⁵⁰ Is it the judgment of ignorance they seek? And who is better than God in judgment for people who are certain?¹

⁵¹ O you who heed warning:¹ take not the Rabbinic Jews² and the Christians³ as allies; they are allies of one another. And whoso takes them as allies among you, he is of them; God guides not the wrongdoing⁴ people.

⁵² And thou seest those in whose hearts is disease competing among them, saying: “We fear lest a reversal¹ befall us.” But it may be that God will bring victory or a command from Him and they will become of what they concealed within their souls, remorseful.

⁵³ And those who heed warning¹ will say: “Are these they who swore by God their strongest oaths that they were with you?” Their works have become vain; and they have become losers.

⁵⁴ O you who heed warning:¹ whoso among you renounces his doctrine:² God will bring a people whom He will love, and who will love Him: humble towards the believers;³ stern towards the false claimers of guidance;⁴ striving in the cause of God, and fearing not the reproach of a critic. That is the bounty of God He gives to whom He wills; and God is encompassing and knowing.

⁵⁶ And whoso takes God and His messenger and those who heed warning¹ as ally: the party of God, they will be the victors.

⁵⁷ O you who heed warning:¹ take not those who take your doctrine in mockery and fun among those given² the Writ³ before you and⁴ the atheists⁵ as allies; and be in prudent fear⁶ of God if you be believers.⁷

⁵⁸ And when you call to the duty¹ they take it in mockery and fun, for it is that² they are people who do not reason!

⁵⁹ Say thou: “O doctors of the Law:¹ do you resent us save that we believe in² God and what was sent down to us and what was sent down before,³ and that most of you are perfidious?”⁴

⁶⁰ Say thou: “Shall I inform you of worse than that¹ as a recompense with God? He whom God cursed and with whom He was wroth and made of them apes and swine and servants of idols:² those are worse in standing and further astray from the right path.”

⁶¹ And when they come to you, they say: “We believe”; but they entered in denial, and they left in it; and God best knows what they were concealing.

⁶² And thou seest many of them competing in sin¹ and enmity and their consumption of illicit gain; evil is what they do.²

⁶³ Oh, that the rabbis¹ and the religious scholars had but² forbidden their speaking sin³ and their consumption of illicit gain! Evil is what they were working.

⁶⁴ And the Rabbinic Jews¹ say: “The hand of God is fettered.” Fettered are their hands! And cursed are they for what they say! Nay,² His hands are spread wide; He spends how He wills. And there increases many of them in inordinacy and denial what was sent down to thee from thy Lord. And We have cast among them enmity and hatred until the Day of Resurrection; whenever they lit the fire of war, God extinguished it; and they strive in the land for corruption; and God loves not the workers of corruption.

⁶⁵ And had the doctors of the Law¹ believed and been in prudent fear,² We would have removed their evil deeds³ from them and made them enter the Gardens of Bliss.

⁶⁶ And had they upheld¹ the Torah and the Gospel² and what was sent down to them from their Lord, they would have eaten from above them and from under their feet.³ Among them is a moderate community; but many of them, evil is what they do.

⁶⁷ O Messenger: convey thou what has been sent down to thee from thy Lord; and if thou do it not, then thou wilt not have conveyed His message. And God will protect thee from men. God guides not the people of the false claimers of guidance.¹

⁶⁸ Say thou: “O doctors of the Law:¹ you have nothing to stand upon until you uphold² the Torah and the Gospel³ and what was sent down to you from your Lord.”⁴ And there increases many of them in inordinacy and denial what was sent down to thee from thy Lord; so grieve thou not over the people of the false claimers of guidance.⁵

⁶⁹ Those who heed warning,¹ and those who hold to Judaism,² and the Sabaeans,³ and the Christians⁴ — whoso believes in⁵ God and the Last Day and works righteousness — no fear will be upon them, nor will they grieve.

⁷⁰ We took an agreement of the children of Israel and sent to them messengers. Whenever a messenger came to them with what their souls desired not, a faction¹ they denied, and a faction they killed,

⁷¹ And considered there would be no means of denial,¹ so they became blind and deaf. Then turned God towards them; then became many among them blind and deaf; and God sees what they do.

⁷² They have denied who say: “God is the Messiah,¹ son of Mary.”² And the Messiah³ said: “O children of Israel: serve God, my Lord and your Lord; whoso ascribes a partnership⁴ to God, him⁵ has God forbidden the Garden, and his shelter is the Fire; and for the wrongdoers⁶ there are no helpers.”

⁷³ They have denied who say: “God is the third of three.” And there is no god save One God. And if they desist not from so saying, there will touch those who ignore warning¹ among them a painful punishment.

⁷⁴ Will they then not¹ turn to God and seek His forgiveness? And God is forgiving and merciful.

