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In the name of
Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful.
[8.1] They ask
you about the windfalls. Say: The
windfalls are for Allah and the
Apostle. So be careful of (your duty
to) Allah and set aright matters of
your difference, and obey Allah and
His Apostle if you are believers.
[8.2] Those only are
believers whose hearts become full
of fear when Allah is mentioned, and
when His communications are recited
to them they increase them in faith,
and in their Lord do they trust.
[8.3] Those who keep up
prayer and spend (benevolently) out
of what We have given them.
[8.4] These are the believers
in truth; they shall have from their
Lord exalted grades and forgiveness
and an honorable sustenance.
[8.5] Even as your Lord
caused you to go forth from your
house with the truth, though a party
of the believers were surely averse;
[8.6] They disputed with you
about the truth after it had become
clear, (and they went forth) as if
they were being driven to death
while they saw (it).
[8.7] And when Allah promised
you one of the two parties that it
shall be yours and you loved that
the one not armed should he yours
and Allah desired to manifest the
truth of what was true by His words
and to cut off the root of the
unbelievers.
[8.8] That He may manifest
the truth of what was true and show
the falsehood of what was false,
though the guilty disliked.
[8.9] When you sought aid
from your Lord, so He answered you:
I will assist you with a thousand of
the angels following one another.
[8.10] And Allah only gave it
as a good news and that your hearts
might be at ease thereby; and
victory is only from Allah; surely
Allah is Mighty, Wise.
[8.11] When He caused calm to
fall on you as a security from Him
and sent down upon you water from
the cloud that He might thereby
purify you, and take away from you
the uncleanness of the Shaitan, and
that He might fortify your hearts
and steady (your) footsteps thereby.
[8.12] When your Lord
revealed to the angels: I am with
you, therefore make firm those who
believe. I will cast terror into the
hearts of those who disbelieve.
Therefore strike off their heads and
strike off every fingertip of them.
[8.13] This is because they
acted adversely to Allah and His
Apostle; and whoever acts adversely
to Allah and His Apostle-- then
surely Allah is severe in requiting
(evil).
[8.14] This-- taste it, and
(know) that for the unbelievers is
the chastisement of fire.
[8.15] O you who believe!
when you meet those who disbelieve
marching for war, then turn not your
backs to them.
[8.16] And whoever shall turn
his back to them on that day--
unless he turn aside for the sake of
fighting or withdraws to a company--
then he, indeed, becomes deserving
of Allah's wrath, and his abode is
hell; and an evil destination shall
it be.
[8.17] So you did not slay
them, but it was Allah Who slew
them, and you did not smite when you
smote (the enemy), but it was Allah
Who smote, and that He might confer
upon the believers a good gift from
Himself; surely Allah is Hearing,
Knowing.
[8.18] This, and that Allah
is the weakener of the struggle of
the unbelievers.
[8.19] If you demanded a
judgment, the judgment has then
indeed come to you; and if you
desist, it will be better for you;
and if you turn back (to fight), We
(too) shall turn back, and your
forces shall avail you nothing,
though they may be many, and (know)
that Allah is with the believers.
[8.20] O you who believe!
obey Allah and His Apostle and do
not turn back from Him while you
hear.
[8.21] And be not like those
who said, We hear, and they did not
obey.
[8.22] Surely the vilest of
animals, in Allah's sight, are the
deaf, the dumb, who do not
understand.
[8.23] And if Allah had known
any good in them He would have made
them hear, and if He makes them hear
they would turn back while they
withdraw.
[8.24] O you who believe!
answer (the call of) Allah and His
Apostle when he calls you to that
which gives you life; and know that
Allah intervenes between man and his
heart, and that to Him you shall be
gathered.
[8.25] And fear an affliction
which may not smite those of you in
particular who are unjust; and know
that Allah is severe in requiting
(evil).
[8.26] And remember when you
were few, deemed weak in the land,
fearing lest people might carry you
off by force, but He sheltered you
and strengthened you with His aid
and gave you of the good things that
you may give thanks.
[8.27] O you who believe! be
not unfaithful to Allah and the
Apostle, nor be unfaithful to your
trusts while you know.
[8.28] And know that your
property and your children are a
temptation, and that Allah is He
with Whom there is a mighty reward.
