3.181 . Verily Allah heard the saying of those who said , ( when asked for contributions to the war ) : "Allah , forsooth , is poor , and we are rich! We shall record their saying with their slaying of the Prophets wrongfully and We shall say : Taste ye the punishment of burning!

3.182 . This is on account of that which your own hands have sent before ( you to the judgment ) . Allah is no oppressor of ( His ) bondmen .

3.183 . ( The same are ) those who say : Lo! Allah hath charged us that we believe not in any messenger until he bring us an offering which fire ( from heaven ) shall devour . Say ( unto them , O Muhammad ) : Messengers came unto you before me with miracles , and with that ( very miracle ) which ye describe . Why then did ye slay them? ( Answer that ) if ye are truthful

3.184 . And if they deny thee , even so did they deny messengers who were before thee , who came with miracles and with the Psalms and with the Scripture giving light .

3.185 . Every soul will taste of death . And ye will be paid on the Day of Resurrection only that which ye have fairly earned . Whoso is removed from the Fire and is made to enter Paradise , he indeed is triumphant . The life of this world is but comfort of illusion .

3.186 . Assuredly ye will be tried in your property and in your persons , and ye will hear much wrong from those who were given the Scripture before you , and from the idolaters . But if ye persevere and ward off ( evil ) , then that is of the steadfast heart of things .

3.187 . And ( remember ) when Allah laid a charge on those who had received the Scripture ( He said ) : Ye are to expound it to mankind and not to hide it . But they flung it behind their backs and bought thereby a little gain . Verily evil is that which they have gained thereby .

3.188 . Think not that those who exult in what they have given , and love to be praised for what they have not done Think not , they are in safety from the doom . A painful doom is theirs .

3.189 . Unto Allah belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth . Allah is Able to do all things .

3.190 . Lo! In the creation of the heavens and the earth and ( in ) the difference of night and day are tokens ( of His sovereignty ) for men of understanding ,

3.191 . Such as remember Allah , standing , sitting , and reclining , and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth , ( and say ) : Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain . Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire

3.192 . Our Lord! Whom Thou causest to enter the Fire : him indeed Thou hast confounded . For evil doers there will be no helpers .

3.193 . Our Lord! Lo! we have heard a crier calling unto Faith : "Believe ye in your Lord!" So we believed . Our Lord! Therefor forgive us our sins , and remit from us our evil deeds , and make us die the death of the righteous .

3.194 . Our Lord! And give us that which Thou hast promised to us by Thy messengers . Confound us not upon the Day of Resurrection . Lo! Thou breakest not the tryst .

3.195 . And their Lord hath heard them ( and He saith ) : Lo! I suffer not the work of any worker , male or female , to be lost . Ye proceed one from another . So those who fled and were driven forth from their homes and suffered damage for My cause , and fought and were slain , verity I shall remit their evil deeds from them and verily I shall bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow . A reward from Allah . And with Allah is the fairest of rewards .

3.196 . Let not the vicissitude ( of the success ) of those who disbelieve , in the land , deceive thee ( O Muhammad ) .

3.197 . It is but a brief comfort . And afterward their habitation will be hell , an ill abode .

3.198 . But those who keep their duty to their Lord , for them are Gardens underneath which rivers flow , wherein they will be safe for ever . A gift of welcome from their Lord . That which Allah hath in store is better for the righteous .

3.199 . And Lo! of the People of the Scripture there are some who believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto you and that which was revealed unto them , humbling themselves before Allah . They purchase not a trifling gain at the price of the revelations of Allah . Verily their reward is with their Lord , and Lo! Allah is swift to take account .

3.200 . O ye who believe! Endure , outdo all others in endurance , be ready , and observe your duty to Allah , in order that ye may succeed .