[9:55]
So let not their riches nor their children
please thee (O Muhammad). Allah thereby intendeth but to punish them in the
life of the world and that their souls shall pass away while they are disbelievers.
[9:56]
And they swear by Allah that they are in truth
of you, when they are not of you, but they are folk
who are afraid.
[9:57]
Had they but found a refuge, or caverns, or a
place to enter, they surely had resorted thither swift as runaways.
[9:58]
And of them is he who defameth thee in the
matter of the alms. If they are given thereof they are content, and if they are
not given thereof, behold! they are enraged.
[9:59]
(How much more seemly) had they been content
with that which Allah and His messenger had given them and had said: Allah
sufficeth us. Allah will give us of
His bounty, and (also) His messenger. Unto Allah we are suppliants.
[9:60]
The alms are only for the poor and the needy,
and those who collect them, and those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to
free the captives and the debtors, and for the cause of Allah, and (for) the
wayfarer; a duty imposed by Allah. Allah is Knower, Wise.
[9:61]
And of them are those who vex the Prophet and
say: He is only a hearer. Say: A hearer of good for you, who believeth in Allah
and is true to the believers, and a mercy for such of
you as believe. Those who vex the messenger of Allah, for them there is a
painful doom.