M.Asad · MealMerkezi.Net

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DISAVOWAL by God and His Apostle (is herewith announced) unto those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God, (and) with whom you (O: believers) have made a covenant.

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(Announce unto them:) "Go, then, (freely) about the earth for four months -but know that you can never elude God, and that, verily, God shall bring disgrace upon all who refuse to acknowledge the truth!"

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And a proclamation from God and His Apostle (is herewith made) unto all mankind on this day of the Greatest Pilgrimage: "God disavows all who ascribe divinity to aught beside Him, and (so does) His Apostle. Hence, if you repent, it shall be for your own good; and if you turn away, then know that you can never elude God!" And unto those who are bent on denying the truth give thou (O Prophet) the tiding of grievous chastisement.

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But excepted shall be -from among those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God - (people) with whom you (O believers) have made a covenant and who thereafter have in no wise failed to fulfil their obligations towards you, and neither have aided anyone against you: observe, then, your covenant with them until the end of the term agreed with them. Verily, God loves those who are conscious of Him.

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And so, when the sacred months are over , slay those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God wherever you may come upon them, and take them captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place ! Yet if they repent, and take to prayer, and render the purifying dues, let them go their way: for, behold, God is much forgiving, a dispenser of grace.

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And if any of those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God seeks thy protection, grant him protection, so that he might (be able to) hear the word of God (from thee); and thereupon convey him to a place where he can feel secure: this, because they (may be) people who (sin only because they) do not know (the truth).

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HOW COULD they who ascribe divinity to aught beside God be granted a covenant by God and His Apostle, unless it be those (of them) with whom you (O believers) have made a covenant in the vicinity of the Inviolable House of Worship? (As for the latter,) so long as they remain true to you, be true to them: for, verily, God loves those who are conscious of Him.

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How (else could it be)? -since, if they (who are hostile to you) were to overcome you, they would not respect any tie (with you,) nor any obligation to protect (you). They seek to please you with their mouths, the while their hearts remain averse (to you); and most of them are iniquitous.

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God's messages have they bartered away for a trifling gain, and have thus turned away from His path: evil, behold, is all that they are wont to do,

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respecting no tie and no protective obligation with regard to a believer; and it is they, they who transgress the bounds of what is right!

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Yet if they repent, and take to prayer, and render the purifying dues, they become your brethren in faith: and clearly do We spell out these messages unto people of (innate) knowledge!

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But if they break their solemn pledges after having concluded a covenant, and revile your religion, then fight against these archetypes of faithlessness who, behold, have no (regard for their own) pledges, so that they might desist (from aggression).

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Would you, perchance, fail to fight against people who have broken their solemn pledges, and have done all that they could to drive the Apostle away, and have been first to attack you? Do you hold them in awe? Nay, it is God alone of whom you ought to stand in awe, if you are (truly) believers!

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Fight against them! God will chastise them by your hands, and will bring disgrace upon them, and will succour you against them; and He will soothe the bosoms of those who believe,

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and will remove the wrath that is in their hearts. And God will turn in His mercy unto whom He wills: for, God is all-knowing, wise.

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Do you (O believers) think that you will be spared unless God takes cognizance of your having striven hard (in His cause) without seeking help from any but God and His Apostle and those who believe in Him? For, God is aware of all that you do.

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IT IS NOT for those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God to visit or tend God's houses of worship, the while (by their beliefs) they bear witness against themselves that they are denying the truth. It is they whose works shall come to nought, and they who in the fire shall abide

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Only he should visit or tend God's houses of worship who believes in God and the Last Day, and is constant in prayer, and spends in charity, and stands in awe of none but God: for (only such as) these may hope to be among the right-guided!

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Do you, perchance, regard the (mere) giving of water to pilgrims and the tending of the Inviolable House of Worship as being equal to (the works of) one who believes in God and the Last Day and strives hard in God's cause? These (things) are not equal in the sight of God. And God does not grace with His guidance people who (deliberately) do wrong.

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Those who believe, and who have forsaken the domain of evil and have striven hard in God's cause with their possessions and their lives have the highest rank in the sight of God; and it is they, they who shall triumph (in the end)!

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Their Sustainer gives them the glad tiding of the grace (that flows) from Him, and of (His) goodly acceptance, and of the gardens which await them, full of lasting bliss,

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therein to abide beyond the count of time. Verily, with God is a mighty reward!

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O YOU who have attained to faith! Do not take your fathers and your brothers for allies if a denial of the truth is dearer to them than faith: for those of you who ally themselves with them-it is they, they who are evildoers!

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Say: "If your fathers and your sons and your brothers and your spouses and your clan, and the worldly goods which you have acquired, and the commerce whereof you fear a decline, and the dwellings in which you take pleasure - (if all these) are dearer to you than God and His Apostle and the struggle in His cause, then wait until God makes manifest His will; and (know that) God does not grace iniquitous folk with His guidance."

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Indeed, God has succoured you on many battlefields, (when you were few;) and (He did so, too,) on the Day of Hunayn, when you took pride in your great numbers and they proved of no avail whatever to you -for the earth, despite all its vastness, became (too) narrow for you and you turned back, retreating:

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whereupon God bestowed from on high His (gift of) inner peace upon His Apostle and upon the believers, and bestowed (upon you) from on high forces which you could not see, and chastised those who were bent on denying the truth: for such is the recompense of all who deny the truth!

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But with all this , God will turn in His mercy unto whom He wills: for God is much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace.

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O YOU who have attained to faith! Those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God are nothing but impure: and so they shall not approach the Inviolable House of Worship from this year onwards And should you fear poverty, then (know that) in time God will enrich you out of His bounty, if He so wills: for, verily, God is all-knowing, wise!

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(And) fight against those who - despite having been vouchsafed revelation (aforetime) -do not (truly) believe either in God or the Last Day, and do not consider forbidden that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth (which God has enjoined upon them) till they (agree to) pay the exemption tax with a willing hand, after having been humbled (in war).

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AND THE JEWS say, "Ezra is God's son," while the Christians say, "The Christ is God's son." Such are the sayings which they utter with their mouths, following in spirit assertions made in earlier times by people who denied the truth! (They deserve the imprecation:) "May God destroy them!" How perverted are their minds!

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