REPENTANCE / at-Tawbah
1. A declaration of immunity from God and His Messenger to the
polytheists with whom you had made a treaty.
2. So travel the land for four months, and know that you cannot
escape God, and that God will disgrace the disbelievers.
3. And a proclamation from God and His Messenger to the people
on the day of the Greater Pilgrimage, that God has dis-owned the polytheists,
and so did His Messenger. If you repent, it will be better for you. But if you
turn away, know that you cannot escape God. And announce to those who
disbelieve a painful punish-ment.
4. Except for those among the polytheists with whom you had made
a treaty, and did not violate any of its terms, nor aided anyone against you.
So fulfill the treaty with them to the end of its term. God loves the
righteous.
5. When the Sacred Months have passed, kill the polytheists
wherever you find them. And capture them, and besiege them, and lie in wait for
them at every ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayers, and pay the
alms, then let them go their way. God is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.
6. And if anyone of the polytheists asks you for protection, give
him protection so that he may hear the Word of God; then escort him to his
place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know.
7. How can there be a treaty with the poly-theists on the part
of God and His Mes-senger, except for those with whom you made a treaty at the
Sacred Mosque? As long as they are upright with you, be up-right with them. God
loves the pious.
8.
How?
Whenever they overcome you, they respect neither kinship nor treaty with you.
They satisfy you with lip service, but their hearts refuse, and most of them
are immoral.
9.
They
traded away God's revelations for a cheap price, and barred others from His
path. How evil is what they did.
10. Towards a believer they respect neither kinship nor treaty.
These are the trans-gressors.
11. But if they repent, and perform the prayers, and give the
obligatory charity, then they are your brethren in faith. We detail the
revelations for a people who know.
12. But if they violate their oaths after their pledge, and
attack your religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief—they have no faith—so
that they may desist.
13. Will you not fight a people who violat-ed their oaths, and
planned to exile the Messenger, and initiated hostilities against you? Do you
fear them? It is God you should fear, if you are believers.
14. Fight them. God will punish them at your hands, and
humiliate them, and help you against them, and heal the hearts of a believing
people.
15. And He will remove the anger of their hearts. God redeems
whomever He wills. God is Knowledgeable and Wise.
16. Or do you think that you will be left alone, without God
identifying which of you will strive, and take no supporters
apart from God, His Messenger, and the believers? God is
well Aware of what you do.
17. It is not for the polytheists to attend God’s places of
worship, while professing their disbelief. These—their works are in vain, and
in the Fire they will abide.
18. The only people to attend God’s places of worship are those
who believe in God and the Last Day, and pray regularly, and practice regular
charity, and fear none but God. These are most likely to be guided.
19. Do you consider giving water to pil-grims and maintaining
the Sacred Mosque the same as believing in God and the Last Day and striving in
God’s path? They are not equal in God’s sight. God does not guide the unjust
people.
20. Those who believe, and emigrate, and strive in God’s path
with their possessions and their persons, are of a higher rank with God. These
are the winners.
21. Their Lord announces to them good news of mercy from Him,
and acceptance, and gardens wherein they will have lasting bliss.
22. Abiding therein forever. With God is a great reward.
23. O you who believe! Do not ally your-selves with your parents
and your siblings if they prefer disbelief to belief. Whoever of you allies
himself with them—these are the wrongdoers.
24. Say, “If your parents, and your chil-dren, and your
siblings, and your spouses,
and your relatives, and the wealth you have acquired, and a
business you worry about, and homes you love, are more dear to you than God,
and His Messenger, and the struggle in His cause, then wait until God executes
His judgment.” God does not guide the sinful people.
25. God has given you victory in numerous regions, but on the
day of Hunayn, your great number impressed you, but it availed you nothing; and
the land, as spacious as it was, narrowed for you, and you turned your backs in
retreat.
26. Then God sent down His serenity upon His Messenger, and upon
the believers, and He sent down troops you did not see, and He punished those
who disbelieved. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
27. Then, after that, God will relent to-wards whomever He
wills. God is Forgiv-ing and Merciful.
28. O you who believe! The polytheists are polluted, so let them
not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs. And if you fear
poverty, God will enrich you from His grace, if He wills. God is Aware and
Wise.
29. Fight those who do not believe in God, nor in the Last Day,
nor forbid what God and His Messenger have forbidden, nor abide by the religion
of truth—from among those who received the Scripture— until they pay the due
tax, willingly or unwillingly.
