The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

4: 115
Women 61
performing the ritual prayer, continue to remember God – standing,
sitting, and lying on your sides – and once you are safe, keep up
regular prayer, for prayer is obligatory for the believers at prescribed
times. 104 Do not be faint-hearted in pursuing the enemy: if you
are suffering hardship, so are they, but you hope to receive something
from God for which they cannot hope. God is all knowing
and wise.
105 We have sent down the Scripture to you [Prophet] with the
truth so that you can judge between people in accordance with what
God has shown you. Do not be an advocate for those who betray
trust. a 106 Ask God for forgiveness: He is most forgiving and merciful.
107 Do not argue for those who betray their own souls: God does
not love anyone given to treachery and sin. 108 They try to hide themselves
from people, but they cannot hide from God. He is with them
when they plot at night, saying things that do not please Him: He is
fully aware of everything they do. 109 There you [believers] are, arguing
on their behalf in this life, but who will argue on their behalf
with God on the Day of Resurrection? Who will be their defender?
110 Yet anyone who does evil or wrongs his own soul and then asks
God for forgiveness will find Him most forgiving and merciful.
111 He who commits sin does so against his own soul – God is all
knowing and wise – 112 and anyone who commits an offence or a sin,
and then throws the blame on to some innocent person, has burdened
himself with deceit as well as flagrant sin.
113 If it were not for the grace of God and His mercy to you
[Prophet], a party of them would have tried to lead you astray; they
only lead themselves astray, and cannot harm you in any way, since
God has sent down the Scripture and Wisdom to you, and taught
you what you did not know. God’s bounty to you is great indeed.
114 There is no good in most of their secret talk, only in commanding
charity, or good, or reconciliation between people. To anyone who
does these things, seeking to please God, We shall give a rich reward;
115 if anyone opposes the Messenger, after guidance has been made
clear to him, and follows a path other than that of the believers, We
shall leave him on his chosen path – We shall burn him in Hell, an
evil destination.
a A man from Medina stole a suit of armour and accused a Jew of doing it. He
brought his family to ask the Prophet to rule against the Jew and he was about to do this
when these verses were revealed (Razi).