[8.29] O you who believe! If
you are careful of (your duty to)
Allah, He will grant you a
distinction and do away with your
evils and forgive you; and Allah is
the Lord of mighty grace.
[8.30] And when those who
disbelieved devised plans against
you that they might confine you or
slay you or drive you away; and they
devised plans and Allah too had
arranged a plan; and Allah is the
best of planners.
[8.31] And when Our
communications are recited to them,
they say: We have heard indeed; if
we pleased we could say the like of
it; this is nothing but the stories
of the ancients.
[8.32] And when they said: O
Allah! if this is the truth from
Thee, then rain upon us stones from
heaven or inflict on us a painful
punishment.
[8.33] But Allah was not
going to chastise them while you
were among them, nor is Allah going
to chastise them while yet they ask
for forgiveness.
[8.34] And what (excuse) have
they that Allah should not chastise
them while they hinder (men) from
the Sacred Mosque and they are not
(fit to be) guardians of it; its
guardians are only those who guard
(against evil), but most of them do
not know.
[8.35] And their prayer
before the House is nothing but
whistling and clapping of hands;
taste then the chastisement, for you
disbelieved.
[8.36] Surely those who
disbelieve spend their wealth to
hinder (people) from the way of
Allah; so they shall spend it, then
it shall be to them an intense
regret, then they shall be overcome;
and those who disbelieve shall be
driven together to hell.
[8.37] That Allah might
separate the impure from the good,
and put the impure, some of it upon
the other, and pile it up together,
then cast it into hell; these it is
that are the losers.
[8.38] Say to those who
disbelieve, if they desist, that
which is past shall be forgiven to
them; and if they return, then what
happened to the ancients has already
passed.
[8.39] And fight with them
until there is no more persecution
and religion should be only for
Allah; but if they desist, then
surely Allah sees what they do.
[8.40] And if they turn back,
then know that Allah is your Patron;
most excellent is the Patron and
most excellent the Helper.
[8.41] And know that whatever
thing you gain, a fifth of it is for
Allah and for the Apostle and for
the near of kin and the orphans and
the needy and the wayfarer, if you
believe in Allah and in that which
We revealed to Our servant, on the
day of distinction, the day on which
the two parties met; and Allah has
power over all things.
[8.42] When you were on the
nearer side (of the valley) and they
were on the farthest side, while the
caravan was in a lower place than
you; and if you had mutually made an
appointment, you would certainly
have broken away from the
appointment, but-- in order that
Allah might bring about a matter
which was to be done, that he who
would perish might perish by clear
proof, and he who would live might
live by clear proof; and most surely
Allah is Hearing, Knowing;
[8.43] When Allah showed them
to you in your dream as few; and if
He had shown them to you as many you
would certainly have become
weak-hearted and you would have
disputed about the matter, but Allah
saved (you); surely He is the Knower
of what is in the breasts.
[8.44] And when He showed
them to you, when you met, as few in
your eyes and He made you to appear
little in their eyes, in order that
Allah might bring about a matter
which was to be done, and to Allah
are all affairs returned.
[8.45] O you who believe!
when you meet a party, then be firm,
and remember Allah much, that you
may be successful.
[8.46] And obey Allah and His
Apostle and do not quarrel for then
you will be weak in hearts and your
power will depart, and be patient;
surely Allah is with the patient.
[8.47] And be not like those
who came forth from their homes in
great exultation and to be seen of
men, and (who) turn away from the
way of Allah, and Allah comprehends
what they do.
[8.48] And when the Shaitan
made their works fair seeming to
them, and said: No one can overcome
you this day, and surely I am your
protector: but when the two parties
came in sight of each other he
turned upon his heels, and said:
Surely I am clear of you, surely I
see what you do not see, surely I
fear Allah; and Allah is severe in
requiting (evil).
[8.49] When the hypocrites
and those in whose hearts was
disease said: Their religion has
deceived them; and whoever trusts in
Allah, then surely Allah is Mighty,
Wise.
[8.50] And had you seen when
the angels will cause to die those
who disbelieve, smiting their faces
and their backs, and (saying): Taste
the punishment of burning.
