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She that is to be examined60. Al-Mumtaḥinahالممتحنة

al-Mumtaḥanah

She who is to be examined

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60:1

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā tattakhidhū ʿaduwwī wa-ʿaduwwakum ʾawliyyāʾa tulqūna ʾilayhim bi-l-mawaddati wa-qad kafarū bi-mā jāʾakum mina l-ḥaqqi yukhrijūna r-rasūla wa-ʾiyyākum ʾan tuʾminū bi-llāhi rabbikum ʾin kuntum kharajtum jihādan fī sabīlī wa-btighāʾa marḍātī tusirrūna ʾilayhim bi-l-mawaddati wa-ʾana ʾaʿlamu bi-mā ʾakhfaytum wa-mā ʾaʿlantum wa-man yafʿalhu minkum fa-qad ḍalla sawāʾa s-sabīli

O you who have faith! Do not take My enemy and your enemy for friends, [secretly] offering them affection, if you have set out for jihad in My way and to seek My pleasure, for they have certainly denied whatever has come to you of the truth, expelling the Apostle and you, because you have faith in Allah, your Lord. You secretly nourish affection for them, while I know well whatever you hide and whatever you disclose, and whoever among you does that has certainly strayed from the right way.

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:2

ʾin yathqafūkum yakūnū lakum ʾaʿdāʾan wa-yabsuṭū ʾilaykum ʾaydiyahum wa-ʾalsinatahum bi-s-sūʾi wa-waddū law takfurūna

If they were to confront you they would be your enemies, and would stretch out against you their hands and [unleash] their tongues with evil [intentions], and they are eager that you [too] should be faithless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:3

lan tanfaʿakum ʾarḥāmukum wa-lā ʾawlādukum yawma l-qiyāmati yafṣilu baynakum wa-llāhu bi-mā taʿmalūna baṣīrun

Your relatives and children will not avail you on the Day of Resurrection: He will separate you [from one another], and Allah watches what you do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:4

qad kānat lakum ʾuswatun ḥasanatun fī ʾibrāhīma wa-lladhīna maʿahū ʾidh qālū li-qawmihim ʾinnā buraʾāʾu minkum wa-mimmā taʿbudūna min dūni llāhi kafarnā bikum wa-badā baynanā wa-baynakumu l-ʿadāwatu wa-l-baghḍāʾu ʾabadan ḥattā tuʾminū bi-llāhi waḥdahū ʾillā qawla ʾibrāhīma li-ʾabīhi la-ʾastaghfiranna laka wa-mā ʾamliku laka mina llāhi min shayʾin rabbanā ʿalayka tawakkalnā wa-ʾilayka ʾanabnā wa-ʾilayka l-maṣīru

There is certainly a good exemplar for you in Abraham and those who were with him, when they said to their own people, ‘Indeed we repudiate you and whatever you worship besides Allah. We disown you, and enmity and hate have appeared between you and us for ever, unless you come to have faith in Allah alone,’ apart from Abraham’s saying to his father, ‘I will surely plead forgiveness for you, though I cannot avail you anything against Allah.’ ‘Our Lord! In You do we put our trust, and to You do we turn penitently, and toward You is the destination.

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:5

rabbanā lā tajʿalnā fitnatan li-lladhīna kafarū wa-ghfir lanā rabbanā ʾinnaka ʾanta l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu

Our Lord! Do not make us a test for the faithless, and forgive us. Our Lord! Indeed You are the All-mighty, the All-wise.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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60:6

la-qad kāna lakum fīhim ʾuswatun ḥasanatun li-man kāna yarjū llāha wa-l-yawma l-ʾākhira wa-man yatawalla fa-ʾinna llāha huwa l-ghaniyyu l-ḥamīdu

There is certainly a good exemplar for you in them—for those who look forward to Allah and the Last Day—and anyone who refuses to comply [should know that] indeed Allah is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable.

