call their witness who will testify that God has made certain things unlawful. Even if they do testify, do not testify with them. Do not follow the desires of those who have rejected Our revelations and the pagans who do not believe in the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
Do not handle the property of the orphans except with a good reason until they become mature and strong. Maintain equality in your dealings by the means of measurement and balance. No soul is responsible for what is beyond it´s ability. Be just in your words, even if the party involved is one of your relatives and keep your promise with God. Thus does your Lord guide you so that you may take heed.


tafseer:
This is My path and it is straight. Follow it and not other paths which will lead you far away from the path of God. Thus does God guide you so that you may become pious.


tafseer:
We gave Moses the Book to complete (Our favor) for the righteous ones, the Book that contained a detailed explanation of all things, a guide and a mercy so that perhaps they would have faith in the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
This Book (Quran) which We have revealed is a blessed one. Follow its guidance and have piety so that you perhaps may receive mercy


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and will not say that the Book was revealed only to two groups of people before you, or that you were ignorant of its knowledge,


tafseer:
Are they waiting until the angels or your Lord come to them or for some miracles to take place? On the day when some miracles of God will take place, the belief of any soul will be of no avail to it unless some good deeds have been done with it, or it has been formed before the coming of such a day. (Muhammad), tell them, &quot


tafseer:
Some of those who have divided their religion into different sects are not your concern. Their affairs are in the hands of God Who will show them all that they have done.


tafseer:
For a single good deed, one will be rewarded tenfold. But the recompense for a bad deed will be equal to that of the deed and no injustice will be done to anyone.


tafseer:
Nothing is equal to Him. Thus are the commandments which I have received and he is the first Muslim (submitted to the will of God).&quot


tafseer:
A book has been revealed to you, (Muhammad). You should not hesitate to convey its warning and its good advice to the believers.


tafseer:
(People), follow whatever is revealed to you from your Lord and do not follow other guardians besides Him. However, you pay very little attention (to Our words)


tafseer:
How many cities have We destroyed! Our wrath struck their people at night or during their midday siesta.


tafseer:
We will tell them with absolute certainty (what they had done) for We had never been absent from them (during their lifetime).


tafseer:
(Everyone´s deeds) will certainly be weighed (and evaluated) on the Day of Judgment. Those whose good deeds weigh heavier than their bad deeds will have everlasting happiness.


tafseer:
As for those whose bad deeds weigh heavier, they will lose their souls for their injustice to Our revelations.


tafseer:
We have made you inhabit the land and provided you with the means of sustenance. Only a few of you give thanks.


tafseer:
We created and shaped you, then told the angels to prostrate themselves before Adam. All the angels obeyed except Satan who did not.


tafseer:
Thus, he deceitfully showed them (the tree). When they had tasted (fruits) from the tree, their private parts became revealed to them and they began to cover their private parts with leaves from the garden. Their Lord then called out to them saying, &quot


tafseer:
The Lord told them to leave the garden as each other´s enemies and go to earth to dwell and benefit from the means therein for an appointed time.


tafseer:
Children of Adam, We have given you clothing to cover your private parts and for beauty, but the robe of piety is the best. Thus is the guidance of God so that you may take heed.


tafseer:
Children of Adam, do not let Satan seduce you, as he caused your parents to be expelled from the garden and made them take off their clothes in order to show them their private parts. Satan and those like him see you but you do not see them. We have made the Satans as friends for those who have no faith.


tafseer:
Children of Adam, dress well when attending the mosques, eat and drink but do not be excessive for God does not love those who are excessive (in what they do).


tafseer:
All people can only live for an appointed time. When their term ends, they will not remain (alive) even for a single hour, nor will they die before the appointed time.


tafseer:
Children of Adam, when Messengers from among your own people come to you to preach My revelations, those who choose piety and reform themselves will have nothing to fear nor will they be grieved.


tafseer:
But those who have rejected Our revelations out of pride will be the dwellers of hell fire wherein they will live forever.


tafseer:
Who are more unjust than those who invent falsehoods against God and reject His revelations? These will have their share (of torment) which is ordained for them and when Our (angelic) Messengers come to them to cause them to die and ask them, &quot


tafseer:
For those who have rejected Our revelations out of pride, no door to the heavens will be opened, nor will they be admitted into Paradise until a camel passes through the eye of a sewing needle. Thus do We recompense the criminals.


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers - We do not impose on any soul that which is beyond its ability - are the dwellers of Paradise wherein they will live forever.


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We shall remove all grudges from their hearts. They will enjoy the flowing streams in the garden and will say, &quot


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who prevented others from the way of God, sought to make (the path) appear crooked, and had no belief in the Day of Judgment.&quot


tafseer:
There will be a barrier between the people of Paradise and hell. There will be people on the heights who know everyone by their faces and who will say to the people of Paradise, &quot


tafseer:
The dwellers of the fire will ask the people of Paradise to give them some water or other things which God has granted to them. They will reply, &quot


tafseer:
On that Day We will neglect those who were deceived by the worldly life and who treated their religion as a useless game, because they had forgotten such a day and rejected Our revelations.


tafseer:
(Despite the clear details of Our guidance in the Book) do they still wait for further interpretations? On the Day (of Judgment) when its interpretations will be revealed, those who had ignored its guidance will confess, saying, &quot


tafseer:
Your Lord is God who established His dominion over the Throne (of the realm) after having created the heavens and the earth in six days. He made the night darken the day which it pursues at a (considerable) speed and He made the sun and the moon submissive to His command. Is it not He Who creates and governs all things? Blessed is God, the Cherisher of the Universe.


tafseer:
Do not destroy the land after it has been well established but pray to God, have fear of Him, and hope to receive His mercy. God´s mercy is close to the righteous people.


tafseer:
God sends the wind bearing the glad news of His mercy. When heavy clouds are formed, We drive them unto a barren country and rain down on it water to cause all kinds of fruits to grow. In the same way do We bring the dead to life again. Perhaps you would take heed.


tafseer:
A good land produces plants, by the permission of its Lord, but a wicked land produces only miserable, bitter plants. Thus do We show a variety of evidence for those who give thanks.


tafseer:
sent to preach to you the message of my Lord and to give you good advice. I know what you do not know about God.


tafseer:
Does it seem strange to you that a reminder from your Lord should be sent to a man, from among you, to warn you so that you might receive mercy?&quot


tafseer:
They accused him of telling lies. So We saved him and his companions in an ark and drowned those who called Our revelations mere lies. They were, no doubt, a blind people.


tafseer:
Does it seem strange to you that a reminder from your Lord should be sent to a man among you so that He may warn you? Recall when God appointed you as successors of the people of Noah and increased your power over other people. Give thanks to God for His blessings so that perhaps you will have everlasting happiness.&quot


tafseer:
Through Our mercy, We saved him and his companions and destroyed the unbelievers who called Our revelations mere lies.


tafseer:
Recall (the time) when We settled you in the land as the heirs of the tribe of Ad and how you established mansions in the plains and carved homes out of the mountains. Give thanks to God for His favors and do not commit evil in the land.&quot


tafseer:
You engage in lustful activities with people instead of women. You have become transgressing people.


tafseer:
We sent a torrential rain unto the (unbelievers). Consider how disastrous the end of the criminals was!


tafseer:
We sent to the people of Midian their brother Shu´ayb who also told his people to worship God their only Lord. He said, &quot


tafseer:
Do not ambush the believers or hinder them from every path that leads them to God just because you wish to make such ways seem crooked. Recall the time when you were just a few in number and God multiplied you. Consider how terrible the end of the evil-doers was!


tafseer:
If there are some of you who believe in the Message that I have been commanded to preach and there are others who do not, exercise patience until God judges among us. He is the best Judge.&quot


tafseer:
We would certainly be inventing falsehoods against God if we were to accept your way of life, when God has already saved us from it. We do not have to accept it unless God, our Lord, wills it. Our Lord´s knowledge covers all things. We trust in Him and ask Him to judge among us and our people, for He is the best Judge.&quot


tafseer:
Those who called Shu´ayb a liar were destroyed as though they never existed. They certainly were the ones to lose a great deal.


tafseer:
To every town that We sent a Prophet, We tested its inhabitants through distress and adversity so that perhaps they would submit themselves to Us.


tafseer:
Had the people of the towns believed (in Our revelations) and maintained piety, We would have certainly showered on them Our blessings from the sky and the earth. But they called Our revelations lies, thus Our torment struck them for their evil deeds.


tafseer:
Did the people of the towns think themselves secure from Our wrath that could strike them at night during their sleep


tafseer:
Did they consider themselves secure from the retribution of God? No one can have such attitude except those who are lost.


tafseer:
Is it not a lesson for the successors of the past generations that had We wanted, We could have punished them for their sins, sealed their hearts and deprived them of hearing?


tafseer:
(Muhammad), such were the stories of the people who lived in (different) towns in the past. We had sent Our Messengers to them with (certain) miracles but the people still did not believe in what they had rejected before. Such is how God seals the hearts of the unbelievers.


tafseer:
We did not find many among them keeping their promises. However, We did find many evil-doers among them.


tafseer:
After the time of those people, We sent Moses with Our miracles to Pharaoh and his people, but they too rejected Our miracles. Consider, how terrible the end of the evil-doers is!


tafseer:
We inspired Moses to throw his staff, and suddenly it began to swallow-up all that the magicians had (falsely) invented.


tafseer:
You only take revenge on us because we believed in the Lord when we saw His miracles. Lord, grant us patience and let us die Muslims (submitted to God).&quot


tafseer:
Moses told his people to seek help from God and exercise patience. The earth belongs to Him and He has made it the heritage of whichever of His servants He chooses. The final victory is for the pious ones.


tafseer:
For years We afflicted Pharaoh´s people with shortages in food so that perhaps they would take heed.


tafseer:
But they would always ascribe their well-being to themselves and the misfortunes that they would experience to Moses and his people. Their fate is certainly in the hands of God but many of them do not know.


tafseer:
We sent upon them widespread calamities: floods of locusts, lice, frogs, and blood. All were distinct miracles but these criminals all the time remained proud.


tafseer:
We took revenge on them for their rejecting Our miracles, by drowning them in the sea, but they were not aware of (reality).


tafseer:
We gave the suppressed people the blessed eastern and western regions as their inheritance. Thus, the promises of your Lord to the children of Israel all came true because of the patience which they exercised. He destroyed all the establishments of the Pharaoh and his people.


tafseer:
We helped the children of Israel to cross the sea. They came to a people who worshipped idols. The Israelites demanded Moses to make gods for them like those of the idol-worshippers. Moses told them, &quot


tafseer:
We told Moses to stay with Us for thirty nights (in the mountains) but added ten nights more so his appointment with his Lord came to an end after forty nights. Moses had appointed his brother Aaron as his deputy among his people during his absence saying, &quot


tafseer:
During the appointment, the Lord spoke to Moses. He asked the Lord to show Himself so that he could look at Him. The Lord replied, &quot


tafseer:
We will deprive those who are wrongly proud in the land of the blessing of revelations. Even if they would see all kinds of miracles, they would not have faith, or even to see the right path, they would not follow it. They would follow the rebellious way if they were to find one


tafseer:
The deeds of those who have called Our revelations and belief in the Day of Judgment mere lies, will be turned devoid of all virtue. Can they expect to receive a reward for their deeds other than that which is the result of their deeds?


tafseer:
In Moses´ absence, his people manufactured a hollow sounding calf out of their ornaments. Could they not see that it could not speak to them or provide them with any guidance? They gained only evil by worshipping the calf.


tafseer:
To those who commit bad deeds, but, then, repent and believe (in God), Your Lord will certainly be All-forgiving and All-merciful.&quot


tafseer:
Moses selected seventy men from his people to attend Our appointment. (In Our presence). When an earthquake jolted them to death, Moses said, &quot


tafseer:
There are those who follow the Messengers, the illiterate Prophet (not conventionally educated), whose description they find written in the Torah and the Gospel. [He (the Messengers) enjoins them to do good and forbids them to do all that is unlawful, makes lawful for them all that is pure and unlawful all that is filthy, removes their burdens and the entanglements in which they are involved]. Those who believe in him, honor and help him, and follow the light which is sent down to him, will have everlasting happiness.


tafseer:
We divided the descendants of Israel into twelve tribes and told Moses to strike the rock with his staff to let twelve fountains gush out therefrom


tafseer:
the unjust among them changed the words which they were told to say (in the prayer). Therefore, We sent upon them torment from the sky for their wrong deeds.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), ask them about the (people of the) towns on the seashore. They had transgressed by catching fish on the Sabbath. Each Sabbath the fish came openly within their reach but not so on other days. Thus, We were testing them because of their evil deeds.


tafseer:
When they (the unjust people) forgot what was preached to them, We saved the preachers from evil and afflicted the unjust for their evil deeds, with a dreadful torment.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), consider, when your Lord declared to the (Israelites) His decision to raise a people above them who would make them suffer the worst kinds of torments until the Day of Judgment. Certainly your Lord´s retribution is swift. He is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Their descendants who inherited the Book gained (by bribery only) worthless things from the worldly life saying, &quot


tafseer:
Those who devote themselves to the teachings of the Book and are steadfast in prayer (should know that) the reward of those who reform themselves will not be lost.


tafseer:
When We raised the mount above them as a shadow and made it speak to them, they thought that it would fall on them. We told them to devote themselves decisively to what was given to them and follow its guidance so that they would have fear of God.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), tell them the story of the person whom We inspired with Our guidance, but who detached himself from it and who was then pursued by Satan until he turned into a rebel.


tafseer:
Had We wanted, We could have raised him to an exalted position but he clung to his earthly life and followed his own (evil) desires. Such person´s bad habits are like those of a lazy dog (in a warm climate) who always has its tongue hanging out whether you chase it away or leave it alone. Such are the people who have called Our revelations mere lies. (Muhammad), tell them such stories so that perhaps they will think.


tafseer:
How terrible is the example of those who have rejected Our revelations and have done injustice only to themselves!


tafseer:
Those whom God has guided have the true guidance, but those whom He has caused to go astray are certainly lost.


tafseer:
We have destined many men and jinn for hell. They have hearts but do not understand, eyes but do not see. They have ears but do not hear. They are worse than lost cattle. These are the heedless ones.


tafseer:
God has the most blessed Names. You should address Him in your worship by these Names and keep away from those who pervert them. They will be recompensed for their (evil) deeds.


tafseer:
We gradually lead those who have called Our revelations mere lies, to destruction. Their destruction will be such that they will not even notice how it seized them.


tafseer:
Why will they not understand that their companion (Muhammad) is not possessed by jinn. (Muhammad) is only a (Divinely) authorized preacher.


tafseer:
Have they not considered the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth and everything that God has created? Perhaps death approaches them. In what kind of guidance can they have faith besides that of the Quran?


tafseer:
No one can guide those whom God has caused to go astray and has left to continue blindly in their rebellion.


tafseer:
It is God Who created you from a single soul and out of it made its spouse to bring it comfort. When he (man) engaged in carnal relations with her, she conceived a light burden which she had to carry. When the baby grew in her womb, they (husband and wife) both prayed to their Lord, &quot


tafseer:
When they were given a healthy son, they began to love him as much as they loved God. God is too exalted to be loved equally to anything else.


tafseer:
Do they (the pagans) consider things that do not create anything but are themselves created equal to God?


tafseer:
Believers, even if you invite them to true guidance, they will not follow you. It makes no difference whether you invite them or whether you keep quiet.


tafseer:
Those whom you (pagans) worship besides God, are themselves servants just like yourselves. If your claim was true, they should answer your prayers.


tafseer:
Do they (the idols) have feet to walk, hands to hold things, eyes to see, and ears to hear? (Muhammad), tell them (the pagans) to call on their idols for help and to plan against Me without delay.


tafseer:
The (true) Guardian is certainly God who has revealed the Book and is the Guardian of the righteous ones.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), if you invite them to the right guidance, they will not listen to you. You will see them looking at you but they do not really see.


tafseer:
If you , (Muhammad), do not show them a miracle, they will keep on insisting that you must show them one. Say, &quot


tafseer:
Remember your Lord deep within yourselves, humbly and privately - instead of shouting out loud - (in prayer) in the mornings and evenings and do not be of the heedless ones.


tafseer:
Those who are near to your Lord do not disdain from worshipping Him. They glorify Him and prostrate themselves (in obedience to Him).


tafseer:
They (the believers) ask you (Muhammad) about the booty captured (from the enemies) during a war. Tell them, &quot


tafseer:
When God is mentioned, the true believers begin to feel fear of Him in their hearts and when His revelations are recited to them their faith strengthens. In God alone do they trust.


tafseer:
Such are the true believers. Their reward from their Lord will be high ranks, forgiveness, and a generous provision.


tafseer:
A group among the believers dislike (God´s decree about the booty captured in war) as well as His command that you come out of your home for a truthful purpose (to fight for justice).


tafseer:
Knowing it well (that a fight in which they are to take part is about to take place), they act as though they are being driven to death which they can see before their very eyes. Despite their knowledge of the truth, they still argue with you.


tafseer:
When God promised to grant you (believers) victory over either one of the two groups, you wished to have control over the unarmed one. God decided to prove (to you) the truth of His promises and to destroy the unbelievers


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so that the truth would stand supreme and falsehood would exist no more, even though the criminals dislike it.


tafseer:
God has sent this glad news to comfort your hearts. Victory is in the hands of God alone. God is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
The slumber that overcame you was from God that brought you peace. He showered water from the sky over you to clean you, remove satanic wickedness from you, strengthen your hearts, and grant you steadfastness.


tafseer:
Believers, do not retreat when facing the marching army of the unbelievers, for no believer will turn back at that time except for strategic reasons or to join another band.


tafseer:
(Whoever deserts the believers) will incur the wrath of God and will dwell in hell, a terrible dwelling.


tafseer:
It was not you (believers) but God who slew the pagans. It was not you (Muhammad) but God who threw dust at them. He did this as a favorable test for the believers. God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


tafseer:
If you (the pagans) are looking for conquest, you certainly had a great chance (at the battle of Badr). But if you were to give up such a desire, it would be better for you. If you again wage war against Us, We will be ready for such a confrontation. Your man-power will be of no help to you no matter how much you have


tafseer:
Do not be like those who said that they have heard (the Messenger´s commands) but do not pay any attention to them.


tafseer:
Had they possessed any virtue, God would certainly have made them hear. Even if God were to make them hear, they would still turn away from (the words of God).


tafseer:
Believers, listen to God and the Messengers when they call you to that which gives you life. Know that God is between a man and his heart and that before Him you will all be brought together.


tafseer:
Guard yourselves against discord among yourselves so that it will not mislead anyone of you, especially the unjust, and know that God´s retribution is most severe.


tafseer:
Recall the time when you (the believers) were only a few suppressed people in the land, afraid of being terrorized by the people. God gave you shelter, supported you with His help, and bestowed on you pure provisions so that perhaps you would give Him thanks.


tafseer:
Know that your possessions and children are a temptation for you and that God has the greatest reward (for the righteous ones).


tafseer:
Believers, if you fear God, He will give you guidance, will expiate your bad deeds and forgive you. God´s favors are the greatest.


tafseer:
The unbelievers planned to imprison, murder or expel you (Muhammad) from your city. They make evil plans but God too plans and God´s plans are the best.


tafseer:
Why should God not punish them when they hinder people from entering the sacred mosque? They are not its true patrons. Only the righteous ones are its patrons, but most of the pagans do not know.


tafseer:
Their (unbelievers) prayer at the mosque is nothing but whistling and clapping of hands. We shall tell them, &quot


tafseer:
The disbelievers spend their wealth to turn men away from the way of God. They will continue to spend but it will become a source of regret for them and they will be defeated (because of their evil plans). The disbelievers will be gathered all togdher in Hell.


tafseer:
God will separate the wicked from the pure and will pile the wicked ones on top of one anothcr to be cast into hell. They are indeed lost.


tafseer:
Muhammad, tell the unbelievers, if you give up your evil behavior, God will forgive whatever you have done in the past. But if you transgras again, your fate will be the same as that of those (unbelievers) who lived before you.&quot


tafseer:
Fight them so that idolatry will not exist any more and God´s religion will stand supreme. If theygive up the idols), God will be Well Aware of what they do.


tafseer:
If the (unbelievers) turn away from the faith, God is you (believers) best Guardian and best Helper.


tafseer:
Know that whatever property you may gain, one fifth belongs to God, the Messenger, the kindred, orphans, the needy and those who need money while on a journey. (This is the law) if you believe in God and what We revealed to Our Servant on the Day of Distinction (Badr) when the armies confronted each other. God has power over all things.


tafseer:
Recall when your army was positioned at the less defensible brink of the valley, (the pagans´) army had the more defensible higher side of the valley and the caravan was led (out of your reach) below. This situation did not take place according to your previous plans, otherwise, everything would have been different. (It was God´s plan ) to place you in a vulnerable position, exposed to the enemy and it was His plan to lead the caravan out of your reach) so that His decree that you would be granted a victory by a miracle would become a doubtless fact and so that those who were to be destroyed would face destruction with a clear knowledge of the Truth and those who were to survive would also survive with a clear knowledge of the Truth. God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


tafseer:
In your dream, God showed (the pagans´ army) as being only a few in number, for if He had showed them as a great number, you would have lost courage and would have started to quarrel among yourselves concerning this matter. But God saved you from that condition


tafseer:
When you met the pagans´ army, God made them appear fewer in your eyes and you appear fewer in their eyes so that His miracle of granting you (an incredible) victory could easily be fulfilled. To God do all things return.


tafseer:
Believers, stand firm when you meet a band of your enemy and remember God often so that you may have everlasting happiness.


tafseer:
Obey God and His Messenger. Do not quarrel with each other lest you fail or lose honor. Exercise patience


tafseer:
Do not be like those who marched out boastfully to show off their strength to people and hinder people from the way of God. God encompasses everyone´s activities.


tafseer:
Would that you could have seen the angels taking the souls of the unbelievers away from their bodies and smiting their faces and their backs saying, &quot


tafseer:
The same thing happened to the people of Pharaoh and those who lived before them. They rejected the revelations of God and, because of their sins, His retribution struck them. God is All-powerful and stern in His retribution.


tafseer:
God does not change the favor that He has bestowed on a nation unless that nation changes what is in its soul. God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


tafseer:
Like the people of the Pharaoh and those who lived before them, (the unbelievers) rejected the revelations of God. We destroyed them for their sins and drowned the people of Pharaoh. They were all unjust.


tafseer:
When you capture the (unbelievers) during a fight, teach them a lesson so that they thereafter will always be aware of the threat of your power.


tafseer:
If you are afraid of the treachery of some of your allies, you may disregard your treaty with them. God does not love the treacherous ones.


tafseer:
Mobilize your (defensive) force as much as you can to frighten the enemies of God and your own enemies. This also will frighten those who are behind them whom you do not know but God knows well. Whatever you spend for the cause of God, He will give you sufficient recompense with due justice.


tafseer:
If they (the unbelievers) propose peace, accept it and trust in God. God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


tafseer:
If they want to deceive you, God is All-sufficient for you. It is God who supported you with His own help and with that of the believers,


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among whose hearts He has placed affection and unity. If you were to spend the wealth of the whole earth, you would not have been able to unite their hearts but God has been able to unite them. God is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
Prophet, mobilize the believers for the battle. It will take only twenty of your men who are steadfast (in prayer) to defeat two hundred unbelieving men. Your two hundred men would defeat their two thousand


tafseer:
Now that God has eased your burden, He has found you to be weak. A hundred of your steadfast men would defeat two hundred of theirs and a thousand of yours would defeat two thousand of the unbelievers, by the will of God. God is with those who have patience.


tafseer:
The Prophet is not supposed to take any captives to strengthen his position on the earth. You want worldly gains but God wants the life hereafter for you. God is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
(Had you taken captives) before being allowed by God´s revelations, a great torment would have struck you for what you had done.


