Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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THE QUR'ÂN.
IV, 71-79.
with those God has been pleased with, of prophets and confessors and martyrs and the righteous ;-a fair company are they.
That is grace from God, and God knows well enough.
O ye who believe ! take your precautions and sally in detachments or altogether. Verily, there is of you who tarries behind, and, if a mischance befalls you, says, 'God has been gracious to me, since I am not with them a martyr.'
[75] But if there befalls you grace from God, he would say--as though there were no friendship between you and him— O would that I had been with thee to attain this mighty happiness!' Let those then fight in God's way who sell this life of the world for the next; and whoso fights in God's way, then, be he killed or be he victorious, we will give him a mighty hire.
What ails you that ye do not fight in God's way, and for the weak men and women and children, who say, 'Lord, bring us out of this town of oppressive folk, and make for us from Thee a patron, and make for us from Thee a help ?'
Those who believe fight in the way of God; and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Tàghût ; fight ye then against the friends of Satan, verily, Satan's tricks are weak.
Do ye not see those to whom it is said, Restrain your hands, and be steadfast in prayer and give alms;' and when it is prescribed for them to fight then a band of them fear men, as though it were the fear of God or a still stronger fear, and they say, 'O our Lord! why hast thou prescribed for us to fight,
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