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LX, 6-11.
THE CHAPTER OF THE TRIED.
would hope in God and the last day. But whoso turns his back, verily, God, He is rich and to be praised.
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Mayhap that God will place love between you and between those of them ye are hostile towards1: for God is powerful, and God is forgiving, compassionate.
God forbids you not respecting those who have not fought against you for religion's sake, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that ye should act righteously and justly towards them; verily, God loves the just!
He only forbids you to make patrons of those who have fought against you for religion's sake, and driven you forth from your homes, or have aided in your expulsion; and whoever makes patrons of them, they are the unjust!
[10] O ye who believe! when there come believing women who have fled, then try them : God knows their faith. If ye know them to be believers do not send them back to the misbelievers; they are not lawful for them, nor are the men lawful for these ;-but give them what they have expended3, and it shall be no crime against you that ye marry them, when ye have given them their hire. And do not ye retain a right over misbelieving women; but ask for what ye have spent, and let them ask for what they have spent. That is God's judgment: He judges between you, for God is knowing, wise!
And if any of your wives escape from you to the
1 I. e. by their becoming converted to Islâm.
2 I. e. to their infidel husbands.
3 The dowries.
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