IZQ

060

Women
Tested

By the Name

God

the Fount-of-All-Mercy
the Ever-Merciful

you who believe

do not take
My enemy and your enemy
as friends

offering them love
though they are
ungrateful
for the truth
that has come to you

driving out the Messenger
and yourselves
because you believe in
God your Liege

if you go out
to struggle in My Way
and to search out
My good pleasure
keeping secret
your love for them

still I know very well
what you hide
and what you show

and whoever of you does that
has gone astray
from the right way

if they come upon you
they will be your enemies

and stretch out
their hands and tongues
against you
to do you evil

hoping that you might be
ungrateful

neither your family
nor your children
will be of use to you
on the Day of Rising

Hu will separate you out

and God sees
the things you do

you have had
a good example
in Abraham
and those with him

when they said to their people

"We are done with you
and what you serve
apart from God

we disagree with you

and between you and us
will be enmity
and hatred for ever

until you believe
in God alone"

except for Abraham's words
to his father

"I will ask that
you be forgiven

but I have no power
to do anything for you
against God

our Liege

in You we trust
to You we turn

to You is the homecoming

our Liege

do not make us
a temptation
to those who are
ungrateful

and forgive us

our Liege

You are
the All-Powerful
the Wise"

in them you have
a good example
for whoever hopes for
God and the Last Day

and whoever turns away

surely God is
Rich-beyond-Need
Most-Praiseworthy

it may be that God
will restore the love
between you and those
with whom you are enemies

God is
All-Capable

God is
Most-Forgiving
Ever-Merciful

God does not forbid you
to be kind to those
who have not fought you
over your Way of Life

nor driven you out
from where you live

act with justice towards them

surely God loves
those who are just

God only forbids you
from taking as friends
those who have fought you
over your Way of Life

and driven you out
from where you live

or supported those
who drove you out

those who take them
as friends
are the wrong doers

you who believe

when women who believe
make Hijra to be with you
test them

God knows very well
what they believe

then if you find
that they believe
do not return them
to those who are
ungrateful

those women are not
allowed for them
nor are they permitted
for those women

give those who are
ungrateful
whatever they have
cost them

and then there is
no blame for you
if you marry them
after you pay them
their dowry

do not hold fast
to any marriage ties
with those who are
ungrateful

ask for what you spent
and let them ask
for what they have spent

that is God's judgement

Hu judges between you

and God is
All-Knowing
Wise

and if any of your wives
leave you to return to
those who are
ungrateful
you should be compensated

so give those whose wives
have gone away
what they have spent
on their dowry

and be Mindful of God
in Hu you believe

O Newsbringer

when women who believe
come to you
and swear loyalty to you

on the grounds that
they will not take anything
as a god along with God

and will not steal
or be unfaithful
to their partners

or kill their children
or lie about who is
the father of their children

or disobey you
in anything that is right

then accept their promise
and ask God
to forgive them

God is
Most-Forgiving
Ever-Merciful

you who believe

do not take as companions
people against whom
God is angry

who have no hope
for the world to come

just as those who are
ungrateful
have given up hope
for those in their graves

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