60. "The Examined One"
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
O you who believe! do not take My enemy and your enemy for
friends: would you offer them love while they deny what has come to you of
the truth, driving out the Apostle and yourselves because you believe in
Allah, your Lord? If you go forth struggling hard in My path and seeking
My pleasure, would you manifest love to them? And I know what you
conceal and what you manifest; and whoever of you does this, he indeed
has gone astray from the straight path.
If they find you, they will be your enemies, and will stretch forth
towards you their hands and their tongues with evil, and they ardently desire
that you may disbelieve.
Your relationship would not profit you, nor your children on the
day of resurrection; He will decide between you; and Allah sees what you
do.
Indeed, there is for you a good example in Ibrahim and those
with him when they said to their people: Surely we are clear of you and of
what you serve besides Allah; we declare ourselves to be clear of you, and
enmity and hatred have appeared between us and you forever until you
believe in Allah alone— but not in what Ibrahim said to his father: I would
certainly ask forgiveness for you, and I do not control for you aught from
Allah— Our Lord! on Thee do we rely, and to Thee do we turn, and to Thee
is the eventual coming:
Our Lord! do not make us a trial for those who disbelieve, and
forgive us, our Lord! surely Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.
Certainly there is for you in them a good example, for him who
fears Allah and the last day; and whoever turns back, then surely Allah is the
Self-sufficient, the Praised.
It may be that Allah will bring about friendship between you and
those whom you hold to be your enemies among them; and Allah is
Powerful; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made
war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth
from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly;
surely Allah loves the doers of justice.
Allah only forbids you respecting those who made war upon you
on account of (your) religion, and drove you forth from your homes and
backed up (others) in your expulsion, that you make friends with them, and
whoever makes friends with them, these are the unjust.
O you who believe! when believing women come to you flying,
then examine them; Allah knows best their faith; then if you find them to be
believing women, do not send them back to the unbelievers, neither are
these (women) lawful for them, nor are those (men) lawful for them, and
give them what they have spent; and no blame attaches to you in marrying
them when you give them their dowries; and hold not to the ties of marriage
of unbelieving women, and ask for what you have spent, and let them ask for
what they have spent. That is Allah's judgment; He judges between you, and
Allah is Knowing, Wise.
And if anything (out of the dowries) of your wives has passed
away from you to the unbelievers, then your turn comes, give to those
whose wives have gone away the like of what they have spent, and be
careful of (your duty to) Allah in Whom you believe.
O Prophet! when believing women come to you giving you a
pledge that they will not associate aught with Allah, and will not steal, and
will not commit fornication, and will not kill their children, and will not bring
a calumny which they have forged of themselves, and will not disobey you in
what is good, accept their pledge, and ask forgiveness for them from Allah;
surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
O you who believe! do not make friends with a people with
whom Allah is wroth; indeed they despair of the hereafter as the unbelievers
despair of those in tombs.
