[3.110] You
are the best of the nations raised up for (the benefit of) men; you enjoin what is right
and forbid the wrong and believe in Allah; and if the followers of the Book had believed
it would have been better for them; of them (some) are believers and most of them are
transgressors.
[3.111] They
shall by no means harm you but with a slight evil; and if they fight with you they shall
turn (their) backs to you, then shall they not be helped.
[3.112]
Abasement is made to cleave to them wherever they are found, except under a covenant with
Allah and a covenant with men, and they have become deserving of wrath from Allah, and
humiliation is made to cleave to them; this is because they disbelieved in the
communications of Allah and slew the prophets unjustly; this is because they disobeyed and
exceeded the limits.
[3.113] They
are not all alike; of the followers of the Book there is an upright party; they recite
Allah's communications in the nighttime and they adore (Him).
[3.114] They
believe in Allah and the last day, and they enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong and
they strive with one another in hastening to good deeds, and those are among the good.
[3.115] And
whatever good they do, they shall not be denied it, and Allah knows those who guard
(against evil).
[3.116] (As
for) those who disbelieve, surely neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them
in the least against Allah; and these are the inmates of the fire; therein they shall
abide.
[3.117] The
likeness of what they spend in the life of this world is as the likeness of wind in which
is intense cold (that) smites the seed produce of a people who haw done injustice to their
souls and destroys it; and Allah is not unjust to them, but they are unjust to themselves.
[3.118] O
you who believe! do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own people;
they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you; they love what distresses you;
vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts
conceal is greater still; indeed, We have made the communications clear to you, if you
will understand.
[3.119] Lo!
you are they who will love them while they do not love you, and you believe in the Book
(in) the whole of it; and when they meet you they say: We believe, and when they are
alone, they bite the ends of their fingers in rage against you. Say: Die in your rage;
surely Allah knows what is in the breasts.
[3.120] If
good befalls you, it grieves them, and if an evil afflicts you, they rejoice at it; and if
you are patient and guard yourselves, their scheme will not injure you in any way; surely
Allah comprehends what they do.
[3.121] And
when you did go forth early in the morning from your family to lodge the believers in
encampments for war and Allah is Hearing, Knowing.
[3.122] When
two parties from among you had determined that they should show cowardice, and Allah was
the guardian of them both, and in Allah should the believers trust.
[3.123] And
Allah did certainly assist you at Badr when you were weak; be careful of (your duty to)
Allah then, that you may give thanks.
[3.124] When
you said to the believers: Does it not suffice you that your Lord should assist you with
three thousand of the angels sent down?
[3.125] Yea!
if you remain patient and are on your guard, and they come upon you in a headlong manner,
your Lord will assist you with five thousand of the havoc-making angels.
[3.126] And
Allah did not make it but as good news for you, and that your hearts might be at ease
thereby, and victory is only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.
[3.127] That
He may cut off a portion from among those who disbelieve, or abase them so that they
should return disappointed of attaining what they desired.
[3.128] You
have no concern in the affair whether He turns to them (mercifully) or chastises them, for
surely they are unjust.
[3.129] And
whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is Allah's; He forgives whom He
pleases and chastises whom He pleases; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
[3.130] O
you who believe! do not devour usury, making it double and redouble, and be careful of
(your duty to) Allah, that you may be successful.
[3.131] And
guard yourselves against the fire which has been prepared for the unbelievers.
[3.132] And
obey Allah and the Apostle, that you may be shown mercy.
[3.133] And
hasten to forgiveness from your Lord; and a Garden, the extensiveness of which is (as) the
heavens and the earth, it is prepared for those who guard (against evil).
[3.134]
Those who spend (benevolently) in ease as well as in straitness, and those who restrain
(their) anger and pardon men; and Allah loves the doers of good (to others).
[3.135] And
those who when they commit an indecency or do injustice to their souls remember Allah and
ask forgiveness for their faults -- and who forgives the faults but Allah, and (who) do
not knowingly persist in what they have done.
