M. H. Shakir, The Holy Quran; Arabic Text and English Translation; Foot-notes by M. H. Shakir (1974)

shall requite them for what they forged.

140. And they say: What is in the wombs of these cattle is specially for our males, and forbidden to our wives, and if it be still-born, then they are all partners in it; He will reward them for their attributing (falsehood to Allah); surely He is Wise, Knowing.

141. They are lost indeed who kill their children foolishly without knowledge, and forbid what Allah has given to them, forging a lie against Allah; they have indeed gone astray, and they are not the followers of the right course.

142. And He it is Who produces gardens (of vine), trellised and untrellised, and palms and seed-produce of which the fruits are of various sorts, and olives and pomegranates, like and unlike; eat of its fruit when it bears fruit, and pay the due of it on the day of its reaping, and do not act extravagantly; surely He does not love the extravagant.

143. And of cattle (He created) beasts of burden and those which are fit for slaughter only; eat of what Allah has