WHEN THE hypocrites come to you they say: ‘We bear witness that you are assuredly God‘s apostle.‘ God knows that you are indeed His apostle; and God bears witness that the hypocrites are surely lying
They use their faith as a disguise, and debar others from the path of God. Evil is what they ever do
They believed and then renounced the faith: their hearts are sealed, so that they are devoid of understanding
When you see them, their good looks please you; and when they speak, you listen to what they say. Yet they are like propped-up beams of timber. Every shout they hear they take to be against them. They are the enemy. Guard yourself against them. God smite them! How perverse they are
When they are told: ‘Come, God‘s apostle will beg forgiveness for you,‘ they turn their heads and you see them go away in scorn
It is the same for them whether or not you ask forgiveness for them: God will not forgive them. God does not guide the ungodly
It is they who say: ‘Give nothing to those that follow God‘s apostle until they have deserted.‘ God‘s are the treasures of the heavens and the earth: but the hypocrites cannot understand
They say: ‘If we return to Madinah,¹ the strong will soon drive out the weak.‘ But strength belongs to God and to His apostle and to the faithful: yet the hypocrites do not know it
Believers, let neither your riches nor your children divert you from remembering God. Those that are so diverted will surely be the losers
Give, then, of that which We have given you before death befalls any you and he should say: ‘Reprieve me, Lord, for a short time, that I may give in charity and be among the righteous.‘
But God reprieves no soul when its term expires. And God is cognizant of what you do