Commentary on the Koran: Surah 4 “Women” (No. Q004)

Pickthall’s Translation with RSV Bible quoted unless otherwise noted.

Chapter 4 deals with the fidelity of the Church to Christ and the Seventh Commandment.

Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.

Verse 1 relates to Adam and Eve, and also to the Fifth Commandment and duty to the family.

Thus we have proceeded to the family and the responsibility to the creation from Adam and Eve and the Human Host on to the development of the faith in fidelity to the Temple of God and the Messiah as High Priest of Melchisdek. We proceed from the sanctification of the Ruddy, or reddish, heifer to the Golden or Glorified elect from Surah 2 (as Q002), to the Family of Prophets and Priests as sons of Imram and Yochebed of the elect in Surah 3 (Q003). We now go to the fidelity of the human species to God and to the family and the faith in Surah 4 (Q004) as the Bride of Christ. Thus the title is Woman as mother of mankind and as the Bride of Christ which is the Church of God. The text deals with “Women’s Rights” as the core of the family in raising the young and its protection.

The Surah was allegedly given after the Battle of Uhud and takes the sequence on in its logical conclusion in the development of the faith. The losses incurred at the Battle of Mt. Uhud necessitated the matter of the care of widows and orphans being addressed and the lessons to be drawn from that problem within the Laws of God in Scripture. It reportedly occurs between the end of the Third year and the end of the Fifth year of the reign of the council under the prophet at Al-Medinah (cf Noldeke). Pickthall notes Noldeke but states it is more likely between the end of the Third year and the beginning of the Fifth year in his introduction to S4.

The statement regarding the orphans follows on from the loss of the troops but also the Pagan Arabs did not accord rights to women, as they do not do so to this day, even while claiming to be Muslims, which claims are false. Thus the text follows on to the Rights of Women under Scripture also.

The losses at Uhud were primarily caused by the defection of the “Hypocrites” which comprised some third of their number as we saw in the introduction to Surah 3. This term then became applied to lukewarm or time serving people among the faith. In the last days one of the two elements of the church that are to be removed from the First Resurrection are the Lukewarm of the Laodiceans in addition to the “Dead“ of the “Living” Churches of the Sardis system of the Last Days (see the paper The Pillars of Philadelphia (No. 283)).

4.1. O mankind! Be careful of your duty to your Lord Who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate and from them twain hath spread abroad a multitude of men and women. Be careful of your duty toward Allah in Whom ye claim (your rights) of one another, and toward the wombs (that bare you). Lo! Allah hath been a watcher over you.

Genesis 1:27-28 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. ²⁸And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

Genesis 2:7 then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Genesis 2:21-23 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; ²²and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

1Corinthians 7:3-4 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. ⁴For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.

Psalm 139:13-14 For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb. ¹⁴I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well;

God made man and from man made He the woman and from them both came all of us. See also the texts on The Doctrine of Original Sin Part I: The Garden of Eden (No. 246) and Doctrine of Original Sin Part II: The Generations of Adam (No. 248).

Psalm 127:3 Lo, sons are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Verse 2 deals with inheritance and widows and orphans.

4.2. Give unto orphans their wealth. Exchange not the good for the bad (in your management thereof) nor absorb their wealth into your own wealth. Lo! that would be a great sin.

James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Exodus 22:22-24 You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. ²³If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, ²⁴and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. (ESV)

Job 29:12 because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Do not misappropriate what is due to orphans. Do not deal with them unjustly, nor deal with widows unjustly. Under biblical law only four wives were permitted to be taken as wives under the law as captives in war and if they could not be cared for then only one was permitted and that falls under biblical law. Polygamy is no longer permitted under the law of the faith from the time of Messiah.

4.3. And if ye fear that ye will not deal fairly by the orphans, marry of the women, who seem good to you, two or three or four; and if ye fear that ye cannot do justice (to so many) then one (only) or (the captives) that your right hands possess. Thus it is more likely that ye will not do injustice.

4.4. And give unto the women (whom ye marry) free gift of their marriage portions; but if they of their own accord remit unto you a part thereof, then ye are welcome to absorb it (in your wealth).

4.5. Give not unto the foolish (what is in) your (keeping of their) wealth, which Allah hath given you to maintain; but feed and clothe them from it, and speak kindly unto them.

4.6. Prove orphans till they reach the marriageable age; then, if ye find them of sound judgment, deliver over unto them their fortune; and devour it not by squandering and in haste lest they should grow up Whoso (of the guardians) is rich, let him abstain generously (from taking of the property of orphans); and whoso is poor let him take thereof in reason (for his guardianship). And when ye deliver up their fortune unto orphans, have (the transaction) witnessed in their presence. Allah sufficeth as a Reckoner.

4.7. Unto the men (of a family) belongeth a share of that which parents and near kindred leave, and unto the women a share of that which parents and near kindred leave, whether it be little or much - a legal share.

4.8. And when kinsfolk and orphans and the needy are present at the division (of the heritage), bestow on them therefrom and speak kindly unto them.

4.9. And let those fear (in their behaviour toward orphans) who if they left behind them weak offspring would be afraid for them. So let them mind their duty to Allah, and speak justly.

4.10. Lo! Those who devour the wealth of orphans wrongfully, they do but swallow fire into their bellies, and they will be exposed to burning flame.

Man should marry just one wife: that is the ideal situation from 1Timothy 3:2.

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, (ESV)

Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.

Give all what is due; deal fairly with everyone. Both the males and female orphans have rights under the law and their inheritance is to be protected along with those taken as wives through war or otherwise. No women can be taken as sex slaves and those that take them are to be punished under biblical law (see the papers Law and the Sixth Commandment (No. 259); Law and the Seventh Commandment (No. 260) and also Law and the Fifth Commandment (No. 258)).

Leviticus 19:15 You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.

Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

We are to provide for the orphans, widows, the poor and the needy among us. We are to deal justly with all for we are accountable for all that we do.

1Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. ¹⁴For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

4.11. Allah chargeth you concerning (the provision for) your children: to the male the equivalent of the portion of two females, and if there be women more than two, then theirs is two-thirds of the inheritance, and if there be one (only) then the half. And to each of his parents a sixth of the inheritance, if he have a son; and if he have no son and his parents are his heirs, then to his mother appertaineth the third; and if he have brethren, then to his mother appertaineth the sixth, after any legacy he may have bequeathed, or debt (hath been paid). Your parents and your children: Ye know not which of them is nearer unto you in usefulness. It is an injunction from Allah. Lo! Allah is Knower, Wise.

4.12 And unto you belongeth a half of that which your wives leave, if they have no child; but if they have a child then unto you the fourth of that which they leave, after any legacy they may have bequeathed, or debt (they may have contracted, hath been paid). And unto them belongeth the fourth of that which ye leave if ye have no child, but if ye have a child then the eighth of that which ye leave, after any legacy ye may have bequeathed, or debt (ye may have contracted, hath been paid). And if a man or a woman have a distant heir (having left neither parent nor child), and he (or she) have a brother or a sister (only on the mother's side) then to each of them twain (the brother and the sister) the sixth, and if they be more than two, then they shall be sharers in the third, after any legacy that may have been bequeathed or debt contracted) not injuring (the heirs by willing away more than a third of the heritage) hath been paid. A commandment from Allah. Allah is Knower, Indulgent.

Deuteronomy 21:15-17 If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked, ¹⁶then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born, ¹⁷but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

Numbers 27:7-11 The daughters of Zelophehad are right; you shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren and cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. ⁸And you shall say to the people of Israel, 'If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. ⁹And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. ¹⁰And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers. ¹¹And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be to the people of Israel a statute and ordinance, as the LORD commanded Moses.

[If there are no children left to the house as was the case with Abraham then inheritance is permitted to others also.]

Genesis 15:2 But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

4.13. These are the limits (imposed by) Allah. Whoso obeyeth Allah and His messenger, He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow, where such will dwell forever. That will be the great success.

