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1But the Apostle and those who believe with him are strenuous with their wealth and with their persons; these shall have good things, and these it is shall prosper. [90] God has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; that is the mighty happiness! There came certain desert Arabs that they might be excused ; and those stayed behind who had called 186 THE QUR'AN. IX, 91-98. God and His Apostle liars. There shall befall those of them who misbelieved, a mighty woe. For the weak, and the sick, and those who cannot find wherewith to expend in alms there is no hindrance, so they be only sincere towards God and His Apostle. There is no way against those who do well; for God is forgiving and merciful. Nor against those to whom, when they came to thee that thou shouldst mount them, thou didst say, ‘I cannot find wherewith to mount you,’ turned their backs while their eyes poured forth with tears, for grief that they could not find wherewith to expend. Only is there a way against those who ask thee for leave to stay at home while they are rich ; content to be with those who are left behind ; on whose hearts God has set a stamp, so that they should not know. [95] They make excuses to you when ye return to them: say, ‘Make no excuse, we believe you not; God has informed us concerning you. God sees your works and His Apostle too!’ Then shall ye be brought back unto Him who knows the unseen and the seen; and He shall inform you of that which ye have done. They will adjure you by God when ye have come back to them, to turn aside from them; turn ye aside then from them; verily, they are a plague, and their resort is hell! a recompense for that which they have earned! They will adjure you to be pleased with them ; but if ye are pleased with them, God will not be pleased with a people who work abomination. The Arabs of the desert are keener in misbelief and hypocrisy, and are more ‘likely not to know IX, 98-103. THE CHAPTER OF REPENTANCE. 187 the bounds which God has sent down to His Apostle; but God is knowing and wise. And of the Arabs of the desert are some who take what they expend to be a forced loan, and they wait a turn of fortune against you; against them shall a turn of evil fortune be; for God both hears and knows. [100] And of the Arabs of the desert are some who believe in God and the last day, and who take what they expend in alms to be a means of approach to God and to the Apostle’s prayers,— is it not a means of’approach for them? God will make them enter into His mercy; verily, God is forgiving and merciful. As for the foremost in the race, the first of those who fled!, and the helpers 2, and those who followed them in their kindness, God is well pleased with them, and they are well pleased with Him; He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; that is the mighty happiness.
2And of those who are round about you of the Arabs of the desert, some are hypocrites, and of the people of Medinah, some are stubborn in hypocrisy; thou dost not know them—we know them ; we will torment them twice over; then shall they be sent off into mighty woe. And others have confessed. their sins,—that they have mixed with a righteous action another evil action ;—haply it may be God will turn again to them ; verily, God is forgiving and merciful. * The Muh4gerin, or those who fled with Mohammed from Mecca. * The Ans&rs who helped him while at Medinah. 188 THE Qur’AN. IX, 104-110. Take from their wealth alms to cleanse and purify them thereby; and pray for them; verily, thy prayer is a repose for them; for God both hears and knows. [105] Do they not know that God accepts repentance from His servants, and takes alms; and that God is He who is easily turned and merciful. And say, ‘Act ye;’ and God and His Apostle and the believers shall see your acts, and ye shall be brought back to Him who knows the seen and the unseen, and He shall inform you of that which ye have done. ‘ And others are in hopes of God’s bidding ; whether He will torment them, or whether He turn again towards them; for God is knowing, wise. And there are those who have taken to a mosque for mischief, and for misbelief, and to make a breach amongst the believers, and for an ambush for him who made war against God and His Apostle before ; they surely swear, ‘We only wished for what was good ;’ but God bears witness that they are liars. Never stand up therein!—there is. a mosque founded on piety from the first day?: it is more right that thou shouldst stand therein ;— therein are men who love to be clean; for God doth love the clean. [110] Is he who has laid his foundation upon the 1 The Mosque of Quba’, about two miles from Medinah, the foundation stone of which was laid by Mohammed four days before he entered Medinah on his flight from Mecca, was the first place of public prayer in Islam, The Beni Ghanm had built another mosque to rival this, at the instigation of Abu "H4mir, a monk who was opposed to Mohammed, and wished the prophet to consecrate it. IX, 110-115. THE CHAPTER OF REPENTANCE. 189 fear of God and of His good-will better, or he who has laid his foundation upon a crumbling wall of sand, which crumbles away with him into the fire of hell ?—but God guides not a people who do wrong. The building which they! have built will not cease to be a source of doubt in their hearts until their hearts are cut asunder”; but God is knowing, wise. Verily, God hath bought of the believers their persons and their wealth, for the paradise they are to have; they shall fight in the way of God, and they shall slay and be slain: promised in truth, in the law and the gospel and the Qur’4n ;—and who is more faithful to His covenant than God ?