tafseer:
The believers who left their homes and strove for the cause of God, through their property and in person and those who gave refuge to them and helped them will be each other´s guardians. The believers who did not leave their homes are not your guardians until they too leave their homes. If they ask you for help in a religious cause, you must help them against their enemies unless their enemies have a peace treaty with you. God is Well Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
The unbelievers are each other´s friends. If you (the believers) do not keep the same among yourselves in the land, there will come into being widespread idolatry and great evil.


tafseer:
The believers who left their homes, and strove for the cause of God and those who gave them refuge and helped them, are true believers. They will have forgiveness (from their Lord) and (will be granted) honorable provisions.


tafseer:
Those who accepted the faith later, left their homes and strove with you for the cause of God are also your people. They relatives are nearer to each other according to the Book of God. God has knowledge of all things.


tafseer:
God and His Messenger declare the abrogation of the peace treaty that existed between them and the pagans.


tafseer:
However, during the four sacred months, they (pagans) may travel peacefully through the land. Know (pagans) that you cannot make God helpless, but it is God who has the power to disgrace the unbelievers.


tafseer:
This Announcement from God and His Messenger is to be made to the people on the day of the great Pilgrimage


tafseer:
This does not apply to the pagans with whom you have a valid peace treaty and who have not broken it from their side or helped others against you. You (believers) must fulfill the terms of the peace treaty with them. God loves the pious ones.


tafseer:
When the sacred months are over, slay the pagans wherever you find them. Capture, besiege, and ambush them. If they repent, perform prayers and pay the religious tax, set them free. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
If any of the pagans ask you to give them refuge, give them asylum so that they may hear the words of God. Then, return them to their towns for they are an ignorant people.


tafseer:
How can the pagans, except those with whom you have established a peace treaty in the precinct of the Sacred Mosque, have a covenant with God and His Messenger? If they respect the pact, you too should also follow its terms. God loves the pious ones.


tafseer:
How could God and His Messenger grant them (pagans) peace when if they were to acquire superiority over you, they would respect none of the peace treaties nor their kindred relations with you! They only try to please you by paying lip-service to you but their hearts are against you and most of them are evil-doers.


tafseer:
They have sold God´s revelations for a paltry price and have created obstacles in the way of God. What they have done is evil.


tafseer:
They do not respect their promises nor their family ties with the believers. They are transgressors.


tafseer:
If they repent, perform their prayers, pay religious tax, they would be your brothers in the religion. We explain Our revelations to people of knowledge.


tafseer:
Fight against the leaders of the unbelievers if they violate their established peace treaty with you and revile your faith, to force them to stop their aggression against you. You do not have to bind yourselves to such a treaty.


tafseer:
Why will you not fight against a people who have broken their peace treaty with you, have decided to expel the Messenger (from his home town), and who were the first to disregard the peace treaty? If you are true believers, you should only have fear of God.


tafseer:
Fight them. May God punish them by your hands, humiliate them, give you victory over them, delight the hearts of the believers


tafseer:
Do you think that God will not make any distinction between those of you who have fought for His cause and have relied on no one other than God, His Messenger, and the faithful ones, and other people? God is Well Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
The pagans do not have any right to establish (and patronize) the mosque of God while they testify against their souls to its disbelief. Their deeds are devoid of all virtue and they will live forever in hell fire.


tafseer:
Only those who believe in God, the Day of Judgment, perform their prayers, pay the religious tax, and have fear of God alone have the right to establish and patronize the mosque of God so that perhaps they will have the right guidance.


tafseer:
Do you (pagans), because you served water to the pilgrims and constructed the Sacred Mosque, consider yourselves equal to those who have believed in God, the Day of Judgment, and have fought for the cause of God? In the sight of God you (pagans) are not equal to the believers. God does not guide the unjust.


tafseer:
To those who have believed in God, left their homes, and fought for His cause with their possessions and in person, God will grant high ranks and success.


tafseer:
Their Lord will give the glad news of His granting mercy to them, His pleasure, and His admitting them to a Paradise full of everlasting bounties wherein they will live forever.


tafseer:
Believers, do not accept your fathers and brothers as your guardians if they prefer disbelief to faith, lest you be unjust.


tafseer:
God has helped you on many occasions including the day of Hunayn (name of a place near Mecca). When you were happy with the number of your men who proved to be of no help to you and the whole vast earth seemed to have no place to hide you (from your enemies) and you turned back in retreat.


tafseer:
God gave confidence to His Messenger and the believers and helped them with an army which you could not see. God punished the unbelievers


tafseer:
Believers, the pagans are filthy. Do not let them come near to the Sacred Mosque after this year. If you are afraid of poverty, He will make you rich if He wishes, by His favor. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
Fight against those People of the Book who have no faith in God or the Day of Judgment, who do not consider unlawful what God and His Messenger have made unlawful, and who do not believe in the true religion, until they humbly pay tax with their own hands.


tafseer:
Some of the Jews have said that Ezra is the son of God and Christians have said the same of Jesus. This is only what they say and it is similar to what the unbelievers who lived before them had said. May God destroy them wherever they exist!


tafseer:
They (unconditionally) obeyed the rabbis and the monks and worshipped the Messiah, son of Mary, as they should have obeyed God. They were commanded to worship no one besides God who is the only God and who is too exalted to be considered equal to any idols.


tafseer:
They would like to extinguish the light of God with a blow from their mouths, but even though the unbelievers may dislike it, God has decided to let His light shine forever.


tafseer:
It is God Who sent His Messenger with guidance and a true religion that will prevail over all other religions, even though the pagans may dislike it.


tafseer:
Believers, many rabbis and monks consume other people´s property by false means and create obstacles in the way of God. Those who horde gold and silver and do not spend (anything out of it) for the cause of God, should know that their recompense will be a painful torment


tafseer:
on the Day of Judgment and that their treasures will be heated by the fire of hell and pressed against their foreheads, sides and back with this remark, &quot


tafseer:
According to the Book of God, from the day He created the heavens and the earth, the number of months are twelve, four of which are sacred. (This is part of the law) of the religion. Do not commit injustice against your souls during the sacred months but fight all the pagans just as they fight against all of you. Know that God is with the pious ones.


tafseer:
To disregard the observation of the sacred months and to observe it during the non-sacred months is to add more to one´s disbelief. This causes the unbelievers to go further astray. One year they (the pagans) consider a sacred month not sacred, (and observe it during a non-sacred month) but the next year they consider it sacred at the right time. By dealing with the sacred months in such a manner, they think that they have observed the laws of God, but, in fact, they have changed them. Their evil deeds seem attractive to them but God does not guide the unbelieving people.


tafseer:
Believers, why is it that when you are told to march for the cause of God, you seem to linger at home. Have you given preference to the worldly life over the life hereafter? The worldly gains compared to those of the next life are but very little.


tafseer:
If you do not march for His cause, He will afflict your with a painful punishment and replace you by another nation and your (destruction) will not harm Him at all. God has power over all things.


tafseer:
If you do not help him, (Muhammad), God has already helped him. When the unbelievers expelled him and he was one of the two people in the cave telling his friend, &quot


tafseer:
Whether unarmed or well equipped, march and fight for the cause of God with your possessions and in person. This would be better for you, if only you knew it.


tafseer:
Had the gain been immediate or the journey shorter, they (hypocrites) would certainly have followed you, (Muhammad), but it was too far for them. They will swear by God, &quot


tafseer:
May God forgive you! (Muhammad), why did you not let them join the army so that you could discern the liars from the truthful ones?


tafseer:
Those who believe in God and the Day of Judgment do not ask you whether they should fight for the cause of God with their property and in person, or not. God knows all about the pious ones.


tafseer:
Only those who do not believe in God and the Day of Judgment ask you such questions because their hearts are full of doubts and they cannot make any final decisions.


tafseer:
Had they (the hypocrites) wanted to join your army, they would have prepared themselves, but God did not wish to motivate them, so He caused them to linger behind with those whose joining you in battle would be of no use.


tafseer:
Had they joined you, they would have been of no help to you but would have just caused confusion and trouble among you by sneaking through the ranks where some of you would be ready to listen to them. God knows best the unjust.


tafseer:
Even prior to this, they tried to cause trouble and to turn your affairs upside-down until the truth came and the cause of God triumphed against their desires.


tafseer:
If you gain success, it grieves them but if you suffer hardship, they turn away from you saying, &quot


tafseer:
For us, you can anticipate nothing other than Paradise if we are killed or success if we triumph. However, what we can anticipate for you is either punishment by the hands of God or by ours. Wait and we, too, are waiting with you.


tafseer:
What prevents their offerings from being accepted is their disbelief in God and His Messenger, their lack of interest in prayer and spending for the cause of God reluctantly.


tafseer:
They swear by God that they are believers like you but they are not believers. They are a people who only cause differences.


tafseer:
They are so afraid of you that had there been a place for them to seek refuge, a cave or some entrance in which to hide themselves from you, they would have madly rushed therein.


tafseer:
They blame you about the distribution of the welfare funds. They are pleased when you give them something from it, but if they receive nothing, they become angry with you.


tafseer:
Welfare funds (zakat) are only for the poor, the destitute, the tax collectors, those whose hearts are inclined (towards Islam), the slaves, those who cannot pay their debts, for the cause of God, and for those who have become needy on a journey. Paying zakat is an obligation that God has decreed. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
They (hypocrites) swear by God in their effort to please you, but if they were true believers (they would know) that God and His Messenger deserve more to be pleased than anyone else.


tafseer:
Do they not know that for displeasing God and His Messenger, one would be admitted to Hell wherein he would live forever. This indeed is a great humiliation.


tafseer:
The hypocrites are afraid that some revelation will be revealed, thus, making public what is in their hearts. (Muhammad), tell them, &quot


tafseer:
Make no excuses. You have certainly turned back to disbelief. If We forgive one group of you, We must punish the other for they are guilty.


tafseer:
Be they male or female hypocrites, they are the same. They make others commit sins, prevent them from doing good deeds, and restrain their hands (from spending for the cause of God). They have forgotten all about God who also has ignored them. The hypocrites indeed are evil-doers.


tafseer:
For the hypocrites and the unbelievers, God has prepared hell wherein they will live forever. Hell is their proper punishment. God has condemned them and they will suffer a permanent torment


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like that of those who lived before you, whose power, wealth, and children were much greater than yours. They enjoyed their share of the worldly gains and you, also, like them, have enjoyed yours. You have been sneaking among the people to cause trouble, just as they had been doing before you. Such people´s deeds are devoid of all virtue both in this life and in the life hereafter. They indeed are lost.


tafseer:
Have they not heard the stories of the people of Noah, the tribe of Ad, Thamud, the people of Abraham, the dwellers of the city of Midian, and those of the Subverted Cities? God´s Messengers came to each of them with miracles. God did not do any injustice to them, but they wronged themselves.


tafseer:
The believers, both male and female, are each other´s guardians. They try to make others do good, prevent them from committing sins, perform their prayers, pay the religious tax, and obey God and His Messenger. God will have mercy on them


tafseer:
God has promised the believers gardens wherein streams flow and wherein they will live forever in the excellent mansions of the garden of Eden. What is more important than all this for them is that God is pleased with them. Such is the supreme triumph.


tafseer:
Prophet, fight the unbelievers and hypocrites vehemently for the cause of God. Their dwelling is hell, a terrible destination!


tafseer:
They (the hypocrites) swear by the Name of God (to make others believe in what they are saying). They have spoken the testimony of disbelief and have then turned back to disbelief. They have made unsuccessful attempts to cause trouble. There is no other reason for their ungratefulness except that God and His Messenger enriched them through their favors. If they repent, it will be better for them, but if they turn away (from the faith), God will make them suffer a painful punishment both in this life and in the life hereafter. They will find no guardian nor any helper in the land.


tafseer:
Some of them have promised God that if He will favor them, they will certainly spend for His cause and be righteous ones.


tafseer:
But when His favors were bestowed on them, they became niggardly and in disregard broke their promise.


tafseer:
God will, for their disregard of their promise and their telling lies, place hypocrisy in their hearts which will not leave them until they face the consequences of their deeds.


tafseer:
Were they not aware that God knows all that they hide or whisper and that He has absolute knowledge of the unseen?


tafseer:
God mocks those (hypocrites) who blame and mock the rich or poor believers who donate to the welfare funds, and He has prepared a painful torment for them.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), whether you ask God to forgive them or not, He will never do so, even if you were to beg seventy times


tafseer:
Those who did not take part in the battle (of Tabuk), were glad about their staying home against the order of the Messenger of God. They did not want to fight for the cause of God with their property and in person and said, &quot


tafseer:
When God brings you back safely and a group of hypocrites ask you to make them exempt from taking part in the battle, tell them, &quot


tafseer:
Should any of them die, never pray for him or stand on his grave. They have disbelieved in God and His Messenger and have died while committing evil.


tafseer:
When a chapter of the Quran is revealed telling them to believe in God and fight along with His Messenger for His cause against His enemies, the healthy and rich ones of them ask you to exempt them from taking part in the battle for the cause of God and to let them stay home with the people who are of no help in the battle.


tafseer:
They are happy to stay home with those who are of no help in the battle, thus, their hearts were sealed and they were left with no understanding.


tafseer:
But the Messenger of God and the believers with him fought for the cause of God with their possessions and in person and their reward will be all good things and everlasting happiness.


tafseer:
God has established gardens for them wherein streams flow and wherein they will live forever. This indeed is the greatest triumph.


tafseer:
Some of the dwellers of the desert (who were not able to join the army) came to the Prophet seeking exemption from taking part in the battle. Those who called God and His Messengers liars also stayed home (with those who were truly exempt). The disbelievers will soon receive a painful punishment.


tafseer:
People who are weak or sick and those who do not have the means to take part in the fighting are exempt from this duty if their intention remains sincere about God and His Messenger. Righteous people shall not be blamed. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Those who come to you, (Muhammad), asking to be taken to the battle, but you cannot find the necessary means for them, are exempt from the duty of fighting for the cause of God, even though they leave you with their eyes flooded with tears because of not being able to help the cause of God.


tafseer:
The blameworthy ones are those who ask for exemption despite their ability and who preferred to stay at home with those who are truly exempt. God has placed a seal on their hearts but they do not know.


tafseer:
When you return they will appeal to you in the Name of God to leave them alone. So leave them alone. They are filthy and their dwelling will be hell as a recompense for what they had gained.


tafseer:
They swear in the Name of God to please you. Even if you were to be pleased with them, God is not pleased with evil-doing people.


tafseer:
The desert dwelling Arabs are far worse than the others in their disbelief and hypocrisy and have more reason to be ignorant of the revelations that God revealed to His Messenger. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
Whatever some of the desert dwelling Arabs spend for the cause of God, they consider it a loss to themselves. They wish to see you in trouble. Trouble has struck them already. God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


tafseer:
Some of the desert dwelling Arabs believe in God and the Day of Judgment. Whatever they spend for the cause of God they consider it as a means of getting nearer to God and have the prayers of the Messenger in their favor. This, certainly is a means to get nearer to God. God will admit them into His mercy. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
God is well pleased with the foremost ones of those who left their homes for the cause of God, those who helped them after their arrival in Medina and those who nobly followed these two groups. He has prepared gardens for them wherein streams flow and wherein they will live forever. This, certainly is the supreme triumph.


tafseer:
Some of the desert dwelling Arabs around you are hypocrites as are some of the inhabitants of Medina. They are persisting in their hypocrisies. You do not know them but We know them well and will punish them twice over. Then they will be brought to the great torment (on the Day of Judgment).


tafseer:
Some of them have already confessed their sins and have mixed virtuous deeds with sinful ones. Perhaps God will forgive them. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Do they not know that it is God who accepts the repentance of His servants and receives the welfare funds and that it is God who is All-forgiving and All-merciful?


tafseer:
Besides those who have confessed their sins, there are others who have no good deeds for which they may receive any reward or sins for which they may be punished. Their fate will be in the hands of God.&quot


tafseer:
The mosque which some of the hypocrites have established is only to harm people, to spread disbelief, to create discord among the believers, to wait for the one who fought against God and His Messenger, and to make others believe that it has been established with their good intentions. But God testifies that they are liars.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), never stay in that mosque. The mosque which was established for a pious purpose and before all other mosques is more virtuous for your prayer. In this mosque, there are people who love to be purified. God loves those who purify themselves.


tafseer:
Which is better, the mosque that is founded for pious purposes and for achieving God´s pleasure or that which is based on the brink of a crumbling bank and which may crumble into hell at any moment? God does not guide the unjust.


tafseer:
The building (mosque) which they have built always motivates mischief in their hearts until their hearts are cut into pieces. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
God has purchased the souls and property of the believers in exchange for Paradise. They fight for the cause of God to destroy His enemies and to sacrifice themselves. This is a true promise which He has revealed in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran. No one is more true to His promise than God. Let this bargain be glad news for them. This is indeed the supreme triumph.


tafseer:
(The believers) who repent for their sins, worship God, praise Him, travel through the land (for pious purposes), kneel down and prostrate themselves in obedience to God, make others do good and prevent them from sins and abide by the laws of God, will receive a great reward. Let this be glad news for the believer.


tafseer:
After it was made clear that the pagans are to be the dwellers of hell, the Prophet and the believers should not have sought forgiveness from God for them even though they may have been relatives.


tafseer:
There was no other reason for Abraham to seek forgiveness from God for his father except the promise that he had made with him. When Abraham knew that his father was an enemy of God, he disowned his father. Abraham was very tender-hearted and forbearing.


tafseer:
God does not misguide a nation after having given them guidance until the means of piety are made known to them. God knows all things.


tafseer:
To God belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He grants life and causes death. God is your only Guardian and Helper.


tafseer:
God pardoned the Prophet, the Emigrants, the Helpers, and those who followed them, when the hearts of some of them almost deviated (from the truth) in their hour of difficulty. God forgave them because of His Compassion and Mercy.


tafseer:
God also forgave the three people who lagged behind. Grief made them feel as though there was no place in the whole vast earth to hide them or in their souls to conceal their sorrow. They began to believe that no one could save them from (the wrath of God) except He Himself. God pardoned them so that they would also repent for their sins. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
The inhabitants of the city of Medina and the desert Arabs dwelling around it were not supposed to disobey the Messenger of God or to give priority to their own lives above that of the Prophet. For if they had given priority to the life of the Messenger of God, they would not have experienced the hardships of thirst, fatigue, or hunger in their struggle for the cause of God, nor would their travelling have enraged the disbelievers and they would not have received any injury from enemies that God would not record for them as a virtuous deed. God does not ignore the reward of those who do good.


tafseer:
Also, they would not have spent anything, great or small, for the cause of God or travel through a valley without God decreeing a reward for them far better than whatever they had done.


tafseer:
Not all believers have to become specialists in religious learning. Why do not some people from each group of believers seek to become specialists in religious learning and, after completing their studies, guide their group so that they will have fear of God.


tafseer:
Believers, fight the unbelievers near you for the cause of God so that they realize your strength and know that God is with the pious ones.


tafseer:
But to those whose hearts are sick, it adds more filth to their hearts and they die as disbelievers.


tafseer:
Do they not realize that God tests them once or twice a year but, nevertheless, they do not repent and give it proper thought?


tafseer:
When a chapter (of the Quran) is revealed, (it upsets them). They look at one another and their eyes silently ask this question, &quot


tafseer:
A Messenger from your own people has come to you. Your destruction and suffering is extremely grievous to him. He really cares about you and is very compassionate and merciful to the believers.


tafseer:
Why should it seem strange to mankind that We sent revelations to a mortal among them, who would warn others and give to the believers the glad news of their high rank in the sight of God. The unbelievers have said, &quot


tafseer:
God is your Lord who has created the heavens and the earth in six days and established His Dominion over the Throne. He maintains order over the creation. No one can intercede for others without His permission. It is God who is your only Lord. Worship only Him. Will you then not think?


tafseer:
It is God who has made the sun radiant and the moon luminous and has appointed for the moon certain phases so that you may compute the number of years and other reckonings. God has created them for a genuine purpose. He explains the evidence (of His existence) to the people of knowledge.


tafseer:
The alternation of the day and night and all that God has created in the heavens and earth are evidence (of the existence of God) for the pious people.


tafseer:
Those who do not have hope of receiving Our mercy in the life hereafter who are pleased and satisfied with the worldly life and who pay no attention to Our revelations


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers receive, through their faith, guidance from their Lord to the bountiful gardens wherein streams flow.


tafseer:
Had God been as hasty to punish people as they were hasty to achieve good, their life would have already ended. We will leave those who have no hope of receiving Our mercy, in the life hereafter, to continue blindly in their transgression.


tafseer:
When the human being is affected by hardship, he starts to pray while lying on his side, sitting or standing, but when We relieve him from hardship, he starts to act as though he had never prayed to Us to save him from the misfortune. This is how transgressors´ deeds are made attractive to them.


tafseer:
We destroyed certain generations who lived before you because of their injustice. Our Messengers came to them and showed them miracles, but they would not believe. Thus do We punish the criminals.


tafseer:
Whenever Our authoritative revelations are recited to those who do not wish to meet Us in the life hereafter, say, &quot


tafseer:
Who is more unjust than one who invents falsehood against God or calls His revelations lies? The criminals will certainly have no happiness.


tafseer:
All people (once) followed one belief. Then they began to follow different beliefs. Had not a word of your Lord (His decision to give every one time and free will) been decreed, God would already have settled their differences.


tafseer:
When people are granted mercy after having suffered hardship, they begin to plot against Our revelations. Say, &quot


tafseer:
When you are rejoicing in a boat, a favorable breeze and a violent storm arises with waves surrounding you from all sides. Thinking that you will not survive, you start to pray sincerely to God. In prayer, you say, &quot


tafseer:
When We saved you, you started to rebel unjustly in the land. People, your rebellion will only harm yourselves. You may enjoy the worldly life but to Us you will all return and We will let you know all that you had done.


tafseer:
The example of the worldly life is like the water sent down from the sky which becomes mixed with the earth´s produce that people and cattle consume. When the land becomes fertile and pleasant, people think that they have control over it. At Our command during the night or day, the land becomes as barren as if it had no richness the day before. Thus, do We explain the evidence (of the truth) for the people who reflect.


tafseer:
The righteous will receive good reward for their deeds and more. Their faces will suffer no disgrace or ignominy. They will be the dwellers of Paradise wherein they will live forever.


tafseer:
The recompense for the evil deeds will be equally evil (not more) and the faces of the evil-doers will suffer from disgrace. No one can protect them from the wrath of God. Their faces will become dark as if covered by the pitch-darkness of night. They will be the dwellers of hell wherein they will remain forever.


tafseer:
There every soul will experience the result of all that it had done. They will be brought into the presence of God, their true Lord, and all that they falsely invented will vanish.


tafseer:
Thus is God your true Lord. In the absence of truth there is nothing but falsehood. Then where are you turning?


tafseer:
Most of the unbelievers follow only conjecture which certainly cannot serve as a substitute for the Truth. God knows well what they do.


tafseer:
No one could have composed this Quran besides God. This confirms the existing Book (the Bible) and explains itself. There is no doubt that it is from the Lord of the Universe.


tafseer:
They call a lie something that is beyond the limit of their knowledge and whose interpretation has not yet been revealed. Some people who lived before them also called Our revelations lies. Consider how terrible was the end of the unjust people!


tafseer:
Some of them will listen to you, but are you supposed to make the deaf hear even if they have no understanding?


tafseer:
On the day when they will be resurrected, their worldly life will seem to them only as an hour of a day and they all will recognize each other. Those who called the receiving of mercy from God a lie are certainly lost. They did not have the right guidance.


tafseer:
When if We show you them suffering Our retribution or you die before their suffering, (they will not be able to escape Our punishment) they will all return to Us. God bears witness to whatever they do.


tafseer:
A Messenger is appointed for all people. When the Messenger for them came he judged among them fairly and they were not wronged.


tafseer:
Besides, if He was to send them the punishment which they want to quickly experience, would they then have faith?


