Surah 2

Surah Al-Baqarah: The Heifer

Revealed at Madinah

2:161
Certainly as to those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers, as to these— upon them will be the condemnation of Allah, and of the malaks, and of all mankind combined,—


2:162
abiding in it; the punishment will not be lightened upon them nor will they be given respite.

2:163
And your God is the One God, there is no god but He, the most Gracious, the most Rewarding.

2:164
Certainly in the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the alternation of the night and the day, and in the ships that sail in the sea with what profits mankind, and in what Allah sends down from the sky of water, then He gives life with it to the earth after her death, and spreads in it all sorts of creatures, and the motion of the winds, and the clouds made subservient between the heaven and the earth, there are sure Signs for a people who apply sense.

2:165
Yet among mankind there are those who adopt deities besides Allah, they love them like loving Allah. And those who believe are stauncher in love towards Allah. And if those who do wrong could see— when they see the punishment,— that all the power wholly belongs to Allah, and that Allah is severe in chastising

2:166
Behold! those who were followed sever themselves from these who followed, and they will see the anguish, and the ties between them are cut off.

2:167
And those who followed will say: “O that we had another turn, so that we could sever from them as they have severed from us.” Likewise Allah shows them their deeds as intense regret to them. And they will not be an escapee from the Fire.

2:168
O you mankind! eat of what is on the earth, lawful, pure; and do not follow the footsteps of the Evil-one. Surely he is to you an open enemy.

2:169
Verily he bids you to evil and indecency, and that you speak against Allah what you do not know.

2:170
And when it is said to them: “Follow what Allah has revealed”, they say: “We shall rather follow that upon which we found our forefathers.” What! even though their fore-fathers did not apply any wisdom, nor did they follow guidance?

2:171
And the parable of those who disbelieved is like the parable of one who shouts to that which does not hear anything except a call and a cry. Deafness, dumbness blindness— so that they do not exercise wisdom.

2:172
O you who believe! eat of the good things that We have provided you with; and give thanks to Allah, if it is Him alone Whom you use to worship.

2:173
He has forbidden you only what dies of itself, and the blood, and the flesh of swine, and that over which any other than Allah has been invoked. But whoever is constrained, without being disobedient nor exceeding the limit, no sin be upon him then. Allah is certainly most Forgiving, most Rewarding.

2:174
Surely those who conceal what Allah has revealed out of the Scripture, and exchange it for a paltry price, these— they eat into their bellies nothing but Fire; and Allah will not speak to them on the day of the Awakening, nor will He purify them, and for them is a painful punishment.

2:175
These are those who have bought Error by Guidance, and punishment in place of forgiveness. Then how bold they are to the Fire!

2:176
That! because Allah has revealed the Scripture with the Truth. And surely those who disagree in the Scripture are indeed in a far-off obstinacy.

2:177
There is no virtue in that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but virtue is in him whoever believes in Allah and the Future Day, and the malaks, and the Scripture, and the nabis; and who gives wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin, and to the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and the beggars, and to those in captivity; and who establishes the Salat, and pays the Zakat; and the fulfillers of their contract when they make a contract; and the perseverers in hardship and injury, and during the panic. These are those who have verified the truth; and these are themselves the reverent.

2:178
O you who believe! retaliation is prescribed for you in case of murder: the free for the free, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. But whoever is given any remission by his brother, the succession should be with fairness and compensation to him handsomely. This is a relaxation from your Rabb and a mercy. But whoever exceeds the limit after this, for him then is a painful punishment.

2:179
And for you in this retaliation, O men of understanding! there is life, that perhaps you may revere.

2:180
It is prescribed for you when death approaches any of you, if he leaves behind wealth the bequest to the parents and near relatives with fairness— a duty on the reverent.