rightly directed?  The unbelievers are like unto one who crieth aloud to that which heareth not so much as his calling, or the sound of his voice.  They are deaf, dumb, and blind, therefore they do not understand.  O true believers, eat of the good things which we have bestowed on you for food, and return thanks unto God, if ye serve him.  Verily he hath forbidden you to eat that which dieth of itself, and blood, and swine’s flesh, and that on which any other name but God’s hath been invocated.[32] But he who is forced by necessity, not lusting, nor returning to transgress, it shall be no crime in him if he eat of those things, for God is gracious and merciful.  Moreover they who conceal any part of the scripture which God hath sent down unto them, and sell it for a small price, they shall swallow into their bellies nothing but fire; God shall not speak unto them on the day of resurrection, neither shall he purify them, and they shall suffer a grievous punishment.  These are they who have sold direction for error, and pardon for punishment:  but how great will their suffering be in the fire!  This they shall endure, because God sent down the book of the Koran with truth, and they who disagree concerning that book, are certainly in a wide mistake.  It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces in prayer towards the east and the west, but righteousness is of him who believeth in God and the last day, and the angels, and the scriptures, and the prophets; who giveth money for God’s sake unto his kindred, and unto orphans, and the needy, and the stranger, and those who ask, and for redemption of captives; who is constant at prayer, and giveth alms; and of those who perform their covenant, when they have covenanted, and who behave themselves patiently in adversity, and hardships, and in time of violence:  these are they who are true, and these are they who fear God.  O true believers, the law of retaliation is ordained you for the slain:  the free shall die for the free, and the servant for the servant, and a woman for a woman; but he whom his brother shall forgive, may be prosecuted, and obliged to make satisfaction according to what is just, and a fine shall be set on him[33] with humanity.  This is indulgence from your Lord, and mercy.  And he who shall transgress after this, by killing the murderer, shall suffer a grievous punishment.  And in this law of retaliation ye have life, O ye of understanding, that peradventure ye may fear.  It is ordained you, when any of you is at the point of death, if he leave any goods, that he bequeath a legacy to his parents and kindred, according to what shall be reasonable.[34] This is a duty incumbent on those who fear God.  But he who shall change the legacy, after he hath heard it bequeathed by the dying person, surely the sin thereof shall be on those who change it, for God is he who heareth and knoweth.  Howbeit he who apprehendeth from the testator any mistake or injustice, and shall compose the matter between them, that shall be no crime in him, for God