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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

their wealth and themselves have a higher rank with God. They
are the ones who are victorious. (Surat at-Tawba, 20)

NEVER ADOPTING A RELUCTANT, HALF-HEARTED
EFFORT IN THE STRUGGLE IN THE WAY OF GOD
Just as your Lord brought you out from your house with truth, even
though a group of the believers disliked it. (Surat al-Anfal, 5)
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. (Surat

al-Ma’idah, 24)
Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is prescribed
for them, a group of them fear people as God 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.’ (Surat an-Nisa’, 77)
Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the Messen-
ger of God. They did not want to strive with their wealth and
themselves in the Way of God. They said, ‘Do not go out to fight
in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only under-
stood.’ (Surat at-Tawba, 81)

You who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are
told, ‘Go out and fight in the way of God,’ you sink down heavily
to the earth? Are you happier with this world than the hereafter?
Yet the enjoyment of this world is very small compared to that of
the hereafter. If you do not go out to fight, He will punish you with
a painful punishment and substitute another people in your place.

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