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If We wished, We would show them to you and back and doubted and false hopes deluded you
you would know them by their mark and know until Allah’s command arrived. The Deluder de-
them by their ambivalent speech. Allah knows luded you about Allah. So today no ransom will
your actions. (47:30) be accepted from you or from those who disbe-
We will test you until We know the true fighters lieved. Your refuge is the Fire. It is your master.
among you and those who are steadfast and test What an evil destination!’ (57:14-15)
what is reported of you. (47:31) Do you not see those who were forbidden to
Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of confer together secretly returning to the very
Allah and are entrenched in hostility towards the thing they were forbidden to do, and conferring
Messenger after the guidance has become clear together secretly in wrongdoing and enmity and
to them, do not harm Allah in any way and He disobedience to the Messenger? And when they
makes their actions come to nothing. (47:32) come to you they greet you with words Allah has
Those Arabs who remained behind will say to never used in greeting you, and say to them-
you, ‘Our wealth and families kept us occupied, selves ‘Why does Allah not punish us for what
so ask forgiveness for us.’ They say with their we say?’ Hell will be enough for them! They will
tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: ‘Who can roast in it. What an evil destination! (58:8)
control Allah for you in any way whether He You who believe! When you confer together se-
wants harm for you or wants benefit for you?’ cretly, do not do so in wrongdoing and enmity
Allah is aware of what you do. (48:11) and disobedience to the Messenger; rather con-
No, you thought that the Messenger and the be- fer together in goodness and fear of Allah. Have
lievers were not going to return to their families, fear of Allah–Him to Whom you will be gath-
and that seemed pleasing to your hearts and you ered. (58:9)
thought evil thoughts and you were a blighted Conferring in secret is from Satan, to cause grief
people. (48:12) to those who believe; but it cannot harm them at
When you go out to get the booty, those who re- all, unless by Allah’s permission. So let the be-
mained behind will say, ‘Allow us to follow you,’ lievers put their trust in Allah. (58:10)
desiring to alter Allah’s words. Say: ‘You may not Do you not see those who have turned to people
follow us. That is what Allah said before.’ They with whom Allah is angry? They belong neither
will say, ‘It is only because you envy us.’ No in- to you nor to them. And they swear to falsehood
deed! How little they have understood! (48:15) and do so knowingly. (58:14)
Say to the Arabs who remained behind: ‘You will Allah has prepared a terrible punishment for
be called up against a people who possess great them. How evil is what they have been doing!
force whom you must fight unless they submit. If (58:15)
you obey, Allah will give you an excellent re- They made their oaths into a cloak and barred
ward. But if you turn your backs as you did be- the Way of Allah, so they will have a humiliating
fore, He will punish you with a painful punishment. (58:16)
punishment.’ (48:16) Neither their wealth nor their children will help
That Day the men and women of the hypocrites them at all against Allah. Such people are the
will say to those who believe, ‘Wait for us so that Companions of the Fire, remaining in it time-
we can borrow some of your light.’ They will be lessly, for ever. (58:17)
told, ‘Go back and look for light!’ And a wall will On the Day Allah raises up all of them together
be erected between them with a gate in it, on the they will swear to Him just as they have sworn to
inside of which there will be mercy but before you and imagine they have something to stand
whose exterior lies the punishment. (57:13) upon. No indeed! It is they who are the liars.
They (hypocrites) will call out to them, ‘Were we (58:18)
not with you?’ They will reply, ‘Indeed you were. Satan has gained mastery over them and made
But you made trouble for yourselves and hung them forget the remembrance of Allah. Such
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