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1So believe in God and His Apostle and the light which we have sent down; for God of what ye do is well aware! On the day when he shall gather you to the day LXIV, 9-17. THE CHAPTER OF CHEATING. 287 of gathering, that is the day of cheating!! but whoso believes in God and acts aright, He will cover for him his offences, and will bring him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye! that is the mighty bliss! [10] But those who misbelieve and say our signs are lies, they are the fellows of the Fire, to dwell therein for aye! and evil shall the journey be! No calamity befalls but by the permission of God: and whoso believes in God, He will guide his heart ; for God all things doth know! So obey God and obey the Apostle?: but if ye turn your backs—our Apostle has only his plain message to preach! God, there is no god but He; and upon Him let the believers rely ! O ye who believe! verily, among your wives and children are foes of yours: so beware of them! But if ye pardon, and overlook it, and forgive,—verily, God is forgiving, compassionate ! [15] Your property and your children are but a trial; and God, with Him is mighty hire! Then fear God as much as ye can! and hear, and . obey, and expend in alms: it is better for yourselves. But whosoever is saved from his own covetousness— these are the prosperous! If ye lend to God a goodly loan, He will double it for you, and will forgive you ; for God is grateful, clement ! 1 T.e. both the righteous and the wicked will disappoint each other by reversing their positions, the wicked being punished while the righteous are in bliss. 3 This expression seems to indicate that this verse at least was revealed at Medinah. 288 THE QUR'AN. LXIV, 18-LXV, 4. He knows the unseen and the visible ; the mighty, the wise ! THe CuapTer oF Divorce. (LXV. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. O thou prophet! when ye divorce women, then divorce them at their term ?, and calculate the term and fear God your Lord. Do not drive them out of their houses unless they have committed manifest adultery. These are God’s bounds, and whoso transgresses God’s bounds has wronged himself. Thou knowest not whether haply God may cause something fresh to happen after that 2. And when they have reached their appointed time, then retain them with kindness, or separate from them with kindness; and bring as witnesses men of equity from among you; and give upright testimony to God. That is what He admonishes him who believes in God and the last day; and whosoever fears God, He will make for him a (happy) issue, and will provide for him from whence he reckoned not. And whosoever relies on God, He is sufficient for him: verily, God will attain His purpose :—God has set for everything a period. And such of your women as despair of menstrua-
2And whosoever relies on God, He is sufficient for him: verily, God will attain His purpose :—God has set for everything a period. And such of your women as despair of menstrua- 1 When they have had three periods of menstruation ; or, if they prove with child, after their delivery. See Part I, p. 34. * J.e. whether God may not reconcile them again. LXV, 4-11. THE CHAPTER OF DIVORCE, 289 tion,—if ye doubt, then their term is three months; and such as have not menstruated too. And those who are heavy with child their appointed time is when they have laid down their burden; and whosoever fears God, He will make for him an easy affair. [5] That is God’s command, He has sent it down to you; and whosoever fears God He will cover for him his offences and will make grand for him his hire. ; Let them! dwell where ye dwell, according to your means, and do not harm them, to reduce them to straits; and if they be heavy with child, then pay for them until they lay down their burdens; and if they suckle (the child) for you, then give them their hire, and consult among yourselves in reason; but if ye be in difficulties, and another woman shall suckle the child for him, let him who has plenty expend of his plenty; but he whose provision is doled out, let him expend of what God has given him; God will not compel any soul beyond what He has given it ;—God will make after difficulty ease ! How many a city has turned away from the bidding of its Lord and His apostles; and we called them to a severe account, and we tormented them with an unheard-of torment ! And they tasted the evil results of their conduct ; and the end of their conduct was loss ! [10] God prepared for them severe torment ;— then fear God, ye who are endowed with minds! Ye who believe! God has sent down to you a 1 The divorced women. [9] U 290 THE QuR’AN. LXV, 11-LXVI, 2. reminder ;—an apostle to recite to you God’s manifest signs ;—to bring forth those who believe and act aright from darkness into light! and whoso believes in God and acts right He will bring him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever and for aye! God has made goodly for him his provision! God it is who created seven heavens, and of the earth the like thereof. The bidding descends between them, that ye may know that God is mighty over all, and that God has encompassed all things with His knowledge! Tue CuarterR oF PRo#rBiTIon}, (LXVI. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. O thou prophet! wherefore dost thou prohibit what God has made lawful to thee, craving to please thy wives? but God is forgiving, compassionate! God has allowed you to expiate your oaths ; for
