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Quittance is this from Allah and His aposle unto the associators with whom ye had covenanted. (1) Go

about, then, in the land for four months. And know that verily ye cannot escape Allah, and that verily

Allah is the humiliator of the infidels. (2) And a proclamation is this from Allah and His apostle unto the

mankind on the day of the greater pilgrimage that Allah is quit of the associators, and so is His apostle.

Wherefore if ye repent, it shall be better for you,but if ye turn away, then know that ye cannot escape

Allah. And announce thou unto those who disbelieve a torment afflictive. (3) Except those of the

associators with whom ye covenanted and they have not failed you in aught, nor have they backed up

anyone against you; so fulfil unto them their covenant till their full period. Verily Allah loveth the

Godfearing. (4) When, therefore, the sacred months have slipped away, slay the associatorss

wheresoever ye find them and capture them and beset them and lie in wait for them at every ambush.

Then, should they repent and establish prayer and give the poor-rate, leave their way free. Verily Allah is

Forgiving, Merciful. (5) And should one of the associators seek protection of thee grant him protection,

that he may hear the word of Allah,then let him reach his place of security. That is because they are a

people who know not. (6) How can there be for the associators covenant with Allah.and His apostle save

for those with whom ye covenanted near the Sacred Mosque? Act straight with them so long as they act

straight with you. Verily Allah loveth the God-fearing. (7) How indeed! whereas if they get the better of

you they respect not regarding you either kinship or agreement. They please you with their mouth, the

while their hearts refuse; and most of them are Ungodly. (8) They have bartered the revelations of Allah

for a small price, so they keep back from His path. Verily vile is that which they have been working. (9)

They respect not either kinship or agreement in a believer: those! they are the transgressors! (10) If they

repent and establish prayer and give the poor-rate, then they are your brethren-in-faith. And we detail

the revelations unto a people who know. (11) And if they violate their oaths after their covenant and

revile your religion, fight those leaders of infidelity-verily no oaths will hold in their case that haply they

may desist. (12) Will ye not fight a people who have violate their oaths and resolved the expulsion of the

apostle and who began against you for the first time? Fear ye them? Allah is more worthy that ye should

fear Him, if ye are believers. (13) Fight them. Allah will torment them at your hands, and humiliate them
and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of the believing people. (14) And He will take away

the rage of their hearts. And Allah will relent toward whomsoever He liketh; and Allah is Knowing, Wise.

(15) Deem ye that ye would be left alone while yet Allah hath not known those of you who have striven

hard and have not taken an ally besides Allah and His apostle and the believers? And Allah is Aware of

that which ye work. (16) It is not for the associators that they shall tend Allahs mosques, while giving

evidence of infidelity against themselves. Those! vain shall be their works, and in the Fire they shall be

abiders. (17) They only shall tend Allahs mosques who believe in Allah and the Last Day and establish

prayer and give the poor rate and fear none save Allah. Belike those will be of the guided ones. (18)

Make ye the giving of drinks unto the pilgrims and the tendance of the Sacred Mosque like unto the

conduct of one who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and striveth hard in the way of Allah! Equal they

are not with Allah, and Allah guideth not the wrong-doing people. (19) Those who have believed and

emigrated and have striven hard in the way of Allah with their riches and their lives are for higher in

degree with Allah. Those! they are the achievers. (20) Their Lord giveth them glad tidings of a mercy

from Him and of goodwill and of the Gardens wherein theirs will be a delight lasting: (21) As abiders

therein for evermore. Verily Allah: with Him is a hire mighty. (22) O Ye who believe! take not your fathers

and your brothers for friends if they love infidelity above faith. Whosoever of you then befriendeth them

then those! they are the wrong-doers. (23) Say thou: if you fathers and your sons and your brothers and

your wives and your family and the riches ye have acquired and the traffic wherein ye fear a slackening

and the dwellings which please you are dearer unto you than Allah and His apostle and striving in His

cause, then wait until Allah bringeth about His decree, and Allah guideth not the ungodly people. (24)

