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1Would 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’4n ? 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. 232 ‘THE Qur’AN, XLVII, 28-39. part of the affair!’ but God knows their secrets! How will it be when the angels! take their souls, smiting their faces and their backs ? [30] This is because they follow what angers God and are averse from His goodwill; and their works are void. Do those in whose hearts is sickness reckon that God will not bring their malice forth ? But did we please we would show thee them, and thou shouldst know them by their cognisances. But thou shalt known them by their distorting their speech, and God knows their works ! But we will try you until we know those among you who fight strenuously and the patient; and we will try the reports concerning you. Verily, those who misbelieve and turn folks off God’s path, and break with the Apostle after the guidance that has been manifested to them, cannot harm God at all, and their works shall be void ! [35] O ye who believe! obey God, and obey the Apostle ; and make not your works vain. Verily, those who misbelieve and turn folks off God’s path, and then die misbelievers, God will not pardon them. . Then faint not, nor cry for peace while ye have the upper hand; for God is with you and will not cheat you of your works! The life of this world is but a play and a sport; but if ye believe and fear God, He will give you your hire. He does not ask you for (all) your property; if ? Munkir and Nakir ; see Introduction, p. Ixix. XLVII, 39-XLVIII, 6. THE CHAPTER OF VICTORY. 233 He were to ask you for it and to press you, ye would be niggardly, and he would bring your malice out. [40] Here are ye called upon to expend in God’s cause, and among you are some who are niggardly; and he who is niggardly is but niggardly against his own soul: but God is rich and ye are poor, and if ye turn your backs He will substitute another people in your stead, then they will not be like you. THe CHAPTER OF VICTORY. (XLVIII. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Verily, we have given thee an obvious victory ! that God may pardon thee thy former and later sin, and may fulfil His favour upon thee, and guide thee in a right way, and that God may help thee with a mighty help.
2(XLVIII. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Verily, we have given thee an obvious victory ! that God may pardon thee thy former and later sin, and may fulfil His favour upon thee, and guide thee in a right way, and that God may help thee with a mighty help. It is He who sent down his shechina? into the hearts of the believers that they might have faith added to their faith ;—and God's are the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and God is knowing, wise—[5] to make the believers, men and women, enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; and to cover for them their offences ; for that with God is a grand bliss: and * Some of the commentators take this to mean sins committed by Mohammed before his call and after; others refer the word to the liaison with the Coptic handmaiden Mary, and to his marriage with Zainab the wife of his adopted son ZAid. See Introduction, pp. xxix and xl. ° 3 Or tranquillity; see Part I, p. 38, note 2. 234 THE QURAN. XLVIII, 6-12. to torment the hypocrites, men and women, and the idolaters, men and women, who think evil thoughts of God ;—over them is a turn of evil fortune, and God will be wrath with them and curse them, and has prepared for them hell, and an evil journey shall it be! God’s are the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and God is mighty, wise! Verily, we have sent thee as a witness, and a herald of glad tidings, and a warner ;—that ye may believe in God and His Apostle, and may aid Him and revere Him and celebrate His praises morning and evening ! [10] Verily, those who swear allegiance to thee do but swear allegiance to God ;—God’s hand is above their hands! and whoso perjures himself does but perjure himself against himself; but he who fulfils what he has covenanted with God, God shall bring him mighty hire. The desert Arabs who were left behind! shall say, ‘Our wealth and our people occupied us ; ask pardon then for us!’—they speak with their tongues what is not in their hearts! Say, ‘Who can control for you aught from God, if He wish you harm or wish you advantage?’ Nay, God of what ye do is well aware! Nay, ye thought that the Apostle and the believers would not ever return again to their families; that was made seemly in your hearts! and ye thought evil thoughts, and ye were a corrupt people. | 1 Alluding to certain tribes who held aloof from the expedition of ‘Hudaibtyeh, XLVIII, 13-18. THE CHAPTER OF VICTORY. 235 Whoso believes not in God and His Apostle— we have prepared for the unbelievers a blaze! God’s is the kingdom of the -heavens and of the earth. He pardons whom He pleases, and torments whom He pleases; and God is forgiving, merciful. [15] Those who were left behind? shall say when ye have gone forth to spoils that ye may take, ‘ Let us follow you ;’ they wish to change God’s words. Say, ‘Ye shall by no means follow us; thus did God say before!’