tafseer:
(On the Day of Judgment) to redeem oneself of one´s injustice, one would gladly spend the wealth of the whole earth if it were possible. On seeing the torment one will try to hide his regret. They will all be judged fairly and no wrong will be done to them.


tafseer:
All that is in the heavens and the earth certainly belongs to God and His promise is true, but many people do not know this.


tafseer:
People, good advice has come to you from your Lord a (spiritual) cure, a guide and a mercy for the believers.


tafseer:
What do those who ascribe falsehood to God think of the Day of Judgment? God is generous to the human being, yet many do not give thanks.


tafseer:
will receive glad news both in this life and in the life hereafter. The words of God do not change. This alone is the supreme triumph


tafseer:
Does not all that is in the heavens and the earth belong to God? (The unbelievers) who worship the idols instead of God follow only conjecture. What they preach are mere lies.


tafseer:
It is God who has made the night for you to rest and has filled the day with light (as a means of visibility). In this there is evidence (of the existence of God) for the people who hear.


tafseer:
Some people have said that God has begotten a son. God is too Glorious to have a son! God is Self-sufficient and to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. In this, you (people) have no authority. Do you ascribe to God things of which you have no knowledge?


tafseer:
They may consider it a means of enjoyment in this life but (on the Day of Judgment) they will all return to Us. Then they will suffer for their disbelief the most severe punishment.


tafseer:
They rejected Noah. Then We saved him and his people in the Ark to make them the successors of the rest. The others, who had called Our revelations lies, were drowned. Consider the fate of those who (rejected) Our warnings!


tafseer:
After (Noah) We sent other Messengers to their people with clear authoritative evidence proving their prophetic claims). But how could the people believe what they had previously called lies? Thus do We seal the hearts of the transgressors.


tafseer:
Then We sent Moses and Aaron with Our miracles to the Pharaoh and his people. These people also proved to be arrogant. They were wicked people.


tafseer:
When all the magicians were brought to his court, Moses asked them to cast down what they wanted to.


tafseer:
No one believed in Moses except some young people of his own tribe who were at the same time very afraid of the persecution of the Pharaoh and his people. The Pharaoh was certainly a tyrant and a transgressor.


tafseer:
We sent a revelation to Moses and his brother to build houses for their people in the Pharaoh´s town and to build them facing one another. (We told him) that therein they should pray and that Moses should give the glad news (of God´s mercy) to the faithful ones.


tafseer:
We helped the children of Israel cross the sea safely. The Pharaoh and his army pursued the children of Israel with wickedness and hate until the Pharaoh was drowned. As he was drowning the Pharaoh said, &quot


tafseer:
We will save your body on this day so that you may become evidence (of Our existence) for the coming generations


tafseer:
We settled the children of Israel in a blessed land and provided them with pure sustenance. They did not create differences among themselves until after the knowledge had come to them. God will judge their differences on the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
If you (people ) have any doubt about what We have revealed to you (about the Day of Judgment and other matters of belief), ask those who read the Book that was revealed (to the Prophets who lived) before you. The truth has certainly come to you from your Lord. Thus, do not doubt it (in your heart),


tafseer:
(Even though all kinds of miracles will be shown to them) those about whom the word of your Lord has been ordained, will not have faith


tafseer:
Why did no one except the people of Jonah believe (in their punishment before their death) so that they could have benefitted from their faith? When the people of Jonah believed, We saved them from a disgraceful torment in this life and provided them with the means of enjoyment for an appointed time.


tafseer:
Had your Lord wished, the whole of mankind would have believed in Him. (Muhammad), do you force people to have faith?


tafseer:
No one can have faith without the permission of God. God will cast down filth on those who have no understanding.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), tell them to consider that which is in the heavens and the earth. Evidence and warnings are of no avail to the disbelieving people.


tafseer:
What can they expect other than the kind of (punishment that befell the disbelieving people) who had gone before them? (Muhammad), tell them, &quot


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nor to seek help from anyone other than God [who can neither benefit nor harm me], lest I become of the unjust.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), if God afflicts you with hardship, no one besides Him can save you. If God grants you a favor, no one can prevent you from receiving His favors. God bestows His favors upon whichever of His servants He wants. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Alif. Lam. Ra . This is a Book from One who is All-wise and All-aware. Its verses are well composed and distinctly arranged (from one another)


tafseer:
(The unbelievers) cover their breasts to try to hide their disbelief from God. But He knows very well whatever they conceal or reveal even when they cover themselves with their garments. God certainly knows the inner-most (secrets) of the hearts.


tafseer:
There is no living creature on earth that does not receive sustenance from God. He knows its dwelling and resting place. Everything is recorded in the glorious Book.


tafseer:
God created the heavens and the earth in six days. His Throne existed on water so that He could test you and find out those among you who do good deeds. (Muhammad), if you were to tell them that after death they would be brought back to life again, the unbelievers would say, &quot


tafseer:
We grant a favor to the human being and then take it away from him. He becomes despairing and ungrateful.


tafseer:
But those who exercise patience and do good works do not behave as such. They will receive forgiveness and a great reward (from the Lord).


tafseer:
Perhaps you, (Muhammad), may by chance leave (untold) a part of that which is revealed to you and feel grieved because they say, &quot


tafseer:
Do they, (the unbelievers), say that (Muhammad) has falsely ascribed (the Quran) to God? Ask them, &quot


tafseer:
If they will not respond to you, know that God has sent it with His knowledge and that He is the only God. Will you then become Muslims?&quot


tafseer:
Those who choose the worldly life and its pleasures will be given proper recompense for their deeds in this life and will not suffer any loss.


tafseer:
Such people will receive nothing in the next life except Hell fire. Their deeds will be made devoid of all virtue and their efforts will be in vain.


tafseer:
Should they be compared with those whose Lord has given them a guidance which is testified by a witness from among their own people and by the Book of Moses, a guide and a mercy. Such people do believe in this guidance (in the Quran). Those who disbelieve (in the Quran) will have hell as their dwelling place. Thus, (Muhammad), have no doubt about it (the Quran). It is certainly the truth from your Lord, yet many people do not have faith.


tafseer:
Who are more unjust than those who ascribe falsehood to God? When such people are brought into the presence of their Lord, the witness will say, &quot


tafseer:
who prevent others from the way of God, seek to make it appear crooked, and who have no faith in the life hereafter.


tafseer:
Such people will never weaken God´s (power) on earth nor will they find any guardian besides God. Their punishment will be doubled and they will not be able to hear or see.


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers who are humble before their Lord, will be the dwellers of Paradise wherein they will live forever.


tafseer:
Can the two groups, the blind and the deaf, be considered equal to those who have vision and hearing? Will you then not take heed?


tafseer:
My people I do not ask any payment for what I preach to you. No one except God has to give me any reward. I do not drive away those who have faith (in my teaching)


tafseer:
My people, who would protect me against God if I were to drive these people away? Will you then not take heed?


tafseer:
I do not say that God´s treasures belong to me, that I know the unseen, or that I am an angel. Nor do I say about those whom you disdain that God will not give them any reward. God knows best what is in their hearts, for then I would be unjust.&quot


tafseer:
My advice will be of no benefit to you if God wants to let you go astray. He is your Lord and to Him you will all return.&quot


tafseer:
It was revealed to Noah that besides those who had already accepted his faith, no one from his people would ever believe him. He was told not to be disappointed about what his people had done,


tafseer:
but to build the Ark under the supervision and guidance of his Lord. He was also told not to address any words to Him concerning the unjust for they were all to be drowned.


tafseer:
(Noah) started to build the Ark but whenever some of his people passed by, they would mock him. He in return would reply, &quot


tafseer:
You will soon learn who will face a humiliating punishment and will be encompassed by an everlasting torment.&quot


tafseer:
When at last Our decree was fulfilled, water gushed forth from the Oven (in Noah´s house). We told him to carry in the Ark a pair (male and female) from every species, his family - except those who were destined to perish - and the believers. No one believed in him, except a few.


tafseer:
When the Ark sailed on with them amid the mountainous waves, Noah called out to his son who kept away from them, &quot


tafseer:
Then the earth was told to swallow-up its water and the sky was ordered to stop raining. The water abated and God´s command had been fulfilled. The Ark came to rest on Mount Judi. A voice said, &quot


tafseer:
That which We have revealed to you (Muhammad) is news of the unseen. This was not known to you and to your people. Have patience. The pious will triumph in the end.


tafseer:
My people, I do not ask any reward for what I have preached to you. No one can give me my reward except my Creator. Will you then not take heed?


tafseer:
I trust God who is my Lord as well as yours. It is God who controls the destiny of all living creatures. It is my Lord who knows the right path.


tafseer:
If you turn away from Him (since I have already preached to you the message that I carry), He will replace you with another nation. You cannot harm Him the least. My Lord is the Protector of all things.&quot


tafseer:
When Our decree (of destroying them) was fulfilled, We mercifully saved Hud and his believing followers. We saved them from the intense torment.


tafseer:
It was the tribe of `Ad who denied the miracles of their Lord, disobeyed His Messenger and followed the orders of every transgressing tyrant.


tafseer:
They were condemned in this life and will be condemned in the life hereafter. The tribe of Ad had certainly rejected their Lord. God kept the tribe of Ad, the people of Hud, away from His mercy.


tafseer:
My people, this is the she-camel of God, a miracle (to support the truth which has been brought) to you. Leave her to graze in the land of God. Do not harm her with your evil deeds lest torment will suddenly strike you.&quot


tafseer:
When Our decree came to pass. We mercifully saved Salih and his faithful followers from that day´s ignominy. Your Lord is certainly Mighty and Majestic.


tafseer:
as though they had never existed. The people of Thamud denied the existence of their Lord. How distant from the mercy of God had the people of Thamud gone!


tafseer:
but when he saw that their hands did not reach out for it, he could not know who they were and became afraid of them. They said, &quot


tafseer:
His wife who was standing nearby, smiled and so We gave her the glad news that she would give birth to Isaac who would have a son, Jacob.


tafseer:
When Abraham had controlled his fear and received the glad news, he started to plead with Us for the people of Lot


tafseer:
When Our decree came to pass, We turned the town upside-down and showered unto it lumps of baked clay,


tafseer:
My people, be just in your weighing and measuring. Do not defraud people or spread evil in the land.


tafseer:
If you are true believers then know that the profit which God has left for you is better for you (than what you may gain through deceitful ways). I am not responsible for your deeds.&quot


tafseer:
My people, do not let your opposition to me lead you to commit sins or make you suffer what the people of Noah, Hud, and Salih suffered. Remember that the people of Lot were destroyed not very long ago.


tafseer:
Seek forgiveness from your Lord and turn to Him in repentance. My Lord is certainly All-merciful and Loving.&quot


tafseer:
My people, do as you wish and I will do (as I believe). You will soon know who will suffer a humiliating torment and who was the one telling lies. Wait and I too will be waiting with you.&quot


tafseer:
When Our decree came to pass, We mercifully saved Shu´ayb and his faithful followers. A blast struck the unjust and left them in their homes, lying motionless on their faces,


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as though they had never existed. How far from (the mercy of God) had the people of Midian gone, just as those of Thamud?


tafseer:
On the Day of Judgment he will lead his people down into the hell fire. His leadership is evil and terrible is the place to which he leads!


tafseer:
Such were the stories of the nations of the past which We tell to you, (Muhammad). Some of them were destroyed and some of them have survived.


tafseer:
We were not unjust to them but they were unjust to themselves. The idols which they worshipped instead of God were of no help to them when Our decree came to pass. The idols only brought about their destruction.


tafseer:
Thus was the punishment of your Lord when He punished the unjust people of the towns. The punishment of your Lord is certainly severe.


tafseer:
In this there is, certainly, a lesson for those who fear the torment of the next life in which all people will be gathered together


tafseer:
On the Day of Judgment no one will speak without the permission of God. Some will be condemned and others blessed.


tafseer:
for as long as the heavens and the earth exist, unless your Lord decides otherwise. Your Lord will certainly accomplish whatever He wants.


tafseer:
The blessed ones will live in Paradise as long as the heavens and the earth exist, unless your Lord decides to grant endless rewards to whomever He wants.


tafseer:
Have no doubt that these people worship (idols). They worship what their fathers had worshipped before them. We will give them the exact recompense that they deserve.


tafseer:
We gave the Book to Moses but people had different views about it. Had the Word of your Lord not been already ordained, He would have settled their differences (there and then). They are still in doubt about this.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), be steadfast (in your faith) just as you have been commanded. Those who have turned to God in repentance with you, should also be steadfast in their faith. Do not indulge in rebellion. God is certainly aware of what you do.


tafseer:
Do not be inclined towards the unjust ones lest you will be afflicted by the hell fire. Besides God, no one can be your protector nor will anyone be able to help you.


tafseer:
Say your prayers in the morning, the last portion of the day, and at the beginning of the night. Good deeds do away with the bad deeds. This is a reminder for those who take heed.


tafseer:
Why were there no people of understanding among those people of the destroyed towns of the past except for a few, whom we saved from destruction, to prevent people from committing evil in the land? The unjust among them indulged in worldly pleasures and so became guilty.


tafseer:
Your Lord would not have destroyed those people (of the towns) for their injustice if they had tried to reform themselves.


tafseer:
Had your Lord wanted, He would have made all people one united nation. They still have different beliefs


tafseer:
except those upon whom God has granted His mercy. God has created them to receive mercy. The decree of your Lord that He will fill hell with both jinn and human beings has already been ordained.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), We tell you all the stories of the Messengers which will strengthen your heart. In the Quran We have revealed the Truth to you with good advice and reminders for the faithful ones.


tafseer:
To God belongs the knowledge of the unseen in the heavens and the earth and to Him do all affairs return. Worship Him and trust Him. Your Lord is not unaware of what you do.


tafseer:
Thus, your Lord will select you, teach you the interpretation of dreams, and grant His favors to you and the family of Jacob, just as He granted His favors to your fathers, Abraham and Isaac. Your Lord is certainly All-knowing and All-wise.&quot


tafseer:
In the story of Joseph and his brothers, there is evidence (of the truth) for those who seek to know.


tafseer:
When they took Joseph with them, they agreed to throw him into the well. We revealed to Joseph that (sometime) in the future at a time when they would not recognize him, he would remind them of all this.


tafseer:
A caravan came by and sent their water carrier out to the well. When he drew out Joseph in his bucket, he shouted, &quot


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When he attained maturity, God gave him strength, wisdom and knowledge. Thus, do We reward those who do good.


tafseer:
She was determined to have him and were it not for his faith in God, he would certainly have yielded to her. Thus did We protect him from evil and indecency. He was certainly one of Our sincere servants.


tafseer:
She chased him to the door, grabbed him from behind, and tore off his shirt. Suddenly, they were face to face with her husband. (Looking accusingly at Joseph) she asked her husband, &quot


tafseer:
When she heard their gossiping, she invited them to her house for a banquet and gave a knife to each of them. Then she told Joseph to appear before them. When they saw Joseph, they were so amazed that they cut their hands and said, &quot


tafseer:
Even after Joseph had been found innocent of any crime, the King and his people decided to imprison him for an appointed time (so that people would forget the incident).


tafseer:
Two young men were also sent to serve prison sentences (for different reasons). One of them said, &quot


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and I have embraced the religion of my fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We are not supposed to consider anything equal to God. This is part of God´s blessing to us and the people, but most people do not give thanks.


tafseer:
What you worship instead of God are no more than empty names that you and your fathers have given to certain things. God has not given any authority to such names. Judgment belongs to no one but God. He has commanded you to worship nothing but Him. This is the only true religion, but most people do not know.


tafseer:
Joseph asked the one, whom he knew would not be executed, to mention his case to his Lord. Satan caused that man to forget all about Joseph and his case. Thus, Joseph remained in prison for some years.


tafseer:
(Sometimes later), the King dreamt that seven lean cows were eating seven fat ones and that there were seven green ears of corn and seven dry ones. He asked the nobles to tell him the meaning of his dream if they were able to.


tafseer:
The man who was in prison with Joseph and who was released, recalled after so many years Joseph´s (ability to interpret dreams) and said, &quot


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After this will ensue seven years of famine in which all the grain that you have stored will be consumed except a small quantity.


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Then there will be a year with plenty of rain and people will have sufficient milk and other produce.&quot


tafseer:
The King ordered his people to bring Joseph into his presence. When the messenger came to Joseph, he (Joseph) said, &quot


tafseer:
The King ordered his men to bring Joseph before him. He wanted to grant him a high office. The King said to Joseph, &quot


tafseer:
Thus, We settled Joseph in the land to live wherever he wanted. We grant a due share of Our mercy to whomever We want and We do not ignore the reward of the righteous ones.


tafseer:
The reward in the next life is certainly better for the faithful ones who have observed piety in this life.


tafseer:
Joseph´s brothers came to him. When they entered his court, he recognized them. They did not know him.


tafseer:
Then Joseph told his people to put his brothers´ money back into their bags so that perhaps they would recognize it, when at home, and come back to Egypt once again.


tafseer:
When they opened their baggage, they found that their money had been returned to them. They said, &quot


tafseer:
Even though they entered the town as their father had told them, it would not have been of any avail to them against the decree of God. It only served to satisfy Jacob´s desire and judgment. He was certainly well versed by Our instruction, but most people do not know.


tafseer:
When he had furnished them with provisions, he placed the King´s drinking cup in his own brother´s baggage. Then someone shouted, &quot


tafseer:
They searched their baggage before that of Joseph´s real brother where at last they found it. Thus, We showed Joseph how to plan this


tafseer:
When they lost all hope (of convincing the Prince), they moved into a corner whispering to each other. The eldest among them said, &quot


tafseer:
You can ask the people of the town where we were and the caravan we met there. We are certainly telling the truth.&quot


tafseer:
Take my shirt and place it unto my father´s face. This will restore his eye-sight. Then bring the whole family to me.&quot


tafseer:
When someone brought him the glad news, Joseph´s shirt was placed on his face and his eye-sight was restored, he said, &quot


tafseer:
He raised his parents on the throne and they prostrated themselves before him (Joseph). He said, &quot


tafseer:
This is some of the news of the unseen which We reveal to you, (Muhammad). You were not with them when Joseph´s brothers agreed on devising their evil plans.


tafseer:
You do not ask any reward for your preaching (of Our guidance to them). This (Quran) is a guide for the people of the world (human beings and jinn).


tafseer:
There is much evidence (of the existence of God) in the heavens and the earth which they see, but ignore.


tafseer:
Do they feel safe from God´s overwhelming torment or of the sudden approach of the Day of Judgment while they are unaware?


tafseer:
The Messengers whom We sent before you were mere men of the people of the towns. We gave them revelations. Have they (the unbelievers) not travelled sufficiently through the land to see how terrible the end was of those who lived before. The next life is, certainly, better for the pious ones. Will you not then take heed?


tafseer:
When at last the Messengers lost all hope of achieving success in their task and thought that everyone had called them liars, We gave them victory and saved whomever We chose to save. The guilty ones can not escape Our wrath.


tafseer:
In their story, there is a lesson for the people of understanding. It is not a legend but a confirmation of what exists (in the Torah). It (the Quran) has details about everything. It is a guide and mercy for those who have faith.


tafseer:
Alif. Lam. Mim. Ra. These are the verses of the Book. Whatever is revealed to you from your Lord is the Truth, but most people do not believe.


tafseer:
God is the One Who raised the heavens without a pillar as you can see. Then He established his control over the realm and made the sun and moon subservient to Him. Each of them will remain in motion for an appointed time. He regulates all affairs and explains the evidence (of His existence) so that perhaps you will be certain of your meeting with your Lord.


tafseer:
It is God who spread out the earth and fixed mountains and placed rivers therein. He made a pair of every fruit and made the night cover the day. All this is evidence (of the existence of God) for the people who think.


tafseer:
In the earth there are adjacent pieces of land, vineyards, farms, date-palms of single and many roots which are all watered by the same water. We have made some yield a better food than others. All this is evidence (of the existence of God) for the people who understand.


tafseer:
They ask you to bring upon them punishment before they ask you for mercy. Such punishments were already brought upon the people who lived before them. Your Lord, certainly, has forgiveness for the injustice of the people. He is also stern in His retribution.


tafseer:
God knows well what every female conceives. He knows what the wombs spoil and dispose of. In His plans everything has been designed proportionately.


tafseer:
It is all the same to Him whether you speak in secret or out loud, try to hide in the darkness of night or walk in the brightness of day.


tafseer:
Everyone is guarded and protected on all sides by the order of God. God does not change the condition of a nation unless it changes what is in its heart. When God wants to punish a people, there is no way to escape from it and no one besides God will protect them from it.


tafseer:
It is God who flashes lightning to frighten you and to give you hope. It is He who forms the heavy clouds.


tafseer:
Both the thunder and the angels glorify Him and out of His fear always praise Him. He sends down thunder-bolts to strike whomever He wants, while they are busy arguing about the existence of God. His punishment is stern.


tafseer:
Prayer to Him is the true prayer. Those to whom they pray instead of God will answer none of their prayers. It is as though one stretches his hands out to the water that can never reach his mouth. The prayers of the unbelievers will get nowhere.


tafseer:
All in the heavens and the earth prostrate themselves before God, either of their own free will or by force, just as do their shadows in the mornings and evenings.


tafseer:
When God sends down water from the sky and floods run through the valleys, certain quantities of foam rise on the surface of the flood water. This is similar to that foam which rises when you expose something to the heat of a fire to manufacture ornaments or for other reasons. To God Truth and falsehood are like these examples. The foam disappears but what is profitable to the human being stays in the land. Thus, does God coin His parables.


tafseer:
Those who answer the call of their Lord will receive good rewards. Whatever those who have not answered the call of their Lord offer to redeem themselves, even if they offer double the wealth of the whole earth, will not be accepted. They will face a terrible reckoning and their dwelling will be hell, a terrible place to rest!


tafseer:
Can a person, who knows that what is revealed to you from your Lord is the truth, be considered equal to a blind person? Only those who have understanding take heed.


tafseer:
who maintain all the proper relations that God has commanded them to maintain, who have fear of their Lord and the hardships of the Day of Judgment,


tafseer:
who exercise patience to gain God´s pleasure, who are steadfast in prayer, who spend for the cause of God privately and in public, and who keep away evil with good will have a blissful end.


tafseer:
They will be admitted to the gardens of Eden wherein they will live forever with their righteous fathers, spouses, and offspring. The angels will come to them through every gate


tafseer:
Those who disregard their covenant with God after He has taken such a pledge from them, who sever the proper relations that God has commanded them to establish, and those who spread evil in the land will have God´s condemnation instead of reward and will face the most terrible end.


tafseer:
God gives abundant sustenance to whomever He wants and determines everyone´s destiny. Some people are very happy with the worldly life. Compared to the life to come it is only a temporary means.


tafseer:
and the faithful ones whose hearts are comforted by the remembrance of God. Remembrance of God certainly brings comfort to all hearts.


tafseer:
We have sent you to a nation before whom there lived many nations so that you would read to them what We have revealed to you. They still deny the existence of the Beneficent God. Say, &quot


tafseer:
Even if the Quran would make mountains move, cut the earth into pieces and make the dead able to speak, (the unbelievers still would not believe). All affairs are in the hands of God. Do the believers still hope that they will believe? Had God wanted he could have guided the whole of mankind to the right path. The unbelievers will always suffer afflictions that result from their deeds or the affliction which occur near their homes, until God´s promise of punishing them will be fulfilled. God does not disregard His promise.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), people have mocked the Messengers who lived before you. I gave a respite to the unbelievers (so that they would repent, but they did not). Then I struck them with a terrible retribution.


tafseer:
(Can anyone be considered equal to) the One who is the Guardian of every soul and the Watcher of what it has gained? Yet, the unbelievers have considered their idols equal to God. Say, &quot


tafseer:
The unbelievers will face torment in this world and their punishment in the life hereafter will be even greater. No one can save them from the wrath of God.


