شنبه 12 فروردين 1391 |
SURA 24. Nur, or Light
1. A Sura which We have sent down and which We have ordained in it have We sent
down Clear Signs, in order that ye may receive admonition.
2. The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them
with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter
prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of
the Believers witness their punishment.
3. Let no man guilty of adultery or fornication marry and but a woman similarly
guilty, or an Unbeliever: nor let any but such a man or an Unbeliever marry such
a woman: to the Believers such a thing is forbidden.
4. And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four
witnesses [to support their allegations],- flog them with eighty stripes; and
reject their evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors;-
5. Unless they repent thereafter and mend [their conduct]; for Allah is Oft-
Forgiving, Most Merciful.
6. And for those who launch a charge against their spouses, and have [in
support] no evidence but their own,- their solitary evidence [can be received]
if they bear witness four times [with an oath] by Allah that they are solemnly
telling the truth;
7. And the fifth [oath] [should be] that they solemnly invoke the curse of Allah
on themselves if they tell a lie.
8. But it would avert the punishment from the wife, if she bears witness four
times [with an oath] By Allah, that [her husband] is telling a lie;
9. And the fifth [oath] should be that she solemnly invokes the wrath of Allah
on herself if [her accuser] is telling the truth.
10. If it were not for Allah's grace and mercy on you, and that Allah is Oft-
Returning, full of Wisdom,- [Ye would be ruined indeed].
11. Those who brought forward the lie are a body among yourselves: think it not
to be an evil to you; On the contrary it is good for you: to every man among
them [will come the punishment] of the sin that he earned, and to him who took
on himself the lead among them, will be a penalty grievous.
12. Why did not the believers - men and women - when ye heard of the affair,-
put the best construction on it in their own minds and say, "This [charge] is an
obvious lie"?
13. Why did they not bring four witnesses to prove it? When they have not
brought the witnesses, such men, in the sight of Allah, [stand forth] themselves
as liars!
14. Were it not for the grace and mercy of Allah on you, in this world and the
Hereafter, a grievous penalty would have seized you in that ye rushed glibly
into this affair.
15. Behold, ye received it on your tongues, and said out of your mouths things
of which ye had no knowledge; and ye thought it to be a light matter, while it
was most serious in the sight of Allah.
16. And why did ye not, when ye heard it, say? - "It is not right of us to speak
of this: Glory to Allah! this is a most serious slander!"
17. Allah doth admonish you, that ye may never repeat such [conduct], if ye are
[true] Believers.
18. And Allah makes the Signs plain to you: for Allah is full of knowledge and
wisdom.
19. Those who love [to see] scandal published broadcast among the Believers,
will have a grievous Penalty in this life and in the Hereafter: Allah knows, and
ye know not.
20. Were it not for the grace and mercy of Allah on you, and that Allah is full
of kindness and mercy, [ye would be ruined indeed].
21. O ye who believe! follow not Satan's footsteps: if any will follow the
footsteps of Satan, he will [but] command what is shameful and wrong: and were
it not for the grace and mercy of Allah on you, not one of you would ever have
been pure: but Allah doth purify whom He pleases: and Allah is One Who hears and
knows [all things].
22. Let not those among you who are endued with grace and amplitude of means
resolve by oath against helping their kinsmen, those in want, and those who have
left their homes in Allah's cause: let them forgive and overlook, do you not
wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
23. Those who slander chaste women, indiscreet but believing, are cursed in this
life and in the Hereafter: for them is a grievous Penalty,-
24. On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will bear witness
against them as to their actions.
25. On that Day Allah will pay them back [all] their just dues, and they will
realise that Allah is the [very] Truth, that makes all things manifest.
26. Women impure are for men impure, and men impure for women impure and women
of purity are for men of purity, and men of purity are for women of purity:
these are not affected by what people say: for them there is forgiveness, and a
provision honourable.
27. O ye who believe! enter not houses other than your own, until ye have asked
permission and saluted those in them: that is best for you, in order that ye may
heed [what is seemly].
28. If ye find no one in the house, enter not until permission is given to you:
if ye are asked to go back, go back: that makes for greater purity for
yourselves: and Allah knows well all that ye do.
29. It is no fault on your part to enter houses not used for living in, which
serve some [other] use for you: And Allah has knowledge of what ye reveal and
what ye conceal.
30. Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their
modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: And Allah is well
acquainted with all that they do.
31. And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard
their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except
what [must ordinarily] appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over
their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their
fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their
brothers or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the
slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs,
or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should
not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And
O ye Believers! turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss.
32. Marry those among you who are single, or the virtuous ones among yourselves,
male or female: if they are in poverty, Allah will give them means out of His
grace: for Allah encompasseth all, and he knoweth all things.
33. Let those who find not the wherewithal for marriage keep themselves chaste,
until Allah gives them means out of His grace. And if any of your slaves ask for
a deed in writing [to enable them to earn their freedom for a certain sum], give
them such a deed if ye know any good in them: yea, give them something
yourselves out of the means which Allah has given to you. But force not your
maids to prostitution when they desire chastity, in order that ye may make a
gain in the goods of this life. But if anyone compels them, yet, after such
compulsion, is Allah, Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful [to them],
34. We have already sent down to you verses making things clear, an illustration
from [the story of] people who passed away before you, and an admonition for
those who fear [Allah].
35. Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is
as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the
glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of
the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce
touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah
doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things.
