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1There is no good in most of what they talk in private ; save in his who bids almsgiving, or kindness, or reconciliation between men; and whoso does this, craving the good pleasure of God, we will give to him a mighty hire. [115] But he who severs himself from the prophet after that we have made manifest to him the guidance, and follows other than the way of the believers, we will turn our backs on him as he hath turned his back; and we will make him reach hell, and a bad journey shall it be. Verily, God forgives not associating aught with Him, but He pardons anything short of that, to IV, 116-124. THE CHAPTER OF WOMEN. 89 whomsoever He will; but whoso associates aught with God, he hath erred a wide error. Verily, they call not beside Him on aught save females; and they do not call on aught save a rebellious devil. God curse him! for he said, ‘I will take from thy servants a portion due to me; and I will lead them astray; and I will stir up vain desires within them; and I will order them and they shall surely crop the ears of cattle; and I will order them and they shall surely alter God’s creation!;’ but he who takes the devil for his patron instead of God, he loses with a manifest loss. He promises them, and stirs up vain desires within them; but the devil promises only to deceive. [120] These, their resort is hell; they shall not find an escape therefrom! But those who believe, and do what is right, we will make them enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye,—God’s promise in truth; and who is truer than God in speech? Not for yous vain desires, nor the vain desires of the people of the Book. He who doeth evil shall be recompensed therewith, and shall not find for him beside God a patron, ora help. But he who doeth good works,—be it male or female,— and believes, they shall enter into Paradise, and they shall not be wronged a jot. Who has a better religion than he who resigns his face to God, and does good, and follows the faith of 1 The pagan Arabs used to cut off the ears of cattle, and mutilate their slaves by branding, and filing their teeth, partly that they might recognise them and partly as a superstitious ceremony. See p. 112, note 1. 90 THE QUR'AN. IV, 124-132. Abraham, as a ‘Hanif ?—for God took Abraham as a friend. [125] And God’s is what is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses all things! They will ask thee a decision about women ; say, ‘God decides for you about them, and that which is rehearsed to you in the Book; about orphan women to whom ye do not give what is prescribed for them, and whom ye are averse from marrying; and about weak children; and that ye stand fairly by orphans ;— and what ye do of good, verily, that God knows.’
2And if a woman fears from her husband perverseness or aversion, it is no crime in them both that they should be reconciled to each other, for reconciliation is best. For souls are prone to avarice ; but if ye act kindly and fear God, of what ye do He is aware. Ye are not able, it may be, to act equitably to your wives, even though ye covet it; do not however be quite partial, and leave one as it were in suspense ; but if ye be reconciled and fear, then God is forgiving and merciful; but if they separate, God can make both independent out of His abundance; for God is abundant, wise. [130] God’s is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth! We have ordained to those who have been given the Book before you, and to you too that ye fear God ;—but if ye misbelieve, verily, God’s is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and God is rich and to be praised ! God’s is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth! and God sufficeth for a guardian! If He will He can make ye pass away, O men! and can bring others ;—God is able to do all that. IV, 132-139. THE CHAPTER OF WOMEN. gt He who wishes for a reward in this world,—with God is the reward of this world and of the next, and God both hears and sees. O ye who believe! be ye steadfast in justice, witnessing before God though it be against yourselves, or your parents, or your kindred, be it rich or poor, for God is nearer akin than either. Follow not, then, lusts, so as to act partially; but if ye swerve or turn aside, God of what ye do is well aware. [135] O ye who believe! believe in God and His apostles, and the Book which He hath revealed to His Apostle, and the Book which He sent down before; for whoso disbelieves in God, and His angels, and His Apostle, and the last day, has erred a wide error. Verily, those who believe and then misbelieve, and then believe and then misbelieve, and then increase in misbelief, God will never pardon them, nor will He guide them in the path. Give to the hypocrites the glad tidings that for them is grievous woe! Those who take the misbelievers for their patron rather than believers,—do they crave honour from them? Verily, honour is altogether God’s! He hath revealed this to you in the Book’, that when ye hear the signs of God disbelieved in and mocked at, then sit ye not down with them until they plunge into another discourse, for verily, then ye would be like them. Verily, God will gather the hypocrites and misbelievers into hell together. 1 Chap. VI, v. 67, which chronologically precedes the present ; see Introduction. 92 THE QUR'AN. IV, 140-149. [140] Those who lie in wait for you, and if the , victory be yours from God, say, ‘Were we not with you?’ and if the misbelievers have a chance, they say, ‘Did we not get the mastery over you, and defend you from the believers ?? But God shall judge between you on the resurrection day; for God will not give the misbelievers a way against believers.
