 سورة 4 of the Holy Quran translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This LibriVox Recording is in the public domain سورة 4 Women and Nisaa revealed at Madina In the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful O people be careful of your duty to your Lord who created you from a single being and created its mate of the same kind and spread from these two many men and women and be careful of your duty to Allah by whom you demand one of another your rights and to the ties of relationship Surely Allah ever watches over you and give to the orphans their property and do not substitute worthless things for their good ones and do not devour their property as an addition to your own property This is surely a great crime and if you fear that you cannot act equitably towards orphans then marry such women as seem good to you 2 and 3 and 4 but if you fear that you will not do justice between them then marry only one or what your right hands possess this is more proper that you may not deviate from the right course and give women their dowries as a free gift but if they of themselves be pleased to give up to you a portion of it then eat it with enjoyment and with wholesome result and do not give away your property which Allah has made for you a means of support to the weak of understanding and maintain them out of the profits of it and close them and speak to them words of honest advice and test the orphans until they attain puberty then if you find in them maturity of intellect make over to them their property and do not consume it extravagantly and hastily lest they attain to full age and whoever is rich let him abstain altogether and whoever is poor let him eat reasonably then when you make over to them their property call witnesses in their presence and Allah is enough as a reconer men shall have a portion of what the parents and the near relatives whether there is little or much of it a stated portion and when they are present at the division the relatives and the orphans and the needy give them something out of it and speak to them kind words and let those fear who should they leave and let those fear who should they leave behind them weekly offspring would fear on their account so let them be careful of their duty to Allah and let them speak right words as for those who swallow the property of the orphans unjustly surely they only swallow fire into their bellies and they shall enter the burning fire Allah enjoins you concerning your children the male shall have the equal of the portion of two females then if they are more than two females they shall have two thirds of what the deceased has left and if there is one she shall have the half as for his parents each of them shall have the sixth of what he has left if he has a child but if he has no child and only his two parents inherit him then his mother shall have the third but if he has brothers then his mother shall have the sixth after the payment of a bequest he may have your parents and your children you know not which of them is the nearer to you in usefulness this is an ordinance from Allah surely Allah is knowing wise and you shall have half of what your wives leave if they have no child but if they have a child then you shall have the fourth of what they leave after payment of any bequest they may have bequeathed or a debt and they shall have the fourth of what you leave if you have no child but if you have a child then they shall have the eighth of what you leave after payment of a bequest and if a man or a woman leaves a property to be inherited by neither parents nor offspring and he or she has a brother or a sister then each of them too shall have the sixth but if they are more than that they shall be sharers in the third after payment of any bequest they may have been bequeathed or a debt that does not harm others this is an ordinance from Allah and Allah is knowing for bearing these are Allah's limits and whoever obeys Allah and his messenger he will cause him to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow to abide in them and as for those who are guilty of an indecency from among your women call to witnesses against them for witnesses from among you and who ever disobey Allah and His messenger and goes beyond his limits he will cause him to enter fire to abide in it and he shall have an abasing chastisement and as for those who bear witnesses from among you then if they bear witness confine them to the houses until death takes them away or Allah opens some way for them and as for the two who are guilty of indecency from among you give them both a punishment then if they repent and amend surely Allah is often returning to mercy the merciful repentance with Allah is only for those who do evil in ignorance then turn to Allah soon so these it is to whom Allah turns mercifully and Allah is ever knowing wise and repentance is not for those who go on doing evil deeds until when death comes to one of them he says surely now I repent nor for those who die while they are unbelievers these are they for whom we have prepared a painful chastisement O you who believe it is not lawful for you that you should take women as heritage against their will and do not straighten them in order that you may take part of what you have given them unless they are guilty of manifest indecency and treat them kindly then if you hate them it may be that you dislike a thing while Allah has placed abundant good in it and if you wish to have one wife in place of another and you have given one of them a heap of gold then take not from it anything would you take it by slandering her and doing her manifest wrong and how can you take it when one of you has already gone into the other and they have made with you a firm covenant and marry not woman whom your father married except what has already passed this surely is indecent and hateful and it is an evil way forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers daughters and sisters daughters and your mothers that have suckled you and your foster sisters and mothers of your wives and your step daughters who are in your guardianship born of your wives to whom you have gone in but if you have not gone into them there is no blame on you in marrying them and the wives of your sons of your own and that you should have two sisters together except what has already passed surely Allah is forgiving merciful and all married women except those whom your right hands possess this is Allah's ordinance to you and lawful for you are all women besides those provided that you seek them with your property taking them in marriage not committing fornication then as to those whom you profit by give them their dowries as appointed and there is no blame on you about what you mutually agree after what is appointed surely Allah is knowing wise and whoever among you has not within his power ampleness of means to marry free believing women then he may marry of those whom your right hands possess from among your believing maidens and Allah knows best your faith you are sprung the one from the other so marry them with the permission of their masters and give them their dowries justly they being chased not for nicating nor receiving paramourous and when they are taken in marriage then if they are guilty of indecency they shall suffer half the punishment which is inflicted upon free women this is for him among you who fears falling into evil and that you abstain is better for you and Allah is forgiving merciful Allah desires to explain to you and to guide you into the ways of those before you and to turn to you mercifully and Allah is knowing wise and Allah desires that he should turn to you mercifully and those who follow their last desire that you should deviate with a great deviation Allah desires that you should make light your burdens and man is created weak all you who believe do not devour your property among yourselves falsely except that it be trading by your mutual consent and do not kill your people surely Allah is merciful to you and whoever does this aggressively and unjustly we will soon cast him into fire and this is easy to Allah if you shun the great sins which you are forbidden we will do away with your small sins and cause you to enter your honorable place of entering and do not covet that by which Allah has made some of you excel others men shall have the benefit of what they earn and women shall have the benefit of what they earn and ask Allah of his grace surely Allah