The Majestic Quran

free a slave. Whoever hasn’t the means to do this should fast for three days. That is the atonement for breaking oaths that you have sworn, so keep your oaths. This is how God explains His verses so that you might be grateful. I 90 Believers, wine , 46 gambling by drawing lots, the use of pagan sacrificial altars, or foretelling the future with arrows are filthy works of Satan; reject them so that you may succeed in life. 91 Satan wishes to sow enmity and hatred between you using wine and gambling, and to divert you from the remembrance of God and performance of the prayer. So, won’t you stop? 92 Obey God and the Messenger, and beware. If you turn away that will be bad, you know Our Messenger’s duty is to deliver the message clearly. 93 The believers who do righteous deeds shouldn’t be blamed for what they consumed in the past, so long as they are mindful believers, doing righteous deeds, and thereafter they continue to be mindful and to believe in God, and now they are still mindful and striving for perfection. God loves the righteous. P 94 Believers, God will test you by bringing the animals you hunt within reach of your hands and spears, so God marks out whoever fears Him without ever having seen Him; so whoever after this warning goes beyond the limits set by God will suffer a painful punishment. 95 Believers, don’t hunt and kill animals while you are in the sanctified state of pilgrims . 47 The penalty for killing an animal intentionally is: sacrifice a livestock animal near the Kaaba that is judged to be equivalent by two just men; atone by feeding the needy or fast an equivalent number of days to realise the seriousness of his action. God has pardoned what happened in the past, but whoever transgresses from now on, God will punish him. God is the Almighty, the Avenger. 96 Catching fish from the sea and eating it are made lawful for your benefit and for the traveller. However, you are forbidden to hunt on land while you are in the sanctified state of the pilgrim; so be mindful of God, before Whom you will be gathered. 97 God has made the Kaaba a sacred house , 48 built for the benefit of humanity, along with the sacred months, and the sacrificial and garlanded animals.