Assuredly Allah hath succoured you on many fields and on the day of Hunain, When your number elated

you; then it availed you naught, and the earth, wide as it is, straitened unto you; then ye turned away in

retreat. (25) Thereafter Allah sent down His calm upon His apostle and upon the believers, and He sent

down hosts ye saw not and tormented those who would disbelieve: such is the meed of the infidels. (26)

Then Allah will, thereafter, relent toward whomsoever He liketh, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (27) O

Ye who believe! the associators are simply filthy; so let them not approach the Sacred Mosque after this

their year; and if ye fear poverty, Allah shall presently enrich you out of His grace, if He will. Verily Allah
is grace. Knowing, Wise. (28) Fight against those who believe not in Allah nor in the Last Day and hold

not that forbidden which Allah and His apostle have forbidden and observe not the true religion, of those

who have been vouchsafed the Book, until they pay the tribute out of hand and they are subdued. (29)

Fight against those who believe not in Allah nor in the Last Day and hold not that forbidden which Allah

and His apostle have forbidden and observe not the true religion, of those who have been vouchsafed the

Book, until they pay the tribute out of hand and they are subdued. (30) They have taken their priests and

their monks for their Lords besides God, and also the Masih son of Maryam; whereas they Were

commanded not but to worship the One God: no god is there but he. Hallowed be He from that which

they associate. (31) They seek to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths; and Allah refuseth to do

otherwise than perfect His light, although the infidels may detest. (32) He it is who hath sent His apostle

with the guidance and the true religion that he may make it prevail over all religions, although the

associators may detest. (33) O Ye who believe! verily many of the priests and the monks devour the

substances of men in falsehood and hinder People from the way of Allah. And those who treasure up gold

and silver and expend them not in the way of Allah -announce thou unto them a torment afflictive. (34)

On a Day whereon they Shall be heated in Hell-Fire, and therewith shall be branded their foreheads and

their sides and their backs: this is that which ye treasured up for yourselves, so taste now that which ye

have been treasuring up. (35) Verily the number of months with Allah is twelve months ordained in the

writ of Allah on the day whereon He created the heavens and the earth; of these four sacred: that is the

right religion. Wherefore wrong not yourselves in respect thereof. And fight the associators, all of them

even as they fight all of you; and knew that Allah is with the God-fearing (36) The postponement is but

an addition unto infidelity, whereby the infidels are led astray, allowing it one year and forbidding it anot

her year, that they may make up the number which Allah hath sanctified; and then they allow that which

Allah hath forbidden. Made fair-seeming unto them is the vileness of their works; and Allah guideth not

an infidel people. (37) O Ye who believe! what aileth you that when it is said unto you: march forth in the

way of Allah, ye are weighed down earthward? Are ye pleased with the life of the world rather than the

Hereafter? whereas the enjoyment of the life of the world by the side of the Hereafter is but little. (38) If

ye march not forth, He will torment you with a torment afflictive, and will substitute for you a people-
other than you; and Him ye cannot hurt in aught; and Allah is over everything Potent. (39) If ye succour

him not, then surely Allah hath succoured him when these who disbelieved drave him: the second of the

two When the twain were in a cave, and when he Said unto his companion. grieve not, verily Allah is with

Us. Then Allah sent down His calm upon him and aided him with hosts whom ye saw not, and made the

word of those who disbelieved nethermost, and the word of Allah! that is the upper most. And Allah is

Mighty, wise, (40) March forth light and heavy and strive hard with your riches and your lives in the way

of Allah; that is the best for you, if ye have knowledge. (41) Were there a gear nigh and a journey

moderate, they would have surely followed thee, but the distance seemed far unto them. And anon they

will be swearing by Allah: if only we could we would surely have come forth with you. They destroy their

own souls: and Allah knoweth that verily they are liars. (42) Allah pardon thee! why didst thou give them

leave before it was manifest unto thee as to whosoever told the truth and thou hadst known the liars.

