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.

Say O Muhammad: "Whoever is the enemy of Jibra'el (Gabriel)should know that he revealed this Qur'an to your heart by Allah'scommand, which confirms previous scriptures, and is a guidanceand good news for the believers."

Let them know that whoever is an enemy to Allah, His angels, HisRasools, Jibra'el (Gabriel) and Mika'el (Michael); Allah is anenemy to such unbelievers.

Is this a magic, or do you not see?

Now burn therein; it will be the same for you, whether you bearit patiently or do not bear it patiently. You are being rewardedaccording to your deeds."

As for the righteous, they will be in Gardens and bliss,

rejoicing in what their Rabb has given them and their Rabb shallshield them from the torment of hell.

by such people whom neither business nor business profit candivert from the remembrance of Allah, nor from establishing Salahand nor from paying Zakah, for they fear the Day of Judgementwhen hearts will be overturned and eyes will be petrified,

who hope that Allah will reward them according to the best oftheir deeds and add for them even more out of His grace: forAllah gives without measure to whom He pleases.

by such people whom neither business nor business profit candivert from the remembrance of Allah, nor from establishing Salahand nor from paying Zakah, for they fear the Day of Judgementwhen hearts will be overturned and eyes will be petrified,

who hope that Allah will reward them according to the best oftheir deeds and add for them even more out of His grace: forAllah gives without measure to whom He pleases.

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.

Those men who accuse their own wives but have no witness exceptthemselves, each one of them shall be made to swear four times byAllah that his charge is true,

Believe in My revelations, which are confirming your scriptures;do not be the first one to deny My revelations, and do not sellthem for a petty price, fear Me and Me alone.

They have sold the revelations of Allah for paltry worldly gainand they have hindered others from His way; indeed evil are thedeeds that they have done.

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.

Shaitan desires to stir up enmity and hatred between you withintoxicants and gambling and to prevent you from the remembranceof Allah and from Salah (prayers). Will you not abstain?

O believers! Allah will put you to trial by making game (thatwhich is to be hunted) well within the reach of your hands andyour spears, in order to see who fears Him, though unseen. Thereshall, therefore, be a painful punishment for those whotransgress after this warning.

O believers! Do not kill game while you are in Ihram (pilgrimgarb). If anyone kills game intentionally, he will have to pay apenalty through an offering brought to the Ka'bah of a domesticanimal equivalent to the one which was killed as determined bytwo just men among you; or as an expiation, either feed a fewindigent or fast their equivalent days, so that he may taste theevil consequences of what he did. Allah has forgiven whathappened in the past; but if anyone repeats it now, Allah willinflict retribution on him. Allah is Mighty, Capable ofRetribution.

O believers! Allah will put you to trial by making game (thatwhich is to be hunted) well within the reach of your hands andyour spears, in order to see who fears Him, though unseen. Thereshall, therefore, be a painful punishment for those whotransgress after this warning.

O believers! Do not kill game while you are in Ihram (pilgrimgarb). If anyone kills game intentionally, he will have to pay apenalty through an offering brought to the Ka'bah of a domesticanimal equivalent to the one which was killed as determined bytwo just men among you; or as an expiation, either feed a fewindigent or fast their equivalent days, so that he may taste theevil consequences of what he did. Allah has forgiven whathappened in the past; but if anyone repeats it now, Allah willinflict retribution on him. Allah is Mighty, Capable ofRetribution.

O believers! Allah will put you to trial by making game (thatwhich is to be hunted) well within the reach of your hands andyour spears, in order to see who fears Him, though unseen. Thereshall, therefore, be a painful punishment for those whotransgress after this warning.

O believers! Do not kill game while you are in Ihram (pilgrimgarb). If anyone kills game intentionally, he will have to pay apenalty through an offering brought to the Ka'bah of a domesticanimal equivalent to the one which was killed as determined bytwo just men among you; or as an expiation, either feed a fewindigent or fast their equivalent days, so that he may taste theevil consequences of what he did. Allah has forgiven whathappened in the past; but if anyone repeats it now, Allah willinflict retribution on him. Allah is Mighty, Capable ofRetribution.

Game of the sea and its use as food is lawful for you and theseafarers, but the game of the land is forbidden as long as youare in Ihram (pilgrim garb). Have fear of Allah to whom you shallall be assembled.

O believers! Do not violate the sanctity of the Symbols of Allah:the Sacred Month , the animals brought for sacrifice, thegarlands that mark such animals, and those people visiting theSacred House (Ka'bah) to seek the grace and good pleasure oftheir Rabb. When you put off your Ihram (pilgrimage is over) thenyou are allowed to hunt. Let not the hatred of some people - whoonce hindered you from the Sacred Mosque - incite you to committransgression. Cooperate with one another in righteousness andpiety, and do not cooperate in sin and transgression. Have fearof Allah. Allah is stern in punishment.

Enjoin the believing men to lower their gaze and guard theirmodesty; that is chaster for them. Surely Allah is well aware oftheir actions.

