English - Chapter 9 - At-Tawbah

A declaration of immunity* from God and His messenger to those of the polytheists with whom you made an agreement

So move about (unrestricted) in the land for (another) four months, and know that you cannot frustrate God, and God will certainly disgrace the disbelievers

And an announcement from God and His messenger to mankind on the day of the great pilgrimage that God and His messenger are free from obligation to the polytheists, so if you repent it will be better for you and if you turn back then know that you cannot frustrate God, and convey the news of a painful punishment to those who do not believe

except those of the polytheists with whom you made an agreement then they did not go back in anything (of the agreement) nor did they help anyone against you, so fulfill for them their agreement till the completion of their term. God certainly loves those who guard (against evil)

But once the Sacred Months have passed, kill the polytheists(meccans) ˹who violated their treaties˺ wherever you find them, capture them, besiege them, and lie in wait for them on every way. But if they repent, perform prayers, and pay alms-tax, then set them free. Indeed, God is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful

And if anyone of the polytheists seeks your protection then give him protection to the extent that he hears the word of God, then make him reach his (place of) safety. That is because they are a people who do not know

How can there be an agreement for the polytheists with God and with His messenger except those with whom you made an agreement near the Sacred Mosque? So as long as they are established (on the agreement) with regard to you, you (too) be established (on the agreement) with regard to them. God certainly loves those who guard (against evil)

How (can there be an agreement)? If they have an upper hand on you, they neither have regard for ties of relationship nor (their) responsibility of (fulfilling) a pact. They please you with their mouths but their hearts refuse and most of them are transgressors

They have sold the signs of God for a small price, so they turn away (people) from His way, certainly their (deeds) ! evil is that which they do

In (the case of) a believer they neither have regard for ties of relationship nor (their) responsibility of a pact and those are the ones who exceed the limits

So if they repent and establish worship (salat) and give charity (zakat) then they are your brothers in religion. Thus do We explain the signs in detail for a people who know

And if they break their oaths after their agreement and taunt (you) in your religion then fight the leaders of disbelief that they may desist, because there is nothing (like a binding of) oaths for them

Will you not fight a people who broke their oaths and planned to send out the messenger and they attacked you first? Do you fear them? Then God has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers

and He will remove the anger of their hearts, and God turns (mercifully) to whom He wills and God is Knowing, Wise

Did you suppose that you will be left alone, while God has not yet known (marked out) those of you who struggled (in His cause), and not taken any intimate friend besides God and His messenger and the believers? And God is informed of what you do

It does not befit the polytheists that they should visit the mosques of God, being witnesses against themselves of (their) disbelief. Those are the persons whose deeds are fruitless and they will stay in the fire

Only he shall visit the mosques of God who believes in God and the period hereafter and establishes worship (salat) and gives charity (zakat) and does not fear anyone except God, then it may be that such persons will be among those who are guided

What ! do you make (one who) gives drink to pilgrims and maintains the Sacred Mosque, like one who believes in God and the period hereafter and struggles in the way of God? With God, they are not equal. And God does not guide the unjust people

Those who believed and migrated and struggled in the way of God with their wealth and their persons, they are greater in grade in the sight of God and those are the persons who achieve (the goal)

Their Lord conveys to them the good news of mercy from Him and (His) pleasure and gardens, wherein will be lasting happiness for them

they will stay therein for ever. Certainly there is a great reward with God

O you who believe ! do not take your fathers and your brothers as your friends if they love disbelief instead of belief, and whoever of you takes them as a friend then those are the unjust persons

Say, "If your fathers and your sons and your brothers and your mates and your family and friends and the wealth you have acquired and merchandise regarding which you fear that there will be no sale and the houses with which you are pleased, are dearer to you than God and His messenger and struggling in His way, then wait till God brings about His command and God does not guide the transgressing people

(It was) God (Who) had helped you in many battle fields. And on the day of (the battle of) Hunian your number which made you feel exalted, did not help you in any way and the earth, inspite of its being spacious, became constrained on you, then you turned back retreating

Then God sent down His tranquility upon His messenger and upon the believers, and sent down forces which you did not see and (thus) punished those who did not believe, and that is the reward of the disbelievers

Then afterwards God turns (mercifully) to whom He wills and God is Protectively Forgiving, Mercifully

O you who believe ! the polytheists are nothing but unclean, so they shall not come near the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs, and if you fear poverty then God will enrich you out of His grace, if He wills, God is certainly Knowing, Wise

