[9:1] Absolution has been decreed by God and His messenger for those who have a treaty with you from amongst those who set up partners for god.

[9:2] Therefore, roam the land for four months and remember that you are certainly unable to defeat God and that indeed God humiliates the unfaithful.

[9:3] And a proclamation from God and His messenger to the people on the day of the great pilgrimage that indeed God has disowned those who set up partners for god and so has His messenger. Therefore, if you repent it would be better for you but if you turn away, you shall know that you can never defeat God. And give the unfaithful the news of a most painful suffering.

[9:4] Exempted are those who have a treaty with you from amongst those who set up partners for god, but they never break their treaty and do not band together with anyone against you, then you shall fulfill the interim of your treaty. Indeed God loves those who are god-fearing.

[9:5] Therefore, when the sacred months are over, you shall kill those who set up partners for god wherever you find them and take them captive and besiege them and keep a close eye on them. However, if they repent and observe the contact prayer and give the cleansing charity, then you shall leave them alone. Indeed God is All Forgiving, All Merciful.

[9:6] And if any one of those who set up partners for god sought refuge with you, you shall grant him refuge and let him hear the word of God then you shall see him off to safety. This is because they are indeed people who do not know.

[9:7] Those who have set up partners for god could enter into a treaty with God and His messenger, only if they do so at the Sacred Mosque. Therefore, if they honor their part of the treaty, so shall you. Indeed God loves those who are god-fearing.

[9:8] How could there be any treaty when they have the upper hand they never keep their oath, or their promise. They only offer lip service while deep in their hearts, they never mean it and most of them are wicked.

[9:9] They traded God‘s proofs for a cheap price and repelled from His path. Indeed evil is what they practiced.

[9:10] They never respect a person of faith and do not keep their oath or their promise. And they are transgressors.

[9:11] However, if they repent and observe the contact prayer and give the cleansing charity, then they are your brethren in faith. We thus explain the signs for people who are knowledgeable.

[9:12] And if they break their oath after they have entered into a treaty, and slander your faith, then you shall fight the leaders of infidelity, for indeed their oath is null and void, unless they refrain.

[9:13] Why should you not fight the people who have violated their oath and did their utmost to evict the messenger; furthermore they were the ones who started it in the first place? Do you fear them? It is God that you should fear if you are faithful.

[9:14] You shall fight them, for God will punish them at your hands, and humiliate them and will help you to overcome them and heal the mind of the faithful.

[9:15] And the rage will be removed from their hearts; and God accepts the repentance from whomever He wills, for God is All Knower, All Wise.

[9:16] Did you think that you would be left alone without God distinguishing those amongst you who strive and do not take any ally beside God and His messenger and the faithful? Remember that God is All Cognizant of whatever you do.

[9:17] It is not to be for those who set up partners for god to contribute to the renovation of God‘s Mosques while they are confessing their disbelief. These are the ones who have nullified their works and they will abide in Hell forever.

[9:18] The renovation of God‘s Mosques is only reserved for those who believe in God and the Last Day and they uphold the contact prayer and give the cleansing charity and do not fear but God. Therefore, these are the ones who will soon be among the guided ones.

[9:19] Did you equate watering the pilgrims and the renovation of the Sacred Mosque to belief in God and the Last Day and striving in the cause of God? No they are not equal in the sight of God. Moreover, God does not guide the transgressing people.

[9:20] The faithful who emigrated and strove in the cause of God with their money and their lives possess higher ranks in the sight of God. Moreover, these are the victorious ones.

[9:21] Their Lord gives them the good news of mercy from Him and approval and Gardens reserved for them full of bliss forever.

[9:22] They abide therein eternally. Indeed God possesses at His disposal a tremendous reward.

[9:23] O you faithful; do not take your parents and your siblings as allies if they love disbelief instead of faith. And whoever takes them as allies from amongst you; then they are unjust.

[9:24] Say; if your parents, your siblings, your spouses, your relatives, the money you have earned and the business you fear to lose and the homes so pleasing to you are more beloved to you than God and His messenger and striving in His cause, then wait until God issues His command. And God never guides the wicked people.

[9:25] Indeed God gave you many victories in different territories, however, on the day of Hunain you became disillusioned with your great number, but it did not help you in the least and you lost vast territories and then you had to retreat.

[9:26] Afterwards, God sent down peaceful slumber upon His messenger and upon the faithful and sent down invisible armies and punished the unfaithful. And such is the requital for the unfaithful.