3Tue CuarterR oF PRo#rBiTIon}, (LXVI. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. O thou prophet! wherefore dost thou prohibit what God has made lawful to thee, craving to please thy wives? but God is forgiving, compassionate! God has allowed you to expiate your oaths ; for 1 This chapter was occasioned by Mohammed’s liaison with the Coptic girl Mary (see Introduction, p. xl), with whom he lay on the day due to‘Ayeshah or‘Hafsah. The latter was greatly enraged, and Mohammed to pacify her swore never to touch the girl again, and enjoined “Hafsah to keep the matter secret from the rest of his wives. She, however, revealed it in confidence to ‘Ayeshah 3 when Mohammed, annoyed at finding his confidence betrayed, not only divorced her, but separated himself from his other wives for the space of a month, which time he passed in Mary’s apartment. The chapter is intended to free him from his oath respecting Mary, and to reprove his wives for their conduct. LXVI, 2-8. THE CHAPTER OF PROHIBITION. 291 God is your sovereign, and He is the knowing, the wise ! And when the prophet told as a secret to one of his wives a recent event, and when she gave information thereof and exposed it, he acquainted her with some of it and avoided part of it. But when he informed her of it, she said, ‘Who told thee this?’ he said, ‘ The wise one, the well-aware informed me. ‘If ye both turn repentant unto God,—for your hearts have swerved !—but if ye back each other up against him,—verily, God, He is the sovereign; and Gabriel and the righteous of the believers, and the angels after that, will back him up. ‘[5] It may be that his Lord if he divorce you will give him in exchange wives better than you, Muslims, believers, devout, repentant, worshipping, giving to fasting—such as have known men and virgins too.’ O ye who believe! save yourselves and your families from the fire, whose fuel is men and stones; —over it are angels stout and stern; they disobey not God in what He bids them, but they do what they are bidden! O ye who disbelieve! excuse not yourselves today;—ye shall only be rewarded for that which ye have done. O ye who believe! turn repentant to God with sincere repentance; it may be that thy Lord will cover for you your offences and will bring you into gardens beneath which rivers flow!—the day God will not disgrace the Prophet nor those who believe with him ; their light shall run on before them, and at their right hands! they shall say, ‘Our Lord! perfect for us our light and forgive us; verily, Thou art mighty over all!’ U2 292 THE QURAN. LXVI, 9-LXVII, 4. O thou prophet! fight strenuously against the misbelievers and hypocrites and be stern towards them; for their resort is hell, and an evil journey shall it be!
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.
1So believe in God and His Apostle and the light which we have sent down; for God of what ye do is well aware! On the day when he shall gather you to the day LXIV, 9-17. THE CHAPTER OF CHEATING. 287 of gathering, that is the day of cheating!! but whoso believes in God and acts aright, He will cover for him his offences, and will bring him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye! that is the mighty bliss! [10] But those who misbelieve and say our signs are lies, they are the fellows of the Fire, to dwell therein for aye! and evil shall the journey be! No calamity befalls but by the permission of God: and whoso believes in God, He will guide his heart ; for God all things doth know! So obey God and obey the Apostle?: but if ye turn your backs—our Apostle has only his plain message to preach! God, there is no god but He; and upon Him let the believers rely ! O ye who believe! verily, among your wives and children are foes of yours: so beware of them! But if ye pardon, and overlook it, and forgive,—verily, God is forgiving, compassionate ! [15] Your property and your children are but a trial; and God, with Him is mighty hire! Then fear God as much as ye can! and hear, and . obey, and expend in alms: it is better for yourselves. But whosoever is saved from his own covetousness— these are the prosperous! If ye lend to God a goodly loan, He will double it for you, and will forgive you ; for God is grateful, clement ! 1 T.e. both the righteous and the wicked will disappoint each other by reversing their positions, the wicked being punished while the righteous are in bliss. 3 This expression seems to indicate that this verse at least was revealed at Medinah. 288 THE QUR'AN. LXIV, 18-LXV, 4. He knows the unseen and the visible ; the mighty, the wise ! THe CuapTer oF Divorce. (LXV. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. O thou prophet! when ye divorce women, then divorce them at their term ?, and calculate the term and fear God your Lord. Do not drive them out of their houses unless they have committed manifest adultery. These are God’s bounds, and whoso transgresses God’s bounds has wronged himself. Thou knowest not whether haply God may cause something fresh to happen after that 2. And when they have reached their appointed time, then retain them with kindness, or separate from them with kindness; and bring as witnesses men of equity from among you; and give upright testimony to God. That is what He admonishes him who believes in God and the last day; and whosoever fears God, He will make for him a (happy) issue, and will provide for him from whence he reckoned not. And whosoever relies on God, He is sufficient for him: verily, God will attain His purpose :—God has set for everything a period. And such of your women as despair of menstrua-
