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

¹ What is in the heavens and what is in the earth gives glory¹ to God; and He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.²

² He it is that turned out those who ignore warning¹ among the doctors of the Law² from their homes at the first gathering. You did not think that they would go forth, and they thought that their strongholds would protect them from God; but God came upon them whence³ they reckoned not, and He hurled terror into their hearts; they ruined their houses with their hands and the hands of the believers.⁴ So learn a lesson, O you who have vision!

³ And were it not that God had prescribed exile for them, He would have punished them in the World; and they have in the Hereafter the punishment of the Fire,

⁴ For it is that¹ they made a breach with God and His messenger!² And whoso makes a breach with God, God is severe in retribution.

⁵ What you cut down of palm-trees or left standing on its roots: it was by the leave of God, and that He might disgrace the perfidious.¹

⁶ And what God gave in spoil to His messenger from them: you spurred not for it any horse or camel, but God gives His messengers authority over whom He wills; and God is over all things powerful.

⁷ What God gave in spoil to His messenger from the people of the cities belongs to God and His messenger, and to relatives, and the fatherless,¹ and the needy, and the wayfarer[...]² that it be not a distribution by turns between the rich among you. And what the Messenger gives you: take it, and from what he forbids you: refrain³ — and be in prudent fear⁴ of God; God is severe in retribution —

⁸ For¹ the poor émigrés, who were turned out of their homes and their possessions, seeking favour from God and approval, and helping God and His messenger; it is they who are the truthful.

⁹ And those who settled in the home and the faith before them, love those who have emigrated to them, and they find in their breasts no need for what they were given, but give preference above themselves though they be in privation. And whoso is protected from the avarice of his soul, it is they who are the successful.¹

¹⁰ And those who came after them, they say: “Our Lord: forgive Thou us and our brethren who preceded us in faith, and put Thou not in our hearts rancour towards those who heed warning.¹ Our Lord: thou art kind and merciful.”

¹¹ Hast thou not considered¹ the waverers?² They say to their brethren who ignore warning³ among the doctors of the Law:⁴ “If you are turned out, we will go forth with you, and will not obey anyone concerning you ever; and if you are attacked,⁵ we will help you.” But God bears witness that they are liars: —

¹² If they are turned out, they will not go forth with them; and if they are attacked,¹ they will not help them; and if they help them, they will turn their backs,² then will they not be helped.

¹³ You are a stronger fear in their breasts than God; for it is that¹ they are people who do not understand!

¹⁴ They will not fight you all together save in fortified cities or from behind walls. Their might is strong among themselves. Thou thinkest them together, but their hearts are diverse;¹ for it is that² they are people who do not reason!

¹⁵ As the likeness of those shortly before them:¹ — they tasted the evil consequence of their affair, and they have a painful punishment;

¹⁶ As the likeness of the satan:¹ — when he says to man: “Deny thou!” then, when he denies, he says: “I am quit of thee; I fear God, the Lord of All Creation!”

¹⁷ So¹ the final outcome for both is that they² are in the Fire, they³ abiding eternally therein; and that is the reward of the wrongdoers.⁴

¹⁸ O you who heed warning:¹ be in prudent fear² of God. And let a soul look to what it has sent ahead for the morrow.³ And be in prudent fear⁴ of God; God is aware of what you do.

¹⁹ And be not like those who forgot God, so He caused them to forget their souls; those: it is they who are the perfidious.¹

²⁰ Not equal are the companions of the Fire and the companions of the Garden. The companions of the Garden, they are the attainers of success.

²¹ Had We sent down this Qur’an¹ upon a mountain, thou hadst seen it humbled, split asunder from fear of God. And those similitudes — We strike them for mankind, that they might reflect.

²² He is God. There is no god save He¹ — the Knower of the Unseen and the Seen; He is the Almighty,² the Merciful.

²³ He is God. There is no god save He¹ — the King, the Holy, the Perfect, the Faithful,² the Determiner of Truth,³ the Exalted in Might, the Compeller, the Supreme. Glory⁴ be to God above that to which they ascribe a partnership!⁵

²⁴ He is God, the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form; to Him belong the best names. To Him gives glory¹ what is in the heavens and the earth; and He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.²