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against we will help you.' But God bears witness that they are surely liars!
If they be driven forth, these will not go forth with them; and if they be fought against, these will not help them; or if they do help them, they will turn their backs in flight; then shall they not be helped!
Ye indeed are a keener source of fear in their hearts than God; that is because they are a people who do not understand! They will not fight against you in a body save in fortified cities, or from behind walls; their valour is great amongst themselves;thou dost reckon them as one body, but their hearts are separated. That is because they are a people who have no sense!
LIX, 11-20.
[15] Like unto those before them, recently1; they tasted the evil result of their affair, and for them is grievous woe.
Like unto the devil when he said to man, ' Disbelieve.' But when he disbelieved, he said, 'Verily, I am clear of thee! Verily, I fear God the Lord of the worlds!' And the end of them both shall be that they shall both be in the Fire, to dwell therein for aye! for that is the reward of the unjust!
O ye who believe! fear God; and let each soul look to what it sends on for the. morrow; and fear God; verily, God is well aware of what ye do!
And be ye not like those who forget God, and He makes them forget themselves; they are the workers of abomination!
[20] Not deemed alike shall be the fellows of the
1 Either the idolaters slain at Bedr, or the Jews of Qâinuqâh, or those of Nadhîr.
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