[9:27] Thereafter, God accepted the repentance of whomever He willed. And God is All Forgiving, All Merciful.

[9:28] O you faithful, indeed those who set up partners for god are impure, therefore, they will not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year. If you fear loss of money, God will soon enrich you from His bounty, if He so wills. Indeed God is All Knower, All Wise.

[9:29] You shall fight those who do not believe in God and the Last Day and do not prohibit what God and His messenger have prohibited and do not follow the religion of truth from those amongst the people of the scripture, unless they pay their tribute willingly and humbly.

[9:30] And the Judeans said; Ozair is son of God while the Nazarenes said; the Healer is son of God. Such is their utterance, emulating the utterance of the unfaithful before them. God has cursed them. Why do they deviate?

[9:31] They have taken their religious leaders and scholars as lords besides God, as well as the Healer son of Mary, while in fact all they were commanded to do was to worship the one god; there is no other god except He. Be He glorified, how could they set up partners for Him.

[9:32] They wish to put out God‘s light with their mouths, however, God insists upon perfecting His light in spite of the displeasure of the unfaithful.

[9:33] He is the One who sent His messenger with guidance and the religion of truth in order to dominate all religions, despite the displeasure of those who set up partners for god.

[9:34] O you faithful, indeed many religious leaders and scholars consume people’s money illicitly and repel from the path of God. As for those who hoard gold and silver and do not spend it in the cause of God, give them the news of a most painful suffering.

[9:35] A day will come when they are overwhelmed by the fire of Gehenna, then their fronts, their sides and their backs are burned. Here is what you hoarded for yourselves, therefore, taste the results of your hoarding.

[9:36] Indeed, the count of the months as far as God is concerned is twelve months in God‘s scripture since the day He created the skies and the land; four of them are sacred. This is the eternal religion. You shall not transgress against your own souls. You shall fight those who set up partners for god in the same manner they fight you. And you shall know that indeed God is with those who are god-fearing.

[9:37] Indeed forgetting it increases disbelief. Thus, the unfaithful mislead therewith, they allow it one year and prohibit it the next year in order to nullify the number that God has prohibited and they permit what God has prohibited. Adorned for them are their evil deeds. And God does not guide the unfaithful.

[9:38] O you faithful, why do you not mobilize in the cause of God, when you are told to do so? Are you heavily attached to the ground? Are you more satisfied with this worldly life instead of the Hereafter? The provisions of this world are minuscule compared to the Hereafter.

[9:39] Unless you mobilize, He will make you suffer, a most painful suffering and will replace you with other people, and nothing will harm Him. And God is All Powerful over all things.

[9:40] If you do not help him, then God has surely helped him when the unfaithful evicted him and he was one of the two in the cave; he said to his friend, do not grieve because God is with us. Thereafter, God sent down His tranquility upon him and helped him with invisible armies and made the word of the unfaithful lowly as the word of God reigned supreme. And God is Almighty, All Wise.

[9:41] You shall mobilize lightly or heavily and strive in the cause of God with your money and your lives. This is better for you if you only knew.

[9:42] If it were a quick gain and an easy journey, they would have followed you; however, the long journey was too burdensome for them. They swear by God, if only they were able to go with you they would have even given up their life, however, God knows that indeed they are liars.

[9:43] God has pardoned you, but why did you grant them permission without identifying who the truthful ones are and who the liars are?

[9:44] Those who believe in God and the Last Day never ask your permission if they should strive with their money and their lives. And God has full knowledge of the god-fearing ones.

[9:45] Only those who do not believe in God and the Last Day ask your permission and their hearts are full of doubt and they are overwhelmed by their doubt.

[9:46] Had they decided to go, everything would have been provided for them, however, God had the displeasure of their company and they were told to stay behind with the sedentary.

[9:47] Had they gone with you, they would have only spread corruption and they would have positioned themselves in your midst in order to spread infidelity and they would have sought those who would have lent their ears to them. And God has full knowledge of the unjust.

[9:48] Indeed they pursued infidelity in the past and made things difficult for you until the truth prevailed and God‘s command was established and they had to go along reluctantly.

[9:49] And some of them said; give me permission and do not put me through the test. Be aware that they will fail the test. And indeed Gehenna is surrounding the unfaithful.

[9:50] If something good comes your way they feel bad; and if a disaster strikes you, they say; we knew this was going to happen and they turn away, gloating.