30. The Jews said, “Ezra is the son of God,” and the Christians
said, “The Messiah is
the son of God.” These are
their state-ments, out of their mouths. They emulate the statements of those
who blasphemed before. May God assail them! How de-ceived they are!
31. They have taken their rabbis and their priests as lords
instead of God, as well as the Messiah son of Mary. Although they were
commanded to worship none but The One God. There is no god except He. Glory be
to Him, high above what they associate with Him.
32. They want to extinguish God’s light with their mouths, but
God refuses except to complete His light, even though the disbelievers dislike
it.
33. It is He who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the
religion of truth, in order to make it prevail over all religions, even though
the idolaters dislike it.
34. O you who believe! Many of the rabbis and priests consume
people's wealth illicit-ly, and hinder from God’s path. Those who hoard gold and
silver, and do not spend them in God’s cause, inform them of a painful
punishment.
35. On the Day when they will be heated in the Fire of Hell,
then their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs will be branded with
them: “This is what you hoarded for yourselves; so taste what you used to
hoard.”
36. The number of months, according to God, is twelve months—in
the decree of God—since the Day He created the heav-ens and the earth, of which
four are sa-
cred. This is the correct religion. So do not wrong yourselves
during them. And fight the polytheists collectively, as they fight you
collectively, and know that God is with the righteous.
37. Postponement is an increase in disbe-lief—by which those who
disbelieve are led astray. They allow it one year, and for-bid it another year,
in order to conform to the number made sacred by God, thus permitting what God
has forbidden. The evil of their deeds seems good to them. God does not guide
the disbelieving peo-ple.
38. O you who believe! What is the matter with you, when it is
said to you, “Mobilize in the cause of God,” you cling heavily to the earth? Do
you prefer the present life to the Hereafter? The enjoyment of the pre-sent
life, compared to the Hereafter, is only a little.
39. Unless you mobilize, He will punish you most painfully, and
will replace you with another people, and you will not harm Him at all. God has
power over all things.
40. If you do not help him, God has already helped him, when
those who disbelieved expelled him, and he was the second of two in the cave.
He said to his friend, “Do not worry, God is with us.” And God made His
tranquility descend upon him, and supported him with forces you did not see,
and made the word of those who disbelieved the lowest, while the Word of
God is the Highest.
God is Mighty and Wise.
41. Mobilize, light or heavy, and strive with your possessions
and your lives in the cause of God. That is better for you, if you only knew.
42. Had the gain been immediate, and the journey shorter, they
would have followed you; but the distance seemed too long for them. Still they
swear by God: “Had we been able, we would have marched out with you.” They damn
their own souls, and God knows that they are lying.
43. May God pardon you! Why did you give them permission before
it became clear to you who are the truthful ones, and who are the liars?
44. Those who believe in God and the Last Day do not ask you for
exemption from striving with their possessions and their lives. God is fully
aware of the righteous.
45. Only those who do not believe in God and the Last Day ask
you for exemption. Their hearts are full of doubts, so they wa-ver in their
doubts.
46. Had they wanted to mobilize, they would have made
preparations for it; but God disliked their participation, so he held them
back, and it was said, “Stay be-hind with those who stay behind.”
47. Had they mobilized with you, they would have added only to
your difficulties, and they would have spread rumors in your midst, trying to
sow discord among
you. Some of you
are avid listeners to them. God is Aware of the wrongdoers.
48. They tried to cause conflict before, and they hatched plots
against you, until the truth prevailed, and the command of God became
evident—in spite of their dislike.
49. Among them is he who says, “Excuse me, and do not trouble
me.” In fact, they sunk into trouble. In fact, Hell will engulf the
disbelievers.
50. If something good happens to you, it upsets them, and if a
calamity befalls you, they say, “We took our precautions in ad-vance,” and they
depart, happy.
51. Say, “Nothing will happen to us except what God has ordained
for us; He is our Protector.” In God let the faithful put their trust.
52. Say, “Are you expecting for us anything other than one of
the two excellences? As for us, we are expecting that God will af-flict you
with a punishment from Himself, or at our hands. So wait, we are waiting with
you.”
53. Say, “Whether you spend willingly or unwillingly, it will
not be accepted from you. You are evil people.”
54. What prevents the acceptance of their contributions is
nothing but the fact that they disbelieved in God and His Messen-ger, and that
they do not approach the prayer except lazily, and that they do not spend
except grudgingly.
55. Let neither their possessions nor their children impress
you. God intends to torment them through them in this
worldly life, and that their souls depart while they are disbelievers.
