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  1. Remember when you left your home in the morning, to assign battle-positions for the believers. God is Hearing and Knowing.
  2. When two groups among you almost faltered, but God was their Protector. So in God let the believers put their trust.
  3. God had given you victory at Badr, when you were weak. So fear God, that you may be thankful.
  4. When you said to the believers, “Is it not enough for you that your Lord has reinforced you with three thousand angels, sent down?”
  5. It is; but if you persevere and remain cautious, and they attack you suddenly, your Lord will reinforce you with five thousand angels, well trained.
  6. God made it but a message of hope for you, and to reassure your hearts thereby. Victory comes only from God the Almighty, the Wise.
  7. He thus cuts off a section of those who disbelieved, or subdues them, so they retreat disappointed.
  8. It is no concern of yours whether He redeems them or punishes them. They are wrongdoers.
  9. To God belongs everything in the heavens and the earth. He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills. God is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.
  10. O you who believe! Do not feed on usury, compounded over and over, and fear God, so that you may prosper.
  11. And guard yourselves against the Fire that is prepared for the disbelievers.
  12. And obey God and the Messenger, that you may obtain mercy.
  13. And race towards forgiveness from your Lord, and a Garden as wide as the heavens and the earth, prepared for the righteous.
  14. Those who give in prosperity and adversity, and those who restrain anger, and those who forgive people. God loves the doers of good.
  15. And those who, when they commit an indecency or wrong themselves, remember God and ask forgiveness for their sins—and who forgives sins except God? And they do not persist in their wrongdoing while they know.
  16. Those—their reward is forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein forever. How excellent is the reward of the workers.
  17. Many societies have passed away before you. So travel the earth and note the fate of the deniers.
  18. This is a proclamation to humanity, and guidance, and advice for the righteous.
  19. And do not waver, nor feel remorse. You are the superior ones, if you are believers.
  20. If a wound afflicts you, a similar wound has afflicted the others. Such days We alternate between the people, that God may know those who believe, and take martyrs from among you. God does not love the evildoers.
  21. So that God may prove those who believe, and eliminate the disbelievers.
  22. Or do you expect to enter Paradise, before God has distinguished those among you who strive, and before He has distinguished the steadfast?
  23. You used to wish for death before you have faced it. Now you have seen it before your own eyes.
  24. Muhammad is no more than a messenger. Messengers have passed on before him. If he dies or gets killed, will you turn on your heels? He who turns on his heels will not harm God in any way. And God will reward the appreciative.
  25. No soul can die except by God’s leave, at a predetermined time. Whoever desires the reward of the world, We will give him some of it; and whoever desires the reward of the Hereafter, We will give him some of it; and We will reward the appreciative.
  26. How many a prophet fought alongside him numerous godly people? They did not waver for what afflicted them in the cause of God, nor did they weaken, nor did they give in. God loves those who endure.
  27. Their only words were, “Our Lord, forgive us our offences, and our excesses in our conduct, and strengthen our foothold, and help us against the disbelieving people.”
  28. So God gave them the reward of this world, and the excellent reward of the Hereafter. God loves the doers of good.
  29. O you who believe! If you obey those who disbelieve, they will turn you back on your heels, and you end up losers.
  30. God is your Master, and He is the Best of Helpers.
  31. We will throw terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they attribute to God partners for which He revealed no sanction. Their lodging is the Fire. Miserable is the lodging of the evildoers.
  32. God has fulfilled His promise to you, and you defeated them by His leave; until when you faltered, and disputed the command, and disobeyed after He had shown you what you like. Some of you want this world, and some of you want the next. Then He turned you away from them, to test you; but He pardoned you. God is Gracious towards the believers.
  33. Remember when you fled, not caring for anyone, even though the Messenger was calling you from your rear. Then He repaid you with sorrow upon sorrow, so that you would not grieve over what you missed, or for what afflicted you. God is Informed of what you do.
  34. Then after the setback, He sent down security upon you. Slumber overcame some of you, while others cared only for themselves, thinking of God thoughts that were untrue—thoughts of ignorance—saying, “Is anything up to us?” Say, “Everything is up to God.” They conceal within themselves what they do not reveal to you. And they say, “If it was up to us, none of us would have been killed here.” Say, “Even if you Had stayed in your homes, those destined to be killed would have marched into their death beds.” God thus tests what is in your minds, and purifies what is in your hearts. God knows what the hearts contain.
  35. Those of you who turned back on the day when the two armies clashed—it was Satan who caused them to backslide, on account of some of what they have earned. But God has forgiven them. God is Forgiving and Prudent.
  36. O you who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieved, and said of their brethren who marched in the land, or went on the offensive, “Had they stayed with us, they would not have died or been killed.” So that God may make it a cause of regret in their hearts. God gives life and causes death. God is Seeing of what you do.
  37. If you are killed in the cause of God, or die—forgiveness and mercy from God are better than what they hoard.
  38. If you die, or are killed—to God you will be gathered up.
  39. It is by of grace from God that you were gentle with them. Had you been harsh, hardhearted, they would have dispersed from around you. So pardon them, and ask forgiveness for them, and consult them in the conduct of affairs. And when you make a decision, put your trust in God; God loves the trusting.
  40. If God supports you, there is none who can overcome you. But if He fails you, who is there to help you after Him? So in God let the believers put their trust.