They will ask thee what is made lawful for them.  Say:  Those things which are good8 are legalised to you, and the prey of beasts of chase which ye have trained like dogs, teaching them as God hath taught you.  Eat, therefore, of what they shall catch for you, and make mention of the name of God over it, and fear God:  Verily, Swift is God to reckon: 

This day, things healthful are legalised to you, and the meats of those who have received the Scriptures are allowed to you, as your meats are to them.  And you are permitted to marry virtuous women who are believers, and virtuous women of those who have received the Scriptures before you, when you shall have provided them their portions, living chastely with them without fornication, and without taking concubines.  Vain the works of him who shall renounce the faith! and in the next world he shall be of the lost.

O Believers! when ye address yourselves to prayer, wash your faces, and your hands up to the elbow, and wipe your heads, and your feet to the ankles.

And if ye have become unclean, then purify yourselves.  But if ye are sick, or on a journey, or if one of you come from the place of retirement, or if ye have touched women, and ye find no water, then take clean sand and rub your faces and your hands with it.9 God desireth not to lay a burden upon you, but he desireth to purify you, and He would fill up the measure of His favour upon you, that ye may be grateful.

And remember the favour of God upon you, and His covenant which He hath covenanted with you, when ye said, “We have heard and will obey;"10 and fear God; verily, God knoweth the very secrets of the breast.

O Believers! stand up as witnesses for God by righteousness:  and let not ill-will at any, induce you not to act uprightly.  Act uprightly.  Next will this be to the fear of God.  And fear ye God:  verily, God is apprised of what ye do.

God hath promised to those who believe, and do the things that are right, that for them is pardon and a great reward.

But they who are Infidels and treat our signs as lies-these shall be mated with Hell fire.

O Believers! recollect God’s favour upon you, when11 certain folk were minded to stretch forth their hands against you, but He kept their hands from you.  Fear God then:  and on God let the faithful trust.

Of old did God accept the covenant of the children of Israel,12 and out of them we raised up twelve leaders, and God said, “Verily, I will be with you.  If ye observe prayer and pay the obligatory alms, and believe in my Apostles and help them, and lend God a liberal loan, I will surely put away from you your evil deeds, and I will bring you into gardens ’neath which the rivers flow!  But whoso of you after this believeth not, hath gone astray from the even path.”

But for their breaking their covenant we have cursed them, and have hardened their hearts.  They shift the words of Scripture from their places, and have forgotten part of what they were taught.  Thou wilt not cease to discover deceit on their part, except in a few of them.  But forgive them, and pass it over:  verily, God loveth those who act generously!