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When you see them their figures please you, and when they speak
you listen to what they say. Yet they are like propped-up beams of
timber. Every shout they hear they take to be against them.
They
are
the enemy. Guard yourself against them. Allah confound them! How
perverse they are!
When it is said to them: 'Come, Allah'sApostle will beg forgiveness
for you,' they turn their heads and you see themgo away in arrogance.
It is alike to themwhether or not you ask forgiveness for them:Allah
will not forgive them. He does not guide the evil-doers.
It is they who say: 'Spend nothing on those that follow Allah's
Apostle until they have deserted him.' Allah's are the treasures of
heaven and earth: but this the hypocrites cannot understand.
They say: 'If we return toMadinah, the strong will soon drive out the
weak.' But strength belongs to Allah and His Apostle and the
faithful: yet the hypocrites do not know it.
Believers, let neither your riches nor your children beguile you of
Allah's remembrance. Those that do this shall havemuch to lose.
Give, then, of that with which We have provided you before death
befalls any of you and he should say: 'Reprieve me, my Lord, awhile
that I may give in charity and be among the righteous.'
But Allah reprieves no soul when its term expires. Allah has
knowledge of all your actions.
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