These are the stories of the nations which We relate to you; ofthem some have survived and some have ceased to exist.

We were not unjust to them, but they were unjust to themselves.The deities they invoked beside Allah did not avail them when thejudgement of your Rabb came to pass; they added nothing to theirlot but perdition.

Such is the scourge of your Rabb when He seizes a sinful town;indeed, His seizure is terrible and painful.

In fact, there is a sign in this for those who fear thepunishment of the hereafter; that is a Day in which mankind willbe gathered together and that will be a Day of Testimony.

Have you not heard the information of those who passed awaybefore you, the people of Nuh (Noah), `Ad and Thamud, and thosewho came after them? Allah Alone knows them. Their Rasools cameto them with clear signs; but they bit their hands with theirmouths and said: "Certainly we reject the Message with which youhave been sent and certainly we strongly doubt the faith to whichyou invite us."

Their Rasools responded: "Are you doubting the existence ofAllah, Who is the Creator of the heavens and the earth? He is theOne Who invites you so that He may forgive your sins and give yourespite till your appointed term." They said: "You are nothingbut a human like us! You only wish to turn us away from theworship of those deities whom our forefathers used to worship.Bring us some clear sign."

Their Rasools said to them: "It is true that we are human likeyourselves, but Allah bestows His grace of appointing a Rasool onsuch of His servants as He pleases. It is not in our power tobring you any sign except by Allah's permission, and in Allah letthe believers put their trust.

What reason do we have not to put our trust in Allah, when He hasalready guided us to the ways of our lives? We shall certainlyendure your persecution patiently, and those who want to puttheir trust, should put their trust in Allah."

Finally the unbelievers said to their Rasools: "Return to ourreligion or we will expel you from our land." But their Rabbrevealed His will to them: "We shall destroy the wrongdoers

and give you the land to dwell in after they are gone! This isthe reward for the ones who dread My eminence and fear Mythreats."

The Rasools called for judgement, (and when the judgement waspassed) every tyrant opposer of the Truth was disappointed.

Hell is next for him wherein he will be given festering water todrink;

he will sip, but never will be able to swallow. Death willsurround him from all sides, yet he will not die; beyond thatthere will be horrible punishment.

The parable of the deeds of those who deny their Rabb is thattheir deeds are like ashes which the wind scatters on a stormyday; they will gain nothing from their deeds, and this is tostray far away from the goal of getting back to Paradise.

How many townships, teaming with wrong doings, have We utterlydestroyed! Today they lie with their roofs fallen in, their wellsabandoned, and their lofty castles deserted.

Have they not traveled through the land? Have they no hearts tolearn wisdom, or ears to hear the Truth? Certainly it is nottheir eyes which are blind, but it is the hearts in their breastswhich are blind.

These people ask you to hasten the threatened punishment. Well,Allah will never go back on His promise. In fact a day of yourRabb (time period in which Allah's decision is executed) is equalto a thousand years of your calculation.

There have been many townships teeming with wrong doings, to whomat first I gave respite and at the end I smote them. Towards Meis the destination of all.

Have they not traveled through the land and see what was the endof those who have gone before them? Allah destroyed them utterlyand a similar fate awaits these unbelievers.

O disbelievers, We have already destroyed many like you. Will younot take admonition?

Have you not heard of those who disbelieved before you? So theytasted the evil result of their deeds, and in the Hereafter thereshall be a painful punishment for them.

That is because, when their Rasools came to them with clearrevelations, they said: "Are human beings going to guide us?" Sothey disbelieved and paid no heed. Allah has no need of suchpeople. Allah is free of all needs, worthy of all praise.

How many townships, teaming with wrong doings, have We utterlydestroyed! Today they lie with their roofs fallen in, their wellsabandoned, and their lofty castles deserted.

Have they not traveled through the land? Have they no hearts tolearn wisdom, or ears to hear the Truth? Certainly it is nottheir eyes which are blind, but it is the hearts in their breastswhich are blind.

These people ask you to hasten the threatened punishment. Well,Allah will never go back on His promise. In fact a day of yourRabb (time period in which Allah's decision is executed) is equalto a thousand years of your calculation.

There have been many townships teeming with wrong doings, to whomat first I gave respite and at the end I smote them. Towards Meis the destination of all.

Have they not travelled through the land and seen what was theend of those who have gone before them? They were far greater inpower than these and left great traces in the land: but Allahseized them for their sins and there was none to protect themfrom Allah.

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."

Have you not seen how your Rabb dealt with 'Ad?

How many townships have rebelled against the commandments oftheir Rabb and His Rasools! Stern was Our reckoning with them andexemplary was Our punishment.

So they tasted the fruit of their misdeeds, and the fruit oftheir misdeeds was perdition.

Allah has prepared for them a severe punishment in the Hereafter.Therefore, fear Allah! O men of understanding and faith. Allahhas indeed sent down to you an admonition;

These unbelievers must have passed by that town which wasdestroyed by a fatal rain; had they not seen its ruins? But thefact of the matter is they do not believe in the life hereafter.

