In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. When the hypocrites come to you, they say: We bear
witness that you are most surely Allah's Apostle; and Allah
knows that you are most surely His Apostle, and Allah bears
witness that the hypocrites are surely liars.
2. They make their oaths a shelter, and thus turn away from
Allah's way; surely evil is that which they do.
3. That is because they believe, then disbelieve, so a seal
is set upon their hearts so that they do not understand.
4. And when you see them, their persons will please you, and
If they speak, you will listen to their speech; (they are)
as if they were big pieces of wood clad with garments; they
think every cry to be against them. They are the enemy,
therefore beware of them; may Allah destroy them, whence are
they turned back?
5. And when it is said to them: Come, the Apostle of Allah
will ask forgiveness for you, they turn back their heads and
you may see them turning away while they are big with pride.
6. It is alike to them whether you beg forgiveness for them
or do not beg forgiveness for them; Allah will never forgive
them; surely Allah does not guide the transgressing people.
7. They it is who say: Do not spend upon those who are with
the Apostle of Allah until they break up. And Allah's are
the treasures of the heavens and the earth, but the
hypocrites do not understand.
8. They say: If we return to Medina, the mighty will surely
drive out the meaner therefrom; and to Allah belongs the
might and to His Apostle and to the believers, but the
hypocrites do not know.
9. O you who believe! let not your wealth, or your children,
divert you from the remembrance of Allah; and whoever does
that, these are the losers.
10. And spend out of what We have given you before death
comes to one of you, so that he should say: My Lord! why
didst Thou not respite me to a near term, so that I should
have given alms and been of the doers of good deeds?
11. And Allah does not respite a soul when its appointed
term has come, and Allah is Aware of what you do.
