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XXXIII, 64-73. THE CHAPTER OF THE CONFEDERATES. 149
Verily, God has cursed the misbelievers and has prepared for them a blaze!
[65] To dwell therein for ever and for aye; they shall not find a patron or a helper!
On the day when their faces shall writhe in the fire they shall say, 'O, would that we had obeyed God and obeyed the Apostle!
And they shall say, 'Our Lord! verily, we obeyed our chiefs and our great men and they led us astray from the path! Our Lord! give them double torment and curse them with a great curse!'
O ye who believe! be not like those who annoyed Moses; but God cleared him of what they said, and he was regarded in the sight of God 1.
[70] O ye who believe ! fear God and speak a straightforward speech. He will correct for you your works, and pardon you your sins; for he who obeys God and His Apostle has attained a mighty happiness.
Verily, we offered the trust ? to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to bear it, and shrank from it; but man bore it : verily, he is ever unjust and ignorant. That God may torment the hypocritical men and hypocritical women, and the idolaters and idolatresses; and that God may turn relenting towards the believing men and believing women; verily, God is ever forgiving, merciful.
1 The occasion of the revelation of this verse is said to have been that Mohammed being accused of unfairly dividing certain spoils, said, 'God, have mercy on my brother Moses; he was wronged more than this, and bore it patiently.'
? That is, the faith.'
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