(43) Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day would not ask thy leave to be excused from striving

hard with their riches and their lives; and Allah is Knower of the God-fearing. (44) It is only those who

believe not in Allah and the Last Day and whose hearts doubt who ask thy leave, so in their doubt they

are tossed to and fro. (45) And had they intended the going forth, they would have made some

preparation therefor; But Allah was averse to their wending, wherefore He withheld them, and the word

was passed: stay of home with the stay-at-homes. (46) Had they gene forth with you, they would have

added unto you naught save unsoundness, and they would surely have hurried about in Your midst

seeking sedition unto you; and amongst you there are listeners to them; and Allah is Knower of the

wrong-doers. (47) Assuredly they besought sedition afore and turned the affairs upside down for thee

until the truth arrived and the decree of Allah prevailed, averse though they were. (48) And of them there

is he who saith: give me leave, and tempt me not. Lo! into temptation they are already fallen, and verily

the Hell is the encompasser of the infidels. (49) If good befalleth thee, it annoyeth them, and if an

affliction befalleth thee, they say; surely we took good hold of our affair before. And they turn away while

they are exulting. (50) Say thou: naught shall ever befall us save that which Allah hath ordained for us;

He is our patron, and on Allah let the believers rely. (51) Say thou await ye for us ought save one of the

two excellences; while for you we wait that Allah shall afflict you with a torment from Himself or at our
hands. Await then, we also are with you awaiting. (52) Say thou: expend willingly or unwillingly, it will

not be accepted of you; verily ye are ever a people ungodly. (53) And naught preventeth their

expendings being accepted except that they have disbelieved in Allah and His apostle, and they perform

not prayer except as sluggards and expend not except as those averse. (54) Let not wherefore their

riches and their children amaze thee. Allah intendeth only to torment them therewith in the life of the

world and that their souls pass away while they are infidels. (55) And they swear by Allah that they are

surely of you, whereas they are not of you; but they are a people who dread. (56) Could they find a

place of refuge or caverns or a retreating hole, they would turn round thereto rushing headlong. (57) And

of them are some who traduce thee in respect of alms. Then if they are given thereof they are pleased

and if they are not given thereof, lo! they are enraged. (58) Would that they were pleased with that

which Allah and His apostle had given them, and were to say: sufficient unto us is Allah, anon Allah will

give us out of His grace and so will His apostle, verily unto Allah we lean. (59) The compulsory alms are

only for the poor and the needy and the agents employed therein and those whose hearts are to be

conciliated and those in bondage and debtors and for expenditure in the way of Allah and for the

wayfarer: an ordinance from Allah: and Allah is Knowing, Wise. (60) And of them are some who vex the

prophet and say: he is all ears Say thou: he is all ears unto good for you, believing in Allah and giving

credence to the believers and a mercy unto those of you who believe. And those who vex the apostle of

Allah, unto them shall be a torment afflictive. (61) They swear unto you by Allah that ye be pleased,

whereas wortheir are Allah and His apostle that they should please Him, if they be believers indeed. (62)

Know they not that whosoever shall oppose Allah and His apostle, verily for him shall be Hell-Fire wherein

he shell be an abider? That is a mighty humiliation. (63) The hypocrites apprehend lest a Surah should be

revealed unto them declaring unto them that which is in their hearts. Say thou: mock on! verily Allah is

about to bring out that which ye apprehend. (64) Shouldst thou question them, they will surely say: we

were only plunging about and playing. Say thou: was it Allah and His signs and His apostle that ye have

been mocking? (65) Make no excuse. Of a surety ye are disbelieving after declaring your faith. If, party of

you We shall Opardon, anot her party We shall torment for they have remained sinners. (66) The

hypocritical men and the hypocritical women are all of a piece; they command that which is disreputable
and restrain from that which is reputable, and they tighten their hands. They neglected Allah, so He had

neglected them. Verily the hypocrites! they are the ungodly ones. (67) Allah hath promised the

hypocritical men and hypocritical women and unto the open infidels Hell-Fire, wherein they shall be

abiders: sufficient is that unto them. And Allah shall accurse them, and theirs shall be a torment lasting.

