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389                   Muhammad                 47:32
                                    20 Those who believe ask why some matters.’ God knows their
                                  no chapter [about fighting] has secrets.  27  Then how will it be
                                  been sent down. Yet when a when the angels take their souls,
                                  decisive chapter that mentions beating them on their faces and
                                  fighting is sent down, you can their backs,  28  because they
                                  see the sick of heart looking at followed the way that made God
                                  you [Prophet] as if they were wrathful, and hated to adopt the
                                  under the shadow of death. way of His pleasure? So He
                                  Therefore, woe to them! made their actions come to
                                  21  Obedience and saying what is nothing.
                                  just would become them more;  29 Do the sick at heart imagine
                                  when the decision is taken, it that God will not bring to light
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                                  would be better for them if they their malice?  Now had We so
                                  acted sincerely towards God. willed, We could have shown
                                  22  Then if you turn away, you are them clearly to you, and then
                                  likely to spread corruption on you could have identified them
                                  the earth and sever your ties of by their marks, but surely you
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                                  kinship.  Such are those whom will know them by the tone of
                                  God has rejected, making their their speech! God knows all that
                                  ears deaf and their eyes blind.  you do.
                                    24 Will they not, then, ponder  31 Most certainly We will try
                                  over this Quran? Or are there you until We have discovered
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                                  locks upon their hearts?  Surely, those among you who strive their
                                  those who turn their backs [on hardest, and those who are
                                  this message] after guidance has steadfast, and will test your
                                  been shown to them, [do it record.  32  Surely, they who are
                                  because] Satan has embellished bent on denying the truth and on
                                  their fancies and God gives them barring [others] from the path of
                                  respite;  26  because they say to God, and oppose the Messenger
                                  those who abhor what God has when they have been shown
                                  revealed, ‘We will obey you in guidance, cannot harm God in
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