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be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours: when they are taken in wedlock, if they fall into shame, their punishment
is half that for free women. This (permission) is for those among you who fear sin; but it is better for you that ye
practise self-restraint. And God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
004.026 God doth wish to make clear to you and to show you the ordinances of those before you; and (He doth wish
to) turn to you (In Mercy): And God is All-knowing, All-wise.
004.027 God doth wish to Turn to you, but the wish of those who follow their lusts is that ye should turn away (from
Him),- far, far away.
004.028 God doth wish to lighten your (difficulties): For man was created Weak (in flesh).
004.029 O ye who believe! Eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities: But let there be amongst you Traffic
and trade by mutual good-will: Nor kill (or destroy) yourselves: for verily God hath been to you Most Merciful!
004.030 If any do that in rancour and injustice,- soon shall We cast them into the Fire: And easy it is for God.
004.031 If ye (but) eschew the most heinous of the things which ye are forbidden to do, We shall expel out of you all
the evil in you, and admit you to a gate of great honour.
004.032 And in no wise covet those things in which God Hath bestowed His gifts More freely on some of you than
on others: To men is allotted what they earn, and to women what they earn: But ask God of His bounty. For God hath
full knowledge of all things.
004.033 To (benefit) every one, We have appointed shares and heirs to property left by parents and relatives. To those,
also, to whom your right hand was pledged, give their due portion. For truly God is witness to all things.
004.034 Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because God has given the one more (strength) than the
other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and
guard in (the husband's) absence what God would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty
and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they
return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For God is Most High, great (above you all).
004.035 If ye fear a breach between them twain, appoint (two) arbiters, one from his family, and the other from hers;
if they wish for peace, God will cause their reconciliation: For God hath full knowledge, and is acquainted with all
things.
004.036 Serve God, and join not any partners with Him; and do good- to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need,
neighbours who are near, neighbours who are strangers, the companion by your side, the wayfarer (ye meet), and what
your right hands possess: For God loveth not the arrogant, the vainglorious;-
004.037 (Nor) those who are niggardly or enjoin niggardliness on others, or hide the bounties which God hath
bestowed on them; for We have prepared, for those who resist Faith, a punishment that steeps them in contempt;-
004.038 Not those who spend of their substance, to be seen of men, but have no faith in God and the Last Day: If any
take the Evil One for their intimate, what a dreadful intimate he is!
004.039 And what burden Were it on them if they had faith in God and in the Last Day, and they spent out of what God
hath given them for sustenance? For God hath full knowledge of them.
004.040 God is never unjust in the least degree: If there is any good (done), He doubleth it, and giveth from His own
presence a great reward.
004.041 How then if We brought from each people a witness, and We brought thee as a witness against these people!
004.042 On that day those who reject Faith and disobey the apostle will wish that the earth Were made one with them:
But never will they hide a single fact from God!
004.043 O ye who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until ye can understand all that ye say,- nor
in a state of ceremonial impurity (Except when travelling on the road), until after washing your whole body. If ye are
ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find
no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands. For God doth blot out
sins and forgive again and again.
004.044 Hast thou not turned Thy vision to those who were given a portion of the Book? they traffic in error, and wish
that ye should lose the right path.
004.045 But God hath full knowledge of your enemies: God is enough for a protector, and God is enough for a Helper.
004.046 Of the Jews there are those who displace words from their (right) places, and say: "We hear and we disobey";