Betrayal: Qur’an Verses

اُحِلَّ لَكُمْ لَيْلَةَ الصِّيَامِ الرَّفَثُ اِلٰى نِسَٓائِكُمْۜ هُنَّ لِبَاسٌ لَكُمْ وَاَنْتُمْ لِبَاسٌ لَهُنَّۜ عَلِمَ اللّٰهُ اَنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ تَخْتَانُونَ اَنْفُسَكُمْ فَتَابَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَعَفَا عَنْكُمْۚ فَالْـٰٔنَ بَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَابْتَغُوا مَا كَتَبَ اللّٰهُ لَكُمْۖ وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا حَتّٰى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الْاَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الْاَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِۖ ثُمَّ اَتِمُّوا الصِّيَامَ اِلَى الَّيْلِۚ وَلَا تُبَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَاَنْتُمْ عَاكِفُونَۙ فِي الْمَسَاجِدِۜ تِلْكَ حُدُودُ اللّٰهِ فَلَا تَقْرَبُوهَاۜ كَذٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللّٰهُ اٰيَاتِه۪ لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَّقُونَ

IT IS lawful for you to go in unto your wives during the night preceding the [day's] fast: they are as a garment for you, and you are as a garment for them. Allah is aware that you would have deprived yourselves of this right, and so He has turned unto you in His mercy and removed this hardship from you. Now, then, you may lie with them skin to skin, and avail yourselves of that which Allah has ordained for you, and eat and drink until you can discern the white streak of dawn against the blackness of night, and then resume fasting until nightfall; but do not lie with them skin to skin when you are about to abide in meditation in houses of worship. These are the bounds set by Allah: do not, then, offend against them – [for] it is thus that Allah makes clear His messages unto mankind, so that they might remain conscious of Him.

وَمَا كَانَ لِنَبِيٍّ اَنْ يَغُلَّۜ وَمَنْ يَغْلُلْ يَأْتِ بِمَا غَلَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيٰمَةِۚ ثُمَّ تُوَفّٰى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَا كَسَبَتْ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ

AND IT IS not conceivable that a prophet should deceive – since he who deceives shall be faced with his deceit on the Day of Resurrection, when every human being shall be repaid in full for whatever he has done, and none shall be wronged.

وَلَا تُجَادِلْ عَنِ الَّذ۪ينَ يَخْتَانُونَ اَنْفُسَهُمْۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يُحِبُّ مَنْ كَانَ خَوَّانًا اَث۪يمًاۚ

Yet do not argue in behalf of those who are false to their own selves: verily, Allah does not love those who betray their trust and persist in sinful ways.

فَبِمَا نَقْضِهِمْ م۪يثَاقَهُمْ لَعَنَّاهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَا قُلُوبَهُمْ قَاسِيَةًۚ يُحَرِّفُونَ الْكَلِمَ عَنْ مَوَاضِعِه۪ۙ وَنَسُوا حَظًّا مِمَّا ذُكِّرُوا بِه۪ۚ وَلَا تَزَالُ تَطَّلِعُ عَلٰى خَٓائِنَةٍ مِنْهُمْ اِلَّا قَل۪يلًا مِنْهُمْ فَاعْفُ عَنْهُمْ وَاصْفَحْۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُحْسِن۪ينَ

Then, for having broken their solemn pledge, We rejected them and caused their hearts to harden-[so that now] they distort the meaning of the [re-vealed] words, taking them out of their context; and they have forgotten much of what they had been told to bear in mind; and from all but a few of them thou wilt always experience treachery. But pardon them, and forbear: verily, Allah loves the doers of good.

يَٓا اَيُّهَا الَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُوا لَا تَخُونُوا اللّٰهَ وَالرَّسُولَ وَتَخُونُٓوا اَمَانَاتِكُمْ وَاَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

[Hence,] O you who have attained to faith, do not be false to Allah and the Apostle, and do not knowingly be false to the trust that has been reposed in you;

وَاِمَّا تَخَافَنَّ مِنْ قَوْمٍ خِيَانَةً فَانْبِذْ اِلَيْهِمْ عَلٰى سَوَٓاءٍۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْخَٓائِن۪ينَ۟

or, if thou hast reason to fear treachery from people [with whom thou hast made a covenant], cast it back at them in an equitable manner: for, verily, Allah does not love the treacherous!

وَاِنْ يُر۪يدُوا خِيَانَتَكَ فَقَدْ خَانُوا اللّٰهَ مِنْ قَبْلُ فَاَمْكَنَ مِنْهُمْۜ وَاللّٰهُ عَل۪يمٌ حَك۪يمٌ

And should they but seek to play false with thee -well, they were false to Allah [Himself] ere this: but He gave [the believers] mastery over them. And Allah is all-knowing, wise.

ذٰلِكَ لِيَعْلَمَ اَنّ۪ي لَمْ اَخُنْهُ بِالْغَيْبِ وَاَنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يَهْد۪ي كَيْدَ الْخَٓائِن۪ينَ

[When Joseph learned what had happened, he said: "I asked for] this, so that [my former master] might know that I did not betray him behind his back, and that Allah does not bless with His guidance the artful schemes of those who betray their trust.

ضَرَبَ اللّٰهُ مَثَلًا لِلَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا امْرَاَتَ نُوحٍ وَامْرَاَتَ لُوطٍۜ كَانَتَا تَحْتَ عَبْدَيْنِ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا صَالِحَيْنِ فَخَانَتَاهُمَا فَلَمْ يُغْنِيَا عَنْهُمَا مِنَ اللّٰهِ شَيْـًٔا وَق۪يلَ ادْخُلَا النَّارَ مَعَ الدَّاخِل۪ينَ

For those who are bent on denying the truth Allah has propounded a parable in [the stories of] Noah's wife and Lot's wife: they were wedded to two of Our righteous servants, and each one betrayed her husband; and neither of the two [husbands] will be of any avail to these two women when they are told [on Judgment Day], "Enter the fire with all those [other sinners] who enter it!"

وَاَمَّٓا اِذَا مَا ابْتَلٰيهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبّ۪ٓي اَهَانَنِۚ

whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Sustainer has disgraced me!"