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XLVII, 19-28. THE CHAPTER OF MOHAMMED.
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But those who are guided, He guides them the more, and gives them the due of their piety.
[20] Do they wait for aught but the Hour, that it should come to them suddenly? The conditions thereof have come already; how, when it has come on them, can they have their reminder?
Know thou that there is no god but God; and ask pardon for thy sin and for the believers, men and women; for God knows your return and your resort!
Those who misbelieve say, 'Why has not a surah been revealed?' but when a decisive sûrah is revealed and fighting is mentioned therein, thou mayest see those in whose heart is sickness 1 looking towards thee with the look of one fainting in death. Preferable for them were obedience and a reasonable speech! But when the matter is determined on, then if they believed God it were better for them.
Would ye perhaps, if ye had turned back, have done evil in the land and severed the bonds of kinship?
[25] It is these whom God has cursed, and has made them deaf, and has blinded their eyesight! Do they not peruse the Qur'ân? or are there locks upon their hearts?
Verily, those who turn their backs after the guidance that has been manifested to them-Satan induces them, but (God) lets them go on for a time!
That is for that they say to those who are averse from what God has revealed, 'We will obey you in
1 See Introduction, p. lxiii.
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