In the name of God, the Almighty,¹ the Merciful.

¹ O you who heed warning:¹ fulfil contracts. Made lawful for you is grazing livestock save what is recited to you, hunting not being permitted when you are forbidden;² God ordains what He wills.

² O you who heed warning:¹ violate² not the tokens of God,³ nor the inviolable month,⁴ nor the offering,⁵ nor the necklaces,⁶ nor the visitors to the inviolable house seeking the favour of their Lord and approval. And when you are permitted,⁷ then you may hunt. And let not hatred of a people who turned you away from⁸ the inviolable place of worship⁹ move you to commit injustice.¹⁰ And assist one another to virtue and prudent fear;¹¹ and assist not one another in sin¹² and enmity. And be in prudent fear¹³ of God; God is severe in retribution.

³ Forbidden to you is carrion, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that dedicated to other than God, and the strangled, and the beaten, and the fallen, and the gored, and that eaten by the beast of prey save what you slaughter, and that sacrificed upon the altar, and that you seek apportionment by divining arrows¹ — that is perfidy² — (this day have those who ignore warning³ despaired⁴ of your doctrine,⁵ so fear them not, but fear Me; this day have I perfected for you your doctrine⁶ and completed My favour upon you, and approved for you submission⁷ as doctrine⁸) but whoso is compelled by hunger, without inclination to sin⁹ — God is forgiving and merciful.

⁴ They ask thee what is made lawful for them. Say thou: “Made lawful for you are good things; and what you have trained of animals of prey as trainers¹ teaching them of what God taught you — eat of what they catch for you, and remember the name of God over it. And be in prudent fear² of God; God is swift in reckoning.”

⁵ This day are good things made lawful for you; and the food of those given¹ the Writ² is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them, as are³ chaste women among the believing women⁴ and chaste women among those given⁵ the Writ⁶ before you, when you have given them their dowries, being chaste and not fornicators, nor taking secret friends. And whoso denies the faith:⁷ his work has been in vain, and he in the Hereafter is among the losers.

⁷ And remember the favour of God upon you, and His agreement¹ which He agreed with you, when you said: “We hear and we obey.” And be in prudent fear² of God; God knows what is in the breasts.

⁸ O you who heed warning:¹ stand firm for God, witnesses with equity,² and let not hatred of a people move you, that you act not equitably;³ do justice — that is nearer to prudent fear.⁴ And be in prudent fear⁵ of God; God is aware of what you do.

⁹ And God has promised those who heed warning¹ and do righteous deeds: for them is forgiveness and a great reward.

¹⁰ And those who ignore warning¹ and deny Our proofs:² those are the companions of Hell.

¹¹ O you who heed warning:¹ remember the favour of God upon you when a people purposed to stretch out their hands against you, and He restrained their hands from you; and be in prudent fear² of God; and in God then let the believers³ place their trust.

¹² And God took an agreement of the children of Israel; and We raised up among them twelve leaders. And God said: “I am with you if you uphold the duty,¹ and render the purity,² and believe in³ My messengers, and support them, and lend to God a goodly loan.⁴ I will remove from you your evil deeds,⁵ and make you enter gardens beneath which rivers flow. But whoso among you denies after that has strayed from the right path.”

¹³ So for their violation of their agreement We cursed them and made their hearts hard. They twist words from their places, and have forgotten a portion of that they were reminded of.¹ And thou wilt not cease to find treachery among them save a few among them; but pardon thou them, and forbear thou; God loves the doers of good.

¹⁴ And among those who say: “We are Christians,”¹ We took their agreement; then they forgot a portion of that they were reminded of. And We brought about among them enmity and hatred until the Day of Resurrection; and God will inform them of what they wrought.

¹⁵ O doctors of the Law:¹ Our messenger has come to you, making clear² to you much of what you hid of the Writ,³ and pardoning much. There has come to you light from God, and a clear Writ⁴

¹⁶ Whereby God guides him who seeks His approval to the ways of peace, and brings them out of darkness¹ into the light² by His leave; and He guides them to a straight path.

¹⁷ They have denied who say:¹ “God is the Messiah,² son of Mary.”³ Say thou: “Who would have power over⁴ God for anything if He wished to destroy the Messiah,⁵ son of Mary,⁶ and his mother⁷ and everyone upon the earth altogether?” And to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and what is between them.⁸ He creates what He wills; and God is over all things powerful.

¹⁸ And the Rabbinic Jews¹ and the Christians² say: “We are the sons of God³ and His beloved.” Say thou: “Why then does He punish you for your transgressions?”⁴ Nay,⁵ you are but mortals among those He created; He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills. And to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and what is between them,⁶ and to Him is the journey’s end.

¹⁹ O doctors of the Law:¹ Our messenger has come to you making clear² to you, upon an interval between³ the messengers lest you say: “There came not to us any bearer of glad tidings or warner.” But there has come to you a bearer of glad tidings and warner; and God is over all things powerful.

²⁰ And when Moses said to his people: “O my people: remember the favour of God upon you, when He made among you prophets, and made you kings,¹ and gave you what He had not given to any among all mankind.

²¹ “O my people: enter the holy land¹ which God has prescribed for you; and turn not back, for you will turn back as losers.”

²² They said: “O Moses: therein is a people of giants,¹ and we will not enter it until they go out therefrom; and if they go out therefrom, then will we enter.”

²³ Said two men of those who feared, whom¹ God had favoured: “Enter upon them by the gate; for when you have entered by it, then will you be victorious; and in God place your trust, if you be believers.”²

²⁴ They said: “O Moses: we will not enter it ever, so long as they remain therein. So go thou, thou and thy Lord, and fight;¹ we will sit here.”

