The alms which they bestow in this present life, are like a freezing wind, which falleth upon and destroyeth the cornfields of a people who have been to themselves unjust.  God doeth them no injustice, but to themselves are they unjust.

O ye who have believed! form not intimacies among others than yourselves.  They will not fail to corrupt you.  They long for your ruin.  Hatred hath already shewn itself out of their mouths, but more grievous is what their breasts conceal.  The tokens thereof we have already made plain to you, if ye will comprehend.

See now! ye love them, but they love not you.  Ye believe the entire Book.  And when they meet you, they say, “We believe;” but when they are apart, they bite their fingers’ ends at you, out of wrath.  Say:  “Die in your wrath!” God truly knoweth the very recesses of your breasts.

If good befalleth you it grieveth them, and when ill lighteth on you, they rejoice in it.  But if ye be steadfast and fear God, their craft shall in no way harm you.  For God is round about their doings.

And remember when thou didst leave thy household at early morn, that thou mightest prepare the faithful a camp for the war;37-God heard, knew it-

When two troops of you became full of anxious thoughts, and lost heart, and when God became the protector of both!  In God, then, let the faithful trust.

God had already succoured you at Bedr, when ye were the weaker!  Fear God, then, that ye may be thankful.

Then thou didst say to the faithful, “Is it not enough for you that your Lord aideth you with three thousand angels sent down from on high?”

Aye:  but ye if be steadfast and fear God, and the foe come upon you in hot haste, your Lord will help you with five thousand angels in their cognisances!38

This, as pure good tidings for you, did God appoint, that your hearts might be assured-for only from God, the Mighty, the Wise, cometh the Victory-and that He might cut off the uttermost part of those who believed not, or cast them down so that they should be overthrown, defeated without resource.

It is none of thy concern whether He be turned unto them in kindness or chastise them:  for verily they are wrongful doers.

Whatever is in the Heavens and the Earth is God’s!  He forgiveth whom He will, and whom He will, chastiseth:  for God is Forgiving, Merciful.

O ye who believe! devour not usury, doubling it again and again!  But fear God, that ye may prosper.

And fear the fire which is prepared for them that believe not; and obey God and the apostle, that ye may find mercy: 

And vie in haste for pardon from your Lord, and a Paradise, vast as the Heavens and the Earth, prepared for the God-fearing.

Who give alms, alike in prosperity and in success, and who master their anger, and forgive others!  God loveth the doers of good.

They who, after they have done a base deed or committed a wrong against their own selves, remember God and implore forgiveness of their sins-and who will forgive sins but God only?-and persevere not in what they have wittingly done amiss.