And marry those among you who are single (i.e. a man who has no
wife and the woman who has no husband) and (also marry) the Sâlihûn (pious, fit
and capable ones) of your (male) slaves and maid-servants (female slaves). If
they be poor, Allâh will enrich them out of His Bounty. And Allâh is
All-Sufficent for His creatures' needs, All-Knowing (about the state of the
people). (32) And let those who find not the financial means for marriage keep
themselves chaste, until Allâh enriches them of His Bounty. And such of your
slaves as seek a writing (of emancipation), give them such writing, if you find
that there is good and honesty in them. And give them something (yourselves)
out of the wealth of Allâh which He has bestowed upon you. And force not your
maids to prostitution, if they desire chastity, in order that you may make a
gain in the (perishable) goods of this worldly life. But if anyone compels them
(to prostitution), then after such compulsion, Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful (to those women, i.e. He will forgive them because they have been
forced to do this evil act unwillingly). (33) And indeed We have sent down for you
Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) that make
things plain, and the example of those who passed away before you, and an
admonition for those who are Al-Muttaqûn (the pious and righteous persons - see
V.2:2). (34) Allâh is the Light of
the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is as (if there were) a
niche and within it a lamp, the lamp is in glass, the glass as it were a
brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east (i.e.
neither it gets sun-rays only in the morning) nor of the west (i.e. nor it gets
sun-rays only in the afternoon, but it is exposed to the sun all day long),
whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself), though no fire touched it. Light
upon Light! Allâh guides to His Light whom He wills. And Allâh sets forth
parables for mankind, and Allâh is All-Knower of everything. (35) In houses (mosques),
which Allâh has ordered to be raised (to be cleaned, and to be honoured), in
them His Name is remembered [i.e. Adhan, Iqamah, Salat (prayers), invocations,
recitation of the Quran, etc.]. Therein glorify Him (Allah) in the mornings and
in the afternoons or the evenings,[] (36)