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The Spoils of War8. Al-Anfālالأنفال

Al-Anfāl

Al Anfāl

The Spoils of War

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yasʾalūnaka ʿani l-ʾanfāli quli l-ʾanfālu li-llāhi wa-r-rasūli fa-ttaqū llāha wa-ʾaṣliḥū dhāta baynikum wa-ʾaṭīʿū llāha wa-rasūlahū ʾin kuntum muʾminīna

They ask you concerning the anfaal. Say, ‘The anfaal belong to Allah and the Apostle.’ So be wary of Allah and settle your differences, and obey Allah and His Apostle, should you be faithful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnamā l-muʾminūna lladhīna ʾidhā dhukira llāhu wajilat qulūbuhum wa-ʾidhā tuliyat ʿalayhim ʾāyātuhū zādathum ʾīmānan wa-ʿalā rabbihim yatawakkalūna

The faithful are only those whose hearts tremble [with awe] when Allah is mentioned, and when His signs are recited to them, they increase their faith, and who put their trust in their Lord,

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhīna yuqīmūna ṣ-ṣalāta wa-mimmā razaqnāhum yunfiqūna

maintain the prayer and spend out of what We have provided them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾulāʾika humu l-muʾminūna ḥaqqan lahum darajātun ʿinda rabbihim wa-maghfiratun wa-rizqun karīmun

It is they who are truly the faithful. They shall have ranks near their Lord, forgiveness and a noble provision.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ka-mā ʾakhrajaka rabbuka min baytika bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-ʾinna farīqan mina l-muʾminīna la-kārihūna

As your Lord brought you out from your home with a just cause, a part of the faithful were indeed reluctant.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yujādilūnaka fī l-ḥaqqi baʿda mā tabayyana ka-ʾannamā yusāqūna ʾilā l-mawti wa-huma

They disputed with you concerning the truth after it had become clear, as if they were being driven towards death as they looked on.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidh yaʿidukumu llāhu ʾiḥdā ṭ-ṭāʾifatayni ʾannahā lakum wa-tawaddūna ʾanna ghayra dhāti sh-shawkati takūnu lakum wa-yurīdu llāhu ʾan yuḥiqqa l-ḥaqqa bi-kalimātihī wa-yaqṭaʿa dābira l-kāfirīna

When Allah promised you [victory over] one of the two companies, [saying], ‘It is for you,’ you were eager that it should be the one that was unarmed. But Allah desires to confirm the truth with His words, and to root out the faithless,

— Ali Quli Qarai

li-yuḥiqqa l-ḥaqqa wa-yubṭila l-bāṭila wa-law kariha l-mujrimūna

so that He may confirm the truth and bring falsehood to naught, though the guilty should be averse.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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ʾidh tastaghīthūna rabbakum fa-stajāba lakum ʾannī mumiddukum bi-ʾalfin mina l-malāʾikati murdifīna

When you appealed to your Lord for help, He answered you: ‘I will aid you with a thousand angels in a file.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā jaʿalahu llāhu ʾillā bushrā wa-li-taṭmaʾinna bihī qulūbukum wa-mā n-naṣru ʾillā min ʿindi llāhi ʾinna llāha ʿazīzun ḥakīmun

Allah did not appoint it but as a good news, and to reassure your hearts. Victory comes only from Allah. Indeed Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh yughashshīkumu n-nuʿāsa ʾamanatan minhu wa-yunazzilu ʿalaykum mina s-samāʾi māʾan li-yuṭahhirakum bihī wa-yudhhiba ʿankum rijza sh-shayṭāni wa-li-yarbiṭa ʿalā qulūbikum wa-yuthabbita bihi l-ʾaqdāma

When He covered you with a trance as a [sense of] security from Him, and He sent down water from the sky to purify you with it, and to repel from you the defilement of Satan, and to fortify your hearts, and to make [your] feet steady with it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh yūḥī rabbuka ʾilā l-malāʾikati ʾannī maʿakum fa-thabbitū lladhīna ʾāmanū sa-ʾulqī fī qulūbi lladhīna kafarū r-ruʿba fa-ḍribū fawqa l-ʾaʿnāqi wa-ḍribū minhum kulla banānin