²⁵ Said he: “My Lord, I have no power save over myself and my brother; so make Thou a division between us and the perfidious¹ people.”

²⁶ He said: “Then shall it be forbidden them forty years; they shall wander in the earth; and grieve thou not over the perfidious¹ people.”

²⁷ And recite thou to them the report of the two sons of Adam with the truth,¹ when they offered an offering, and it was accepted from the one of them and not accepted from the other: — he said: “I will kill thee.” Said he: “God only accepts from those of prudent fear.²

²⁸ “If thou stretch out against me thy hand to kill me, I will not stretch out my hand against thee to kill thee; I fear God, the Lord of All Creation.

²⁹ “I wish thee to bear my sin¹ and thy sin,² and to become of the companions of the Fire; and that is the reward of the wrongdoers.”³

³⁰ And his soul allowed him the killing of his brother; and he killed him, and became of the losers.

³¹ Then God raised up a raven, scratching in the earth, to show him how to hide the shame¹ of his brother. He said: “Woe is me! Am I not able to be as this raven, and hide the shame² of my brother?” And he became of the remorseful.

³² For that cause We prescribed for the children of Israel that whoso takes¹ a life² other than for a life³ or corruption in the land, it will be as if he killed mankind altogether; (and whoso gives life,⁴ it will be as if he gave life to mankind altogether ­— and Our messengers came to them with clear signs, then many of them after that⁵ are committers of excess in the earth — )

³³ The reward¹ but of those who war against God and His messenger, and strive to work corruption in the land, that² they³ be killed, or they be crucified,⁴ or their hands and feet be cut off on opposite sides, or they be banished from the land. That[...].⁵ They⁶ have disgrace in the World; and they have in the Hereafter a great punishment

³⁴ Save those who repent¹ before you have power over them;² and know that God is forgiving and merciful.³

³⁵ O you who heed warning:¹ be in prudent fear² of God, and seek to Him the means of approach; and strive in His cause, that you might be successful.³

³⁶ Those who ignore warning:¹ were they to have all that is in the earth and the like thereof with it to seek to ransom themselves thereby from the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, it would not be accepted from them; and they have a painful punishment.

³⁷ They will wish to come forth from the Fire, but they will not come forth from it; and they have a lasting punishment.

³⁸ And the male thief and the female thief:¹ cut off their hand² as a reward for what they have earned, as an exemplary punishment from God; and God is exalted in might and wise.

³⁹ Then whoso repents after his injustice and makes right, God will relent towards him; God is forgiving and merciful.

⁴⁰ Knowest thou not that God, to Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth? He punishes whom He wills and forgives whom He wills; and God is over all things powerful.

⁴¹ O Messenger: let there not grieve thee those who compete in denial among those who say: “We believe,” with their mouths, when their hearts have not believed. And among those who hold to Judaism¹ are eager listeners to lies,² eager listeners to another people who have not come to thee (they twist words from their places, saying “If this be given you, receive it; but if it be not given you, beware!”³ And whom God wishes to try: thou wilt not have power for him against⁴ God in anything. Those are they whose hearts God desires not to purify; they have in the World disgrace, and they have in the Hereafter a great punishment)

⁴² Eager listeners to lies;¹ hearty consumers of illicit gain. And if they come to thee, judge thou between them, or turn thou away from them; if thou turnest away from them, they will not harm thee at all; but if thou judgest, judge thou between them with equity;² God loves the equitable.

⁴³ And how come they to thee for judgment when they have the Torah wherein is the judgment¹ of God, then turn away after that? And those are not believers.²

⁴⁴ We sent down the Torah wherein is guidance and light. The prophets who submitted judged thereby those who hold to Judaism¹ as did² the rabbis³ and the religious scholars with what ­they were given charge of the Writ⁴ of God⁵ and were thereto witnesses: “So fear not mankind but fear Me; and sell not My proofs⁶ at a cheap price.” And whoso judges not⁷ by what God has sent down, it is they who are the false claimers of guidance.⁸

⁴⁵ And We prescribed for them therein a life¹ for a life,² and an eye for an eye, and a nose for a nose, and an ear for an ear, and a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds just requital; but whoso forgives it by way of charity, it is an expiation for him. And whoso judges not by what God has sent down: it is they who are the wrongdoers.³

⁴⁶ And We sent Jesus,¹ son of Mary² in their footsteps³ confirming what was before him⁴ of the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel⁵ wherein was guidance and light, both⁶ confirming what was before him⁷ of the Torah and as guidance and admonition for those of prudent fear.⁸

⁴⁷ And let the people of the Gospel¹ judge by what God sent down therein;² and whoso judges not by what God has sent down: it is they who are the perfidious.³

⁴⁸ And We sent down to thee the Writ¹ with the truth,² confirming what is before it³ of the Writ,⁴ and as a control⁵ over it. So judge thou between them by what God has sent down; and follow thou not their vain desires⁶ away from what has come to thee of the truth.⁷ For each of you We appointed an ordinance⁸ and a procedure.⁹ And had God willed, He could have made you one community; but that He might try you in what He gave you[...].¹⁰ — So vie in good deeds; unto God will you return all together, and He will inform you of that wherein you differed —

⁴⁹ And judge thou between them by what God has sent down; and follow thou not their vain desires,¹ and beware thou of them lest they seduce thee away from some of what God has sent down to thee. And if they turn away, know thou that God but intends to afflict them for some of their transgressions;² and many among men are perfidious.³