صفحة 39

Take care to do your prayers, praying in the best way, and stand before God in devotion.

If you are in danger, pray when you are out walking or riding; when you are safe again, remember God, for He has taught you what you did not know.

If any of you die and leave widows, make a bequest for them: a year’s maintenance and no expulsion from their homes [for that time]. But if they leave of their own accord, you will not be blamed for what they may reasonably choose to do with themselves: God is almighty and wise.

Divorced women shall also have such maintenance as is considered fair: this is a duty for those who are mindful of God.

In this way God makes His revelations clear to you, so that you may grow in understanding.

[Prophet], consider those people who abandoned their homeland in fear of death, even though there were thousands of them. God said to them, ‘Die!’ and then brought them back to life again; God shows real favour to people, but most of them are ungrateful.

Fight in God’s cause and remember that He is all hearing and all knowing.

Who will give God a good loan, which He will increase for him many times over? It is God who withholds and God who gives abundantly, and it is to Him that you will return.