(68) Like ye are unto those before you: mightier were they than you in prowess and more abundant in

riches and children. They enjoyed their portion awhile, so enjoy your portion awhile even as those before

you enjoyed their portion awhile, and ye plunged about even as they plunged about. Those! their works

have come to naught in the world and the Hereafter, and those! they are the losers. (69) Have not come

to them the tidings of those before them: the people of Nuh and Ad and Thamud and the people of

Ibrahim and the dwellers of Madyan and of the overturned cities! There came unto them their apostles

with evidences. Wherefore Allah was not one to wrong them, but themselves they were wont to wrong.

(70) And the believing men and believing women are friends one unto anot her: they command that

which is reputable and restrain from that which is disreputable, and establish prayer and give the poor-

rate and obey Allah and His apostle. Those! Allah will surely show mercy to them; verily Allah is Mighty,

Wise. (71) Allah hath promised the believing men and believing women Gardens whereunder rivers flow,

wherein they shall be abiders, and goodly dwellings in the Everlasting Gardens --and goodwill from Allah

is the greatest ofall--that! it is the achievement supreme. (72) O Prophet! strive hard against the infidels

and the hypocrites; and be severe unto them. And their resort is Hell--a hapless destination. (73) They

swear by Allah that they said it not, but assuredly they said the word of infidelity and disbelieved after

their Profession of Islam and they resolved that to which they could not attain. And they avenged not

except for this that Allah and His apostle had enriched them out of His grace. If then they repent, it will

be better for them, and if they turn away, Allah will torment them with an afflictive torment in the world

and the Hereafter, and theirs shall be on the earth no friend nor helper. (74) And of them are some who

covenanted With saying: if He giveth of His grace, we will surely give alms and we will surely become of

the righteous. (75) Then when He gave them out of His grace, they became niggardly therewith and

turned away as backsliders. (76) So He chastised them with setting hypocrisy in their hearts until the Day

they shall meet Him, because they kept back from Allah that which they had promised Him, and because
they were wont to lie. (77) Knew they not that Allah knoweth their secret and their Whisper, and that

Allah is the Knower of Things Hidden! (78) These are they who traduce those who give alms cheerfully,

from among the believers, and those who find not anything to give but their hard earnings: at them they

scoff. Allah shall scoff back at them. and theirs shall be a torment afflictive. (79) Ask thou forgiveness for

them or ask thou not forgiveness for them: if thou askest forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah will

forgive them not. This, because they disbelieved in Allah and His apostle, and Allah guideth not an

ungodly people. (80) Those who were left rejoiced at their staying behind the apostle of Allah, and they

detested to strive hard with their riches and their lives in the way of Allah, and they said: march not forth

in the heat. - Say thou: hotter still is the Hell-Fire. Would that they understood! (81) Little then let them

laugh, and much they shall weep: the meed of that which they have been earning. (82) If, then, Allah

bring thee back to a party of them, and they ask leave of thee for going forth, say thou: never ye shall go

forth with me, nor ever fight an enemy with me; verily ye were pleased with sitting at home the first

time, wherefore sit now with those who stay behind. (83) And pray thou not ever over any of them that

may die nor stand thou over his grave. Verily they have disbelieved in Allah and His apostle and died

while they were ungodly. (84) And let nor their riches and their children amaze thee.Allah intendeth only

to torment them therewith in the world, and that their souls may pass away while they are infidels. (85)

And whenever any Surah is sent down commanding: believe in Allah and strive hard in the company of

