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this my Covenant as binding on you?" They said: "We agree." He said: "Then bear witness, and I am with you among the
witnesses."
003.082 If any turn back after this, they are perverted transgressors.
003.083 Do they seek for other than the Religion of God?-while all creatures in the heavens and on earth have, willing
or unwilling, bowed to His Will (Accepted Islam), and to Him shall they all be brought back.
003.084 Say: "We believe in God, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac,
Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus, and the prophets, from their Lord: We make no
distinction between one and another among them, and to God do we bow our will (in Islam)."
003.085 If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to God), never will it be accepted of him; and in the
Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have lost (All spiritual good).
003.086 How shall God Guide those who reject Faith after they accepted it and bore witness that the Apostle was true
and that Clear Signs had come unto them? but God guides not a people unjust.
003.087 Of such the reward is that on them (rests) the curse of God, of His angels, and of all mankind;-
003.088 In that will they dwell; nor will their penalty be lightened, nor respite be (their lot);-
003.089 Except for those that repent (Even) after that, and make amends; for verily God is Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.
003.090 But those who reject Faith after they accepted it, and then go on adding to their defiance of Faith,- never will
their repentance be accepted; for they are those who have (of set purpose) gone astray.
003.091 As to those who reject Faith, and die rejecting,- never would be accepted from any such as much gold as the
earth contains, though they should offer it for ransom. For such is (in store) a penalty grievous, and they will find no
helpers.
003.092 By no means shall ye attain righteousness unless ye give (freely) of that which ye love; and whatever ye give,
of a truth God knoweth it well.
003.093 All food was lawful to the Children of Israel, except what Israel Made unlawful for itself, before the Law (of
Moses) was revealed. Say: "Bring ye the Law and study it, if ye be men of truth."
003.094 If any, after this, invent a lie and attribute it to God, they are indeed unjust wrong-doers.
003.095 Say: "God speaketh the Truth: follow the religion of Abraham, the sane in faith; he was not of the Pagans."
003.096 The first House (of worship) appointed for men was that at Bakka: Full of blessing and of guidance for all
kinds of beings:
003.097 In it are Signs Manifest; (for example), the Station of Abraham; whoever enters it attains security; Pilgrimage
thereto is a duty men owe to God,- those who can afford the journey; but if any deny faith, God stands not in need of
any of His creatures.
003.098 Say: "O People of the Book! Why reject ye the Signs of God, when God is Himself witness to all ye do?"
003.099 Say: "O ye People of the Book! Why obstruct ye those who believe, from the path of God, Seeking to make
it crooked, while ye were yourselves witnesses (to God's Covenant)? but God is not unmindful of all that ye do."
003.100 O ye who believe! If ye listen to a faction among the People of the Book, they would (indeed) render you
apostates after ye have believed!
003.101 And how would ye deny Faith while unto you are rehearsed the Signs of God, and among you Lives the
Apostle? Whoever holds firmly to God will be shown a way that is straight.
003.102 O ye who believe! Fear God as He should be feared, and die not except in a state of Islam.
003.103 And hold fast, all together, by the rope which God (stretches out for you), and be not divided among
yourselves; and remember with gratitude God's favour on you; for ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love,
so that by His Grace, ye became brethren; and ye were on the brink of the pit of Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus
doth God make His Signs clear to you: That ye may be guided.
003.104 Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding
what is wrong: They are the ones to attain felicity.
003.105 Be not like those who are divided amongst themselves and fall into disputations after receiving Clear Signs:
For them is a dreadful penalty,-
003.106 On the Day when some faces will be (lit up with) white, and some faces will be (in the gloom of) black: To