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helpless old men, women, and children who say: 'Deliver us, Lord,
from this city of wrongdoers; send forth to us a guardian from Your
presence; send to us one that will help us?
The true believers fight for the cause of Allah, but the infidels fight
for the devil. Fight then against the friends of the devil. The devil's
cunning is weak indeed.
Consider those to whom it has been said: 'Lay down you arms; recite
your prayers and pay the alms-tax.' When they were ordered to fight,
some of them feared man as much as they fear Allah or even more.
'Lord,' they said, 'why have You decreed that we should fight? Could
You not give us a brief respite?'
Say: 'Trifling are the pleasures of this life. The Here-after is better
for those who would keep from evil. You shall not be wronged the husk
of a date-stone. Wherever you be, death will overtake you: though you
put yourselves in lofty towers.'
When they are blessed with good fortune, they say: 'This is from
Allah.' But when evil befalls them, they say: 'The fault was yours.'
Say to them: 'All is fromAllah!'
What has come over these men that they should show such lack of
understanding?
Whatever good befalls you (man),it is fromAllah: and whatever ill,
fromyourself.
We have sent you forth as an apostle to mankind. Allah is (your) all-
sufficient witness.
He that obeys theApostle obeysAllah Himself. As for those that pay
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