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

¹ O you who heed warning:¹ take not My enemy and your enemy as allies, extending to them love, when they have denied that which has come to you of the truth² — they, turning out the Messenger and you because you believe in³ God, your Lord, if you go forth to strive in My cause and seeking My pleasure — showing them love in secret. And I best know what you conceal and what you proclaim; and whoso does it among you, he has strayed from the right path.

² If they come upon¹ you, they will be enemies to you, and stretch out their hands and their tongues against you with evil;² and they wish that you should deny.

³ Neither your kin nor your children will benefit you on the Day of Resurrection; He will judge between you; and God sees what you do.

⁴ There was for you a good model¹ in Abraham and those with him when they said to their people: “We are quit of you and what you serve besides² God. We deny you,³ and become clear between us and you are enmity and hatred forever until you believe in⁴ God alone,” — save the saying of Abraham to his father: “I will ask forgiveness for thee, but I have no power for thee against⁵ God.” — “Our Lord: in Thee we place our trust; and to Thee have we turned; and to Thee is the journey’s end.

⁵ “Our Lord: make Thou not us a means of denial¹ for those who ignore warning;² and forgive Thou us. Our Lord: thou art the Exalted in Might, the Wise.”³

⁶ There was for you in them a good model¹ for one who hopes for God and the Last Day. And whoso turns away: — God, He is the Free from Need, the Praiseworthy.

⁷ It may be that God will put love between you and those of them with whom you have been enemies; and God is powerful; and God is forgiving and merciful.

⁸ God forbids you not — with those who have neither fought you in doctrine,¹ nor turned you out of your homes — that you should be virtuous with them and equitable towards them;² God loves the equitable.

⁹ God only forbids you as to those who have fought you in doctrine,¹ and turned you out of your homes, and assisted in your expulsion, that you should take them as allies. And whoso takes them as allies — then those, it is they who are the wrongdoers.²

¹⁰ O you who heed warning:¹ when the believing women² come to you as émigrées: examine them. God best knows their faith. And if you know them to be believing women,³ then return them not to the atheists.⁴ Such women⁵ are not lawful for them, and they are not lawful for such women.⁶ And give them⁷ what they spent. And you do no wrong⁸ to marry such women⁹ when you give them their rewards. And hold not by tie denying women; and ask for what you have spent, and let them¹⁰ ask for what they have spent. That is the judgment of God; He judges between you; and God is knowing and wise.

¹¹ And if any of your wives slip away from you to the atheists,¹ then you are met with the same:² give those whose wives have gone the like of what they spent; and be in prudent fear³ of God in whom you are believers.⁴

¹² O Prophet: when the believing women¹ come to thee, swearing fealty to thee: — that they will not ascribe a partnership² with God to anything; and they will not steal; and they will not commit unlawful sexual intercourse;³ and they will not kill their children; and they will not produce a calumny they have invented between their hands and their feet;⁴ and they will not disobey thee in what is fitting;⁵ — then accept thou their fealty, and ask thou God to forgive them; God is forgiving and merciful.

¹³ O you who heed warning:¹ take not as allies people with whom God is wroth;² they have despaired of the Hereafter as the atheists³ have despaired of the companions of⁴ the graves.