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:7

ʿasā llāhu ʿan yajʿala baynakum wa-bayna lladhīna ʿādaytum minhum mawaddatan wa-llāhu qadīrun wa-llāhu ghafūrun raḥīmun

It may be that Allah will bring about affection between you and those with whom you are at enmity, and Allah is all-powerful, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:8

lā yanhākumu llāhu ʿani lladhīna lam yuqātilūkum fī d-dīni wa-lam yukhrijūkum min diyārikum ʾan tabarrūhum wa-tuqsiṭū ʾilayhim ʾinna llāha yuḥibbu l-muqsiṭīna

Allah does not forbid you from dealing with kindness and justice with those [polytheists] who did not make war against you on account of religion and did not expel you from your homes. Indeed Allah loves the just.

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:9

ʾinnamā yanhākumu llāhu ʿani lladhīna qātalūkum fī d-dīni wa-ʾakhrajūkum min diyārikum wa-ẓāharū ʿalā ʾikhrājikum ʾan tawallawhum wa-man yatawallahum fa-ʾulāʾika humu ẓ-ẓālimūna

Allah forbids you only in regard to those who made war against you on account of religion and expelled you from your homes and supported [the polytheists of Makkah] in your expulsion, that you make friends with them, and whoever makes friends with them—it is they who are the wrongdoers.

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:10

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾidhā jāʾakumu l-muʾminātu muhājirātin fa-mtaḥinūhunna llāhu ʾaʿlamu bi-ʾīmānihinna fa-ʾin ʿalimtumūhunna muʾminātin fa-lā tarjiʿūhunna ʾilā l-kuffāri lā hunna ḥillun lahum wa-lā hum yaḥillūna lahunna wa-ʾātūhum mā ʾanfaqū wa-lā junāḥa ʿalaykum ʾan tankiḥūhunna ʾidhā ʾātaytumūhunna ʾujūrahunna wa-lā tumsikū bi-ʿiṣami l-kawāfiri wa-sʾalū mā ʾanfaqtum wa-l-yasʾalū mā ʾanfaqū dhālikum ḥukmu llāhi yaḥkumu baynakum wa-llāhu ʿalīmun ḥakīmun

O you who have faith! When faithful women come to you as immigrants, test them. Allah knows best [the state of] their faith. Then, if you ascertain them to be [genuinely] faithful women, do not send them back to the faithless. They are not lawful for them, nor are they lawful for them, but give them what [dowry] they have spent [for them]. There is no sin upon you in marrying them when you have given them their dowries. Do not hold on to [conjugal] ties with faithless women. Demand [from the infidels] what you have spent [as dowries], and let the faithless demand [from you] what they have spent [as dowries]. That is Allah’s judgment; He judges between you, and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise.

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:11

wa-ʾin fātakum shayʾun min ʾazwājikum ʾilā l-kuffāri fa-ʿāqabtum fa-ʾātū lladhīna dhahabat ʾazwājuhum mithla mā ʾanfaqū wa-ttaqū llāha lladhī ʾantum bihī muʾminūna

If anything [of the dowries] pertaining to your wives is not reclaimed from the faithless and then you have your turn, then give to those whose wives have left the like of what they have spent, and be wary of Allah in whom you have faith.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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60:12

yā-ʾayyuhā n-nabiyyu ʾidhā jāʾaka l-muʾminātu yubāyiʿnaka ʿalā ʾan lā yushrikna bi-llāhi shayʾan wa-lā yasriqna wa-lā yaznīna wa-lā yaqtulna ʾawlādahunna wa-lā yaʾtīna bi-buhtānin yaftarīnahū bayna ʾaydīhinna wa-ʾarjulihinna wa-lā yaʿṣīnaka fī maʿrūfin fa-bāyiʿhunna wa-staghfir lahunna llāha ʾinna llāha ghafūrun raḥīmun

O Prophet! If faithful women come to you, to take the oath of allegiance to you, [pledging] that they shall not ascribe any partners to Allah, that they shall not steal, nor commit adultery, nor kill their children, nor utter any slander that they may have intentionally fabricated, nor disobey you in what is right, then accept their allegiance, and plead for them to Allah for forgiveness. Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful

— Ali Quli Qarai

60:13

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā tatawallaw qawman ghaḍiba llāhu ʿalayhim qad yaʾisū mina l-ʾākhirati ka-mā yaʾisa l-kuffāru min ʾaṣḥābi l-qubūri

O you who have faith! Do not befriend a people at whom Allah is wrathful: they have despaired of the Hereafter, just as the faithless have despaired of the occupants of the graves.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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