T.B.Irving · MealMerkezi.Net

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(I) Dispensation (comes) from God and His messenger for those associators with whom you have made a treaty:

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travel around the earth for four months, and realize that you (all) cannot escape from God. God will shame disbelievers.

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(This is) a proclamation by God and His messenger for mankind (assembled) on the day of the greater Pilgrimage, to wit: God may dissolve treaty obligations with associators and (so may) His messenger. If you repent, then it will be better for you; while if you turn aside, know that you cannot escape from God. Announce painful torment to those who disbelieve,

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except for those associators with whom you have already made a treaty; provided they have not failed you in any respect nor backed up anyone against you. Fulfil any treaty (you have) with them until their period is up. God loves those who do their duty!

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When the hallowed months have slipped away, then fight associators wherever you may find them; take them and besiege them, and waylay them at every outpost. If they should repent, keep up prayer and pay the welfare tax, then let them go their way. God is Forgiving, Merciful.

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If one of the associators should ask you for protection, then grant him asylum until he has heard God's word. Later on escort him to where he can find safety. That is because they are folk who do not know anything.

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(II) How can there be any treaty with associators on the part of God and His messenger, except for those with whom you have ratified one at the Hallowed Mosque? So long as they act straightforwardly with you, be straightforward with them. God loves those who do their duty!

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How, if they should overcome you, will they honor any pact or obligation with you? They seek to please you in whatever they say while their hearts refuse to. Most of them are immoral:

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they have bought up God's signs for a paltry price, and obstructed His way. How evil is what they have been doing!

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They honor no pact nor any obligation with a believer; those are aggressors!

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Yet if they should repent, keep up prayer and pay the welfare tax, then (they may be) your brethren in religion. We spell out signs for folk who know.

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If they should violate their trust once they have sworn it, and insult your religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief; they have no faith to make them stop.

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Will you not fight folk who have violated their trust and intended to exile the Messenger? They attacked you first! Are you afraid of them? You ought to be even more afraid of God if you are believers.

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Fight them, so God may punish them at your hands and disgrace them, and support you against them, and heal the breasts of believing folk,

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and remove the fury from their hearts. God turns to anyone He wishes; God is Aware, Wise.

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Or do you reckon you will be abandoned once God knows which of you have struggled, and did not adopt anyone as an ally besides God, His messenger and believers? God is Informed about anything you do.

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(III) Associators must not frequent God's mosques since they act as witnesses for their own disbelief. Those (people will find) their actions will miscarry and they will remain for ever in the Fire.

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Only someone who believes in God and the Last Day, keeps up prayer, pays the welfare tax, and dreads only God (Alone), shall frequent God's mosques. Perhaps those may be the ones who submit to guidance.

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Have you made those giving pilgrims something to drink and taking care of the Hallowed Mosque just like someone who believes in God and the Last Day, and struggles on for God's sake? They are not equal before God; God does not guide such wrongdoing folk!

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Those who believe and migrate, and struggle for God's sake with their property and persons, stand much higher in rank with God. Those will be triumphant!

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Their Lord proclaims mercy and approval from Himself for them, and gardens where they will have lasting bliss

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to live in for ever and ever; with God there lies a splendid wage.

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You who believe, do not take your fathers and your brothers on as sponsors if they prefer disbelief rather than faith. Anyone of you who enlists them as sponsors are wrongdoers.

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SAY: "If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses and your family ties, as well as the wealth you have acquired and the business you dread will fall off, plus the dwellings you are so fond of, are all dearer to you than God and His messenger, or striving for His sake, then wait around till God brings His command to pass. God does not guide such immoral folk!

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(IV) God has supported you on many battlefields and the day of unayn when your own numbers amazed you; yet it did not spare you in any way and the earth seemed cramped for you, spacious as it is. Then you fell back in retreat.

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Next God sent His serenity down upon His messenger and on believers; He sent down armies you did not even see and punished those who disbelieved. Such is the reward for disbelievers.

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Then later on God will turn towards anyone He wishes. God is Forgiving, Merciful.

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you who believe, associators are nothing but filthy, so they should not approach the Hallowed Mosque after this year that they still have. If you should fear destitution, God will enrich you out of His bounty if He so wishes. God is Aware, Wise.

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Fight the ones among those who were given the Book who do not believe in God nor the Last Day, nor forbid whatever God and His messenger have forbidden, nor profess the True Religion, until they pay the polltax of their own accord and act submissive.

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(V) Jews say: "Ezra was God's son," while Christians say: "Christ was God's son." That is what they say with their mouths, imitating what those have said who disbelieved before them. May God fight them off for what they have trumped up!

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