3But God shall judge between you on the resurrection day; for God will not give the misbelievers a way against believers. _ Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive God, but He deceives them ; and when they rise up to pray, they rise up lazily to be seen of men, and do not remember God, except a few; wavering between the two, neither to these nor yet to those! but whomsoever God doth lead astray thou shall not find for him a way. O ye who believe! take not misbelievers for patrons rather than believers; do ye wish to make for God a power against you ? Verily, the hypocrites are in the lowest depths of hell-fire, and thou shalt not find for them a help. [145] Save those who turn again, and do right, and take tight hold on God, and are sincere in religion to God ; these are with the believers, and God will give to the believers mighty hire. Why should God punish you, if ye are grateful and believe? for God is grateful and knowing. God loves not publicity of evil speech, unless one has been wronged; for God both hears and knows. If ye display good or hide it, or pardon evil, verily, God is pardoning and powerful! Verily, those who disbelieve in God and His apostles desire to make a distinction between God and His apostles, and say, ‘We believe in part and IV, 150-156. THE CHAPTER OF WOMEN. 93 disbelieve in part, and desire to take a midway course between the two:’ [150] these are the misbelievers, and we have prepared for misbelievers shameful woe! But those who believe in God and His apostles, and who do not make a distinction between any one of them,—to these we will give their hire, for God is forgiving and merciful ! The people of the Book will ask thee to bring down for them a book from heaven; but they asked Moses a greater thing than that, for they said, ‘Show us God openly;’ ‘but the thunderbolt caught them in their injustice. Then they took the calf, after what had come to them of manifest signs; but we pardoned that, and gave Moses obvious authority. And we held over them the mountain! at their compact, and said to them, ‘ Enter ye the door adoring;’ and we said to them, ‘Transgress not on the Sabbath day,’ and we took from them a rigid compact. But for that they broke their compact, and for their misbelief in God’s signs, and for their killing the prophets undeservedly, and for their saying, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised,—nay, God hath stamped on them their misbelief, so that they cannot believe except a few,—[{155] and for their misbelief, and for their saying about Mary a mighty calumny, and for their saying, ‘Verily, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, the apostle of God, .... but they did not kill him, and they did not crucify him, but a similitude was made for them. And verily, those who differ about him are in doubt concerning him; they have no knowledge concerning him, but only follow an opinion. They did not kill 1 See note, p. 8. 94 THE QUR'AN, IV, 156-163.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1There is no good in most of what they talk in private ; save in his who bids almsgiving, or kindness, or reconciliation between men; and whoso does this, craving the good pleasure of God, we will give to him a mighty hire. [115] But he who severs himself from the prophet after that we have made manifest to him the guidance, and follows other than the way of the believers, we will turn our backs on him as he hath turned his back; and we will make him reach hell, and a bad journey shall it be. Verily, God forgives not associating aught with Him, but He pardons anything short of that, to IV, 116-124. THE CHAPTER OF WOMEN. 89 whomsoever He will; but whoso associates aught with God, he hath erred a wide error. Verily, they call not beside Him on aught save females; and they do not call on aught save a rebellious devil. God curse him! for he said, ‘I will take from thy servants a portion due to me; and I will lead them astray; and I will stir up vain desires within them; and I will order them and they shall surely crop the ears of cattle; and I will order them and they shall surely alter God’s creation!;’ but he who takes the devil for his patron instead of God, he loses with a manifest loss. He promises them, and stirs up vain desires within them; but the devil promises only to deceive. [120] These, their resort is hell; they shall not find an escape therefrom! But those who believe, and do what is right, we will make them enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye,—God’s promise in truth; and who is truer than God in speech? Not for yous vain desires, nor the vain desires of the people of the Book. He who doeth evil shall be recompensed therewith, and shall not find for him beside God a patron, ora help. But he who doeth good works,—be it male or female,— and believes, they shall enter into Paradise, and they shall not be wronged a jot. Who has a better religion than he who resigns his face to God, and does good, and follows the faith of 1 The pagan Arabs used to cut off the ears of cattle, and mutilate their slaves by branding, and filing their teeth, partly that they might recognise them and partly as a superstitious ceremony. See p. 112, note 1. 90 THE QUR'AN. IV, 124-132. Abraham, as a ‘Hanif ?—for God took Abraham as a friend. [125] And God’s is what is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses all things! They will ask thee a decision about women ; say, ‘God decides for you about them, and that which is rehearsed to you in the Book; about orphan women to whom ye do not give what is prescribed for them, and whom ye are averse from marrying; and about weak children; and that ye stand fairly by orphans ;— and what ye do of good, verily, that God knows.’