Fight those who do not believe in God and the Last Day, nor comply with what God and His Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the Scripture, until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled

The Jews say, “Uzair is the son of God,” while the Christians say, “The Messiah is the son of God.” Such are their baseless assertions, only parroting the words of earlier disbelievers. May God condemn them! How can they be deluded ˹from the truth˺

They have taken their priests and monks as their Lords besides God and (also) the Messiah, the Son of Mary; and they were not commanded (anything) except to serve one God. There is no god except Him, be He glorified above that which they associate as partners (with Him)

They intend to put out the light of God with their mouths, but God will not allow anything except that His light should be perfected, though the disbelievers dislike

He it is who sent His messenger with guidance and the true religion (Islam) that He may make it prevail over all religions though the polytheists may dislike

O you who believe ! many of the priests and the monks certainly swallow the wealth of people wrongfully and turn (them) away from the way of God; and those who hoard gold and silver and do not spend it in the way of God, convey to them the news of a painful punishment

on the day it will be heated up in the fire of hell, then their foreheads and their sides and their backs will be branded with it. (It will be said to them), "This is what you hoarded for yourselves so taste (the punishment of) that which you hoarded

The number of months with God is certainly twelve months (in a year) in the ordinance of God (since) the day He created the skies and the earth, of them four are sacred (during which fighting is prohibited). That is the established law, so do not be unjust to yourselves concerning them. And fight the polytheists all together as they fight with you all together and know that God is certainly with those who guard (against evil)

Postponement (of a sacred month) is only an increase in disbelief through which are misled those who do not believe; they make it lawful one year and unlawful (another) year, that they may make up the number of months which God has made unlawful (for fighting). Thus they make lawful what God has made unlawful. The evil of their deeds is made fair seeming to them and God does not guide a people who are disbelievers

O you who believe ! what is (the matter) with you, that when it is said to you to go out in the way of God (to Tabuk) , you cling heavily to the earth. Are you more pleased with the life of this world compared to the hereafter? Then the provision of the life of this world compared to the hereafter is but little

If you do not go forth He will punish you with a painful punishment and will bring in your place a people other that you, and you cannot harm Him in anyway as God has power over everything

If you do not help him (Muhammad), then God helped him when those who did not believe sent him out (of Mecca, he being the) second of the two when they were both in the cave , when he said to his companion (Abu Bakar), "Do not grieve, God is certainly with us." So God sent down His tranquility over him and strengthened him with forces which you did not see, and made lowest the word of those who did not believe; and the word of God, that is the highest; and God is Mighty, Wise

Go forth, lightly (armed) and heavily (armed) and struggle with your wealth and your persons in the way of God. That is the best for you if you know

Had the gain been near and the journey easy, they would have followed you, but the distant journey was tiresome for them. And they will swear by God, "Had we been able to, we would have certainly gone forth with you." They destroy themselves and God knows that they are liars

God pardon you ! why did you give them permission, until those who spoke the truth were manifest to you and you had (also) known the liars

Those who believe in God and the period hereafter, they do not ask you for exemption from struggling with their wealth and their persons (in the cause of God) and God is the Knower of those who guard (against evil)

Only those ask for exemption (from fighting) who do not believe in God and the period hereafter and their hearts are in doubt, so they waver in their doubt

And had they intended to go forth (for fighting) they would have made some preparation for it. But God did not like their going forth, so He held them back and it was said (to them), "Sit with those who sit

Had they gone forth with you they would not have increased for you anything but loss, and would have hurried to and fro among you seeking your affliction, and among you there are some who would have listened to them, and God is the Knower of those who are unjust

They had sought your affliction earlier (too), and they had upset matters for you till the truth came and God's command prevailed, though they disliked

And among them is he who says, "Permit me (to be away from fighting) and do not put me into affliction." Have they not fallen into the affliction? And hell certainly encompasses the disbelievers

If good befalls you it grieves them and if any disaster befalls you, they say, "We had taken (precaution in ) our affair before hand." And they turn away and rejoice

Say, "Nothing can ever befall us except that which God has decreed for us, He is our Guardian. And in God let the believers put their trust

Say, "Do you await for us, for anything other than one of the two good things (victory or martyrdom)? And we await for you that God should afflict you with punishment from Him or through our hands, so wait, we (too) are waiting with you

Say, "Spend willingly or unwillingly, it will not be accepted from you, for you are certainly a transgressing people

