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Freedom from obligation (is
proclaimed) from Allah and His
messenger toward those of the idolaters with whom you made a treaty: |
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Travel freely in the land four months,
and know that you cannot escape Allah and that Allah will confound
the disbelievers (in His guidance). |
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And a proclamation from Allah and His
messenger to all men on the day of the Greater Pilgrimage that Allah
is free from obligation to the idolaters, and (so
is) His messenger. So, if you
repent, it will be better for you; but if you are averse, then know
that you cannot escape Allah. Give tidings (O
Muhammad) of a painful doom
to those who disbelieve. |
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Excepting those of the idolaters with
whom you (Muslims)
have a treaty, and who have since abated nothing of your right nor
have supported anyone against you. (As
for these), fulfill their treaty
to them till their term. Lo! Allah loves those who keep their duty
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Then, when the sacred months have passed,
slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them (captive),
and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent
and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free.
Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. |
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And if anyone of the idolaters seeks
your protection (O Muhammad),
then protect him so that he may hear the word of Allah, and afterward
convey him to his place of safety. That is because they are a folk
who know not. |
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How can there be a treaty with Allah
and with His messenger for the idolaters save those with whom you
made a treaty at the Inviolable Place of Worship? So long as they
are true to you, be true to them. Lo! Allah loves those who keep their
duty. |
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How (can
there be any treaty for the others)
when, if they have the upper hand of you, they regard not pact nor
honor in respect of you? They satisfy you with their mouths the while
their hearts refuse. And most of them are wrong-doers. |
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They have purchased with the revelations
of Allah a little gain, so they debar (men)
from His way. Lo! evil is that which they are wont to do. |
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And they observe toward a believer
neither pact nor honor. These are they who are transgressors. |
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But if they repent and establish worship
and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion. We
detail Our revelations for a people who have knowledge. |
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And if they break their pledges after
their treaty (has been made
with you) and assail your religion,
then fight the heads of disbelief-Lo! they have no binding oaths-in
order that they may desist. |
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Will you not fight a folk who broke
their solemn pledges, and purposed to drive out the messenger and
did attack you first? What! Fear you them? Now Allah has more right
that you should fear Him, if you are believers. |
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Fight them! Allah will chastise them
at your hands, and He will lay them low and give you victory over
them, and He will heal the breasts of folk who are believers. |
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And He will remove the anger of their
hearts. Allah relents toward whom He will. Allah is Knower, Wise. |
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Or deemed you that you would be left
(in peace)
when Allah yet knows not those of you who strive, choosing for familiar
none save Allah and His messenger and the believers? Allah is Informed
of what you do. |
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It is not for the idolaters to tend
Allah's sanctuaries, bearing witness against themselves of disbelief.
As for such, their works are vain and in the Fire they will abide. |
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He only shall tend Allah's sanctuaries
who believes in Allah and the Last Day and observes proper worship
and pays the poor-due and fear none save Allah. For such (only)
is it possible that they can be of the rightly guided. |
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Count you the slaking of a pilgrim's
thirst and tendance of the Inviolable Place of Worship as
(equal to the worth of him)
who believes in Allah and the Last Day, and strives in the way of
Allah? They are not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah guides not
wrongdoing folk. |
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Those who believe, and have left their
homes and striven with their wealth and their lives in Allah's way
are of much greater worth in Allah's sight. These are they who are
triumphant. |
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Their Lord gives them good tidings
of mercy from Him, and acceptance, and Gardens where enduring pleasure
will be theirs; |
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There they will abide for ever. Lo!
with Allah there is immense reward. |
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O you who believe! Choose not your
fathers nor your brethren for friends if they take pleasure in disbelief
rather than faith. Whoso of you takes them for friends, such are wrong
doers. |
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Say: If your fathers, and your sons,
and your brethren, and your wives, and your tribe, and the wealth
you have acquired, and merchandise for which you fear that there will
be no sale, and dwellings you desire are dearer to you than Allah
and His messenger and striving in His way: then wait till Allah brings
His command to pass. Allah guides not wrong doing folk. |
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Allah has given you victory on many
fields and on the day of Huneyn, when you exulted in your multitude
but it availed you naught, and the earth, vast as it is, was straitened
for you; then you turned back in flight; |
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Then Allah sent His peace of reassurance
down upon His messenger and upon the believers, and sent down hosts
you could not see, and punished those who disbelieved. Such is the
reward of disbelievers. |
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Then afterward Allah will relent toward
whom He will; for Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. |
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O you who believe! The idolaters only
are unclean. So let them not come near the Inviolable Place of Worship
after this their year. If you fear poverty (from
the loss of their merchandise)
Allah shall preserve you of His bounty if He will. Lo! Allah is Knower,
Wise. |
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Fight against such of those who have
been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day,
and forbid not that which Allah has forbidden by His messenger, and
follow not the religion of truth, until they pay the tribute readily,
being brought low. |
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And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of
Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. That
is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the saying of those
who disbelieved of old. Allah
(himself) fights against them.
How perverse are they! |
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