Page 198 - Learning from the Qur'an

THEY ACT LIKE BELIEVERS
AMONG THE BELIEVERS
FOR THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST
Among you there are people who hang back and if you encounter
a setback then they say, 'Allah has blessed me in that I was not
there with them.' But if you meet with favour from Allah they
say—as if there were no friendship between you and them—'Oh!
If only I had been with them so that I too might have won a great
victory.' (Qur'an, 4:72-73)

THEY ABANDON THE
BELIEVERS WHEN THEY
ENCOUNTER HARDSHIP
If it had been a case of easy gains and a short journey, they would
have followed you, but the distance was too great for them. They
will swear by Allah: 'Had we been able to, we would have gone
out with you.' They are destroying their own selves. Allah knows
that they are lying. (Qur'an, 9:42)
They said, 'We will never enter it, Musa, as long as they are there.
So you and your Lord go and fight. We will stay sitting here.'
(Qur'an, 5:24)
Do you not see those who were told: 'Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give alms'? Then when fighting is prescribed
for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should be feared,
or even more than that. They say, 'Our Lord, why have you
prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a little
more time!' Say, 'The enjoyment of this world is very brief. The
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will not
be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.' (Qur'an, 4:77)

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