63:1  When the hypocrites come to you, they say, `We bear witness that you are in fact the Messenger of Allah.' And Allah knows that you are indeed His Messenger. Yet Allah (at the same time) bears witness that the hypocrites are truly liars

63:2  They take shelter behind their oaths (to hide their evil designs). Thus they keep people back from the way of Allah. Surely, evil is the practice they follow

63:3  That (they follow this practice) is because (outwardly) they believed but (inwardly) they disbelieved, so that their hearts are sealed and (now) they do not even understand

63:4  When you see them, their (handsome) figures please you, and if they speak (a masked and polished speech), you listen to their speech. (They look) as though they were wooden statues clad in garments. They think every loud cry is one (raised) against them. They themselves are (your) enemies (in reality), so beware of them. May Allah ruin them! To what (perversities) are they being turned away (from the Truth)

63:5  And when it is said to them, `Come so that the Messenger of Allah may ask forgiveness for you,' they turn their heads aside (by way of refusal and out of scorn and pride). And you see them keeping others (also) back, while they swell big with pride

63:6  It makes no difference to them whether you ask forgiveness for them or do not ask, Allah will not forgive them. Indeed, Allah will guide no transgressing people to success

63:7  They are a people who say, `Do not spend on those who are with the Messenger of Allah until they (are obliged to) disperse (and desert him). Yet the treasures of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah, but the hypocrites do not understand (it)

63:8  They say, `If we return to Madinah, the most honourable and mightier will drive out the most mean from there.' But (true) power and honour belongs to Allah and His Messenger and to the believers. Yet the hypocrites do not know (it)

63:9  O you who believe! do not let your possessions and your children make you forget the remembrance of Allah. And those who do so shall be the real losers

63:10  And spend out of that with which We have provided you, before death visits one of you and he says, `My Lord! would that you had granted me reprieve for a short while, (for if you had,) I would have given alms and would have become of the righteous.

63:11  And Allah does not grant reprieve to a soul when its appointed time is come. And Allah is Well-Aware of what you do