3Verily, God hath bought of the believers their persons and their wealth, for the paradise they are to have; they shall fight in the way of God, and they shall slay and be slain: promised in truth, in the law and the gospel and the Qur’4n ;—and who is more faithful to His covenant than God ? Be ye glad then in the covenant which ye have made with Him, for that is the mighty happiness ! Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those who fast, those who bow down, those who adore, those who bid what is right and forbid what is wrong, and those who keep the bounds of God,—glad tidings to those who believe! [115] It is not for the prophet and those who believe to ask forgiveness for the idolaters, even though they be their kindred, after it has been made manifest to them that they are the fellows of hell. Nor was Abraham’s asking pardon for his father aught else but through a promise he had promised him; but when it was made manifest to him that he was an enemy to God, he cleansed himself of him ; verily, Abraham was pitiful and clement. 1 The Beni Gianm. 3 T.e. they will feel compunctions about it till the day of their death. 190 THE QURAN. IX, 116-121. Nor will God lead astray a people after He has guided them until that is made manifest to them which they have to fear; verily, God all things doth know. Verily, God’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth! He quickens and He kills! Nor have ye beside God a patron or protector. God has now turned towards the prophet and those who fled with him, and towards the helpers who followed him in the hour of difficulty, after that the hearts of a part of them had well-nigh gone amiss. Then He turned unto them; verily, to them He is kind and merciful:—unto the three? who were left behind, so that the earth with all its ample space was too strait for them, and their souls were straitened for them, and they thought that there was no refuge for them from God save unto Him. Then He turned again towards them that they might also turn; verily, God, He is easily turned and merciful! [120] O ye who believe! fear God and be with those who speak the truth. It was not for the people of Medinah, and those around about them of the Arabs of the desert, to stay behind the Apostle of God and not to prefer their souls to his: that is because neither thirst, nor toil, nor heat, nor hunger befel them on God’s way. Nor do they stop to anger the misbelievers, nor do they get any (harm) from the enemy without 1 Three of the Ansars who refused to accompany Mohammed to Tabfik. , IX, 121-129. THE CHAPTER OF REPENTANCE. 19! a good work being written down to them; verily, God wastes not the hire of those who do well. Nor do they expend in alms a small or great expense, nor do they cross a wady' without it being written down to them; that God may reward them with better than that which they have done.
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.
1But the Apostle and those who believe with him are strenuous with their wealth and with their persons; these shall have good things, and these it is shall prosper. [90] God has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; that is the mighty happiness! There came certain desert Arabs that they might be excused ; and those stayed behind who had called 186 THE QUR'AN. IX, 91-98. God and His Apostle liars. There shall befall those of them who misbelieved, a mighty woe. For the weak, and the sick, and those who cannot find wherewith to expend in alms there is no hindrance, so they be only sincere towards God and His Apostle. There is no way against those who do well; for God is forgiving and merciful. Nor against those to whom, when they came to thee that thou shouldst mount them, thou didst say, ‘I cannot find wherewith to mount you,’ turned their backs while their eyes poured forth with tears, for grief that they could not find wherewith to expend. Only is there a way against those who ask thee for leave to stay at home while they are rich ; content to be with those who are left behind ; on whose hearts God has set a stamp, so that they should not know. [95] They make excuses to you when ye return to them: say, ‘Make no excuse, we believe you not; God has informed us concerning you. God sees your works and His Apostle too!’ Then shall ye be brought back unto Him who knows the unseen and the seen; and He shall inform you of that which ye have done. They will adjure you by God when ye have come back to them, to turn aside from them; turn ye aside then from them; verily, they are a plague, and their resort is hell! a recompense for that which they have earned! They will adjure you to be pleased with them ; but if ye are pleased with them, God will not be pleased with a people who work abomination. The Arabs of the desert are keener in misbelief and hypocrisy, and are more ‘likely not to know IX, 98-103. THE CHAPTER OF REPENTANCE. 187 the bounds which God has sent down to His Apostle; but God is knowing and wise. And of the Arabs of the desert are some who take what they expend to be a forced loan, and they wait a turn of fortune against you; against them shall a turn of evil fortune be; for God both hears and knows. [100] And of the Arabs of the desert are some who believe in God and the last day, and who take what they expend in alms to be a means of approach to God and to the Apostle’s prayers,— is it not a means of’approach for them? God will make them enter into His mercy; verily, God is forgiving and merciful. As for the foremost in the race, the first of those who fled!, and the helpers 2, and those who followed them in their kindness, God is well pleased with them, and they are well pleased with Him; He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; that is the mighty happiness.
