O believers, if an evildoer comes to you with some news, verifyit (investigate to ascertain the truth), lest you should harmothers unwittingly and then regret what you have done.

Woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and thensay: "This is from Allah," so that they may sell it for a pettyprice! Woe to them for what their hands have written and woe tothem for what they have earned.

The Jews say: "The fire shall not touch us except for a fewdays." O Muhammad, say: "Have you obtained such a promise fromAllah which He would not break ? Or do you assert against Allahwhat you do not know?"

Yea! Those who commit evil and become encircled in sin are theinmates of Hellfire; they shall live there forever.

Tell them plainly because it has already been revealed to you asit was revealed to those before you that if you commit shirk, allyour deeds will become fruitless and you will surely be among thelosers."

Therefore, worship Allah and be among His thankful servants.

They have not recognized the worth of Allah as his worth shouldbe recognized. On the Day of Resurrection the whole earth shallbe in His grasp and all the heavens shall be rolled up in Hisright hand. Glory be to Him! Exalted be He above what theyassociate with Him.

In fact those whom you call besides Allah are bondmen, likeyourselves. Well call them, and let them answer you, if what yousay is true!

Those whom they invoke besides Allah have created nothing, butare themselves created.

If there were other gods in the heavens or in the earth besidesAllah, both the heavens and earth would have been in a state ofdisorder. Glory be to Allah, the Lord of the Throne, absolutelyfree is He from the falsehood that they attribute to Him.

O Prophet, say to the mushrikin: "Call on those deities whom youpray besides Allah - they do not have power over an atom's weightof anything in the heavens or earth, nor have they any share ineither, nor is any of them a helper to Allah."

He Alone has the knowledge of the Hour of Doom. No fruit comesout of its sheath, nor does a female conceive, nor she givesbirth but with His knowledge. On the Day of Judgement when Allahwill ask the unbelievers: "Where are those partners that youassociated with Me?" They will answer: "We confess that none ofus can vouch for them."

And who could be more astray than the one who invokes thosedeities besides Allah who cannot answer him till the Day ofResurrection - which, in fact, are not even aware that they arebeing invoked?

Have you ever seen Lat and Uzza

and said to each other: 'Do not leave your gods; especially Wadd,Suwa, Yaghus, Yauq and Nasr (the names of their idols).'

surely you contradict one another in what you say,

Nay! They do not believe that which they cannot grasp, for theyhave not yet seen its prophecy fulfilled. The same way those whopassed before them disbelieved. But see what was the end of thewrongdoers!

O People of the Book! Why do you confound the truth withfalsehood and knowingly conceal the truth?

To Allah belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth. Onthat Day when the Hour of Judgment will be established, those whohave denied His revelations shall be doomed to loss.

Those who disbelieve and obstruct Allah's Way, He will rendertheir deeds fruitless.

As for those who believe and do good deeds and believe in what isrevealed to Muhammad - the truth from their Rabb - He will removefrom them their evils and improve their condition.

This is because the unbelievers follow falsehood, while thebelievers follow the truth from their Rabb. Thus, Allah citestheir similitudes for mankind.

Now are these people waiting for anything other than the Day ofFulfillment (Day of Judgement)? When the Day of Fulfillment willcome, those who have disregarded it, will say: "Indeed theRasools of our Rabb had come with the truth. Are there anyintercessors now, who could intercede on our behalf? Or could webe sent back so that we would not do as we have done before." Infact they would have lost their souls and the things they hadinvented will leave them in the lurch.

Those who worshipped the calf have indeed incurred the wrath oftheir Rabb and disgrace in this life; thus do We recompense thosewho invent falsehoods.

Surely those who do not believe in the revelations of Allah, arethe ones who forge the falsehood and they are the ones who areliars!

Woe to each lying sinner

before whom the revelations of Allah are recited: he hears them,yet he arrogantly persists as though he never heard them;announce to him a painful punishment.

And when something of Our revelations come to his knowledge, hetakes them as a joke; for all such people there will be ahumiliating punishment.

Beyond them there lies hell, and nothing of what they have earnedin this world will be of any benefit to them, nor those whom theyhave taken as their protectors besides Allah, and they shall havegrievous punishment.

It is not conceivable that any Prophet would hold back from thespoils of war; for anyone who holds back shall bring alongwhatever he has been withholding on the Day of Resurrection; thenevery soul shall be paid back in full what it has earned and theyshall not be dealt with unjustly.

Then, "O the mistaken rejecters,

you shall eat of the Zaqqum tree,

and fill your bellies with it;

and drink on top of it scalding water;

yet you shall drink it like a thirsty camel."

Such will be their entertainment on the Day of Reckoning.

And if he is one of the mistaken rejecters,

he is welcomed with scalding water,

and burning in hellfire.

Surely this is an absolute truth.

O Prophet! Why do you make something unlawful, which Allah hasmade lawful to you in seeking to please your wives? Allah isForgiving, Merciful.