tafseer:
The gardens which have been promised to the pious have flowing streams, everlasting fruits, and perpetual shade. Such is the blissful end of the pious, but hell fire is the terrible end for the unbelievers.


tafseer:
The People of the Book are happy with what has been revealed to you. Among the different parties, there are some who dislike part of what has been revealed to you. (Muhammad), tell them, &quot


tafseer:
We revealed it (the Quran) as a code of conduct in the Arabic language. (Muhammad), if you follow their desires after the knowledge has been revealed to you, know that no one will be able to guard or protect you from the wrath of God.


tafseer:
We sent Messengers before you (Muhammad) and gave them wives and offspring. No Messenger was to show miracles without the permission of God.


tafseer:
For every event God has ordained His decree. God establishes or effaces whatever He wants and with Him is the original of the Book.


tafseer:
Whether We show them (the unbelievers) to you facing the punishment with which We had threatened them, or make you die first (before its fulfillment), your duty is only to preach. It is up to Us to call them to account (for their deeds).


tafseer:
Have they not considered that We have taken over the land and reduced its borders? It is God who issues the irreversible decree and His reckoning is swift.


tafseer:
Certain people who lived before plotted evil plans but God is the Master of all plans. He knows what every soul does. The unbelievers will soon learn who will achieve the blissful end.


tafseer:
Alif. Lam. Ra. A Book has been revealed to you, (Muhammad), so that, by the permission of their Lord, you would be able to lead people from darkness into light along the path of the Majestic, Praised One.


tafseer:
It is they who have given preference to the worldly life over the life to come. They create obstacles in the way that leads to God and try to make it seem crooked. They are in manifest error.


tafseer:
All the Messengers that We sent spoke the language of their people so that they could explain (their message to them). God guides or causes to go astray whomever He wants. He is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
We sent Moses and gave him miracles in order to lead his people from darkness into light and to remind them of the days of God. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for those who exercise patience and give thanks.


tafseer:
Have you (believers) ever heard the news about those who lived before you, like the people of Noah, Ad, Thamud, and those who lived after them? No one knows about them except God. Messengers were sent to them with miracles, but they put their hands to their mouths and said, &quot


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Why should we not trust in God when He has shown us the right way? We shall exercise patience against the troubles with which you afflict us. Whoever needs a trustee should trust in God.&quot


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and settle you in the land thereafter. This is for those who are afraid of Me and of My warning.&quot


tafseer:
As they sip the unpleasant water, death will approach them from all sides, but they will never die. In addition to this, they will experience the most intense torment.


tafseer:
The deeds of those who deny the existence of their Lord are like ashes blown about by a strong wind on a stormy day. They will achieve nothing from their deeds. (What they have done) is a manifest error.


tafseer:
(On the Day of Judgment) everyone will appear before God and those who have been suppressed will say to their oppressors, &quot


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers will be admitted to the gardens wherein streams flow and they will live therein forever, by the permission of their Lord. Their greeting to each other will be, &quot


tafseer:
Consider (Muhammad) how God (in a parable) compares the blessed Word to that of a blessed tree which has firm roots and branches rising up into the sky


tafseer:
and yields fruits in every season, by the permission of its Lord? God sets forth parables for people so that they may take heed.


tafseer:
God strengthens the faith of the believers by the true Words in this world and in the life to come. He causes the unjust to go astray and does whatever He pleases.


tafseer:
Have you not seen those who changed the Word of God through disbelief and led their people to destruction?


tafseer:
Tell My believing servants to be steadfast in prayer and to spend for the cause of their Lord, both in private and in public, out of what We have given them. Let them do this before the coming of the day when there will be no merchandising or friendship.


tafseer:
God is the One who created the heavens and the earth, sent down water from the sky by which He produced fruits for your sustenance, enabled you to use boats to sail on the sea, and placed the rivers at your disposal, all by His command.


tafseer:
He made the sun and moon, each following its course, and the day and the night all subservient to you.


tafseer:
He has given you everything that you asked Him for. Had you wanted to count the bounties of God, you would not have been able to do it. The human being is unjust and disbelieving.


tafseer:
Lord, the idols have misled many people. Whoever follows me is my friend. As for those who disobey, You are certainly All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Lord, You know all that we conceal or reveal. Nothing in the heavens or the earth is hidden from God.


tafseer:
It is only God who deserves all praise. I praise Him for His giving me my sons Ishmael and Isaac during my old age. My Lord, certainly, hears all prayers.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), do not think that God is unaware of what the unjust people do. He only gives them a respite until the day when the eyes will stare fixedly,


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when people will hurry in fright, their heads raised, their eyes unable to look around, and their hearts stunned due to the confusion (which will prevail on that Day).


tafseer:
(Muhammad), warn the people of the day when torment will approach them and the unjust will say, &quot


tafseer:
You lived in the dwellings of those who wronged themselves, even though it was made clear to you how We dealt with them. We also showed you examples.&quot


tafseer:
They devised evil plans which were so sinful that even the mountains could not endure them. All these were known to God.


tafseer:
You must not even think that God will disregard His promise to His messengers. God is Majestic and Revengeful.


tafseer:
On the day when the earth and the heavens will be replaced by another earth and heavens and everyone will be brought before the One Almighty God,


tafseer:
This is an admonition for the people that they will be warned and know that He is the only God, and so that the people of understanding may take heed.


tafseer:
We do not send down angels except for a genuine purpose, at which time none will be given any further respite.


tafseer:
except for those who stealthily try to listen to the heavens, but who are chased away by a bright flame.


tafseer:
We have spread out the earth, fixed mountains thereupon and caused everything to grow to its proper weight


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to provide you and those for whose sustenance you are not responsible, with the necessities of life.


tafseer:
We send impregnating winds and send down water from the sky for you to drink and you have no (control over its) storage.


tafseer:
When it is properly shaped and I have blown My Spirit into it, you should then bow down in prostration&quot


tafseer:
We shall remove all hatred from their breasts and make them as brothers reclining on thrones facing one another.


tafseer:
Leave the town with your family sometime during the night. Walk behind them and let no one turn around. Proceed as you are commanded.&quot


tafseer:
We have created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, for a genuine purpose. The Day of Judgment will certainly approach, so (Muhammad) forgive them graciously.


tafseer:
Do not yearn for other people´s property and wives and do not grieve (that they do not believe). Be kind to the believers.


tafseer:
(We have given you the Quran) as We had given (the Bible) to those who divided themselves into groups


tafseer:
God´s help will certainly support (the believers), so pagans do not (seek) to hasten it. God is too Glorious and Exalted to be considered equal to idols.


tafseer:
He sends the angels with the Spirit to carry His orders to whichever of His servants He wants so that they would warn people that He is the only God and that people must have fear of Him.


tafseer:
He has created the heavens and the earth for a genuine purpose. He is too Exalted to be considered equal to anything else.


tafseer:
They carry your heavy loads to lands which you would not have been able to reach without great difficulty. Your Lord is certainly Compassionate and All-Merciful.


tafseer:
He created horses, mules, and donkeys for you to ride and as a means of beauty. He has also created things that you do not know.


tafseer:
Some paths lead away from God but one must follow the path that leads to God. Had God wanted, He could have guided (all to the right path).


tafseer:
It is God who sends down water from the sky for you to drink and produces plants as pasture for your cattle.


tafseer:
(With this water) He causes corn, olives, palm-trees, vines, and all kinds of fruits to grow. In this there is evidence (of the existence of God) for the people of understanding.


tafseer:
God has made the day and the night, the sun and the moon, and all the stars subservient to you by His command. In this there is evidence of the truth for people of understanding.


tafseer:
All that He has created for you on the earth are of different colors. In this there is evidence of the Truth for the people who take heed.


tafseer:
It is God who put the oceans at your disposal so that you could find therein fresh fish for food and ornaments with which to deck yourselves with. You will find ships that sail for you so that you may travel in search of the bounties of God and give Him thanks.


tafseer:
God has fixed the mountains on earth lest you should be hurled away when it quakes. Therein He has also made rivers and roads so that you will find your way.


tafseer:
Is the One who can create equal to the one who cannot create anything? Why, then, will you not consider?


tafseer:
Even if you wanted to count up all of God´s blessings, you would not be able to. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Your Lord is only One. The hearts of those who do not believe in the life hereafter dislike (the truth). They are puffed up with pride.


tafseer:
Besides their own burdens, on the Day of Judgment ,they will have to carry on the burdens of those whom they have misled without knowledge. How evil that burden will be!


tafseer:
Those who went before them had also devised evil plans. God demolished their houses, destroying their very foundations. Their ceilings toppled on their heads and torment struck them from a direction which they had never expected.


tafseer:
They will be commanded to enter hell to live therein forever. How terrible will be the place of the proud ones!


tafseer:
They will be admitted into the gardens of Eden wherein steams flow and they will have therein whatever they want. This is how God will reward the pious ones.


tafseer:
Are they (the disbelievers) waiting for the angels and the decree of your Lord to be fulfilled before they believe? The people who lived before them had also done the same thing. God did not do injustice to them, but they wronged themselves.


tafseer:
The evil consequences of their deeds afflicted them and they were surrounded by what they had mocked.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), even though you have a strong desire to guide them, be sure that God will not guide those who have gone astray and no one will be able to help them.


tafseer:
They strongly swear by God that God will not bring the dead to life. God´s promise (of the Resurrection) will certainly come true but many people do not know.


tafseer:
(Through the resurrection) God wants to make a clear distinction between right and wrong and make the unbelievers know that they were liars.


tafseer:
God settles those who leave their homes for His cause after having suffered injustice, in a prosperous dwelling in this life and greater rewards will be theirs in the life to come. Would that they knew this.


tafseer:
The Messengers whom We sent before you were mere mortals to whom We had sent with miracles and revelations. Ask those who know about the heavenly Books if you do not know about this.


tafseer:
We have revealed the Quran to you so that you could tell the people what has been revealed to them and so that perhaps they will think.


tafseer:
Can they who have devised evil plans expect to be safe from the command of God to the earth to swallow them up, or from a torment which might strike them from an unexpected direction?


tafseer:
Are they confident that God will not seize them while they are on a journey? They will not be able to escape from God.


tafseer:
Are they confident that God will not slowly destroy them? Your Lord is Compassionate and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Can they not see that the shadows of whatever God has created turn to the right and to the left in prostration and submission to Him?


tafseer:
Whatever is in the heavens and the earth, the cattle and the angels prostrate themselves before God without pride.


tafseer:
To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. God´s retribution is severe. Should you then have fear of anyone other than God?


tafseer:
They give to unknown images a share out of the sustenance that We gave them. By God, you will be questioned about that which you have falsely invented.


tafseer:
They ascribe daughters to God, God is too Exalted to have daughters, but they can have whatever they want.


tafseer:
When the glad news of the birth of their daughter is brought to them, their faces turn gloomy and black with anger.


tafseer:
They try to hide themselves from the people because of the disgrace of such news. Will they keep their new born despite the disgrace or bury it alive? How sinful is their Judgment!


tafseer:
Those who do not believe in the life to come are evil examples. To God belongs all the exalted attributes


tafseer:
Was God to seize people immediately for their injustice, no living creature would be left on earth. He gives them respite for an appointed time. When their term is over, they will not be able to change the inevitable.


tafseer:
They ascribe to God that which even they themselves do not like and their lying tongues say that their end will be virtuous. Their share will certainly be hell fire to which they are earnestly heading.


tafseer:
By God, We sent (Messengers) to nations who lived before you. Satan made their deeds seem attractive to them and, on the Day of Judgment, satan will be their guardian. For them there will be a painful punishment.


tafseer:
We have sent you the Book for no other reason than to settle their differences and to be a guide and mercy for those who believe.


tafseer:
God has sent down water from the sky and has brought the dead earth to life. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for those who listen (carefully).


tafseer:
There is a lesson for you to learn concerning cattle. We provide pleasant milk for you to drink within the delicate system of their veins and arteries.


tafseer:
The fruit of palm trees and vines which provide you with sugar and delicious food also provide a lesson and evidence (of the Truth) for the people of understanding.


tafseer:
God has created you and He causes you to die. Some of you will grow to an extremely old age and lose your memory. God is All-knowing and Almighty.


tafseer:
God has made some of you richer than others. The rich ones do not have to give away their property to their slaves to make them equally rich. Do they reject the bounties of God?


tafseer:
God has created spouses for you from your own selves. He has created your sons and grandsons from your spouses and has given you pure things for your sustenance. Do they then believe in falsehood and reject the bounties of God?


tafseer:
Do they worship things other than God which neither provide them with any sustenance from the heavens and the earth nor have the ability to do so?


tafseer:
God tells a parable about a helpless servant and one to whom He has given honorable provisions and who has spent for the cause of God privately and in public. Can these two people be considered equal? It is only God who deserves all praise, but most people do not know.


tafseer:
God tells a parable about two men. One of them is dumb and useless and a burden on his friend. Wherever he goes, he returns with nothing. Can he be considered equal to the one who maintains justice and follows the right path?


tafseer:
To God belongs all the secrets of the heavens and the earth. It only takes God a twinkling of an eye or even less to make it the Day of Judgment. God has power over all things.


tafseer:
When God brought you out of your mothers wombs, you knew nothing. He gave you ears, eyes, and hearts so that perhaps you would give Him thanks.


tafseer:
Have you not considered the free movements of the birds high in the sky above? What keeps them aloft except God? In this there is evidence (of the truth) for the believing people.


tafseer:
God has made your house the place for you to rest. He has also made homes for you out of the skins of cattle which are easy to carry along on a journey or at a camp. He has made wool, fur and the hair of cattle a temporary means of enjoyment for you.


tafseer:
God has provided shade for you out of what He has created and places of retreat out of mountains. He has given you garments to protect you from the heat and cover your private parts. This is how He perfects His bounties to you so that perhaps you would submit to His will.


tafseer:
On the day when We will call a witness from every nation, the disbelievers will not be given permission for anything, nor will they be allowed to seek solicitation.


tafseer:
There will be no relief for them when the torment approaches the unjust nor will they be given any respite.


tafseer:
(On the Day of Judgment) the disbelievers will submit themselves to God and whatever they had falsely invented will disappear.


tafseer:
The disbelievers who had created obstacles in the way leading to God will face manifold torments as a result of their evil deeds.


tafseer:
On the day when We call a witness against every nation from their own people, We will call you, (Muhammad), as a witness against them all. We have sent you the Book which clarifies all matters. It is a guide, a mercy, and glad news to the Muslims.


tafseer:
God commands (people) to maintain justice, kindness, and proper relations with their relatives. He forbids them to commit indecency, sin, and rebellion. God gives you advice so that perhaps you will take heed.


tafseer:
(He commands people) to keep their established covenants with God, not to disregard their firm oaths


tafseer:
Do not be like the lady behind the spinning wheel who has broken the yarn by pulling it with unnecessary force. You must not consider your oaths as means of deceit to benefit one party and incur loss upon the other. God tests your faith by your oaths. He will make clear to you who was right and who was wrong on the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
Had God wanted, He would have made you one single nation but He guides or causes to go astray whomever He wants. You will certainly be questioned about what you have done.


tafseer:
Do not consider your oaths as a means of deceit lest you damage the firmness of your faith, suffer from evil by creating obstacles in the way that leads to God, and incur a great torment upon yourselves.


tafseer:
Do not sell your covenant with God for a small price. The reward which you will receive from God is better for you, if only you knew it.


tafseer:
Whatever you possess is transient and whatever is with God is everlasting. We will recompense those who exercise patience with their due reward and even more.


tafseer:
All righteously believing male or female will be granted a blessed happy life and will receive their due reward and more.


tafseer:
We know that they say a mere mortal has taught it (the Quran) to him (Muhammad). The language of the person whom they think has taught it to him is not Arabic. This (the Quran) is in illustrious Arabic.


tafseer:
No one verbally denounces his faith in God - unless he is forced - but his heart is confident about his faith. But those whose breasts have become open to disbelief will be subject to the wrath of God and will suffer a great torment.


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This is because they have given preference to this life over the life to come and God does not guide disbelieving people.


tafseer:
Those who left their homes for the cause of God after they had been persecuted, strove hard for His cause and exercised patience should know (even though they had verbally renounced their faith) that your Lord is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
On the Day of Judgment every soul shall try to defend itself and every soul will be justly recompensed.


tafseer:
God tells a parable about a secure and peaceful town surrounded by abundant sustenance. Its inhabitants rejected the bounties of God and He caused them to suffer hunger and fear as a result of their deeds.


tafseer:
A Messenger from their own people came to them and they called him a liar. Torment struck them because of their injustice.


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(People), consume the pure and lawful sustenance which God has given to you and thank God for his bounty if you are His true worshippers.


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The only things which are made unlawful for you are the flesh of dead animals, blood, pork and that which is not consecrated with the Name of God. But in an emergency, without the intention of transgression and rebellion, (it is not an offense for one to consume such things). God is certainly All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
(Unbelievers), do not follow whatever your lying tongues may tell you is lawful or unlawful to invent lies against God. Those who invent lies against God will have no happiness.


tafseer:
We had made unlawful for the Jews all that we told you before. We did not do any wrong to them but they wronged themselves.


tafseer:
To those who commit sins in their ignorance then repent and reform, your Lord is certainly All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
We sent you, (Muhammad), a revelation that you should follow the tradition of Abraham, the upright one, who was not a pagan.


tafseer:
(The observance) of the Sabbath was only sanctioned for those who disputed it. Your Lord will certainly issue His decree about their dispute on the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
Call (the pagans) to the path of your Lord through wisdom and good advice and argue with them in the best manner. God knows well about those who stray from His path and those who seek guidance.


tafseer:
If you want retaliation, let it be equal to that which you faced. But if you exercise patience it will be better for you.


tafseer:
Exercise patience and let it be only for the cause of God. Do not be grieved about them nor disappointed at their evil plans.


tafseer:
God is the Exalted One who took His servant one night for a visit from the Sacred Mosque (in Mecca) to the Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem). God has blessed the surroundings of the Aqsa Mosque. He took His servant on this visit to show him (miraculous) evidence of His (existence). It is He who is All-hearing and All-aware.


tafseer:
To Moses We gave the Book and made it a guide for the children of Israel, so that they would not have any one as their guardian other than Me


tafseer:
(We made it a guide for) the offspring of those whom We carried in the Ark with Noah, a thankful servant (of God).


tafseer:
We made it known to the Israelites through the Torah that they would twice commit evil in the land with great transgression and rebellion.


tafseer:
Our Mighty servants, who will chase you from house to house. This is a decree already ordained. We, then, gave you a chance to defeat your enemies with the help of increasing your wealth and offspring.


tafseer:
Perhaps your Lord will have mercy on you. If you return to disobedience We will also punish you again. We have made hell a prison for the disbelievers.&quot


tafseer:
This Quran shows the way to that which is the most upright and gives to the righteous believers the glad news of a great reward.


tafseer:
(It also declares) that for the disbelievers We have prepared a painful torment in the life to come.


tafseer:
We have made the day and night each as evidence (of Our existence). The night is invisible and the day is visible so that you may seek favors from your Lord and determine the number of years and mark the passing of time. For everything We have given a detailed explanation.


tafseer:
We have made every person´s actions cling to his neck. On the Day of Judgment, We will bring forth the record of his actions in the form of a wide open book.


tafseer:
One who follows guidance does so for himself and one who goes astray does so against his soul. No one will suffer for the sins of others. We have never punished anyone without sending them Our Messenger first.


tafseer:
When We decide to destroy a town We warn the rich ones therein who commit evil. Thus it becomes deserving to destruction and We destroy its very foundations.


tafseer:
We have destroyed many generations after the time of Noah. Your Lord is All knowing and Well Aware of the sins of His servants.


tafseer:
Whoever desires (only) the enjoyment of this life will receive it if We want it to be so. Then We will make Hell his reward wherein he will suffer, despised and driven away from Our mercy.


tafseer:
The effort of one who faithfully strives hard for the (happiness) of the life to come will be appreciated (by God).


tafseer:
Consider how We have given preference to some people above others, yet the life to come has more honor and respect.


tafseer:
Your Lord has ordained that you must not worship anything other than Him and that you must be kind to your parents. If either or both of your parents should become advanced in age, do not express to them words which show your slightest disappointment. Never yell at them but always speak to them with kindness.


tafseer:
Your Lord knows what is in your souls. If you would be righteous, know that He is All-forgiving to those who turn to Him in repentance.


tafseer:
Do not be a wasteful spender. Squanderers are the brothers of satan. Satan was faithless to his Lord.


tafseer:
Your Lord increases and determines the sustenance of whomever He wants. He is Well Aware and watches over His servants.


tafseer:
Do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We will give sustenance to all of you. To kill them is certainly a great sin.


tafseer:
Do not kill a respectable soul without a just cause. If anyone is wrongfully killed, we have given the heirs of that person the right (to demand satisfaction or to forgive). He must not exceed the law in having vengeance


tafseer:
Do not get close to the property of the orphans (unless it is for a good reason) until they are mature and strong. Keep your promise


tafseer:
While weighing, use proper measurements in the exchange of your property. This is fair and will be better in the end.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), these are words of wisdom which your Lord has revealed to you. Do not consider anything equal to God lest you be thrown into hell, despised, and driven away from God´s mercy.


tafseer:
(Pagans) has your Lord given you preference over Himself by granting you sons and taking the angels as His own daughters? What you say is a monstrous utterance.


tafseer:
We have given you various facts (about the Truth in this Quran) so that they (unbelievers) would take heed, but this has only increased their aversion (to the truth).


tafseer:
(to challenge Him). God is too Glorious and Exalted to be considered as they believe Him to be. He is the most High and Great.


tafseer:
The seven heavens, the earth, and whatever is between them all glorify Him. There is nothing that does not glorify Him and always praise him, but you do not understand their praise and glorification. He is All-forbearing and All-forgiving.


tafseer:
When you recite the Quran We place a curtain as a barrier between you and those who do not believe in the life to come.


tafseer:
We put a veil over their hearts so that they cannot understand it. We deafen their ears. When you mention your Lord in this Quran as One (Supreme Being), they run away.


tafseer:
On the day when He will call you, you will answer Him with praise and think that you have tarried for only a little while.&quot


tafseer:
Your Lord knows better than you (people). He will have mercy on you or will punish you as He wills. We have not sent you to watch over them. Your Lord knows best about those in the heavens and the earth.


tafseer:
Those whom they worship seek to find intercessors for themselves with God. (They try to find out which of the intercessors) are closer to God. They have hope for His mercy and fear of His punishment


tafseer:
The decree that all the towns were to be destroyed or afflicted with severe punishment was already written in the Book before the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
We did not abstain from sending miracles to any of Our Messengers. These miracles were called lies by the people who lived in ancient times. To the people of Thamud, We sent the she-camel as a visible miracle and they did injustice to it. We only send miracles as warnings.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), We told you that your Lord has encompassed all mankind. We made the vision which We showed you and the condemned tree, mentioned in the Quran, as a trial for the human being. Even though We warn them, it only increases their rebellion.


tafseer:
Draw anyone of them you can into sin by your voice and by your cavalry and infantry, share their property and children with them and make promises to them. Your promises are all lies.


tafseer:
Your Lord who causes the ships to sail on the sea so that you may seek His bounty is certainly All-merciful to you.


tafseer:
If you are afflicted by hardships in the middle of the sea, it would be an error to call anyone other than Him for help. When God saves you from such difficulties, you turn away from Him. The human being has always been ungrateful.


tafseer:
Do you feel secure that We will not cause a part of the land to sink or engulf you with sand storms when you would find no one to protect you?


tafseer:
Do you feel secure that We will not drive you back to the sea, send a fierce gale to you, and cause you to drown because of your disbelief when you would not be able to find anyone who would intercede for you with Us?


tafseer:
We have honored the children of Adam, carried them on the land and the sea, given them pure sustenance and exalted them above most of My creatures.


tafseer:
On the day when We call every nation with their leaders, those whose record of deeds are given to their right hands will read the book and the least wrong will not be done to them.


tafseer:
(Such blind ones) try to confuse what We have revealed to you so that they may falsely ascribe to Us something other than the true revelation and thus establish friendship with you.


tafseer:
Had you done so, We would certainly have made you face double punishment in this life and after your death and you would have found none to help you.


tafseer:
They try to annoy you so that they can expel you from the land. Had they been successful, no one would have been left behind except a few.


tafseer:
This was Our tradition with Our Messengers who lived before you, and you will find no change in Our tradition.


tafseer:
Say your prayer when the sun declines until the darkness of night and also at dawn. Dawn is certainly witnessed (by the angels of the night and day).


tafseer:
Say your special (tahajjud) prayer during some part of the night as an additional (obligatory) prayer for you alone so that perhaps your Lord will raise you to a highly praiseworthy position.


tafseer:
We reveal the Quran which is a cure and mercy for the believers but does nothing for the unjust except to lead them to perdition.


tafseer:
When We do favors to the human being, he disregards it and turns away from it. When evil afflicts him, he becomes despairing.


tafseer:
Had We wanted, We could have removed the Spirit through whom We sent you revelation. Then you would not have found anyone to intercede with Us for you


tafseer:
We have mentioned in this Quran all kinds of examples for the human being, but most human beings turn away in disbelief.