[9:51] Say; everything that happens to us is decreed for us by God, He is our Lord. And in God the faithful shall trust.

[9:52] Say; are you waiting to see what will happen to us? Only one of the two good things will happen to us. We are also waiting to see what will happen to you, for it would be that either God afflicts you with a suffering from Him or you will suffer because of us. Therefore, wait and indeed we will wait along with you.

[9:53] Say; go ahead be charitable, willingly or reluctantly, it will not be accepted from you, because indeed you are wicked people.

[9:54] And their charity was not accepted because they indeed disbelieved in God and His messenger and did not come to the contact prayer except lazily and did not give to charity except reluctantly.

[9:55] Therefore, do not be impressed with their money and their children. Indeed God wants to make them suffer therewith in this worldly life and to annihilate them in a state of disbelief.

[9:56] And they swear by God that indeed they belong with you, however, they do not belong with you, for they are divisive people.

[9:57] Had they found a sanctuary or a cave or a hole, they would have crawled in it and they would have done so quickly.

[9:58] And amongst them are those who fault you about the distribution of charity, therefore, if they are given therefrom, they are content; however, if they are not given therefrom, they get upset.

[9:59] And no matter what, they should have been content with whatever God gave them through His messenger and should have said; God is sufficient for us; God will soon grant us from His bounty through His messenger. Indeed we are eagerly seeking God.

[9:60] Indeed charities are reserved for the poor, the needy, the workers in charge of its expenditure, the broken hearted, to free the slaves, to forgive a debt, and in the cause of God to spend on the refugees. This is a duty decreed by God. And God is All Knowing, All Wise.

[9:61] And among them are those who hurt the prophet by saying; he is all ears. Say, it is good for you that he listens, he has faith in God and he is faithful to the believers and he is a mercy for those of you who have faith. As for those who hurt God‘s messenger, awaiting them is a most painful suffering.

[9:62] They swear by God for your sake in order to please you all, however, it is far more righteous to please God and His messenger, if they are faithful.

[9:63] Do they not know that whoever opposes God and His messenger, then indeed reserved for him is the fire of Gehenna wherein he abides forever? This is the worst humiliation.

[9:64] The hypocrites fear that a sura may be revealed wherein their innermost thoughts are exposed. Say, go ahead and poke fun, God will surely manifest the very thing that you are trying to avoid.

[9:65] And if you ask them, they will say; we were only kidding and playing. Say, are you making fun of God and His Signs and His messenger?

[9:66] Do not make excuses for disbelieving after attaining faith. If We pardon a group of you, We will punish another group due to their proven wickedness.

[9:67] The hypocrite men and women encourage one another to spread evil and to abandon righteous work and to be stingy. They have forgotten God and He has forgotten them. Indeed the hypocrites are wicked.

[9:68] God has promised the hypocrite men and women as well as the unfaithful, the fire of Gehenna wherein they abide forever. It is their just reward. And God has cursed them. And reserved for them is an everlasting suffering.

[9:69] You are just like those before you, they were even more powerful than you, wealthier and had more children, thereafter, they indulged themselves; you also indulge yourselves just like they did before you, and play just like they played. These are the ones who nullified their works in this world as well as in the Hereafter, and these are the losers.

[9:70] Did they not receive the news of those before them, the people of Noah, Aad and Thamud and the people of Abraham and the dwellers of Median as well as the deviant ones? Their messengers went to them with clear proofs. But, it was not God who wronged them; it was they who wronged their own souls.

[9:71] The faithful men and the faithful women exhort each other to do righteous work and to prohibit evil, to uphold the contact prayer and to give the cleansing charity and to obey God and His messenger. These are the ones whom God will soon shower them with His mercy. Indeed God is Almighty, All Wise.

[9:72] God has promised the faithful men and the faithful women Gardens with flowing streams beneath them, wherein they abide forever as well as mansions in Gardens of Eden. However, God‘s approval is far greater. This is the greatest victory.

[9:73] O you prophet, you shall strive against the unfaithful and the hypocrites and be stern against them. And their abode is Gehenna, what a miserable abode.

[9:74] They swear by God that they never said it, but they indeed uttered the word of disbelief and preferred disbelief over submission and they did their best not to attain it. They would have taken revenge if it were not for the fact that God had enriched them from His bounty through His messenger. If they repent, it would be better for them, but if they revert, God will make them suffer, a most painful suffering in this world as well as in the Hereafter. Furthermore, there will be no friend or helper on the land for them.

