Believers, fulfill your commitments. Grazing livestock are lawful for you except what will be recited to you, but hunting is not lawful while you are in the state of pilgrimage. Allah rules as He wills.
Believers, do not violate Allah’s sacred rites, the sacred month, the sacrificial animals, the marked animals for sacrifice, or those heading to the Sacred House seeking favor and acceptance from their Lord. When you leave the state of pilgrimage, you may hunt. Do not let hatred for people who once prevented you from the Sacred Mosque lead you to injustice. Help one another in goodness and mindfulness of Allah, and do not help one another in sin and aggression. Be mindful of Allah. Allah is severe in punishment.
Forbidden to you are animals that die without proper slaughter, blood, pork, and what has been dedicated to other than Allah; animals killed by strangling, a violent blow, a fall, goring, or partly eaten by a wild animal, unless you are able to slaughter it properly; and animals sacrificed on stone altars. Also forbidden is seeking decisions by divining arrows. That is disobedience. Today those who reject faith have lost hope of overcoming your religion, so do not fear them; fear Me. Today I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favor upon you, and chosen Islam as your way. But whoever is forced by severe hunger, without intending sin, then Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.
They ask you what is lawful for them. Say, “Lawful for you are all good things, as well as what trained hunting animals catch for you after you train them with what Allah has taught you. So eat what they catch for you, mention Allah’s name over it, and be mindful of Allah. Allah is swift in reckoning.”
Today all good things have been made lawful for you. The food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them. Also lawful in marriage are chaste believing women and chaste women from those who were given the Scripture before you, when you give them their marriage gifts, seeking honorable marriage rather than sexual immorality or secret relationships. Whoever rejects faith, their deeds have come to nothing, and in the Hereafter they will be among the losers.
Believers, when you rise for prayer, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, wipe your heads, and wash your feet up to the ankles. If you are in a state requiring full purification, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill, traveling, have relieved yourselves, or have had intimate contact and cannot find water, then seek clean earth and wipe your faces and hands with it. Allah does not want to place hardship upon you, but He wants to purify you and complete His favor upon you so that you may be grateful.
Remember Allah’s favor upon you and the covenant by which He bound you when you said, “We hear and we obey.” Be mindful of Allah. Allah knows well what is within hearts.
Believers, stand firmly for Allah as witnesses with justice. Do not let hatred for a people cause you to depart from justice. Be just; that is nearer to mindfulness of Allah. And be mindful of Allah. Allah is fully aware of what you do.
Believers, remember Allah’s favor upon you when a people intended to harm you, but He restrained their hands from you. Be mindful of Allah, and let the believers put their trust in Allah.
Allah certainly took a covenant from the Children of Israel, and We appointed twelve leaders among them. Allah said, “I am with you. If you establish prayer, give zakat, believe in My messengers, support them, and lend Allah a good loan, I will certainly erase your wrongs and admit you into gardens with rivers flowing beneath them. But whoever among you rejects faith after that has certainly strayed from the right way.”
Because they broke their covenant, We rejected them and made their hearts hard. They distort words from their proper places and forgot a portion of what they had been reminded of. You will continue to discover betrayal from some of them, except for a few. Yet pardon them and overlook it. Allah loves those who do good.
And from those who say, “We are Christians,” We took their covenant, but they forgot a portion of what they had been reminded of. So We allowed hostility and hatred to arise among them until the Day of Resurrection. Allah will inform them of what they used to do.
People of the Scripture, Our Messenger has come to you, making clear much of what you used to conceal of the Scripture and overlooking much. There has now come to you from Allah a light and a clear Scripture.
Through it Allah guides those who seek His acceptance to paths of peace, brings them out of darkness into light by His permission, and guides them to a straight path.
Those who say, “Allah is the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary,” have certainly rejected faith. Say, “Who could prevent Allah at all if He willed to destroy the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, his mother, and everyone on earth?” To Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and everything between them. He creates whatever He wills. Allah has power over everything.
The Jews and Christians say, “We are Allah’s children and His beloved ones.” Say, “Then why does He punish you for your sins? Rather, you are human beings among those He created.” He forgives whomever He wills and punishes whomever He wills. To Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and everything between them, and to Him is the final return.
People of the Scripture, Our Messenger has come to you making things clear after a break in the succession of messengers, so that you cannot say, “No bearer of good news or warner came to us.” A bearer of good news and a warner has now come to you. Allah has power over everything.
And remember when Moses said to his people, “My people, remember Allah’s favor upon you when He raised prophets among you, made you people of authority, and gave you what He had not given anyone else in your time.
Two men from among those who feared Allah and whom Allah had favored said, “Enter upon them through the gate. Once you enter it, you will prevail. Put your trust in Allah if you are truly believers.”