Surah Maidah
Believers, fulfill commitments. Grazing animals are permitted to you, except those specified to you; but not wild game when you are on pilgrimage. For God decides what God wants.
- Thomas Cleary
Believers, do not violate the rites of God, or the sacred month, or the offering, or the ornaments, or those who resort to the sacred House seeking the grace and pleasure of their Lord. When you are finished with the pilgrimage, then you may hunt. And do not let the hatred of some people in keeping you out of the sacred mosque hurt you so much that you act brutally; but help each other to kindness and conscience, and do not help each other to crime and animosity. For God is severe with consequences.
- Thomas Cleary
Carrion is forbidden to you, and blood, and the flesh of the swine, and whatever has been offered up to other than God, or been strangled, or been clubbed to death, or been killed in a fall, or been gored to death, or been eaten by wild animals, except what you slaughter; and what has been sacrificed to an idol; and the practice of drawing lots. For you that is immoral. Today the scoffers are disqualified from your religion; so do not fear them, but fear Me. Today I have completed your religion for you, and have fulfilled My favor for you, and approved Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is compelled by hunger, with no intent to do wrong, God is forgiving, merciful.
- Thomas Cleary
They ask you what is permitted to them. Say, Wholesome foods are permitted to you; and what you have taught hunting animals to catch by teaching them something of what God has taught you— so eat what they catch for you, but pronounce the name of God over it. And be conscious of God; for God is swift in accounting.
- Thomas Cleary
Today wholesome things are permitted to you. And the food of those to whom scripture was given is permitted to you, and your food is permitted to them. And so are chaste believing women, and chaste women from among those to whom scripture was given before you, when you give them their recompense, seeking to preserve their chastity, not to prostitute them, and not taking paramours. And if anyone repudiates faith, his work is already in vain, and he will be a loser in the hereafter.
- Thomas Cleary
Believers, when you are going to pray, wash your faces and your hands and arms to the elbows, and wipe your heads, and your feet to the ankles. And if you are unclean, then purify yourselves. But if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you comes from a call of nature, or you have been intimate with women, and you cannot obtain water, then get yourselves fine earth or sand and wipe your faces and hands with it. God does not want to make it hard for you, but wants to make you clean, and to complete divine favor on you, so you may be grateful.
- Thomas Cleary
And remember God’s favor to you, and the divine compact in which God joined you when you said, “We hear and obey.” And be conscious of God, for God knows what is in hearts.
- Thomas Cleary
Believers, be upstanding for God as witnesses for justice; and do not let the hatred of some people hurt you so much that you are not fair. Be fair; that is kin to conscience. And be conscious of God, for God is aware of what you do.
- Thomas Cleary
God has promised those who believe and do good works that they shall have forgiveness, and a tremendous reward.
- Thomas Cleary
As for those who scoff and repudiate Our signs, they will be inmates of blazes.
- Thomas Cleary