1. O ye who believe! Take not my enemies and yours as friends (or
protectors),- offering them (your) love, even though they have rejected the
Truth that has come to you, and have (on the contrary) driven out the Messenger
and yourselves (from your homes), (simply) because ye believe in Allah your
Lord! If ye have come out to strive in My Way and to seek My Good Pleasure,
friendship unto them: for I know full well all that ye conceal and all that ye
reveal. And any of you that does this has strayed from the Straight Path.
2. If they overcome you, they would behave to you as enemies, and stretch forth
their hands and their tongues against you for evil: and they desire that ye
should reject the Truth.
3. Of no profit to you will be your relatives and your children on the Day of
Judgment: He will judge between you: for Allah sees well all that ye do.
4. There is for you an excellent example (to follow) in Abraham and those with
him, when they said to their people: "We are clear of you and of whatever ye
worship besides Allah: we have rejected you, and there has arisen, between us
and you, enmity and hatred for ever,- unless ye believe in Allah and Him alone":
But not when Abraham said to his father: "I will pray for forgiveness for thee,
though I have no power (to get) aught on thy behalf from Allah." (They prayed):
"Our Lord! in Thee do we trust, and to Thee do we turn in repentance: to Thee is
(our) Final Return.
5. "Our Lord! Make us not a (test and) trial for the Unbelievers, but forgive
us, our Lord! for Thou art the Exalted in Might, the Wise."
6. There was indeed in them an excellent example for you to follow,- for those
whose hope is in Allah and in the Last Day. But if any turn away, truly Allah is
Free of all Wants, Worthy of all Praise.
7. It may be that Allah will establish friendship between you and those whom ye
(now) hold as enemies. For Allah has power (over all things); and Allah is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
8. Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for (your)
Faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them:
for Allah loveth those who are just.
9. Allah only forbids you, with regard to those who fight you for (your) Faith,
and drive you out of your homes, and support (others) in driving you out, from
turning to them (for friendship and protection). It is such as turn to them (in
these circumstances), that do wrong.
10. O ye who believe! When there come to you believing women refugees, examine
(and test) them: Allah knows best as to their Faith: if ye ascertain that they
are Believers, then send them not back to the Unbelievers. They are not lawful
(wives) for the Unbelievers, nor are the (Unbelievers) lawful (husbands) for
them. But pay the Unbelievers what they have spent (on their dower), and there
will be no blame on you if ye marry them on payment of their dower to them. But
hold not to the ties (marriage contract) of unbelieving women: ask for what ye
have spent on their dowers, and let the (Unbelievers) ask for what they have
spent (on the dowers of women who come over to you). Such is the command of
Allah. He judges (with justice) between you. And Allah is Full of Knowledge and
Wisdom.
11. And if any of your wives deserts you to the Unbelievers, and ye have your
turn (by the coming over of a woman from the other side) , then pay to those
whose wives have deserted the equivalent of what they had spent (on their
dower). And fear Allah, in Whom ye believe.
12. O Prophet! When believing women come to thee to take the oath of fealty to
thee, that they will not associate in worship any other thing whatever with
Allah, that they will not steal, that they will not commit adultery (or
fornication), that they will not kill their children, that they will not utter
slander, intentionally forging falsehood, and that they will not disobey thee in
any just matter,- then do thou receive their fealty, and pray to Allah for the
forgiveness (of their sins): for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
13. O ye who believe! Turn not (for friendship) to people on whom is the Wrath
of Allah, of the Hereafter they are already in despair, just as the Unbelievers
are in despair about those (buried) in graves.
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