Then your Lord signaled to the angels: ‘I am indeed with you; so steady the faithful. I will cast terror into the hearts of the faithless. So strike their necks, and strike their every limb joint!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālika bi-ʾannahum shāqqū llāha wa-rasūlahū wa-man yushāqiqi llāha wa-rasūlahū fa-ʾinna llāha shadīdu l-ʿiqābi

That, because they defied Allah and His Apostle. And whoever defies Allah and His Apostle, Allah is indeed severe in retribution.

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālikum fa-dhūqūhu wa-ʾanna li-l-kāfirīna ʿadhāba n-nāri

‘Taste this, and [know] that for the faithless is the punishment of the Fire.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾidhā laqītumu lladhīna kafarū zaḥfan fa-lā tuwallūhumu l-ʾadbāra

O you who have faith! When you encounter the faithless advancing [for battle], do not turn your backs [to flee] from them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-man yuwallihim yawmaʾidhin duburahū ʾillā mutaḥarrifan li-qitālin ʾaw mutaḥayyizan ʾilā fiʾatin fa-qad bāʾa bi-ghaḍabin mina llāhi wa-maʾwāhu jahannamu wa-biʾsa l-maṣīru

Whoever turns his back [to flee] from them that day—unless [he is] diverting to fight or retiring towards another troop—shall certainly earn Allah’s wrath, and his refuge shall be hell, an evil destination.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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fa-lam taqtulūhum wa-lākinna llāha qatalahum wa-mā ramayta ʾidh ramayta wa-lākinna llāha ramā wa-li-yubliya l-muʾminīna minhu balāʾan ḥasanan ʾinna llāha samīʿun ʿalīmun

You did not kill them; rather, it was Allah who killed them; and you did not throw when you threw, rather, it was Allah who threw, that He might test the faithful with a good test from Himself. Indeed Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālikum wa-ʾanna llāha mūhinu kaydi l-kāfirīna

Such is the case, and [know] that Allah undermines the stratagems of the faithless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾin tastaftiḥū fa-qad jāʾakumu l-fatḥu wa-ʾin tantahū fa-huwa khayrun lakum wa-ʾin taʿūdū naʿud wa-lan tughniya ʿankum fiʾatukum shayʾan wa-law kathurat wa-ʾanna llāha maʿa l-muʾminīna

If you sought a verdict, the verdict has certainly come to you; and if you cease [your belligerence against the Prophet and his followers], it is better for you, but if you resume, We [too] shall return and your troops will never avail you though they should be ever so many, and [know] that Allah is with the faithful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾaṭīʿū llāha wa-rasūlahū wa-lā tawallaw ʿanhu wa-ʾantum tasmaʿūna

O you who have faith! Obey Allah and His Apostle, and do not turn away from him while you hear [him].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lā takūnū ka-lladhīna qālū samiʿnā wa-hum lā yasmaʿūna

Do not be like those who say, ‘We hear,’ though they do not hear.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna sharra d-dawābbi ʿinda llāhi ṣ-ṣummu l-bukmu lladhīna lā yaʿqilūna

Indeed the worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the deaf and dumb who do not exercise their reason.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-law ʿalima llāhu fīhim khayran la-ʾasmaʿahum wa-law ʾasmaʿahum la-tawallaw wa-hum muʿriḍūna

Had Allah known any good in them, He would have surely made them hear, and were He to make them hear, surely they would turn away, being disregardful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū stajībū li-llāhi wa-li-r-rasūli ʾidhā daʿākum li-mā yuḥyīkum wa-ʿlamū ʾanna llāha yaḥūlu bayna l-marʾi wa-qalbihī wa-ʾannahū ʾilayhi tuḥsharūna

