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yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾawfū bi-l-ʿuqūdi ʾuḥillat lakum bahīmatu l-ʾanʿāmi ʾillā mā yutlā ʿalaykum ghayra muḥillī ṣ-ṣaydi wa-ʾantum ḥurumun ʾinna llāha yaḥkumu mā yurīdu

O you who have faith! Keep your agreements. You are permitted animals of grazing livestock, except what is [now] announced to you, disallowing game while you are in pilgrim sanctity. Indeed Allah decrees whatever He desires.

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5:2

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā tuḥillū shaʿāʾira llāhi wa-lā sh-shahra l-ḥarāma wa-lā l-hadya wa-lā l-qalāʾida wa-lā ʾāmmīna l-bayta l-ḥarāma yabtaghūna faḍlan min rabbihim wa-riḍwānan wa-ʾidhā ḥalaltum fa-ṣṭādū wa-lā yajrimannakum shanaʾānu qawmin ʾan ṣaddūkum ʿani l-masjidi l-ḥarāmi ʾan taʿtadū wa-taʿāwanū ʿalā l-birri wa-t-taqwā wa-lā taʿāwanū ʿalā l-ʾithmi wa-l-ʿudwāni wa-ttaqū llāha ʾinna llāha shadīdu l-ʿiqābi

O you who have faith! Do not violate Allah’s sacraments, neither the sacred month, nor the offering, nor the necklaces, nor those bound for the Sacred House, who seek their Lord’s grace and [His] pleasure. But when you emerge from pilgrim sanctity, you may hunt for game. Ill feeling for a people should not lead you, because they barred you from [access to] the Sacred Mosque, to transgress. Cooperate in piety and Godwariness, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression, and be wary of Allah. Indeed Allah is severe in retribution.

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5:3

ḥurrimat ʿalaykumu l-maytatu wa-d-damu wa-laḥmu l-khinzīri wa-mā ʾuhilla li-ghayri llāhi bihī wa-l-munkhaniqatu wa-l-mawqūdhatu wa-l-mutaraddiyatu wa-n-naṭīḥatu wa-mā ʾakala s-sabuʿu ʾillā mā dhakkaytum wa-mā dhubiḥa ʿalā n-nuṣubi wa-ʾan tastaqsimū bi-l-ʾazlāmi dhālikum fisqun-i l-yawma yaʾisa lladhīna kafarū min dīnikum fa-lā takhshawhum wa-khshawni l-yawma ʾakmaltu lakum dīnakum wa-ʾatmamtu ʿalaykum niʿmatī wa-raḍītu lakumu l-ʾislāma dīnan fa-mani ḍṭurra fī makhmaṣatin ghayra mutajānifin li-ʾithmin fa-ʾinna llāha ghafūrun raḥīmun

You are prohibited carrion, blood, the flesh of swine, and what has been offered to other than Allah, and the animal strangled or beaten to death, and that which dies by falling or is gored to death, and that which is mangled by a beast of prey—barring that which you may purify —and what is sacrificed on stone altars [to idols], and that you should divide by raffling with arrows. All that is transgression. Today the faithless have despaired of your religion. So do not fear them, but fear Me. Today I have perfected your religion for you, and I have completed My blessing upon you, and I have approved Islam as your religion. But should anyone be compelled by hunger, without inclining to sin, then Allah is indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

5:4

yasʾalūnaka mādhā ʾuḥilla lahum qul ʾuḥilla lakumu ṭ-ṭayyibātu wa-mā ʿallamtum mina l-jawāriḥi mukallibīna tuʿallimūnahunna mimmā ʿallamakumu llāhu fa-kulū mimmā ʾamsakna ʿalaykum wa-dhkurū sma llāhi ʿalayhi wa-ttaqū llāha ʾinna llāha sarīʿu l-ḥisābi

They ask you as to what is lawful to them. Say, ‘All the good things are lawful to you.’ As for what you have taught hunting dogs [to catch], teaching them out of what Allah has taught you, eat of what they catch for you and mention Allah’s Name over it, and be wary of Allah. Indeed Allah is swift at reckoning.