56. They swear by God that they are of you. But they are not of
you. They are divisive people.
57. Were they to find a shelter, or a cave, or a hideout, they
would go to it, rushing.
58. And among them are those who criti-cize you in regard to
charities. If they are given some of it, they become pleased, but if they are
not given any, they grow resent-ful.
59. If only they were content with what God and His Messenger
have given them, and said, “God is sufficient for us; God will give us of His
bounty, and so will His Messenger; to God we eagerly turn.”
60. Charities are for the poor, and the des-titute, and those
who administer them, and for reconciling hearts, and for freeing slaves, and
for those in debt, and in the path of God, and for the traveler in need— an
obligation from God. God is All-Knowing, Most Wise.
61. And among them are those who insult the Prophet, and say,
“He is all ears.” Say, “He listens for your own good. He believes in God, and
trusts the believers, and is mercy for those of you who believe.” Those who
insult the Messenger of God will have a painful penalty.
62. They swear to you by God to please you. But it is more
proper for them to
please God and His
Messenger, if they are believers.
63. Do they not know that whoever oppos-es God and His
Messenger, will have the Fire of Hell, abiding in it forever? That is the
supreme disgrace.
64. The hypocrites worry lest a chapter may be revealed about
them, informing them of what is in their hearts. Say, “Go on mocking; God will
bring out what you fear.”
65. If you ask them, they will say, “We were just joking and
playing.” Say, “Were you making jokes about God, His messenger, and His
revelations?”
66. Do not apologize. You have disbelieved after your belief. If
We pardon some of you, We will punish others, because they are guilty.
67. The hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another.
They advocate evil, and prohibit righteousness, and with-hold their hands. They
forgot God, so He forgot them. The hypocrites are the sin-ners.
68. God has promised the hypocrite men and hypocrite women, and
the disbeliev-ers, the Fire of Hell, abiding therein forev-er. It is their due.
And God has cursed them. They will have a lasting punish-ment.
69. Like those before you. They were more powerful than you, and
had more wealth and children. They enjoyed their share, and you enjoyed your
share, as those be-
fore you enjoyed their share. And you in-dulged, as they
indulged. It is they whose works will fail in this world and in the Hereafter.
It is they who are the losers.
70. Have they not heard the stories of those before them? The
people of Noah, and Aad, and Thamood; and the people of Abraham, and the
inhabitants of Median, and the overturned cities? Their messen-gers came to
them with the clear proofs. God never wronged them, but they used to wrong
their own selves.
71. The believing men and believing wom-en are friends of one another.
They advo-cate virtue, and forbid evil. They perform regular prayers, and
practice regular chari-ty, and obey God and His Messenger. These—God will have
mercy on them. God is Noble and Wise.
72. God promises the believers, men and women, gardens beneath
which rivers flow, abiding therein forever, and fine homes in the Gardens of
Eden. But ap-proval from God is even greater. That is the supreme achievement.
73. O Prophet! Strive against the disbeliev-ers and the
hypocrites, and be stern with them. Their abode is Hell—what a miser-able
destination!
74. They swear by God that they said noth-ing, but they did
utter the word of blas-phemy, and they renounced faith after their submission.
And they plotted what they could not attain. They were resentful only because God
and His Messenger have enriched them out of His grace. If they
repent, it would be best for them; but if they turn away,
God will afflict them with a painful punishment—in this life and in the
Hereafter, and they will have on earth no protector and no savior.
75. Among them are those who promised God: “If He gives us of
His bounty, we will donate, and be among the upright.”
76. But when He has given them of His bounty, they became stingy
with it, and turned away in aversion.
77. So He penalized them with hypocrisy in their hearts, until
the Day they face Him— because they broke their promise to God, and because
they used to lie.
78. Do they not know that God knows their secrets and their
conspiracies? And that God is the Knower of the unseen?
79. Those who criticize the believers who give charity
voluntarily, and ridicule those who find nothing to give except their own
efforts—God ridicules them. They will have a painful punishment.
80. Whether you ask forgiveness for them, or do not ask
forgiveness for them—even if you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, God
will not forgive them. That is because they disbelieved in God and His
messenger. God does not guide the im-moral people.
81. Those who stayed behind rejoiced at their staying behind the
Messenger of God. And they hated to strive with their wealth and their lives in
God’s way. And they said, “Do not venture out in the
heat.”
Say, “The Fire of Hell is much hot-ter, if they only understood.”
82. Let them laugh a little, and weep much; in recompense for
what they used to earn.
