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THE QUR'ÂN.
LX, 11-LXI, 3.
misbelievers, and your turn comes, then give to those whose wives have gone away the like of what they have spent; and fear God, in whom it is that ye believe.
O thou prophet! when believing women come to thee and engage with thee that they will not associate aught with God, and will not steal, and will not fornicate, and will not kill their children, and will not bring a calumny which they have forged between their hands and feet', and that they will not rebel against thee in what is reasonable, then engage with them and ask forgiveness for them of God ;-verily, God is forgiving, compassionate.
O ye who believe! take not for patrons a people whom God is wrath against; they despair of the hereafter, as the misbelievers despair of the fellows of the tombs?!
THE CHAPTER OF THE RANKS.
(LXI. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
What is in the heavens and what is in the earth celebrates the praises of God, for He is the mighty, the wise!
Oye who believe! say not what ye do not. It is most hateful to God that ye say what ye do not.
1 This is said by some commentators to mean foisting spurious children on to their husbands.
2 I. e. of the resurrection of the dead.
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