knows all things and to everyone we have appointed of what parents and near relatives leave and as to those with whom your rights hands have ratified agreements give them their portion surely Allah is a witness over all things men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend their property the good women are therefore obedient guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded and as to those on whose part you fear desertion admonish them and leave them alone in the sleeping places and beat them then if they obey you do not seek away great and if you fear a breach between the two then appoint judge from his people and a judge from her people if they both desire agreement Allah will effect harmony between them surely Allah is knowing aware and serve Allah and do not associate anything with him and be good to the parents and to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the neighbor of your kin and the alien neighbor and the companion in a journey and the wayfarer and those whom your right hands possess surely Allah does not love him who is proud boastful those who are negridly and beat people to be negridly what Allah has given them out of his grace and we have prepared for the unbelievers this graceful chastisement and those who spend their property in alms to be seen of the people and do not believe in Allah nor in the last day and as for him who associate is the shaitan an evil associate is he and what harm would it have done them if they had believed in Allah and the last day and spent benevolently of what Allah had given them and Allah knows them surely Allah does not do injustice to the weight of an atom and if it is a good deed he multiplies it and gives from himself a great reward how will it be then when we bring from every people a witness and bring you as a witness against these on that day will those who disbelieve and disobey the messenger desire that the earth were leveled with them and they shall not hide any word from Allah oh you who believe do not go near prayer when you are intoxicated until you know well what you say nor when you are under an obligation to perform abath unless you are traveling on the road until you have washed yourselves and if you are sick or on a journey or one of you come from the privy or you have touched the women and you cannot find water but take yourselves to pure earth then wipe your faces and your hands surely Allah is pardoning forgiving have you not considered those to whom a portion of the book has been given they buy error and desire that you should go astray and Allah best knows your enemies and Allah suffices as a guardian and Allah suffices as a helper of those who are Jews there are those who alter words from their places and say we have heard and we disobey and here may you not be made to hear but Allah has cursed them on account of their unbelief so they do not believe but a little oh you you know you know you know you know you know you know you know you know but a little oh you who have been given the book believe that which we have revealed verifying what you have before we alter faces then turn them on their backs or curse them as we cursed the violators of the sabbath and the command of Allah shall be executed Surely Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him and forgives what is besides that to whom so ever He pleases and whoever associates anything with Allah He advises indeed a great sin Have you not considered those who attribute purity to themselves Nay Allah purifies whom He pleases and they shall not be wronged the husk of a date stone see how they forge the lie against Allah and this is sufficient as a manifest sin Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the book has been given in idols and false deities and say of those who disbelieve these are better guided in the path than those who believe those are they whom Allah has cursed and whomever Allah curses you shall not find any helper for Him or have they assure in the kingdom but then they would not give to people even the speck in the date stone or do they envy the people for what Allah has given them of His grace but indeed we have given to Abraham's children the book and the wisdom and we have given them a grand kingdom so of them is He who believes in Him and of them is He who turns away from Him and Hell is sufficient to burn as for those who disbelieve in our communications we shall make them enter fire so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned we will change them for other skins that they may taste the chastisement surely Allah is mighty wise and as for those who believe and do good deeds we will make them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow to abide in them forever they shall have their impure mates and we shall make them enter a dense shade surely Allah commands you to make over trusts to their owners and that when you judge between people you judge with justice surely Allah admonishes you with what is excellent surely Allah is seeing hearing O you who believe obey Allah and obey the messenger and those in authority from among you then if you quarrel about anything refer it to Allah and the messenger if you believe in Allah and the last day this is better and very good in the end have you not seen those who assert that they believe in what has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you they desire to summon one another to the judgment of the shaitan though they were commanded to deny him and the shaitan desires to lead them astray into a remote error and when it is said to them come to what Allah has revealed and to the messenger you will see the hypocrites turning away from you with utter aversion but how will it be when misfortune befalls them on account of what their hands have sent before then they will come to you swearing by Allah we did not desire anything but good and conquered these are they of whom Allah knows what is in their hearts therefore turn aside from them and admonish them and speak to them effectual words concerning themselves and we did not send any messenger but that he should be obeyed by Allah's permission and had they when they were unjust to themselves come to you and asked of Allah and the messenger had also asked forgiveness for them they would have found Allah oft returning to mercy merciful but no by your lord they do not believe in reality until they make you a judge of that which has become a matter of disagreement among them and then do not find any straightness in their hearts as to what you have decided and submit with entire submission and if we had prescribed for them lay down your lives or go forth from your homes they would not have done it except a few of them and if they had done what they were admonished it would have certainly been better for them and best in strengthening them and then we would certainly have given them from ourselves a great reward and we would certainly have guided them in the right path and whoever obeys Allah and the messenger these are with those upon whom Allah has bestowed favors from among the prophets and the truthful and the martyrs and the good and the goodly company are they this is grace from Allah and sufficient is Allah as the knower O you who believe take your precaution and go forth in detachments or go forth in a body and surely among you is he who would certainly hang back if then a misfortune defaults you he says surely Allah conferred a benefit on me that I was not present with them and if grace from Allah come to you certainly cry out as if there had not been any friendship between you and him with that I had been with them then I should have attained a mighty good fortune therefore let those fight in the way of Allah who sell this world's life for the hereafter and whoever fights in the way of Allah then be he slain or be he victorious we shall grant him a mighty reward and what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children of those who say our Lord cause us to go forth whose people are oppressors and give us from thee a guardian and give us from thee a helper those who believe fight in the way of Allah and those who disbelieve fight in the way of the shaitan fight therefore against the friends of the shaitan surely the strategy of the shaitan is weak have you not seen those to whom it was said withhold your hands and keep a prayer and pay the poor rate but when fighting is prescribed for them lower a party of them fear men as they ought to have