[3.136] (As
for) these -- their reward is forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens beneath which
rivers flow, to abide in them, and excellent is the reward of the laborers.
[3.137]
Indeed there have been examples before you; therefore travel in the earth and see what was
the end of the rejecters.
[3.138] This
is a clear statement for men, and a guidance and an admonition to those who guard (against
evil).
[3.139] And
be not infirm, and be not grieving, and you shall have the upper hand if you are
believers.
[3.140] If a
wound has afflicted you (at Uhud), a wound like it has also afflicted the (unbelieving)
people; and We bring these days to men by turns, and that Allah may know those who believe
and take witnesses from among you; and Allah does not love the unjust.
[3.141] And
that He may purge those who believe and deprive the unbelievers of blessings.
[3.142] Do
you think that you will enter the garden while Allah has not yet known those who strive
hard from among you, and (He has not) known the patient.
[3.143] And
certainly you desired death before you met it, so indeed you have seen it and you look (at
it).
[3.144] And
Muhammad is no more than an apostle; the apostles have already passed away before him; if
then he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? And whoever turns back upon
his heels, he will by no means do harm to Allah in the least and Allah will reward the
grateful.
[3.145] And
a soul will not die but with the permission of Allah the term is fixed; and whoever
desires the reward of this world, I shall give him of it, and whoever desires the reward
of the hereafter I shall give him of it, and I will reward the grateful.
[3.146] And
how many a prophet has fought with whom were many worshipers of the Lord; so they did not
become weak-hearted on account of what befell them in Allah's way, nor did they weaken,
nor did they abase themselves; and Allah loves the patient.
[3.147] And
their saying was no other than that they said: Our Lord! forgive us our faults and our
extravagance in our affair and make firm our feet and help us against the unbelieving
people.
[3.148] So
Allah gave them the reward of this world and better reward of the hereafter and Allah
loves those who do good (to others).
[3.149] O
you who believe! if you obey those who disbelieve they will turn you back upon your heels,
so you will turn back losers.
[3.150] Nay!
Allah is your Patron and He is the best of the helpers.
[3.151] We
will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah
that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the
abode of the unjust.
[3.152] And
certainly Allah made good to you His promise when you slew them by His permission, until
when you became weak-hearted and disputed about the affair and disobeyed after He had
shown you that which you loved; of you were some who desired this world and of you were
some who desired the hereafter; then He turned you away from them that He might try you;
and He has certainly pardoned you, and Allah is Gracious to the believers.
[3.153] When
you ran off precipitately and did not wait for any one, and the Apostle was calling you
from your rear, so He gave you another sorrow instead of (your) sorrow, so that you might
not grieve at what had escaped you, nor (at) what befell you; and Allah is aware of what
you do.
[3.154] Then
after sorrow He sent down security upon you, a calm coming upon a party of you, and (there
was) another party whom their own souls had rendered anxious; they entertained about Allah
thoughts of ignorance quite unjustly, saying: We have no hand in the affair. Say: Surely
the affair is wholly (in the hands) of Allah. They conceal within their souls what they
would not reveal to you. They say: Had we any hand in the affair, we would not have been
slain here. Say: Had you remained in your houses, those for whom slaughter was ordained
would certainly have gone forth to the places where they would be slain, and that Allah
might test what was in your breasts and that He might purge what was in your hearts; and
Allah knows what is in the breasts.
[3.155] (As
for) those of you who turned back on the day when the two armies met, only the Shaitan
sought to cause them to make a slip on account of some deeds they had done, and certainly
Allah has pardoned them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Forbearing.
[3.156] O
you who believe! be not like those who disbelieve and say of their brethren when they
travel in the earth or engage in fighting: Had they been with us, they would not have died
and they would not have been slain; so Allah makes this to be an intense regret in their
hearts; and Allah gives life and causes death and Allah sees what you do.