2And of those who are round about you of the Arabs of the desert, some are hypocrites, and of the people of Medinah, some are stubborn in hypocrisy; thou dost not know them—we know them ; we will torment them twice over; then shall they be sent off into mighty woe. And others have confessed. their sins,—that they have mixed with a righteous action another evil action ;—haply it may be God will turn again to them ; verily, God is forgiving and merciful. * The Muh4gerin, or those who fled with Mohammed from Mecca. * The Ans&rs who helped him while at Medinah. 188 THE Qur’AN. IX, 104-110. Take from their wealth alms to cleanse and purify them thereby; and pray for them; verily, thy prayer is a repose for them; for God both hears and knows. [105] Do they not know that God accepts repentance from His servants, and takes alms; and that God is He who is easily turned and merciful. And say, ‘Act ye;’ and God and His Apostle and the believers shall see your acts, and ye shall be brought back to Him who knows the seen and the unseen, and He shall inform you of that which ye have done. ‘ And others are in hopes of God’s bidding ; whether He will torment them, or whether He turn again towards them; for God is knowing, wise. And there are those who have taken to a mosque for mischief, and for misbelief, and to make a breach amongst the believers, and for an ambush for him who made war against God and His Apostle before ; they surely swear, ‘We only wished for what was good ;’ but God bears witness that they are liars. Never stand up therein!—there is. a mosque founded on piety from the first day?: it is more right that thou shouldst stand therein ;— therein are men who love to be clean; for God doth love the clean. [110] Is he who has laid his foundation upon the 1 The Mosque of Quba’, about two miles from Medinah, the foundation stone of which was laid by Mohammed four days before he entered Medinah on his flight from Mecca, was the first place of public prayer in Islam, The Beni Ghanm had built another mosque to rival this, at the instigation of Abu "H4mir, a monk who was opposed to Mohammed, and wished the prophet to consecrate it. IX, 110-115. THE CHAPTER OF REPENTANCE. 189 fear of God and of His good-will better, or he who has laid his foundation upon a crumbling wall of sand, which crumbles away with him into the fire of hell ?—but God guides not a people who do wrong. The building which they! have built will not cease to be a source of doubt in their hearts until their hearts are cut asunder”; but God is knowing, wise. Verily, God hath bought of the believers their persons and their wealth, for the paradise they are to have; they shall fight in the way of God, and they shall slay and be slain: promised in truth, in the law and the gospel and the Qur’4n ;—and who is more faithful to His covenant than God ?
3Verily, God hath bought of the believers their persons and their wealth, for the paradise they are to have; they shall fight in the way of God, and they shall slay and be slain: promised in truth, in the law and the gospel and the Qur’4n ;—and who is more faithful to His covenant than God ? Be ye glad then in the covenant which ye have made with Him, for that is the mighty happiness ! Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those who fast, those who bow down, those who adore, those who bid what is right and forbid what is wrong, and those who keep the bounds of God,—glad tidings to those who believe! [115] It is not for the prophet and those who believe to ask forgiveness for the idolaters, even though they be their kindred, after it has been made manifest to them that they are the fellows of hell. Nor was Abraham’s asking pardon for his father aught else but through a promise he had promised him; but when it was made manifest to him that he was an enemy to God, he cleansed himself of him ; verily, Abraham was pitiful and clement. 1 The Beni Gianm. 3 T.e. they will feel compunctions about it till the day of their death. 190 THE QURAN. IX, 116-121. Nor will God lead astray a people after He has guided them until that is made manifest to them which they have to fear; verily, God all things doth know. Verily, God’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth! He quickens and He kills! Nor have ye beside God a patron or protector. God has now turned towards the prophet and those who fled with him, and towards the helpers who followed him in the hour of difficulty, after that the hearts of a part of them had well-nigh gone amiss. Then He turned unto them; verily, to them He is kind and merciful:—unto the three? who were left behind, so that the earth with all its ample space was too strait for them, and their souls were straitened for them, and they thought that there was no refuge for them from God save unto Him. Then He turned again towards them that they might also turn; verily, God, He is easily turned and merciful! [120] O ye who believe! fear God and be with those who speak the truth. It was not for the people of Medinah, and those around about them of the Arabs of the desert, to stay behind the Apostle of God and not to prefer their souls to his: that is because neither thirst, nor toil, nor heat, nor hunger befel them on God’s way. Nor do they stop to anger the misbelievers, nor do they get any (harm) from the enemy without 1 Three of the Ansars who refused to accompany Mohammed to Tabfik. , IX, 121-129. THE CHAPTER OF REPENTANCE. 19! a good work being written down to them; verily, God wastes not the hire of those who do well. Nor do they expend in alms a small or great expense, nor do they cross a wady' without it being written down to them; that God may reward them with better than that which they have done.
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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