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More Books by The Qur'an (Rodwell tr)

Sura 1 - The Opening
Sura 2 - The Cow
Sura 3 - The Family of Imran
Sura 4 - Women
Sura 5 - The Table
Sura 6 - Cattle
Sura 7 - Al Araf
Sura 8 - The Spoils
Sura 9 - Immunity
Sura 10 - Jonah, Peace be on Him!
Sura 11 - Houd
Sura 12 - Joseph, Peace be on Him
Sura 13 - Thunder
Sura 14 - Abraham, on Whom be Peace
Sura 15 - Hedjr
Sura 16 - The Bee
Sura 17 - The Night Journey
Sura 18 - The Cave
Sura 19 - Mary
Sura 20 - Ta. Ha.
Sura 21 - The Prophets
Sura 22 - The Pilgrimage
Sura 23 - The Believers
Sura 24 - Light
Sura 25 - Al Furkan
Sura 26 - The Poets
Sura 27 - The Ant
Sura 28 - The Story
Sura 29 - The Spider
Sura 30 - The Greeks
Sura 31 - Lokman
Sura 32 - Adoration
Sura 33 - The Confederates
Sura 34 - Saba
Sura 35 - The Creator, or the Angels
Sura 36 - Ya. Sin
Sura 37 - The Ranks
Sura 38 - Sad
Sura 39 - The Troops
Sura 40 - The Believer
Sura 41 - The Made Plain
Sura 42 - Counsel
Sura 43 - Ornaments of Gold
Sura 44 - Smoke
Sura 45 - The Kneeling
Sura 46 - Al Ahkaf
Sura 47 - Muhammad
Sura 48 - The Victory
Sura 49 - The Apartments
Sura 50 - Kaf
Sura 51 - The Scattering
Sura 52 - The Mountain
Sura 53 - The Star
Sura 54 - The Moon
Sura 55 - The Merciful
Sura 56 - The Inevitable
Sura 57 - Iron
Sura 58 - She Who Pleaded
Sura 59 - The Emigration
Sura 60 - She Who is Tried
Sura 61 - Battle Array
Sura 62 - The Assembly
Sura 63 - The Hypocrites
Sura 64 - Mutual Deceit
Sura 65 - Divorce
Sura 66 - The Forbidding
Sura 67 - The Kingdom
Sura 68 - The Pen
Sura 69 - The Inevitable
Sura 70 - The Steps or Ascents
Sura 71 - Noah
Sura 72 - Djinn
Sura 73 - The Enfolded
Sura 74 - The Enwrapped
Sura 75 - The Resurrection
Sura 76 - Man
Sura 77 - The Sent
Sura 78 - The News
Sura 79 - Those Who Drag Forth
Sura 80 - He Frowned
Sura 81 - The Folded Up
Sura 82 - The Cleaving
Sura 83 - Those Who Stint
Sura 84 - The Splitting Usunder
Sura 85 - The Starry
Sura 86 - The Night-Comer
Sura 87 - The Most High
Sura 88 - The Overshadowing
Sura 89 - The Daybreak
Sura 90 - The Soil
Sura 91 - The Sun
Sura 92 - The Night
Sura 93 - The Brightness
Sura 94 - The Opening
Sura 95 - The Fig
Sura 96 - Thick Blood, or Clots of Blood
Sura 97 - Power
Sura 98 - Clear Evidence
Sura 99 - The Earthquake
Sura 100 - The Chargers
Sura 101 - The Blow
Sura 102 - Desire
Sura 103 - The Afternoon
Sura 104 - The Backbiter
Sura 105 - The Elephant
Sura 106 - The Koreisch
Sura 107 - Religion
Sura 108 - The Abundance
Sura 109 - Unbelievers
Sura 110 - Help
Sura 111 - Abu Lahab
Sura 112 - The Unity
Sura 113 - The Daybreak
Sura 114 - Men
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The Qur'an (Rodwell tr) : Sura 66 - The Forbidding

SURA LXVI (66) - The Forbidding (Medina - 12 Verses) (CIX - 464)

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Why, O Prophet! dost thou hold that to be forbidden which God hath made

lawful to thee, from a desire to please thy wives, since God is Lenient,

Merciful?

God hath allowed you release from your oaths; and God is your master:

and He is the Knowing, the Wise.

When the prophet told a recent occurrence as a secret to one of his

wives, and when she divulged it and God informed him of this, he acquainted her

with part and withheld part. And when he had told her of it, she said, "Who

told thee this?" He said, "The Knowing, the Sage hath told it me.

"If ye both be turned to God in penitence, for now have your hearts gone

astray.... but if ye conspire against the Prophet, then know that God is his

Protector, and Gabriel, and every just man among the faithful; and the angels

are his helpers besides.

"Haply if he put you both away, his Lord will give him in exchange other

wives better than you, Muslims, believers, devout, penitent, obedient,

observant of fasting, both known of men and virgins."

O Believers! save yourselves and your families from the fire whose fuel

is men and stones, over which are set angels fierce and mighty: they disobey

not God in what He hath commanded them, but execute His behests.

O ye Infidels! make no excuses for yourselves this day; ye shall surely

be recompensed according to your works.

O Believers! turn to God with the turning of true penitence; haply your

Lord will cancel your evil deeds, and will bring you into the gardens 'neath

which the rivers flow, on the day when God will not shame the Prophet, nor

those who have shared his faith: their light shall run before them, and on

their rights hands! they shall say, "Lord perfect our light, and pardon us:

for thou hat power over all things."

O Prophet! make war on the infidels and hypocrites, and deal rigorously

with them. Hell shall be their abode! and wretched the passage to it!

66:10 God setteth forth as an example to unbelievers the wife of Noah and the

wife of Lot; they were under two of our righteous servants, both of whom they

deceived: but their husbands availed them nought against God: and it shall be

said "Enter ye into the fire with those who enter."

God also holdeth forth to those who believe the example of the wife of

Pharaoh, when she said, "Lord, build me an house with thee in Paradise, and

deliver me from Pharaoh and his doings; and deliver me from the wicked:"

And Mary, the daughter of Imran, who kept her maidenhood, and into

whose womb we breathed of our spirit, and who believed in the words of her

Lord and His Scriptures, and was one of the devout.


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