Sura LXVI (66)
The Forbidding
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Why, O
Prophet! dost thou hold that to be forbidden which God hath made lawful to
thee, from a desire to please thy wives, since God is Lenient, Merciful?
God
hath allowed you release from your oaths; and God is your master: and He is the Knowing, the Wise.
When
the prophet told a recent occurrence as a secret to one of his wives, and when
she divulged it and God informed him of this, he acquainted her with part and
withheld part. And when he had told her of it, she said, "Who told thee
this?" He said, "The Knowing, the Sage hath told it me.
"If
you both be turned to God in penitence, for now have your hearts gone
astray.... but if you conspire against the Prophet, then know that God is his
Protector, and Gabriel, and every just man among the faithful; and the angels
are his helpers besides.
"Haply
if he put you both away, his Lord will give him in exchange other wives better
than you, Muslims, believers, devout, penitent, obedient, observant of fasting,
both known of men and virgins."
O
Believers! save yourselves and your families from the fire whose fuel is men
and stones, over which are set angels fierce and mighty:
they disobey not God in what He hath commanded them, but execute His behests.
O you
Infidels! make no excuses for yourselves this day; you shall surely be recompensed
according to your works.
O
Believers! turn to God with the turning of true penitence; haply your Lord will
cancel your evil deeds, and will bring you into the gardens 'neath which the
rivers flow, on the day when God will not shame the Prophet, nor those who have
shared his faith: their light shall run before
them, and on their rights hands! they shall say, "Lord perfect our light,
and pardon us: for thou hat power over all
things."
O
Prophet! make war on the infidels and hypocrites, and deal rigorously with
them. Hell shall be their abode! and wretched the passage to it!
66:10 God setteth forth as an example to
unbelievers the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot; they were under two of our
righteous servants, both of whom they deceived:
but their husbands availed them nought against God:
and it shall be said "Enter you into the fire with those who enter."
God
also holdeth forth to those who believe the example of the wife of Pharaoh,
when she said, "Lord, build me an house with thee in
And
Mary, the daughter of Imran, who kept her maidenhood, and into whose womb we
breathed of our spirit, and who believed in the words of her Lord and His
Scriptures, and was one of the devout.