feared Allah or even with a greater fear and say our Lord why hast thou ever ordained fighting for us wherefore this thou not grant us a delay to a near end say the provision of this world is short and hereafter is better for him who guards against evil and you shall not be wronged the husk of a dead stone wherever you are death will overtake you thou you are in lofty towers and if a benefit comes to them they say this is from Allah and if a misfortune befalls them they say this is from you say all is from Allah but what is the matter with these people that they do not make approach to understanding what is told them whatever benefit comes to you O man it is from Allah and whatever misfortune befalls you it is from yourself and we have sent you O Prophet to mankind as a messenger and Allah is sufficient as a witness whoever obeys the messenger he indeed obeys Allah and whoever turns back so we have not sent you as a keeper over them and they say obedience but when they go out from your presence a part of them decide by night upon doing otherwise than what you say and Allah writes down what they decide by night therefore turn aside from them and trust in Allah and Allah is sufficient as a protector do they not then meditate on the Quran and if it were from any other than Allah they would have found in it many discrepancy and when there comes to them news of security or fear they spread it abroad and if they had referred it to the messenger and to those in authority among them those among them who can search out the knowledge of it would have known it and where it not for the grace of Allah upon you and his mercy you would have certainly followed the shaitan save a few fight then in Allah's way this is not imposed on you except in relation to yourself and draws the believers to our door maybe Allah will restrain the fighting of those who disbelieve and Allah is the strongest in prowess and the strongest to give an exemplary punishment whoever joins himself to another in a good cause shall have a share of it and whoever joins himself to another in an evil cause shall have the responsibility of it and Allah controls all things and when you are greeted with a greeting greet with a better greeting than it or return it surely Allah takes account of all things Allah there is no God but He He will most certainly gather you together on the resurrection day there is no doubt in it and who is more true in word than Allah what is the matter with you then that you have become two parties about the hypocrites while Allah has made them return to unbelief for what they have earned and who you wish to guide him whom Allah has caused to err and whomsoever Allah causes to err you shall by no means find a way for him they desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved so that you might be all alike therefore take not from among them friends until they fly their homes in Allah's way but if they turn back then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them a friend or a helper except those who reach a people between whom and you there is an alliance or who come to you their hearts shrinking from fighting you or fighting their own people and if Allah had pleased he would have given them power over you so that they should have certainly fought you therefore if they withdraw from you and do not fight you and offer you peace then Allah has not given you away against them you will find others who desire that they should be safe from you and secure from their own people as often as they are sent back to the mischief they get thrown into it headlong therefore if they do not withdraw from you and do not offer you peace and restrain their hands then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and against these we have given you a clear authority and it does not behoove a believer to kill a believer except by mistake and whoever kills a believer by mistake he should free a believing slave and the blood money should be paid to his people unless they remit it as arms but if he be from a tribe hostile to you and he is a believer the freeing of a believing slave suffices and if he is from a tribe between whom and you there is a covenant the blood money should be paid to his people along with the freeing of a believing slave but he who cannot find a slave should fast for two months successively a penance from Allah and Allah is knowing wise and whoever kills a believer intentionally his punishment is hell he shall abide in it and Allah will send his wrath on him and curse him and prepare for him a painful chastisement oh you who believe when you go to war in Allah's way make investigation and do not say to anyone who offers you peace you are not a believer do you see goods of this words life but with Allah there are abundant gains where such before then Allah conferred a benefit on you therefore make investigation surely Allah is aware of what you do the holders back from among the believers not having any injury and those who strive hard in Allah's way with their property and their persons are not equal Allah has made the strivers with their property and their persons to excel the holders back a high degree and to each class Allah has promised good and Allah shall grant to the strivers above the holders back a mighty reward high degrees from him and protection and mercy and Allah is forgiving merciful surely as for those whom the angels cause to die while they are unjust to their souls they shall say in what state were you they shall say we were weak in the earth they shall say was not Allah's earth spacious so that you should have created therein so these it is whose abode is hell and it is an evil resort except the weak from among the men and the children who have not in their power the means nor can they find a way to escape so these it may be Allah will pardon them and Allah is pardoning and whoever flies in Allah's way he will find in the earth many a place of refuge and abundant resources and whoever goes forth from his house flying to Allah and his messenger and then death overtakes him his reward is indeed with Allah and Allah is forgiving merciful and when you journey in the earth there is no blame on you if you shorten the prayer if you fear that those who disbelieve will cause you distress surely the unbelievers are your open enemy and when you are among them and keep up the prayer for them let a portion of them stand up with you and let them take their arms then when they have prostrated themselves let them go to your rear and let another party who have not prayed come forward and pray with you and let them take their precautions and their arms for those who disbelieve desire that you may be careless of your arms and your luggage so that they may then turn upon with you a sudden united attack and there is no blame on you if you are annoyed with rain or if you are sick that you lay down your arms and take your precautions surely Allah has prepared a disgraceful chastisement for the unbelievers then when you have finished the prayer remember Allah standing and sitting and reclining but when you are secure from danger keep up prayer surely prayer is a time the ordinance for the believers and be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy if you suffer pain then surely they too suffer pain as you suffer pain and you hope from Allah what they do not hope and Allah is knowing wise surely we have revealed the book to you with the truth that you may judge between people by means of that which Allah has taught you and be not an advocate on behalf of the treacherous and ask forgiveness of Allah surely Allah is forgiving merciful and do not plead on behalf of those who act unfaithfully to their souls surely Allah does not love him who is treacherous sinful they hide themselves from men and do not hide themselves from Allah and he is with them when they meditate by night words which please him not and Allah encompasses what they do behold you are they who may plead for them in this world's life but who will plead for them with Allah under resurrection day or who shall be their protector and whoever does evil or acts unjustly to his soul then asks forgiveness of Allah he shall find Allah forgiving merciful and whoever commits a sin he only commits it against his own soul and Allah is knowing wise and whoever commits a fault or a sin then accuses of it one innocent he indeed takes upon himself the burden of a calamity and a manifest sin and where it not for Allah's grace