And nothing prevents their spendings being accepted from them except that they do not believe in God and in His messenger, and they come for worship (salat) while they are sluggish and they spend while they are unwilling

So do not let their wealth and their children make you wonder, God wills only to punish them through it in this world's life and (that) their souls should depart while they are disbelievers. ls should depart while they are disbelievers

And they swear by God that they are with you while they are not with you, but they are people who are afraid

if they could find a refuge or caves or a place to enter (and hide) they would have turned towards it running in haste

And among them is he who blames you regarding the (distribution of) alms, so if they are given from it they are pleased and if they are not given from it then they are displeased

And had they been pleased with that which God and His messenger gave them and said, "God is sufficient for us, God will give us out of His grace and His messenger (too), to God do we (turn as) seekers (of His grace)," (it would have been better for them)

Alms are only for the poor and the needy and for those (officials who are) appointed for administering them and those whose hearts are to be reconciled and to free the captives and those in debt and (for spending) in the way of God and for the wayfarer, a duty imposed by God. And God is Knowing, Wise

And among them are those who annoy the prophet and they say, "He is a hearer." Say, "A hearer of good for you, he believes in God and believes in (what) the believers (say) and (he is) a mercy for those among you who believe." And those who annoy the messenger of God, for them there is a painful punishment

They swear to you by God (just) to please you, but God, with His messenger, has a greater right that they should please Him if they are believers

Do they not know that whoever opposes God and His messenger, then for him there is the fire of hell, he will stay in it? That is a great disgrace

The hypocrites are afraid lest a chapter (of the Quran) be sent down about them informing them of that which is in their hearts. Say, "Mock ! God will certainly bring out that which you are afraid of

And if you ask them they will definitely say, "We were only talking idly and sporting." Say, "Was it at God and His signs and His messenger that you were mocking

Do not make any excuse, you did reject after your belief. If We pardon a group from among you We will punish (the other) group because they were criminals

The hypocrite men and the hypocrite women, they resemble each other. They enjoin that which is not recognised (as good) and stop (people) from recognised good and withhold their hands. They have forgotten God so (God too) has forgotten them. The hypocrites, they certainly are the transgressors

God has promised the hypocrite men and the hypocrite women and the disbelievers, fire of hell, they will stay therein, that is sufficient for them and God has cursed them and for them there is an eternal punishment

Like those before you, they were mightier than you in strength and had more wealth and children. So they enjoyed their portion and you have enjoyed your portion like those who enjoyed their portion before you, and you indulged in idle talk as they indulged in idle talk. Those are the persons whose works have become fruitless in this world and in the hereafter and those are the persons who are at loss

Has not the news of those before them come to them: the people of Noah and Aad and Thamud and the people of Abraham and the dwellers of Midian and the overthrown cities. Their messengers came to them with clear proofs, so it was not God Who was unjust to them but they were unjust to themselves

And the believing men and the believing women are guardians of each other. They enjoin that which is recognised (as good) and stop (people) from that which is not recognised (as good) and they establish worship (salat) and give charity (zakat) and obey God and His messenger. God will be merciful to those persons, God is certainly Mighty, Wise. they establish worship (salat) and give charity (zakat) and obey God and His messenger. God will be merciful to those persons, God is certainly Mighty, Wise

God has promised to the believing men and the believing women, gardens beneath which rivers flow, they will stay therein and (in) good houses in gardens of everlasting bliss, and the greatest (of all will be) pleasure from God, that is a great achievement

O prophet ! strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be firm against them, and their settling place is hell and it is an evil destination

They swear by God that they did not say (anything) and they did speak the word of disbelief, and they became disbelievers after their having accepted Islam, and they planned that which they could not attain, and they do not (take) revenge except (for the reason) that God and His messenger enriched them out of His grace, so if they repent it will be better for them and if they turn back, God will punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the hereafter, and they will neither have a guardian nor a helper for them in the (whole of the ) earth

And of them are those who made an agreement with God (saying), "If He gives us out of His grace we will definitely give alms and we will definitely be of those who are righteous

But when He gave them out of His grace they hoarded it (being niggardly) and turned back and they withdrew (from the agreement)

Therefore, their consequence was, that He put hypocrisy in their hearts till the day they meet Him, because of their going against God in that which they had promised Him and because they lied

Do they not know that God knows what they hide and their secret talks and (that) God is the Knower of the unseen

Those who taunt such of the believers who give alms willingly and such who do not find (anything to give as alms) except (the fruit of) their striving, and consider the (believers) low among them, God will make them low among (the believers) and for them there is a painful punishment