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or you (show) us that you have your own garden of palm trees and vines with flowing streams therein,


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or cause the sky to fall into pieces on us - as you believe you can - or bring God and the angels face to face with us,


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or (show us) that you have a well adorned house of your own, or climb into the sky. We shall never believe that you have climbed into the sky until you bring us a book that we can read.&quot


tafseer:
Whomever God has guided has the proper guidance. You will never find any guardian besides God for the one whom He has caused to go astray. On the Day of Judgment, We will gather them lying on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf. Hell will be their dwelling. As hell fire abates, We will increase its blazing force.


tafseer:
Do they not realize that God, who has created the heavens and the earth, has the power to create their like? He has given them life for an appointed time of which there is no doubt. The unjust turn away in disbelief (from Our revelation).


tafseer:
The Pharaoh wanted to expel the Israelites from the land so We drowned him and all who were with him.


tafseer:
We told the Israelites after this to settle in the land until Our second promise will come true. We would then gather them all together (on the Day of Judgment).


tafseer:
We sent it (the Quran) in all Truth and in all Truth it came. (Muhammad), We have sent you for no other reason than to be a bearer of glad news and a warner.


tafseer:
We have divided the Quran into many segments so that you would read them to the people in gradual steps as We reveal them to you from time to time.


tafseer:
Praise be to God. He has sent the Book to His servant and has made it a flawless guide (for human beings)


tafseer:
so that he could warn them of His stern retribution, give the glad news of the best and everlasting reward to the righteously striving believers,


tafseer:
Neither they nor their fathers had any knowledge of such utterance (that God has begotten a son). Whatever they say about (this matter) is vicious blasphemy and plain lies.


tafseer:
Do you not think that the story of the Companions of the Cave and the Inscription was one of Our marvelous miracles?


tafseer:
Then We roused them to find out which of the party had the correct account of the duration of their sleep in the cave.


tafseer:
We tell you this story for a genuine purpose. They were young people who believed in their Lord and We gave them further guidance.


tafseer:
Our people have considered other things equal to God. Why cannot they present clear proof in support of their claim. Who is more unjust than one who invents falsehood against God?&quot


tafseer:
No sunlight could reach them during their sleep in the cave. One could see the rising sun decline to the right of their cave and the setting sun move its way to the left whilst they were sleeping in an opening of the cave. This is one of the miracles of God. Whomever God guides receives the right guidance and you will never find a guardian or guide for those whom He causes to go astray.


tafseer:
One would think them (the youths) awake while, in fact, they were sleeping. We turned their bodies from right to left and their dog stretched its front legs on the ground. Had one looked them over, he would have run away from them in terror.


tafseer:
We roused them from their sleep so that they would question each other about their stay in the cave. One of them said, &quot


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they would certainly stone us to death or force us to follow their religion. Then we shall never be able to have everlasting happiness.&quot


tafseer:
We caused their story to become public so that people would know that God´s promise was true and that there is no doubt about the coming of the Day of Judgment. They started to argue with each other about the matter (Resurrection) and some of them said, &quot


tafseer:
Read whatever is revealed to you from the Book of your Lord. No one can change His words and you can never find any refuge other than Him.


tafseer:
Be patient with those who worship their Lord in the mornings and evenings to seek His pleasure. Do not overlook them to seek the worldly pleasures. Do not obey those whom We have caused to neglect Us and instead follow their own desires beyond all limits.


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers should know that We do not neglect the reward of those who do good deeds.


tafseer:
They will be admitted to the gardens of Eden wherein streams flow. They will rest on soft couches, decked with bracelets of gold and clothed in green silk garments and shining brocade. How blissful is such a reward and resting place!


tafseer:
(Muhammad), tell them the parable of the two men. To one of them We had given two gardens of vines surrounded by the palm trees with a piece of farm land between them


tafseer:
Both gardens would yield fruits to their fullest capacity. Whatever was produced belonged to him. To his friend he exclaimed, &quot


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nor do I think that there will be a Day of Judgment. Even if I shall be brought before my Lord, I certainly deserve to have a better place than this.&quot


tafseer:
perhaps my Lord will give me a garden better than yours and strike your garden with a thunderbolt from the sky to turn it into a barren ground,


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or cause the streams in your garden to disappear under the ground such that you will never be able to find them.


tafseer:
(Sure enough the rich person´s) fruits were all destroyed and he began to wring his hands in grief for all that he had invested in his garden. He found his garden tumbled to its trellises and said, &quot


tafseer:
In such helplessness, the human being realizes that it is God who is the true Guardian and His rewards and recompense are the best.


tafseer:
Children and property are the ornaments of the worldly life, but for deeds which continually produce virtue one can obtain better rewards from God and have greater hope in Him.


tafseer:
On the day when We will cause the mountains to travel around and the earth to turn into a levelled plain, We will also bring all human beings together. No one will be left behind.


tafseer:
When the record of every one´s deeds is placed before him, you will see the criminals terrified from what the record contains. They will say, &quot


tafseer:
When We told the angels to prostrate before Adam they all obeyed except Iblis. He was a jinn and he sinned against the command of his Lord. Why do you (people) obey him and his offspring instead of Me, even though they are your enemies? How terrible will be the recompense that the wrong doers will receive!


tafseer:
I did not call (the unjust) to witness the creation of the heavens and earth nor to witness their own creation nor did I want to be helped by those who lead people astray.


tafseer:
On the day when God asks the idolators to seek help from their idols, they will call their idols for help. But the idols will not answer them


tafseer:
When the criminals see hell fire, they will have no doubt about falling (headlong) therein, nor of finding anyone to save them.


tafseer:
We have given various examples in this Quran for people to learn a lesson, but the human being is the most contentious creature.


tafseer:
What prevents people from having faith when guidance comes to them or from asking for forgiveness from their Lord before they face the kind of torment that the ancient people experienced or a new form of torment.


tafseer:
The only reason for Our sending the Messengers is to give the human being the glad news of Our mercy and to warn him about Our wrath. The disbelievers argue by false means to refute the Truth. They mock My miracles and warnings.


tafseer:
Who are more unjust than those who are reminded of the revelations of their Lord but have disregarded them and have forgotten their deeds? We have veiled their hearts and sealed their ears so that they cannot understand. Even if you call them to the right path, they will never accept guidance.


tafseer:
Your Lord is All-forgiving and All-merciful. Had He wanted to punish them for their sins, He would have been prompt to torment them. For their punishment there is an appointed time, after which there will be no way for them to escape.


tafseer:
We only destroyed the inhabitants of certain towns when they had committed injustice and did not repent before Our deadline.


tafseer:
When they reached the junction of the two seas they found out that they had forgotten all about the fish (which they had carried for food). The fish found its way into the sea.


tafseer:
They started their journey and some time latter they embarked in a boat in which he made a hole. Moses asked him, &quot


tafseer:
They continued on their journey again until they reached a town. They asked the people there for food, but no one accepted them as their guests. They found there a wall of a house which was on the verge of tumbling to the ground. The companion of Moses repaired that wall. Moses said, &quot


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to the West where he found the sun setting into a warm source (spring) of water and a people living near by. We asked him, &quot


tafseer:
As for those who believe and do good, they will receive virtuous rewards and We will tell them to do only what they can.


tafseer:
after this to the middle of two mountains where he found a people who could hardly understand a single word.


tafseer:
(Thus he constructed the barrier which) neither Gog nor Magog were able to climb nor were they able to dig a tunnel through the iron and brass barrier.


tafseer:
On the day when the barrier is demolished, We will leave human beings in chaos. We will leave them like the waves of the sea striking against each other. Then the trumpet will be sounded and We will bring them all together.


tafseer:
Do the unbelievers think they can make My servants as their guardians instead of Me? We have prepared hell as a dwelling place for the disbelievers.


tafseer:
It will be those who labor a great deal in this life but without guidance, yet think that they are doing a great many good deeds.


tafseer:
They have rejected the revelations of their Lord and their meeting with Him. Thus, their deeds will be made devoid of all virtue and will be of no value on the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
For their disbelief and their mocking Our revelations and Messengerss, their recompense will be hell.


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers will have the gardens of Paradise as their dwelling place and therein they will live forever,


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who will be my heir and the heir of the family of Jacob. Lord, make him a person who will please you&quot


tafseer:
We answered his prayers with the glad news of the birth of a son by the name of John and told him, &quot


tafseer:
Zachariah came out to his people from place of worship and inspired them to glorify the Lord both in the morning and evening.


tafseer:
We commanded John, Zachariah´s son, to follow the guidance of the Lord with due steadfastness. To John We gave knowledge and wisdom to John during his childhood.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), mention in the Book (the Quran) the story of Mary how she left her family and started living in a solitary place to the East


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out of her people´s sight. We sent Our Spirit to her, who stood before her in the shape of a well formed human being.


tafseer:
When she started to experience (the pain of) of childbirth labor, by the trunk of a palm tree in sadness she said, &quot


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Eat, drink, and rejoice. Should you see a person going by, tell him that on this day you have promised the Beneficent God to fast and never talk to any human being.&quot


tafseer:
He has blessed me no matter where I dwell, commanded me to worship Him and pay the religious tax for as long as I live.


tafseer:
God is too Exalted to have a son. When He decides to bring some thing into existence He needs only command it to exist and it comes into existence.


tafseer:
(The followers of Jesus) turned themselves into quarrelling sects. The disbelievers shall face a woeful condition on the great Day (of Judgment ).


tafseer:
(Muhammad), how clearly they will hear and see on the day when they will be brought into Our presence. Today the wrong doers are in manifest error.


tafseer:
Father, I am afraid that the Beneficent God´s torment will strike you and you will become a friend of satan.&quot


tafseer:
I shall stay away from you and what you worship instead of God. I worship my Lord and hope that my prayers will not be ignored.&quot


tafseer:
When (Abraham) rejected his people and what they worshipped instead of God, We gave him Isaac and Jacob and made both of them Prophets.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), mention in the Book (the Quran) the story of Moses. Moses was a sincere person, a Messengers and a Prophet.


tafseer:
These were the Prophets from the offspring of Adam, from those who embarked with Noah and from the offspring of Abraham and Israel. God guided them and chose them for His favor. Whenever they would hear the revelations of the Beneficent God they would bow down in prostration with tears.


tafseer:
They were succeeded by a generation who neglected their prayers and followed their worldly desires. They will certainly be lost,


tafseer:
but those among them who repent and become righteously striving believers will be admitted to the gardens without experiencing any injustice.


tafseer:
They will be admitted to the garden of Eden which is the unseen promise of the Beneficent God to His servants. The promise of God will certainly come true.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), we (the angels) do not come to you without being commanded by your Lord to do so. To Him belongs all that is before us, behind us, and in between. Your Lord is not forgetful.


tafseer:
He is the Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them. Worship Him and be steadfast in your worship of Him


tafseer:
By your Lord, We will bring them back to life with satan and gather them around hell in large groups.


tafseer:
Then We will separate from every group those who were strongly rebellious against the Beneficent God.


tafseer:
We will save the pious ones from the hell fire and leave the unjust people therein in crowded groups.


tafseer:
God further enlightens those who seek guidance. To those who do charitable deeds which produce continuing benefits, your Lord will give a better reward and a better place in Paradise.


tafseer:
Has he the knowledge of the unseen or has the Beneficent God established such a binding agreement with Him?


tafseer:
On the Day of Judgment, when the pious people will be brought into the presence of the Beneficent God as the guests of honor


tafseer:
no one will be able to intercede for the others except those whom the Beneficent God has given authority.


tafseer:
This would almost cause the heavens to rent apart, the earth to cleave asunder and the mountains to crumble down in fragments,


tafseer:
All that is in the heavens and the earth will return to the Beneficent God as His submissive servants.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), We have given you the Book (the Quran) in your own language so that you could easily give the glad news to the pious ones and warn the quarrelsome ones.


tafseer:
How many generations living before them did We destroy? Do you find anyone of them around or do you even hear any word from them?


tafseer:
To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth, all that lies between them, and lies below the earth.


tafseer:
Whether or not you express (your thoughts) in words, God certainly knows all unspoken thoughts and all that is even more difficult to find.


tafseer:
Although it is certain that the Day of Judgment will come, I prefer to keep it almost a secret so that every soul will receive the recompense for what it has done (on its own).


tafseer:
Let not the unbelievers who follow their vain desires make you forget the Day of Judgment, lest you will perish.&quot


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to lace her child in a chest and throw it into the sea which would hurl it towards the shore. Then an enemy of Mine who was also the enemy of the child would pick it up from there. I made you attractive and loveable so that you would be reared before My own eyes.


tafseer:
Both of you must speak with him in a gentle manner so that perhaps he may come to himself or have fear (of God).&quot


tafseer:
They came to the Pharaoh and told him that they were the Messengerss of his Lord and that they wanted him to let the Israelites go with them and stop afflicting the Israelites with torment. They told the Pharaoh, &quot


tafseer:
It is revealed to us that those who call our message a lie or turn away from it will face the torment.&quot


tafseer:
It is God who has made the earth as a cradle for you with roads for you to travel. He has sent water from the sky to produce various pairs of plants.


tafseer:
Consume them as food or for grazing your cattle. In this there is evidence (of the existence of God) for the people of reason&quot


tafseer:
We have created you from the earth to which We will return you and will bring you back to life again.


tafseer:
We shall also answer you by magic. Let us make an appointment for a contest among us and let each of us be present at a certain time in the appointed place&quot


tafseer:
We have faith in our Lord so that He will forgive our sins and our magical performances that you forced us to show. God is better than all things and His rewards last longer.&quot


tafseer:
The dwelling place of one who comes into the presence of his Lord as a criminal will be hell wherein he will never die nor enjoy his life.


tafseer:
will be rewarded by high status in the gardens of Eden wherein streams flow. Such will be the reward of those who purify themselves.


tafseer:
Children of Israel, We saved you from your enemy and promised to settle you on the right side of the peaceful Mount Tur (Sinai)


tafseer:
I allowed you to consume the pure sustenance which We had given you but not to become rebels, lest you become subject to My wrath. Whoever becomes subject to My wrath will certainly be destroyed. I am All-forgiving to the righteously striving believers who repent and follow the right guidance.


tafseer:
Did they not consider that the calf could not give them any answer, nor it could harm or benefit them?


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with which he will live forever. On the Day of Judgment it will be a terrible load for him to carry.


tafseer:
On the day when the trumpet will be sounded We will raise the criminals from their graves and their eyes will be turned blue and blind.


tafseer:
On that day they will follow their caller without deviation. Their voices will be low in the presence of the Beneficent God. You will hear nothing but the tread of the marching feet.


tafseer:
On that day no one´s intercession will be of any benefit unless he has received permission from the Beneficent God and whose word is acceptable to Him.


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Faces will be humble before the Everlasting and the Self-existing God. Despair will strike those who are loaded with the burden of injustice.


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We have revealed the Quran in the Arabic language containing various warnings so that it may cause them to have fear (of God) or take heed.


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God is the Most High and the True King. (Muhammad), do not be hasty in reading the Quran to the people before the revelation has been completed. &quot


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We had commanded Adam (certain matters). He forgot Our commandment and We did not find in him the determination to fulfil Our commandments.


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Adam and his wife ate (fruits) from the tree and found themselves naked. Then they started to cover themselves with the leaves from the garden. Adam disobeyed his Lord and went astray.


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Whoever ignores My guidance will live a woeful life and will be brought in Our presence blind on the Day of Judgment.


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Thus We recompense those who are unjust and have no faith in Our revelations. The torment in the life to come will be more severe and last longer.


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Is it not a warning for them to see how many generations living before them We destroyed and how they are now walking in their ruins? In this there is the evidence (of the Truth) for the people of reason.


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Had not the word of your Lord been decreed (otherwise), the unbelievers deserved immediate punishment. The appointed time for their punishment will inevitably come.


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(Muhammad), have patience with what they say, glorify your Lord, and always praise Him before sunrise, sunset, in some hours of the night and at both the beginning and end of the day, so that perhaps you will please your Lord.


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Do not be envious of what We have given to some people as means of enjoyment and worldly delight. Such means are a trial for them, but the reward that you will receive from your Lord will be far better and everlasting.


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Instruct your family to pray and to be steadfast in their worship. We do not ask any sustenance from you


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and their hearts are preoccupied with trivial matters. The unjust ones whisper to each other and say, &quot


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The people of the town whom We had destroyed also had no faith. Will these people then believe in God?


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The messengers that We had sent before you were only men to whom We had given revelation. Ask the People of the Book if you do not know.


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Our promise to them came true and We saved them and those whom We wanted, but destroyed the unjust people.


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To Him belongs all those who are in the heavens and the earth. Those who are closer to Him are not too proud to worship Him, nor do they get tired of worshipping.


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Had there been other deities in the heavens and the earth besides God, both the heavens and the earth would have been destroyed. God, the Lord of the Throne, is too Glorious to be as they think He is.


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He will not be questioned about anything He does, but all people will be questioned about their deeds.


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To all the Messengers that were sent before you We revealed that I am the only God to be worshipped.


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He knows all that is in front of them and all that is behind them. (These servants of God) will not intercede with Him for anyone without His permission and they tremble in awe (before His greatness).


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Have the unbelievers not ever considered that the heavens and the earth were one piece and that We tore them apart from one another. From water We have created all living things. Will they then have no faith?


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We placed firm mountains on earth lest it would shake them away. We made wide roads for them so that they might have the right guidance.


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We made the sky above them as a well-guarded ceiling, but they have neglected the evidence (of Our existence) therein.


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It is God who has created the night, the day, the Sun, and Moon and has made them swim in a certain orbit.


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Every soul has to experience the taste of death. We test you with both hardships and blessings. In the end you will all return to Us.


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(Muhammad), whenever the unbelievers see you, they think that you deserve nothing more than to be mocked. They say, &quot


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Would that the unbelievers knew that no one would protect their faces and backs against the fire, nor they would be helped.


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The fire will suddenly strike and confound them. They will not be able to repel it, nor will they be given any respite.


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Can their gods protect them against Us? Their gods have no power even to help themselves, nor are they safe from Our retribution.


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We have been providing these men and their fathers with the means of enjoyment for a long time. Have they not ever considered that We populated the earth and then caused many of the inhabitants to pass away? Can they have any success (in their wickedness)?


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We shall maintain proper justice on the Day of Judgment. No soul will be wronged the least. For a deed even as small as a mustard seed one will duly be recompensed. We are efficient in maintaining the account.


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To Moses and Aaron We granted the criteria of discerning right from wrong, and We gave them the light and a reminder to the pious ones


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He broke all the idols into pieces, except the biggest among them so that perhaps people would refer to it.


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We appointed them as leaders to guide the people through Our command and sent them revelation to strive for good deeds, worship their Lord, and pay religious tax. Both of them were Our worshipping servants.


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To Lot We gave knowledge and wisdom and saved him from the people of the town who were committing indecent acts. They were certainly a bad and sinful people.


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We answered the prayer of Noah who had prayed to Us before and saved him and his followers from the great disaster.


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We helped him against the people who said Our revelations were mere lies. They were a bad people and We drowned them all.


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David and Solomon were trying to settle the case of the people´s sheep that grazed in a corn-field at night. We witnessed their decree in that matter.


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We made Solomon understand the law about the case and gave both David and Solomon knowledge and wisdom. We made the mountains and birds glorify the Lord along with David. We had also done to him such favors before.


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We taught him the art of making coats of mail so that you could protect yourselves during a war. Will you then give thanks?


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We made subservient to Solomon the swift wind that blew on his command to the land in which We had sent blessings. We have the knowledge of all things.


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We subdued the devils who would dive into the sea for him and perform other tasks for Solomon. We kept them in his service.


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Dhun Nun went away in anger and thought that We would never have power over him, but in darkness he cried, &quot


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We answered his prayer and granted him his son, John, by making his wife fruitful. They were people who would compete with each other in good deeds and pray to Us with love and reverence. With Us they were all humble people.


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Into the woman who maintained her chastity We breathed Our Spirit and made her and her son a miracle for all people.


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The reward of the righteously striving believers will not be neglected. We are keeping the record of their good deeds.


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They will not even hear the slightest sound from it while enjoying the best that they can wish for in their everlasting life.


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They will not be affected by the great terror. The angels will come to them with this glad news: &quot


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(This will happen) on the day when We roll up the heavens as if it were a written scroll and bring it back into existence just as though We had created it for the first time. This is what We have promised and We have always been true to Our promise.


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We have written in the psalms which We had revealed after the Torah that the earth will be given to Our righteous servants as their inheritance.


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I do not know (why God has commanded me to warn you of the torment). Perhaps it is a trial for you and a respite for an appointed time&quot


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When that hour comes, every breast-feeding mother will drop her baby out of fear and every pregnant female will cast off her burden. You will see the people behaving as though they were drunk, while, in fact, they are not drunk. They only will look such because of the severity of God´s torment.


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It has been decided that satan will mislead and submit anyone who establishes friendship with him to the torment of the burning fire.


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People, if you have doubts about the Resurrection, you must know that We created you from clay that was turned into a living germ. This was developed into a clot of blood, which was made into a well formed and partly shapeless lump of flesh. This is how We show you that resurrection is not more difficult for Us than your creation. We cause whatever We want to stay in the womb for an appointed time, We then take you out of the womb as a baby, so that you may grow up and receive strength. Some of you may then die and others may grow to a very old age and lose your memory. You may see the earth as a barren land, but when we send rain, it starts to stir and swell and produce various pairs of attractive herbs.


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This is because God is the Supreme Truth who gives life to the dead and who has power over all things.


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There is no doubt about the coming of the Hour of Doom and that God will raise every one from their graves.


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They turn away (from the Truth) to lead people away from the path of God. Their share in this world will be disgrace and on the Day of Judgment a burning torment.


tafseer:
Some people worship God to achieve worldly gains. They are confident when they are prosperous, but when they face hardships they turn away from (worship). They are lost in this life and will be lost in the life to come. Such loss is indeed destructive.


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They worship things instead of God which can neither harm them nor benefit them. This is indeed to stray far away from the right path.


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Their worship of such things, in which there is no hope for any benefit, can only harm them. How terrible is such a guardian and companion!


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God will admit the righteously striving believers to the gardens wherein streams flow. God has all the power to do whatever He wants.


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Those who thought that God would never grant victory to (Muhammad), in this world nor in the life hereafter (and now that he is victorious) should hang themselves by the necks from the ceiling, then cut the rope and see if this can do away with what has enraged them.


tafseer:
We have revealed the Quran which contains authoritative verses. God guides only those whom He wants.


