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LXI, 4-11.
THE CHAPTER OF THE RANKS.
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Verily, God loves those who fight in His cause in ranks as though they were a compact building ?
[5] When Moses said to his people, 'O my people! why do ye hurt me, when ye know that I am the apostle of God to you ?' and when they swerved, God made their hearts to swerve; for God guides not the people who work abomination !
And when Jesus the son of Mary said, 'O children of Israel ! verily, I am the apostle of God to you, verifying the law that was before me and giving you glad tidings of an apostle who shall come after me, whose name shall be A'hmed?!'—but when he did come to them with manifest signs, they said, 'This is manifest sorcery !
And who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie when called unto Islâm ? but God guides not the unjust people.
They desire to put out the light of God with their mouths; but God will perfect His light, averse although the misbeliever be !
He it is who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth to set it above all religion ; averse although the idolaters may be.
[10] O ye who believe ! shall I lead you to a merchandise which will save you from grievous woe?
To believe in God and His Apostle, and to fight strenuously in God's cause with your property and
i Who fight in close and unbroken lines.
* A'hmed is equivalent in meaning to Mohammed, and means Praised,''Laudable.' The allusion is to the promise of the Paraclete in John xvi. 7, the Muslims declaring that the word mapákantos has been substituted in the Greek for TepukAutós, which would mean the same as Ahmed. See Introduction, p. xlix.
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