83. If God brings you back to a party of them, and they ask your
permission to go out, say, “You will not go out with me, ever, nor will you
ever fight an enemy with me. You were content to sit back the first time, so
sit back with those who stay be-hind.”
84. You are never to pray over anyone of them who dies, nor are
you to stand at his graveside. They rejected God and His Messenger, and died
while they were sin-ners.
85. Do not let their possessions and their children impress you.
God desires to tor-ment them through them in this world, and their souls expire
while they are disbe-lievers.
86. When a chapter is revealed, stating: “Believe in God and
strive with His Mes-senger,” the prominent among them ask you for exemption.
They say, “Allow us to stay with those who stay behind.”
87. They prefer to be with those who stay behind. Their hearts
were sealed, so they do not understand.
88. But the Messenger and those who be-lieve with him struggle
with their posses-sions and their lives. These have deserved the good things.
These are the successful.
89. God has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow,
wherein they will abide forever. That is the great victory.
90. Some of the Desert-Arabs came to make excuses, asking to be
granted ex-emption, while those who were untrue to God and His Messenger stayed
behind. A painful punishment will afflict those among them who disbelieved.
91. There is no blame on the weak, nor on the sick, nor on those
who have nothing to give, provided they are true to God and His Messenger. In
no way can the right-eous be blamed. God is Forgiving and Merciful.
92. Nor on those who approach you, wish-ing to ride with you,
and you said, “I have nothing to carry you on.” So they went away, with their
eyes overflowing with tears, sorrowing for not finding the means to spend.
93. But blame is on those who ask you for exemption, although
they are rich. They are content to be with those who stay be-hind. God has
sealed their hearts, so they do not know.
94. They present excuses to you when you return to them. Say,
“Do not offer excuses; we do not trust you; God has informed us of you. And God
will watch your actions, and so will the Messenger; then you will be returned
to the Knower of the Invisible and the Visible, and He will inform you of what
you used to do.”
95. They will swear to you by God, when you return to them, that
you may leave
them alone. So leave them alone. They are a disgrace, and
their destiny is Hell; a re-ward for what they used to earn.
96. They will swear to you that you may accept them. But even if
you accept them, God does not accept the wicked people.
97. The Desert-Arabs are the most steeped in disbelief and
hypocrisy, and the most likely to ignore the limits that God re-vealed to His
Messenger. God is Knowing and Wise.
98. And among the Desert-Arabs are those who consider their contribution
to be a fine. And they wait for a reversal of your fortunes. Upon them will
fall the cycle of misfortune. God is Hearing and Knowing.
99. Yet among the Desert-Arabs are those who believe in God and
the Last Day, and consider their contribution to be a means towards God, and
the prayers of the Mes-senger. Surely it will draw them closer, and God will
admit them into His mercy. God is Forgiving and Compassionate.
100. The Pioneers—The first of the Mi-grants and the Supporters,
and those who followed them in righteousness. God is pleased with them, and
they are pleased with Him. He has prepared for them Gar-dens beneath which
rivers flow, where they will abide forever. That is the sublime triumph.
101. Among the Desert-Arabs around you there are some hypocrites,
and among the inhabitants of Medina too. They have be-come adamant in
hypocrisy. You do not know them, but We know them. We will
punish them twice;
then they will be re-turned to a severe torment.
102. Others have confessed their sins, hav-ing mixed good deeds
with bad deeds. Perhaps God will redeem them. God is Forgiving and Merciful.
103. Receive contributions from their wealth, to purify them and
sanctify them with it; and pray for them. Your prayer is comfort for them. God
is Hearing and Knowing.
104. Do they not know that God accepts the repentance of His
servants, and that He receives the contributions, and that God is the Acceptor
of Repentance, the Merciful?
105. Say, “Work. God will see your work, and so will His
Messenger, and the believ-ers. Then you will be returned to the Knower of
secrets and declarations, and He will inform you of what you used to do.”
106. Others are held in suspense, awaiting God’s decree, as to
whether He will punish them, or accept their repentance. God is Aware and Wise.
107. Then there are those who establish a mosque to cause harm,
and disbelief, and disunity among the believers, and as an outpost for those
who fight God and His Messenger. They will swear: “Our inten-tions are nothing
but good,” but God bears witness that they are liars.
108. Do not stand in it, ever. A mosque founded upon piety from
the first day is worthier of your standing in it. In it are
men
who love to be purified. God loves those who purify themselves.
109. Is he who founds his structure upon piety and acceptance
from God better, or he who founds his structure on the brink of a cliff that is
about to tumble, so it tum-bles with him into the Fire of Hell? God does not
guide the unjust people.