36. [Lit is such a Light] in houses, which Allah hath permitted to be raised to
honour; for the celebration, in them, of His name: In them is He glorified in
the mornings and in the evenings, [again and again],-
37. By men whom neither traffic nor merchandise can divert from the Remembrance
of Allah, nor from regular Prayer, nor from the practice of regular Charity:
Their [only] fear is for the Day when hearts and eyes will be transformed [in a
world wholly new],-
38. That Allah may reward them according to the best of their deeds, and add
even more for them out of His Grace: for Allah doth provide for those whom He
will, without measure.
39. But the Unbelievers,- their deeds are like a mirage in sandy deserts, which
the man parched with thirst mistakes for water; until when he comes up to it, he
finds it to be nothing: But he finds Allah [ever] with him, and Allah will pay
him his account: and Allah is swift in taking account.
40. Or [the Unbelievers' state] is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep
ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by [dark] clouds: depths
of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hands, he can hardly
see it! for any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light!
41. Seest thou not that it is Allah Whose praises all beings in the heavens and
on earth do celebrate, and the birds [of the air] with wings outspread? Each one
knows its own [mode of] prayer and praise. And Allah knows well all that they
do.
42. Yea, to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; and to
Allah is the final goal [of all].
43. Seest thou not that Allah makes the clouds move gently, then joins them
together, then makes them into a heap? - then wilt thou see rain issue forth
from their midst. And He sends down from the sky mountain masses [of clouds]
wherein is hail: He strikes therewith whom He pleases and He turns it away from
whom He pleases, the vivid flash of His lightning well-nigh blinds the sight.
44. It is Allah Who alternates the Night and the Day: verily in these things is
an instructive example for those who have vision!
45. And Allah has created every animal from water: of them there are some that
creep on their bellies; some that walk on two legs; and some that walk on four.
Allah creates what He wills for verily Allah has power over all things.
46. We have indeed sent down signs that make things manifest: and Allah guides
whom He wills to a way that is straight.
47. They say, "We believe in Allah and in the messenger, and we obey": but even
after that, some of them turn away: they are not [really] Believers.
48. When they are summoned to Allah and His messenger, in order that He may
judge between them, behold some of them decline [to come].
49. But if the right is on their side, they come to him with all submission.
50. Is it that there is a disease in their hearts? or do they doubt, or are they
in fear, that Allah and His Messenger will deal unjustly with them? Nay, it is
they themselves who do wrong.
51. The answer of the Believers, when summoned to Allah and His Messenger, in
order that He may judge between them, is no other than this: they say, "We hear
and we obey": it is such as these that will attain felicity.
52. It is such as obey Allah and His Messenger, and fear Allah and do right,
that will win [in the end],
53. They swear their strongest oaths by Allah that, if only thou wouldst command
them, they would leave [their homes]. Say: "Swear ye not; Obedience is [more]
reasonable; verily, Allah is well acquainted with all that ye do."
54. Say: "Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger: but if ye turn away, he is only
responsible for the duty placed on him and ye for that placed on you. If ye obey
him, ye shall be on right guidance. The Messenger's duty is only to preach the
clear [Message].
55. Allah has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds,
that He will, of a surety, grant them in the land, inheritance [of power], as He
granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their
religion - the one which He has chosen for them; and that He will change [their
state], after the fear in which they [lived], to one of security and peace:
'They will worship Me [alone] and not associate aught with Me. 'If any do reject
Faith after this, they are rebellious and wicked.
56. So establish regular Prayer and give regular Charity; and obey the
Messenger; that ye may receive mercy.
57. Never think thou that the Unbelievers are going to frustrate [Allah's Plan]
on earth: their abode is the Fire,- and it is indeed an evil refuge!
58. O ye who believe! let those whom your right hands possess, and the
[children] among you who have not come of age ask your permission [before they
come to your presence], on three occasions: before morning prayer; the while ye
doff your clothes for the noonday heat; and after the late-night prayer: these
are your three times of undress: outside those times it is not wrong for you or
for them to move about attending to each other: Thus does Allah make clear the
Signs to you: for Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom.
59. But when the children among you come of age, let them [also] ask for
permission, as do those senior to them [in age]: Thus does Allah make clear His
Signs to you: for Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom.
60. Such elderly women as are past the prospect of marriage,- there is no blame
on them if they lay aside their [outer] garments, provided they make not a
wanton display of their beauty: but it is best for them to be modest: and Allah
is One Who sees and knows all things.
61. It is no fault in the blind nor in one born lame, nor in one afflicted with
illness, nor in yourselves, that ye should eat in your own houses, or those of
your fathers, or your mothers, or your brothers, or your sisters, or your
father's brothers or your father's sisters, or your mother's brothers, or your
mother's sisters, or in houses of which the keys are in your possession, or in
the house of a sincere friend of yours: there is no blame on you, whether ye eat
in company or separately. But if ye enter houses, salute each other - a greeting
of blessing and purity as from Allah. Thus does Allah make clear the signs to
you: that ye may understand.
62. Only those are believers, who believe in Allah and His Messenger: when they
are with him on a matter requiring collective action, they do not depart until
they have asked for his leave; those who ask for thy leave are those who believe
in Allah and His Messenger; so when they ask for thy leave, for some business of
theirs, give leave to those of them whom thou wilt, and ask Allah for their
forgiveness: for Allah is Oft- Forgiving, Most Merciful.
63. Deem not the summons of the Messenger among yourselves like the summons of
one of you to another: Allah doth know those of you who slip away under shelter
of some excuse: then let those beware who withstand the Messenger's order, lest
some trial befall them, or a grievous penalty be inflicted on them.
64. Be quite sure that to Allah doth belong whatever is in the heavens and on
earth. Well doth He know what ye are intent upon: and one day they will be
brought back to Him, and He will tell them the truth of what they did: for Allah
doth know all things.
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