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then they will say, "But ye are jealous of us." Nay, but little do they understand (such things).
048.016 Say to the desert Arabs who lagged behind: "Ye shall be summoned (to fight) against a people given to
vehement war: then shall ye fight, or they shall submit. Then if ye show obedience, God will grant you a goodly reward,
but if ye turn back as ye did before, He will punish you with a grievous Penalty."
048.017 No blame is there on the blind, nor is there blame on the lame, nor on one ill (if he joins not the war): But
he that obeys God and his Apostle,- (God) will admit him to Gardens beneath which rivers flow; and he who turns back,
(God) will punish him with a grievous Penalty.
048.018 God's Good Pleasure was on the Believers when they swore Fealty to thee under the Tree: He knew what was
in their hearts, and He sent down Tranquillity to them; and He rewarded them with a speedy Victory;
048.019 And many gains will they acquire (besides): and God is Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom.
048.020 God has promised you many gains that ye shall acquire, and He has given you these beforehand; and He has
restrained the hands of men from you; that it may be a Sign for the Believers, and that He may guide you to a Straight
Path;
048.021 And other gains (there are), which are not within your power, but which God has compassed: and God has
power over all things.
048.022 If the Unbelievers should fight you, they would certainly turn their backs; then would they find neither
protector nor helper.
048.023 (Such has been) the practice (approved) of God already in the past: no change wilt thou find in the practice
(approved) of God.
048.024 And it is He Who has restrained their hands from you and your hands from them in the midst of Makka, after
that He gave you the victory over them. And God sees well all that ye do.
048.025 They are the ones who denied Revelation and hindered you from the Sacred Mosque and the sacrificial
animals, detained from reaching their place of sacrifice. Had there not been believing men and believing women whom
ye did not know that ye were trampling down and on whose account a crime would have accrued to you without (your)
knowledge, (God would have allowed you to force your way, but He held back your hands) that He may admit to His
Mercy whom He will. If they had been apart, We should certainly have punished the Unbelievers among them with a
grievous Punishment.
048.026 While the Unbelievers got up in their hearts heat and cant - the heat and cant of ignorance,- God sent down
His Tranquillity to his Apostle and to the Believers, and made them stick close to the command of self-restraint; and
well were they entitled to it and worthy of it. And God has full knowledge of all things.
048.027 Truly did God fulfil the vision for His Apostle: ye shall enter the Sacred Mosque, if God wills, with minds
secure, heads shaved, hair cut short, and without fear. For He knew what ye knew not, and He granted, besides this, a
speedy victory.
048.028 It is He Who has sent His Apostle with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all religion:
and enough is God for a Witness.
048.029 Muhammad is the apostle of God; and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but)
compassionate amongst each other. Thou wilt see them bow and prostrate themselves (in prayer), seeking Grace from
God and (His) Good Pleasure. On their faces are their marks, (being) the traces of their prostration. This is their
similitude in the Taurat; and their similitude in the Gospel is: like a seed which sends forth its blade, then makes it
strong; it then becomes thick, and it stands on its own stem, (filling) the sowers with wonder and delight. As a result,
it fills the Unbelievers with rage at them. God has promised those among them who believe and do righteous deeds
forgiveness, and a great Reward.
THE PRIVATE APARTMENTS, THE INNER APARTMENTS, CHAPTER NO. 049
049.001 O Ye who believe! Put not yourselves forward before God and His Apostle; but fear God: for God is He Who
hears and knows all things.
049.002 O ye who believe! Raise not your voices above the voice of the Prophet, nor speak aloud to him in talk, as ye
may speak aloud to one another, lest your deeds become vain and ye perceive not.
049.003 Those that lower their voices in the presence of God's Apostle,- their hearts has God tested for piety: for