— Ali Quli Qarai

5:5

al-yawma ʾuḥilla lakumu ṭ-ṭayyibātu wa-ṭaʿāmu lladhīna ʾūtū l-kitāba ḥillun lakum wa-ṭaʿāmukum ḥillun lahum wa-l-muḥṣanātu mina l-muʾmināti wa-l-muḥṣanātu mina lladhīna ʾūtū l-kitāba min qablikum ʾidhā ʾātaytumūhunna ʾujūrahunna muḥṣinīna ghayra musāfiḥīna wa-lā muttakhidhī ʾakhdānin wa-man yakfur bi-l-ʾīmāni fa-qad ḥabiṭa ʿamaluhū wa-huwa fī l-ʾākhirati mina l-khāsirīna

Today all the good things have been made lawful to you—the food of those who were given the Book is lawful to you, and your food is lawful to them—and the chaste ones from among faithful women, and chaste women of those who were given the Book before you, when you have given them their dowries, in wedlock, not in license, nor taking paramours. Should anyone renounce his faith, his work shall fail and he will be among the losers in the Hereafter.

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5:6

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾidhā qumtum ʾilā ṣ-ṣalāti fa-ghsilū wujūhakum wa-ʾaydiyakum ʾilā l-marāfiqi wa-msaḥū bi-ruʾūsikum wa-ʾarjulakum ʾilā l-kaʿbayni wa-ʾin kuntum junuban fa-ṭṭahharū wa-ʾin kuntum marḍā ʾaw ʿalā safarin ʾaw jāʾa ʾaḥadun minkum mina l-ghāʾiṭi ʾaw lāmastumu n-nisāʾa fa-lam tajidū māʾan fa-tayammamū ṣaʿīdan ṭayyiban fa-msaḥū bi-wujūhikum wa-ʾaydīkum minhu mā yurīdu llāhu li-yajʿala ʿalaykum min ḥarajin wa-lākin yurīdu li-yuṭahhirakum wa-li-yutimma niʿmatahū ʿalaykum laʿallakum tashkurūna

O you who have faith! When you stand up for prayer, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, and wipe a part of your heads and your feet, up to the ankles. If you are junub, purify yourselves. But if you are sick, or on a journey, or any of you has come from the toilet, or you have touched women, and you cannot find water, then make tayammum with clean ground and wipe a part of your faces and your hands with it. Allah does not desire to put you to hardship, but He desires to purify you, and to complete His blessing upon you so that you may give thanks.

— Ali Quli Qarai

5:7

wa-dhkurū niʿmata llāhi ʿalaykum wa-mīthāqahu lladhī wāthaqakum bihī ʾidh qultum samiʿnā wa-ʾaṭaʿnā wa-ttaqū llāha ʾinna llāha ʿalīmun bi-dhāti ṣ-ṣudūri

Remember Allah’s blessing upon you and His covenant with which He has bound you when you said, ‘We hear and obey.’ And be wary of Allah. Indeed Allah knows best what is in the breasts.

— Ali Quli Qarai

5:8

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū kūnū qawwāmīna li-llāhi shuhadāʾa bi-l-qisṭi wa-lā yajrimannakum shanaʾānu qawmin ʿalā ʾallā taʿdilū ʿdilū huwa ʾaqrabu li-t-taqwā wa-ttaqū llāha ʾinna llāha khabīrun bi-mā taʿmalūna

O you who have faith! Be maintainers, as witnesses for the sake of Allah, of justice, and ill feeling for a people should never lead you to be unfair. Be fair; that is nearer to Godwariness, and be wary of Allah. Allah is indeed well aware of what you do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

5:9

waʿada llāhu lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti lahum maghfiratun wa-ʾajrun ʿaẓīmun

Allah has promised those who have faith and do righteous deeds forgiveness and a great reward.

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