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of what ye do?
99. Say: O People of the Scripture! Why drive ye hack believers from the way of Allah, seeking to make it crooked,
when ye are witnesses (to Allah's guidance)? Allah is not unaware of what ye do.
100. O ye who believe! If ye obey a party of those who have received the Scripture they will make you disbelievers
after your belief.
101. How can ye disbelieve, when Allah's revelations are recited unto you, and His messenger is in your midst? He who
holdeth fast to Allah, he indeed is guided unto a right path.
102. O ye who believe! Observe your duty to Allah with right observance, and die not save as those who have
surrendered (unto Him);
103. And hold fast, all of you together, to the cable of Allah, and do not separate. And remember Allah's favour unto
you: how ye were enemies and He made friendship between your hearts so that ye became as brothers by His grace;
and (how) ye were upon the brink of an abyss of fire, and He did save you from it. Thus Allah maketh clear His
revelations unto you, that haply ye may be guided,
104. And there may spring from you a nation who invite to goodness, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency.
Such are they who are successful.
105. And be ye not as those who separated and disputed after the clear proofs had come unto them. For such there is
an awful doom,
106. On the day when (some) faces will be whitened and (some) faces will be blackened; and as for those whose faces
have been blackened, it will be said unto them: Disbelieved ye after your (profession of) belief? Then taste the
punishment for that ye disbelieved.
107. As for those whose faces have been whitened, Lo! in the mercy of Allah they dwell for ever.
108. These are revelations of Allah. We recite them unto thee in truth. Allah willeth no injustice to (His) creatures.
109. Unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; and unto Allah all things are
returned.
110. Ye are the best community that hath been raised up for mankind. Ye enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency;
and ye believe in Allah. And if the People of the Scripture had believed it had been better for them. Some of them are
believers; but most of them are evil livers.
111. They will not harm you save a trifling hurt, and if they fight against you they will turn and flee. And afterward they
will not be helped.
112. Ignominy shall be theft portion wheresoever they are found save (where they grasp) a rope from Allah and a rope
from men. They have incurred anger from their Lord, and wretchedness is laid upon them. That is because they used
to disbelieve the revelations of Allah, and slew the Prophets wrongfully. That is because they were rebellious and used
to transgress.
113. They are not all alike. Of the People of the Scripture there is a staunch community who recite the revelations of
Allah in the night season, falling prostrate (before Him).
114. They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency, and vie one with another
in good works. They are of the righteous.
115. And whatever good they do, they will not be denied the meed thereof. Allah is Aware of those who ward off (evil).
116. Lo! the riches and the progeny of those who disbelieve will not avail them aught against Allah; and such are
rightful owners of the Fire. They will abide therein.
117. The likeness of that which they spend in this life of the world is as the likeness of a biting, icy wind which smiteth
the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves, and devastateth it. Allah wronged them not, but they did wrong
themselves.
118. O ye who believe! Take not for intimates others than your own folk, who would spare no pains to ruin you; they
love to hamper you. Hatred is revealed by (the utterance of) their mouths, but that which their breasts hide is greater.
We have made plain for you the revelations if ye will understand.
119. O ye are those who love them though they love you not, and ye believe in all the Scripture. When they fall in with
you they say: We believe; but when they go apart they bite their finger tips at you, for rage. Say: Perish in your rage!
Lo! Allah is Aware of what is hidden in (your) breasts.
120. If a lucky chance befall you, it is evil unto them, and if disaster strike you they rejoice thereat. But if ye persevere
and keep from evil their guile will never harm you. Lo! Allah is Surrounding what they do.
