God has promised you many spoils to take; these He has hastened to you, and has restrained the hands of men from you, and that it may be a sign to the believers, and to guide you on a straight path, and other spoils you were not able to take; God had encompassed them already. God is powerful over everything.
If the unbelievers had fought you, they would have turned their backs, and then found neither protector nor helper; the wont of God, as in the past before, and thou shalt never find any changing the wont of God.
It is He who restrained their hands from you, and your hands from them, in the hollow of Mecca, after that He made you victors over them. God sees the things you do.
They are the ones who disbelieved, and barred you from the Holy Mosque and the offering, detained so as not to reach its place of sacrifice. If it had not been for certain men believers and certain women believers whom you knew not, lest you should trample them, and there befall you guilt unwittingly on their account (that God may admit into His mercy whom He will), had they been separated clearly, then We would have chastised the unbelievers among them with a painful chastisement.
When the unbelievers set in their hearts fierceness, the fierceness of pagandom, then God sent down His Shechina upon His Messenger and the believers, and fastened to them the word of godfearing to which they have better right and are worthy of; and God has' knowledge of everything.
God has indeed fulfilled the vision He vouchsafed to His Messenger truly: 'You shall enter the Holy Mosque, if God wills, in security, your heads shaved, your hair cut short, not fearing.' He knew what you knew not, and appointed ere that a nigh victory.
It is He who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may uplift it above every religion. God suffices as a witness.
Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and those who are with him are hard against the unbelievers, merciful one to another. Thou seest them bowing, prostrating, seeking bounty from God and good pleasure. Their mark is on their faces, the trace of prostration. That is their likeness in the Torah, and their likeness in the Gospel: as a seed that puts forth its shoot, and strengthens it, and it grows stout and rises straight upon its stalk, pleasing the sowers, that through them He may enrage the unbelievers. God has promised those of them who believe and do deeds of righteousness forgiveness and a mighty wage.
O believers, advance not before God and His Messenger; and fear God. God is All-hearing, All-knowing.
O believers, raise not your voices above the Prophet's voice, and be not loud in your speech to him, as you are loud one to another, lest your works fail while you are not aware.
Surely those who lower their voices in the presence of God's Messenger, those are they whose hearts God has tested for godfearing; they shall have forgiveness and a mighty wage.
Surely those who call unto thee from behind the apartments, the most of them do not understand.
And if they had patience, until thou comest out to them, that would be better for them; and God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.
O believers, if an ungodly man comes to you with a tiding, make clear, lest you afflict a people unwittingly, and then repent of what you have done.
And know that the Messenger of God is among you. If he obeyed you in much of the affair, you would suffer; but God has endeared to you belief, decking it fair in your hearts, and He has made detestable to you unbelief and ungodliness and disobedience. Those -- they are the right-minded, by God's favour and blessing; God is All-knowing, All-wise.
If two parties of the believers fight, put things right between them; then, if one of them is insolent against the other, fight the insolent one till it reverts to God's commandment. If it reverts, set things right between them equitably, and be just. Surely God loves the just.
The believers indeed are brothers; so set things right between your two brothers, and fear God; haply so you will find mercy.
O believers, let not any people scoff at another people who may be better than they; neither let women scoff at women who may be better than themselves. And find not fault with one another, neither revile one another by nicknames. An evil name is ungodliness after belief. And whoso repents not, those -- they are the evildoers.
O believers, eschew much suspicion; some suspicion is a sin. And do not spy, neither backbite one another; would any of you like to eat the flesh of his brother dead? You would abominate it. And fear you God; assuredly God turns, and He is All-compassionate.
O mankind, We have created you male and female, and appointed you races and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the noblest among you in the sight of God is the most godfearing of you. God is All-knowing, All-aware.
The Bedouins say, 'We believe.' Say: 'You do not believe; rather say, "We surrender"; for belief has not yet entered your hearts. If you obey God and His Messenger, He will not diminish you anything of your works. God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.'
The believers are those who believe in God and His Messenger, then have not doubted, and have struggled with their possessions and their selves in the way of God; those -- they are the truthful ones.
Say: 'What, would you teach God what your religion is, and God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth? And God has knowledge of everything.'
They count it as a favour to thee that they have surrendered! Say: 'Do not count your surrendering as a favour to me; nay, but rather God confers a favour upon you, in that He has guided you to belief, if it be that you are truthful.
God knows the Unseen of the heavens and of the earth; and God sees the things you do.'
Qaf. By the glorious Koran!
