Category: Al-Mumtahanah

O believers! Do not make friendship with those who are enemies of Mine and yours. Would you show them friendship, when they have denied the truth that has come to you and have driven the Prophet and yourselves out of your homes, simply because you believe in Allah, your Lord? If it was indeed to strive in My way, and to seek My good pleasure that you left your homes, how can you befriend in secret? I know all that you conceal, and all that you reveal. Any of you who does this, he indeed has gone astray from the Right Way.
Meaning:-
Conceal: to hide, to keep secret, to prevent or avoid disclosing, keep secret.
Astray: into error, away from the correct path or direction.

If they overcome you, they would behave to you as enemies and stretch out their hands and their tongues towards you with evil, and they wish to see you become unbelievers.

On the Day of Resurrection, neither your relatives nor your children shall avail you. Allah will judge between you, and He is observing all your actions.

You have an excellent example in Ibrahim (Abraham) and his companions. They said to their people plainly: “We are clear of you and your gods, whom you worship besides Allah. We renounce you. Enmity and hate shall reign between us forever until you believe in Allah, the One and Only God.” But do not emulate what Ibrahim said to his father: “I will pray for your forgiveness, although I have no power to get anything for you from Allah.” Their collective prayer was: “Our Lord! In You we have put our trust, to You we turn in repentance and to You is our final goal.
Meaning:-
Renounce: reject, refuse to recognize.
Enmity: bitterness, hatred,
Emulate: imitate, copy, follow,

“Our Lord! Make us not a (test and) trial for the Unbelievers, but forgive us, our Lord! for Thou art the Exalted in Might, the Wise.”
Meaning:-
Exalted: placed at a high or powerful level; held in high regard.

Truly, in those there is an excellent example for everyone who puts their hopes in Allah and the Last Day. He that gives no heed should know that Allah is free of all wants, worthy of all praise.

Perhaps Allah will make friendship between you and those whom you hold as enemies. And Allah has power (over all things), and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes – from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly.

Allah only forbids you to make friendship with those who fought you on account of your faith and drove you out of your homes and backed up others in your expulsion. Those who will take them for friends are indeed the wrongdoers.
Meaning:-
Forbid: Prohibit, not allowed, banned.
Expulsion: the process of forcing someone to leave a place.
Wrongdoer: criminal, a person who behaves illegally, or dishonestly; an offender.

O believers! When the believing women seek refuge with you, test them. Allah best knows their faith. If you find them true believers, do not send them back to the unbelievers. They are not lawful [wives] to the unbelievers, nor are the unbelievers lawful [husbands] to them. Return to their unbelieving husbands what they have spent on them. There is no blame on you if you marry such women, provided you give them their dowers. Do not hold on to your marriages with unbelieving women. Demand what you have spent on them and let the unbelievers do the same. This is the order of Allah which He has decreed between you. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.

And if you have lost any of your wives to the disbelievers and you subsequently obtain [something], then give those whose wives have gone the equivalent of what they had spent. And fear Allah , in whom you are believers.
Meaning:-
Obtain: get, acquire, come into the possession of.

O Prophet! When the believing women come to you to take the oath of allegiance , take their pledge: that they will not commit shirk with Allah, that they will not steal, that they will not commit adultery, that they will not kill their children, that they will not give any cause for scandal which they may invent between either their hands or legs (a woman accusing another woman of having an illicit relationship with a man and spreads such stories – or – a woman carrying an illegitimate child and makes her husband believe that it is his), and that they will not disobey you in any just matter, then accept their allegiance and pray to Allah for the forgiveness. Surely Allah is Oft-Forgiving, most Merciful.
Meaning:-
Allegiance: loyalty, faithfulness,
Pledge: promise, assurance, oath, a solemn promise or undertaking.
shirk (Arabic): is the sin of practicing idolatry or polytheism (polytheism: the belief in or worship of more than one god), i.e. the deification or worship of anyone or anything other than the singular God i.e. Allah. Literally, it means ascribing or the establishment of “partners” placed beside God.
Adultery: sex between a married man or woman and someone he or she is not married to
Illicit: contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality).
illegitimate: born of parents not married to each other.

O believers! Do not befriend those who have become the wrath of Allah. Indeed they despair of the Hereafter, just as the unbelievers despair of those buried in the graves.
Meaning:-
Wrath: extreme anger.
Despair: lose or be without hope.