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ishment. (24:11) Most Merciful. (33:24)
When the hypocrites and people with sickness in Do not obey the disbelievers and hypocrites and
their hearts said, ‘What Allah and His Messenger disregard their abuse of you. Put your trust in
promised us was mere delusion.’ (33:12) Allah. Allah suffices as a Protector. (33:48)
And a group of them said, ‘People of Yathrib, If the hypocrites and those with sickness in their
Your position is untenable so return!’ some of hearts and the rumour-mongers in Madina do not
them asked the Prophet to excuse them, saying, desist, We will set you onto them. Then they will
‘Our houses are exposed,’ when they were not only be your neighbours there a very short time.
exposed; it was merely that they wanted to run (33:60)
away. (33:13) They are an accursed people. Wherever they are
If they had been overrun from every side, and found they should be seized and mercilessly put
had then been asked to revert to disbelief, they to death. (33:61)
would have done so and hesitated very little This is Allah’s pattern with those who passed
about it. (33:14) away before. You will not find any alteration in
Yet they had previously made a contract with Allah’s pattern. (33:62)
Allah that they would never turn their backs. Those who believe say, ‘If only a sura could be
Contracts made with Allah will be asked about. sent down.’ But when a straightforward sura is
(33:15) sent down and fighting is mentioned in it, you
Say: ‘Flight will not benefit you if you try to run see those with sickness in their hearts looking at
away from death or being killed. Then you will you with the look of someone about to faint from
only enjoy a short respite.’ (33:16) fear of death. More fitting for them would be
Say: ‘Who is going to shield you from Allah if He obedience and honourable words. Once the
desires evil for you or desires mercy for you?’ matter is resolved upon, being true to Allah
They will find no one to protect or help them be- would be better for them. (47:20-21)
sides Allah. (33:17) Is it not likely that, if you did turn away, you
Allah knows the obstructers among you and would cause corruption in the earth and sever
those who say to their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and your ties of kinship? (47:22)
who only come to fight a very little, and are be- Such are the people Allah has cursed, making
grudging towards you. Then when fear comes, them deaf and blinding their eyes. (47:23)
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling Will they not then ponder the Qur’an or are there
like people scared to death. But when fear de- locks upon their hearts? (47:24)
parts they flay you with sharp tongues, grasping Those who have turned back in their tracks after
for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah the guidance became clear to them, it was Satan
will make their actions come to nothing. That is who talked them into it and filled them with false
easy for Allah. (33:18-19) hopes. (47:25)
They think that the Confederates have not de- That is because they said to those who hate what
parted and if the Confederates did appear then Allah has sent down, ‘We will obey you in part of
they would wish they were out in the desert with the affair.’ But Allah knows their secrets. (47:26)
the Arabs, asking for news of you. If they were How will it be when the angels take them in
with you they would only fight a very little. death, beating their faces and their backs?
(33:20) (47:27)
You have an excellent model in the Messenger of That is because they followed what angers Allah
Allah, for all who put their hope in Allah and the and hated what is pleasing to Him. So He made
Last Day and remember Allah much. (33:21) their actions come to nothing. (47:28)
So that Allah might recompense the truthful for Or did those with sickness in their hearts imagine
their truth and punish the hypocrites, if He wills, that Allah would not expose their malevolence?
or turn towards them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, (47:29)
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