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002.085 After this it is ye, the same people, who slay among yourselves, and banish a party of you from their homes;
assist (Their enemies) against them, in guilt and rancour; and if they come to you as captives, ye ransom them, though
it was not lawful for you to banish them. Then is it only a part of the Book that ye believe in, and do ye reject the rest?
but what is the reward for those among you who behave like this but disgrace in this life?- and on the Day of Judgment
they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty. For God is not unmindful of what ye do.
002.086 These are the people who buy the life of this world at the price of the Hereafter: their penalty shall not be
lightened nor shall they be helped.
002.087 We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of apostles; We gave Jesus the son of Mary
Clear (Signs) and strengthened him with the holy spirit. Is it that whenever there comes to you an apostle with what ye
yourselves desire not, ye are puffed up with pride?- Some ye called impostors, and others ye slay!
002.088 They say, "Our hearts are the wrappings (which preserve God's Word: we need no more)." Nay, God's curse
is on them for their blasphemy: Little is it they believe.
002.089 And when there comes to them a Book from God, confirming what is with them,- although from of old they
had prayed for victory against those without Faith,- when there comes to them that which they (should) have
recognised, they refuse to believe in it but the curse of God is on those without Faith.
002.090 Miserable is the price for which they have sold their souls, in that they deny (the revelation) which God has
sent down, in insolent envy that God of His Grace should send it to any of His servants He pleases: Thus have they
drawn on themselves Wrath upon Wrath. And humiliating is the punishment of those who reject Faith.
002.091 When it is said to them, "Believe in what God Hath sent down, "they say, "We believe in what was sent down
to us:" yet they reject all besides, even if it be Truth confirming what is with them. Say: "Why then have ye slain the
prophets of God in times gone by, if ye did indeed believe?"
002.092 There came to you Moses with clear (Signs); yet ye worshipped the calf (Even) after that, and ye did behave
wrongfully.
002.093 And remember We took your covenant and We raised above you (the towering height) of Mount (Sinai):
(Saying): "Hold firmly to what We have given you, and hearken (to the Law)": They said:" We hear, and we disobey:"
And they had to drink into their hearts (of the taint) of the calf because of their Faithlessness. Say: "Vile indeed are
the behests of your Faith if ye have any faith!"
002.094 Say: "If the last Home, with God, be for you specially, and not for anyone else, then seek ye for death, if ye
are sincere."
002.095 But they will never seek for death, on account of the (sins) which their hands have sent on before them. and
God is well-acquainted with the wrong-doers.
002.096 Thou wilt indeed find them, of all people, most greedy of life, --even more than the idolaters: Each one of
them wishes He could be given a life of a thousand years: But the grant of such life will not save him from (due)
punishment. For God sees well all that they do.
002.097 Say: Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel-for he brings down the (revelation) to thy heart by God's will, a
confirmation of what went before, and guidance and glad tidings for those who believe,-
002.098 Whoever is an enemy to God and His angels and apostles, to Gabriel and Michael,- Lo! God is an enemy to
those who reject Faith.
002.099 We have sent down to thee Manifest Signs (ayat); and none reject them but those who are perverse.
002.100 Is it not (the case) that every time they make a covenant, some party among them throw it aside?- Nay, Most
of them are faithless.
002.101 And when there came to them an apostle from God, confirming what was with them, a party of the people of
the Book threw away the Book of God behind their backs, as if (it had been something) they did not know!
002.102 They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of Solomon: the blasphemers Were,
not Solomon, but the evil ones, teaching men Magic, and such things as came down at babylon to the angels Harut and
Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (Such things) without saying: "We are only for trial; so do not blaspheme."
They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except
by God's permission. And they learned what harmed them, not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of
(magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price for which they did sell their