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024.047 They say, "We believe in God and in the apostle, and we obey": but even after that, some of them turn away:
they are not (really) Believers.
024.048 When they are summoned to God and His apostle, in order that He may judge between them, behold some
of them decline (to come).
024.049 But if the right is on their side, they come to him with all submission.
024.050 Is it that there is a disease in their hearts? or do they doubt, or are they in fear, that God and His Apostle will
deal unjustly with them? Nay, it is they themselves who do wrong.
024.051 The answer of the Believers, when summoned to God and His Apostle, in order that He may judge between
them, is no other than this: they say, "We hear and we obey": it is such as these that will attain felicity.
024.052 It is such as obey God and His Apostle, and fear God and do right, that will win (in the end),
024.053 They swear their strongest oaths by God that, if only thou wouldst command them, they would leave (their
homes). Say: "Swear ye not; Obedience is (more) reasonable; verily, God is well acquainted with all that ye do."
024.054 Say: "Obey God, and obey the Apostle: but if ye turn away, he is only responsible for the duty placed on him
and ye for that placed on you. If ye obey him, ye shall be on right guidance. The Apostle's duty is only to preach the
clear (Message).
024.055 God has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds, that He will, of a surety, grant
them in the land, inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their
religion - the one which He has chosen for them; and that He will change (their state), after the fear in which they
(lived), to one of security and peace: 'They will worship Me (alone) and not associate aught with Me. 'If any do reject
Faith after this, they are rebellious and wicked.
024.056 So establish regular Prayer and give regular Charity; and obey the Apostle; that ye may receive mercy.
024.057 Never think thou that the Unbelievers are going to frustrate (God's Plan) on earth: their abode is the Fire,-
and it is indeed an evil refuge!
024.058 O ye who believe! let those whom your right hands possess, and the (children) among you who have not come
of age ask your permission (before they come to your presence), on three occasions: before morning prayer; the while
ye doff your clothes for the noonday heat; and after the late-night prayer: these are your three times of undress: outside
those times it is not wrong for you or for them to move about attending to each other: Thus does God make clear the
Signs to you: for God is full of knowledge and wisdom.
024.059 But when the children among you come of age, let them (also) ask for permission, as do those senior to them
(in age): Thus does God make clear His Signs to you: for God is full of knowledge and wisdom.
024.060 Such elderly women as are past the prospect of marriage,- there is no blame on them if they lay aside their
(outer) garments, provided they make not a wanton display of their beauty: but it is best for them to be modest: and
God is One Who sees and knows all things.
024.061 It is no fault in the blind nor in one born lame, nor in one afflicted with illness, nor in yourselves, that ye
should eat in your own houses, or those of your fathers, or your mothers, or your brothers, or your sisters, or your
father's brothers or your father's sisters, or your mohter's brothers, or your mother's sisters, or in houses of which the
keys are in your possession, or in the house of a sincere friend of yours: there is no blame on you, whether ye eat in
company or separately. But if ye enter houses, salute each other - a greeting of blessing and purity as from God. Thus
does God make clear the signs to you: that ye may understand.
024.062 Only those are believers, who believe in God and His Apostle: when they are with him on a matter requiring
collective action, they do not depart until they have asked for his leave; those who ask for thy leave are those who
believe in God and His Apostle; so when they ask for thy leave, for some business of theirs, give leave to those of them
whom thou wilt, and ask God for their forgiveness: for God is Oft- Forgiving, Most Merciful.
024.063 Deem not the summons of the Apostle among yourselves like the summons of one of you to another: God
doth know those of you who slip away under shelter of some excuse: then let those beware who withstand the Apostle's
order, lest some trial befall them, or a grievous penalty be inflicted on them.
024.064 Be quite sure that to God doth belong whatever is in the heavens and on earth. Well doth He know what ye are
intent upon: and one day they will be brought back to Him, and He will tell them the truth of what they did: for God doth
know all things.