⁵¹ Say thou: “Nothing befalls us save what God has prescribed for us; He is our protector”; and in God let the believers¹ place their trust.

⁵² Say thou: “Do you await for us save one of the two best things?¹ And we await for you, that God will afflict you with a punishment from Him or at our hands. So wait — we are with you waiting.”

⁵³ Say thou: “Spend willingly or unwillingly, it will not be accepted from you; you are perfidious¹ people.”

⁵⁴ And there prevents their expenditures being accepted from them only that they denied God and His messenger, and come not to the duty¹ save as idlers, and spend not save unwillingly.²

⁵⁵ So let not their wealth or their children impress thee; God but intends to punish them thereby¹ in the life of this world, and that their souls should depart while they are false claimers of guidance.²

⁵⁶ And they swear by God that they are of you, when they are not of you; but they are a people who are afraid.¹

⁵⁷ Had they found a refuge, or caves, or a place to enter, they would turn towards it and bolt away.¹

⁵⁸ And among them is he who speaks ill of thee concerning charity;¹ then if they are given thereof, they are satisfied; but if they are not given thereof, then are they angry.

⁵⁹ And had they been satisfied with what God and His messenger gave them, and said: “Sufficient for us is God; God will give us of His bounty, as will¹ His messenger² — to God do we turn in hope,”[...]³

⁶⁰ Charity¹ is but for the poor and the needy, and the workers with² it,³ and those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and for slaves and debtors, and in the cause of God, and the wayfarer⁴ — an obligation from God; and God is knowing and wise.

⁶¹ And among them are those who hinder¹ the Prophet, saying: “He is an ear.”² Say thou: “An ear of good for you,” — he believes in³ God, and he believes the believers⁴ — “and a mercy for those among you who heed warning.”⁵ And those who hinder⁶ the messenger of God, for them is a painful punishment.

⁶² They swear by God to you to please you; but God and His messenger — worthier¹ is it that they should please Him,² if they be believers!³

⁶³ Know they not that whoso works against God and His messenger, for him is the fire of Gehenna, wherein he abides eternally? That is the Tremendous Disgrace.

⁶⁴ The waverers¹ fear lest a sūrah² be sent down against them, proclaiming what is in their hearts; say thou: “You may mock;³ God will bring forth what you fear.”

⁶⁵ And if thou askest them, they will say: “We were but discoursing vainly¹ and playing.” Say thou: “Was it at God and His proofs² and His messenger that you were mocking?”

⁶⁶ Make no excuses; you have denied after your faith;¹ if We pardon a number of you, a number of you will We punish because they were lawbreakers.

⁶⁷ The wavering men¹ and the wavering women² are alike:³ they enjoin perversity,⁴ and they forbid what is fitting,⁵ and they close their hands;⁶ they have forgotten God, so He has forgotten them. The waverers:⁷ they are the perfidious.⁸

⁶⁸ And God has promised the wavering men,¹ and the wavering women,² and the atheists,³ the fire of Gehenna, they abiding eternally therein; it is sufficient for them. And God has cursed them; and they have a lasting punishment.

⁶⁹ Like those before you, stronger than you in might and greater in wealth and children: they enjoyed their lot. And you have enjoyed your lot as they enjoyed their lot who were before you; and you have discoursed vainly¹ like those discoursed vainly; those: their works are vain in the World and the Hereafter; and it is they who are the losers.

⁷⁰ Has not the report of those before them come to them: the people of Noah, and ʿĀd, and Thamūd, and the people of Abraham, and the people¹ of Madyan,² and the cities thrown down? Their messengers brought them clear signs; and God wronged them not, but they wronged their souls.

⁷¹ And the believing men¹ and the believing women² are allies of one another:³ they enjoin what is fitting,⁴ and forbid perversity,⁵ and uphold the duty,⁶ and render the purity,⁷ and obey God and His messenger;⁸ those: God will have mercy on them; God is exalted in might and wise.

⁷² And God has promised the believing men¹ and the believing women² gardens beneath which rivers flow — they abiding eternally therein — and goodly dwellings in gardens of perpetual abode; and approval from God is greater;³ that⁴ is the Great Achievement.

⁷³ O Prophet: strive thou¹ against the atheists² and the waverers,³ and be thou harsh with them; and their shelter is Gehenna; and evil is the journey’s end.

