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taken them for friends and protectors, but most of them are rebellious wrong-doers.
005.085 Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans; and nearest among them
in love to the believers wilt thou find those who say, "We are Christians": because amongst these are men devoted to
learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant.
005.086 And when they listen to the revelation received by the Apostle, thou wilt see their eyes overflowing with tears,
for they recognise the truth: they pray: "Our Lord! we believe; write us down among the witnesses.
005.087 "What cause can we have not to believe in God and the truth which has come to us, seeing that we long for our
Lord to admit us to the company of the righteous?"
005.088 And for this their prayer hath God rewarded them with gardens, with rivers flowing underneath,- their eternal
home. Such is the recompense of those who do good.
005.089 But those who reject Faith and belie our Signs,- they shall be companions of Hell-fire.
005.090 O ye who believe! make not unlawful the good things which God hath made lawful for you, but commit no
excess: for God loveth not those given to excess.
005.091 Eat of the things which God hath provided for you, lawful and good; but fear God, in Whom ye believe.
005.092 God will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your
deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or
clothe them; or give a slave his freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is the expiation for the
oaths ye have sworn. But keep to your oaths. Thus doth God make clear to you His signs, that ye may be grateful.
005.093 O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an
abomination,- of Satan's handwork: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper.
005.094 Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you
from the remembrance of God, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain?
005.095 Obey God, and obey the Apostle, and beware (of evil): if ye do turn back, know ye that it is Our Apostle's duty
to proclaim (the message) in the clearest manner.
005.096 On those who believe and do deeds of righteousness there is no blame for what they ate (in the past), when
they guard themselves from evil, and believe, and do deeds of righteousness,- (or) again, guard themselves from evil
and believe,- (or) again, guard themselves from evil and do good. For God loveth those who do good.
005.097 O ye who believe! God doth but make a trial of you in a little matter of game well within reach of game well
within reach of your hands and your lances, that He may test who feareth him unseen: any who transgress thereafter,
will have a grievous penalty.
005.098 O ye who believe! Kill not game while in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb. If any of you doth so
intentionally, the compensation is an offering, brought to the Ka'ba, of a domestic animal equivalent to the one he
killed, as adjudged by two just men among you; or by way of atonement, the feeding of the indigent; or its equivalent
in fasts: that he may taste of the penalty of his deed. God forgives what is past: for repetition God will exact from him
the penalty. For God is Exalted, and Lord of Retribution.
005.099 Lawful to you is the pursuit of water-game and its use for food,- for the benefit of yourselves and those who
travel; but forbidden is the pursuit of land-game;- as long as ye are in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb. And fear
God, to Whom ye shall be gathered back.
005.100 God made the Ka'ba, the Sacred House, an asylum of security for men, as also the Sacred Months, the animals
for offerings, and the garlands that mark them: That ye may know that God hath knowledge of what is in the heavens
and on earth and that God is well acquainted with all things.
005.101 Know ye that God is strict in punishment and that God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
005.102 The Apostle's duty is but to proclaim (the message). But God knoweth all that ye reveal and ye conceal.
005.103 Say: "Not equal are things that are bad and things that are good, even though the abundance of the bad may
dazzle thee; so fear God, O ye that understand; that (so) ye may prosper."
005.104 O ye who believe! Ask not questions about things which, if made plain to you, may cause you trouble. But if
ye ask about things when the Qur'an is being revealed, they will be made plain to you, God will forgive those: for God
is Oft- forgiving, Most Forbearing.
005.105 Some people before you did ask such questions, and on that account lost their faith.