Here they are severely reproached for their breach of promise...
Here they are severely reproached for their breach of promise, which consisted of the following terms: Worship no one but Allah. Do good to your parent. Do good to your kindred; to the orphans, and to the needy. Speak fairly to people. Perform the prayer. Pay the TITHES (The alms-tax which is the right of needy and poor) Do not shed your blood. Do not expel yourselves from your habitation. [ 105 ] VERSE NO.
84 And we made a covenant with you not to shed your blood and not expel yourselves from your homes. 9) If any of you was taken a captive in a battle, All of you should help him to obtain his freedom, and pay for his ransom. VERSE NO. 85 You all violated the covenant with God, except a few! Killing one another, banishing a party of you from their homes, backing and supporting each other up against them through your heinous sin and enmity.
And if some of them returned to you as captives, you ransom them, while their expulsion was unlawful for you. Strange enough, you rely on the BOOK for that ransom which you are getting for them! Do you believe in part of the book and disbelieve in part? What then can be the reward of those who do so, but disgrace in this mortal life, and being consigned to the most grievous chastisement in the life to come?! VERSE NO. 86 And through this verse the main cause of their mental…