N.Starkovsky · MealMerkezi.Net

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God and His Messenger are abrogating the alliance with the Associators with whom you had entered a treaty.

N.Starkovsky 9:1

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[O Associators!] Roam in the land for four months, but know that you cannot weaken God and that God will humiliate the disbelievers.

N.Starkovsky 9:2

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On the day of the great pilgrimage God and His Messenger are announcing to the people that God and His Messenger are abrogating the alliance with the Associators. It is better for you to repent, but if you turn away, then know that you cannot cheat God. Announce a painful punishment to the disbelievers!

N.Starkovsky 9:3

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But this does not extend to the Associators with whom you have an alliance and who, subsequently, have not failed you in anything and have not supported anyone against you. So observe your agreement with them to the end of its term. Verily, God loves the God-fearing!

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At the expiration of the prohibited months, fight the Associators wherever you find them, capture them, assail them, and set up against them all kinds of ambush. But if they repent, establish the prayer, and pay the zakat, then open them the way. Verily, God is forgiving and merciful!

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If any of the Associators asks you for asylum, shelter him and let him hear the Word of God. Then escort him to a place safe for him — indeed, these people lack knowledge.

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How can there be an alliance of God and His Messenger with the Associators, except with those with whom you concluded a treaty by the Sacred Mosque? Be true to them as long as they are true to you — verily, God loves the God-fearing!

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And the others? As soon as they get the upper hand, they will stop respecting you and will forget their blood relationships and agreements. They are making lip service to you, but their hearts are set against you — indeed, most of them are reprobate.

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They trade the Signs of God for a small price, and they turn away from His path. Verily. evil is what they do!

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They respect in a believer neither kinship nor trust — they have transgressed all bounds.

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If they repent, establish the prayer, and pay the zakat, they will become your brothers in religion. [This is how] We explain the Signs to the people who understand.

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But if they break their oaths after the treaty and start taunting your religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief who violate their oaths — perhaps this will restrain them.

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Would you not fight the people who break their pledges and plot to expel the Messenger? Indeed, they were the first to attack you. Why are you afraid of them? God! He is the One, Whom you must fear if you believe!

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Fight them, and God will punish them at your hands! He will humiliate them and sustain you against them. He will heal the hearts of the believing people

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and remove hate from their hearts. God turns to anyone He wills — God is knowing and wise!

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Or do you think that you will be forgotten before God finds out who of you was engaged in fighting and did not take for himself [a protector] other than God, His Messenger, and the believers? God is well aware of what you do!

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After the Associators have confessed their disbelief, they should not have been left in charge of God’s mosques. Fruitless are their works! They shall abide in the Fire for ever!

N.Starkovsky 9:17

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God’s mosques should be in the care of a person who believes in God and the Last Day, establishes the prayer, pays the zakat, and does not fear anyone, except God. Such a person is more likely to follow the straight path.

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Is providing water to pilgrims or managing the Sacred Mosque is [as important] as believing in God and the Last Day and fighting in the cause of God? No, this is not alike before God, and God does not guide the people who do wrong.

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The highest in merit before God are those who believed, were expelled, and fought in the cause of God with their property and soul. They are the ones who will win!

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Their Lord sends them the good news of His mercy and goodwill, and of the Gardens with enduring contentment

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in which they shall abide for ever. Verily, God wields a great reward!

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O you who have believed! Do not seek the protection of your fathers and brothers if they prefer disbelief to belief. Those who seek their protection are sinners.

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Say: “If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, and your family, the property you have acquired, your trade which worries you when it stagnates, and the dwellings you enjoy, are more important for you than God, His Messenger, and the fight in His cause, then wait until God announces His Decision. God doesn’t guide the people who are corrupt!”

N.Starkovsky 9:24

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God has assisted you in many encounters as on the day of Hunain when your great number amazed you. But it had not helped you at all, for wide as it was, the land became too narrow for you, and you retreated.

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Then God descended His Sakina upon His Messenger and the believers. He sent down forces invisible to you and punished the disbelievers. Such was the reward of those who disbelieved!

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But after that God will pardon anyone He wills, indeed, God is forgiving and merciful!

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O you who have believed! The Associators are really unclean, so do not let them manage the Sacred Mosque after their year is over. If you fear poverty, God will soon enrich you from His bounty if He wills, Verily, God is all-knowing and wise!

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Fight those who do not believe in God and the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not follow the religion of Truth, even if they belong to the People of the Scripture, until they pay the tribute with their own hands in sign of obedience and submission.

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The Jews say: “Ezra is the son of God,” and the Christians say: “The Messiah is the son of God,” but these are just words on their lips — they only repeat what the disbelievers had said in the past. Let God wipe them out! How deluded they are!

N.Starkovsky 9:30