The Qur'an, 60. al-Mumtahanah
60. al-Mumtahanah: She Who is Tested
1 O ye who believe! Choose not
My enemy and your enemy for allies. Do ye give them friendship when they disbelieve
in that truth which hath come unto you, driving out the messenger and you because
ye believe in Allah, your Lord ? If ye have come forth to strive in My way and seeking
My good pleasure, (show them not friendship). Do ye show friendship unto them in
secret, when I am Best Aware of what ye hide and what ye proclaim ? And whosoever
doeth it among you, he verily hath strayed from the right way.
2 If they have the upper hand
of you, they will be your foes, and will stretch out their hands and their tongues
toward you with evil (intent), and they long for you to disbelieve.
3 Your ties of kindred and your
children will avail you naught upon the Day of Resurrection. He will part you. Allah
is Seer of what ye do.
4 There is a goodly pattern
for you in Abraham and those with him, when they told their folk: Lo! we are guiltless
of you and all that ye worship beside Allah. We have done with you. And there hath
arisen between us and you hostility and hate for ever until ye believe in Allah
only - save that which Abraham promised his father (when he said): I will ask forgiveness
for thee, though I own nothing for thee from Allah - Our Lord! In Thee we put our
trust, and unto Thee we turn repentant, and unto Thee is the journeying.
5 Our Lord! Make us not a prey
for those who disbelieve, and forgive us, our Lord! Lo! Thou, only Thou, are the
Mighty, the Wise.
6 Verily ye have in them a goodly
pattern for everyone who looketh to Allah and the Last Day. And whosoever may turn
away, lo! still Allah, He is the Absolute, the Owner of Praise.
7 It may be that Allah will
ordain love between you and those of them with whom ye are at enmity. Allah is Mighty,
and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
8 Allah forbiddeth you not those
who warred not against you on account of religion and drove you not out from your
homes, that ye should show them kindness and deal justly with them. Lo! Allah loveth
the just dealers.
9 Allah forbiddeth you only
those who warred against you on account of religion and have driven you out from
your homes and helped to drive you out, that ye make friends of them. Whosoever
maketh friends of them - (All) such are wrong- doers.
10 O ye who believe! When believing
women come unto you as fugitives, examine them. Allah is Best Aware of their faith.
Then, if ye know them for true believers, send them not back unto the disbelievers.
They are not lawful for them (the disbelievers), nor are they (the disbelievers)
lawful for them. And give them (the disbelievers) that which they have spent (upon
them). And it is no sin for you to marry such women when ye have given them their
dues. And hold not to the ties of disbelieving women; and ask for (the return of)
that which ye have spent; and let them (the disbelievers) ask for that which they
have spent. That is the judgment of Allah. He judgeth between you. Allah is Knower,
Wise.
11 And if any of your wives
have gone from you unto the disbelievers and afterward ye have your turn (of triumph),
then give unto those whose wives have gone the like of that which they have spent,
and keep your duty to Allah in Whom ye are believers.
12 O Prophet! If believing women
come unto thee, taking oath of allegiance unto thee that they will ascribe no thing
as partner unto Allah, and will neither steal nor commit adultery nor kill their
children, nor produce any lie that they have devised between their hands and feet,
nor disobey thee in what is right, then accept their allegiance and ask Allah to
forgive them. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
13 O ye who believe! Be not
friendly with a folk with whom Allah is wroth, (a folk) who have despaired of the
Hereafter as the disbelievers despair of those who are in the graves.
