¹⁰⁰ And they make for God partners¹ of the domini,² when He created them; and they ascribe to Him sons and daughters without knowledge. Glory³ be to Him! And exalted is He above what they describe!

¹⁰¹ The Originator of the Heavens and the Earth:¹ how could He have a son when He has no companion, and He created all things? And He knows all things.

¹⁰² That is God, your Lord; there is no god save He,¹ the creator of all things, so serve Him; and He is guardian over all things.

¹⁰³ Vision comprehends Him not, but He comprehends vision; He is the Subtle, the Aware.

¹⁰⁴ Means of insight¹ have come to you from your Lord; and whoso sees, it is for his soul; and whoso is blind, it is against it; and: “I am not a custodian over you.”²

¹⁰⁵ And thus¹ We expound the proofs:² both³ that they might say: “Thou hast studied,” and that We might make it plain⁴ for people who know.

¹⁰⁷ And had God willed, they would not have ascribed a partnership;¹ and We have not made thee a custodian over them; and thou art not a guardian over them.

¹⁰⁸ And revile not those to whom they call besides¹ God lest they revile God in enmity without knowledge. Thus, to every community have We made fair their doings;² then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they did.

¹⁰⁹ And they swore by God their strongest oaths that if a proof¹ came to them they would believe in² it. Say thou: “The proofs³ are only with God.” And what will make you perceive that, if⁴ one comes, they will not believe?⁵

¹¹⁰ And We will turn away their hearts and their eyes, even as they believed not in¹ it the first time;² and We will leave them wandering blindly in their inordinacy.³

¹¹¹ And were We to send down to them the angels, and the dead to speak to them, and We to gather everything to them before their very eyes, they would not believe save if God wills; but most of them are ignorant.¹

¹¹² And thus¹ have We appointed for every prophet an enemy² — satans³ of servi⁴ and domini⁵ — instructing⁶ one another in the decoration of speech as delusion,⁷ (and had thy Lord willed, they would not have done it; so leave thou them and what they fabricate)

¹¹³ And that the hearts of those who believe not in¹ the Hereafter might incline thereto, and be pleased therewith, and that they might commit what they are committing.²

¹¹⁴ “Is it other than God I should seek as judge¹ when He it is that sent down to you the Writ² set out and detailed?”³ And those to whom We gave the Writ⁴ know that it is sent down from thy Lord with the truth;⁵ so be thou not of those who doubt.

¹¹⁵ And perfected¹ is the word of thy Lord in truth and justice; there is none to change His words;² and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

¹¹⁶ And if thou obey most of those upon the earth, they will lead thee astray from the path of God; they follow only assumption, and they are only guessing.¹

¹¹⁷ Thy Lord: He best knows who strays from His path; and He best knows the guided.

¹¹⁸ So eat of that over which the name of God has been remembered, if you believe in¹ His proofs.²

¹¹⁹ And what is with you that you eat not of that over which the name of God has been remembered when He has set out and detailed¹ to you what is forbidden you save that you be compelled thereto? And many lead astray by their vain desires,² without knowledge;³ thy Lord: He best knows the transgressors.

¹²⁰ And leave the outwardness of sin¹ and the inwardness thereof; those who earn sin² will be rewarded with what they committed.³

¹²¹ And eat not of that over which the name of God has not been remembered;¹ and it is perfidy.² And the satans³ instruct⁴ their allies to dispute with you; and if you obey them, you are idolaters.⁵

¹²² Is one who was dead ­and to whom We gave life and for whom We appointed a light wherein he walks among men like one in darkness¹ from which he cannot come out? Thus is made fair to the false claimers of guidance² what they do.³

¹²³ And thus¹ have We appointed in every city its greatest lawbreakers, that they should scheme therein; and they scheme only against themselves, and they perceive not.

¹²⁴ And when a proof¹ comes to them, they say: “We will not believe until we be given the like of what was given the messengers of God.”² God best knows where He places His message; there will befall those who are lawbreakers humiliation before God and severe punishment for what they schemed.

¹²⁵ And whom God wills to guide, He expands his breast towards submission;¹ and whom He wills to lead astray, He makes his breast constricted, distressed, as if he were ascending into the sky; thus does God appoint abomination for those who do not believe.²

¹²⁶ And this is the path of thy Lord, one straight; We have set out and detailed¹ the proofs² for people who take heed;

¹²⁷ They have the Abode of Peace with their Lord, and He is their ally because of what they did.

