Surah “The Hypocrites”

as rendered by Talal Itani & AI (2025) — 11 verses

When the hypocrites come to you, they say, "We testify that you are the Messenger of God." God knows that you are His Messenger, but God testifies that the hypocrites are liars.
They have made their oaths a shield, blocking others from the path of God. How evil is what they have been doing.
That is because they believed and then disbelieved, so a seal was placed on their hearts, and they do not understand.
When you see them, their bodies impress you. When they speak, you listen to their words. But they are like propped-up timber. They think every shout is against them. They are the enemy, so beware of them. May God destroy them! How deluded they are.
When they are told, "Come, let the Messenger of God ask forgiveness for you," they turn their heads aside, and you see them walking away in arrogance.
It is the same for them whether you ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them. God will never forgive them. God does not guide the defiantly disobedient people.
They are the ones who say, "Do not spend on those with the Messenger of God until they disperse." To God belong the treasuries of the heavens and the earth, but the hypocrites do not understand.
They say, "If we return to Medina, the mighty will surely expel the lowly from it." But might belongs to God, to His Messenger, and to the believers, yet the hypocrites do not know.
O you who believe, do not let your wealth or your children distract you from the remembrance of God. Whoever does that, those are the losers.
Spend from what We have provided you before death comes to one of you and he says, "My Lord, if only You would delay me for a short time so I could give charity and be among the righteous."
God will never delay a soul when its time has come. God is fully aware of what you do.