Have these people not learned a lesson that; We have destroyedbefore them many generations in whose ruins they walk through?Certainly in these ruins there are Signs for people ofunderstanding.

Do they not learn a lesson from the historical events of how manygenerations We have destroyed before them in whosedwelling-places they move about? Surely there are signs in this.Do they not listen?

Have they not travelled through the land and seen what was theend of those who have gone before them? They were far greater inpower than these and left great traces in the land: but Allahseized them for their sins and there was none to protect themfrom Allah.

Have they never travelled through the earth and seen what was theend of those who have gone before them? They were more in numberand superior in strength than these and they have left behindgreat traces of their power in the land; yet all that they didwas of no avail to them.

When their Rasools came to them with clear revelations, theyproudly boasted about their own knowledge; but the veryforewarned scourge at which they mocked, hemmed them in.

When they saw Our scourge, they cried out: "We believe in Allah,the One and Only, and we reject all those gods whom we used toassociate with Him."

But after seeing Our scourge, their professing the faith (Islam)was of no use to them; such was the practice of Allah in dealingwith His servants in the past, and thus the disbelievers werelost.

How many generations, far stronger in power, have We destroyedbefore them! They searched the entire land: but could they findany refuge?

Surely in this there is a lesson for every person who has aheart, and can hear and witness.

We have destroyed generations before your time when they adoptedunjust attitudes: their Rasools came to them with clear signs butthey would not believe! Thus, do We requite the criminals.

Then, We made you their successors in the land so that We mayobserve how you would conduct yourselves.

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."

Those who spend their wealth in the cause of Allah and do notfollow their charity with reminders of their generosity or injurethe feeling of the recipient, shall get their reward from theirRabb; they shall have nothing to fear or to regret.

O believers! Do not make your charity worthless by reminders ofyour generosity or by injury to the recipients feelings, likethose who spend their wealth to be seen by people and believeneither in Allah nor in the Last Day. Their parable is like ahard barren rock covered with thin layer of soil; a heavy rainfalls, leaving it just a bare stone. Such people will not gainany reward that they thought they had earned. Allah does notguide the unbelievers.

O Muhammad, it is a great Mercy of Allah that you are very gentlewith them; had you been rough or hard-hearted, they would havedeserted you. Therefore pardon them and ask Allah's forgivenessfor them. Consult them in the conduct of affairs; and when youmake a decision to do something, then put your trust in Allah(hold fast to your decision). Allah loves those who put theirtrust in Him.

Nay! I swear by all that you can see,

and all that you cannot see,

that this is the word of a noble Rasool.

is it not the word of a poet - little is it that you believe,

nor it is the word of a soothsayer - little admonition is thatyou take.

This is a revelation from the Rabb of the worlds.

Had he (Muhammad) invented false statement concerning Us,

We would certainly have seize him by his right hand

then cut off his main artery,

and none of you could prevent it!

As for those who follow the Right Way, Allah will increase theirguidance and bestow on them their righteousness.

If the relatives, orphans or needy are present at the time of thedivision of an inheritance, give them something out of it, andspeak to them kind words.

Let those (disposing of an estate) have the same fear in theirminds as they would have for their own if they were to leave ahelpless family behind: they should, therefore, fear Allah andspeak for justice.

O believers! If you marry believing women and divorce them beforethe marriage is consummated, you are not required to observe theIddat (waiting period) which you should count for them, so givethem some present and relieve them gracefully.

Complete the Hajj (obligatory pilgrimage to Makkah) and the Umrah(optional visit to Makkah) for the sake of Allah. If you areprevented from proceeding then send such offering for sacrificeas you can afford and do not shave your head until the offeringshave reached their destination. But if any of you is ill or hasan ailment in his scalp which necessitates shaving, he must payransom either by fasting or feeding the poor or offering asacrifice. If in peacetime anyone wants to take the advantage ofperforming Umrah and Hajj together, he should make an offeringwhich he can afford; but if he lack the means, let him fast threedays during the Hajj and seven days on his return making ten daysin all. This order is for the one whose household is not in theprecincts of the Sacred Mosque. Fear Allah and know that Allah isstrict in retribution.

If any of you cannot afford to marry a free believing woman, lethim marry one of his own slave girls who is a believer; Allahknows how good you are in your faith. You all belong to one andthe same community. Marry them with the permission of theirfamily and give them their fair dowry so that they may live adecent life in wedlock and not live as prostitutes or look forsecret illicit relationships. Then if after marriage they commitadultery, they shall be given half the punishment prescribed fora free adulteress. The concession of such a marriage is for thoseof you who fear that they might commit a sin if they do not getmarried, but it is better for you to practice self-restraint.Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Get the singles among you married as well as those who are fitfor marriage among your male slaves and female slaves. If theyare poor, Allah will make them free from want out of His grace:for Allah has boundless resources and is All-Knowing.