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people are the party of Satan. No indeed! It is the ocrites are certainly liars. (63:1)
party of Satan who are the losers. (58:19) They have made their oaths into a cloak and
Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, barred the Way of Allah. What they have done is
such people will be among the most abased. truly evil. (63:2)
(58:20) That is because they have believed and then re-
You will not find people who believe in Allah turned to disbelief. So their hearts have been
and the Last Day having love for anyone who op- sealed up and they cannot understand. (63:3)
poses Allah and His Messenger, though they be When you see them, their outward form appeals
their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their to you, and if they speak you listen to what they
clan. Allah has inscribed faith upon such peo- say. But they are like propped-up planks of
ple’s hearts and will reinforce them with a Spirit wood. They imagine every cry to be against
from Him and admit them into Gardens with them. They are the enemy, so beware of them.
rivers flowing under them, remaining in them Allah fight them! How they are perverted! (63:4)
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them When they are told, ‘Come, and the Messenger
and they are pleased with Him. Such people are of Allah will ask forgiveness for you,’ they turn
the party of Allah. Truly it is the party of Allah their heads and you see them turn away in
who are successful. (58:22) haughty arrogance. (63:5)
Did you not see the hypocrites saying to their In their case it makes no difference whether you
brothers, those among the People of the Book ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness
who disbelieve, ‘If you are driven out we will for them. Allah will never forgive them. Allah
leave with you, we will never obey anyone to does not guide deviant people. (63:6)
your detriment. And if you are fought against we They are the people who say, ‘Do not spend on
will help you’? Allah bears witness that they are those who are with the Messenger of Allah, so
truly liars. (59:11) that they may go away.’ The treasuries of the
If they are driven out they will not leave with heavens and earth belong to Allah. But the hyp-
them. If they are fought against they will not help ocrites do not understand this. (63:7)
them. And if they did help them they would turn They say, ‘If we return to Madina, the mightier
their backs, and then they would not be helped. will drive out the inferior.’ But all might belongs
(59:12) to Allah and to His Messenger and the believers.
You are a greater cause of terror in their breasts But the hypocrites do not know this. (63:8)
than Allah! That is because they are people who
do not understand. (59:13)
They will not fight against you all together as a
group except in fortified towns or behind high
walls. Their hostility towards each other is in-
tense. They are full of bravado in each other’s
company. You consider them united but their
hearts are scattered wide. That is because they
are people who do not use their intellect. (59:14)
They are like Satan when he says to a human
being, ‘Disbelieve,’ and then when he disbe-
lieves, says, ‘I wash my hands of you. Truly I fear
Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’ (59:16)
When the hypocrites come to you they say, ‘We
bear witness that you are indeed the Messenger
of Allah.’ Allah knows that you are indeed His
Messenger and Allah bears witness that the hyp-
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