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And, mention, when We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, in the Torah, where We said: 'You shall not worship (a variant reading [for lā ta'budūna] has [third person plural] lā ya'budūn ['they shall not worship']) any other than Allahu ta’ālā (lā ta'budūna illā llāha is a predicate denoting a prohibition; one may also read lā ta'budū [Worship you not]); and to be good, and righteous, to parents, and the near of kin: here kinship is adjoined to parents; and to orphans, and to the needy; and speak well, [good] words, to men, commanding good and forbidding evil, being truthful with regard to the status of Muhammad "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" , and being kind to them [sc. orphans and the needy] (a variant reading [for hasanan] has husnan, the verbal noun, used as a hyperbolic description); and observe prayer and pay the alms', which you actually accepted, but, then you turned away, refusing to fulfil these [obligations] (here the second person address is used, but their forefathers are [still] meant); all but a few of you, rejecting it, like your forefathers.