[3.157] And
if you are slain in the way of Allah or you die, certainly forgiveness from Allah and
mercy is better than what they amass.
[3.158] And
if indeed you die or you are slain, certainly to Allah shall you be gathered together.
[3.159] Thus
it is due to mercy from Allah that you deal with them gently, and had you been rough, hard
hearted, they would certainly have dispersed from around you; pardon them therefore and
ask pardon for them, and take counsel with them in the affair; so when you have decided,
then place your trust in Allah; surely Allah loves those who trust.
[3.160] If
Allah assists you, then there is none that can overcome you, and if He forsakes you, who
is there then that can assist you after Him? And on Allah should the believers rely.
[3.161] And
it is not attributable to a prophet that he should act unfaithfully; and he who acts
unfaithfully shall bring that in respect of which he has acted unfaithfully on the day of
resurrection; then shall every soul be paid back fully what it has earned, and they shall
not be dealt with unjustly.
[3.162] Is
then he who follows the pleasure of Allah like him who has made himself deserving of
displeasure from Allah, and his abode is hell; and it is an evil destination.
[3.163]
There are (varying) grades with Allah, and Allah sees what they do.
[3.164]
Certainly Allah conferred a benefit upon the believers when He raised among them an
Apostle from among themselves, reciting to them His communications and purifying them, and
teaching them the Book and the wisdom, although before that they were surely in manifest
error.
[3.165]
What! when a misfortune befell you, and you had certainly afflicted (the unbelievers) with
twice as much, you began to say: Whence is this? Say: It is from yourselves; surely Allah
has power over all things.
[3.166] And
what befell you on the day when the two armies met (at Uhud) was with Allah's knowledge,
and that He might know the believers.
[3.167] And
that He might know the hypocrites; and it was said to them: Come, fight in Allah's way, or
defend yourselves. They said: If we knew fighting, we would certainly have followed you.
They were on that day much nearer to unbelief than to belief. They say with their mouths
what is not in their hearts, and Allah best knows what they conceal.
[3.168]
Those who said of their brethren whilst they (themselves) held back: Had they obeyed us,
they would not have been killed. Say: Then avert death from yourselves if you speak the
truth.
[3.169] And
reckon not those who are killed in Allah's way as dead; nay, they are alive (and) are
provided sustenance from their Lord;
[3.170]
Rejoicing in what Allah has given them out of His grace and they rejoice for the sake of
those who, (being left) behind them, have not yet joined them, that they shall have no
fear, nor shall they grieve.
[3.171] They
rejoice on account of favor from Allah and (His) grace, and that Allah will not waste the
reward of the believers.
[3.172] (As
for) those who responded (at Uhud) to the call of Allah and the Apostle after the wound
had befallen them, those among them who do good (to others) and guard (against evil)shall
have a great reward.
[3.173]
Those to whom the people said: Surely men have gathered against you, therefore fear them,
but this increased their faith, and they said: Allah is sufficient for us and most
excellent is the Protector.
[3.174] So
they returned with favor from Allah and (His) grace, no evil touched them and they
followed the pleasure of Allah; and Allah is the Lord of mighty grace.
[3.175] It
is only the Shaitan that causes you to fear from his friends, but do not fear them, and
fear Me if you are believers.
[3.176] And
let not those grieve you who fall into unbelief hastily; surely they can do no harm to
Allah at all; Allah intends that He should not give them any portion in the hereafter, and
they shall have a grievous chastisement.
[3.177]
Surely those who have bought unbelief at the price of faith shall do no harm at all to
Allah, and they shall have a painful chastisement.
[3.178] And
let not those who disbelieve think that Our granting them respite is better for their
souls; We grant them respite only that they may add to their sins; and they shall have a
disgraceful chastisement.
[3.179] On
no account will Allah leave the believers in the condition which you are in until He
separates the evil from the good; nor is Allah going to make you acquainted with the
unseen, but Allah chooses of His apostles whom He pleases; therefore believe in Allah and
His apostles; and if you believe and guard (against evil), then you shall have a great
reward.