4.14. And whoso disobeyeth Allah and His messenger and transgresseth His limits, He will make him enter Fire, where he will dwell for ever; his will be a shameful doom.

Ayat 4.13 refers to those of the First Resurrection and 4.14 to those of the Second Resurrection and failure to repent is to the death and the cremation of the Lake of Fire from which there is no repentance and withdrawal. That death is final.

Daniel 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:11-15 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. ¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.¹³And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. ¹⁴Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

4.15. As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify (to the truth of the allegation) then confine them to the houses until death take them or (until) Allah appoint for them a way (through new legislation).

4.16. And as for the two of you who are guilty thereof, punish them both. And if they repent and improve, then let them be. Lo! Allah is ever relenting, Merciful.

Leviticus chapter 20:10-21 lists the punishments for sexual immorality.

4.17. Forgiveness is only incumbent on Allah toward those who do evil in ignorance (and) then turn quickly (in repentance) to Allah. These are they toward whom Allah relenteth. Allah is ever Knower, Wise.

4.18. The forgiveness is not for those who do ill-deeds until, when death attendeth upon one of them, he saith: Lo! I repent now; nor yet for those who die while they are disbelievers. For such We have prepared a painful doom.

2Chronicles 7:14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ezekiel 18:21-22 But if a wicked man turns away from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. ²²None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness which he has done he shall live.

Ezekiel 33:14-16 Again, though I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' yet if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right, ¹⁵if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. ¹⁶None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right, he shall surely live.

Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

4.19. O ye who believe! Ye are forbidden to inherit women against their will. Nor should ye treat them with harshness, that ye may Take away part of the dower ye have given them,-except where they have been guilty of open lewdness; on the contrary live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If ye take a dislike to them it may be that ye dislike a thing, and Allah brings about through it a great deal of good. (Yusuf Ali)

4.20. But if ye decide to take one wife in place of another, even if ye had given the latter a whole treasure for dower, Take not the least bit of it back: Would ye take it by slander and manifest wrong? (Yusuf Ali)

4.21. And how could ye take it when ye have gone in unto each other, and they have Taken from you a solemn covenant? (Yusuf Ali)

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, ²and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, ³and the latter husband dislikes her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife, ⁴then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring guilt upon the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

Malachi 2:16 For I hate divorce, says the LORD the God of Israel, and covering one's garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.

1Peter 3:7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

4.22. And marry not women whom your fathers married,- except what is past: It was shameful and odious,- an abominable custom indeed.

4.23. Prohibited to you (For marriage) are:- Your mothers, daughters, sisters; father's sisters, Mother's sisters; brother's daughters, sister's daughters; foster-mothers (Who gave you suck), foster-sisters; your wives' mothers; your step-daughters under your guardianship, born of your wives to whom ye have gone in,- no prohibition if ye have not gone in;- (Those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time, except for what is past; for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful;-

Leviticus 18:7-17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. ⁸ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. ⁹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. ¹⁰You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. ¹¹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister. ¹²You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative. ¹³You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative. ¹⁴You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. ¹⁵You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. ¹⁶You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness. ¹⁷You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.

Leviticus 20.10-21 If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death. ¹¹The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death, their blood is upon them. ¹²If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed incest, their blood is upon them. ¹³If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them. ¹⁴If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you. ¹⁵If a man lies with a beast, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the beast. ¹⁶If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them. ¹⁷"If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity. ¹⁸If a man lies with a woman having her sickness, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people. ¹⁹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's near kin; they shall bear their iniquity. ²⁰If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin, they shall die childless.

These commandments are covered in the text on the Law and the Seventh Commandment (No. 260).

4.24. Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess: Thus hath Allah ordained (Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your property,- desiring chastity, not lust, seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers (at least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree Mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and Allah is All-knowing, All-wise. (Yusuf Ali)

4.25. If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women, they may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess: And Allah hath full knowledge about your faith. Ye are one from another: Wed them with the leave of their owners, and give them their dowers, according to what is reasonable: They should be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours: when they are taken in wedlock, if they fall into shame, their punishment is half that for free women. This (permission) is for those among you who fear sin; but it is better for you that ye practise self-restraint. And Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. (Yusuf Ali)

4.26. Allah doth wish to make clear to you and to show you the ordinances of those before you; and (He doth wish to) turn to you (In Mercy): And Allah is All-knowing, All-wise. (Yusuf Ali)

4.27. Allah doth wish to Turn to you, but the wish of those who follow their lusts is that ye should turn away (from Him),- far, far away. (Yusuf Ali)

Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.

2Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1Corinthians 7:2 But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Exodus 22:16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall give the marriage present for her, and make her his wife.

Do the moral or right thing every time and stay away from trouble.

4.28. Allah would make the burden light for you, for man was created weak.

4.29. O ye who believe! Squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except it be a trade by mutual consent, and kill not one another. Lo! Allah is ever Merciful unto you.

4.30. Whoso doeth that through aggression and injustice, we shall cast him into Fire, and that is ever easy for Allah.

Psalm 144:4 Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

1Peter 4:10 as each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Luke 12:15 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” (ESV)

The parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30 shows us to increase our investments through wise management.

Also Exodus 20:13 says “You shall not murder” and these texts regulate our conduct.

Isaiah 59:7 their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

Your evil deeds will consign you to the Second Resurrection.

4.31. If ye avoid the great (things) which ye are forbidden, We will remit from you your evil deeds and make you enter at a noble gate.

Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Acts 3:19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

Matthew 7:14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

See also the text Law and the Sixth Commandment (No. 259). The forgiveness referred to here is the redemption that leads to the end result of eternal life after the Resurrections in the City of God (No. 180).

4.32. And covet not the thing in which Allah hath made some of you excel others. Unto men a fortune from that which they have earned, and unto women a fortune from that which they have earned. (Envy not one another) but ask Allah of His bounty. Lo! Allah is ever Knower of all things.

James 4:2-3 You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Job 37:16 Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,

4.33. And unto each We have appointed heirs of that which parents and near kindred leave; and as for those with whom your right hands have made a covenant, give them their due. Lo! Allah is ever Witness over all things.

Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Psalm 15:4 in whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;

Proverbs 5:21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.

4.34. Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For Allah is Most High, great (above you all). (Yusuf Ali)

1Peter 3:7 Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker sex, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

Colossians 3:18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Matthew 5:32 But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Psalm 135:5 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

4.35. And if ye fear a breach between them twain (the man and wife), appoint an arbiter from his folk and an arbiter from her folk. If they desire amendment Allah will make them of one mind. Lo! Allah is ever Knower, Aware.

Matthew 18:15-17 "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. ¹⁶But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

In a marital dispute having arbiters representing both parties should lead to an equitable resolution.

Luke 8:17 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

4.36. And serve Allah. Ascribe no thing as partner unto Him. (Show) kindness unto parents, and unto near kindred, and orphans, and the needy, and unto the neighbour who is of kin (unto you) and the neighbour who is not of kin, and the fellow-traveller and the wayfarer and (the slaves) whom your right hands possess. Lo! Allah loveth not such as are proud and boastful,

Exodus 20.3 You shall have no other gods before me.

1Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Mark 12:31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Exodus 22:22-24 You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. ²³If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry; ²⁴and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Hebrews 13:2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Leviticus 19:34 The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Proverbs 16:5 Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

4.37. Who hoard their wealth and enjoin avarice on others, and hide that which Allah hath bestowed upon them of His bounty. For disbelievers We prepare a shameful doom;

1Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs.

Luke 12:15 And he said to them, "Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

4.38. And (also) those who spend their wealth in order to be seen of men, and believe not in Allah nor the Last Day. Whoso taketh Satan for a comrade, a bad comrade hath he.

Matthew 6:1-4 “Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. ² "Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ³But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 25:46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

1Peter 5:8-9 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. ⁹Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

4.39. What have they (to fear) if they believe in Allah and the Last Day and spend (aright) of that which Allah hath bestowed upon them, when Allah is ever Aware of them (and all they do).