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On the Day of Judgment, God will make truth and falsehood clearly distinct from each other to the believers, the Jews, the Sabeans, the Christian, the Zoroastrians, and the Pagans on the Day of Judgment. God is a Witness to all things.


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Have you not considered that those in the heavens and the earth, the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the mountains, the trees, the animals, and many people, all bow down to God? But many people deserve His torment. No one can give honor to whomever God has insulted. God has all the power to do what He wants.


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(Those who prostrate themselves before God and those who do not) are two groups who dispute with each other about their Lord. For the unbelievers the garment of fire has already been prepared. Boiling water will be poured upon their heads.


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Whenever in anguish they will try to come out of hell they will be returned therein to suffer the burning torment.


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God will admit the righteously striving believers to the gardens wherein streams flow. There they will be decked with gold bracelets, pearls, and garments of silk,


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A painful torment awaits the pagans who create obstacles in the way that leads to God and the Sacred Mosque - which We have made for those who dwell nearby and foreigners alike - and those who commit evil and injustice therein.


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When We prepared for Abraham the place to build the Sacred House, We told him not to consider anything equal to Me and to keep the House clean for those walking around it, those standing, bowing down, and prostrating in prayer.


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to see their benefits, commemorate the name of God during the appointed days, and offer the sacrifice of the cattle that God has given them. They themselves should consume part of the sacrificial flesh and give the rest to the destitute and needy people.


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Let the pilgrims then neatly dress themselves, fulfil their vows, and walk seven times around the Kabah.


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Such are the regulations of hajj. To respect the prohibitions of God is a virtuous deed in the sight of one´s Lord. Consuming the flesh of certain animals is made lawful for you. Stay away from wickedness, idols, and false words.


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As the upright servants of God, do not consider anything equal to God. To consider things equal to God is like one falling from the sky who is snatched away by the birds or carried away by a strong wind to a far distant place.


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There are benefits for you in the (sacrificial offerings) of God until the appointed time when you slaughter them as your offering near the Ancient House.


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To every nation We have given certain sacrificial rituals. Let them consecrate their sacrificial animals with His Name. Your God is One God and you must submit yourselves to His will. (Muhammad), give the glad news (of God´s mercy) to the devoted servants of God:


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Those whose hearts are filled with awe on hearing about God, who exercise patience in hardships, who are steadfast in prayer, and who spend their property for the cause of God.


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For you We have made the sacrificial camel one of the reminders of God. It also has other benefits for you. Consecrate it with the Name of God when it is steadily standing. When it is slaughtered, consume its flesh and give part of it to the needy who do and those do not ask for help from others. Thus We have made the camel subservient to you so that perhaps you may give thanks.


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It is not the flesh and blood of your sacrifice that pleases God. What pleases God is your piety. God has made subservient to you the sacrificial animals so that perhaps you will glorify Him


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He will certainly help those who, if given power in the land, will worship God through prayer, pay the religious tax, enjoin others do good, and prevent them from committing evil. The consequence of all things is in the hands of God.


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Midian, and Moses had also called their Prophets liars. I gave respite to the unbelievers, then sized them with torment. How terrible was that torment!


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How many were the unjust dwellers of the towns that We destroyed. From their trellises to their lofty mansions, all were toppled and their wells were abandoned.


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Have they not travelled (sufficiently) in the land to have understanding hearts and listening ears? It is their hearts which are blind, not their ears.


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They want you to bring upon them their punishment without delay. God never disregards His promise. One day for God is equal to a thousand years for you.


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To how many unjust towns have We given respite and then sized with torment. To Me do all things return.


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Satan would try to tamper with the desires of every Prophet or Messenger whom We sent. Then God would remove Satan´s temptations and strengthen His revelations. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


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He would make Satan´s temptations a trial for those whose hearts are hard and sick. The wrong-doers are far away from the Lord,


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so that those who have received knowledge would know and believe that whatever happens with the Prophets and Messengers is the Truth from their Lord and will believe it. This will cause their hearts to become filled with awe. God guides the believers to the right path.


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The unbelievers will continue to doubt the Quran until the Hour of Doom suddenly sizes them or the torment of the last day strikes them.


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On that day it is God who will be the Absolute King and Judge of (mankind). The righteously striving believers will go to Paradise


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Those who abandoned their homes for the cause of God and who then died or were murdered will receive honorable sustenance from God


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One who is wronged and who retaliates by that which is equal to his suffering, God will certainly help him


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God causes the night to enter the day and the day to enter the night. He is All-hearing and All-aware.


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God is the Supreme Truth and whatever they worship instead of Him is falsehood. God is most Exalted and most Great.


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Have you not seen that God has sent water from the sky and has made the earth green all over. He is Kind and All-aware.


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Have you not seen that God, through His command, has made all that is in the earth and the ships that sail on the sea subservient to you? He prevents the sky from falling on the earth unless He decides otherwise. God is Compassionate and Merciful to mankind.


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It is He who has given you life, He will make you die and will make you live again. Surely the human being is ungrateful.


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We enjoined every nation with certain worship acts which they perform. The unbelievers must not dispute with you about the manner of your worship. Invite them to follow the right path of the Lord.


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Do you not know that God knows all that is in the heavens and the earth? His decree is already recorded in the Book and issuing such a Judgment is not difficult for Him at all.


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They worship things instead of God that have received no authority (from the heavens) nor have they any knowledge of such authority. The unjust people will have no one to help them.


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When Our authoritative revelations are recited to the unbelievers, you can clearly read the dislike on their faces. They almost attack those who read Our revelations to them. Say to them, &quot


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People, listen to this parable: Those whom you worship instead of God do not have the power to create even a fly, even though all of them would come together for the task. If the fly was to snatch something from them they would not be able to rescue it from the fly. How feeble are such worshippers and that which they worship.


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Believers, worship your Lord, bow down and prostrate yourselves before Him and do virtuous deeds so that perhaps you will have everlasting happiness.


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Strive steadfastly for the Cause of God. He has chosen you but has not imposed on you hardship in your religion, the noble religion of your father, Abraham. God named you Muslims before and in this Book, so that the Messenger will witness (your actions) and will be the witness over mankind. Be steadfast in your prayer, pay the religious tax, and seek protection from God


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The living germ, then, was turned into a shapeless lump of flesh from which bones were formed. The bones, then, were covered with flesh. At this stage, We caused it to become another creature. All blessings belong to God, the best Creator.


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We have sent a measure of water from the sky to stay on earth and We have the power to take it away.


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We have established for you gardens of palm trees and vineyards with this water with many fruits for you to consume.


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We have also created for you the tree that grows on Mount Sinai which produces oil and relish for those who use it.


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There is a lesson for you concerning cattle. We provide you with drink from their bellies and many other benefits. You can consume them as meat.


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A group of his people who disbelieved him and had called the Day of Judgment a lie and whom We had made prosperous in this life, said, &quot


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Does he promise you that after you die and become dust and bones you will be brought back to life again?


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A blast struck them for a just cause, and We made them look like withered leaves. God keeps the unjust people away from His mercy.


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We sent Our messengers one after the other but whenever a Messenger would come to a nation, its people would call him a liar and We would destroy one nation after the other, thus, only their stories were left behind them. God keeps the unbelievers far away from His Mercy.


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We made the son of Mary and his mother a miracle and settled them on a high land, quite secure and watered by a spring.


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The people divided themselves into many sects, each with their own book and each happy with whatever they had.


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We provide them with the means of competing with each other in virtuous deeds, but they do not realize this.


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to God, these are the ones who really compete with each other in virtuous deeds and are the foremost ones in the task.


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We do not impose on any soul what is beyond its capacity. We have the Book which speaks the truth and no injustice will be done to it.


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But when We will strike with torment those (unbelievers) who are rich, they will start to cry for help.


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Was it that you did not give any thought to it (the Quran)? Was it different from what was revealed to your fathers?


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or you said that he is possessed by satan? In fact, he has brought you the truth, but most of you dislike it.


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Had the truth followed their desires, the heavens and the earth and all that is in them would have been destroyed. We sent them the Quran but they ignored it.


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(Do they disbelieve because) you asked them for payment? The reward that you will receive from your Lord is the best. He is the best Provider.


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Even if We were to grant them mercy and rescue them from hardship, they would still blindly persist in their rebellion.


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We struck them with torment, but they did not submit themselves to their Lord, nor did they make themselves humble


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It is He who gives life and causes death and it is He who alternates night and day. Will you not then understand?


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Our fathers and we have been given such promises before. These are no more than ancient legends.&quot


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God has never given birth to a son and there is no other god besides Him. If there were, each god would have taken away his creatures and claimed superiority over the others. God is too exalted to be as they believe Him to be.


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He has the knowledge of all seen and unseen things. He is too exalted to be considered equal to anything else.


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Respond to the injustice (done to you) with the better deed. We know best what they attribute to God.


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There will be no kindred relations nor any opportunity to ask about others or seek their assistance after the trumpet has sounded.


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On this day I have given them their reward for their exercising patience and it is they who have triumphed.&quot


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Did you think that We had created you for a playful purpose and that you were not to return to Us?&quot


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God is the most exalted King and the Supreme Truth. He is the only God and the Lord of the Gracious Throne.


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One who worships things besides God has no proof of the authority of such things. God is certainly keeping the record of his deeds. The unbelievers will not have everlasting happiness.


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This is a chapter which We have revealed to you and made obligatory for you to follow its guidance. We have revealed clear verses in it so that perhaps you may take heed.


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Flog the fornicatress and the fornicator with a hundred lashes each. Let there be no reluctance in enforcing the laws of God, if you have faith in God and the Day of Judgment. Let it take place in the presence of a group of believers.


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No one should marry a fornicator except a fornicatress or a pagan woman. No one should marry a fornicatress except a fornicator or a pagan man. Such (marriage) is unlawful to the believers.


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Those who accuse married women of committing adultery - but are not able to prove their accusation by producing four witness - must be flogged eighty lashes. Never accept their testimony thereafter because they are sinful,


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Those who accuse their spouses of committing adultery but have no witness except themselves, should testify four times saying, &quot


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The spouse will be acquitted of the punishment if she challenges his testimony by saying four times, &quot


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Had it not been for God´s favors and mercy upon you (your life would have been in chaos). God accepts repentance and He is All-wise.


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Those of you who have brought forward a false report (against Aisha) do not think that it will harm you. Rather it will be a benefit to you. Each one of you will face the result of his sin. The one among the group who was the chief instigator will face a great torment.


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Would that on your hearing this report, the believing men and woman among you had a favorable attitude towards it, and had said, &quot


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Would that they had brought four witness to testify to their report. Since they brought none, they are liars before God.


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Were it not for the favors and mercy of God upon you, in this world and in the life to come, a great torment would strike you for your involvement in this false report.


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Your tongues moved and your mouths spoke of something of which you had no knowledge. You thought it to be a trivial matter, while in the eyes of God it is blasphemy.


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Those who like to publicize indecency among the believers will face painful torment in this world and in the life to come. God knows what you do not know.


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Were it not for the favor and mercy of God upon you (you would have faced painful punishment in this world and the life to come). God is Compassionate and Merciful.


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The well-to-do and the rich among you should not fail to give to relatives, the destitute, and Emigrants for the cause of God. Be considerate and forgiving. Do you not want God to forgive you? God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


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Those who slander the unaware but chaste and believing women (of committing unlawful carnal relations) are condemned in this life and in the life hereafter. They will suffer a great punishment


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Indecent woman are for indecent men and indecent men are for indecent woman. Decent women are for decent men and decent men are for decent women. The decent people are innocent of what people allege. They will receive mercy and honorable sustenance.


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Believers, do not enter other´s houses until you have asked permission and have greeted the people therein. This is best for you so that perhaps you may remember (God´s guidance).


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If you do not find anyone therein, do not enter until you are given permission. If you are told to go away, do so


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There is no harm for you to enter uninhabited houses where you have some goods. God knows whatever you reveal or hide.


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Tell the believing woman to cast down their eyes, guard their chastity, and not to show off their beauty except what is permitted by the law. Let them cover their breasts with their veils. They must not show off their beauty to anyone other than their husbands, father, father-in-laws, sons, step-sons, brothers, sons of brothers and sisters, women of their kind, their slaves, immature male servants, or immature boys. They must not stamp their feet to show off their hidden ornaments. All of you believers, turn to God in repentance so that perhaps you will have everlasting happiness.


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Marry the single people among you and the righteous slaves and slave-girls. If you are poor, God will make you rich through His favor


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Let those who cannot find someone to marry maintain chastity until God makes them rich through His favors. Let the slaves who want to buy their freedom have an agreement with you in writing if you find them to be virtuous. Give them money out of God´s property which He has given to you. Do not force your girls into prostitution to make money if they want to be chaste. If they have been compelled to do so, God will be All-merciful and All-forgiving to them.


tafseer:
We have revealed to you illustrious revelations, stories of the past generations, and good advice for the pious people.


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God is the light of the heavens and the earth. A metaphor for His light is a niche in which there is a lamp placed in a glass. The glass is like a shining star which is lit from a blessed olive tree that is neither eastern nor western. Its oil almost lights up even though it has not been touched by the fire. It is light upon light. God guides to His light whomever He wants. God uses various metaphors. He has the knowledge of all things.


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(This niche) is in the houses that God has declared to be highly respected and His Name be mentioned therein in glory in the morning and evening


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by people, who can neither be diverted by merchandise nor bargaining from worshipping God, saying their prayers and paying religious tax. They do these things, for they are afraid of the day when all hearts and eyes will undergo terrible unrest and crisis.


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(They worship Him) so that God will reward their best deeds and give them more through His favors. God gives sustenance to whomever He wants without account.


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The deeds of the unbelievers are like a mirage which a thirsty man thinks is water until he goes near and finds nothing. Instead he finds God who gives him his due recompense. God´s reckoning is swift.


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Or it (the deeds of the unbelievers) are like the darkness of a deep, stormy sea with layers of giant waves, covered by dark clouds. It is darkness upon darkness whereby even if one stretches out his hands he can not see them. One can have no light unless God gives him light.


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Have you not considered that all that is between the heavens and the earth glorifies God and that the birds spread their wings in the air to glorify God? He knows everyone´s prayers and praising


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Do you not see that God moves the clouds gently, brings them together, piles them up, and then you can see the rain coming from them. He sends down hailstones from the mountains in the sky. With them He strikes or protects from them whomever He wants. The lightening can almost take away the sight.


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When they are called to God and His Messenger so that they will judge among them, suddenly, some of them turn away.


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Are their hearts sick? Do they have doubts or are they afraid that God and His Messenger may do injustice to them? In fact, they, themselves, are unjust.


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Those who obey God and His Messenger, who are humble before Him, and who have fear of Him will, certainly, be successful.


tafseer:
They strongly swear by God that they would march to fight (for the cause of God) if you were to order them to. Tell them, &quot


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God has promised the righteously striving believers to appoint them as His deputies on earth, as He had appointed those who lived before. He will make the religion that He has chosen for them to stand supreme. He will replace their fear with peace and security so that they will worship God alone and consider no one equal to Him. Whoever becomes an unbeliever after this will be a sinful person.


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Be steadfast in prayer, pay the religious tax and obey the Messenger so that perhaps you will receive mercy.


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The unbelievers should not think that they can defeat God on earth. Their dwelling will be hell, the most terrible abode.


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Believers, your slaves and the immature people must ask your permission three times a day before entering your house: before the morning prayer, at noon time and after the late evening prayer


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When your children become mature, they must ask your permission before entering your house, as the rest of the mature people do. Thus does God explain to you His revelations. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


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Elderly women who have no hope of getting married are allowed not to wear the kind of clothing that young woman must wear, as long as they do not show off their beauty. It is better for them if they maintain chastity. God is All-hearing and All-knowing.


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It is no sin for the blind, the lame, the sick ones, and yourselves to eat at your own homes, or the homes of your father, mothers, brothers, sisters, your paternal and maternal uncles, aunts, or at the homes of your friend, and the homes with which you are entrusted. It makes no difference whether you eat all together or one person at a time. When you enter a house, say the blessed greeting which God has instructed you to say. Thus does God explain to you His revelations so that perhaps you will understand.


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The true believers are those who have faith in God and His Messenger and when they are dealing with the Messenger in important matters, they do not leave without his permission. (Muhammad), those who ask your permission believe in God and His Messenger. When they ask your leave to attend to their affairs, you may give permission to anyone of them you choose and ask forgiveness for them from God. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


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Do not address the Messenger as you would call each other. God knows those who secretly walk away from you and hide themselves. Those who oppose the Messengers should beware, lest some trouble or a painful torment should befall them.


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The heavens and the earth, certainly, belong to God. He surely knows all about you in this life. On the day when you return to Him, He will tell you all about whatever you have done. God has the knowledge of all things.


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Blessed is He who has revealed the criteria (for discerning truth from falsehood) to His servant so that He could warn mankind.


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To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He has not begotten any sons, nor does He have any partner in His kingdom. He has created all things with precisely accurate planning.


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Yet they have chosen for themselves other deities besides Him, who do not create anything but rather are themselves created, who have no power over their own benefits, or trouble, and who have no control over life, death, and resurrection.


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Why has a treasure not been laid out for him or a garden from which he could eat been given to him.&quot


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Look at their various views about you! They have gone astray and are not able to find the right path.


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Blessed is He who could give you palaces and gardens wherein streams would flow, far better than what they want you to have.


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Even if they were to see [this fire] from a distant place, they would only listen to its raging and roaring.


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On the day when the unbelievers and whatever they had been worshipping besides God will be resurrected, He will ask the idols, &quot


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All the Messengerss whom We sent before, certainly, ate food and walked through the streets. We have made some of you (people) a trial for the others. Would you then exercise patience? Your Lord is All-aware.


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On the day when the criminals see the angels, there will, certainly, be no rejoicing for them. Rather, they will plead to the angels, &quot


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We shall call their deeds into Our presence and scatter them into the air as dust (turn them devoid of all virtue).


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It will be a hard day for the unbelievers. It will be a day when the unjust will bite their fingers, (regretfully) saying, &quot


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Thus, from the sinful people We made enemies for every Prophet. Your Lord is a Sufficient Guide and Helper.


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We will support you with the Truth and the best interpretation whenever the infidels argue against you.


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We drowned the people of Noah because of their rejection of the Messengers and made them evidence of the Truth for mankind. We have prepared a painful torment for the unjust ones.


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Our Messengers came into the town which was struck by a fatal rain. Did they (unbelievers), not see what had happened to this town? In fact, they had no faith in the Resurrection.


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Do you think that most of them listen and understand? They are like cattle or even more, straying and confused.


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Have you not seen that your Lord increases the shadow. Had He wanted He would have made it stationary], and has made the sun their guide.


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It is He who has made the night as a covering for you, sleep as a rest for you, and the day for you to rise again.


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It is He who sends the winds to you with the glad news of His mercy and who sends purifying rain from the sky


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We send them rain from time to time so that they may take heed. Many people have responded, but ungratefully.


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Do not yield to the unbelievers but launch a great campaign against them with the help of the Quran.


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It is He who has created the human being from water to have relationships of both lineage and wedlock. Your Lord has all power.


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They worship besides God things that can neither benefit nor harm them. The unbelievers are defiant against their Lord.


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Also trust in the Living One who never dies and glorify Him with His praise. He has sufficient knowledge of the sins of His servants.


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It is He who created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days and then He established His domination over the Throne. He is the Beneficent God. Refer to Him as the final authority.


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Blessed is He who has established constellations in the sky and made therein a lamp and a shining moon.


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It is He who has made the night and the day, one proceeding the other, for whoever wants to take heed or give thanks.


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(Among) the servants of the Beneficent God are those who walk gently on the earth and when addressed by the ignorant ones, their only response is, &quot


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who do not worship idols besides God, nor without a just cause murder a soul to whom God has granted amnesty, who do not commit fornication, for those who do so have committed a sin


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who, when reminded of the revelations of their Lord, do not try to ignore them as though deaf and blind. Rather, they try to understand and think about them.


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They will all receive Paradise as their reward for their forbearance and patience, where they will be greeted with, &quot


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Had We wanted, We would have sent them a miracle from the sky to make their heads hang down in submission.


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Then I ran away from you in fear, but my Lord granted me the law and has appointed me as a Messenger.


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I do not ask for any payment for my preaching. I shall receive my reward from the Lord of the Universe.


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Do not cause her to suffer lest you become subject to the torment of the great day (of Judgment).&quot


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and torment struck them. In this there is evidence of the Truth, yet many people do not have any faith.


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instead of your wives, whom your Lord has created specially for you? You are a transgressing people.&quot


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by pouring upon them a terrible shower of rain. How evil was the rain for those who had been warned!


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They rejected him and then the torment of the gloomy day struck them. It was certainly a great torment.


tafseer:
Is not the fact (that the Israelite scholars already knew about the Quran through their Book) sufficient evidence for the pagans of the truthfulness (of the Quran)?


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The righteously striving believers among them who remember God very often and use their talent to seek help after they have been wronged are the exceptional. The unjust will soon know how terrible their end will be.


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who are steadfast in prayer, who pay the religious tax, and who have strong faith in the life hereafter.


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We have made the deeds of those who do not believe in the life to come, attractive to them and they wander about blindly.


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Only the unjust become afraid in My presence. Even to these people who replace their bad deeds by good ones, I am All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
Put your hand into your pocket. It will come out sheer white but unharmed. This is one of the nine miracles which shall be showing to the Pharaoh and his people


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They rejected the evidence because of their arrogance and injustice, although their souls knew it to be true. Think how terrible the end of the sinful ones was!


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Soloman´s army, consisting of human beings, jinn, and birds were gathered together in his presence in ranks.


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I shall certainly punish him severely or slaughter him unless he has a good reason for his absence.&quot


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I found a woman ruling the people there and she possessed something of (almost) everything and a great throne.


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I found her and her people prostrating before the sun instead of God. Satan has made their deeds attractive to them. He has kept them away from the right path and they have no guidance.


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(Satan has done this) so that they will not worship God who brings forth whatever is hidden in the heavens and the earth and knows whatever you conceal or reveal.


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Go back to your people and we shall soon come there with an army which they will not be able to face. We shall drive them from their town, humble, and disgraced.&quot


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She was told to enter the palace. When she saw it, she thought that it was a pool and raised her clothe up to her legs. Solomon said, &quot


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We sent to the tribe of Thamud their brother Salih so that they would worship God, but they became two quarrelling groups.


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Those are their empty houses which We ruined because of their injustice. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for the people of knowledge.


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We sent to them a terrible rainstorm. How horrible was the rain for the people who had already received warning.


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(Muhammad), do not be grieved (about their disbelief) nor distressed about their evil plans against you.


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You cannot make the dead listen and the deaf are unable to hear calls. Thus, they turn back on their heels.


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You cannot guide the straying blind ones. You can only make hear those who believe in Our revelations submissively.


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When the word about them comes true We shall make a creature appear to them on earth who will tell them that people had no faith in Our revelations.


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On the day when We resurrect from every nation a group from among those who had rejected Our revelations, they will be kept confined in ranks.


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Have they not seen that We have created the night for them to rest and the day for them to see. In this there is evidence for the believing people.


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Everyone in the heavens and earth will be terrified on the day when the trumpet will be sounded except those whom God will save. Everyone will humbly come into the presence of God.


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You think the mountains are solid. In fact, they move like clouds. It is God´s technique which has established everything perfectly. He is well Aware of what you do.


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Whoever does a good deed will receive a better reward than what he has done. He will be secure from the terror of the Day of Judgment.


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Those who commit evil will be thrown headlong into hell fire. (It will be said to them) can you expect any recompense other than what you deserve for your deeds?


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I am commanded to worship the Lord of this town which He has made sacred. To Him belong all things. I am commanded to be a Muslim


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and recite the Quran. Whoever seeks guidance will find it for his own soul. Say to whoever goes astray, &quot


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We recite to you some of the story of Moses and the Pharaoh for a genuine purpose, and for the benefit of the believing people.


