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9 When you prayed to your 15 Believers, when you meet in
Lord for help, He answered, ‘I battle those who deny the truth,
am sending to your aid a thousand never turn your backs on them:
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angels in succession.’ God only 16 whoever turns his back on
did this to give you good news, such an occasion, unless it be as
and so that your hearts might be a stratagem of war, or in an
set at rest, for help comes from endeavour to join another group
God alone. Surely, God is Mighty [of the believers] will indeed
and Wise. 11 He brought draw down upon himself the
drowsiness upon you to give you wrath of God, and Hell shall be
His reassurance and sent down his abode and the worst indeed is
water from the sky upon you, so that destination.
that He might thereby purify you 17 You did not kill them; it was
and remove Satan’s pollution God who killed them; and when
from you, and make your hearts you [Prophet] threw [sand] at
strong and your feet firm. them it was not you, but God
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When your Lord commanded who threw it so that He might
the angels, saying, ‘I am with confer on the believers a great
you, so make those who believe favour from Himself. Surely, God
stand firm. I will instill fear in is all hearing, all-knowing—
the hearts of those who deny the 18 that is what happened—and
truth: so strike their necks and God will surely undermine the
strike all their finger joints!’ a design of those who deny the
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That was because they defied truth. 19 If you were seeking a
God and His Messenger. He who judgement, a judgement has now
defies God and His Messenger come to you. If you desist, it will
shall be severely punished by be the better for you. But if you
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God. That is your punishment, return [to hostility] We too will
taste it then; and know that for
those who deny the truth there is a See pages xiv to xvii of the
the punishment of the Fire. Introduction.