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47. MUHAMMAD (MUHAMMAD)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1 God will bring to naught all the exacted retribution from them,
good deeds of those who are but His purpose is to test some of
bent on denying the truth and bar you by means of others. As for
[others] from the path of God. those who are killed in God’s
2 As for those who believe and cause, He will never let their
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do good deeds and believe in deeds be in vain; He will guide
what has been revealed to them and improve their
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Muhammad—and it is the truth condition; He will admit them
from their Lord—God will into the Garden He has already
remove their sins from them and made known to them.
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set their condition right. That is 7 Believers! If you succour
because the ones who deny the God, He will succour you and
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truth follow falsehood, while make your footsteps firm. But
those who believe follow the as for those who are bent on
Truth from their Lord. Thus God denying the truth, destruction
sets forth comparisons for will be their lot, and [God] will
mankind. make their deeds come to
4 When you meet those who nothing. It is because they are
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deny the truth in battle, strike averse to what God has revealed
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them in the neck, and once they that He has rendered their deeds
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are defeated, make [them] futile. Have they not travelled
prisoners, and afterwards either the earth and seen how those
set them free as an act of grace, before them met their end? God
or let them ransom [themselves] destroyed them utterly: a similar
until the war is finally over. Thus
you shall do; and if God had a See pages xiv to xvii of the
pleased, He would certainly have Introduction.