Nay, but they marvel that a warner has come to them from among them; and the unbelievers say, 'This is a marvellous thing!
What, when we are dead and become dust? That is a far returning!'
We know what the earth diminishes of them; with Us is a book recording.
Nay, but they cried lies to the truth when it came to them, and so they are in a case confused.
What, have they not beheld heaven above them, how We have built it, and decked it out fair, and it has no cracks?
And the earth -- We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and We caused to grow therein of every joyous kind for an insight and a reminder to every penitent servant.
And We sent down out of heaven water blessed, and caused to grow thereby gardens and grain of harvest and tall palm-trees with spathes compact, a provision for the servants, and thereby We revived a land that was dead. Even so is the coming forth.
Cried lies before them the people of Noah and the men of Er-Rass, and Thamood, and Ad and Pharaoh, the brothers of Lot, the men of the Thicket, the people of Tubba'. Every one cried lies to the Messengers, and My threat came true.
What, were We wearied by the first creation? No indeed; but they are in uncertainty as to the new creation.
We indeed created man; and We know what his soul whispers within him, and We are nearer to him than the jugular vein.
When the two angels meet together, sitting one on the right, and one on the left, not a word he utters, but by him is an observer ready.
And death's agony comes in truth; that is what thou wast shunning!
And the Trumpet shall be blown; that is the Day of the Threat.
And every soul shall come, and with it a driver and a witness.
'Thou wast heedless of this; therefore We have now removed from thee thy covering, and so thy sight today is piercing.'
And his comrade shall say, 'This is what I have, made ready.'
'Cast, you twain, into Gehenna every froward unbeliever, every hinderer of the good, transgressor, disquieter, who set up with God another god; therefore, you twain, cast him into the terrible chastisement.'
And his comrade shall say, 'Our Lord, I made him not insolent, but he was in far error.'
He shall say, 'Dispute not before Me! For I sent you beforehand -- the threat.
The Word is not changed with Me; I wrong not My servants.'
Upon the day We shall say unto Gehenna, 'Art thou filled?' And it shall say, 'Are there any more to come?'
And Paradise shall be brought forward to the godfearing, not afar:
'This is that you were promised; it is for every mindful penitent.'
Whosoever fears the All-merciful in the Unseen, and comes with a penitent heart:
'Enter it in peace! This is the Day of Eternity.'
Therein they shall have whatever they will; and with Us there is yet more.
How many a generation We destroyed before them that was stronger in valour than they, then they searched about in the land; was there any asylum?
Surely in that there is a reminder to him who has a heart, or will give ear with a present mind.
We created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, in six days, and no weariness touched Us.
So be thou patient under what they say, and proclaim thy Lord's praise before the rising of the sun, and before its setting, and proclaim thy Lord's praise in the night, and at the ends of the prostrations.
And listen thou for the day when the caller shall call from a near place.
On the day they hear the Cry in truth, that is the day of coming forth.
It is We who give life, and make to die, and to Us is the homecoming.
Upon the day when the earth is split asunder from about them as they hasten forth; that is a mustering easy for Us.
We know very well what they say; thou art not a tyrant over them. Therefore remind by the Koran him who fears My threat.
By the swift scatterers and the burden-bearers and the smooth runners and the partitioners, surely that you are promised is true, and surely the Doom is about to fall!
By heaven with all its tracks surely you speak at variance, and perverted therefrom are some.
Perish the conjecturers who are dazed in perplexity asking, 'When shall be the Day of Doom?'
Upon the day when they shall be tried at the Fire:
'Taste your trial! This is that you were seeking to hasten.'
Surely the godfearing shall be among gardens and fountains taking whatsoever their Lord has given them; they were good-doers before that.
Little of the night would they slumber, and in the mornings they would ask for forgiveness; and the beggar and the outcast had a share in their wealth.
In the earth are signs for those having sure faith; and in your selves; what, do you not see?
And in heaven is your provision, and that you are promised.
So by the Lord of heaven and earth, it is as surely true as that you have speech.
Hast thou received the story of the honoured guests of Abraham?
When they entered unto him, saying 'Peace!' he said 'Peace! You are a people unknown to me.'
Then he turned to his household and brought a fattened calf, and he laid it before them saying, 'Will you not eat?'
Then he conceived a fear of them. They said, 'Be not afraid!' And they gave him good tidings of a cunning boy.
Then came forward his wife, clamouring, and she smote her face, and said, 'An old woman, barren!'
They said, 'So says thy Lord; He is the All-wise, the All-knowing.'
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