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rightly guided, but many others were truly faithful, for many of
were transgressors. 27 Then, in them were disobedient.
their wake, We followed them 28 Believers, fear God and
up with [others of] Our believe in His messenger. He
messengers and after them Jesus, will show you mercy in double
son of Mary. We gave him the measure and will provide a light
Gospel and imbued the hearts of for you to walk in. God will
those who followed him with grant you forgiveness. He is
compassion and mercy. But We forgiving and merciful. 29 The
did not prescribe monasticism People of the Book should know
for them: that was their own that they have no power
innovation by which they sought whatsoever over God’s grace.
to please God. But then, they did His grace is entirely in His hand
not observe it in the way that it and He bestows it upon whoever
should have been observed. So He wills. God is truly infinite in
We rewarded only those who His bounty.

58. THE PLEADING (AL-MUJADALAH)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

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God has indeed heard the words pronouncing, ‘To me you are
of the woman who pleads with like my mother’s back,’ must
you about her husband and lays concede that they are not their
her complaint before God: God mothers; none are their mothers
hears what the two of you have except those who gave birth to
to say. God is all hearing, all them—surely they utter an evil
seeing. word and a lie. God is pardoning,
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Those who separate forgiving. Those who put away
themselves from their wives by their wives by equating them