The Heifer (Al-Baqarah)

This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the righteous.

The Righteous

³ The righteous are those who:

• believe in the unseen
• perform the prayers
• give from what We have provided for them.
• believe ⁴ in what was revealed to you
• are certain of the Hereafter.
• guided ⁵ from their Lord.

These are the successful.

The Fake Believers

⁶ The disbelievers will disbelieve whether you have warned them or not.

⁷ Allah has sealed their hearts and hearing. Their vision is a veil.

• They will have a severe torment.

⁸ They will say: “We believe in Allah and in the Last Day.”

• But they are not believers.

⁹ They seek to deceive Allah and those who believe.

• But they only deceive themselves without them knowing it.

¹⁰ In their hearts is sickness.

• Allah has increased their sickness.
• They will have a painful punishment because of their denial.

¹¹ People say to them: “Do not make trouble on earth”

• But they will reply: “We are only reformers.”

¹² In fact, they are the troublemakers without them knowing it.

¹³ They will say “We will not believe what fools have believed”

• But in fact, it is they who are the fools, but they do not know.

¹⁴ Some will pretend to believe. But they will say to themselves: “We were only ridiculing”

¹⁵ It is Allah who ridicules them, and leaves them bewildered in their transgression.

¹⁶ They have bartered error for guidance.

• But their trade does not profit them, and they are not guided.

¹⁷ They are like a person lighting a fire.

• Allah took away their light and left them in dark, unable to see.

^18-19 They are deaf, dumb, blind.

• They will not return.

They are like a dark cloud with thunder and lightning.

• They press their fingers into their ears from the thunderbolts, in fear of death.

• The ²⁰ lightning almost snatches their sight away.
• Whenever it illuminates for them, they can walk
• But when it grows dark, they stand still.