upon you and his mercy a party of them had certainly designed to bring you to perdition and they do not bring oath to perdition but their own souls and they shall not harm you in any way and Allah has revealed to you the book and the wisdom and he has taught you what you did not know and Allah's grace on you is very great there is no good in most of their secret counsels except in his own enjoying charity or goodness or reconciliation between people and whoever does this seeking Allah's pleasure we will give him a mighty reward and whoever acts hostile to the messenger after that guidance has become manifest to him and follows other than the way of the believers we will turn him to that to which he has himself turned and make him enter hell and it is an evil resort surely Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with him and he forgives what is besides this to whom he pleases and whoever associates anything with Allah he indeed strays off into a remote error they do not call besides on anything but idols and they do not call on anything but a rebellious shaitan Allah has cursed him and he said most certainly I will take of thy servants an appointed portion and most certainly I will lead them astray and excite in them vain desires and bid them so that they shall slit the ears of the cattle and most certainly I will bid them so that they shall alter Allah's creation and whoever takes the shaitan for a guardian rather than Allah he indeed shall suffer a manifest loss he gives them promises vain desires in them and the shaitan does not promise them but to deceive these are they whose abode is hell and they shall not find any refuge from it and as for those who believe and do good we will make them enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow to abide therein forever it is a promise of Allah true indeed and who is truer of word than Allah this shall not be in accordance with your vain desires nor in accordance with the vain desires of the followers of the book whoever does evil he shall be requited with it and besides Allah he will find himself neither a guardian nor a helper and whoever does good deeds whether male or female and he or she is a believer these shall enter the garden and they shall not be dealt with a jat unjustly and who has a better religion than he who submits himself entirely to Allah and who is the doer of good to others and follows the faith of Abraham the upright one and Allah took Abraham as a friend and whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is Allah's and Allah encompasses all things and they ask you a decision about women say Allah makes known to you His decision concerning them and that which is recited to you in the book concerning female orphans whom you do not give what is appointed for them while you desire to marry them and concerning the weak among children and that you should deal towards orphans with equity and whatever good you do Allah surely knows it and if a woman fears ill usage or desertion on the part of her husband there is no blame on them if they effect a reconciliation between them and reconciliation is better and others has been made to be present in the people's minds and if you do good to others and guard against evil then surely Allah is aware of what you do and you have it not in your power to do justice between wives even though you may wish it but be not disclaimed from one with total disinclination so that you leave her as it were in suspense and if you effect a reconciliation and guard against evil then surely Allah is forgiving merciful and if they separate Allah will render them both free from want out of his ampleness and Allah is ample giving wise and whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is Allah and certainly we enjoying those who were given the book before you and we enjoying you too that you should be careful of your duty to Allah and if you disbelieve then surely whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is Allah and Allah is self sufficient pray is worthy and whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is Allah and Allah is sufficient as a protector if he please he can make you pass away all people and bring others and Allah has the power to do this whoever desires the reward then with Allah is the reward of this word and the hereafter and Allah is hearing seeing O you who believe be maintainers of justice bearers of witness of Allah's sake though it may be against your own selves or your parents or near relatives be rich or poor Allah is nearer to them both in compassion therefore do not follow your low desires lest you deviate and if you swerve or turn aside then surely Allah is aware of what you do O you who believe believe in Allah and his messenger and the book which he has revealed to his messenger and the book which he revealed before and whoever disbelieves in Allah and his angels and his messengers and the last day he indeed strays off into a remote error surely as for those who believe then disbelieve again believe and again disbelieve then increase in disbelief Allah will not forgive them nor guide them in the right path announce to the hypocrites that they shall have a painful chastisement those who take the unbelievers for guardians rather than believers do they seek honour from them then surely all honour is for Allah and indeed he has revealed to you in the book that when you hear Allah's communications disbelieved in and mocked at do not sit with them until they enter into some other discourse surely then you would be like them surely Allah will gather together the hypocrites and the unbelievers all in hell those who wait for some misfortune to befall you then if you have a victory from Allah they say were we not with you and if there is a chance for the unbelievers they say did we not acquire the mastery over you and defend you from the believers so Allah shall judge between you on the day of resurrection and Allah will by no means give the unbelievers away against the believers surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah and he shall requite their deceit to them and when they stand up to prayer they stand up sluggishly they do it only to be seen of men and do not remember Allah save a little wavering between that and this belonging neither to these nor to those and whosoever Allah causes to her you shall not find away for him all you who believe do not take the unbelievers for friends rather than the believers do not desire that you should give to Allah a manifest proof against yourselves surely the hypocrites are in the lowest stage of the fire and you shall not find a helper for them except those who repent and amend and hold fast to Allah and are sincere in their religion to Allah these are with the believers and Allah will grant the believers a mighty reward why should Allah stress you if you are grateful and believe and Allah is the multiplier of rewards knowing Allah does not love the public utterance of hurtful speech unless it be by one to whom justice has been done and Allah is hearing knowing if you do good openly or do it in secret or pardon an evil then surely Allah is pardoning powerful surely those who disbelieve in Allah and his messengers and those who desire to make a distinction between Allah and his messengers and say we believe in some and disbelieve in others and desire to take a course between this and that these it is that are truly unbelievers and we have prepared for the unbelievers a disgraceful chastisement and those who believe in Allah and his messengers and do not make a distinction between any of them Allah will grant them their rewards and Allah is forgiving merciful the followers of the book ask you to bring down to them a book from heaven so indeed they demanded of Musa a greater thing than that for they said show us Allah manifestly so the lightning ever took them on account of their injustice then they took the calf for a god after clear science had come to them but we pardoned this and we gave to Musa a clear authority and we lifted the mountain Sinai over them at the taking of the covenant and we said to them enter the door making the obeisance and we said to them do not exceed the limits of the Sabbath and we made with them a firm covenant therefore for their breaking their covenant and their disbelief in the communications of Allah and their killing the prophets wrongfully and they're saying our hearts are covered by Allah set a seal upon them owing to their