Say:  Will ye worship, beside God, that which can neither hurt nor help?  But God!  He only Heareth, Knoweth.

Say:  O people of the Book! outstep not bounds of truth in your religion; neither follow the desires of those who have already gone astray, and who have caused many to go astray, and have themselves gone astray from the evenness of the way.

Those among the children of Israel who believed not were cursed by the tongue of David,30 and of Jesus, Son of Mary.  This, because they were rebellious, and became transgressors:  they forbade not one another the iniquity which they wrought! detestable are their actions!

Thou shalt see many of them make friends of the infidels.  Evil the actions which their own passions have sent on beforehand; for God is angry with them, and in torment shall they abide for ever: 

But, if they had believed in God, and the Prophet, and the Koran which hath been sent down to him, they had not taken them for their friends; but perverse are most of them.

Of all men thou wilt certainly find the Jews, and those who join other gods with God, to be the most intense in hatred of those who believe; and thou shalt certainly find those to be nearest in affection to them who say, “We are Christians.”  This, because some of them are priests and monks,31 and because they are free from pride.

And when they hear that which hath been sent down to the Apostle, thou seest their eyes overflow with tears at the truth they recognise therein, saying, “O our Lord! we believe; write us down therefore with those who bear witness to it.

And why should we not believe in God, and in the truth which hath come down to us, and crave that our Lord would bring us into Paradise with the Just?”

Therefore hath God rewarded them for these their words, with gardens ’neath which the rivers flow; they shall abide therein for ever:  this the reward of the righteous!  But they who believe not and treat our signs as lies shall be the inmates of Hell-fire.

O ye who believe! interdict not the healthful viands which God hath allowed you; go not beyond this limit.  God loveth not those who outstep it.32

And eat of what God hath given you for food, that which is lawful and wholesome:  and fear God, in whom ye believe.

God will not punish you for a mistaken word in your oaths:  but he will punish you in regard to an oath taken seriously.33 Its expiation shall be to feed ten poor persons with such middling food as ye feed your own families with, or to clothe them; or to set free a captive.  But he who cannot find means, shall fast three days.  This is the expiation of your oaths when ye shall have sworn.  Keep then your oaths.  Thus God maketh his signs clear to you, that ye may give thanks.

O believers! surely wine and games of chance,34 and statues, and the divining arrows, are an abomination of Satan’s work!  Avoid them, that ye may prosper.