If ye go forth fighting strenuously in my cause and craving my good
pleasure, and secretly show love for them, yet do I know best what ye conceal
and what ye display! and he of you who does so has erred from the level path.
If they find you they will be enemies to you, and they will stretch
forth against you their hands and their tongues for evil, and would fain that
ye should disbelieve; neither your kindred nor your children shall profit you
upon the resurrection day; it will separate you! but God on what ye do doth
look!
Ye had a good example in Abraham and those with him, when they said to
their people, 'Verily, we are clear of you and of what ye serve beside God. We
disbelieve in you: and between us and you is enmity and hatred begun for ever,
until ye believe in God alone!'
But not 1
the speech of Abraham to his father, 'Verily, I will ask forgiveness for thee,
though I cannot control aught from God!' O our Lord! on thee do we rely! and
unto thee we turn! and unto thee the journey is!
[5] Our Lord! make us not a trial for those who misbelieve; but forgive
us! Our Lord! verily, thou art mighty, wise!
Ye had in them a good example for him who
would hope in God and the last day. But whoso turns his back, verily,
God, He is rich and to be praised.
Mayhap that God will place love between you and between those of them ye
are hostile towards 1:
for God is powerful, and. God is forgiving, compassionate.
God forbids you not respecting those who have not fought against you for
religion's sake, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that ye
should act righteously and justly towards them; verily, God loves the just!
He only forbids you to make patrons of those who have fought against you
for religion's sake, and driven you forth from your homes, or have aided in
your expulsion; and whoever makes patrons of them, they are the unjust!
[10] O ye who believe! when there come believing women who have fled,
then try them: God knows their faith. If ye know them to be believers do not
send them back to the misbelievers;-they are not lawful for them, nor are the
men lawful for these;-but give them 2 what they have
expended 3,
and it shall be no crime against you that ye marry them, when ye have given
them their hire. And do not ye retain a right over misbelieving women; but ask for
what ye have spent, and let them ask for what they have spent. That is God's
judgment: He judges between you, for God is knowing, wise!
And if any of your wives escape from you to the
misbelievers, and your turn comes, then give to those whose wives have
gone away the like of what they have spent; and fear God, in whom it is that ye
believe.
O thou prophet! when believing women come to thee and engage with thee
that they will not associate aught with God, and will not steal, and will not fornicate,
and will not kill their children, and will not bring a calumny which they have
forged between their hands and feet 1, and that they will not rebel
against thee in what is reasonable, then engage with them and ask forgiveness
for them of God;-verily, God is forgiving, compassionate.
O ye who believe! take not for patrons a people whom God is wroth
against; they despair of the hereafter, as the misbelievers despair of the
fellows of the tombs 2!