110. The structure which they built will remain questionable in
their hearts, until their hearts are stopped. God is Knowing and Wise.
111. God has purchased from the believers their lives and their
properties in exchange for Paradise. They fight in God’s way, and they kill and
get killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, and the Gospel, and
the Quran. And who is more true to his promise than God? So rejoice in making
such an exchange—that is the supreme triumph.
112. Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those
who journey, those who kneel, those who bow down, those who advocate
righteousness and forbid evil, those who keep the limits of God—give good news
to the believers.
113. It is not for the Prophet and those who believe to ask
forgiveness for the polythe-ists, even if they are near relatives, after it has
become clear to them that they are people of Hellfire.
114. Abraham asked forgiveness for his father only because of a
promise he had made to him. But when it became clear to him that he was an
enemy of God, he dis-
owned him. Abraham
was kind and clem-ent.
115. God would never lead a people astray, after He had guided
them, until He makes clear to them what they should guard against. God has
knowledge of all things.
116. To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He
gives life, and He causes death. And besides God, you have neither protector,
nor supporter.
117. God has redeemed the Prophet, and the Emigrants, and the
Supporters—those who followed him in the hour of difficul-ty—after the hearts
of some of them al-most swerved. Then He pardoned them. He is Kind towards
them, Compassionate.
118. Also towards the three who were left behind. Then, when the
earth, as vast as it is, closed in on them, and their very souls closed in on
them, and they realized that there was no refuge from God, except in Him, He
redeemed them, so that they may repent. God is the Redeemer, the Merciful.
119. O you who believe! Be conscious of God, and be with the
sincere.
120. It is not for the inhabitants of Medina and the Desert-Arabs
around them to stay behind the Messenger of God, nor to pre-fer themselves to
him. That is because they never suffer any thirst, nor fatigue, nor hunger in
the cause of God, nor do they take one step that enrages the disbelievers, nor
do they gain anything from an enemy but it is recorded to their credit as a
right-eous deed. God does not waste the reward of the righteous.
121. Nor do they spend any expenditure, small or large, nor do
they cross any val-ley, but it is recorded to their credit. That God may reward
them in accordance with the best of their deeds.
122. It is not advisable for the believers to march out
altogether. Of every division that marches out, let a group remain be-hind, to
gain understanding of the reli-gion, and to notify their people when they have
returned to them, that they may be-ware.
123. O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who
attack you, and let them find severity in you, and know that God is with the
righteous.
124. Whenever a chapter is revealed, some of them say, “Which of
you has this in-creased in faith?” As for those who believe, it increases them
in faith, and they rejoice.
125. But as for those in whose hearts is sickness, it adds
disgrace to their disgrace, and they die as unbelievers.
126. Do they not see that they are tested once or twice every
year? Yet they do not repent, and they do not learn.
127. And whenever a chapter is revealed, they look at one
another, “Does anyone see you?” Then they slip away. God has diverted their
hearts, because they are a people who do not understand.
128. There has come to you a messenger from among yourselves,
concerned over your suffering, anxious over you. Towards
the believers, he is compassionate and merciful.
129. If they turn away, say, “God is
enough for me; there is no god except He; in Him I have put my trust; He is the
Lord of the Sublime Throne.”
Sūrat at-Tawbah (Arabic: سورة التوبة, "The Repentance"), also known as al-Barā'ah ("The Repudiation"),[1] is the ninth chapter of the Qur'an. It contains 129 verses and is one of the last Madinan chapters. It is the only sūrah of the Qur'an that does not begin with the basmala. This sūrah was revealed at the time of the Battle of Tabuk.
Verse 37 documents the prohibition of nasīʾ, the calculation of intercalation for the lunar calendar by the priests of the Banu Kinanah tribe of the Quraysh. This prohibition was repeated by Muhammad during the Farewell Sermon on Mount Arafat, which was delivered during the Farewell Pilgrimage to Mecca on 9 Dhu al-Hijjah 10 AH.
According to Zayd ibn Thabit, when the Qu'ran was first being compiled, he found the last verses of this sūrah in the possession of Abu'l-Khuzayma al-Ansari and no one else.[2][3] In another account, Ubay ibn Ka'b informed Zayd that the Prophet taught him the end of this sūrah and recited the same verses.[4] Some, like Ibn Hazm, suggested that Abu Khuzayma was the only one to have the last verses in written form, as Zayd and others had memorized them.[4]
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