O you who have faith! Answer Allah and the Apostle when he summons you to that which will give you life. Know that Allah intervenes between a man and his heart and that toward Him you will be mustered.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ttaqū fitnatan lā tuṣībanna lladhīna ẓalamū minkum khāṣṣatan wa-ʿlamū ʾanna llāha shadīdu l-ʿiqābi

And beware of a punishment, which shall not visit the wrongdoers among you exclusively, and know that Allah is severe in retribution.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-dhkurū ʾidh ʾantum qalīlun mustaḍʿafūna fī l-ʾarḍi takhāfūna ʾan yatakhaṭṭafakumu n-nāsu fa-ʾāwākum wa-ʾayyadakum bi-naṣrihī wa-razaqakum mina ṭ-ṭayyibāti laʿallakum tashkurūna

Remember when you were few, abased in the land, and feared lest the people should despoil you, and He gave you refuge, and strengthened you with His help, and provided you with all the good things so that you may give thanks.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā takhūnū llāha wa-r-rasūla wa-takhūnū ʾamānātikum wa-ʾantum taʿlamūna

O you who have faith! Do not betray Allah and the Apostle, and do not betray your trusts knowingly.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʿlamū ʾannamā ʾamwālukum wa-ʾawlādukum fitnatun wa-ʾanna llāha ʿindahū ʾajrun ʿaẓīmun

Know that your possessions and children are only a test, and that Allah—with Him is a great reward.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾin tattaqū llāha yajʿal lakum furqānan wa-yukaffir ʿankum sayyiʾātikum wa-yaghfir lakum wa-llāhu dhū l-faḍli l-ʿaẓīmi

O you who have faith! If you are wary of Allah, He shall appoint a criterion for you, and absolve you of your misdeeds, and forgive you, for Allah is dispenser of a great grace.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidh yamkuru bika lladhīna kafarū li-yuthbitūka ʾaw yaqtulūka ʾaw yukhrijūka wa-yamkurūna wa-yamkuru llāhu wa-llāhu khayru l-mākirīna

When the faithless plotted against you to take you captive, or to kill or expel you—they plotted and Allah devised, and Allah is the best of devisers.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidhā tutlā ʿalayhim ʾāyātunā qālū qad samiʿnā law nashāʾu la-qulnā mithla hādhā ʾin hādhā ʾillā ʾasāṭīru l-ʾawwalīna

When Our signs are recited to them, they say, ‘We have heard already. If we want, we [too] can say like this. These are nothing but myths of the ancients.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidh qālū llāhumma ʾin kāna hādhā huwa l-ḥaqqa min ʿindika fa-ʾamṭir ʿalaynā ḥijāratan mina s-samāʾi ʾawi ʾtinā bi-ʿadhābin ʾalīmin

And when they said, ‘O Allah, if this be the truth from You, rain down upon us stones from the sky, or bring us a painful punishment.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā kāna llāhu li-yuʿadhdhibahum wa-ʾanta fīhim wa-mā kāna llāhu muʿadhdhibahum wa-hum yastaghfirūna

But Allah will not punish them while you are in their midst, nor will Allah punish them while they plead for forgiveness.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-mā lahum ʾallā yuʿadhdhibahumu llāhu wa-hum yaṣuddūna ʿani l-masjidi l-ḥarāmi wa-mā kānū ʾawliyāʾahū ʾin ʾawliyāʾuhū ʾillā l-muttaqūna wa-lākinna ʾaktharahum lā yaʿlamūna

What [excuse] have they that Allah should not punish them, when they bar [the faithful] from the Holy Mosque, and they are not its custodians? Its custodians are only the Godwary, but most of them do not know.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā kāna ṣalātuhum ʿinda l-bayti ʾillā mukāʾan wa-taṣdiyatan fa-dhūqū l-ʿadhāba bi-mā kuntum takfurūna

Their prayer at the House is nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste the punishment because of what you used to defy.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna lladhīna kafarū yunfiqūna ʾamwālahum li-yaṣuddū ʿan sabīli llāhi fa-sa-yunfiqūnahā thūmma takūnu ʿalayhim ḥasratan thumma yughlabūna wa-lladhīna kafarū ʾilā jahannama yuḥsharūna