Psalm 112:7-8 He is not afraid of evil tidings; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD. ⁸His heart is steady, he will not be afraid, until he sees his desire on his adversaries.

Job 28:24 For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

4.40. Lo! Allah wrongeth not even of the weight of an ant; and if there is a good deed, He will double it and will give (the doer) from His presence an immense reward.

Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

4.41. How then if We brought from each people a witness, and We brought thee as a witness against these people! (Yusuf Ali)

4.42. On that day those who reject Faith and disobey the apostle will wish that the earth Were made one with them: But never will they hide a single fact from Allah. (Yusuf Ali)

2Chronicles 36:15-16 The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. ¹⁶but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Matthew 23:34-35 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, ³⁵so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Acts 22:15 for you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Luke 8:17 For nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light.

4.43. O ye who believe! Draw not near unto prayer when ye are drunken, till ye know that which ye utter, nor when ye are polluted, save when journeying upon the road, till ye have bathed. And if ye be ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have touched women, and ye find not water, then go to high clean soil and rub your faces and your hands (therewith). Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving.

The Scriptural injunction to prayer is to conduct it in private unless you are in the open on operations as we see below in the text re parties. The ayat 4:43 refers to cleanliness for prayer. The text in Mathew refers to the privacy of the individual.

Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.

Leviticus 10:9 Drink no wine nor strong drink, you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

We as priests are not to be intoxicated while on official duty.

4.44. Seest thou not those unto whom a portion of the Scripture hath been given, how they purchase error, and seek to make you (Muslims) err from the right way?

Isaiah 28:13 Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

2Timothy 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2Peter 3:16-17 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. ¹⁷You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

4.45. Allah knoweth best (who are) your enemies. Allah is sufficient as a Guardian, and Allah is sufficient as a Supporter.

Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

2Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; (KJV)

The Holy Spirit is required to understand the Scriptures and the Koran and thus proper adult baptism is mandatory to any genuine and informed study of the OT, NT or the Koran. The Apochrypha, the Talmud and Hadith or Kabbalah are all totally uninspired.

4.46. Some of those who are Jews change words from their context and say: "We hear and disobey; hear thou as one who heareth not" and "Listen to us!" distorting with their tongues and slandering religion. If they had said: "We hear and we obey: hear thou, and look at us" it had been better for them, and more upright. But Allah hath cursed them for their disbelief, so they believe not, save a few.

2Peter 3:16 speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

Acts 17:11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

The Jews continued from the Fall of the Temple and the Mishnah ca 200 CE to turn the Scriptures into false doctrine through what became the Talmud.

4.47. O ye unto whom the Scripture hath been given! Believe in what We have revealed confirming that which ye possess, before We destroy countenances so as to confound them, or curse them as We cursed the Sabbath-breakers (of old time). The commandment of Allah is always executed.

As listeners we have a duty to verify what preachers may say with the Scriptures so they do not lead us astray with their lies.

Exodus 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, ¹⁰but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. ¹¹For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

2Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.

Numbers 15:36 And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.

The man was killed for breaking the Sabbath for gathering sticks for firewood at the order of the Angel of the Presence at Sinai which we know for certain was Isa or Jesus Christ (1Cor. 10:4 and Acts 7).

2Kings 17:18-20 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only. ¹⁹Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. ²⁰And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

2Kings 23:27 And the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.”

4.48. Lo! Allah forgiveth not that a partner should

be ascribed unto Him. He forgiveth (all) save that to whom He will. Whoso ascribeth partners to Allah, he hath indeed invented a tremendous sin.

This verse refers to the First Commandment.

Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before me.

Isaiah 45:5-6 I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I gird you, though you do not know me, ⁶that men may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Deuteronomy 32:39a See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me;

Asserting another god or elohim beside Eloah or Allah is idolatry. All the leaders of the entire Churches of God of the 20^th and 21^st centuries that sprung from the Ditheism or Binitarianism of Armstrongism in Christianity, and with the polytheism of the Hadith and Shia variable theology of the Sheiks or Imams and Sufi Mystics will be put to death by or at the coming of the Messiah and the First Resurrection. None of them or their blind followers will enter the Kingdom of God (see the papers Ditheism (No. 076) and Binitarian and Trinitarian Misrepresentation of the Early Theology of the Godhead (No. 127B)).

4.49. Hast thou not seen those who praise themselves for purity? Nay, Allah purifieth whom He will, and they will not be wronged even the hair upon a date- stone.

Matthew 6:1-4 Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. ²"Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ³But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,⁴so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 23:12 whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Luke 14:11 For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

2Corinthians 11:7 Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel without cost to you? (cf. Ex. 9:17)

Romans 8:28-30 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

The calling is according to the Prescience of God and He determines and predestines who is to be called and placed within the body of the Messiah, and from thence Justified and Glorified and where they stand in the Kingdom and the City of God.

4.50. See, how they invent lies about Allah! That of itself is flagrant sin.

Acts 20:30 and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

(cf. As above in 2Peter 3:16 regarding the Scriptures, which these unstable minds twist to their own destruction. The Sunna would even eradicate or invalidate the entire Scriptures to conceal the truth in the Qur’an. Well do they deserve the Crescent Moon of the horns of the Golden Calf of the god Qamar above their mosques) (cf. The Golden Calf (No. 222). Indeed it is they that Allah’ has cursed as below).

4.51. Hast thou not seen those unto whom a portion of the Scripture hath been given, how they believe in idols and false deities, and how they say of those (idolaters) who disbelieve: "These are more rightly guided than those who believe"?

4.52. Those are they whom Allah hath cursed, and he whom Allah hath cursed, thou (O Muhammad) wilt find for him no helper.

4.53. Or have they even a share in the Sovereignty? Then in that case, they would not give mankind even the speck on a date-stone.

4.54. Or are they jealous of mankind because of that which Allah of His bounty hath bestowed upon them? For We bestowed upon the house of Abraham (of old) the Scripture and wisdom, and We bestowed on them a mighty kingdom.

4.55. And of them were (some) who believed therein and of them were (some) who turned away from it. Hell is sufficient for (their) burning.

[refers to the Gehenna fire of the rubbish pit outside Jerusalem]

4.56. Lo! Those who disbelieve Our revelations, We shall expose them to the Fire. As often as their skins are consumed We shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the torment. Lo! Allah is ever Mighty, Wise.

[The Biblical punishments for sin (i.e the Rod and the Lash) that scourge the flesh are referred to in this text.]

4.57. And as for those who believe and do good works, We shall make them enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow - to dwell therein for ever; there for them are pure companions - and We shall make them enter plenteous shade.

[These are the Resurrections to Eternal Life in the Knowledge of the One True God and Isa, the Messiah, whom He sent (Jn. 17:3).]

Righteousness and justice (Tsedek) are required of us all.

4.58. Lo! Allah commandeth you that ye restore deposits to their owners, and, if ye judge between mankind, that ye judge justly. Lo! comely is this which Allah admonisheth you. Lo! Allah is ever Hearer, Seer.

It is according to the Laws of God which are His nature that the world was created and by which it is judged.

Revelation 4:11 "Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou didst create all things, and by thy will they existed and were created."

Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Physical Israel pointed towards the future Israel that will be a mightier nation of all mankind. Those who curse the inheritance of The Morning Star or the Day Star of Israel, the Messiah (Num. 24:17), will be destroyed as was Egypt destroyed at the Red Sea. The sons of Shem that seek to destroy Israel shall destroy their own inheritance and kill their own progeny.

Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves.

Galatians 3:26-29 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. ²⁷For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. ²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Matthew 25:46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

Ezekiel 18:7-9 ... does not oppress any one, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment, ⁸does not lend at interest or take any increase, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between man and man, ⁹walks in my statutes, and is careful to observe my ordinances--he is righteous, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.

Obedience in Islam as the Church of God

Those of Islam are to obey the faith and the apostle or messenger of the Muhhamad or council of the Churches of God sent to them.