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The Pharaoh dominated the land and divided its inhabitants into different groups, suppressing one group by killing their sons and keeping their women alive. He was certainly an evil-doer.


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But We have decided to grant a favor to the suppressed ones by appointing them leaders and heirs of the land,


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give them power in the land and make the Pharaoh, Haman (his Minister), and their armies to experience from their victims what they feared most.


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The people of the Pharaoh picked him up (without realizing) that he would become their enemy and a source of their sorrow. The Pharaoh, Haman, and their army were sinful people.


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The heart of Moses´ mother was relieved and confident. But she would almost have made the whole matter public had We not strengthened her heart with faith.


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She told Moses´ sister to follow her brother. His sister watched him from one side and the people of the Pharaoh did not notice her presence.


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We had decreed that the infant must not be breast-fed by any nurse besides his mother. His sister said to the people of the Pharaoh, &quot


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Thus did We return Moses to his mother that We would delight her eyes, relieve her sorrows, and let her know that the promise of God was true, but many people do not know.


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When he become matured and grow to manhood, We granted him wisdom and knowledge. Thus do We reward the righteous ones.


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He entered the city without the knowledge of its inhabitants and found two men fighting each other. One was his follower and the other his enemy. His follower asked him for help. Moses struck his enemy to death, but later said, &quot


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He remained in the city but very afraid and cautious. Suddenly the person who asked him for help the previous day asked him for help again. Moses said, &quot


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When he arrived at the well of Midian, he found some people watering (their sheep) and two women keeping the sheep away from the others. He asked the two women, &quot


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When Moses completed the term of the contract and departed from his employer with his family, he saw a fire (on his way) on one side of the Mount (Sinai). He asked his wife, &quot


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He was called from a tree of the blessed spot of the bank of the right side of the valley when he appraoched it, &quot


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My brother Aaron is more fluent then I am. Send him with me to assist me and express my truthfulness


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The Pharaoh and his army were puffed-up with pride in the land for no true cause. They thought that they would never return to Us.


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We sized him and his army and threw them into the sea. See how terrible was the end of the unjust people!


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We made them the kinds of leaders who would invite people to the fire and who would receive no help on the Day of Judgment.


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We made them to be mentioned with condemnation in this life and they will be disgraced on the Day of Judgment.


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After destroying the people of the ancient towns We gave the Book to Moses to be a source of knowledge, a guidance, and mercy for mankind so that perhaps they would take heed.


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(Muhammad), you were not present at the west bank to witness when We gave the commandments to Moses.


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But We raised many generations after Moses and they lived for many years. You did not dwell with the people of Midian reciting Our revelations to them, but We had certainly sent Messengers to them.


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You had not been present at the side of the Mount (Sinai) when We called Moses (from the tree), but through Our mercy we told you his story so that you might warn the people


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to whom no warner had been sent that perhaps they might take heed, and that, on experiencing afflictions because of their own deeds, they may not say, &quot


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If they cannot meet such a challenge, know that they are only following their (evil) desires. Who strays more than one who follows his desires without guidance from God? God does not guide the unjust people.


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These will receive double reward for their forbearance, replacing evil by virtue, and for their spending for the cause of God.


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(Muhammad), you cannot guide whomever you love, but God guides whomever He wants and knows best those who seek guidance.


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How many nations, who had enjoyed great prosperity, had We destroyed? Those are their homes which were not inhabited thereafter except for a short time. Only We were their heirs.


tafseer:
Your Lord did not destroy the people of the towns without first sending a Messenger to the mother town who would recite His revelations to them. We did not want to destroy the towns if the people therein were not unjust.


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Whatever you (people) have been given are only the means for enjoyment and beauty of the worldly life, but the means of enjoyment (which you will receive from God) in the life to come will be better and everlasting. Will you then not take heed?


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Is the case of those to whom We have promised good things - which they will certainly receive in the life to come - equal to the case of those to whom We have granted the means of enjoyment in the worldly life and who will certainly be questioned about them in the life to come?


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They will be told to call their idols. They will call them but will receive no answer. They will see the torment approaching and wish that they had sought guidance.


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However, those who have repented and have become righteously striving believers will perhaps have everlasting happiness.


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Your Lord creates and chooses (to grant mercy) to whomever He wants. (In matters of guidance) they (unbelievers) do not have the choice to choose whatever they want. God is too exalted to be considered equal to anything else.


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He is the only God and it is only He who deserves to be given thanks in this world and in the life to come. Judgment is in His hands and to Him you will all return.


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He has made the night and day for you to rest as a mercy to you and seek His favor and that perhaps you will give Him thanks.


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We shall call from every nation a witness and shall ask them to bring proof (in support of their belief). They will know that truth belongs to God and that whatever they had falsely invented has abandoned them.


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Korah was a man from the people of Moses. This man rebelled against them. We had given him so much treasure that the keys of the stores of his treasures could hardly even be carried by a group of strong people. His people told him, &quot


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Seek the gains of the life to come through your wealth without ignoring your share of this life. Do favors to others just as God has done favors to you. Do not commit evil in the land for God does not love the evil-doers.&quot


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We caused the earth to swallow up him and his home. No one besides God could help him nor could he himself achieve victory.


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There is the life hereafter which We have prepared for those who do not want to impose their superiority over the others in the land nor commit evil therein. The happy end certainly belongs to the pious ones.


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The reward for a good deed will be greater than the deed itself and the recompense for an evil deed will be equivalent to the deed.


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(Muhammad), God, Who has commanded you to follow the guidance of the Quran, will certainly return you victoriously to your place of birth. Say, &quot


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You had no hope of receiving the Book except by the mercy of your Lord. Do not be a supporter of the unbelievers.


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Let them not prevent you from following the revelations of God after they are revealed to you. Call (mankind) to your Lord and do not be a pagan.


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Do not worship anything besides God. He is the only God. Everything will be destroyed except God. To Him belongs Judgment and to Him you will all return.


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We had certainly tried those who lived before them to make sure who were truthful in their faith and who were liars.


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Let those who have the desire to be in the presence of God on the Day of Judgment know that their day will certainly be coming. God is All-Hearing and All-Knowing.


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Whoever strives hard should know that it is for his own good. God is independent of the whole world.


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We shall expiate the sins of the righteously striving believers and shall reward them better than their deeds.


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Besides the other burdens that they will have to carry, they will certainly be loaded with the burden of their own sins. They will be questioned on the Day of Judgment about what they had falsely invented.


tafseer:
We sent Noah to his people and he lived with them for nine hundred and fifty years, then the flood engulfed them for their injustice.


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You worship idols besides God and you create falsehood. Whatever you worship besides Him cannot provide you with anything for your sustenance. Seek your sustenance from the bounties of God. Worship Him. Give Him thanks. To Him you will all return.&quot


tafseer:
If you, (pagans), call our (revelations) lies, certainly many generations living before you have also done the same thing. The duty of a Messenger is only to preach clearly.


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Have they not seen how God begins the creation and then turns it back? This is not difficult at all for God.


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You cannot challenge God in the heavens or in the earth. No one besides God is your guardian or helper.


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Those who have rejected God´s revelations have no hope in receiving His mercy. They will face a painful torment.


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We granted Isaac and Jacob to Abraham and We bestowed upon his offspring, prophethood and the Book. We gave him his reward in this world and in the next life, he will be among the pious ones.


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Do you engage in carnal relations with men, rob the travellers, and commit evil in your gatherings? His people had no answer but to say, &quot


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When Our angelic Messengers came to Lot, he was grieved and depressed to see them. They told him, &quot


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They rejected him so We jolted them with a violent earthquake and they were left motionless in their houses.


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How the people of Ad and Thamud were destroyed is evident to you from their homes. Satan made their deeds seem attractive to them and prevented them from the right path, even though they had visions.


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Korah, the Pharaoh, and Haman were also destroyed. Moses had brought them illustrious miracles, but they were puffed-up with pride in the land and they could not defeat Us.


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We punished all of these people because of their sin. Some of them were struck by a violent sand-storm, some by a blast of sound, others were swallowed up by the earth, and some were drowned (in the sea). God did not do injustice to them, but they had wronged themselves.


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The belief of considering other things as one´s guardians besides God is as feeble as a spider´s web. The spider´s web is the frailest of all dwellings, if only they knew it.


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God has created the heavens and the earth for a genuine purpose. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for the believers.


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Do not argue with the People of the Book except only by the best manner, except the unjust among them. Tell them, &quot


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We have revealed the Book to you. Some of the People of the Book and some of the pagans also believe in it. No one rejects Our revelations except the infidels.


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In fact, the Quran consists of illustrious verses that exist in the hearts of those who have knowledge. No one rejects Our revelations except the unjust ones.


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Is it not enough for them that We have revealed the Book to you to be recited to them. It is a mercy and a reminder for the believers.


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They demand you to bring upon them torment immediately. Had not the time been fixed, the torment would certainly have approached them. It would have come to them suddenly and they would not have even realized how it came.


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They demand you to bring upon them the torment immediately. Hell will certainly engulf the unbelievers.


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We shall give mansions in Paradise wherein streams flow to the righteously striving believers and therein they will live forever. How blessed is the reward of the hard working people


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There are many living creatures which do not carry their sustenance, but God provides them and you with sustenance. He is All-hearing and All-knowing.


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God increases the sustenance of whichever of His servants He wants and He determines their share. God has the knowledge of all things.


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The worldly life is not more than a childish game. It is the life hereafter which will be the real life, if only they knew it.


tafseer:
When they sail in a boat, they sincerely pray to God with pure faith. But when We bring them safely to land, they start considering things equal to God.


tafseer:
Let them be ungrateful to what We have granted them. Let them enjoy themselves, but they will soon know (the consequences of their deeds).


tafseer:
Have the (pagans) not seen that We have made the holy precinct a safe place while all the people around are suffering terror. Do they believe in falsehood and disbelieve in God´s bounties?


tafseer:
Who is more unjust than one who invents falsehood against God or rejects the Truth after it has come to him? Is not hell the dwelling for the disbelievers.


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We shall certainly guide those who strive for Our cause to Our path. God is certainly with the righteous ones.


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All matters of the past and future are in the hands of God.The believers will enjoy the help of God on that Day.


tafseer:
They only know the superficial realities of the worldly life and they are unaware of the life to come.


tafseer:
Have they not thought that God has not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a genuine purpose to exist for an appointed term? Many people do not believe in their meeting with their Lord.


tafseer:
Have they not travelled through the land to see how terrible was the end of the people who lived before them. The people who lived before them were stronger than them in might, in tilling, and in developing the earth. Our Messengers came to them with clear miracles. God did not do an injustice to them but they wronged themselves.


tafseer:
The end of the evil-doers was terrible, for they had rejected the revelations of God and mocked them.


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However, the disbelievers, who called Our revelations and the Day of Judgment lies, will be brought into torment.


tafseer:
To Him belongs all the thanks giving which takes place in the heavens and the earth, in the evenings and the noontime.


tafseer:
He brings forth the living from the dead, takes out the dead from the living, and revives the earth from its death. Thus, you will all be brought back to life again.


tafseer:
Some evidence of His existence are His creating you from clay and from that you became human beings scattered all around


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His creating spouses for you out of yourselves so that you might take comfort in them and His creating love and mercy among you. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for the people who (carefully) think.


tafseer:
Other evidence of His existence are the creation of the heavens and the earth and the differences of languages and colors. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for the worlds (mankind).


tafseer:
Your sleeping during the night and in the day your seeking His favors are evidence (of the truth) for the people who have hearing.


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Also, of the evidence of His existence are His showing you lightening which gives you fear and hope and His sending water down from the sky which revives the earth after its death. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for the people of understanding.


tafseer:
Some other evidence of His existence is that both the heavens and the earth stand firm at His command. When He will call you from the earth, you will start to come out.


tafseer:
It is He who begins the creation, then, turns it back. For Him this is very easy. All the exalted attributes in the heavens and the earth belong to Him. He is the Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
God has told you this parable about yourselves: Could your slaves share your wealth equally with you and could you fear them as you fear yourselves? Thus, do We clarify the evidence (of the truth) for the people of understanding.


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In fact, the unjust have followed their desires without knowledge. Who will guide those whom God has caused to go astray? No one will be their helper.


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(Muhammad), be devoted to the upright religion. It is harmonious with the nature which God has designed for people. The design of God cannot be altered. Thus is the upright religion, but many people do not know.


tafseer:
When people face hardship, they begin praying to their Lord and turn in repentance to Him. When they receive mercy from Him, a group of them begin to consider things equal to God,


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because of their ingratitude for what We have given them. Let them enjoy themselves, but they will soon know (the consequences of their deeds).


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When people receive mercy, they are happy with it. However, when hardship befalls them because of their own deeds, they despair.


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Have they not seen how God increases the livelihood of whomever He wants and determines his share. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for the believing people.


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Give the relatives, the destitute, and the needy travellers their share (of charity). It is better for those who want to please God and they will have everlasting happiness.


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God will not allow to increase whatever illegal interest you try to receive in order to increase your wealth at the expense of people´s property. Whatever amount of zakat you give to please God will be doubled (for you).


tafseer:
It is God who has created you and given you sustenance. He will make you die and will bring you back to life. Can any of your idols do such things? God is too Exalted to be considered equal to anything else.


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Evil has spread over the land and the sea because of human deeds and through these God will cause some people to suffer so that perhaps they will return to Him.


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Be devoted to the upright religion before the coming of the inevitable day when no one can escape from God and people will either be sent to Paradise or hell.&quot


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Those who disbelieve do so against their own souls. Those who do good pave the way for their own benefit.


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God will reward the righteously striving believers through His favor. He does not love the unbelievers.


tafseer:
Some evidence of His existence is His sending the glad-news-bearing winds so that He would let you to receive His mercy, cause the ships to sail by His command, and let you seek His favor so that perhaps you would give Him thanks.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), We had sent before you Our Messengers to their people. The Messengers showed them clear miracles and We took revenge on the criminals. It was necessary for Us to help the believers.


tafseer:
It is God who sends the winds to raise the clouds. He spreads them in the sky as He wants, then He intensifies them, and then you can see the rain coming down from the cloud. When He sends it down upon whichever of His servants He wants, they rejoice


tafseer:
Even if We had sent the wind and caused (the plants) to turn yellow and to fade away, they would still have remained in disbelief.


tafseer:
You cannot make the dead listen, nor the deaf hear. Thus, they, (the disbelievers), turn away on their heels.


tafseer:
You cannot guide the straying blind. You can make no one listen except those who believe in Our revelations and are Muslims.


tafseer:
It is God who has created you weak, then, given you strength after your weakness and caused you to become weak and old after being strong. He creates whatever He wants. He is All-knowing and All-powerful.


tafseer:
On the day when the Hour of Doom comes, the criminals will swear that they have remained (in their graves) for no more than an hour. They had been inventing lies in this way.


tafseer:
The excuses of the unjust on this day will be of no avail to them and they will not be able to please God.


tafseer:
We have told people various parables in this Quran. Even if you had shown them a miracle, the unbelievers would have said, &quot


tafseer:
Be patient. The promise of God is certainly true. Let not the faithless make you despair of the promise of God.


tafseer:
people who are steadfast in prayer, pay the religious tax, and have firm belief in the life to come.


tafseer:
(In an attempt to show that God´s revelations are only ancient legends) some people pay for meaningless tales to draw others attention away from the Quran without knowledge and treat as a matter of fun. They will suffer a humiliating torment.


tafseer:
When Our revelations are recited to them, they turn back on their heels out of pride as if they did not hear them or their ears had been sealed off. Warn them of the painful torment.


tafseer:
He has created the heavens without pillar as you can see, fixed the mountains on earth so that it may not shake you away, and settled therein all types of living creatures. We have sent down water from the sky and made all kinds of plants grow in gracious pairs.


tafseer:
This is the creation of God. Show me what those whom you consider equal to God have created. In fact, the unjust ones are in plain error.


tafseer:
We gave wisdom to Luqman so that he would give thanks to God. Those who give thanks to God do so for their own good. Those who are ungrateful should know that God is Self-sufficient and Praiseworthy.


tafseer:
(Concerning his parents), We advised the man, whose mother bears him with great pain and breast-feeds him for two years, to give thanks to Me first and then to them, to Me all things proceed.


tafseer:
If they try to force you to consider things equal to Me, which you cannot justify, equal to Me, do not obey them. Maintain lawful relations with them in this world and follow the path of those who turn in repentance to Me. To Me you will all return and I shall tell you all that you have done.


tafseer:
My son, be steadfast in prayer. Make others do good. Prevent them from doing evil. Be patient in hardship. Patience comes from faith and determination.


tafseer:
Be moderate in your walking and your talking. The most unpleasant sound is the braying of donkeys.&quot


tafseer:
Have you not seen that God has made all that is in the heavens and the earth, subservient to you (human beings), and has extended and perfected for you His apparent and unseen bounties? Some people argue about God without knowledge, guidance, or an enlightening book.


tafseer:
Whoever submits himself to the will of God in righteousness has certainly achieved a strong-hold. The end of all things is in the hands of God.


tafseer:
(Muhammad), do not let the disbelievers grieve you. To Us they will all return and We shall tell them all about what they have done. God knows best what is in everyone´s hearts.


tafseer:
If all the trees in the earth were pens and the ocean, with seven more oceans, were ink still these could not suffice to record all the Words of God. God is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
For God your creation and your resurrection are only like the creation and resurrection of one soul. God is All-hearing and All-seeing.


tafseer:
Have you not seen that God causes the night to enter into the day and the day into the night. He has made the sun and moon subservient (to Himself). Each moves (in an orbit) for an appointed time. God is certainly All-aware of what you do.


tafseer:
This is because God is the supreme Truth and whatever they worship besides Him is falsehood. God is the Most High and the Most Great.


tafseer:
Have you not seen that the ships sail in the ocean through the bounty of God so that He may show you the evidence (of His existence). There is evidence (of the truth) in this for every forbearing and grateful one.


tafseer:
When the waves cover them like shadows, they pray to God with sincerity in their religion, but when We bring them safely to land, only some of them follow the right path. No one rejects Our revelations except the treacherous ungrateful ones.


tafseer:
Mankind, have fear of your Lord and the day when a father will be of no avail to his son, nor will a son carry any part of the burden of his father. The promise of God is true. Do not let the worldly life deceive you nor let your pride deceive you about God.


tafseer:
Only God has the knowledge of the coming of the Hour of Doom. He sends down the rain and knows what is in the wombs. No soul is aware of what it will achieve tomorrow and no soul knows in which land it will die. God is All-knowing and All-aware.


tafseer:
Do they say that he, (Muhammad), has invented it? No, it is the truth from your Lord so that you will warn the people who have not received a warning before you. Perhaps they will seek guidance.


tafseer:
God is the one who created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days, then He established His dominion over the Throne. No one besides Him is your guardian or intercessor. Will you then not take heed?


tafseer:
He sends the regulation of the affair from the heavens to the earth, then on the day which is equal to one thousand years of yours, it will ascend to Him.


tafseer:
It is He Who created everything in the best manner and began the creation of the human being from clay.


tafseer:
then He gave it proper shape and blew His spirit in it. He made ears, eyes and hearts for you, but you give Him very little thanks.


tafseer:
Would that you could see (on the Day of Judgment) that criminals, with their heads hanging down before their Lord, saying, &quot


tafseer:
Had We wanted, We could have given guidance to every soul, but My decree, that hell will be filled-up with jinn and people, has already been executed.


tafseer:
The only people who believe in Our revelations are those who, when reminded about them, bow down in prostration and glorify their Lord with His praise without pride.


tafseer:
Their sides give-up rest in beds in order to pray before their Lord in fear and hope. They spend for the cause of God out of what we have given them.


tafseer:
The righteously striving believers will have Paradise for their dwelling as the reward of their good deeds.


tafseer:
However, the dwelling of the sinful ones will be hell fire. Each time they try to come out, they will be turned back with this remark, &quot


tafseer:
We shall certainly make them suffer worldly torment before suffering the great torment so that perhaps they may return to Us.


tafseer:
Who are more unjust than those who are reminded of the revelation of their Lord, but have ignored them? We will take revenge on the criminal.


tafseer:
We gave the Book to Moses - do not have any doubt about the Day of Judgment - and made it a guide for the children of Israel.


tafseer:
We appointed some of the Israelites as leaders for their exercising patience to guide the others to Our commands. They had firm belief in Our revelations.


tafseer:
Your Lord will issue His decree about their (believers and disbeliever´s) differences on the Day of Judgment.


tafseer:
Was it not a lesson for them, (the unbelievers), that We destroyed the many generations living before them among whose ruined dwellings they are now walking. In this there is many evidence (of the truth). Will they not then listen?


tafseer:
Have they not seen that We drive the water to the barren land and cause crops to grow which they and their cattle consume? Why, then, they will not see?


tafseer:
Prophet, have fear of God and do not yield to the infidels and hypocrites. God is All-knowing and All-wise.


tafseer:
God has not created two hearts inside any one human being. God does not consider your wives whom you renounce by zihar as your mothers nor those whom you adopt as your sons. These are only words of your mouth. God tells the Truth and shows the right path.


tafseer:
Call them sons of their own fathers. It is more just in the eyes of God. If you do not know their fathers, they are your brothers and friends in religion. You will not be responsible for your mistakes, but you will be responsible for what you do intentionally. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
The Prophet has more authority over the believers than themselves. His wives are their mothers. The relatives are closer to each other, according to the Book of God, than the believers and the emigrants. However, you may show kindness to your guardians. This also is written in the Book.


tafseer:
We had a solemn covenant with you (Muhammad), and the Prophets: Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, the son of Mary.


tafseer:
This was a firm agreement. God will ask the truthful ones about their truthfulness and prepare a painful torment for the disbelievers.


tafseer:
Believers, recall God´s favor to you when the army attacked you. We sent a wind and the armies, which you did not see, to support you. God sees all that you do.


tafseer:
Eyes became dull and hearts almost reached the throat when they attacked you from above and below and you started to think of God with suspicion.


tafseer:
Had the army of the enemies invaded their homes and asked them to give-up their religion, they would have yielded to them without delay.


tafseer:
They had certainly promised God that they would not turn away. To promise God is certainly a (great) responsibility.


tafseer:
God certainly knows those among you who create obstacles (on the way that leads to God) and those who say to their brothers, ´Come quickly to us´ and very rarely take part in the fighting.


tafseer:
They are niggardly in spending for you. When fear comes, you can see them looking at you, their eyes rolling about like to faint because of the agony of death. When their fear subsides, they start to bite you with their sharp tongues. They are miserly in spending for a virtuous cause and have no faith. God has turned their deeds devoid of all virtue. This was not at all difficult for God.


tafseer:
They think that the confederate tribes have not yet gone. If the confederate tribes were to attack them, they would have wished to be left alone among the bedouin Arabs where they would only follow the news about you. Even if they were with you, only a few of them would take part in the fight.


tafseer:
The Messenger of God is certainly a good example for those of you who have hope in God and in the Day of Judgment and who remember God very often.


tafseer:
Among the believers there are people who are true in their promise to God. Some of them have already passed away and some of them are waiting. They never yield to any change.


tafseer:
God will certainly reward the truthful ones for their truthfulness and punish or pardon the hypocrites as He wishes. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
God repelled the unbelievers in their rage. They could not achieve anything good. God rendered sufficient support to the believers in fighting. God is All-powerful and Majestic.


tafseer:
God brought down those among the People of the Book who had supported the confederate tribes from their castles and struck their hearts with terror. You did away with some of them and captured the others.


tafseer:
God made you inherit their land, houses, property, and a land on which you had never walked. God has power over all things.


tafseer:
but if you want the pleasure of God, His Messenger, and the life hereafter, know that God has prepared a great reward for the righteous ones among you.&quot


tafseer:
Wives of the Prophet, if anyone among you commits indecency, her torment will be double. This is not at all difficult for God.


tafseer:
To whoever of you obeys God and His Messenger and acts righteously, We will give double reward and a honorable sustenance.


