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His Apostle will observe: in the end will ye be brought back to Him Who knoweth what is hidden and what is open: then
will He show you the truth of all that ye did."
009.095 They will swear to you by God, when ye return to them, that ye may leave them alone. So leave them alone:
For they are an abomination, and Hell is their dwelling-place,-a fitting recompense for the (evil) that they did.
009.096 They will swear unto you, that ye may be pleased with them but if ye are pleased with them, God is not pleased
with those who disobey.
009.097 The Arabs of the desert are the worst in Unbelief and hypocrisy, and most fitted to be in ignorance of the
command which God hath sent down to His Apostle: But God is All-knowing, All-Wise.
009.098 Some of the desert Arabs look upon their payments as a fine, and watch for disasters for you: on them be the
disaster of evil: for God is He That heareth and knoweth (all things).
009.099 But some of the desert Arabs believe in God and the Last Day, and look on their payments as pious gifts
bringing them nearer to God and obtaining the prayers of the Apostle. Aye, indeed they bring them nearer (to Him):
soon will God admit them to His Mercy: for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
009.100 The vanguard (of Islam)- the first of those who forsook (their homes) and of those who gave them aid, and
(also) those who follow them in (all) good deeds,- well- pleased is God with them, as are they with Him: for them hath
He prepared gardens under which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever: that is the supreme felicity.
009.101 Certain of the desert Arabs round about you are hypocrites, as well as (desert Arabs) among the Medina folk:
they are obstinate in hypocrisy: thou knowest them not: We know them: twice shall We punish them: and in addition
shall they be sent to a grievous penalty.
009.102 Others (there are who) have acknowledged their wrong-doings: they have mixed an act that was good with
another that was evil. Perhaps God will turn unto them (in Mercy): for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
009.103 Of their goods, take alms, that so thou mightest purify and sanctify them; and pray on their behalf. Verily thy
prayers are a source of security for them: And God is One Who heareth and knoweth.
009.104 Know they not that God doth accept repentance from His votaries and receives their gifts of charity, and that
God is verily He, the Oft-Returning, Most Merciful?
009.105 And say: "Work (righteousness): Soon will God observe your work, and His Apostle, and the Believers: Soon
will ye be brought back to the knower of what is hidden and what is open: then will He show you the truth of all that
ye did."
009.106 There are (yet) others, held in suspense for the command of God, whether He will punish them, or turn in
mercy to them: and God is All-Knowing, Wise.
009.107 And there are those who put up a mosque by way of mischief and infidelity - to disunite the Believers - and
in preparation for one who warred against God and His Apostle aforetime. They will indeed swear that their intention
is nothing but good; But God doth declare that they are certainly liars.
009.108 Never stand thou forth therein. There is a mosque whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety; it
is more worthy of the standing forth (for prayer) therein. In it are men who love to be purified; and God loveth those
who make themselves pure.
009.109 Which then is best? - he that layeth his foundation on piety to God and His good pleasure? - or he that layeth
his foundation on an undermined sand-cliff ready to crumble to pieces? and it doth crumble to pieces with him, into
the fire of Hell. And God guideth not people that do wrong.
009.110 The foundation of those who so build is never free from suspicion and shakiness in their hearts, until their
hearts are cut to pieces. And God is All-Knowing, Wise.
009.111 God hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of
Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the
Gospel, and the Qur'an: and who is more faithful to his covenant than God? then rejoice in the bargain which ye have
concluded: that is the achievement supreme.
009.112 Those that turn (to God) in repentance; that serve Him, and praise Him; that wander in devotion to the cause
of God,: that bow down and prostrate themselves in prayer; that enjoin good and forbid evil; and observe the limit set
by God;- (These do rejoice). So proclaim the glad tidings to the Believers.
009.113 It is not fitting, for the Prophet and those who believe, that they should pray for forgiveness for Pagans, even