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up the hearts of the disbelievers. (7:101) been taken from you and forgive you.’ Allah is
We created many of the jinn and mankind for Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (8:70)
Hell. They have hearts they do not understand How indeed! For if they get the upper hand over
with. They have eyes they do not see with. They you, they will respect neither kinship nor treaty.
have ears they do not hear with. Such people are They please you with their mouths but their
like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They hearts belie their words. Most of them are devia-
are the unaware. (7:179) tors. (9:8)
The believers are those whose hearts tremble He will remove the rage from their hearts. Allah
when Allah is mentioned, whose faith is in- turns to anyone He wills. Allah is All-Knowing,
creased when His Signs are recited to them, and All-Wise. (9:15)
who put their trust in their Lord; (8:2) Only those who do not believe in Allah and the
Allah only did this to give you good news and Last Day ask you to excuse them. Their hearts are
that so your hearts would be at rest. Victory full of doubt and in their doubt they waver to and
comes from no one but Allah. Allah is Almighty, fro. (9:45)
All-Wise. (8:10) The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those
And when He overcame you with sleep, making who collect it, reconciling people’s hearts, free-
you feel secure, and sent you down water from ing slaves, those in debt, spending in the Way of
heaven to purify you and remove the taint of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation from
Satan from you, and to fortify your hearts and Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
make your feet firm. (8:11) The hypocrites are afraid that a sura may be sent
And when your Lord revealed to the angels, ‘I am down about them, informing them of what is in
with you so make those who believe firm. I will their hearts. Say: ‘Go on mocking! Allah will ex-
cast terror into the hearts of those who disbe- pose everything you are afraid of. (9:64)
lieve, so strike their necks and strike all their fin- So He has punished them by putting hypocrisy in
ger joints!’ (8:12) their hearts until the day they meet Him because
You who believe! Respond to Allah and to the they failed Allah in what they promised Him and
Messenger when He calls you to what will bring because they lied. (9:77)
you to life! Know that Allah intervenes between a They are pleased to be with those who stay be-
man and his heart and that you will be gathered hind. Their hearts have been stamped so they do
to Him. (8:24) not understand. (9:87)
Remember when Allah showed them to you in There are only grounds against those who ask
your dream as only a few. If He had shown you you for permission to stay when they are rich.
them as many, you would have lost heart and They were pleased to be among those who were
quarrelled about the matter; but Allah saved you. left behind. Allah has sealed up their hearts so
He knows what your hearts contain. (8:43) they do not know. (9:93)
And when the hypocrites and those with sickness The buildings they have built will not cease to be
in their hearts said, ‘These people have been de- a bone of contention in their hearts, until their
luded by their religion.’ But those who put their hearts are cut to shreds. Allah is All-Knowing,
trust in Allah will find Allah to be Almighty, All- All-Wise. (9:110)
Wise. (8:49) Allah has turned towards the Prophet, and the
And (it is He Who) unified their hearts. Even if Migrants (Muhajirun) and the Supporters (Ansar),
you had spent everything on the earth, you could those who followed him at the ‘time of difficulty’,
not have unified their hearts. But Allah has uni- after the hearts of a group of them had almost de-
fied them. He is Almighty, All-Wise. (8:63) viated. Then He turned towards them–He is All-
O Prophet! Say to those you are holding prisoner, Gentle, Most Merciful to them. (9:117)
‘If Allah knows of any good in your hearts, He But as for those with sickness in their hearts, it
will give you something better than what has adds defilement to their defilement, and they die
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