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Your position is untenable so return!’ some of and some are still waiting to do so, not having
them asked the Prophet to excuse them, saying, changed in any way at all. (33:23)
‘Our houses are exposed,’ when they were not So that Allah might recompense the truthful for
exposed; it was merely that they wanted to run their truth and punish the hypocrites, if He wills,
away. (33:13) or turn towards them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
If they had been overrun from every side, and Most Merciful. (33:24)
had then been asked to revert to disbelief, they Allah sent back those who disbelieved in their
would have done so and hesitated very little rage without their achieving any good at all.
about it. (33:14) Allah made it unnecessary for the believers to
Yet they had previously made a contract with fight. Allah is Most Strong, Almighty. (33:25)
Allah that they would never turn their backs.
Contracts made with Allah will be asked about. BATTLE OF UHUD
(33:15) Remember when you left your family early in the
Say: ‘Flight will not benefit you if you try to run day to instal the believers in their battle stations.
away from death or being killed. Then you will Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. And remem-
only enjoy a short respite.’ (33:16) ber when two of your clans were on the point of
Say: ‘Who is going to shield you from Allah if He losing heart and Allah was their Protector. Let the
desires evil for you or desires mercy for you?’ believers put their trust in Allah. (3:121-122)
They will find no one to protect or help them be- If you have received a wound, they have already
sides Allah. (33:17) received a similar wound. We deal out such days
Allah knows the obstructers among you and to people turn by turn, so that Allah will know
those who say to their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and those who believe and can gather martyrs from
who only come to fight a very little, and are be- among you–Allah does not love wrongdoers–and
grudging towards you. Then when fear comes, so that Allah can purge those who believe and
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling wipe out the disbelievers. Or did you imagine
like people scared to death. But when fear de- that you were going to enter the Garden without
parts they flay you with sharp tongues, grasping Allah knowing those among you who had strug-
for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah gled and knowing the steadfast? You were long-
will make their actions come to nothing. That is ing for death before you met it. Now you have
easy for Allah. (33:18-19) seen it with your own eyes. Muhammad is only a
They think that the Confederates have not de- Messenger and he has been preceded by other
parted and if the Confederates did appear then Messengers. If he were to die or be killed, would
they would wish they were out in the desert with you turn on your heels? Those who turn on their
the Arabs, asking for news of you. If they were heels do not harm Allah in any way. Allah will
with you they would only fight a very little. recompense the thankful. (3:140-144)
(33:20) Those of you who turned their backs on the day
You have an excellent model in the Messenger of the two armies clashed–it was Satan who made
Allah, for all who put their hope in Allah and the them slip for what they had done. But Allah has
Last Day and remember Allah much. (33:21) pardoned them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-
When the believers saw the Confederates they Forbearing. (3:155)
said: ‘This is what Allah and His Messenger If you are killed in the Way of Allah or if you die,
promised us. Allah and His Messenger told us the forgiveness and mercy from Allah are better than
truth.’ It only increased them in faith and in sub- anything you can acquire. (3:157)
mission. (33:22) Why is it that when a calamity happens to you,
Among the believers there are men who have when you have already inflicted twice as much,
been true to the contract they made with Allah. you say, ‘How could this possibly happen?’ Say,
Some of them have fulfilled their pact by death ‘It has come from your own selves.’ Allah has
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