4.59. O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the messenger and those of you who are in authority; and if ye have a dispute concerning any matter, refer it to Allah and the messenger if ye are (in truth) believers in Allah and the Last Day. That is better and more seemly in the end.

Hebrews 13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

1Corinthians 6:1-5 When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? ²Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? ³Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, matters pertaining to this life! ⁴If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are least esteemed by the church? ⁵I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no man among you wise enough to decide between members of the brotherhood,

4.60. Hast thou not seen those who pretend that they believe in that which is revealed unto thee and that which was revealed before thee, how they would go for judgment (in their disputes) to false deities when they have been ordered to abjure them? Satan would mislead them far astray.

When so called believers go before the courts they are going to pagans to resolve their disputes.

4.61. When it is said to them: "Come to what Allah hath revealed, and to the Messenger.: Thou seest the Hypocrites avert their faces from thee in disgust. (Yusuf Ali)

4.62. How then, when they are seized by misfortune, because of the deeds which their hands have sent forth? Then they come to thee, swearing by Allah. "We meant no more than good-will and conciliation!" (Yusuf Ali)

4.63. Those men,-(Allah) knows what is in their hearts; so keep clear of them, but admonish them, and speak to them a word to reach their very souls. (Yusuf Ali)

God makes the rules and we follow them because He knows what is good for his creation.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

1Timothy 5:24 The sins of some men are conspicuous, pointing to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.

When recompense is due and coming some still do not understand, but should be made to see judgment. When many are told they do not like or understand the fact.

Isaiah 29:15 Woe to those who hide deep from the LORD their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"

4.64. We sent not a messenger, but to be obeyed, in accordance with the will of Allah. If they had only, when they were unjust to themselves, come unto thee and asked Allah’s forgiveness, and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah indeed Oft-returning, Most Merciful. (Yusuf Ali)

1Kings 20:35-36 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the LORD, "Strike me, I pray." But the man refused to strike him. ³⁶Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall kill you."

2Chronicles 20:20b. "Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed."

Saul did not follow Samuel's instructions and lost the kingship (1Samuel 15). It is the common position of the Bible and the Koran to obey the prophets and the elders of the Faith once delivered which is the body of the Messiah.

4.65. But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe (in truth) until they make thee judge of what is in dispute between them and find within themselves no dislike of that which thou decidest, and submit with full submission.

Exodus 18:16-24 when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God and his decisions." ¹⁷Moses' father-in-law said to him, "What you are doing is not good. ¹⁸You and the people with you will wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it alone. ¹⁹Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God, and bring their cases to God; ²⁰and you shall teach them the statutes and the decisions, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do. ²¹Moreover choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. ²²And let them judge the people at all times; every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves; so it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. ²³If you do this, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace." ²⁴So Moses gave heed to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

Deuteronomy 17:9-13 and coming to the Levitical priests, and to the judge who is in office in those days, you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision. ¹⁰Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place which the LORD will choose; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you; ¹¹According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. ¹²The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. ¹³And all the people shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.

4.66. And if We had decreed for them: Lay down your lives or go forth from your dwellings, but few of them would have done it; though if they did what they are exhorted to do it would be better for them, and more strengthening;

4.67. And then We should bestow upon them from Our presence an immense reward,

4.68. And should guide them unto a straight path.

4.69. Whoso obeyeth Allah and the messenger, they are with those unto whom Allah hath shown favour, of the prophets and the saints and the martyrs and the righteous. The best of company are they!

4.70. That is bounty from Allah, and Allah sufficeth as Knower.

Matthew 16:25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go.

The details of the Sacrifice of Isaac and the conjecture re Ishmael is contained in Genesis 22, Judaism, Islam and the Sacrifice of Isaac (No. 244).

Genesis 22:2-3 He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you." ³So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; and he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

Genesis 22:12 He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

Genesis 15:6 And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

Psalm 37:23 The steps of a man are established by the LORD, when he delights in his way;

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Abraham was of the few that obeyed God and his reward will be immense.

Revelation 3:5 He who conquers shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Revelation 3:12 He who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.

4.71. O ye who believe! Take your precautions, then advance the proven ones, or advance all together.

4.72. Lo! among you there is he who loitereth; and if disaster overtook you, he would say: Allah hath been gracious unto me since I was not present with them.

4.73. And if a bounty from Allah befell you, he would surely cry, as if there had been no love between you and him: Oh, would that I had been with them, then should I have achieved a great success!

4.74. Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.

4.75. How should ye not fight for the cause of Allah and of the feeble among men and of the women and the children who are crying: Our Lord! Bring us forth from out this town of which the people are oppressors! Oh, give us from thy presence some protecting friend! Oh, give us from Thy presence some defender!

Luke 17:33 Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Mark 8:34-36 And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. ³⁵For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. ³⁶For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Philippians 3:8 Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ.

Romans 8:18 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Psalm 7:9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous, thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.

Proverbs 31:8 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. (KJV)

4.76. Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil's strategy is ever weak.

Jude 1:3 Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Ephesians 6:10-18 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. ¹¹Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹²For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. ¹⁴Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶besides all these, taking the shield of faith, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. ¹⁷And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. ¹⁸Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

4.77. Hast thou not seen those unto whom it was said: Withhold your hands, establish worship and pay the poor due, but when fighting was prescribed for them behold! a party of them fear mankind even as their fear of Allah or with greater fear, and say: Our Lord! Why hast Thou ordained fighting for us? If only Thou wouldst give us respite yet a while! Say (unto them, O Muhammad): The comfort of this world is scant; the Hereafter will be better for him who wardeth off (evil); and ye will not be wronged the down upon a date-stone.

4.78. Wheresoever ye may be, death will overtake you, even though ye were in lofty towers. Yet if a happy thing befalleth them they say: This is from Allah; and if an evil thing befalleth them they say: This is of thy doing (O Muhammad). Say (unto them): All is from Allah. What is amiss with these people that they come not nigh to understand a happening?

Proverbs 3:27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

Galatians 6:9-10 And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart. ¹⁰So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man lays a snare, but he who trusts in the LORD is safe.

Hebrews 13:6 Hence we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid; what can man do to me?"

1John 2:16-17 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. ¹⁷And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

James 1:17 Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

James 1:2-4 Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, ³for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.⁴And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

2Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (KJV)

The Council of the Church (who is the Muhammad) was sent to lead mankind through the Sign of Jonah over the Forty Jubilees in the wilderness until 2027. The Muhammad is appointed and leads the church yearly over the 144,000 of the elect and the Great Multitude of its Baptism (cf. Rev. ch. 7).

4.79 Whatever of good befalleth thee (O man) it is from Allah, and whatever of ill befalleth thee it is from thyself. We have sent thee (Muhammad) as a messenger unto mankind and Allah is sufficient as Witness. Some things happen to us because of our own folly.

4.80. Whoso obeyeth the messenger hath obeyed Allah, and whoso turneth away: We have not sent thee as a warder over them.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.

1Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Proverbs 19:3 When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD.

Luke 10.16 "He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

4.81. And they say: (It is) obedience; but when they have gone forth from thee a party of them spend the night in planning other than what thou sayest. Allah recordeth what they plan by night. So oppose them and put thy trust in Allah. Allah is sufficient as Trustee.

Psalm 2:1-2 Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain? ²The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and his anointed, saying,

Psalm 83:5 Yea, they conspire with one accord; against thee they make a covenant—

Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Isaiah 46:10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

4.82. Do they not consider the Qur'an (with care)? Had it been from other Than Allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy. (Yusuf Ali)

2Peter 1:20-21 First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, ²¹because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

It is a law of God that if a prophet does not speak “according to the law and the testimony: there is no light in them. Thus the Koran must accord with the Scriptures or there is no light in the teaching and the teachers (Isa. 8:20).

4.83. And if any tidings, whether of safety or fear, come unto them, they noise it abroad, whereas if they had referred it to the messenger and to such of them as are in authority, those among them who are able to think out the matter would have known it. If it had not been for the grace of Allah upon you and His mercy ye would have followed Satan, save a few (of you).