His apostle, the opulent among them ask leave of thee, and say: leave us; we shall be with those who

stay. (86) Pleased are they that they should be with the women sitters-at-home, and their hearts are

sealed up, so they understand not. (87) But the apostle and those who believed in his company strave

hard with their riches and their lives. These are they for whom are goods, and these: they are the

blissful. (88) For them Allah hath gotten ready Gardens whereunder rivers flow, wherein they shall be as

abiders. That is the supreme achievement. (89) And there came the apologists from among dwellers of

the desert men praying that leave may be given them and those Who had lied unto Allah and His apostle

sat at home. An afflictive torment shall afflict those of them who disbelieve. (90) Not on the feeble and

the ailing nor on those who find not the where withal to expend there is any blame, when they wish well

to Allah and His apostle. No way is there against the well-doers; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (91) Nor
on those who, when they came unto thee that thou mightest mount them and thou saidst: I find not any

animal to mount you on, turned back while their eyes overflowed with tears for grief that they could not

find ought to expend. (92) The way is only against those who ask leave of thee while they are rich. They

are pleased that they should be with the women sitters-at-home. Allah hath sealed up their hearts, so

they know not. (93) They will excuse themselves unto you when ye return to them. Say thou: excuse not

yourselves, we shall by no means believe you: Allah hath already declared unto us some tidings of you,

and Allah will behold your work and so will His apostle; and thereafter ye will be brought back unto Him

who knoweth the hidden and the manifest, who will then declare unto you that which ye have been

working. (94) They will indeed swear unto you by Allah when ye return to them that ye may avert from

them. So avert from them: verily they are an abomination, and their resort is Hell--a recompense for that

which they have been earning. (95) They will swear unto you in order that ye may be well-pleased with

them. Then if ye are well-pleased with them, verily Allah will not be well-pleased with an ungodly people.

(96) The dwellers of the desert are the hardest in infidelity and hypocrisy and likeliest not to know the

ordinances of that which Allah hath sent down unto His apostle. And Allah is Knowing, Wise. (97) And of

the dwellers of the desert is one who taketh that which he expen deth as a fine, and waiteth for evil

turns of fortune for you. Upon them shall be the evil turn of fortune. And Allah is Hearing, Knowing. (98)

And of the dwellers of the desert is one who believeth in Allah and the Last Day, and taketh that which

he expendeth as approaches unto Allah and the blessings of His apostle. Lo ! verily these are an

approach for them; anon Allah will enter them into His mercy. Verily Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (99) And

the Muhajirs and Ansar, the leaders and the first ones and those who followed them in well-doing, --well-

pleased is Allah with them, and well pleased are they with Him, and He hath gotten ready for them

Gardens where under the rivers flow, as abiders therein forever. That is the achievement supreme. (100)

And of the dwellers of the desert around you some are hypocrites, and so are some of the people of

Madinah; they have become inured to hypocrisy thou knowest them not, We know them. We will torment

them twice, and thereafter they shall be brought back to a torment terrible. (101) And others have

confessed their faults; they have mixed up a righteous work with anot her vicious. Bellike Allah will relent

toward them; verily Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (102) Take thou alms out of their riches; thereby thou
wilt cleanse them and purify them; and pray thou for them. Verily thy prayer is a repose for them; and

Allah is Hearing, Knowing. (103) Know they not that it is Allah who accepteth the repentance of His

bondmen and taketh the alms, and that it is Allah who is the Relenting, the Merciful! (104) And say thou:

work on! Allah beholdeth your work and so do His apostle and the believers, and anon ye will be brought

back to the Knower of the hidden and the manifest; He will then declare unto you that which ye have

been working. (105) And others are awaiting the decree of Allah, whether He shall torment them or

whether He will relent toward them; and Allah is Knowing, Wise. (106) And as for those who have set up

a mosque for hurting and blaspheming and the causing of division among the believers and as a lurking-

place for one who hath warred against Allah and His apostle aforetime, and surely; they will swear: we

intended only good, whereas Allah testifieth that they are liars. (107) Thou Shalt never stand therein.