Allah has already given you absolution from such oaths. Allah isyour Master and He is the Knowledgeable, the Wise.

When the Prophet confined a secret to one of his wives, shedisclosed this secret to another and Allah informed him about it,the Prophet made known to the said wife a part of it and avoidedmentioning the rest. So when he told her about this disclosure,she asked: "Who told you this?" He replied: "I was informed byHim Who is All-Knowing, All-Aware."

If you both (Hafsah and Aeysha) turn in repentance to Allah - foryour hearts have sinned - you shall be pardoned; and if you backup each other against him (the Prophet), then you should knowthat his protectors are Allah, Gabriel and all righteousbelievers, furthermore the angels too are his supporters.

It may well be that, if he divorce you all, his Rabb will givehim in your place better wives than yourselves, submissive,faithful, obedient, penitent, worshippers and keepers of fasting;be they previously married or virgins.

O Muhammad, say: "Come, I will recite what your Rabb hasforbidden to you: not to commit shirk with Him, to be kind toyour parents, not to kill your children making the excuse ofinability to support them - We provide sustenance for you and forthem - not to commit shameful deeds whether open or secret, notto kill any soul forbidden by Allah except for the requirementsof justice. These are the things which He enjoined you so thatyou may learn wisdom.

If We show them mercy and relieve them of their affliction, theywould obstinately persist in their rebellion, blindly wanderingto and fro;

Well! Wait for the Day when the sky will pour down visible smoke.

It is made lawful for you to approach your wives during the nightof the fast; they are an apparel for you and you for them. Allahknows that you were committing dishonesty to your souls. So Hehas relented towards you and pardoned you. Now, you may approachyour wives and seek what Allah has written for you. Eat and drinkuntil the white thread of dawn appears to you distinct from theblack thread of night, then complete your fast till nightfall. Donot approach your wives during I'htikaf (retreat in the mosquesin last ten days of Ramadhan). These are the limits set by Allah:do not ever violate them. Thus Allah makes His revelations clearto mankind so that they may guard themselves against evil.

Fast the prescribed number of days; except if any of you is illor on a journey, let him fast a similar number of days later. Forthose who can not endure it for medical reasons, there is aransom: the feeding of one poor person for each missed day. Butif he feeds more of his own free will, it is better for him.However, if you truly understand the rationale of fasting, it isbetter for you to fast.

It may well be that, if he divorce you all, his Rabb will givehim in your place better wives than yourselves, submissive,faithful, obedient, penitent, worshippers and keepers of fasting;be they previously married or virgins.

Perish the hands of Abu Lahab! And perish he!

His wealth and whatever he earned did not avail him anything.

Soon he shall be burnt in a flaming fire (a pun on the meaning ofAbu Lahab, "father of flames"),

and his wife, the carrier of crackling fire wood,

shall have a rope of palm-leaf fibre around her neck.

When you lived among those people who had wronged their souls, itwas explained to you how We dealt with them and We even describedfor you their examples."

Likewise the people of 'Ad did not believe then how terrible wasMy scourge and how clear My Warning!

We let loose on them a tornado, on the day of their bittermisfortune,

which snatched them off like trunks of uprooted palm-trees.

How terrible was My scourge and how clear My warning!

Another example is the people of Lut (Lot) who disbelieved Ourwarning.

We let loose on them a stone-charged tornado which spared noneexcept Lut's household, whom We saved by early dawn

Lut did warn them of Our scourge but they doubted his warnings.

as if to say: "Now taste My punishment and the result ofdisbelieving My warning."

O mankind, We have sent towards you a Rasool, to bear witness foryou or against you, as We sent a Rasool towards Fir'on (Pharaoh)before you.

Fir'on disobeyed Our Rasool; so We seized him with a firm grip.

Have you not considered how your Rabb dealt with the Army of theElephant (reference is made to Abraha, a Christian king of Yaman,who attacked Makkah with the army of elephants in the year of theProphet Muhammad's birth)?

Did He not make their treacherous plan a flop?

And send against them flocks of birds,

which pelted them with stones of baked clay,

thus rendered them like the chewed-up chaff.

And with Fir'on (Pharaoh) the owner of stakes?

They all transgressed beyond bounds in their cities,

and committed great mischief therein.

Therefore, your Rabb let loose on them His scourge of torment.

And with the people of Thamud who hewed out their dwellings inthe rocks of the valley?

and his wife, the carrier of crackling fire wood,

shall have a rope of palm-leaf fibre around her neck.

Do not marry those women whom your fathers had married, - exceptwhat happened prior to this commandment. - Surely it wasshocking, disgusting, and an evil practice.

O believers! Whoever among you renounce Islam let him do so; soonAllah will replace them with others whom He will love and theywill love Him, who will be humble towards the believers, mightyagainst the unbelievers, striving hard in the way of Allah, andwill have no fear of reproach from any critic. Now this is thegrace of Allah which He bestows on whom He pleases. Allah hasboundless knowledge.