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O you who have believed, fulfill your obligations! You are allowed [to eat] four-legged animals, except the ones mentioned elsewhere; but hunting during pilgrimage is proscribed. Verily, God decrees what He wills. O you who have believed! Do not violate the sanctity of God’s rituals, the sacred month, the animal offerings,

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their ornaments, and [the rights] of those who flock to the Sacred House in the pursuit of their Lord’s bounty and goodwill. You may hunt when you are allowed to. Do not let your hatred for the people who kept you away from the Sacred Mosque incite you to hostility. Assist one another in goodness and devotion, but do not assist in corruption and enmity. Fear God, for verily, God is harsh in punishment!

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Forbidden to you are carrion, blood, pork, and what has been slaughtered with the invocation of anyone other than God. [And also] what has been strangled, bludgeoned, killed in a fall, gored, or mangled by wild beasts, unless you have slaughtered it [as prescribed]. [Forbidden] is also what has been sacrificed on altars or apportioned with arrows — that is sinful for you. Today, the disbelievers have lost all hope in your religion. Do not fear them, but fear Me! Today, I have brought your religion to perfection. I fulfilled My goodness toward you and approved Islam as your religion. But if hunger forces you to sin without premeditation, then, verily, God is forgiving and merciful!

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They are asking you what they are allowed to eat. Say: “You’re allowed wholesome food and what is caught for you by the hunting animals that you have trained, as God instructed you. Eat what they catch for you, but mention the name of God and fear God. Verily, God is quick at reckoning!”

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Today, you are allowed to eat wholesome food. You are allowed the food of the people of the Scripture, and your food is allowed to them. [Permitted] to you are chaste women from among the believers and chaste women from among those who received a Scripture before you. Give them a compensation, seek in them decency and not lewdness, and do not make of them your secret mistresses. Worthless is the toil of him who denies faith: in the Hereafter he shall be among the losers.

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O you who have believed! Before you stand up for praying, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, wipe your heads and feet down to your ankles, and purify yourselves if you are polluted. If you are sick or on a journey, or if you come out from a privy, or if you have touched women and have no water, then wash yourselves with clean soil, wiping with it your faces and hands. God does not wish to burden you with hardship, but only to purify you and to complete His goodness to you — perhaps you will be grateful!

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Remember the goodness of God towards you and the Covenant He concluded with you when you said: “We heard and we obeyed.” Fear God, for verily, God knows best what is in the hearts!

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O you who have believed! Be staunch witnesses to justice before God and do not allow your hatred of sinful people make you forsake justice. Verily, justice is next to devotion! Verily, God is well aware of everything you do!

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To those who believed and did good works, God has promised forgiveness and a great reward,

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and for those who disbelieved and rejected Our Signs, there is a blazing Fire!

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O you who have believed! Remember the goodness God showed you when some people conspired to lay their hands upon you, and He deflected their hands! So fear God, and let all the believers trust God!

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[When] God made a Covenant with the Children of Israel, We appointed twelve leaders from amongst them. God said: — I will be with you, if you pray, pay the zakat, trust and support My Messengers, and lend God a good loan. Then, verily, I shall acquit you from the evil of your deeds and admit you into the Gardens under which the rivers flow. But if any one of you disbelieves after that, he will wander away from the straight path.

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We cursed them and hardened their hearts for their breaking the Covenant. They re-arrange the words [of the Message] and forget part of what has been reminded them. Time and time again you shall hear that many of them are betraying you, but forgive them and overlook, for, verily, God loves the good-hearted.

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We concluded a Covenant with those who call themselves Christians. Yet they forgot part of the Reminder, and We sowed enmity and hatred among them till Resurrection Day. Soon God will announce to them what they have done.

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O people of the Scripture! Our Messenger came to you to explain much of the Scripture that you were hiding or were passing over. God brought you a Light and a clear Scripture.

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God uses them to guide on the way of peace those who followed His goodwill. By His will, He leads them out of darkness to the Light and puts them on the straight path.

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Those who say that God is the Messiah, son of Mary, have no faith. Say: “Who would have the power to oppose God if He wished to destroy the Messiah, son of Mary, his mother, and everybody on earth?” God is the Sovereign over Heavens and earth and what is in between. He creates whatever He wills — God has power over everything!

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The Jews and the Christians say: “We’re the sons of God, His beloved ones!” Say: “Then, why does He punish you for your sins? — It’s because you’re a people He has created! He forgives whom He pleases and punishes whom He pleases. God is the Sovereign of the Heavens and earth and what is in between, and to Him is [our] return!”

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O People of the Scripture! Our Messenger came to you with explanations after a break between Messengers, so that you would not say: “No Carrier of good news nor a Warner has ever come to us!” But now a Carrier of good news and a Warner did come to you. Indeed, God has power over all things!

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Moses said to his people: “O my people! Remember the goodness of God towards you when He appointed Prophets from your midst, made you kings, and gave you what He hadn’t given to any people in the Worlds!

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O my people! Enter the Promised Land that God ordained for you, and do not leave it, lest you be losers!”

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They said: “O Moses! A mighty people lives there and We wouldn’t be able to enter it before they leave — We’ll enter it as soon as they’re gone!”

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Two men from among the devout upon whom God had bestowed His Grace, said: “Attack them at the gate, and you’ll overcome them as soon as you get in. Put your trust in God if you believe!”

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[The people] said: “O Moses! We won’t be able to enter while they’re there. Go forth with your Lord and fight them, while we’ll be sitting here!”

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[Moses] said: “O my Lord! I am responsible only for myself and my brother, so separate us from the dissolute people!”

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[God] said: — Let [the Holy Land] be closed to them for forty years, and let them wander about on the earth! And you, do not grieve over dissolute people!

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Tell them the story of the two sons of Adam. Both made offerings — one was accepted, but the other one’s was refused. The latter said [to his brother]: “I’ll kill you, for sure!” [His brother] said: “Truly, God accepts [offerings] only from those who fear Him!

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I wouldn’t lay my hand upon you to kill you, even if you laid your hand upon me to kill me. Verily, I fear God, the Lord of the Worlds.

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But I want you to add to your sins your sin against me, and to join the inmates of the Fire — such is the reward for those who do wrong!”

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But the soul [of his brother] gave in to the idea of killing his brother: he murdered him and joined the losers.

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