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So that God may forgive you for what preceded of your sin and what will follow and [so that He may] complete His favor upon you and guide you to a straight path.
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And [so that] God may aid you with a mighty victory.
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It is He who sent down tranquillity into the hearts of the believers so that they would increase in faith along with their [present] faith. And the soldiers of the heavens and the earth [belong] to God, and God is Knowing and Wise.
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[And] so that He may admit the believing men and the believing women to Gardens in which rivers flow beneath them to abide eternally therein and to remove their misdeeds from them - and that is a great success to God -
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And [so that] He may punish the hypocrite men and hypocrite women, and the polytheist men and polytheist women - those who assume an assumption of evil about God. There [will be] a misfortune of evil upon them; and God has become angry with them and has cursed them and prepared Gehenna for them, and it is evil as a destination.
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And the soldiers of the heavens and the earth [belong] to God. And God is Almighty and Wise.
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Indeed, We have sent you as a witness and a bringer of good news and a warner
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So that you [people] may believe in God and His messenger and honor him and respect him and exalt [God] morning and afternoon.
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Indeed, those who pledge allegiance to you - they are actually pledging allegiance to God. The hand of God is over their hands. So he who breaks [his word] only breaks it against himself. And he who fulfills that which he has promised God - He will give him a great reward.
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Those who remained behind among the nomadic Arabs will say to you, "Our wealth and our families occupied us, so ask forgiveness for us." They say with their tongues what is not within their hearts. Say, "Then who could possess [power] against God at all if He intended harm for you or intended benefit for you? Rather, God is Aware of what you do.
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But you thought that the messenger and the believers would never return to their families ever, and that was made pleasing in your hearts. And you assumed an assumption of evil and became a ruined people."
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And whoever has not believed in God and His messenger - then indeed, We have prepared a Blaze for the disbelievers.
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And the kingdom of the heavens and the earth [belongs] to God. *Psalms 89:11, *Job 41:11 He forgives whom He wills and punishes whom He wills. And God is Forgiving and Merciful.
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Those who remained behind will say when you set out toward the spoils of war to take it, "Let us follow you." They wish to change the words of God. Say, "You will never follow us. Thus, God said before." So they will say, "Rather, you envy us." But [in fact] they were not understanding [anything] except a little.
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Say to those who remained behind among the nomadic Arabs, "You will be called to [face] a people of great military might; you may fight them, or they will submit. So if you obey, God will give you a good reward; but if you turn away as you turned away before, He will punish you with a painful punishment."
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There is no guilt upon the blind, nor any guilt upon the lame, nor any guilt upon the ill [for remaining behind]. And whoever obeys God and His messenger - He will admit him to Gardens in which rivers flow beneath them; but whoever turns away - He will punish him with a painful punishment.
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God was certainly pleased with the believers when they pledged allegiance to you under the tree, and He knew what was in their hearts, so He sent down tranquillity upon them and rewarded them with an imminent conquest
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And many spoils of war which they will take. And God is Almighty and Wise.
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God has promised you many spoils of war that you will take and has hastened this [victory] for you and withheld the hands of people from you so that it may be a sign for the believers and [so that] He may guide you to a straight path.
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And [He promises] other [victories] that you were unable to [realize so far] which God has already encompassed. And God is Powerful over all things.
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And if those who disbelieve had fought you, they would have turned their backs [in retreat]. Then they would not find a protector or a helper.
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[This is the established] way of God which has occurred before. And you will never find any change in the way of God.
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And it is He who withheld their hands from you and your hands from them within [the area of] Makkah after He caused you to overcome them. And God is Seeing of what you do.
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They are the ones who disbelieved and obstructed you from the Forbidden [House] ^9:28, ^14:37 while the offering was prevented from reaching its place of sacrifice. And if not for believing men and believing women whom you did not know - so that you might trample them, and dishonor would befall you because of them without [your] knowledge. [This was so] that God might admit whom He willed to His mercy. If they had been apart [from them], We would have punished those who disbelieved among them with painful punishment
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When those who disbelieved had put chauvinism into their hearts - the chauvinism [of the time] of ignorance. But God sent His tranquillity down upon His messenger and upon the believers and imposed the word of the fear [of God] upon them, and they were more deserving of it and worthy of it. And God is Knowing of all things.
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God has certainly shown the vision to His messenger in truth. You will surely enter the Forbidden [House] ^9:28, ^14:37 in safety, if God wills, with your heads shaved and [hair] shortened, not fearing [anyone]. He knew what you did not know and has arranged an imminent conquest before that.
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It is He who sent His messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over every religion. And God is sufficient as Witness.