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should be inclined to make peace, and if there are a thousand of
make peace with them, and put you, they will overcome two
your trust in God. Surely, it is He thousand by God’s will. God is
who is All Hearing and All with the steadfast.
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Knowing. Should they seek to 67 It is not right for a Prophet
deceive you, God is enough for to keep captives unless he has
you: it was He who strengthened battled strenuously in the land.
you with His help, and rallied You desire the gain of this world,
the faithful around you, and while God desires for you the
bound their hearts together. Hereafter—God is mighty and
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63 Even if you had spent all that wise. Had it not been for a writ
is on the earth, you could from God that had already gone
not have bound their hearts forth, you would have been
together, but God has bound severely punished on account of
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them together. Surely, He is what you took. So eat of that
Mighty and Wise. which you have gained in war as
64 O Prophet! God is sufficient lawful and good, and fear God.
for you and the believers who Surely, God is most forgiving
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follow you. Prophet, urge the and merciful.
believers to fight; a if there are 70 Prophet, tell those you have
twenty of you who are steadfast, taken captive: ‘If God knows of
they will overcome two hundred, any good in your hearts, He will
and if there are a hundred of you, give you something better than
they will overcome a thousand what has been taken from you,
of those who deny the truth, for and He will forgive you: God is
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they are devoid of understanding. Forgiving and Merciful.’ And
66 God has now lightened your if they would betray you, they
burden, for He knows that there betrayed God before, and He
is weakness in you. If there are a
hundred of you who are steadfast, a See pages xiv to xvii of the
they will overcome two hundred; Introduction.