2And whosoever relies on God, He is sufficient for him: verily, God will attain His purpose :—God has set for everything a period. And such of your women as despair of menstrua- 1 When they have had three periods of menstruation ; or, if they prove with child, after their delivery. See Part I, p. 34. * J.e. whether God may not reconcile them again. LXV, 4-11. THE CHAPTER OF DIVORCE, 289 tion,—if ye doubt, then their term is three months; and such as have not menstruated too. And those who are heavy with child their appointed time is when they have laid down their burden; and whosoever fears God, He will make for him an easy affair. [5] That is God’s command, He has sent it down to you; and whosoever fears God He will cover for him his offences and will make grand for him his hire. ; Let them! dwell where ye dwell, according to your means, and do not harm them, to reduce them to straits; and if they be heavy with child, then pay for them until they lay down their burdens; and if they suckle (the child) for you, then give them their hire, and consult among yourselves in reason; but if ye be in difficulties, and another woman shall suckle the child for him, let him who has plenty expend of his plenty; but he whose provision is doled out, let him expend of what God has given him; God will not compel any soul beyond what He has given it ;—God will make after difficulty ease ! How many a city has turned away from the bidding of its Lord and His apostles; and we called them to a severe account, and we tormented them with an unheard-of torment ! And they tasted the evil results of their conduct ; and the end of their conduct was loss ! [10] God prepared for them severe torment ;— then fear God, ye who are endowed with minds! Ye who believe! God has sent down to you a 1 The divorced women. [9] U 290 THE QuR’AN. LXV, 11-LXVI, 2. reminder ;—an apostle to recite to you God’s manifest signs ;—to bring forth those who believe and act aright from darkness into light! and whoso believes in God and acts right He will bring him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever and for aye! God has made goodly for him his provision! God it is who created seven heavens, and of the earth the like thereof. The bidding descends between them, that ye may know that God is mighty over all, and that God has encompassed all things with His knowledge! Tue CuarterR oF PRo#rBiTIon}, (LXVI. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. O thou prophet! wherefore dost thou prohibit what God has made lawful to thee, craving to please thy wives? but God is forgiving, compassionate! God has allowed you to expiate your oaths ; for
3Tue CuarterR oF PRo#rBiTIon}, (LXVI. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. O thou prophet! wherefore dost thou prohibit what God has made lawful to thee, craving to please thy wives? but God is forgiving, compassionate! God has allowed you to expiate your oaths ; for 1 This chapter was occasioned by Mohammed’s liaison with the Coptic girl Mary (see Introduction, p. xl), with whom he lay on the day due to‘Ayeshah or‘Hafsah. The latter was greatly enraged, and Mohammed to pacify her swore never to touch the girl again, and enjoined “Hafsah to keep the matter secret from the rest of his wives. She, however, revealed it in confidence to ‘Ayeshah 3 when Mohammed, annoyed at finding his confidence betrayed, not only divorced her, but separated himself from his other wives for the space of a month, which time he passed in Mary’s apartment. The chapter is intended to free him from his oath respecting Mary, and to reprove his wives for their conduct. LXVI, 2-8. THE CHAPTER OF PROHIBITION. 291 God is your sovereign, and He is the knowing, the wise ! And when the prophet told as a secret to one of his wives a recent event, and when she gave information thereof and exposed it, he acquainted her with some of it and avoided part of it. But when he informed her of it, she said, ‘Who told thee this?’ he said, ‘ The wise one, the well-aware informed me. ‘If ye both turn repentant unto God,—for your hearts have swerved !—but if ye back each other up against him,—verily, God, He is the sovereign; and Gabriel and the righteous of the believers, and the angels after that, will back him up. ‘[5] It may be that his Lord if he divorce you will give him in exchange wives better than you, Muslims, believers, devout, repentant, worshipping, giving to fasting—such as have known men and virgins too.’ O ye who believe! save yourselves and your families from the fire, whose fuel is men and stones; —over it are angels stout and stern; they disobey not God in what He bids them, but they do what they are bidden! O ye who disbelieve! excuse not yourselves today;—ye shall only be rewarded for that which ye have done. O ye who believe! turn repentant to God with sincere repentance; it may be that thy Lord will cover for you your offences and will bring you into gardens beneath which rivers flow!—the day God will not disgrace the Prophet nor those who believe with him ; their light shall run on before them, and at their right hands! they shall say, ‘Our Lord! perfect for us our light and forgive us; verily, Thou art mighty over all!’ U2 292 THE QURAN. LXVI, 9-LXVII, 4. O thou prophet! fight strenuously against the misbelievers and hypocrites and be stern towards them; for their resort is hell, and an evil journey shall it be!
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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