¹²⁸ And the day He gathers them all together: “O congregation of domini:¹ you have desired many² among the servi.”³ And their allies⁴ among the servi⁵ will say: “Our Lord: we benefited one another; but we have reached our term which Thou appointedst⁶ for us.” He will say: “The Fire is your dwelling, you abiding eternally therein!” save that God should will; thy Lord is wise and knowing.

¹²⁹ And thus¹ do We make the wrongdoers² allies of one another by what they earned.

¹³⁰ “O congregation of domini¹ and servi:² came there not to you messengers from among you, relating to you My proofs³ and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours?” They will say: “We bear witness against ourselves.” And the life of this world deluded them; and they will bear witness against themselves that they were false claimers of guidance.⁴

¹³¹ That is because thy Lord would not destroy the cities in injustice, while their people¹ were unaware.

¹³² And for all are degrees for what they did; and thy Lord is not unmindful of what they do.

¹³³ And thy Lord is the Free from Need, the Possessor of Mercy. If He wills, He will remove you and appoint to succeed after you whom He wills, as He produced you from the progeny of other people.

¹³⁴ That which you are promised is coming; and you cannot escape.¹

¹³⁵ Say thou: “O my people: work according to your power¹ — I am working; and you will come to know for whom is the final outcome of the Abode; the wrongdoers² are not successful.”

¹³⁶ And they make for God, of what He creates¹ of tilth and cattle, a portion; they say: “This is for God,” — according to their claim — “and this is for our partners”.² And what is for their partners,³ it does not reach God; and what is for God, it reaches their partners.⁴ Evil is what they judge.

¹³⁷ And thus¹ have their partners² made fair to many among the idolaters³ the killing of their children, to bring them to ruin, and to obfuscate⁴ their doctrine⁵ for them. And had God willed, they would not have done it; so leave thou them and what they fabricate.

¹³⁸ And they say: “These cattle and tilth are taboo; none is to eat them save whom we will,” — according to their claim — “and cattle whose backs are made unlawful,”¹ and cattle over which they remember not the name of God, as an invention against Him; He will requite them for what they invented.

¹³⁹ And they say: “What is in the bellies of these cattle is exclusively for our males and forbidden our wives; but if it be dead, then they are all¹ partners² therein.” He will requite them for their description; He is wise and knowing.

¹⁴⁰ They have lost, those who have foolishly killed their children without knowledge, and made unlawful what God provided them, as an invention about God; they have gone astray and were not guided.¹

¹⁴¹ And He it is that produces gardens, trellised and untrellised, and the date-palms, and crops diverse in their food, and the olive and the pomegranate, similar yet different.¹ Eat of the fruit thereof when it bears fruit, and render its due² on the day of its harvest; and commit not excess, He loves not the committers of excess.

¹⁴² And of the cattle for burden and for skin:¹ eat of what God has provided you, and follow not the footsteps of the satan;² he is an open enemy to you.

¹⁴³ “Eight pairs: of sheep two and of goats two––”¹ Say thou: “Is it the two males He has forbidden or the two females? If² what the wombs of the two females contain:³ inform me with knowledge, if you be truthful.”⁴

¹⁴⁴ “And of camels two and of oxen two––”¹ Say thou: “Is it the two males He has forbidden or the two females? If² what the wombs of the two females contain:³ — or if⁴ you were witnesses when God enjoined this upon you:⁵ — then who is more unjust than he who invents a lie about God, that he might lead people astray without knowledge? God guides not the wrongdoing⁶ people.”

¹⁴⁵ Say thou: “I find not in what has been revealed¹ to me what is unlawful to one who would eat it² save it be carrion, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine — and it is an abomination — or perfidy³ dedicated to other than God”;⁴ but whoso is forced, neither desiring nor transgressing: thy Lord is forgiving and merciful.

¹⁴⁶ And to those who hold to Judaism¹ We made unlawful every animal with a claw;² and of oxen and sheep We made unlawful to them the fat thereof save what their backs bear, or the entrails, or what is mixed with bone; that We rewarded them for their sectarian zealotry;³ and We are truthful.

¹⁴⁷ And if they deny thee, say thou: “Your Lord is the Possessor of Mercy; but not repelled is His wrath from the lawbreaking people.”

¹⁴⁸ Those who ascribe a partnership¹ will say: “Had God willed, we would not have ascribed a partnership,² nor would our fathers, nor would we have made anything unlawful.” Thus did those who were before them deny until they tasted Our might. Say thou: “Have you any knowledge to bring forth for us? You follow only assumption, and are only guessing.”

¹⁴⁹ Say thou: “Then to God belongs the conclusive¹ argument:² had He willed, He would have guided you all together.”