[9:75] And amongst them are those who make a covenant with God that if we are given from His bounty, we will indeed be charitable and will surely become one of the righteous.

[9:76] However, as soon as He showered them from His bounty, they became stingy, turned away and became averse.

[9:77] Therefore, He punished them because of hypocrisy in their heart until the day they meet Him. This is because they broke their covenant with God and because they used to lie.

[9:78] Do they not know that God knows their secrets and their whispers and that indeed God knows everything about the unseen?

[9:79] These are the ones who fault the faithful for giving too much and ridicule those who cannot afford it for giving what they can afford, God ridicules them and reserved for them is a most painful suffering.

[9:80] No matter if 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. This is because they disbelieved in God and His messenger. Moreover, God does not guide the wicked people.

[9:81] The sedentary rejoiced in staying behind opposing God‘s messenger and were reluctant to strive with their money and their lives in the cause of God, and said, do not mobilize in such a heat. Say, the fire of Gehenna is much hotter, if you could understand.

[9:82] Consequently, they laughed a little and cried a lot, a just reward for what they earned.

[9:83] Therefore, if God returns you to a group of them, they ask permission to go, you shall then say; you will never go with me and will not fight the enemy alongside me. You were content to stay behind, therefore, stay with those who stayed behind.

[9:84] And you shall not attend the funeral of any of them and do not stand by his grave. Indeed they have disbelieved in God and His messenger and died in the state of wickedness.

[9:85] And do not be impressed with their money and their children. Indeed God wants to make them a source of torment for them in this world and annihilate them in a state of disbelief.

[9:86] And when a sura is revealed advocating faith in God and strive with His messenger, the able ones amongst them ask your permission and say, please allow us to stay with the sedentary.

[9:87] They were happy to stay behind and their hearts were sealed while they did not understand.

[9:88] On the other hand, the messenger and those who attained faith along with him strove with their money and their lives. And reserved for them is goodness, and these are the winners.

[9:89] God has promised them Gardens with flowing streams beneath them, wherein they abide forever. This is the greatest triumph.

[9:90] The excuse makers among the Arabs came to secure permission for themselves, while the sedentary rejected God and His messenger. The unfaithful amongst them will soon be afflicted with a most painful suffering.

[9:91] There is no blame on the weak and the ill and those who cannot afford to be charitable as long as they take the advice from God and His messenger. There is no blame on the righteous amongst them. And God is All Forgiving, All Merciful.

[9:92] As there is no blame on those who came to you asking to be carried along and you told them that you have no means to carry them, they turn away grief stricken with their eyes full of tears because they cannot find anything to offer.

[9:93] Only those are blamed who ask permission although they are rich. They are happy to stay behind and God has sealed their hearts and they never learn.

[9:94] They apologize to you when you return to them. Say, do not apologize; we will never believe you now that God has informed us all about you. And God sees your actions and so does His messenger, then you will return to the Knower of all secrets and declarations and He will then inform you of everything you have done.

[9:95] They swear by God for your benefit so that when you return to them you may condone their action. You shall ignore them, for they are impure and their abode is Gehenna, a just requital for what they earned.

[9:96] They swear for your benefit that you may be satisfied with them; even if you are satisfied with them, God will never be satisfied with the wicked people.

[9:97] The Arabs are the worst in infidelity and hypocrisy and the most ignorant of what God has revealed to His messenger. And God is All Knowing, All Wise.

[9:98] And amongst the Arabs are those who see their charity as a loss and they are waiting to see you besieged. They are the ones who are besieged by evil. And God is All Hearer, All Knower.

[9:99] And amongst the Arabs are those who believe in God and the Last Day and consider their charity as a means to get closer to God and to support the messenger. Indeed, they are the close ones. God will soon admit them into His mercy. Indeed God is All Forgiving, All Merciful.

[9:100] As for the early elites amongst the emigrants and the helpers and those who followed them in righteousness, God is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him and He has promised them Gardens with flowing streams beneath them, wherein they abide eternally. This is the greatest triumph.

[9:101] And among the hypocrite Arabs around you, as well as the dwellers of Medina, are those who are sticking to hypocrisy that you do not know, but We know them, We will punish them doubly, then they will face a tremendous suffering.