⁷⁵ The Messiah,¹ son of Mary,² was but a messenger; messengers had passed away before him;³ and his mother was a woman of truth; they both ate food.⁴ See thou how We make plain⁵ the proofs⁶ to them; then see thou how they are deluded.

⁷⁶ Say thou: “Serve you, besides¹ God, what has power over you for neither harm nor benefit?” And God, He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

⁷⁷ Say thou: “O doctors of the Law:¹ exceed not bounds in your doctrine² beyond³ the truth;⁴ and follow not the vain desires⁵ of a people who strayed before, and led many astray; and they strayed from the right path.”

⁷⁸ Those among the children of Israel who ignored warning¹ were cursed by the tongue of David, and of Jesus,² son of Mary,³ for it is that⁴ they opposed and exceeded all bounds!

⁷⁹ They forbade not one another what is perverse,¹ but they did it; evil was what they did.

⁸⁰ Thou seest many of them taking allies of those who ignore warning;¹ evil is what their souls have sent ahead for them, that God is wroth with them; and in the punishment will they abide eternally.

⁸¹ And had they believed in¹ God and the Prophet and what has been sent down to him, they would not have taken them as allies; but many among them are perfidious.²

⁸² Thou wilt find the strongest of men in enmity to those who heed warning¹ the Rabbinic Jews² and the idolaters;³ and thou wilt find the nearest of them in love to those who heed warning⁴ those who say: “We are Christians”;⁵ for it is that⁶ among them are priests and monks, and that they⁷ wax not proud!

⁸³ And when they listen to what has been sent down to the Messenger,¹ thou seest their eyes overflow with tears because of what they recognise of the truth.² They say: “Our Lord: we believe, so write Thou us down among the witnesses;

⁸⁴ “And why should we not believe in¹ God and what has come to us of the truth,² and hope that our Lord will make us enter with the righteous people?”

⁸⁵ So God rewarded them for what they said with gardens beneath which rivers flow, they abiding eternally therein; and that is the reward of the doers of good.

⁸⁶ And those who ignore warning¹ and deny Our proofs:² those are the companions of Hell.

⁸⁷ O you who heed warning:¹ forbid not the good things that God has made lawful for you;² and transgress not; God loves not the transgressors.

⁸⁸ And eat of what God has provided you, lawful and good; and be in prudent fear¹ of God in whom you are believers.²

⁸⁹ God will not take you to task for the vain speech in your oaths; but He will take you to task for what you have contracted by oath, whereof the expiation is the feeding of ten needy persons with the average of that you feed your families, or the clothing of them, or the manumission of a slave; but whoso has not the means, then a fast of three days. That is the expiation of your oaths when you have sworn. But keep your oaths; thus does God make plain¹ to you His proofs,² that you might be grateful.

⁹⁰ O you who heed warning:¹ wine,² and games of chance, and altars,³ and divining arrows⁴ are an abomination of the work of the satan;⁵ so avoid it, that you might be successful.

⁹¹ The satan¹ but wishes to cause between you enmity and hatred in wine and the games of chance, and to turn you away from² the remembrance³ of God and from the duty;⁴ so will you not desist?

⁹² And obey God and obey the Messenger,¹ and beware;² but if you turn away, then know that upon Our messenger is only the clear notification.

⁹³ Those who heed warning¹ and do righteous deeds do no wrong² in what they eat³ when they are in prudent fear⁴ and believe and do righteous deeds.⁵ Then be in prudent fear⁶ and believe! Then be in prudent fear⁷ and do righteous deeds! And God loves the doers of good.

⁹⁴ O you who heed warning:¹ God will try you with something of the game that your hands and your spears reach, that God might know him who fears Him unseen. Then whoso transgresses after that, for him is a painful punishment.

⁹⁵ O you who heed warning:¹ kill no game when you are forbidden;² and whoso of you kills it intentionally: the payment is the like of what he killed from grazing livestock.³ Let judge it two just men from among you by an offering⁴ reaching⁵ the kaʿba,⁶ or⁷ expiation: feeding needy persons or the equivalent of that in fasting, that he might taste the evil consequence of his deed.⁸ God has pardoned what is past; but whoso returns, God will take vengeance on him; and God is exalted in might and vengeful.

⁹⁶ Made lawful for you is the game of the sea and the food thereof, as a provision for you and for those who travel; but forbidden to you is the game of the land so long as you are forbidden;¹ and be in prudent fear² of God to whom you will be gathered.

⁹⁷ God made the kaʿba,¹ the inviolable house, standing for the people,² the inviolable month,³ the offering,⁴ and the necklaces⁵ — that is so that you might know that God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and that God knows all things.⁶

⁹⁸ Know that God is severe in retribution, and that God is forgiving and merciful.

⁹⁹ Upon the Messenger is only the notification; and God knows what you reveal and what you conceal.