unbelief so they shall not believe except a few and for their unbelief and for their having uttered against Maryam a grievous calamany and they're saying surely we have killed the messiah Isa son of Maryam the messenger of Allah and they did not kill him nor did they crucify him but it appeared to them so like Isa and most surely those who differed therein are only in doubt about it they have no knowledge respecting it but only follow a conjecture and they killed him not for sure nay Allah took him up to himself and Allah is mighty wise and there is not one of the followers of the book but most certainly believes in this before his death and on the day of resurrection he Isa shall be a witness against them wherefore for the inequity of those who are Jews did we allow to them the good things which have been made lawful for them and for their hindering many people from Allah's way and they're taking usury though indeed they were forbidden it and they're devouring the property of people falsely and we have prepared for the unbelievers from among them a painful شستايزمن but the firm in knowledge among them and the believers believe in what has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you and those who keep up prayers and those who give the poor rate and the believers in Allah and the last day these it is whom we will give a mighty reward شولي we have revealed to you as we revealed to Nooh and the prophets after him and we revealed to Ibrahim and Ismail and Ishaq and Jaqub and the tribes and Isa and Ayyub and Jonas and Haroun and Soleiman and we gave to the wood Psalms and we sent messengers we have mentioned to you before and messengers we have not mentioned to you and to Musa Allah addressed his word speaking to him we sent messengers as the givers of good news and as warners so that people should not have a plea against Allah after the coming messengers and Allah is mighty wise but Allah bears witness by what he has revealed to you that he has revealed it with his knowledge and the angels bear witness also and Allah is sufficient as a witness شولي as for those who disbelieve and hinder men from Allah's way should have strayed off into a remote error شولي as for those who disbelieve and act unjustly Allah will not forgive them nor guide them to a path except the path of Hell to abide in it forever and this is easy to Allah شولي the messenger has come to you from your Lord therefore believe it shall be good for you and if you disbelieve then surely whatever is in the heavens and the earth is Allah's and Allah is knowing wise all followers of the book do not exceed the limits in your religion and do not speak lies against Allah and speak the truth the Messiah son of Maryam is only a messenger of Allah and his word which he communicated to Maryam and a spirit from him believe therefore in Allah and his messengers and say not three desist it is better for you Allah is only one Allah far be it is His glory that He should have a son whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His and Allah is sufficient for a protector the Messiah does by no means disdain that He should be a servant of Allah nor do the angels who are near to Him and whoever disdains His service and is proud He will gather them all together to Himself then as for those who believe and do good He will pay them fully their rewards and give them more out of His grace and as for those who disdain and are proud He will chastise them with a painful chastisement and they shall not find themselves besides Allah a guardian or a helper oh people surely there has come to you manifest proof from your Lord and we have sent to you clear light then as for those who believe in Allah and hold fast by Him He will cause them to enter into His mercy and grace and guide them to Himself on a right path they ask you for a decision of the law say Allah gives you a decision concerning the person who has neither parents nor offspring if a man dies and he has no son and he has a sister she shall have half of what he leaves and he shall be her heir no son but if there be two sisters they shall have two thirds of what he leaves and if there are brethren men and women then the male shall have the like of the portion of two females Allah makes clear to you lest you err and Allah knows all things end of Surah 4 Surah 5 of the Holy Quran translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker this Libro Vox recording is in the public domain Surah 5 the Table Al-Maidah revealed at Madina in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful all you who believe the cattle quadrupeds are allowed to you accept that which is recited to you not violating the prohibition against game when you are entering upon the performance of the pilgrimage surely Allah orders what he desires all you who believe do not violate the signs appointed by Allah nor the sacred month nor interfere with the offerings nor the sacrificial animals with garlands nor those going to the sacred house seeking the grace and pleasure of their lord and when you are free from the obligations of the pilgrimage then hunt and let not hatred of a people because they hindered you from the sacred masjid incite you to exceed the limits and help one another in goodness and piety and do not help one another in sin and aggression and be careful of your duty to Allah surely Allah is severe forbidden to you is that which dies of itself and blood and flesh of swine and that on which any other name than that of Allah has been invoked and the strangled animal and that beaten to death and that killed by a fool and that killed by being smitten with the horn and that which wild beasts have eaten except what you slaughter and what is sacrificed on stones set up for idols and that you divide by the arrows that is a transgression this day have those who disbelieve the spurred of your religion them not and fear me this day have I perfected for you your religion and completed my favor on you and chosen for you Islam as a religion but whoever is compelled by hunger not inclining willfully to sin then surely Allah is forgiving merciful as to what is allowed to them say the good things are allowed to you and what you have taught the beasts and birds of prey training them to hunt you teach them of what Allah has taught you so eat of that which they catch for you and mention the name of Allah over it and be careful of your duty to Allah surely Allah is swift in reckoning this day all the good things are allowed to you and the food of those who have been given the book is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them and the chest from among the believing women and the chest from among those who have been given the book before you are lawful for you when you have given them their dowries taking them in marriage not for nicating nor taking them for paramuz in secret and whoever denies faith his work indeed is of no account and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers all you who believe when you rise up to prayer wash your faces and your hands as far as the elbows and wipe your heads and your feet to the ankles and if you are under an obligation to perform a total ablution then wash yourselves and if you are sick or on a journey or one of you come from the privy or you have touched the women and you cannot find water but take yourselves to pure earth and wipe your faces and your hands therewith Allah does not desire to put on you any difficulty but he wishes to purify you and that he may complete his favor on you so that you may be grateful and remember the favor of Allah on you and his covenant with which he bowed you firmly when you said we have heard and we obey and be careful of your duty to Allah surely Allah knows what is in the breasts all you who believe be upright for Allah bearers of witness with justice and let not hatred of a people inside you not to act equitably act equitably that is nearer to piety and he careful of your duty to Allah surely Allah is aware of what you do Allah has promised to those who believe and do good deeds that they shall have forgiveness and a mighty reward and as for those who disbelieve and reject our communications these are the companions of the name all you who believe remember Allah's favor on you when a people had determined to stretch forth their hands towards you but he withheld their hands from you and be careful of your duty to Allah and on Allah let the believers rely and certainly Allah made a covenant with the