3[15] Those who were left behind? shall say when ye have gone forth to spoils that ye may take, ‘ Let us follow you ;’ they wish to change God’s words. Say, ‘Ye shall by no means follow us; thus did God say before!’ They will say,‘ Nay! but ye envy us!’ Nay! they did not understand save a little. Say to those desert Arabs who were left behind, ‘Ye shall be called out against a people endowed with vehement valour’, and shall fight them or they shall become Muslims. And if ye obey, God will give you a good hire ; but if ye turn your backs, as ye turned your backs before, He will torment you with grievous woe!’ There is no compulsion on the blind, and no compulsion on the lame, and no compulsion on the sick, but whoso obeys God and His Apostle, He will make him enter gardens beneath which rivers flow; but whoso turns his back He will torment with grievous woe. God was well pleased with the believers when 1 In an expedition against the Jews of Khaibar, which Mohammed undertook shortly after his return from ‘Hudaibtyeh, and obtained considerable booty, which he shared only with those who had accompanied him on the previous occasion. 2 The followers of Musdilimah, Mohammed’s rival, and the tribes that had apostatized from Islam. Some think it refers to the Greeks and Persians. 236 THE QUR'AN. XLVIII, 18-25. they did swear allegiance to thee beneath the tree’; and He knew what was in their hearts, and He sent down His shechina? upon them and rewarded them with a victory nigh at hand 8, and many spoils for them to take; for God is mighty, wise! [20] God promised you many spoils and hastened this on for you, and restrained men’s hands from you; and it may be a sign for the believers and guide you in a right way;—and other (spoils) which ye could not gain; but God has encompassed them ; ’ for God is mighty over all. And had those who misbelieved fought you, they would have turned their backs; then they would have found neither patron nor helper!—God's course which has been followed before, and thou shalt find no change in the course of God! He it was who restrained their hands from you, and your hands from them in the mid-valley of Mecca‘ after He had given you the victory over them ; for God on what ye do doth look! [25] Those who misbelieved and turned (you) away from the Sacred Mosque, and (turned away) the offering, kept from arriving at its destined place®; and had it not been for believing men and believing women whom ye knew not, whom ye might have trampled on, and so a crime might have 1 At “Hudaibiyeh. ® See Part I, p. 38, note 2. § Either the success at Khaibar or the taking of Mecca. « Alluding to the truce concluded at ‘Hudaibfyeh. 5 Mohammed having only set out with the intention of peaceably performing the pilgrimage, carried cattle with him to sacrifice in the valley of Mina, but was obliged by the Qur4is to turn back. See Introduction, pp. xxxix, xl. XLVITI, 25-28. THE CHAPTER OF VICTORY. 237
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1Would 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’4n ? 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. 232 ‘THE Qur’AN, XLVII, 28-39. part of the affair!’ but God knows their secrets! How will it be when the angels! take their souls, smiting their faces and their backs ? [30] This is because they follow what angers God and are averse from His goodwill; and their works are void. Do those in whose hearts is sickness reckon that God will not bring their malice forth ? But did we please we would show thee them, and thou shouldst know them by their cognisances. But thou shalt known them by their distorting their speech, and God knows their works ! But we will try you until we know those among you who fight strenuously and the patient; and we will try the reports concerning you. Verily, those who misbelieve and turn folks off God’s path, and break with the Apostle after the guidance that has been manifested to them, cannot harm God at all, and their works shall be void ! [35] O ye who believe! obey God, and obey the Apostle ; and make not your works vain. Verily, those who misbelieve and turn folks off God’s path, and then die misbelievers, God will not pardon them. . Then faint not, nor cry for peace while ye have the upper hand; for God is with you and will not cheat you of your works! The life of this world is but a play and a sport; but if ye believe and fear God, He will give you your hire. He does not ask you for (all) your property; if ? Munkir and Nakir ; see Introduction, p. Ixix. XLVII, 39-XLVIII, 6. THE CHAPTER OF VICTORY. 233 He were to ask you for it and to press you, ye would be niggardly, and he would bring your malice out. [40] Here are ye called upon to expend in God’s cause, and among you are some who are niggardly; and he who is niggardly is but niggardly against his own soul: but God is rich and ye are poor, and if ye turn your backs He will substitute another people in your stead, then they will not be like you. THe CHAPTER OF VICTORY. (XLVIII. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Verily, we have given thee an obvious victory ! that God may pardon thee thy former and later sin, and may fulfil His favour upon thee, and guide thee in a right way, and that God may help thee with a mighty help.
