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on denying the truth, and who 27 God has in all truth shown
debarred you from the Sacred His Messenger a true vision in
Mosque and who prevented your which He said, ‘God willing,
offering from reaching its place you will most certainly enter the
of sacrifice. And had it not been Sacred Mosque in safety and
for the believing men and without fear, shaven-headed or
believing women [in Makkah] with hair cut short’—God knew
whom you might unwittingly what you did not; and has given
have trampled underfoot, and on you a victory beforehand.
whose account you might have, 28 He is the One who has sent
unknowingly, become guilty, His Messenger with guidance
[God would have commanded and the true religion, so that He
you to fight it out with them; but may have it prevail over all
He ordained it thus] so that He [other] religions. God suffices
may bring whoever He will into as a witness!
His mercy. If they [the believers] 29 Muhammad is the
had been clearly separated, We Messenger of God. Those who
would have punished those who are with him are firm and
were bent on denying the truth unyielding towards those who
with a painful punishment. deny the truth, but compassionate
26 While those who deny the towards one another. You see
truth made it a prestige issue [in them bowing and prostrating
their hearts]—the bigotry of the themselves, seeking the grace of
days of ignorance—God sent God and His good will. Their
His tranquillity down on to His marks are on their faces, the
Messenger and believers and traces of their prostrations; they
firmly established in them the are described in the Torah and in
principle of righteousness, for the Gospel as being like a seed
they were indeed better entitled which sends forth its shoot, then
to it and more worthy of it. God makes it strong; it then becomes
has full knowledge of all things. thick, and it stands firm on its