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009.016 Or think ye that ye shall be abandoned, as though God did not know those among you who strive with might
and main, and take none for friends and protectors except God, His Apostle, and the (community of) Believers? But
God is well- acquainted with (all) that ye do.
009.017 It is not for such as join gods with God, to visit or maintain the mosques of God while they witness against
their own souls to infidelity. The works of such bear no fruit: In Fire shall they dwell.
009.018 The mosques of God shall be visited and maintained by such as believe in God and the Last Day, establish
regular prayers, and practise regular charity, and fear none (at all) except God. It is they who are expected to be on true
guidance.
009.019 Do ye make the giving of drink to pilgrims, or the maintenance of the Sacred Mosque, equal to (the pious
service of) those who believe in God and the Last Day, and strive with might and main in the cause of God? They are
not comparable in the sight of God: and God guides not those who do wrong.
009.020 Those who believe, and suffer exile and strive with might and main, in God's cause, with their goods and their
persons, have the highest rank in the sight of God: they are the people who will achieve (salvation).
009.021 Their Lord doth give them glad tidings of a Mercy from Himself, of His good pleasure, and of gardens for
them, wherein are delights that endure:
009.022 They will dwell therein for ever. Verily in God's presence is a reward, the greatest (of all).
009.023 O ye who believe! take not for protectors your fathers and your brothers if they love infidelity above Faith:
if any of you do so, they do wrong.
009.024 Say: If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your mates, or your kindred; the wealth that ye have
gained; the commerce in which ye fear a decline: or the dwellings in which ye delight - are dearer to you than God, or
His Apostle, or the striving in His cause;- then wait until God brings about His decision: and God guides not the
rebellious.
009.025 Assuredly God did help you in many battle-fields and on the day of Hunain: Behold! your great numbers elated
you, but they availed you naught: the land, for all that it is wide, did constrain you, and ye turned back in retreat.
009.026 But God did pour His calm on the Apostle and on the Believers, and sent down forces which ye saw not: He
punished the Unbelievers; thus doth He reward those without Faith.
009.027 Again will God, after this, turn (in mercy) to whom He will: for God is Oft- forgiving, Most Merciful.
009.028 O ye who believe! Truly the Pagans are unclean; so let them not, after this year of theirs, approach the Sacred
Mosque. And if ye fear poverty, soon will God enrich you, if He wills, out of His bounty, for God is All-knowing,
All-wise.
009.029 Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by
God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they
pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
009.030 The Jews call 'Uzair a son of God, and the Christians call Christ the son of God. That is a saying from their
mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. God's curse be on them: how they are deluded
away from the Truth!
009.031 They take their priests and their anchorites to be their lords in derogation of God, and (they take as their Lord)
Christ the son of Mary; yet they were commanded to worship but One God: there is no god but He. Praise and glory
to Him: (Far is He) from having the partners they associate (with Him).
009.032 Fain would they extinguish God's light with their mouths, but God will not allow but that His light should be
perfected, even though the Unbelievers may detest (it).
009.033 It is He Who hath sent His Apostle with guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all religion,
even though the Pagans may detest (it).
009.034 O ye who believe! there are indeed many among the priests and anchorites, who in Falsehood devour the
substance of men and hinder (them) from the way of God. And there are those who bury gold and silver and spend it
not in the way of God: announce unto them a most grievous penalty-
009.035 On the Day when heat will be produced out of that (wealth) in the fire of Hell, and with it will be branded their
foreheads, their flanks, and their backs, their flanks, and their backs.- "This is the (treasure) which ye buried for
yourselves: taste ye, then, the (treasures) ye buried!"