children of Israel and we raised up among them 12 shiftens and Allah said surely I am with you if you keep up prayer and pay the poor rate and believe in my messengers and assist them and offer to Allah a goodly gift I will most certainly cover your evil deeds and I will most certainly cause you to enter into gardens beneath which rivers float but whoever disbelieves from among you after that he indeed shall lose the right way but on account of their breaking their covenant we cursed them and made their hearts hard they altered the words from their places and they neglected a portion of what they were reminded of so pardon them and turn away surely Allah loves those who do good to others and with those who say we are Christians we made a covenant but they neglected a portion of what they were reminded of therefore we excited among them enmity and hatred to the day of resurrection and Allah will inform them of what they did all followers of the book indeed our messenger has come to you making clear to you much of what you concealed of the book and passing over much indeed there has come to you light and a clear book from Allah with it Allah guides him who will follow his pleasure into the ways of safety and brings them out of utter darkness into light by his will and guides them to the right path certainly they disbelieve who say surely Allah he is the messiah son of Maryam say who then could control anything as against Allah when he wished to destroy the messiah son of Maryam and his mother and all those on the earth and Allah is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between them he creates what he pleases and Allah has power over all things and the Jews and the Christians say we are the sons of Allah and his beloved ones say why does he then chastise you for your faults nay you are mortals from among those whom he has created he forgives whom he pleases and chastises whom he pleases and Allah is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between them and to him is the eventual coming all followers of the book indeed our messenger has come to you explaining to you after a cessation of the mission of the messengers lest you say there came not to us a giver of good news or a warner so indeed there has come to you a giver of good news and a warner and Allah has power over all things and when mosa said to his people all my people remember the favor of Allah upon you when he raised prophets among you and made you kings and gave you what he had not given to any other among the nations all my people enter the holy land which Allah has prescribed for you and turn not on your backs for them you will turn back losers they said oh mosa surely there is a strong grace in it and we will on no account enter it until they go out from it so if they go out from it then surely we will enter two men of those who feared upon both of whom Allah had bestowed a favor said enter upon them by the gate for when you have entered it you shall surely be victorious and on Allah should you rely if you are believers they said oh mosa we shall never enter it so long as they are in it go there for you and your lord then fight you both surely we will here sit down he said my lord surely I have no control upon any but my own self and my brother therefore make a separation between us and the nation of transgressors he said so it shall surely be forbidden to them for 40 years they shall wonder about in the land therefore do not grieve for the nation of transgressors and relate to them the story of the two sons of Adam with truth when they both offered an offering but it was accepted from one of them and was not accepted from the other he said I will most certainly slay you the other said Allah only accepts from those who guard against evil if you will stretch forth your hand towards me to slay me I am not one to stretch forth my hand towards you to slay you surely I fear Allah the lord of the worlds surely I wish that you should bear the sin committed against me and your own sin and so you would be of the inmates of the fire and this is the recompense of the unjust then his mind facilitated to him the slaying of his brother so he slew him then he became one of the losers then Allah sent a crow digging up the earth so that he might show him how he should cover the dead body of his brother he said me do I lack the strength that I should be like this crow and cover the dead body of my brother so he became of those who regret for this reason did we prescribe to the children should it be for men slaughter or for mischief in the land it is as though he slew all men and whoever keeps it alive it is as though he kept alive all men and certainly our messengers came to them with clear arguments but even after that many of them certainly went extravagantly in the land the punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his messengers and strive to make mischief in the land is only this that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned and shall be as a disgrace for them in this world and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement except those who repent before you have them in your power so know that Allah is forgiving merciful all you who believe be careful of your duty to Allah and seek means of مرنس to him and strive hard in his way that you may be successful surely as for those who disbelieve even if they had what is in the earth all of it and the like of it with it that they might ransom themselves with it from the punishment of the day of resurrection it shall not be accepted from them and they shall have a painful punishment they would desire to go forth from the fire and they shall not go forth from it and they shall have a lasting punishment and as for the man who steals and the woman who steals cut off their hands as a punishment for what they have earned a painful punishment from Allah and Allah is mighty wise but whoever repents after his inequity and reforms himself then surely Allah will turn to him merciful surely Allah is forgiving merciful do you not know that Allah his is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and he justizes whom he pleases and forgives whom he pleases and Allah has power over all things all messenger let not those grieve you who strive together in hastening to unbelief from among those who say with their mouth we believe and their hearts do not believe and from among who are Jews they are listeners for the sake of a lie listeners for another people who have not come to you they alter the words from their places saying if you are given this take it and if you are not given this be cautious and as for him whose temptation Allah desires you cannot control anything for him with Allah those are they for whom Allah does not desire that he should purify their hearts they shall have this grace in this word and they shall have a grievous justizement in the hereafter they are listeners of a lie devourers of what is forbidden therefore if they come to you judge between them or turn aside from them and if you turn aside from them they shall not harm you in any way and if you judge judge between them with equity surely Allah loves those who judge equitably and how do they make you a judge and they have the Torah when is Allah's judgment yet they turn back after that and these are not the believers surely we revealed the Torah in which was guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves to Allah judged matters for those who were Jews and the masters of divine knowledge and the doctors because they were required to guard part of the book of Allah and they were witnesses thereof therefore fear not the people and fear me and do not take a small price for my communications and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed those are they that are the unbelievers they prescribe to them that life is for life and eye for eye and nose for nose and ear for ear and tooth for tooth and that there is reprisal in wounds but he who foregoes it it shall be an expiation for him and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed those are they that are the unjust and we sent after them in their footsteps Isa son of Maryam verifying what was before him of the Torah and we gave him the angel in which was guidance and light and verifying what was before it of Torah and guidance and admonition for those who guard against evil and the followers of the angel should have judged by what Allah revealed in it