Acts 20:28 Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Matthew 7:14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Luke 13:23-24 And some one said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them, ²⁴"Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

4.84. Then fight in Allah’s cause - Thou art held responsible only for thyself - and rouse the believers. It may be that Allah will restrain the fury of the Unbelievers; for Allah is the strongest in might and in punishment. (Yusuf Ali)

2Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body.

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 21:30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.

Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

4.85. Whoever recommends and helps a good cause becomes a partner therein: And whoever recommends and helps an evil cause, shares in its burden: And Allah hath power over all things. (Yusuf Ali)

Philippians 4.3 Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. (ESV)

2Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? (ESV)

Jeremiah 32:17 ‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

4.86. When ye are greeted with a greeting, greet ye with a better than it or return it. Lo! Allah taketh count of all things.

2John 1:10 If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;

Matthew 10:12-14 As you enter the house, salute it. ¹³And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴And if any one will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.

4.87. Allah! There is no God save Him. He gathereth you all unto a Day of Resurrection whereof there is no doubt. Who is more true in statement than Allah?

(cf. Ezra 4:23-7:26 for Eloah as the object of worship at the Temple).

1Chronicles. 29:11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Daniel 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

4.88. Why should ye be divided into two parties about the Hypocrites? Allah hath upset them for their (evil) deeds. Would ye guide those whom Allah hath thrown out of the Way? For those whom Allah hath thrown out of the Way, never shalt thou find the Way. (Yusuf Ali)

4.89. They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks;- (Yusuf Ali)

1Corinthians 5:11 But rather I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber--not even to eat with such a one.

1Timothy 6:3-5 If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching which accords with godliness, ⁴he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing; he has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions, ⁵and wrangling among men who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

4.90. Except those who join a group between whom and you there is a treaty (of peace), or those who approach you with hearts restraining them from fighting you as well as fighting their own people. If Allah had pleased, He could have given them power over you, and they would have fought you: Therefore if they withdraw from you but fight you not, and (instead) send you (Guarantees of) peace, then Allah Hath opened no way for you (to war against them). (Yusuf Ali)

Israel and the faith were not to fight people who signed a peace treaty with them as the nation Israel, and offered them guarantees that they are for peace. So also is it with the Churches of God and all of Islam.

4.91. Others you will find that wish to gain your confidence as well as that of their people: Every time they are sent back to temptation, they succumb thereto: if they withdraw not from you nor give you (guarantees) of peace besides restraining their hands, seize them and slay them wherever ye get them: In their case We have provided you with a clear argument against them. (Yusuf Ali)

[Those who went back on the peace treaty were to be shown no mercy.]

4.92. It is not for a believer to kill a believer unless (it be) by mistake. He who hath killed a believer by mistake must set free a believing slave, and pay the blood- money to the family of the slain, unless they remit it as a charity. If he (the victim) be of a people hostile unto you, and he is a believer, then (the penance is) to set free a believing slave. And if he cometh of a folk between whom and you there is a covenant, then the blood-money must be paid unto his folk and (also) a believing slave must be set free. And whoso hath not the wherewithal must fast two consecutive months. A penance from Allah. Allah is Knower, Wise.

If they did not desire peace nor offered any peace guarantees or they went back on the peace treaty the enemy were to be killed otherwise they must be protected.

Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder. (ESV)

Joshua 20:3 that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

This text refers to the cities of Refuge which must be set up under the Laws of God. Sharia law is forbidden to Islam and is not the law of God.

Refer to Numbers 35 verses 9 to 34 for more information.

Exodus 21:32 If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

The price of a slave is set at thirty shekels of silver which was the price paid for Messiah. Ayat 4.92 seems to expound further on that.

4.93. Whoso slayeth a believer of set purpose, his reward is hell (sheol) forever [that is to the Second Resurrection]. Allah is wroth against him and He hath cursed him and prepared for him an awful doom.

[Killing intentionally is murder which would mean the murderer will lose his life and be consigned to the Second Resurrection under severe instruction.]

4.94. O ye who believe! When ye go abroad in the cause of Allah, investigate carefully, and say not to any one who offers you a salutation: "Thou art none of a believer!" Coveting the perishable goods of this life: with Allah are profits and spoils abundant. Even thus were ye yourselves before, till Allah conferred on you His favours: Therefore carefully investigate. For Allah is well aware of all that ye do. (Yusuf Ali)

Romans 8:11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.

1Corinthians 2:9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”

James 1:12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

[God was merciful, He redeemed us from our former lives. We were in the same state as unbelievers now. Let us be thankful to God.]

4.95. Those of the believers who sit still, other than those who have a (disabling) hurt, are not on an equality with those who strive in the way of Allah with their wealth and lives. Allah hath conferred on those who strive with their wealth and lives a rank above the sedentary. Unto each Allah hath promised good, but He hath bestowed on those who strive a great reward above the sedentary;

4.96. Degrees of rank from Him, and forgiveness and mercy. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.

Romans 2:6 For he will render to every man according to his works:

Job 34:11 because he repays a person for his behavior; and according to a person's conduct, he lets it happen to him. (ISV)

Psalm 62:12 Also to you, Lord, belongs gracious love, because you reward each person according to what he does. (ISV)

Mark 10:29-30 Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, ³⁰who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

Refer also to parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30.

4.97. Lo! as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they wrong themselves, (the angels) will ask: In what were ye engaged? They will say: We were oppressed in the land. (The angels) will say: Was not Allah's earth spacious that ye could have migrated therein? As for such, their habitation will be hell [Sheol or the grave and the Second Resurrection], an evil journey's end;

4.98. Except the feeble among men, and the women, and the children, who are unable to devise a plan and are not shown a way.

4.99. As for such, it may be that Allah will pardon them. Allah is ever Clement, Forgiving.

2Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body.

Revelation 22:12 Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. (ESV)

Romans 9:15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

4.100. Whoso migrateth for the cause of Allah will find much refuge and abundance in the earth, and whoso forsaketh his home, a fugitive unto Allah and His messenger, and death overtaketh him, his reward is then incumbent on Allah. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.

Matthew 19:29 And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

4.101. When ye travel through the earth, there is no blame on you if ye shorten your prayers, for fear the Unbelievers may attack you: For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies. (Yusuf Ali)

4.102. When thou (O Messenger) art with them, and standest to lead them in prayer, Let one party of them stand up (in prayer) with thee, Taking their arms with them: When they finish their prostrations, let them take their position in the rear. And let the other party come up which hath not yet prayed - and let them pray with thee, Taking all precaution, and bearing arms: the Unbelievers wish, if ye were negligent of your arms and your baggage, to assault you in a single rush. But there is no blame on you if ye put away your arms because of the inconvenience of rain or because ye are ill; but take (every) precaution for yourselves. For the Unbelievers Allah hath prepared a humiliating punishment. (Yusuf Ali)

[The above text is a variation of the circumstances of the people during Nehemiah's time.

Nehemiah 4:16-17 From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail; and the leaders stood behind all the house of Judah, ¹⁷who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were laden in such a way that each with one hand labored on the work and with the other held his weapon. ]

4.103. When ye have performed the act of worship, remember Allah, standing, sitting and reclining. And when ye are in safety, observe proper worship. Worship at fixed times hath been enjoined on the believers.

Daniel 6:10 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem; and he got down upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Psalm 119:164 Seven times a day I praise thee for thy righteous ordinances.

4.104. And slacken not in following up the enemy: If ye are suffering hardships, they are suffering similar hardships; but ye have Hope from Allah, while they have none. And Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom. (Yusuf Ali)

Joshua10:19 but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the LORD your God has given them into your hand." (ESV)

1Peter 5:8-10 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. ⁹Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. ¹⁰And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. (ESV)

1Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

4.105. Lo! We reveal unto thee the Scripture with the truth, that thou mayst judge between mankind by that which Allah showeth thee. And be not thou a pleader for the treacherous;

Jeremiah 7:16 As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.