[9:102] As for the others who confessed their sins and mixed good deeds with evil, God may accept their repentance. Indeed God is All Forgiving, All Merciful.

[9:103] Accept a charity from their money in order to purify and cleanse them and pray for them, for your prayer soothes them. And God is All Hearing, All Knowing.

[9:104] Do they not know that indeed God accepts repentance from His servants and accepts charity and that indeed God is Accepter of Repentance, the All Merciful.

[9:105] And say, go on and do whatever you are doing, God sees your work and so does His messenger and the faithful. And you will soon return to the Knower of all secrets and declarations, thereafter, He will inform you of everything you have done.

[9:106] As for the others who are waiting for God‘s command, He may punish them or He may accept their repentance. And God is All Knowing, All Wise.

[9:107] As for those who turn the mosques into a harmful place as well as a center for disbelief and spreading dispute amongst the faithful and a source for those who have fought against God and His messenger in the past, and they swear that we did not mean anything but goodness, God is witnessing that indeed they are liars.

[9:108] You shall never enter therein. Indeed entering a mosque based on righteousness from the day of inception is more correct. In it, there are men who love to be pure. Furthermore, God loves those who are pure.

[9:109] Is the one who establishes his foundation on fear of God and His approval better or the one who builds his foundation on a flood plain that could crumble into the fire of Gehenna? And God does not guide the wicked people.

[9:110] The foundation they have established will be a source of doubt in their hearts until their hearts stop beating. And God is All Knowing, All Wise.

[9:111] Indeed God has taken the lives and money of the faithful in exchange for the Paradise. They fight in the cause of God, then they either kill or get killed, this is His truthful promise in the Torah, the Injeel and the Quran. And who is more faithful to his promise than God? Therefore, you shall have the good news of the trade you have made. And this is the greatest triumph.

[9:112] They are repenting, worshiping, praising, meditating, bowing, prostrating, advocating righteousness and forbidding evil, and guardians of God‘s limits. And give good news to the faithful.

[9:113] And it is not befitting for the prophet and the faithful to ask forgiveness for those who set up partners for god, even if they are relatives, after it is clearly evident that they are indeed destined to be the dwellers of the Inferno.

[9:114] As for Abraham, he only asked forgiveness for his father because of a promise he had given him, however, once it was clearly evident to him that he was an enemy of God, he disowned him. Indeed Abraham was extremely kind, tolerant.

[9:115] And God never misleads a people after He has guided them unless it is proven that they are no longer righteous. Indeed God is knowledgeable of all things

[9:116] Indeed to God belong the skies and the land; He grants life and death. Furthermore, you have none beside God as an ally or a helper.

[9:117] Indeed God has accepted the repentance from the prophet and the Emigrants and the Helpers, those who followed him during the difficult time, when the hearts of a group of them almost wavered; He then accepted their repentance. Indeed He was All Kind, All Merciful towards them.

[9:118] Also the three who stayed behind until the spacious land became so straitened and so did their own souls and they realized that there is no refuge except in God, consequently, He accepted their repentance in order for them to be readmitted. Indeed God is the Accepter of Repentance, the All Merciful.

[9:119] O you faithful, you shall fear God and be honest.

[9:120] It is not befitting for the dwellers of Medina and the Arabs who live in its suburbs to abandon the messenger of God, nor shall they give priority to themselves over him. This is because indeed neither thirst nor hardship nor hunger that they suffer in the cause of God nor taking a single step to enrage the unfaithful nor inflicting any hardship on the enemy that is not recorded as a good deed. Indeed God will never put to waste the reward for the do-gooders.

[9:121] Neither any charity they give; be it small or large, nor is there a valley they cross without being recorded for them; and God rewards them for the best of what they do.

[9:122] Not all the faithful shall mobilize. Some from each group shall remain behind to study the faith and warn people when they come back that they may be righteous.

[9:123] O you faithful, you shall fight the unfaithful that attack you and let them find you stern. You shall know that God is with the god-fearing.

[9:124] And when a sura is revealed, then there are those among them who ask whose faith was increased? Truly as for the faithful, it does increase their faith and they rejoice.

[9:125] As for those with a disease in their hearts, it increases impurity upon their existing impurity and they die as unfaithful.

[9:126] Do they not see that they are indeed being tested once or twice every year, and then they do not even repent or take heed?

[9:127] And when a sura is revealed they look at one another; has anyone seen this?! They thus turn away. God has diverted their hearts for indeed they are people who do not understand.