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them, until war shall lay down its burdens.
Thus (shall you do). Had Allah willed, He could Himself have
punished them; but He has ordained it thus that He might test you, the
one by the other.
As for those who are slain in the cause of Allah, He will not render
their works vain. He will guide them and ennoble their state; He will
admit them to the Paradise He has made known to them.
(Believers), if you help Allah, He will help you and make you
strong. But the unbelievers shall be consigned to perdition. He will
bring their deeds to nothing. That is because they have opposed His
revelations. SoHe will frustrate their works.
Have they never journeyed through the land and seen what was the
end of those who have gone before them?Allah destroyed themutterly.
A similar fate awaits the unbelievers, because Allah is the protector of
the faithful, and because the unbelievers have no protector.
Allah will admit those who believe and do good works to gardens
watered by running streams. The unbelievers take their fill of pleasure
and eat as the cattle eat: but Hell shall be their home.
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How many a city mightier than your own city, which has cast you
out, haveWe destroyed and there was none to help them.
Can he who follows the guidance of his Lord be compared to him
whose misdeeds are made to seem fair to him, and to those who follow
their desires?
This is a description of the Paradise which the righteous have been
promised. There shall flow in it rivers of unpolluted water, and rivers
1. Muhammad.
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THE QURAN
MUHAMMAD