Whether you seek protective forgiveness for them or do not seek protective forgiveness for them, even if you seek protective forgiveness for them seventy times, God will not forgive them protectively. That is because they did not believe in God and His messenger and God does not guide the transgressing people

Those who were left behind were happy at their sitting (by staying off), after the messenger of God (had left), and they disliked to strive with their wealth and their persons in the way of God and said, "Do not go in the heat." Say, "The fire of hell is severer in heat," had they but understood

So let them laugh a little and they will weep much (as) a reward for what they used to earn

So if God brings you back to (any) group from among them and if they ask you for permission to go forth, then say, "You will not go forth with me for ever nor will you fight the enemy along with me, you were pleased with sitting (and staying off from fighting) the first time, so sit with those who remain behind

And do not ever pray for anyone of them who dies nor stand by his grave. They had not believed in God and His messenger and had died while they were transgressors

And do not let their wealth and their children make you wonder, God intends only to punish them with it in this world and that their souls should depart while they are disbelievers

And when a chapter (of the Quran) is sent down (ordering) that you believe in God and strive along with His messenger, those among them who are well-off, ask for your permission saying, "Leave us, so that we may remain with those who sit

They are pleased that they will be with those who are left behind and there is a seal on their hearts, therefore they do not understand

But the messenger and those who believe with him, they strive with their wealth and their persons, and those are the persons for whom there are good things and those are the persons who are successful

God has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, they will stay therein, that is a great achievement

And those among the desert Arabs who came with an excuse in order that permission might be granted to them and those who lied to God and His messenger, sat (at home), a painful punishment will afflict those among them who did not believe

There is no blame on the weak nor on the sick nor on those who do not find that which they are required to spend, when they are sincere to God and His messenger. There is no way (to blame) the doers of good and God is Protectively Forgiving, Merciful

nor (is there any blame) on those, (to whom), when they came to you that you might (arrange) to carry them, you said, "I do not find that on which I could (arrange to) carry you." They went back with their eyes overflowing with tears due to grief that they did not find that which they were to spend

The way (to blame) is only against those who ask for permission though they are rich. They are pleased that they will be with those who remain behind and God has set a seal on their hearts so they do not know

They will present their excuse to you when you return to them, say, "Present no excuse, we will not believe you, God has given us your news (by) informing us. And God and His messenger will see your work, then you will be brought back to the Knower of the unseen and the seen then you will be informed by Him of that which you used to do

They will swear to you by God when you return to them that you may keep away from them, so keep away from them, for they are unclean and their settling place is hell, a reward for that which they used to earn

They will swear to you that you may be pleased with them, but (even) if you are pleased with them, God is certainly not pleased with the transgressing people

The desert Arabs are stronger in disbelief and hypocrisy and more fitted for not knowing the limits which God has sent down to His messenger, and God is Knowing, Wise

And of the desert Arabs are those who take that which they spend, as a fine, and wait for some evil turns of fortune to (fall on) you. May the evil turn of fortune be on them and God is Hearing, Knowing

And of the desert Arabs is he who believes in God and the period hereafter and takes that which he spends as a means of nearness to God and for obtaining the prayers of the messenger. Beware ! that is certainly a means of nearness for them, God will make them enter into His mercy. God is certainly Protectively Forgiving, Merciful

And the foremost of the first of the immigrants (from Mecca) and the helpers (residing at Madina who gave shelter to the Muslim immigrants from Mecca) and those who followed them in (doing) good, God was pleased with them and they were pleased with Him. And He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, they will stay therein forever, that is a great achievement

And from among those around you of the desert Arabs, there are hypocrites and from among the people of Madina (also, there are those who) persist in hypocrisy, you do not know them, We know them. We will punish them twice, then they will be turned back to a great punishment

And (there are) others who have acknowledged their sins, they have mixed a righteous deed with another which was bad. It may be that God will turn to them (mercifully), God is certainly Protectively Forgiving, Merciful

Take alms from their wealth, through which you may clean them and purify them and pray for them, your prayer will certainly be (a source of) security for them and God is Hearing, Knowing

Do they not know that God accepts repentance from His servants and accepts alms and that God is the Accepter of repentance, the Merciful

And say, "Act ! so God will see your action and His messenger and the believers (too), and you will be brought back to the Knower of the unseen and the seen, then you will be informed by Him of what you used to do

And (there are) others who are made to wait for the command of God, whether He punishes them or turns to them (mercifully); and God is Knowing, Wise