and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed those are they that are the transgressors and we have revealed to you the book with the truth verifying what is before it of the book and guardian over it therefore judge between them by what Allah has revealed and do not follow their low desires to turn away from the truth that has come to you for every one of you did we appoint a law and a way and if Allah had pleased he would have made you all a single people but that he might try you in what he gave you therefore strive with one another to hasten to virtuous deeds to Allah is your return of all of you so he will let you know that in which you differed and that you should judge between them by what Allah has revealed and do not follow their low desires and be cautious of them lest they seduce you from part of what Allah has revealed to you but if they turn back then know that Allah desires to afflict them on account of some of their faults and most surely many of the people are transgressors is it then the judgment of the times of ignorance that they desire and who is better than Allah to judge for a people who are sure all you who believe do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends they are friends of each other and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend then surely he is one of them surely Allah does not guide the unjust people but you will see those in whose hearts is a disease hisening towards them saying we fear lest a calamity should befall us but it may be that Allah will bring the victory or a punishment from himself so that they shall be regretting on account of what they hid in their souls and those who believe will say are these they who swore by Allah with the most forcible of their oath that they were most truly with you their deeds shall go for nothing so they shall become losers all you who believe whoever from among you comes back from his religion then Allah will bring a people he shall love them and they shall love him lowly before the believers mighty against the unbelievers they shall strive hard in Allah's way and shall not fear the censure of any censurer this is Allah's face he gives it to whom he pleases and Allah is ample giving knowing only Allah is your valley and his messenger and those who believe those who keep up prayers and pay the poor rate while they bow and whoever takes Allah and his messenger and those who believe for a guardian then surely the party of Allah are they that shall be triumphant all you who believe do not take for guardians those who take your religion for a mockery and a joke from among those who were given the book before you and the unbelievers and be careful of your duty to Allah if you are believers and when you call to prayer they make it a mockery and a joke this is because they are people who do not understand say oh followers of the book do you find fault with us for except that we believe in Allah and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed before and that most of you are transgressors say shall I inform you of him who is worse than this in retribution from Allah worse is he whom Allah has cursed and brought his wrath upon and of whom he made apes and swine and he who served the shaitan these are worse in place and more erring and when they come to you they say we believe and indeed they come in with unbelief and indeed they go forth with it and Allah knows best what they concealed and you will see many of them striving with one another to hasten in sin and exceeding the limits and their eating of what is unlawfully acquired certainly evil is that which they do why do not the learned men and the doctors of law prohibit them from their speaking of what is sinful and their eating of what is unlawfully acquired certainly evil is that which they work and the Jews say the hand of Allah is tied up their hands shall be shackled and they shall be cursed for what they say nay, both his hands are spread out he expands as he pleases and what has been revealed to you from your Lord will certainly make many of them increase in inordinacy and unbelief and we have put an enmity and hatred among them till the day of resurrection whenever they kindle a fire for war Allah puts it out and they strive to make mischief in the land and Allah does not love the mischief makers and if the followers of the book had believed and guarded against evil we would certainly have covered their evil deeds and we would certainly have made them enter gardens of bliss and if they had kept up the Torah and the Injeel and that which was revealed to them from their Lord they would certainly have eaten from above them and from beneath their feet there is a party of them keeping to the moderate course and as for most of them evil is that which they do O messenger deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord and if you do it not then you have not delivered his message and Allah will protect you from the people surely Allah will not guide the unbelieving people say O followers of the book you follow no good till you keep up the Torah and the Injeel and that which is revealed to you from your Lord and surely that which has been revealed to you from your Lord shall make many of them increase in inordinacy and unbelief grief not therefore for the unbelieving people surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabians and the Christians whoever believes in Allah and the last day and does good they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve وانهدي with the Children of Israel and we sent to them messengers whenever they came to them a messenger with what their souls did not desire some of them did they call liars and some they slew and they thought that there would be no affliction so they became blind and deaf then Allah turned لهم مرسفا but many of them became blind and deaf and Allah is well seeing what they do certainly they disbelieve who say surely Allah He is the messiah son of Maryam and the messiah said oh children of Israel serve Allah my lord and your lord surely whoever associates with Allah then Allah has forbidden to him the garden and his abode is the fire and there shall be no helpers for the unjust certainly they disbelieve who say surely Allah is the third person of the three and there is no God but the one Allah and if they desist not from what they say a painful chastisement shall be full those among them who disbelieve will they not then turn to Allah and ask his forgiveness and Allah is forgiving merciful the messiah son of Maryam is but a messenger messengers before him have indeed passed away and his mother was a truthful woman they both used to eat food see how we make the communications clear to them then behold how they are turned away say do you serve besides Allah that which does not control for you any harm or any profit and Allah He is the hearing the knowing say oh followers of the book be not unduly a moderate in your religion and do not follow the low desires of people who went astray before and led many astray and went astray from the right path those who disbelieved from among the children of Israel were cursed by the tongue of the wood and Isa son of Maryam this was because they disobeyed and used to exceed the limit they use not to forbid each other the hateful things which they did certainly evil was that which they did you will see many of them befriending those who disbelieve certainly evil is that which their souls have sent before for them that Allah became displeased with them and in chastisement shall they abide and had they believed in Allah and the Prophet and what was revealed to him they would not have taken them for friends but most of them are transgressors certainly you will find the most violent of people in enmity for those who believe to be the Jews and those who are polytheists and you will certainly find the nearest in friendship to those who believe to be those who say we are Christians this is because there are priests and monks among them and because they do not behave proudly and when they hear what has been revealed to the messenger you will see their eyes overflowing with tears on account of the truth that they recognize they say our Lord we believe so write us down with the witnesses of truth and what reason have we that we should not believe in Allah and in the truth that has come to us while we earnestly desire that our Lord should cause us to enter with the good people therefore Allah rewarded them on account of what they