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008.002 For, Believers are those who, when God is mentioned, feel a tremor in their hearts, and when they hear His
signs rehearsed, find their faith strengthened, and put (all) their trust in their Lord;
008.003 Who establish regular prayers and spend (freely) out of the gifts We have given them for sustenance:
008.004 Such in truth are the believers: they have grades of dignity with their Lord, and forgiveness, and generous
sustenance:
008.005 Just as thy Lord ordered thee out of thy house in truth, even though a party among the Believers disliked it,
008.006 Disputing with thee concerning the truth after it was made manifest, as if they were being driven to death and
they (actually) saw it.
008.007 Behold! God promised you one of the two (enemy) parties, that it should be yours: Ye wished that the one
unarmed should be yours, but God willed to justify the Truth according to His words and to cut off the roots of the
Unbelievers;-
008.008 That He might justify Truth and prove Falsehood false, distasteful though it be to those in guilt.
008.009 Remember ye implored the assistance of your Lord, and He answered you: "I will assist you with a thousand
of the angels, ranks on ranks."
008.010 God made it but a message of hope, and an assurance to your hearts: (in any case) there is no help except from
God: and God is Exalted in Power, Wise.
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011 Remember He covered you with a sort of drowsiness, to give you calm as from Himself, and he caused rain to
descend on you from heaven, to clean you therewith, to remove from you the stain of Satan, to strengthen your hearts,
and to plant your feet firmly therewith.
008.012 Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the Believers:
I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off
them."
008.013 This because they contended against God and His Apostle: If any contend against God and His Apostle, God
is strict in punishment.
008.014 Thus (will it be said): "Taste ye then of the (punishment): for those who resist God, is the penalty of the Fire."
008.015 O ye who believe! when ye meet the Unbelievers in hostile array, never turn your backs to them.
008.016 If any do turn his back to them on such a day - unless it be in a stratagem of war, or to retreat to a troop (of
his own)- he draws on himself the wrath of God, and his abode is Hell,- an evil refuge (indeed)!
008.017 It is not ye who slew them; it was God: when thou threwest (a handful of dust), it was not thy act, but God's:
in order that He might test the Believers by a gracious trial from Himself: for God is He Who heareth and knoweth
(all things).
008.018 That, and also because God is He Who makes feeble the plans and stratagem of the Unbelievers.
008.019 (O Unbelievers!) if ye prayed for victory and judgment, now hath the judgment come to you: if ye desist (from
wrong), it will be best for you: if ye return (to the attack), so shall We. Not the least good will your forces be to you
even if they were multiplied: for verily God is with those who believe!
008.020 O ye who believe! Obey God and His Apostle, and turn not away from him when ye hear (him speak).
008.021 Nor be like those who say, "We hear," but listen not:
008.022 For the worst of beasts in the sight of God are the deaf and the dumb,- those who understand not.
008.023 If God had found in them any good. He would indeed have made them listen: (As it is), if He had made them
listen, they would but have turned back and declined (Faith).
008.024 O ye who believe! give your response to God and His Apostle, when He calleth you to that which will give
you life; and know that God cometh in between a man and his heart, and that it is He to Whom ye shall (all) be gathered.
008.025 And fear tumult or oppression, which affecteth not in particular (only) those of you who do wrong: and know
that God is strict in punishment.
008.026 Call to mind when ye were a small (band), despised through the land, and afraid that men might despoil and
kidnap you; But He provided a safe asylum for you, strengthened you with His aid, and gave you Good things for
sustenance: that ye might be grateful.
008.027 O ye that believe! betray not the trust of God and the Apostle, nor misappropriate knowingly things entrusted