And there are those who chose the mosque to cause harm and for disbelief and to cause disunity among the believers and as a place where one who warred against God and His messenger earlier, could watchfully wait; and they will definitely swear, "We intend nothing but good," but God bears witness that they are liars

Never set foot in such a place! Only a house of worship founded, from the very first day, upon God-consciousness is worthy of thy setting foot therein -[a house of worship] wherein there are men desirous of growing in purity: for God loves all who purify themselves

Then, is he who founded his building for guarding (himself) from (the punishment of) God and (for winning) His pleasure better or he who founded his building on the edge of a cracking hollowed bank, so that it crumbles down with him into the fire of hell? And God does not guide the unjust people

The building which they have built will never cease to be a (source of) restlessness in their hearts unless their hearts get cut into pieces, and God is Knowing, Wise

God has indeed purchased from the believers their lives and wealth in exchange for Paradise. They fight in the cause of God and kill or are killed. This is a true promise binding on Him in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran. And whose promise is truer than God’s? So rejoice in the exchange you have made with Him. That is ˹truly˺ the ultimate triumph

Those who repent, who serve (Him), who praise (Him), who fast, who bow down, who prostrate themselves, who enjoin that which is recognised (as good) and stop (people) from that which is not recognised (as good) and those who protect (themselves by remaining within) the limits (imposed by ) God; so convey the good news to the believers (described above)

It is not (fit) for the prophet and those who believe that they should ask for the protective forgiveness for the polytheists even though they be relatives, after it has become clear to them that they are inhabitants of hell

And Abraham's asking for protective forgiveness for his father was only because of a promise which he had promised to him. But when it became clear to him that his (father) was an enemy of God, he declared himself free from him. Abraham was certainly soft hearted, clement (kind)

And it is not (the practice) of God to mislead a people after He has guided them to the extent of His making clear to them that which they should guard (against). God is certainly the Knower of everything

The kingdom of the skies and the earth is certainly God's. He brings to life and causes to die, and besides God there is neither a guardian nor a helper for you

God has turned (mercifully) to the prophet and the immigrants (from Mecca) and the helpers (of these immigrants at Madina) who followed him during the period of hardship, after the hearts of a party from among them had almost deviated, then He turned to them (mercifully), to them He is certainly full of pity, Merciful

and to the three who were left behind (from going to the battle and whose condition became bad) to the extent that the earth, inspite of its spaciousness, became constrained on them and their souls (too) became constrained on them and they thought that there is no refuge from God except (in going) to Him. Then He turned to them (mercifully) that they may repent, God is certainly the Accepter of repentance, the Merciful

O you who believe ! fear God and be with those who are truthful

It did not befit the people of Madina and those around them of the desert Arabs to stay behind (refusing to go with) the messenger of God nor to prefer their own lives to his life. That is because there does not afflict them thirst or fatigue or hunger in the way of God nor do they tread a path which angers the disbelievers nor do they receive from their enemy whatever they receive, but a righteous deed is recorded for them thereof. God certainly does not waste the reward of the doers of good

nor do they spend any spending, small or great nor do they cut across a valley, but it is recorded for them that God may reward them with (something) better than that which they used to do

And it is not (proper) for the believers that they should go out all together (to fight), so why not a group go out from every party among them, so that (those who remain behind) could develop sound understanding in religion and (through this religious knowledge) warn their people when they return to them (from war) so that they (too) could be cautious

O you who believe ! fight those of the disbelievers(hypocrites-Fake Muslims) who are among you and let them find firmness in you. And know that God is certainly with those who guard (against evil)

And whenever a chapter (of the Quran) is sent down, then from among them is he who says, "Which of you has this (chapter of the Quran) increased in belief? "So, as for those who believe, it has (further) increased them in belief and they rejoice

And as for those in whose hearts is a disease, it has (only) added uncleanliness to their uncleanliness and they die while they are disbelievers

Do they not see that they are afflicted once or twice every year, even then, they neither repent nor are they mindful

And whenever a chapter (of the Quran) is sent down, some of them look at others, (as if saying), "Does anyone see you?" Then they turn away. God has turned away their hearts because they are a people who do not understand

There has come to you a messenger from among yourselves, grievous to him is your distress, (he is) excessively desirous for your (good) and full of pity and merciful to the believers

So if they turn back, then say, "God is sufficient for me, there is no god but He, in Him have I put my trust and He is the Lord of the great throne (of the universe)