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Surah 60.  Al-Mumtahanah

In the name of ALLAH, the Benevolent, the Merciful

1.  O you who keep faith!  Choose not My enemy and your enemy for friends.  Do you give them friendship when they deny that truth which has come to you, driving out the messenger and you because you keep faith with ALLAH, your Lord?  If you have come forth to strive in My way and seeking My good pleasure.  Do you show friendship to them in secret, when I am best Aware of what you hide and what you proclaim?  And whoever does it among you, he surely has 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, and they long for you to deny.

3.  Your ties of kindred and your children will avail you nothing upon the Day of Resurrection.  He will part you.  ALLAH is Seer of what you do.

4.  There is a goodly pattern for you:  Abraham and those with him, when they told their folk; Lo!  we are guiltless of you and all that you worship beside ALLAH.  We have done with you.  And there has arisen between us and you hostility and hate for ever until you keep faith with ALLAH only, save that which Abraham promised his father:  I will ask forgiveness for you, though I own nothing for you from ALLAH Our Lord!  In You we put our trust, and to You we turn repentant, and to You is the journeying.

5.  Our Lord!  Make us not a prey for those who deny, and forgive us, our Lord!  Lo!  You, only You, are the Mighty, the Wise.

6.  Surely you have in them a goodly pattern for everyone who looks to ALLAH and the Last Day.  And whoever may turn away, lo!  still ALLAH, He is the Absolute, the Owner of Praise.

 


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