[3.180] And
let not those deem, who are niggardly in giving away that which Allah has granted them out
of His grace, that it is good for them; nay, it is worse for them; they shall have that
whereof they were niggardly made to cleave to their necks on the resurrection day; and
Allah's is the heritage of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is aware of what you do.
[3.181]
Allah has certainly heard the saying of those who said: Surely Allah is poor and we are
rich. I will record what they say, and their killing the prophets unjustly, and I will
say: Taste the chastisement of burning.
[3.182] This
is for what your own hands have sent before and because Allah is not in the least unjust
to the servants.
[3.183]
(Those are they) who said: Surely Allah has enjoined us that we should not believe in any
apostle until he brings us an offering which the fire consumes. Say: Indeed, there came to
you apostles before me with clear arguments and with that which you demand; why then did
you kill them if you are truthful?
[3.184] But
if they reject you, so indeed were rejected before you apostles who came with clear
arguments and scriptures and the illuminating book.
[3.185]
Every soul shall taste of death, and you shall only be paid fully your reward on the
resurrection day; then whoever is removed far away from the fire and is made to enter the
garden he indeed has attained the object; and the life of this world is nothing but a
provision of vanities.
[3.186] You
shall certainly be tried respecting your wealth and your souls, and you shall certainly
hear from those who have been given the Book before you and from those who are polytheists
much annoying talk; and if you are patient and guard (against evil), surely this is one of
the affairs (which should be) determined upon.
[3.187] And
when Allah made a covenant with those who were given the Book: You shall certainly make it
known to men and you shall not hide it; but they cast it behind their backs and took a
small price for it; so evil is that which they buy.
[3.188] Do
not think those who rejoice for what they have done and love that they should be praised
for what they have not done -- so do by no means think them to be safe from the
chastisement, and they shall have a painful chastisement.
[3.189] And
Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and Allah has power over all things.
[3.190] Most
surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and
the day there are signs for men who understand.
[3.191]
Those who remember Allah standing and sitting and lying on their sides and reflect on the
creation of the heavens and the earth: Our Lord! Thou hast not created this in vain! Glory
be to Thee; save us then from the chastisement of the fire:
[3.192] Our
Lord! surely whomsoever Thou makes enter the fire, him Thou hast indeed brought to
disgrace, and there shall be no helpers for the unjust:
[3.193] Our
Lord! surely we have heard a preacher calling to the faith, saying: Believe in your Lord,
so we did believe; Our Lord! forgive us therefore our faults, and cover our evil deeds and
make us die with the righteous.
[3.194] Our
Lord! and grant us what Thou hast promised us by Thy apostles; and disgrace us not on the
day of resurrection; surely Thou does not fail to perform the promise.
[3.195] So
their Lord accepted their prayer: That I will not waste the work of a worker among you,
whether male or female, the one of you being from the other; they, therefore, who fled and
were turned out of their homes and persecuted in My way and who fought and were slain, I
will most certainly cover their evil deeds, and I will most certainly make them enter
gardens beneath which rivers flow; a reward from Allah, and with Allah is yet better
reward.
[3.196] Let
it not deceive you that those who disbelieve go to and fro in the cities fearlessly.
[3.197] A
brief enjoyment! then their abode is hell, and evil is the resting-place.
[3.198] But
as to those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord, they shall have gardens beneath
which rivers flow, abiding in them; an entertainment from their Lord, and that which is
with Allah is best for the righteous.
[3.199] And
most surely of the followers of the Book there are those who believe in Allah and (in)
that which has been revealed to you and (in) that which has been revealed to them, being
lowly before Allah; they do not take a small price for the communications of Allah; these
it is that have their reward with their Lord; surely Allah is quick in reckoning.
[3.200] O
you who believe! be patient and excel in patience and remain steadfast, and be careful of
(your duty to) Allah, that you may be successful.