said with the gardens in which rivers flow to abide in them and this is the reward of those who do good to others and as for those who disbelieve and reject our communications these are the companions of the flame all you who believe do not forbid yourselves the good things which Allah has made lawful for you and do not exceed the limits surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits and eat of the lawful and good things that Allah has given you and be careful of your duty to Allah in whom you believe Allah does not call you to account for what is vain in your oath but he calls you to account for the making of deliberate oath so its اكسيبيation is the feeding of ten poor men out of the middling food you feed your families with or their clothing or the freeing of a neck but those who ever cannot find means then fasting for three days this is the expiation of your oath when you swear and your oath thus does Allah make clear to you his communications that you may be faithful all you who believe intoxicants and games of trance and sacrificing to stones set up and dividing by arrows are only an uncleanness the shaitan's work it therefore that you may be successful the shaitan only desires to cause enmity and hatred to spring in your midst by means of intoxicants and games of chance and to keep you off from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer will you then and obey Allah and obey the messenger and be cautious but if you turn back then know that only a clear deliverance of the message is incumbent on our messenger on those who believe and do good there is no blame for what they eat when they are of their duty and believe and do good deeds then they are careful of their duty and believe then they are careful of their duty and do good to others and Allah loves those who do good to others all you who believe Allah will certainly try you in respect of some game which your hands and your lances can reach that Allah might know who fears him in secret but whoever exceeds the limit after this he shall have a painful punishment all you who believe do not kill game while you are on pilgrimage and whoever among you shall kill it intentionally the compensation of it is the like of what he killed from the kettle as to just persons among you shall judge as an offering to be brought to the Kaaba or the قصة of it is the feeding of the poor or the equivalent of it in fasting that he may taste the unwholesome result of his deed Allah has pardoned what is gone by and whoever returns to it Allah will inflict retribution on him and Allah is mighty Lord of retribution low for to you is the game of the sea and its food a provision for you and for the travelers and the game of the land is forbidden to you so long as you are on pilgrimage and be careful of your duty to Allah to whom you shall be gathered Allah has made the Kaaba the sacred house a maintenance for the people and the sacred month and the offerings and the sacrificial animals with garlands this is that you may know that Allah knows whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth and that Allah is the knower of all things know that Allah is severe in requiting evil and that Allah is forgiving merciful nothing is incumbent on the messenger but to deliver the message and Allah knows what you do openly and what you hide say the bad and the good are not equal though the abundance of the bad may please you so be careful of your duty to Allah oh man of understanding that you may be successful oh you who believe do not put questions about things which if declared to you may trouble you and if you question about them when the Quran is being revealed they shall be declared to you Allah pardon this and Allah is forgiving for bearing a people before you indeed asked such questions and then became these believers on account of them Allah has not ordained the making of a Bahira or a Sa'ibah or a Wasila or a Hami but those who disbelieve fabricate a lie against Allah and most of them do not understand and when it is said to them come to what Allah has revealed and to the messenger they say that on which we found our father is sufficient for us what even though their fathers knew nothing and did not follow the right way oh you who believe take care of your souls he who earth cannot hurt you when you are on the right way to Allah is your return of all of your of all of you so he will inform you of what you did oh you who believe call to witness between you when death draws nigh to one of you at the time of making the will two just persons from among you or two others from among others than you if you are traveling in the land and the calamity of death before you the two witnesses you should detain after the prayer then if you doubt them they shall both swear by Allah saying we will not take for it a price though there be a relative and we will not hide the testimony of Allah for then certainly we should be among the sinners then if it becomes known that they both have been guilty of a sin two others shall stand up in their place from among those who have a claim against them the two nearest in kin so they too should swear by Allah certainly our testimony is truer than the testimony of those two and we have not exceeded the limit for then most surely we should be of the unjust this is more proper in order that they should give testimony truly or fear that other oath be given after their oath and be careful of your duty to Allah and here and Allah does not guide the transgressing people on the day when Allah will assemble the messengers then say what answer were you given they shall say we have no knowledge surely thou art the great knower of the unseen things when Allah will say O Isa son of Maryam remember my favor on you and on your mother when I strengthened you I with the Holy Spirit you spoke to the people in the cradle and I when of old age and when I taught you the book and the wisdom and the Torah and the and when you determine out of clay a thing like the form of a bird by my permission then you breathe into it and it became a bird by my permission and you healed the blind and the lepros by my permission and when you brought forth the dead by my permission and when I withheld the children of Israel from you when you came to them with clear arguments but those who disbelieved among them said this is nothing but clear enchantment and when I revealed to the disciples saying believe in me and my messenger they said we believe and bear witness that we submit ourselves when the disciples said O Isa son of Maryam will your lord consent to send down to us food from heaven he said be careful of your duty to Allah if you are believers they said we desire that we should eat of it and that our hearts should be at rest and that we may know that you have indeed spoken the truth to us and that we may be of the witnesses to it he said the son of Maryam said Oh Allah our lord send down to us food from heaven which should be to us and ever recurring happiness to the first of us and to the last of us and assign from thee and grant us means of subsistence and thou art the best of the providers Allah said surely I will send it down to you but whoever shall disbelieve afterwards from among you surely I will chastise him with a chastisement with which I will not chastise anyone among the nations and when Allah will say O Isa son of Maryam did you say to men take me and my mother for two gods besides Allah he will say glory be to thee it did not befit me that I should say what I had no right to say if I had said it thou wouldst indeed have known it thou knowest what is in my mind and I do not know what is in thy mind surely thou art the great knower of the unseen things I did not say to them out save what thou dist enjoying me with that serve Allah my lord and your lord and I was a witness of them so long as I was among them but when thou dist cause me to die thou worked the water over them and thou art witness of all things if thou shouldest chastise them then surely they are thy servants and if thou shouldest forgive them then surely thou art the mighty the wise Allah will say this is the day when their truth shall benefit the truthful ones they shall have gardens beneath which rivers flow to abide in them forever Allah is well pleased with them and they are well pleased with Allah this is the mighty achievement Allah is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is in them and he has power over all things End of Surah 5