tafseer:
Wives of the Prophet, you are not like other women. If you have fear of God, do not be tender in your speech lest people whose hearts are sick may lust after you.


tafseer:
Do not display yourselves after the manner of the (pre-Islamic) age of darkness. Be steadfast in the prayer, pay the religious tax, and obey God and His Messenger. People of the house, God wants to remove all kinds of uncleanliness from you and to purify you thoroughly.


tafseer:
Wives of the Prophet, remember the revelations of God and Words of wisdom that are recited in your homes. God is Most Kind and All-aware.


tafseer:
God has promised forgiveness and great rewards to the Muslim men and the Muslim women, the believing men and the believing women, the obedient men and the obedient women, the truthful men and the truthful women, the forbearing men and the forbearing women, the humble men and the humble women, the alms-giving men and the alms-giving women, the fasting men and the fasting women, the chaste men and the chaste women, and the men and women who remember God very often.


tafseer:
The believing men and women must not feel free to do something in their affairs other than that which has been already decided for them by God and His Messenger. One who disobeys God and His Messenger is in plain error.


tafseer:
The Prophet cannot be blamed for carrying out the commands of God. It was the tradition of God with those who lived before. The command of God has already been decreed and ordained.


tafseer:
Those who preach the message of God and are humble before Him should not be afraid of anyone besides God. God is Sufficient in keeping the account.


tafseer:
Muhammad is not the father of any of your males. He is the Messenger of God and the last Prophet. God has the knowledge of all things.


tafseer:
It is He who forgives you and His angels pray for you so that He will take you out of darkness into light. God is All-merciful to the believers.


tafseer:
On the day when they will be brought into the presence of their Lord, their greeting to each other will be, &quot


tafseer:
Do not yield to the disbelievers or the hypocrites. Ignore their annoying you. Trust in God. God is your all Sufficient Protector.


tafseer:
Believers, if you marry believing women and then divorce them before the consummation of the marriage, they do not have to observe the waiting period. Give them their provisions and set them free in an honorable manner.


tafseer:
Prophet, We have made lawful for you your wives whom you have given their dowry, slave girls whom God has given to you as gifts, the daughters of your uncles and aunts, both paternal and maternal, who have migrated with you. The believing woman, who has offered herself to the Prophet and whom the Prophet may want to marry, will be specially for him, not for other believers. We knew what to make obligatory for them concerning their wives and slave girls so that you would face no hardship (because we have given distinction to you over the believers). God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
You may refuse whichever (of the woman who offer themselves to you) as you want and accept whichever of them you wish. There is no blame on you if you marry (one whom you had refused previously). This would be more delightful for them. They should not be grieved but should be happy with whatever you have given to every one of them. God knows what is in your hearts. God is All-knowing and All-forbearing.


tafseer:
Besides these, other women are not lawful for you to marry nor is it lawful for you to exchange your wives for the wives of others (except for the slave girls), even though they may seem attractive to you. God is watchful over all things.


tafseer:
Believers, do not enter the houses of the Prophet for a meal without permission. if you are invited, you may enter, but be punctual (so that you will not be waiting while the meal is being prepared). When you have finished eating, leave his home. Do not sit around chatting among yourselves. This will annoy the Prophet but he will feel embarrassed to tell you. God does not feel embarrassed to tell you the truth. When you want to ask something from the wives of the Prophet, ask them from behind the curtain. This would be more proper for you and for them. You are not supposed to trouble the Prophet or to ever marry his wives after his death, for this would be a grave offense in the sight of God.


tafseer:
It will not be an offense for the wives of the Prophet (not to observe the modest dress) in the presence of their fathers, sons, brothers, sons of their brothers and sisters, their own women, and their slave-girls. They should have fear of God. God witness all things.


tafseer:
God showers His blessings upon the Prophet and the angels seek forgiveness for him. Believers, pray for the Prophet and greet him with, &quot


tafseer:
Those who annoy God and His Messenger will be condemned by God in this life and in the life to come. He has prepared for them a humiliating torment.


tafseer:
Those who annoy the believing men and women without reason will bear the sin for a false accusation, a manifest offense.


tafseer:
Prophet, tell your wives, daughters, and the wives of the believers to cover their bosoms and breasts. This will make them distinguishable from others and protect them from being annoyed. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
If the hypocrites, those whose hearts are sick and those who encourage the spread of evil in the city, will not desist, We shall arouse you against them and they will only be allowed to be your neighbors for a short while.


tafseer:
This was the tradition of God with those who lived before. There will never be any change in the tradition of God.


tafseer:
Believers, do not be like those who annoyed Moses. God proved him to be innocent of what they had said about him. Moses was a honorable person in the sight of God.


tafseer:
God will reform your deeds and forgive your sins. One who obeys God and His Messenger will certainly achieve a great success.


tafseer:
We offered Our Trust (Our deputation) to the heavens, to the earth, and to the mountains, but they could not bear this burden and were afraid to accept it. Mankind was able to accept this offer but he was unjust to himself and ignorant of the significance of this Trust.


tafseer:
(As a result of this) God will punish the hypocrites and the pagans, but He will accept the repentance of the believers. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful.


tafseer:
It is only God who deserves all praise. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth and it is only He who deserves to be praised in the life to come. He is All-wise and All-aware.


tafseer:
He knows all that enters the earth, all that comes out of it, all that descends from the sky and all that ascends to it. He is All-merciful and All-forgiving.


tafseer:
God will certainly reward the righteously striving believers. These are the ones who will receive forgiveness and honorable sustenance.


tafseer:
Those who have been given knowledge will see that whatever has been revealed to you from your Lord is the truth and that it guides to the straight path of the Majestic and Praiseworthy One.


tafseer:
Have they not seen the heavens and the earth in front and behind them. Had We wanted, We could have caused the earth to swallow them up or made a part of the sky fall upon them. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for every repenting person.


tafseer:
We granted David a favor by commanding the mountains and birds to sing Our praise along with him and softened iron for him


tafseer:
so that he could make coats of mail and properly measure their rings. We told him and his people to act righteously. We are Well-Aware of what you do.


tafseer:
(We made subservient to) Solomon the wind that travelled a month´s journey in the morning and a month´s journey in the evening. We made a stream of brass flow for him and some of the jinn worked for him by his Lord´s command. We would make whichever of them (jinn) who turned away from Our command to suffer a burning torment.


tafseer:
They would make for him anything that he wanted like fortresses, statues, large basins like reservoirs, and huge immovable cooking pots. It was said, &quot


tafseer:
When We decreed that Solomon should die, no one knew of his death except for a creeping creature of the earth who ate-up his staff. When he fell down, the jinn realized that if they had known about the unseen, they would not have remained in such a humiliating torment for so long.


tafseer:
There was evidence (of the truth) for the people of Sheba in their homeland. (We gave them) two gardens, one on the left and one on the right and (told them), &quot


tafseer:
They ignored (the evidence) and We sent to them a flood, arising from a broken dam. Nothing was left in their gardens but bitter fruits, some tamarisk and a few lotus trees.


tafseer:
This was how We recompensed them for their ungratefulness and thus do We recompense the ungrateful ones.


tafseer:
We established between them and the town that We had blessed, other towns nearby, and thus made it easier to travel. We told them, &quot


tafseer:
Iblis (satan) made his judgment about them to come true. They all followed them except a believing group among them.


tafseer:
He did not have any authority over them except to the extent that would allow Us to know who had faith in the life to come and who had doubts about it. Your Lord is a Guard over all things.


tafseer:
No intercession with Him will be of any benefit except that of those whom He has granted permission. The angels cannot intercede. They are always submissive to their Lord. Fear vanishes from their heart when (they receive a message from their Lord). They ask each other, &quot


tafseer:
We have sent you as a bearer of glad news and a warner to the whole of mankind, but most people do not know.


tafseer:
Your property and children cannot bring you closer to Us. Only those who believe and act righteously will have double reward for their deeds and will live in secure mansions.


tafseer:
We did not send to them, (the pagans), any books to study nor a Messenger to warn them, and those who lived before them had rejected the Truth.


tafseer:
These people have not one tenth of power or wealth that we had given to those who lived before them. They called Our Messengers liars. Thus, how terrible was My vengeance.


tafseer:
Would that you could see how the unbelievers will be terrified by death from which they cannot escape. They will be seized from a nearby place


tafseer:
They had rejected it in their worldly life and expressed disbelief at the unseen (Day of Judgment), considering it less than a remote possibility.


tafseer:
A gulf will exist between them and their desires on the Day of Judgment like the similar people who lived before. They, too, had lived in doubt and uncertainty (about the life hereafter).


tafseer:
All praise belongs to God, the creator of the heavens and the earth who has made the angels Messengers of two or three or four wings. He increases the creation as He wills. God has power over all things.


tafseer:
No one can withhold whatever mercy God grants to the human being, nor can one release whatever He withholds. He is Majestic and All-wise.


tafseer:
People, remember the bounty of God that He has granted to you. Is their any creator besides God who could provide you with sustenance from the heavens and the earth? He is the only God. Where then can you turn away?


tafseer:
If they reject you, other Messengers had certainly been rejected before you. All decisions are in the hands of God.


tafseer:
People, the promise of God is true. Let not the worldly life deceive you. Let not the devil deceive you about God


tafseer:
Satan is your enemy. Thus, consider him as your enemy. His party only calls you to make you the dwellers of the burning fire.


tafseer:
The unbelievers will suffer a severe torment, but the righteously striving believers will receive forgiveness and a great reward.


tafseer:
Can one whose evil deeds seem attractive and virtuous to him (be compared to a truly righteous person)? God guides or causes to go astray whomever He wants. (Muhammad), do not be grieved because of their disbelief. God knows well whatever they do.


tafseer:
It is God who sends the winds to raise the clouds. We then drive them unto barren areas and revive the dead earth. (The Resurrection) will also be executed in the same way.


tafseer:
Whoever seeks honor should know that all honor belongs to God. Good words (worship) will be presented before Him and He will accept good deeds. Those who make evil plans will suffer intense torment. Their evil plans are doomed to destruction.


tafseer:
God created you from clay which He then turned into a living germ and made you into pairs. No female conceives or delivers without His knowledge. No one grows older nor can anything be reduced from one´s life without having its record in the Book. This is not at all difficult for God.


tafseer:
The two oceans, one sweet and the other salty, are not alike. From each you can eat fresh meat and obtain ornaments to use. You see ships ploughing their way through them so that you may seek His favor and give Him thanks.


tafseer:
He causes the night to enter into the day and the day to enter into the night. He has made subservient to Himself the sun and moon, each moving in an orbit for an appointed time. Such is God, your Lord, to whom belongs the kingdom. Those whom you worship besides Him do not posses even a single straw.


tafseer:
They will not listen to your prayers if you pray to them. Even if they would listen, they would not be able to answer you. On the Day of Judgment they will reject your worship of them. Not even an expert reporter can tell you the truth in the way that God can do.


tafseer:
No one will bear the burden of another. Even if an overburdened soul should ask another to bear a part of his burden, no one, not even a relative, will do so. (Muhammad), you can only warn those who have fear of their Lord without seeing Him and who are steadfast in prayer. Whoever purifies himself, does so for his own good. To God do all things return.


tafseer:
nor are the living and the dead. God makes to listen whomever He wants. (Muhammad), you cannot make people in the graves to listen.


tafseer:
We have sent you in all truth as a bearer of glad news and a warner. No nation who lived before was left without a warner.


tafseer:
If they reject you, (know that) others who lived before them had also rejected their Messengers, Messengers who had brought them miracles, scriptures, and the enlightening Book


tafseer:
Have you not seen that God has sent water down from the sky, has produced fruits of various colors, and has made streaks of various colors in the mountains, white, red, and intense black.


tafseer:
He has also created people, beasts, and cattle of various colors. Only God´s knowledgeable servants fear Him. God is Majestic and All-pardoning.


tafseer:
Those who recite the Book of God, who are steadfast in prayer and, who spend out of what We have given them for the cause of God, both in public and in private, have hope in an indestructible bargain


tafseer:
and in receiving their reward from God and in further favors. He is All-forgiving and All-appreciating.


tafseer:
Whatever We have revealed to you from the Book is all truth. It confirms what was revealed before. God sees His servants and is All-aware of them.


tafseer:
We gave the Book as an inheritance to Our chosen servants, among whom some are unjust against their souls, some are moderate, and some are exceedingly virtuous by the permission of God. This is indeed a great favor.


tafseer:
They will enter the gardens of Eden wherein they will be decked with bracelets of gold, pearls, and silk garments.


tafseer:
It is He who has granted us, through His favor, an everlasting dwelling wherein we shall experience no hardship nor any fatigue.&quot


tafseer:
The unbelievers will dwell in hell. It will not be decreed for them to die nor will their torment be relieved. Thus do We recompense the ungrateful ones.


tafseer:
God has knowledge of whatever is unseen in the heavens and the earth. He knows best what the hearts contain.


tafseer:
It is He who has made you each other´s successors on earth. Whoever disbelieves, does so against his own self. The disbelief of the unbelievers will only increase the anger of their Lord and will only cause them greater loss.


tafseer:
God prevents the heavens and the earth from falling apart. If they do fall apart, then, no one besides Him can restore them. He is All-forbearing and All-forgiving.


tafseer:
They solemnly swear that if a warner were to come to them, they would certainly have been better guided than any other nation. But when a warner came to them, it only increased their hatred


tafseer:
because of their pride in the land and their evil plots. Evil plots only affect the plotters. Do they expect anything other than (God´s) tradition (torment) with those who lived before. You will never find any change in the tradition of God nor will you find any alteration in it.


tafseer:
Have they not travelled (sufficiently) through the land to see how terrible was the end of the mightier people who lived before them. Nothing in the heavens or the earth can challenge God. God is All-knowing and All-powerful.


tafseer:
Were God to punish people for their deeds immediately, not one creature would have survived on earth. However, He has given them a respite for an appointed time and when their term comes to an end, let it be known that God watches over His servants.


tafseer:
We have enchained their necks up to their chins. Thus, they cannot bend their heads (to find their way).


tafseer:
We have set-up a barrier in front of and behind them and have made them blind. Thus, they cannot see.


tafseer:
You should only warn those who follow the Quran and have fear of the Beneficent God without seeing Him. Give them the glad news of their receiving forgiveness and an honorable reward (from God).


tafseer:
It is We who bring the dead to life and records the deeds of human beings and their consequences (of continual effects). We keep everything recorded in an illustrious Book.


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We sent them two Messengers whom they rejected. We supported them by sending a third one who told the people, &quot


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Should I worship other gods besides Him? If the Beneficent God was to afflict me with hardship, the intercession of the idols can be of no benefit to me nor could it rescue me from hardship.


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We did not send an army against his people from the heaven after his death nor did We need to send one.


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Have they not seen how many generations, living before them, had We destroyed and they cannot ever come back to them?


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and produced therein grains from which they eat and established therein gardens of palms trees and vineyards and have made streams flow therein


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so that they may consume the fruits and whatever their hands prepare. Will they not then be grateful?


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All glory belongs to the One Who has created pairs out of what grow from the earth, out of their soul and out of that which they do not know.


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how We ordained the moon to pass through certain phases until it seems eventually to be like a bent twig


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how the sun is not supposed to catch-up with the moon, nor is the night to precede the day. All of them are to float in a certain orbit


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Whenever they are told to guard themselves against sin and the forth coming torment so that perhaps they could receive mercy


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When they are told to spend for the cause of God out of what He has provided for them for their sustenance, the disbelievers say to the believers, &quot


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They will not have to wait long. When the Day of Judgment comes, it will only take a single blast of sound to strike them while they are quarrelling with one another.


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When the trumpet is sounded, they will be driven out of their grave into the presence of their Lord.


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No soul will be in the least bit wronged on that Day and no one will receive any recompense other than what he deserves for his deeds.


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We shall seal your mouths on that Day, let your hands speak to us and your feet testify to what you had achieved.


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We could have blinded them had We wanted. Then they would have raced along to cross the Bridge but how could they have seen (their way)?


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We could have turned them into other creatures on the spot had We wanted and they would not have been able to precede or turn back.


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The physical growth of those whom We grant a long life will be reversed. Will you then not understand?


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We did not teach him (Muhammad) poetry, nor was he supposed to be a poet. It is only the word (of God) and the illustrious Quran


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by which he may warn those who are living and may let the words of God come true against the unbelievers.


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They chose idols besides God in the hope of receiving help from them, but they will not be able to help them.


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Has the human being not considered that We have created him from a drop of fluid. He is openly quarrelsome.


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Is the One who has created the heavens and the earth not able to create another creature like the human being? He certainly has the power to do so. He is the Supreme Creator and is All-knowing.


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All glory belongs to the One in whose hands is the control of all things. To Him you will all return.


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He is the Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, the Lord of the Eastern regions.


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In fact, he had brought them the truth and had acknowledged the Messengers (who were sent before him).


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We had blessed him and Isaac. Some of their offspring were righteous and others were openly unjust to themselves.


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and sailed away in a laden ship, wherein people cast lots. Because he lost, he was thrown into the water.


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They have said that there is a relationship between Him and the jinn. The jinn certainly know that they will all be brought to suffer torment.


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How many ancient generations did We destroy? (On facing Our torment) they cried out for help, but it was too late for them to escape.


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It seems strange to the pagans that a man from their own people should come to them as a Prophet. The unbelievers have said, &quot


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Do they possess the treasures of the mercy of your, (Muhammad´s), Lord, the Majestic and Munificent God?


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Do they own the heavens and the earth and all that is between them? Let them try on their own to block (the ways of heavens so that Our revelations cannot come to you).


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(Muhammad), bear patiently what they say and recall Our servant, David, who had strong hands and who was most repentant.


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We forgave him for this. In Our eyes he certainly has a good position and the best share (of the world to come).


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We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them without purpose, even though this is the belief of the disbelievers. Woe to the disbelievers


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Do We consider the righteously striving believers equal to the evil-doers in the land? Are the pious ones equal to those who openly commit sin?


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It is a blessed Book which We have revealed for you so that you will reflect upon its verses and so the people of understanding will take heed.


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We tested Solomon by (causing death to his son) and leaving his body on Solomon´s chair. Then he turned to Us in repentance,


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We gave him back his family and doubled their number as a blessing from Us and as a reminder to the people of understanding.


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(Muhammad), recall Our servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all of whom possessed virtuous hands and clear visions.


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He is the Lord of the heavens, the earth, and all that is between them, the Majestic and All-forgiving&quot


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The religion of God is certainly pure. Concerning those whom they consider as their guardians besides God, they say, &quot


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Had God wanted to have a son, He would have chosen one from His creatures according to His will. God is too Exalted to have a son. He is One and Almighty.


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He has created the heavens and the earth for a genuine purpose. He covers the night with the day and the day with the night and has subdued the sun and the moon, each of which floats for an appointed time. God is certainly Majestic and All-Forgiving.


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He has created you from a single soul. Out of this He created your spouse. He sent you eight pairs of cattle. He creates you for a second time in the wombs of your mothers behind three curtains of darkness. He is your Lord to whom belongs the Kingdom. He is the only Lord. Where then will you turn away?


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If you disbelieve, know that God is certainly independent of you. He does not want disbelief for His servants. If you give thanks, He will accept it from you. No one will be responsible for the sins of others. To your Lord you will all return and He will tell you about what you have done. He knows best what the hearts contain.


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When the human being is afflicted with hardship, he starts to pray to his Lord and turns to Him in repentance. When God grants him a favor, he forgets the hardship about which he had prayed to God and starts to consider equal to God things that lead him astray from His path. (Muhammad), tell him, &quot


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Can this one be considered equal to one who worships God during the night, prostrating and standing, who has fear of the Day of Judgment, and who has hope in the mercy of his Lord? Say, &quot


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Worship besides Him whatever you want. The greatest losers are those whose souls and family members will be lost on the Day of Judgment for this is certainly a great loss&quot


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Above and below them their will be shadows of fire. This is how God frightens His servants. My servants have fear of Me.


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Those who have avoided worshipping idols and have turned in repentance to God will receive the glad news.


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(Muhammad), give the glad news to those of Our servants who listen to the words and only follow the best ones. Tell them that they are those whom God has guided. They are the people of understanding.


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Those who have fear of their Lord will have lofty mansions built upon mansions beneath which streams flow. It is the promise of God. God does not disregard His promise.


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Have you not seen that God has sent down water from the sky and made it flow as springs out of the earth? He makes crops of different colors grow with this water and flourish, which then turn yellow and wither away. In this there is a reminder for the people of understanding.


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One whose chest (heart and mind) is left open for Islam (submission to His will) shall receive light from God. Woe to those whose hearts have become like stone against the remembrance of God. They are clearly in error.


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God has revealed the best reading material in the form of a Book with similar passages which refer to each other and make the skins of those who fear their Lord shiver. Then their skins and hearts incline to the remembrance of God. This is the guidance of God. He guides whomever He wants. No one can guide those whom God has caused to go astray.


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Is there anyone who is afraid of the torment of the Day of Judgment when the unjust will be told, &quot


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Those who lived before them had also rejected Our revelations. Thus, the torment struck them and they did not even realize where it came from.


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God made them suffer humiliation in this life. Would that they knew that the torment for them in the next life will be even greater.


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We have given all kinds of examples for the human being in this Quran so that perhaps he may take heed.


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God tells a parable in which there is a company of quarrelsome people and only one of them is well disciplined. Can they be considered as equal? It is only God who deserves all praise. In fact, most of them do not know.


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Who is more unjust then one who invents falsehood against God and rejects the truth after it has come to them. Is not hell a dwelling for the disbelievers?


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Is God not sufficient (support) for His servants? They frighten you with what they worship besides God. Who can guide one whom God has caused to go astray?


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(Muhammad), We have revealed the Book to you for mankind in all truth. Whoever seeks guidance does so for his own good. Whosoever goes astray goes against his own soul. You are not their representative.


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God will receive their souls when they die. Their souls do not die when they are sleeping. During people´s sleep He withholds those souls which He has decreed to die and releases the others for an appointed time. In this there is evidence (of the Truth) for the thoughtful people.


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When one God is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the Day of Judgment begin to shrink, but when the idols are mentioned, they rejoice.


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Had the unjust possessed double the amount of the wealth of the whole earth, they would certainly have liked to offer it on the Day of Resurrection as redemption from the torment of Our scourge when God would make public what they had never expected.


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Their bad deeds will become public and they will be surrounded by the torment which they had mocked during their worldly life.


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When the human being is afflicted with hardship, he cries out to us for help. When We grant him a favor, he says, &quot


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They were afflicted by the terrible result of whatever they gained. Besides this affliction, the unjust among them will also suffer the consequence of their deeds. They will not be able to challenge God.


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Did they not know that God determines and increases the sustenance of whomever He wants. In this there is evidence (of the truth) for the believing people.


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Turn in repentance to your Lord and submit to His will before you are afflicted with the torment after which you can receive no help.


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Follow the best of what is revealed to you from your Lord before the torment suddenly approaches you and you will not realize how it came about.


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On the Day of Judgment you will see the faces of those who had invented falsehood against God blackened. Is not hell the dwelling of the arrogant ones?


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God will save the pious ones because of their virtuous deeds. No hardship will touch them nor will they be grieved.


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In His hands are the keys of the treasuries of the heavens and the earth. Those who reject God´s revelations will be lost.


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They have not paid due respect to God. The whole earth will be gripped in His hands on the Day of Judgment and the heavens will be just like a scroll in His right hand. God is too Glorious and High to be considered equal to their idols.


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Everyone in the heavens and the earth will faint in terror except for those whom God will save when the trumpet is sounded. They will all stand up and wait when the trumpet sounds for the second time.


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The earth will become bright from the light of your Lord. The Book of Records will be presented and the Prophets and witness will be summoned. All will be judged with justice and no wrong will be done to anyone.


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The disbelievers will be driven to hell in hordes. Its gates will be opened when they are brought nearby and the keepers will ask them, &quot


