¹⁵⁰ Say thou: “Bring your witnesses who bear witness that God has made this unlawful.” Then if they bear witness, bear thou not witness with them; and follow thou not the vain desires¹ of those who deny Our proofs² and those who believe not in³ the Hereafter; and they ascribe equals to their Lord.

¹⁵¹ Say thou: “Come, I will recite what your Lord has made unlawful for you: that you ascribe a partnership¹ with Him ­­to anything (while towards parents good conduct); and kill not your children out of poverty,” — We will provide for you and for them — “and approach not sexual immoralities,² whether open or concealed; and kill not the soul which God has made unlawful save with justice;³ ­— that He enjoined upon you, that you might use reason.

¹⁵² “And approach not the property of the fatherless¹ save with what is better before² he reaches his maturity; and fulfil the measure and the balance with equity,”³ — We burden not any soul save to its capacity — “and when you speak, be just (though he be a relative⁴); and the covenant of God⁵ fulfil; — that He commanded you, that you might take heed.”

¹⁵³ And this is My straight path,¹ so follow it; and follow not other ways,² for they will separate you from His path; — “that He commanded you, that you might be in prudent fear.”³

¹⁵⁴ Then We gave Moses the Writ,¹ complete² for him who does good, and an explanation of everything, and as guidance, and as a mercy, that they might believe in³ the meeting with their Lord.

¹⁵⁵ And this is a Writ¹ We have sent down,² one blessed, so follow it; and be in prudent fear,³ that you might obtain mercy,

¹⁵⁶ Lest you say: “The Writ¹ was but sent down upon two groups² before us, and we were of their study unaware,”

¹⁵⁷ Or you say: “Had the Writ been sent down upon us,¹ we would have been better guided than they.” And there has come to you clear evidence from your Lord, and guidance, and a mercy; then who is more unjust than he who denies the proofs² of God, and turns away from them? We will reward those who turn away from Our proofs³ with an evil punishment for their turning away.

¹⁵⁸ Look they save for the angels to come to them, or thy Lord to come, or for there to come some of the proofs¹ of thy Lord? The day there come some of the proofs² of thy Lord, the faith of a soul will benefit it nothing which had not believed before, nor by its faith earned good. Say thou: “Wait — we are waiting.”

¹⁵⁹ Those who have divided their doctrine¹ and become sects: thou art not of them in anything; their affair is but with God; then will He inform them of what they did.

¹⁶⁰ Whoso brings a good deed, he has tenfold the like thereof; and whoso brings evil,¹ he is not rewarded save with the like thereof; and they will not be wronged.

¹⁶¹ Say thou: “As for me, my Lord has guided me to a straight path, a right doctrine,¹ the creed of Abraham, inclining to truth;² and he was not of the idolaters.”³

¹⁶² Say thou: “My duty¹ and my penance and my living and my dying are for God, the Lord of All Creation.

¹⁶³ “He has no partner,¹ and that have I been commanded; and I am the first of those submitting.”²

¹⁶⁴ Say thou: “Is it other than God I should desire as Lord when He is Lord of all things?” And every soul earns not save for itself, and no bearer bears the burden of another; then to your Lord is your return, and He will inform you of that wherein you differed.

¹⁶⁵ And He it is that made you the successors of the earth, and raised some of you above others in degree,¹ that He might try you by what He has given you. Thy Lord is swift in retribution; and He is forgiving and merciful.