¹⁰¹ And among those around you of the desert Arabs¹ are waverers;² and among the people of the city³ — they persist in wavering.⁴ Thou knowest them not, but We know them; We will punish them twice,⁵ then will they be sent back to a great punishment.

¹⁰² And others acknowledged their transgressions:¹ they mixed a righteous deed with² another of evil.³ It may be that God will relent towards them; God is forgiving and merciful.

¹⁰³ Take thou charity of their wealth to cleanse them, and to increase them in purity¹ thereby; and perform thou the duty² befitting them; thy duties³ are an assuagement for them; and God is hearing and knowing.

¹⁰⁴ Know they not that God: He accepts the repentance from His servants, and takes the charity, and that God: He is the Accepting of Repentance, the Merciful?

¹⁰⁵ And say thou: “Act!” Then will God see your actions, as will¹ His messenger, and the believers;² and you will be sent back to the Knower of the Unseen and the Seen, and He will tell you what you did.

¹⁰⁶ And others are deferred to the command of God — whether He will punish them or whether He will forgive them; and God is knowing and wise —

¹⁰⁷ As are¹ those who took a place of worship² in harm and denial, and division among the believers,³ and as an outpost⁴ for those who warred against God and His messenger before. And they will swear: “We purposed only good”; but God bears witness that they are liars.

¹⁰⁸ Stand thou not within it ever. A place of worship¹ founded upon prudent fear² from the first day is worthier³ that thou shouldst stand within it; therein are men who love to purify themselves; and God loves those who purify themselves.

¹⁰⁹ Is then he who¹ founded his building on prudent fear² of God and His approval better, or he who founded his building on the edge of a collapsing cliff, so it collapsed with him into the fire of Gehenna? And God guides not the wrongdoing³ people.

¹¹⁰ Their building which they built will never cease to be a doubt in their hearts save that their hearts be cut off;¹ and God is knowing and wise.

¹¹¹ God has bought from the believers¹ their lives and their wealth; for that the Garden is theirs — they fighting in the cause of God, killing and being killed — a promise binding upon² Him in the Torah and the Gospel³ and the Qur’an.⁴ And who better fulfils his covenant than God? Rejoice then in your bargain that you have contracted with Him; and that⁵ is the Great Achievement.

¹¹² The repentant, the serving, those praising, those journeying, the lowly,¹ those submitting,² those enjoining what is fitting,³ and those forbidding perversity,⁴ and the keepers of the limits of God[...];⁵ and bear thou glad tidings to the believers.⁶

¹¹³ It is not for the Prophet and those who heed warning¹ to ask for forgiveness for the idolaters,² though they be relatives, after it has become clear to them that they are the companions of Hell.

¹¹⁴ And the request for forgiveness of Abraham for his father was only because of a promise he had promised him;¹ but when it had become clear to him that he was an enemy to God, he declared himself quit of him;² Abraham was compassionate and clement.

¹¹⁵ And God would not send a people astray after He has guided them until He has made plain¹ to them of what they should be in prudent fear;² God knows all things.

¹¹⁶ God, to Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; He gives life and gives death; and you have not, besides¹ God, either ally or helper.

¹¹⁷ God has turned towards the Prophet, and the émigrés, and the helpers who followed him in the hour of hardship, after the hearts of a faction among them had almost deviated; then turned He towards them — He is to them kind and merciful —

¹¹⁸ And towards the three who were left behind when¹ the earth had become straitened for them, vast as it was,² and their souls had become straitened for them, and they thought that there was no refuge from God save to Him;³ then turned He towards them, that they might turn.⁴ God, He is the Accepting of Repentance, the Merciful.

¹¹⁹ O you who heed warning:¹ be in prudent fear² of God, and be with the truthful.

¹²⁰ It is not for the people of the city¹ and those around them of the desert Arabs² to remain behind the messenger of God, and prefer their lives to his life.³ Is it not that⁴ there befalls them neither thirst, nor fatigue, nor hunger, in the cause of God, neither take they any step that enrages the atheists,⁵ nor achieve they against the enemy an attainment save that it is recorded for them as a righteous deed! God causes not to be lost the reward of the doers of good.

¹²¹ And they spend not a sum,¹ small or great, nor cross they a valley save it is recorded for them, that God might reward them for the best of what they did.

¹²² And it is not for the believers¹ to go forth all at once; and were it not that from every party among them there should go forth a number to gain knowledge in the doctrine,² and to warn their people when they return to them, that they might beware[...].³

¹²³ O you who heed warning:¹ fight those of the atheists² who are close to³ you, and let them find harshness⁴ in you; and know that God is with those of prudent fear.⁵

¹²⁴ And when a sūrah¹ is sent down, then among them is he who says: “Which of you has this increased in faith?” Then as for those who heed warning,² it increases them in faith, and they rejoice.

¹²⁵ And as for those in whose hearts is disease, it adds abomination to their abomination; and they die while they are false claimers of guidance.¹

¹²⁶ See they not that they are subjected to means of denial¹ once or twice every year? Then do they turn not in repentance, nor do they take heed.

¹²⁷ And when a sūrah¹ is sent down, they look at each other: “Does anybody see you?” Then they turn away. God has turned away their hearts because they are people who understand not.

¹²⁸ There has come to you a messenger from among yourselves; grievous to him is what grieves you; one concerned for you;¹ to the believers² kind and merciful.

¹²⁹ Then if they turn away, say thou: “God is sufficient for me; there is no god save He.¹ In Him have I placed my trust, and He is Lord of the Great Throne.”