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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN
CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE UNTIL ALL MISCHIEF
IS WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH AND ISLAM
BECOMES THE PREDOMINANT RELIGION
Fight them until there is no more discord and the religion is God’s
alone. If they stop, God sees what they do. (Surat al-Anfal, 39)
KEEPING IN MIND THAT GOD HELPS THE
BELIEVERS WHO STRUGGLE IN THE WAY OF GOD
As for those who strive in Our Way, We will guide them to Our
Paths. Truly God is with the good-doers. (Surat al-Anqabut, 69)
Those who anticipate the worst for you say, ‘Were we not with you?’
whenever you gain a victory from God, but if the disbelievers have
a success they say, ‘Did we not have the upper hand over you and
yet in spite of that keep the believers away from you?’ God will judge
between you on the Day of Rising. God will not give the disbeliev-
ers any way against the believers. (Surat an-Nisa’, 141)
You who believe! If you help God, He will help you and make your
feet firm. (Surah Muhammad, 7)
Then when the Messengers despaired and thought themselves
denied, Our help came to them, and those We willed were saved.
Our violent force cannot be averted from people who are evildoers.
(Surah Yusuf, 110)
Those who were expelled from their homes without any right, mere-
ly for saying, ‘Our Lord is God’ (if God had not driven some people
back by means of others, monasteries, churches, synagogues and
mosques, where God’s name is mentioned much, would have been
pulled down and destroyed. God will certainly help those who help
Him–God is All-Strong, Almighty. (Surat al-Hajj, 40)
And remember when two of your clans were on the point of losing
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