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the helpers who followed him in any loss upon the enemy, it shall
the hour of hardship. After the be counted as a good deed in the
hearts of a group of them had sight of God—God will not deny
almost faltered, He turned the righteous their reward—
towards them, for He was 121 and whenever they spend
compassionate and merciful anything [for the sake of God],
towards them. 118 He has turned be it little or much, and whenever
with mercy to the three whose they traverse the land [in God’s
case was deferred, when the cause]—it is recorded to their
earth, for all its spaciousness, credit, and God will grant them
closed in upon them, and their the best reward for all that they
own souls seemed straitened to have been doing.
them and they realised that there 122 It is not right that all the
was no refuge from God except believers should go out [in time
in Him. He turned to them so of war] all together. Why, then,
that they might turn to Him. God does not a party from every
is the Ever Forgiving, the Most group come to [the Prophet] in
Merciful. order to acquire a deeper
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Believers, fear God and knowledge of religion and to
stand with the truthful. 120 It was warn their people, so that they
not proper for the people of can guard themselves against
Madinah and those desert Arabs evil?
around them to hold back from 123 Believers! Fight against
following God’s Messenger, and those deniers of the truth who
to prefer their own lives to his are near you. Deal firmly with
a
life. This is because whenever them. Know that God is
they suffer from thirst or with those who fear Him.
weariness or hunger for God’s 124 Whenever a chapter is sent
cause, and whenever they take
any step which provokes those a See pages xiv to xvii of the
who deny the truth, or inflicts Introduction.