Surely a mosque founded from the first day on piety is wortheir that thou shouldst stand therein. In it are

men who love to cleanse themselves: and Allah approveth the clean. (108) Is he, then, who hath

founded his building upon piety towards Allah and His good-will better, or he who hath founded his

building on the brink of a crumbling bank, so that it crumbleth with him into the Hell-fire! And Allah

guideth not the wrong-doing people. (109) And their building which they have builded will not cease to

be a cause of doubt in their hearts unless it be that their hearts are cut asunder; and Allah is Knowing,

Wise. (110) Verily Allah hath bought of the believers their lives and their riches for the price that theirs

shall be the Garden: they fight in the way of Allah and slay and are slain: a promise due thereon in the

Taurat, in the Injil - and the Quran-and who is more faithful unto his covenant than Allah? Rejoice

wherefore in your bargain which ye have made. And that it is the mighty achievement. (111) They are

those who repent, who worship who praise, who fast constantly, woo bow down, who prostrate

themselves, who command the reputable and restrain from the disreputable and who keep the

ordinances of Allah; and bear thou glad tidings to the believers. (112) It is not for the Prophet and those

who believe to ask for the forgiveness of the associators, although they be of kin after it hath become

manifest unto them that they are the fellows of the Flaming Fire. (113) And Ibrahims asking for the

forgiveness of his father was only in pursuance of a promise which he had made unto him. Then, when it

became manifest unto him that he was an enemy of Allah, he declared himself quit of him. Verily Ibrahim
was long-suffering, forbearing. (114) Allah is not one to leed a people astray after He hath guided them

until He hath made manifest unto them that which they should guard against. Verily Allah is of everything

the Knower. (115) Verily Allah! His is the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He giveth life and He

causeth to die; and for you there is, besides Allah, no protector or helper. (116) Assuredly Allah hath

relented toward the Prophet and the Muhajirs and the Ansar who followed him in the hour of distress

after the hearts of a part of them had well-nigh swerved aside when He relented toward them. Verily He

is unto them Tender, Merciful. (117) And also He relented toward the three who were left behind until

when the earth, vast as it is, became straitened unto them and their own lives became straitened unto

them and they imagined that there was no refuge from Allah except unto Him. Thereafter He relented

toward them, so that they might repent. Verily Allah! He is the Relenting, the Merciful. (118) O Ye who

believe! fear Allah, and be with the truthful. (119) It was not for the people of Madina and those around

them of the desert dwellers that they should lay behind the apostle of Allah, nor that they should prefer

themselves before him. That is because there afflicteth them not thirst or fatigue or hunger in the way of

Allah or they tread a place trodden on enraging the infidels, nor they attain an attainment from the

enemy, but a good deed is thereby written down unto them. Verily Allah wasteth not the hire of the well-

doers. (120) And they expend not an expending, small or great, or transverse a vale, but it is written

down unto them, so that Allah may recompense them with the best for that which they have been

working. (121) And it is not for the believers to march forth all together. So why should not a band from

each party of them march forth so that they may gain understanding in religion and that when they come

back unto them, haply they might warn their people when they come back unto them, haply they may

beware! (122) O Ye who believe! fight the infidels who are near unto you, and surely let them find in you

sternness, and know that Allah is with the God-fearing, (123) And whenever a Surah s sent down, there

are some of them who say which of You hath this increased in faith! As for those who believe, it hath

increased them in faith, and they rejoice. (124) And as for those in whose hearts is a disease, unto them

it hath increased pollution to their pollution, and they die while they are infidels. (125) Behold they not

that they are tried every year once or twice? Yet they repent not, nor are they admonished. (126) And

whenever a Surah is sent down they look on at each other as though saying: observeth you anyone?
Thereafter they turn to go; Allah hath turned their hearts, for verily they are people who understand not.

(127) Assuredly there hath come unto you an apostle from amongst yourselves: heavy upon him is that

which harasseth you, solicitous for you, and with the believers tender and merciful. (128) If, then, they

turn away, say thou: sufficing unto me is Allah, there is no god but he, on Him I rely and He is the Lord

of Mighty Throne. (129)