Hizb 5 opens Juz 3 with a run of Al-Baqara's best known material: the ranking of messengers above one another, the Throne Verse describing God's knowledge and sustaining power over the heavens and earth, and shortly after it the statement that there is no compulsion in religion, since right guidance has become distinct from error. A parable follows in which a man passes a ruined town and questions how God could restore it to life, later tradition often naming him Uzayr, and Abraham asks to see with his own eyes how God gives life to the dead, answered through four birds returned to him transformed.
The hizb's closing stretch turns to economic law: repeated warnings against usury, contrasted with the reward promised for charitable spending, and finally the Quran's longest single verse, instructing believers to put debts and loans into writing before witnesses, a passage often read as an early scriptural basis for written contract.
Hizb 5 ends within the opening verses of Al-i-Imran, the next sura, which restates that the Quran confirms what came before it in the Torah and the Gospel and warns those who deny God's signs of a severe reckoning, before listing the desires, wealth, offspring, cattle, land, that the sura says are given to test rather than to reward.