2(XLVIII. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Verily, we have given thee an obvious victory ! that God may pardon thee thy former and later sin, and may fulfil His favour upon thee, and guide thee in a right way, and that God may help thee with a mighty help. It is He who sent down his shechina? into the hearts of the believers that they might have faith added to their faith ;—and God's are the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and God is knowing, wise—[5] to make the believers, men and women, enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; and to cover for them their offences ; for that with God is a grand bliss: and * Some of the commentators take this to mean sins committed by Mohammed before his call and after; others refer the word to the liaison with the Coptic handmaiden Mary, and to his marriage with Zainab the wife of his adopted son ZAid. See Introduction, pp. xxix and xl. ° 3 Or tranquillity; see Part I, p. 38, note 2. 234 THE QURAN. XLVIII, 6-12. to torment the hypocrites, men and women, and the idolaters, men and women, who think evil thoughts of God ;—over them is a turn of evil fortune, and God will be wrath with them and curse them, and has prepared for them hell, and an evil journey shall it be! God’s are the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and God is mighty, wise! Verily, we have sent thee as a witness, and a herald of glad tidings, and a warner ;—that ye may believe in God and His Apostle, and may aid Him and revere Him and celebrate His praises morning and evening ! [10] Verily, those who swear allegiance to thee do but swear allegiance to God ;—God’s hand is above their hands! and whoso perjures himself does but perjure himself against himself; but he who fulfils what he has covenanted with God, God shall bring him mighty hire. The desert Arabs who were left behind! shall say, ‘Our wealth and our people occupied us ; ask pardon then for us!’—they speak with their tongues what is not in their hearts! Say, ‘Who can control for you aught from God, if He wish you harm or wish you advantage?’ Nay, God of what ye do is well aware! Nay, ye thought that the Apostle and the believers would not ever return again to their families; that was made seemly in your hearts! and ye thought evil thoughts, and ye were a corrupt people. | 1 Alluding to certain tribes who held aloof from the expedition of ‘Hudaibtyeh, XLVIII, 13-18. THE CHAPTER OF VICTORY. 235 Whoso believes not in God and His Apostle— we have prepared for the unbelievers a blaze! God’s is the kingdom of the -heavens and of the earth. He pardons whom He pleases, and torments whom He pleases; and God is forgiving, merciful. [15] Those who were left behind? shall say when ye have gone forth to spoils that ye may take, ‘ Let us follow you ;’ they wish to change God’s words. Say, ‘Ye shall by no means follow us; thus did God say before!’
3[15] Those who were left behind? shall say when ye have gone forth to spoils that ye may take, ‘ Let us follow you ;’ they wish to change God’s words. Say, ‘Ye shall by no means follow us; thus did God say before!’ They will say,‘ Nay! but ye envy us!’ Nay! they did not understand save a little. Say to those desert Arabs who were left behind, ‘Ye shall be called out against a people endowed with vehement valour’, and shall fight them or they shall become Muslims. And if ye obey, God will give you a good hire ; but if ye turn your backs, as ye turned your backs before, He will torment you with grievous woe!’ There is no compulsion on the blind, and no compulsion on the lame, and no compulsion on the sick, but whoso obeys God and His Apostle, He will make him enter gardens beneath which rivers flow; but whoso turns his back He will torment with grievous woe. God was well pleased with the believers when 1 In an expedition against the Jews of Khaibar, which Mohammed undertook shortly after his return from ‘Hudaibtyeh, and obtained considerable booty, which he shared only with those who had accompanied him on the previous occasion. 2 The followers of Musdilimah, Mohammed’s rival, and the tribes that had apostatized from Islam. Some think it refers to the Greeks and Persians. 236 THE QUR'AN. XLVIII, 18-25. they did swear allegiance to thee beneath the tree’; and He knew what was in their hearts, and He sent down His shechina? upon them and rewarded them with a victory nigh at hand 8, and many spoils for them to take; for God is mighty, wise! [20] God promised you many spoils and hastened this on for you, and restrained men’s hands from you; and it may be a sign for the believers and guide you in a right way;—and other (spoils) which ye could not gain; but God has encompassed them ; ’ for God is mighty over all. And had those who misbelieved fought you, they would have turned their backs; then they would have found neither patron nor helper!—God's course which has been followed before, and thou shalt find no change in the course of God! He it was who restrained their hands from you, and your hands from them in the mid-valley of Mecca‘ after He had given you the victory over them ; for God on what ye do doth look! [25] Those who misbelieved and turned (you) away from the Sacred Mosque, and (turned away) the offering, kept from arriving at its destined place®; and had it not been for believing men and believing women whom ye knew not, whom ye might have trampled on, and so a crime might have 1 At “Hudaibiyeh. ® See Part I, p. 38, note 2. § Either the success at Khaibar or the taking of Mecca. « Alluding to the truce concluded at ‘Hudaibfyeh. 5 Mohammed having only set out with the intention of peaceably performing the pilgrimage, carried cattle with him to sacrifice in the valley of Mina, but was obliged by the Qur4is to turn back. See Introduction, pp. xxxix, xl. XLVITI, 25-28. THE CHAPTER OF VICTORY. 237
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