Jeremiah 15:1 Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

4.106. And seek forgiveness of Allah. Lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.

1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

4.107. And plead not on behalf of (people) who deceive themselves. Lo! Allah loveth not one who is treacherous and sinful.

Jeremiah 7:16 As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.

4.108. They seek to hide from men and seek not to hide from Allah. He is with them when by night they hold discourse displeasing unto Him. Allah ever surroundeth what they do.

Luke 8:17 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

4.109. Ho! ye are they who pleaded for them in the life of the world. But who will plead with Allah for them on the Day of Resurrection, or who will then be their defender?

Romans 8:34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

4.110. Yet whoso doeth evil or wrongeth his own soul, then seeketh pardon of Allah, will find Allah Forgiving, Merciful.

Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

4.111. Whoso committeth sin committeth it only against himself. Allah is ever Knower, Wise.

4.112. And whoso committeth a delinquency or crime, then throweth (the blame) thereof upon the innocent, hath burdened himself with falsehood and a flagrant crime.

1John 3:4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

4.113. But for the grace of Allah upon thee (Muhammad), and His mercy, a party of them had resolved to mislead thee, but they will mislead only themselves and they will hurt thee not at all. Allah revealeth unto thee the Scripture and wisdom, and teacheth thee that which thou knewest not. The grace of Allah toward thee hath been infinite.

Matthew 24:24 For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

Satan and his minions can only do what God allows them to do.

2Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

1Peter 5:10And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

4.114. There is no good in much of their secret conferences save (in) him who enjoineth almsgiving and kindness and peace-making among the people. Whoso doeth that, seeking the good pleasure of Allah, We shall bestow on him a vast reward.

4.115. And whoso opposeth the messenger after the guidance (of Allah) hath been manifested unto him, and followeth other than the believer's way, We appoint for him that unto which he himself hath turned, and expose him unto hell - a hapless journey's end!

God will bring all things to light, even the darkness cannot hide things from Him.

Psalm 139:12 even the darkness is not dark to thee, the night is bright as the day; for darkness is as light with thee.

Proverbs 12:14 From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.

1Corinthians 6:9-10 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts, ¹⁰nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 21:30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.

4.116. Lo! Allah pardoneth not that partners should be ascribed unto Him. He pardoneth all save that to whom He will. Whoso ascribeth partners unto Allah hath wandered far astray.

4.117. They invoke in His stead only females; they pray to none else than Satan, a rebel

4.118. Whom Allah cursed, and he said: Surely I will take of Thy bondmen an appointed portion,

4.119. And surely I will lead them astray, and surely I will arouse desires in them, and surely I will command them and they will cut the cattle' ears, and surely I will command them and they will change Allah's creation. Whoso chooseth Satan for a patron instead of Allah is verily a loser and his loss is manifest.

4.120. He promiseth them and stirreth up desires in them, and Satan promiseth them only to beguile.

4.121. For such, their habitation will be hell [bib. Sheol], and they will find no refuge therefrom.

Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before me.

1John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one.

Ephesians 2:1-2 And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins ²in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

2Corinthians 4:4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

1Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (KJV)

The pagans pay devotion to many female deities instead of serving God Almighty. We were the bondsmen of Satan before being called out of this world. We are now the chosen Peter refers to. Those deceived by Satan and do his bidding are consigned to the Second Resurrection.

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Satan has deceived the world and the elect has been called out of his deception into light.

4.122. But as for those who believe and do good works We shall bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide for ever. It is a promise from Allah in truth; and who can be more truthful than Allah in utterance?

The reward of the elect is the First Resurrection and eternal life.

Revelation 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

4.123. It will not be in accordance with your desires, nor the desires of the People of the Scripture. He who doeth wrong will have the recompense thereof, and will not find against Allah any protecting friend or helper.

4.124. And whoso doeth good works, whether of male or female, and he (or she) is a believer, such will enter paradise and they will not be wronged the dint in a date- stone.

Romans 2:6-7 He will render to each one according to his works: ⁷to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.

The wrongdoers will be sent to the Second Resurrection and the White Throne Judgement to face intensive corrective training and judgement whereas those who do good works receive eternal life.

4.125. Who is better in religion than he who surrendereth his purpose to Allah while doing good (to men) and followeth the tradition of Abraham, the upright? Allah (Himself) chose Abraham for friend.

4.126. Unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Allah ever surroundeth all things.

James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ⁶In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. (ESV)

James 2:23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"—and he was called a friend of God. (ESV)

Psalm 89:6-8 For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD, ⁷a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and terrible above all that are round about him? ⁸O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as thou art, O LORD, with thy faithfulness round about thee?

4.127. They consult thee concerning women. Say: Allah giveth you decree concerning them, and the Scripture which hath been recited unto you (giveth decree), concerning female orphans and those unto whom ye give not that which is ordained for them though ye desire to marry them, and (concerning) the weak among children, and that ye should deal justly with orphans. Whatever good ye do, lo! Allah is ever Aware of it.

Deuteronomy 24:17 You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge;

Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Deuteronomy 16:11 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.

Render to all of what is due to them. Withholding someone’s share is equal to coveting what rightfully belongs to them and a breach of the law of God.

4.128. If a woman feareth ill treatment from her husband, or desertion, it is no sin for them twain if they make terms of peace between themselves. Peace is better. But greed hath been made present in the minds (of men). If ye do good and keep from evil, lo! Allah is ever Informed of what ye do.

4.129. Ye will not be able to deal equally between (your) wives, however much ye wish (to do so). But turn not altogether away (from one), leaving her as in suspense. If ye do good and keep from evil, lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.

4.130. But if they separate, Allah will compensate each out of His abundance. Allah is ever All-Embracing, All-Knowing.

1Corinthians 7:10-15 To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband ¹¹(but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband)--and that the husband should not divorce his wife. ¹²To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. ¹³If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. ¹⁴For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy. ¹⁵But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us to peace.

Philippians 4:19 And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

The gardens referred to here are both the First Resurrection and the Second Resurrection which is 1000 years after the First Resurrection. During the Second Resurrection all mankind will be judged. Many of the Muslims scholars understand that fact. Some reduce the period between the resurrections because they do not read Revelation chapter 20.

4.131. Unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. And We charged those who received the Scripture before you, and (We charge) you, that ye keep your duty toward Allah. And if ye disbelieve, lo! unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and Allah is ever Absolute, Owner of Praise.

4.132. Unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as Defender.

4.133. If He will, He can remove you, O people, and produce others (in your stead). Allah is Able to do that.

4.134. Whoso desireth the reward of the world, (let him know that) with Allah is the reward of the world and the Hereafter. Allah is ever Hearer, Seer.

4.135. O ye who believe! Be ye staunch in justice, witnesses for Allah, even though it be against yourselves or (your) parents or (your) kindred, whether (the case be of) a rich man or a poor man, for Allah is nearer unto both (them ye are). So follow not passion lest ye lapse (from truth) and if ye lapse or fall away, then lo! Allah is ever Informed of what ye do.

4.136. O ye who believe! Believe in Allah and His messenger and the Scripture which He hath revealed unto His messenger, and the Scripture which He revealed aforetime. Whoso disbelieveth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His messengers and the Last Day, he verily hath wandered far astray.

[The Scriptures are not lost and there are to be more prophets in the Last Days.]

4.137. Lo! those who believe, then disbelieve and then (again) believe, then disbelieve, and then increase in disbelief, Allah will never pardon them, nor will He guide them unto a way.

4.138. Bear unto the hypocrites the tidings that for them there is a painful doom;

4.139. Those who chose disbelievers for their friends instead of believers! Do they look for power at their hands? Lo! all power appertaineth to Allah.

4.140. He hath already revealed unto you in the Scripture that, when ye hear the revelations of Allah rejected and derided, (ye) sit not with them (who disbelieve and mock) until they engage in some other conversation. Lo! in that case (if ye stayed) ye would be like unto them. Lo! Allah will gather hypocrites and disbelievers, all together, into hell;

1Chronicles 29:11-12 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. ¹²Both riches and honor come from thee, and thou rulest over all. In thy hand are power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Romans 11:17-22 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree, ¹⁸do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you. ¹⁹You will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." ²⁰That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe. ²¹For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. ²²Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.

