By the Name
God
the Fount-of-All-Mercy
the Ever-Merciful
O Newsbringer
why do you forbid
what God has allowed you
trying to please your wives
God is
Most-Forgiving
Ever-Merciful
God has given an order
that you should be
set free from your oaths
God is your Protector
Hu is
the All-Knowing
the Wise
and when the Newsbringer
told something secretly
to one of his wives
and she told it to another
God made this known to him
and he spoke of some of it
and ignored some
and when he told her of it
she said
"Who told you this?"
he said
"I was told it by
the All-Knowing
the All-Aware"
even if the two of you
apologise before God
still your hearts
leaned in that direction
but if you support one another
against him
God is his Protector
and Gabriel
and those who do
what is right
among those who believe
and as well as that
the Angels
will come to his support
it may be
that if he does divorce you
his Liege will give him
wives better than you
in exchange
women
who have surrendered
who believe
who are obedient
who apologise
who worship
who fast often
who have been married
and virgins too
you who believe
protect yourselves
and your families
against a Fire
whose fuel is
people and stones
in charge of which are
harsh and terrible Angels
who do not disobey God
in what Hu commands them
and they do
what they are told
you who are ungrateful
do not
excuse yourselves today
you are only being repaid
for what you were doing
you who believe
turn to God
in honest sorrow
it may be that your Liege
will wipe away
your evil deeds
and will let you enter gardens
beneath which rivers flow
on the day
when God
will not shame
the Newsbringer
and those who
believe with him
their light will stream out
before them
and on their right side
and they will say
"Our Liege
perfect our light for us
and forgive us
surely You are powerful
over everything"
O Newsbringer
struggle with those who are
ungrateful
and those who
pretend to believe
and be hard on them
their shelter will be Hellfire
an evil homecoming
God has struck a likeness
for those who are ungrateful
the wife of Noah
and the wife of Lot
they were married to
two of Our honest servants
but they betrayed them
so they were not helped at all
against God
and it was said
"Enter the Fire
you two
along with all the others
who enter it"
God has struck a likeness
for those who believe
the wife of Pharaoh
when she said
"My Liege
build a house for me
in the Garden
in Your presence
and rescue me from Pharaoh
and the things he does
and save me from
the people who do evil"
and Mary
the daughter of Imran
who guarded her virginity
We breathed into her
from Our Spirit
and she accepted
the Words of her Liege
and Hu's Books
and became
one of those who obey