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their beauty attract thee, except any thy right hand should possess (as handmaidens): and God doth watch over all things.
033.053 O ye who believe! Enter not the Prophet's houses,- until leave is given you,- for a meal, (and then) not (so
early as) to wait for its preparation: but when ye are invited, enter; and when ye have taken your meal, disperse, without
seeking familiar talk. Such (behaviour) annoys the Prophet: he is ashamed to dismiss you, but God is not ashamed (to
tell you) the truth. And when ye ask (his ladies) for anything ye want, ask them from before a screen: that makes for
greater purity for your hearts and for theirs. Nor is it right for you that ye should annoy God's Apostle, or that ye should
marry his widows after him at any time. Truly such a thing is in God's sight an enormity.
033.054 Whether ye reveal anything or conceal it, verily God has full knowledge of all things.
033.055 There is no blame (on these ladies if they appear) before their fathers or their sons, their brothers, or their
brother's sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the (slaves) whom their right hands possess. And, (ladies), fear
God; for God is Witness to all things.
033.056 God and His angels send blessings on the Prophet: O ye that believe! Send ye blessings on him, and salute
him with all respect.
033.057 Those who annoy God and His Apostle - God has cursed them in this World and in the Hereafter, and has
prepared for them a humiliating Punishment.
033.058 And those who annoy believing men and women undeservedly, bear (on themselves) a calumny and a glaring
sin.
033.059 O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments
over their persons (when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested. And
God is Oft- Forgiving, Most Merciful.
033.060 Truly, if the Hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and those who stir up sedition in the City,
desist not, We shall certainly stir thee up against them: Then will they not be able to stay in it as thy neighbours for
any length of time:
033.061 They shall have a curse on them: whenever they are found, they shall be seized and slain (without mercy).
033.062 (Such was) the practice (approved) of God among those who lived aforetime: No change wilt thou find in the
practice (approved) of God.
033.063 Men ask thee concerning the Hour: Say, "The knowledge thereof is with God (alone)": and what will make thee
understand?- perchance the Hour is nigh!
033.064 Verily God has cursed the Unbelievers and prepared for them a Blazing Fire,-
033.065 To dwell therein for ever: no protector will they find, nor helper.
033.066 The Day that their faces will be turned upside down in the Fire, they will say: "Woe to us! Would that we had
obeyed God and obeyed the Apostle!"
033.067 And they would say: "Our Lord! We obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they misled us as to the (right)
Path.
033.068 "Our Lord! Give them double Penalty and curse them with a very great Curse!"
033.069 O ye who believe! Be ye not like those who vexed and insulted Moses, but God cleared him of the (calumnies)
they had uttered: and he was honourable in God's sight.
033.070 O ye who believe! Fear God, and (always) say a word directed to the Right:
033.071 That He may make your conduct whole and sound and forgive you your sins: He that obeys God and His
Apostle, has already attained the highest achievement.
033.072 We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains; but they refused to undertake
it, being afraid thereof: but man undertook it;- He was indeed unjust and foolish;-
033.073 (With the result) that God has to punish the Hypocrites, men and women, and the Unbelievers, men and
women, and God turns in Mercy to the Believers, men and women: for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
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034.001 Praise be to God, to Whom belong all things in the heavens and on earth: to Him be Praise in the Hereafter:
and He is Full of Wisdom, acquainted with all things.
034.002 He knows all that goes into the earth, and all that comes out thereof; all that comes down from the sky and