And of the Arabs of the desert round about you, some are hypocrites:  and of the people of Medina, some are stubborn in hypocrisy.  Thou knowest them not, Muhammad:  we know them:  twice33 will we chastise them:  then shall they be given over to a great chastisement.

Others have owned their faults, and with an action that is right they have mixed another that is wrong.  God will haply be turned to them:  for God is Forgiving, Merciful.

Take alms of their substance,34 that thou mayst cleanse and purify them thereby, and pray for them; for thy prayers shall assure their minds:  and God Heareth, Knoweth.

Know they not that when his servants turn to Him with repentance, God accepteth it, and that He accepteth alms, and that God is He who turneth, the Merciful?

Say:  Work ye:  but God will behold your work, and so will His Apostle, and the faithful:  and ye shall be brought before Him who knoweth alike the Hidden and the Manifest, and He will tell you of all your works.

And others await the decision of God; whether He will punish them, or whether He will be turned unto them:  but God is Knowing, Wise.

There are some35 who have built a Mosque for mischief36 and for infidelity, and to disunite the faithful, and in expectation of him37 who, in time past, warred against God and His Apostle.  They will surely swear, “Our aim was only good:”  but God is witness that they are liars.

Never set thou foot in it.38 There is a Mosque39 founded from its first day in piety.  More worthy is it that thou enter therein:  therein are men who aspire to purity, and God loveth the purified.

Which of the two is best?  He who hath founded his building on the fear of God and the desire to please Him, or he who hath founded his building on the brink of an undermined bank washed away by torrents, so that it rusheth with him into the fire of Hell?  But God guideth not the doers of wrong.

Their building which they40 have built will not cease to cause uneasiness in their hearts, until their hearts are cut in pieces.41 God is Knowing, Wise.

Verily, of the faithful hath God bought their persons and their substance, on condition of Paradise for them in return:  on the path of God shall they fight, and slay, and be slain:  a Promise for this is pledged in the Law, and in the Evangel, and in the Koran-and who more faithful, in to his engagement than God?  Rejoice, therefore, in the contract that ye have contracted:  for this shall be the great bliss.

Those who turn to God, and those who serve, who praise, who fast, who bow down, who prostrate themselves, who enjoin what is just and forbid what is evil, and keep to the bounds42 of God . . .43 Wherefore bear these good tidings to the faithful.

It is not for the prophet or the faithful to pray for the forgiveness of those, even though they be of kin, who associate other beings with God, after it hath been made clear to them that they are to be the inmates of Hell.