[8.51] This is for what your
own hands have sent on before, and
because Allah is not in the least
unjust to the servants;
[8.52] In the manner of the
people of Firon and those before
them; they disbelieved in Allah's
communications, therefore Allah
destroyed them on account of their
faults; surely Allah is strong,
severe in requiting (evil).
[8.53] This is because Allah
has never changed a favor which He
has conferred upon a people until
they change their own condition; and
because Allah is Hearing, Knowing;
[8.54] In the manner of the
people of Firon and those before
them; they rejected the
communications of their Lord,
therefore We destroyed them on
account of their faults and We
drowned Firon's people, and they
were all unjust.
[8.55] Surely the vilest of
animals in Allah's sight are those
who disbelieve, then they would not
believe.
[8.56] Those with whom you
make an agreement, then they break
their agreement every time and they
do not guard (against punishment).
[8.57] Therefore if you
overtake them in fighting, then
scatter by (making an example of)
them those who are in their rear,
that they may be mindful.
[8.58] And if you fear
treachery on the part of a people,
then throw back to them on terms of
equality; surely Allah does not love
the treacherous.
[8.59] And let not those who
disbelieve think that they shall
come in first; surely they will not
escape.
[8.60] And prepare against
them what force you can and horses
tied at the frontier, to frighten
thereby the enemy of Allah and your
enemy and others besides them, whom
you do not know (but) Allah knows
them; and whatever thing you will
spend in Allah's way, it will be
paid back to you fully and you shall
not be dealt with unjustly.
[8.61] And if they incline to
peace, then incline to it and trust
in Allah; surely He is the Hearing,
the Knowing.
[8.62] And if they intend to
deceive you-- then surely Allah is
sufficient for you; He it is Who
strengthened you with His help and
with the believers
[8.63] And united their
hearts; had you spent all that is in
the earth, you could not have united
their hearts, but Allah united them;
surely He is Mighty, Wise.
[8.64] O Prophet! Allah is
sufficient for you and (for) such of
the believers as follow you.
[8.65] O Prophet! urge the
believers to war; if there are
twenty patient ones of you they
shall overcome two hundred, and if
there are a hundred of you they
shall overcome a thousand of those
who disbelieve, because they are a
people who do not understand.
[8.66] For the present Allah
has made light your burden, and He
knows that there is weakness in you;
so if there are a hundred patient
ones of you they shall overcome two
hundred, and if there are a thousand
they shall overcome two thousand by
Allah's permission, and Allah is
with the patient.
[8.67] It is not fit for a
prophet that he should take captives
unless he has fought and triumphed
in the land; you desire the frail
goods of this world, while Allah
desires (for you) the hereafter; and
Allah is Mighty, Wise.
[8.68] Were it not for an
ordinance from Allah that had
already gone forth, surely there
would have befallen you a great
chastisement for what you had taken
to.
[8.69] Eat then of the lawful
and good (things) which you have
acquired in war, and be careful of
(your duty to) Allah; surely Allah
is Forgiving, Merciful.
[8.70] O Prophet! say to
those of the captives who are in
your hands: If Allah knows anything
good in your hearts, He will give to
you better than that which has been
taken away from you and will forgive
you, and Allah is Forgiving,
Merciful.
[8.71] And if they intend to
act unfaithfully towards you, so
indeed they acted unfaithfully
towards Allah before, but He gave
(you) mastery over them; and Allah
is Knowing, Wise.
[8.72] Surely those who
believed and fled (their homes) and
struggled hard in Allah's way with
their property and their souls, and
those who gave shelter and helped--
these are guardians of each other;
and (as for) those who believed and
did not fly, not yours is their
guardianship until they fly; and if
they seek aid from you in the matter
of religion, aid is incumbent on you
except against a people between whom
and you there is a treaty, and Allah
sees what you do.
[8.73] And (as for) those who
disbelieve, some of them are the
guardians of others; if you will not
do it, there will be in the land
persecution and great mischief.
[8.74] And (as for) those who
believed and fled and struggled hard
in Allah's way, and those who gave
shelter and helped, these are the
believers truly; they shall have
forgiveness and honorable provision.
[8.75] And (as for) those who
believed afterwards and fled and
struggled hard along with you, they
are of you; and the possessors of
relationships are nearer to each
other in the ordinance of Allah;
surely Allah knows all things. |
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