Characteristics of hypocrites and prohibition from publishing evil

Those who accept the faith, then disbelieve, then return to it, and deny once again and increase in disbelief, will not be forgiven by God or be guided by Him.

Give tidings to the hypocrites that painful is their doom.

Do those who take unbelievers as their friends in preference to the faithful seek power from them? But all power belongs to God.

You have been commanded in the Book that whensoever you hear God's messages denied or derided, do not sit in that company until they begin talking of other things, or you will be no different from them. Indeed God will put the hypocrites and infidels together in Hell.

Those who wait to see what befalls you, say in ease success comes to you from God: "Were we not with you?" But if fortune favours the infidels, they say: "Did we not overpower you, and yet protected you against the believers?" But God will judge between you on the Day of Resurrection; and God will never give the unbelievers a way over the faithful.

The hypocrites try to deceive God, but He (leads them to) deceive themselves. When they stand up for performing the service of prayer they do so indolently, only for show, and remember God but little,

Wavering between the two, neither with these nor with those. For them who are not given the guidance by God, you will never find a way.

O believers, do not hold unbelievers as friends in preference to the faithful. Do you want to proffer a clear proof of your own guilt before God?

The hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of Hell, and you will find none to help them.

But those who repent and amend, and hold firmly to God, and are sincere and wholly obedient to God, are surely with the faithful; and God will bestow on the faithful a great reward.

Why should God punish you if you acknowledge the truth and believe? God is responsive to gratitude and is cognisant.

God does not like ill (of others) spoken about, except by him who has been wronged. For God hears all and knows everything.

Whether you do some good openly or in secret, or forgive an ill done to you, (know) that God is forgiving and all-powerful.