Surah Al-Munåfiqun
(The Hypocrites)
Chapter 63
It is 11 Verses 2 Units (Ruku’): Revealed at Madinah
In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
1. When the hypocrites come to you (O Prophet Muhammad), they say: We bear witness that you are most surely Allah’s Messenger; and Allah knows that you are most surely His Messenger, and Allah bears witness that the hypocrites are surely liars.
2. They make their oaths a screen (for their hypocrisy), hindering (people) from Allah’s Way; surely evil is that which they do.
3. This is because they believe, then disbelieve, so a seal was set upon their hearts; therefore they do not understand.
4. And when you see them, their appearance impresses you, and if they speak, you will listen to their speech; (they are as worthless as hollow) pieces of wood propped up (unable to stand on their own); they think every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, therefore beware of them; may Allah humiliate them and withdraw His Mercy from them, how are they deluded (from the Truth)?
5. And when it is said to them: Come, so that the Messenger of Allah may ask Forgiveness for you, they turn back their heads, and you may see them turning away while they are arrogant with pride.
6. It is all the same for them whether you ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them; Allah will never forgive them; surely Allah does not guide the defiantly disobedient people.
7. They are the ones who say: Do not spend upon those who are with the Messenger of Allah until they disperse (from him). And to Allah (alone) belongs the treasures of the heavens and the earth, but the hypocrites do not understand.
8. They say: If we return to Madinah, the more honored (with power and wealth) will surely drive out the more humble therefrom; but all Might (Honor, Power, Bounty, and Glory) belong to Allah (alone) and thus shall it be for His Messenger and for the believers, but the hypocrites do not know.
9. O you who believe (in Allah and His last Messenger Muhammad)! Let not your wealth, nor your children, distract you from the Remembrance of Allah (God); and whosoever does that, then it is they who are the losers.
10. And spend (in charity) out of what We have given you before death comes to one of you, so that he says: (O Allah) My Lord! If only You would delay me to a near term, so that I would give charity, and be among the righteous.
11. But Allah (God) will not delay a soul when its appointed term has come, and Allah is All-Aware of what you do.