Matthew 3:9 and do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father'; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

2Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work.

Matthew 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.

Matthew 19:29 And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

Leviticus 19:15 You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Matthew 25:41 Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;

2Peter 2:20-22 For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one. ²¹It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and turn their backs on the holy commandment that was committed to them. ²²The proverb is true that describes what has happened to them: "A dog returns to its vomit," and "A pig that is washed goes back to wallow in the mud." (ISV)

2Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (KJV)

Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

The reader is told in 4.136 that due regard must be given to all Scripture including the Scripture revealed earlier; a clear reference to the Old Testament and the New Testament. The prophets of the Last Days are sent and they use the scriptures still available (Jer. 4:15-16; Rev. 11:3 ff).

4.141. Those who wait upon occasion in regard to you and, if a victory cometh unto you from Allah, say: Are we not with you? and if the disbelievers meet with a success say: Had we not the mastery of you, and did we not protect you from the believers? - Allah will judge between you at the Day of Resurrection, and Allah will not give the disbelievers any way (of success) against the believers.

1Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

2Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

4.142. Lo! the hypocrites seek to beguile Allah, but it is He Who beguileth them. When they stand up to worship they perform it languidly and to be seen of men, and are mindful of Allah but little;

4.143. Swaying between this (and that), (belonging) neither to these nor to those. He whom Allah causeth to go astray, thou (O Muhammad) wilt not find a way for him:

Colossians 2:18 Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by rejoicing about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up for no reason by his carnal mind. (ISV)

Matthew 6:1-2 Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. ²"Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Ephesians 4:14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.

4.144. O ye who believe! Choose not disbelievers for (your) friends in place of believers. Would ye give Allah a clear warrant against you?

4.145. Lo! the hypocrites (will be) in the lowest deep of the Fire, and thou wilt find no helper for them;

James 4:4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (ESV)

Matthew 7:6 Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you.

1Corinthians 5:10-11 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. ¹¹But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. (ESV)

2Corinthians 6:14-16 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? ¹⁵What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? ¹⁶What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

4.146. Save those who repent and amend and hold fast to Allah and make their religion pure for Allah (only). Those are with the believers. And Allah will bestow on the believers an immense reward.

4.147. What concern hath Allah for your punishment if ye are thankful (for His mercies) and believe (in Him)? Allah was ever Responsive, Aware.

Psalm 37:27 Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever. 28 For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Hebrews 10:23-24 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. ²⁴ And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.

Deuteronomy 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.

Jeremiah 32:39 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.

1Chronicles 16:34 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

4.148. Allah loveth not the utterance of harsh speech save by one who hath been wronged. Allah is ever Hearer, Knower.

Proverbs 15:1 A gentle response diverts anger, but a harsh statement incites fury. (ISV)

Matthew 5:22 But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, 'You fool!' shall be liable to the hell of fire.

1John 3:20 For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

[Do not be angry with one another. The word translated “fool” above is Raca which is the Aramaic phrase meaning “spit in your face” and is a rebuke and threat of violence (cf. Peshitta tr.).]

4.149. If ye do good openly or keep it secret, or forgive evil, lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Powerful

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

4.150. Lo! those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers, and seek to make distinction between Allah and His messengers, and say: We believe in some and disbelieve in others, and seek to choose a way in between;

4.151. Such are disbelievers in truth; and for disbelievers We prepare a shameful doom.

4.152. But those who believe in Allah and His messengers and make no distinction between any of them, unto them Allah will give their wages; and Allah was ever Forgiving, Merciful.

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.

Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples.

Isaiah 8:20 for instruction and for testimony? Surely they are speaking like this because the truth hasn't dawned on them. (ISV)

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

All of the messengers come from the same master so we make no distinction between them. The following ayats from previous Surahs confirm this.

2.136. Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered.

2.285. The messenger believeth in that which hath been revealed unto him from his Lord and (so do) believers. Each one believeth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His messengers - We make no distinction between any of His messengers - and they say: We hear, and we obey. (Grant us) Thy forgiveness, our Lord. Unto Thee is the journeying.

3.84. Say (O Muhammad): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was revealed unto Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and that which was vouchsafed unto Moses and Jesus and the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered.

4.153. The people of the Scripture ask of thee that thou shouldst cause an (actual) Book to descend upon them from heaven. They asked a greater thing of Moses aforetime, for they said: Show us Allah plainly. The storm of lightning seized them for their wickedness. Then (even) after that) they chose the calf (for worship) after clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty) had come unto them. And We forgave them that! And We bestowed on Moses evident authority.

Matthew 12:39 But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Exodus 24:9-11 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, ¹⁰and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. ¹¹And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.

Exodus 20:18 Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off

The story of the Golden Calf is in Exodus 32 and in the paper The Golden Calf (No. 222). The setting aside of the Seventy (Two) by the Angel of the Presence we know as Jesus Christ, who gave the law to Moses at Sinai, was a key element of the faith. This Being, as Elohim of Israel, consecrated the Seventy (Two) at Sinai and replaced them with the Seventy (Two) of the church at Luke 16:1-17. His actions were integral to the authority of the Faith and the laws of God and the establishment of Justice with Israel and the Church of God or Eloah, the One True God. Christ as Messiah then, by 30 CE, sent them out as ordained officers of the Church to the Gentiles.

The next text refers directly to the swearing in or induction of the Sanhedrin and as the entry to their holy estate in humility which occurred both at Sinai and after their ordination and their receipt of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in 30 CE. This text refers to the Covenant taken by the leaders of the faith both as Sanhedrin and as the Muhammad or council of the church to whom all authority has been granted. These are the baptized and ordained members of the Church of God that have ruled the as the Muhammad and Muhammadan for two millennia as the baptized and anointed officers under the councils. To be a servant of God in the priesthood of Melchisedek under Messiah one must be validly baptized and ordained to the councils (cf. Commentary on Hebrews (F058)).

Note that it is at 4.154 that the Qur’an commands the Sabbath and the Fourth Commandment as the key element of the Covenant and the re-iteration of the covenant and again mentions the gate which is the text of the gates of the City of God following on from the Resurrections and the entry through the gates of pearls in Revelation chapters 20, 21, and 22 (cf. also the paper The City of God (No. 180)).

4.154. And We caused the Mount to tower above them at (the taking of) their covenant: and We bade them: Enter the gate, prostrate! and We bode them: Transgress not the Sabbath! and We took from them a firm covenant.

Exodus 23:12 You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you are to refrain from work so that your ox and donkey may rest, and so the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed. (ISV)

The covenant was confirmed in Exodus chapter 24:7-8.

Exodus 24:7-8 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do and obey." ⁸Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD made with you based on all these words." (ISV)

The towering of the Mount refers to the prelude in Exodus chapter 19 before the giving of the Ten Commandments as recorded in chapter 20. That giving of the Ten Commandments was the basis of the Covenant as the Law with God. For further details refer to the papers First and Second Statements of the Covenant of God (No. 96B); The Covenant of God (No. 152); The Koran on the Bible, the Law, and the Covenant (No. 83); The Sabbath (No. 31); The Sabbath in the Qur’an (No. 274) and The Juma'ah: Preparing for the Sabbath (No. 285).

The destruction of Israel and its being sent into captivity and the wilderness at Sinai for forty years and the Wilderness of the Forty Jubilees of the Church of Eloah, under the Sign of Jonah as prophesied by Daniel and by Messiah, was directly related to the breach of the covenant and the church was only of a few (see the paper The Sign of Jonah and the History of the Reconstruction of the Temple (No. 013)).

4.155. Then because of their breaking of their covenant, and their disbelieving in the revelations of Allah, and their slaying of the prophets wrongfully, and their saying: Our hearts are hardened - Nay, but Allah set a seal upon them for their disbelief, so that they believe not save a few-

Jeremiah 11:10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

Matthew 23:37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

Matthew 13:14-15 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: 'You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive. ¹⁵For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.'

