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1. O ye who believe! Choose not My enemy and your enemy for friends. Do ye give them friendship when they

disbelieve in that truth which hath come unto you, driving out the messenger and you because ye believe in Allah, your

Lord? If ye have come forth to strive in My way and seeking My good pleasure, (show them not friendship). Do ye

show friendship unto them in secret, when I am best Aware of what ye hide and what ye proclaim? And whosoever doeth

it among you, be verily hath strayed from the right way.

2. If they have the upper hand of you, they will be your foes, and will stretch out their hands and their tongues toward

you with evil (intent), and they long for you to disbelieve.

3. Your ties of kindred and your children will avail you naught upon the Day of Resurrection. He will part you. Allah

is Seer of what ye do.

4. There is a goodly pattern for you Abraham and those with him, when they told their folk; Lo! we are guiltless of you

and all that ye worship beside Allah. We have done with you. And there hath arisen between us and you hostility and

hate for ever until ye believe in Allah only save that which Abraham promised his father (when he said): I will ask

forgiveness for thee, though I own nothing for thee from Allah Our Lord! In Thee we put our trust, and unto Thee we

turn repentant, and unto Thee is the journeying.

5. Our Lord! Make us not a prey for those who disbelieve, and forgive us, our Lord! Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the

Mighty, the Wise.

6. Verily ye have in them a goodly pattern for everyone who looketh to Allah and the Last Day. And whosoever may

turn away, lo! still Allah, He is the Absolute, the Owner of Praise.

7. It may be that Allah will ordain love between you and those of them with whom ye are at enmity. Allah is Mighty,

and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

8. Allah forbiddeth you not those who warred not against you on account of religion and drove you not out from your

homes, that ye should show them kindness and deal justly with them. Lo ! Allah loveth the just dealers.

9. Allah forbiddeth you only those who warred against you on account of religion and have driven you out from your

homes and helped to drive you out, that ye make friends of them. Whosoever maketh friends of them (All) such are

wrong doers.

10. O ye who believe! When believing women come unto you as fugitives, examine them. Allah is best aware of their

faith. Then, if ye know them for true believers, send them not back unto the disbelievers. They are not lawful for the

disbelievers, nor are the disbelievers lawful for them. And give the disbelievers that which they have spent (upon them).

And it is no sin for you to marry such women when ye have given them their dues. And hold not to the ties of

disbelieving women; and ask for (the return of) that which ye have spent; and let the disbelievers ask for that which they

have spent. That is the judgment of Allah. He judgeth between you. Allah is Knower, Wise.

11. And if any of your wives have gone from you unto the disbelievers and afterward ye have your turn (of triumph),

then give unto those whose wives have gone the like of that which they have spent, and keep your duty to Allah in whom

ye are believers.

12. O Prophet! If believing women come unto thee, taking oath of allegiance unto thee that they will ascribe nothing

as partner unto Allah, and will neither steal nor commit adultery nor kill their children, nor produce any lie that they

have devised between their hands and feet, nor disobey thee in what is right, then accept their allegiance and ask Allah

to forgive them. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

13. O ye who believe! Be not friendly with a folk with whom Allah is wroth, (a folk) who have despaired of the

Hereafter as the disbelievers despair of those who are in the graves.

Surah 61. As-Saff

1. All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifieth Allah, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.

2. O ye who believe! why say ye that which ye do not?

3. It is most hateful in the sight of Allah that ye say that which ye do not.

4. Lo! Allah loveth those who battle for His cause in ranks, as if they were a solid structure.

5. And (remember) when Moses said unto his people: O my people! Why persecute ye me, when ye well know that I

am Allah's messenger unto you? So when they went astray Allah sent their hearts astray. And Allah guideth not the evil

living folk.

6. And when Jesus son of Mary said: O Children of Israel! Lo! I am the messenger of Allah unto you, confirming that