2And if a woman fears from her husband perverseness or aversion, it is no crime in them both that they should be reconciled to each other, for reconciliation is best. For souls are prone to avarice ; but if ye act kindly and fear God, of what ye do He is aware. Ye are not able, it may be, to act equitably to your wives, even though ye covet it; do not however be quite partial, and leave one as it were in suspense ; but if ye be reconciled and fear, then God is forgiving and merciful; but if they separate, God can make both independent out of His abundance; for God is abundant, wise. [130] God’s is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth! We have ordained to those who have been given the Book before you, and to you too that ye fear God ;—but if ye misbelieve, verily, God’s is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and God is rich and to be praised ! God’s is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth! and God sufficeth for a guardian! If He will He can make ye pass away, O men! and can bring others ;—God is able to do all that. IV, 132-139. THE CHAPTER OF WOMEN. gt He who wishes for a reward in this world,—with God is the reward of this world and of the next, and God both hears and sees. O ye who believe! be ye steadfast in justice, witnessing before God though it be against yourselves, or your parents, or your kindred, be it rich or poor, for God is nearer akin than either. Follow not, then, lusts, so as to act partially; but if ye swerve or turn aside, God of what ye do is well aware. [135] O ye who believe! believe in God and His apostles, and the Book which He hath revealed to His Apostle, and the Book which He sent down before; for whoso disbelieves in God, and His angels, and His Apostle, and the last day, has erred a wide error. Verily, those who believe and then misbelieve, and then believe and then misbelieve, and then increase in misbelief, God will never pardon them, nor will He guide them in the path. Give to the hypocrites the glad tidings that for them is grievous woe! Those who take the misbelievers for their patron rather than believers,—do they crave honour from them? Verily, honour is altogether God’s! He hath revealed this to you in the Book’, that when ye hear the signs of God disbelieved in and mocked at, then sit ye not down with them until they plunge into another discourse, for verily, then ye would be like them. Verily, God will gather the hypocrites and misbelievers into hell together. 1 Chap. VI, v. 67, which chronologically precedes the present ; see Introduction. 92 THE QUR'AN. IV, 140-149. [140] Those who lie in wait for you, and if the , victory be yours from God, say, ‘Were we not with you?’ and if the misbelievers have a chance, they say, ‘Did we not get the mastery over you, and defend you from the believers ?? But God shall judge between you on the resurrection day; for God will not give the misbelievers a way against believers.
3But God shall judge between you on the resurrection day; for God will not give the misbelievers a way against believers. _ Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive God, but He deceives them ; and when they rise up to pray, they rise up lazily to be seen of men, and do not remember God, except a few; wavering between the two, neither to these nor yet to those! but whomsoever God doth lead astray thou shall not find for him a way. O ye who believe! take not misbelievers for patrons rather than believers; do ye wish to make for God a power against you ? Verily, the hypocrites are in the lowest depths of hell-fire, and thou shalt not find for them a help. [145] Save those who turn again, and do right, and take tight hold on God, and are sincere in religion to God ; these are with the believers, and God will give to the believers mighty hire. Why should God punish you, if ye are grateful and believe? for God is grateful and knowing. God loves not publicity of evil speech, unless one has been wronged; for God both hears and knows. If ye display good or hide it, or pardon evil, verily, God is pardoning and powerful! Verily, those who disbelieve in God and His apostles desire to make a distinction between God and His apostles, and say, ‘We believe in part and IV, 150-156. THE CHAPTER OF WOMEN. 93 disbelieve in part, and desire to take a midway course between the two:’ [150] these are the misbelievers, and we have prepared for misbelievers shameful woe! But those who believe in God and His apostles, and who do not make a distinction between any one of them,—to these we will give their hire, for God is forgiving and merciful ! The people of the Book will ask thee to bring down for them a book from heaven; but they asked Moses a greater thing than that, for they said, ‘Show us God openly;’ ‘but the thunderbolt caught them in their injustice. Then they took the calf, after what had come to them of manifest signs; but we pardoned that, and gave Moses obvious authority. And we held over them the mountain! at their compact, and said to them, ‘ Enter ye the door adoring;’ and we said to them, ‘Transgress not on the Sabbath day,’ and we took from them a rigid compact. But for that they broke their compact, and for their misbelief in God’s signs, and for their killing the prophets undeservedly, and for their saying, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised,—nay, God hath stamped on them their misbelief, so that they cannot believe except a few,—[{155] and for their misbelief, and for their saying about Mary a mighty calumny, and for their saying, ‘Verily, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, the apostle of God, .... but they did not kill him, and they did not crucify him, but a similitude was made for them. And verily, those who differ about him are in doubt concerning him; they have no knowledge concerning him, but only follow an opinion. They did not kill 1 See note, p. 8. 94 THE QUR'AN, IV, 156-163.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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