⁷⁴ They swear by God that they did not say — when they did say — the word of denial, and denied after their submission.¹ And they purposed what they have not reached; and they resented only that God and His messenger enriched them of His² bounty. Then if they repent, it will be better for them; and if they turn away, God will punish them with a painful punishment in the World and the Hereafter; and they will not have in the earth any ally or helper.

⁷⁵ And among them is he who made a covenant with God: “If He gives us of His bounty, we will give charity and be among the righteous.”

⁷⁶ Then when He gave them of His bounty, they withheld it and turned away; and they are averse.

⁷⁷ And He requited them with wavering¹ in their hearts to the day they meet Him, because they broke to God what they promised Him, and because they lied.

⁷⁸ Know they not that God knows their secrets¹ and their private conversation, and that God is the Knower of the Unseen Realms?

⁸⁰ Ask thou forgiveness for them, or ask thou not forgiveness for them[...].¹ If thou shouldst ask forgiveness for them seventy times, God will not forgive them — is it not that² they denied God and His messenger! And God guides not the perfidious³ people.

⁸¹ Those who remained behind exulted at their remaining behind the messenger of God, and disliked to strive with their wealth and their lives in the cause of God; and they said: “Go not forth in the heat.” Say thou: “The fire of Gehenna is more intense in heat,” would that they understood.

⁸² Then let them laugh a little and weep much, as reward for what they earned.

⁸³ And if God brings thee back to a number of them and they ask of thee leave to go forth, say thou: “You shall not go forth with me ever, nor fight with me an enemy; you were pleased to sit the first time, so sit with those who remain.”

⁸⁴ And perform thou not the duty¹ for any among them that dies ever, nor stand thou over his grave; they denied God and His messenger, and died while they were perfidious.²

⁸⁵ And let not their wealth or their children impress thee; God but intends to punish them thereby in the World, and that their souls should depart while they are false claimers of guidance.¹

⁸⁶ And when a sūrah¹ is sent down ­to believe in² God and strive alongside³ His messenger, the affluent among them ask leave of thee, saying: “Leave thou us to be with those who sit.”

⁸⁷ They are content to be with those who remain; and their hearts are sealed, so they understand not.

⁸⁸ But the Messenger and those who heeded warning¹ with him strove with their wealth and their lives;² and those have the good things, and it is they who are the successful.³

⁸⁹ God has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, they abiding eternally therein; that is the Great Achievement.

⁹⁰ And there came those with excuses among the desert Arabs,¹ that leave be given them; and there sat² those who lied to God and His messenger; a painful punishment will befall those among them who ignored warning.³

⁹¹ Not upon the weak, nor upon the sick, nor upon those who find not what to spend is there blame,¹ when they are true to God and His messenger — against the doers of good there is no path; and God is forgiving and merciful —

⁹² Nor upon those to whom, when they came to thee, that thou provide them mounts, thou saidst: “I find not whereon to mount you,” they turned back, their eyes overflowing with tears of grief, that they found not what to spend.

⁹³ The path is but against those who ask leave of thee when they are sufficient, content to be with those who remain; and God has sealed their hearts, so they understand not.

⁹⁴ They will make excuses to you when you return to them. Say thou: “Make not excuses; we will not believe you. God has already informed us of your assertions.”¹ God will see your deeds, as will² His messenger, then will you be brought back to the Knower of the Unseen and the Seen,³ and He will tell you what you did.

⁹⁵ They will swear by God to you when you return to them, that you might let them be. So let them be, for they are an abomination, and their shelter is Gehenna; a reward for what they earned.

⁹⁶ They swear to you so that you might be pleased with them; but though¹ you be pleased with them, God is not pleased with the perfidious² people.

⁹⁷ The desert Arabs¹ are stronger in denial and wavering,² and more likely not to know the limits of what God has sent down upon His messenger; and God is knowing and wise.

⁹⁸ And among the desert Arabs¹ is he who takes what he spends as a loss, and awaits reversals² for you; for them is the Evil Reversal;³ and God is hearing and knowing.

⁹⁹ And among the desert Arabs¹ is he who believes in² God and the Last Day, and takes what he spends as a means of nearness to God and the duties³ of the Messenger. In truth,⁴ it is a means of nearness for them: God will make them enter into His mercy; God is forgiving and merciful.

¹⁰⁰ And the first vanguard among the émigrés, and the helpers, and those who followed them in good conduct: God is pleased with them, and they pleased with Him; and He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, they abiding eternally therein forever; that is the Great Achievement.