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you this day, while I am near to you": But when the two forces came in sight of each other, he turned on his heels, and
said: "Lo! I am clear of you; lo! I see what ye see not; Lo! I fear God: for God is strict in punishment."
008.049 Lo! the hypocrites say, and those in whose hearts is a disease: "These people,- their religion has misled them."
But if any trust in God, behold! God is Exalted in might, Wise.
008.050 If thou couldst see, when the angels take the souls of the Unbelievers (at death), (How) they smite their faces
and their backs, (saying): "Taste the penalty of the blazing Fire-
008.051 "Because of (the deeds) which your (own) hands sent forth; for God is never unjust to His servants:
008.052 "(Deeds) after the manner of the people of Pharaoh and of those before them: They rejected the Signs of God,
and God punished them for their crimes: for God is Strong, and Strict in punishment:
008.053 "Because God will never change the grace which He hath bestowed on a people until they change what is in
their (own) souls: and verily God is He Who heareth and knoweth (all things)."
008.054 (Deeds) after the manner of the people of Pharaoh and those before them": They treated as false the Signs
of their Lord: so We destroyed them for their crimes, and We drowned the people of Pharaoh: for they were all
oppressors and wrong- doers.
008.055 For the worst of beasts in the sight of God are those who reject Him: They will not believe.
008.056 They are those with whom thou didst make a covenant, but they break their covenant every time, and they have
not the fear (of God).
008.057 If ye gain the mastery over them in war, disperse, with them, those who follow them, that they may remember.
008.058 If thou fearest treachery from any group, throw back (their covenant) to them, (so as to be) on equal terms:
for God loveth not the treacherous.
008.059 Let not the unbelievers think that they can get the better (of the godly): they will never frustrate (them).
008.060 Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror
into (the hearts of) the enemies, of God and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom God
doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of God, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.
008.061 But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in God: for He is One
that heareth and knoweth (all things).
008.062 Should they intend to deceive thee,- verily God sufficeth thee: He it is That hath strengthened thee with His
aid and with (the company of) the Believers;
008.063 And (moreover) He hath put affection between their hearts: not if thou hadst spent all that is in the earth,
couldst thou have produced that affection, but God hath done it: for He is Exalted in might, Wise.
008.064 O Apostle! sufficient unto thee is God,- (unto thee) and unto those who follow thee among the Believers.
008.065 O Apostle! rouse the Believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will
vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers: for these are a people without
understanding.
008.066 For the present, God hath lightened your (task), for He knoweth that there is a weak spot in you: But (even
so), if there are a hundred of you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred, and if a thousand, they will
vanquish two thousand, with the leave of God: for God is with those who patiently persevere.
008.067 It is not fitting for an apostle that he should have prisoners of war until he hath thoroughly subdued the land.
Ye look for the temporal goods of this world; but God looketh to the Hereafter: And God is Exalted in might, Wise.
008.068 Had it not been for a previous ordainment from God, a severe penalty would have reached you for the
(ransom) that ye took.
008.069 But (now) enjoy what ye took in war, lawful and good: but fear God: for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
008.070 O Apostle! say to those who are captives in your hands: "If God findeth any good in your hearts, He will give
you something better than what has been taken from you, and He will forgive you: for God is Oft-forgiving, Most
Merciful."
008.071 But if they have treacherous designs against thee, (O Apostle!), they have already been in treason against God,
and so hath He given (thee) power over them. And God so He Who hath (full) knowledge and wisdom.
008.072 Those who believed, and adopted exile, and fought for the Faith, with their property and their persons, in the
cause of God, as well as those who gave (them) asylum and aid,- these are (all) friends and protectors, one of another.