4.156. And because of their disbelief and of their speaking against Mary a tremendous calumny;

The people of Mariam would have claimed that she was unchaste, an allegation that was without any basis whatsoever.

4.157. And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.

4.158. But Allah took him up unto Himself. Allah was ever Mighty, Wise.

Luke 24:7 'The Son of Man must be handed over to sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day.’ (ISV)

Acts 3:15 and you killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses to that. (ISV)

1Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,

The Jews may have claimed they had killed him but deny he was resurrected by God.

We are aware that Christ appeared to his followers after his death and resurrection so some may have claimed that he did not die a natural death. Verse 4.158 states that God had resurrected Christ unto himself.

Jude 1:25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

4.159. There is not one of the People of the Scripture but will believe in him before his death, and on the Day of Resurrection he will be a witness against them -

4.160. Because of the wrongdoing of the Jews We forbade them good things which were (before) made lawful unto them, and because of their much hindering from Allah's way,

4.161. And of their taking usury when they were forbidden it, and of their devouring people's wealth by false pretences, We have prepared for those of them who disbelieve a painful doom.

The Jews may not have believed that he was the Messiah and on the day of Resurrection he will testify against them.

Matthew 25:41 Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;

Mark 7:8 You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

Isaiah 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: (KJV)

Ayat 4.160 appears to be a reference to the fact that because of their disobedience and idolatry they were not allowed to keep the Feasts of God and they were allowed to drift into further error by following another calendar. This applied both to Judaism at the fall of the Temple and with the apostates of Islam when they changed the Calendar after the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs (cf. the papers God’s Calendar (No. 156) and The Hebrew and Islamic Calendar Reconciled (No. 053)).

Proverbs 28:8 He who augments his wealth by interest and increase gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

James 5:1-6 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. ²Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. ³Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. ⁴Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ⁶You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.

As a result of the unlawful actions they were to be consigned to the Second Resurrection.

4.162. But those of them who are firm in knowledge and the believers believe in that which is revealed unto thee, and that which was revealed before thee, especially the diligent in prayer and those who pay the poor-due, the believers in Allah and the Last Day. Upon these We shall bestow immense reward.

Again the reader is told to believe in the earlier revelations the OT and the NT Scriptures. Reference to the requirement to tithe is listed here. The faithful will attain unto eternal life in the First Resurrection (cf. the paper Tithing (No. 161)).

Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 8:29-32 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. ³⁰And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified. ³¹What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? ³²He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?

4.163. Lo! We inspire thee as We inspired Noah and the prophets after him, as We inspired Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and Jesus and Job and Jonah and Aaron and Solomon, and as We imparted unto David the Psalms;

4.164. And messengers We have mentioned unto thee before and messengers We have not mentioned unto thee; and Allah spake directly unto Moses;

4.165. Messengers of good cheer and of warning, in order that mankind might have no argument against Allah after the messengers. Allah was ever Mighty, Wise.

4.166. But Allah (Himself) testifieth concerning that which He hath revealeth unto thee; in His knowledge hath He revealed it; and the angels also testify. And Allah is sufficient Witness.

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.

Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples.

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Hebrews 1:1-2 In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; ²but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.

2Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2Peter 1:21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Anyone who asserts that the One True God Eloah, Elahh, or Allah’ issues wrong Scriptures or loses or cannot control His own Scriptures, whether from the law He gave to the Patriarchs and at Sinai or through Messiah and the Church, is an infidel and at the return of the Messiah will be killed and sent to the Second Resurrection as we see below.

4.167. Lo! those who disbelieve and hinder (others) from the way of Allah, they verily have wandered far astray.

4.168. Lo! those who disbelieve and deal in wrong, Allah will never forgive them, neither will He guide them unto a road,

4.169. Except the road of hell, wherein they will abide for ever. And that is ever easy for Allah.

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth.

Romans1:32 Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.

Titus 1:10-11 For there are many insubordinate men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially the circumcision party; ¹¹they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for base gain what they have no right to teach.

Acts 20:30 Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them. (ISV)

The Second Death is the final end of those who blaspheme the Holy Spirit and deny the plan of God. That is the Hell which is the final end of the unrepentant, the Gehenna fire.

4.170. O Mankind! The Messenger hath come to you in truth from Allah. believe in him: It is best for you. But if ye reject Faith, to Allah belong all things in the heavens and on earth: And Allah is All-knowing, All-wise. (Yusuf Ali)

Mankind is presented with a choice. If they believe in the message it will be good for them. If they do not they go to the Second Resurrection. It is no loss to Allah. He owns everything. As we have said the blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience are seen at Deuteronomy 28.

4.171. O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary (Mariam) was (no more than) an apostle of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His apostles. Say not "Trinity": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah. Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having [procreating] a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs. (Yusuf Ali)

Hence God created Christ by Divine fiat and not by physical procreation as some had asserted.

Verse 4.171 كَلِمَتُهُ “kalimatuhu”…

“kalimatuhu” definition:

Word; Verdict; Proposition; Saying; Agreement; Expression; Speech; Sentence; Assertion; Decree; Commandment; Argument; News; Sign; Plan; Design; Glad tidings; Creation of God; Prophesy; Unit of language consisting of one or more spoken sounds that can stand as a complete utterance; That which is said; A promise; A sound or a series of sounds; Communication of an idea. It comes from the root “kalama”, which means to speak, express.

Reference: The Dictionary of the Holy Qur’an Abdul Mannan Omar p. 495 - 496

1John 4:14-15 We have seen for ourselves and can testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵God abides in the one who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, and he abides in God. (ISV)

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Job 38:7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD;

Isaiah 46:9-10 remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, ¹⁰declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,' (ISV)

1Chronicles. 29:11-12 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. ¹²Both riches and honor come from thee, and thou rulest over all. In thy hand are power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

Do not add to his word or detract from it. Do not distort his word to try to mean something else from the intended meaning.

Christ was the result of God saying Be and he came to be. He was not conceived in the normal human way. God is one God and not a trinity or a binity, nor is He a ditheist pair as claimed by mainstream Christianity and the last of some of the Churches of God, nor is he a Sabellianist heresy as some claim.

4.172. Christ disdaineth not to serve and worship Allah, nor do the angels, those nearest (to Allah: those who disdain His worship and are arrogant,-He will gather them all together unto Himself to (answer). (Yusuf Ali)

Matthew 20:28 even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?

Romans 14:11-12 for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God." ¹²So each of us shall give account of himself to God.

4.173. But to those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, He will give their (due) rewards,- and more, out of His bounty: But those who are disdainful and arrogant, He will punish with a grievous penalty; Nor will they find, besides Allah, any to protect or help them. (Yusuf Ali)

Matthew 25:46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

4.174. O mankind! verily there hath come to you a convincing proof from your Lord: For We have sent unto you a light (that is) manifest. (Yusuf Ali)

John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

1John 1:5 this is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

4.175. Then those who believe in Allah, and hold fast to Him,- soon will He admit them to mercy and grace from Himself, and guide them to Himself by a straight way. (Yusuf Ali)

Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.

Revelation 3:11 I am coming soon; hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

4.176. They ask thee for a legal decision. Say: Allah directs (thus) about those who leave no descendants or ascendants as heirs. If it is a man that dies, leaving a sister but no child, she shall have half the inheritance: If (such a deceased was) a woman, who left no child, Her brother takes her inheritance: If there are two sisters, they shall have two-thirds of the inheritance (between them): if there are brothers and sisters, (they share), the male having twice the share of the female. Thus doth Allah make clear to you (His law), lest ye err. And Allah hath knowledge of all things. (Yusuf Ali)

This was the last dictum of this Surah 4 to tie a matter that appeared to be arising from it after the Surah was issued following the battle of Mt. Uhud and the law regarding widows and orphans and their in heritance was explained.

The inheritance laws are laid out in Numbers 27:6-11 and Deuteronomy 21:15-17

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