Indeed the faithless spend their wealth to bar from the way of Allah. Soon they will have spent it, then it will be a cause of regret to them, then they will be overcome, and the faithless will be gathered toward Hell,

— Ali Quli Qarai

li-yamīza llāhu l-khabītha mina ṭ-ṭayyibi wa-yajʿala l-khabītha baʿḍahū ʿalā baʿḍin fa-yarkumahū jamīʿan fa-yajʿalahū fī jahannama ʾulāʾika humu l-khāsirūna

so that Allah may separate the bad ones from the good, and place the bad on one another, and pile them up together, and cast them into hell. It is they who are the losers.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul li-lladhīna kafarū ʾin yantahū yughfar lahum mā qad salafa wa-ʾin yaʿūdū fa-qad maḍat sunnatu l-ʾawwalīna

Say to the faithless, if they cease [their belligerence against the Muslims], what is already past shall be forgiven them. But if they resume [their hostilities], then the precedent of the predecessors has already come to pass.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qātilūhum ḥattā lā takūna fitnatun wa-yakūna d-dīnu kulluhū li-llāhi fa-ʾini ntahaw fa-ʾinna llāha bi-mā yaʿmalūna baṣīrun

Fight them until persecution is no more, and religion becomes exclusively for Allah. So if they desist, Allah indeed watches what they do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾin tawallaw fa-ʿlamū ʾanna llāha mawlākum niʿma l-mawlā wa-niʿma n-naṣīru

But if they turn away, then know that Allah is your master: an excellent master and an excellent helper!

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-ʿlamū ʾannamā ghanimtum min shayʾin fa-ʾanna li-llāhi khumusahū wa-li-r-rasūli wa-li-dhī l-qurbā wa-l-yatāmā wa-l-masākīni wa-bni s-sabīli ʾin kuntum ʾāmantum bi-llāhi wa-mā ʾanzalnā ʿalā ʿabdinā yawma l-furqāni yawma ltaqā l-jamʿāni wa-llāhu ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun

Know that whatever thing you may come by, a fifth of it is for Allah and the Apostle, for the relatives and the orphans, for the needy and the traveller, if you have faith in Allah and what We sent down to Our servant on the Day of Separation, the day when the two hosts met; and Allah has power over all things.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh ʾantum bi-l-ʿudwati d-dunyā wa-hum bi-l-ʿudwati l-quṣwā wa-r-rakbu ʾasfala minkum wa-law tawāʿadtum la-khtalaftum fī l-mīʿādi wa-lākin li-yaqḍiya llāhu ʾamran kāna mafʿūlan li-yahlika man halaka ʿan bayyinatin wa-yaḥyā man ḥayya ʿan bayyinatin wa-ʾinna llāha la-samīʿun ʿalīmun

When you were on the nearer side, and they on the farther side, while the caravan was below you, and had you agreed together on an encounter, you would have certainly failed to keep the tryst, but in order that Allah may carry through a matter that was bound to be fulfilled, so that he who perishes might perish by a manifest proof, and he who lives may live on by a manifest proof, and Allah is indeed all-hearing, all-knowing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh yurīkahumu llāhu fī manāmika qalīlan wa-law ʾarākahum kathīran la-fashiltum wa-la-tanāzaʿtum fī l-ʾamri wa-lākinna llāha sallama ʾinnahū ʿalīmun bi-dhāti ṣ-ṣudūri

When Allah showed them to you as few in your dream, and had He shown them as many, you would have lost heart, and disputed about the matter. But Allah spared you. Indeed He knows well what is in the breasts.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidh yurīkumūhum ʾidhi ltaqaytum fī ʾaʿyunikum qalīlan wa-yuqallilukum fī ʾaʿyunihim li-yaqḍiya llāhu ʾamran kāna mafʿūlan wa-ʾilā llāhi turjaʿu l-ʾumūru

And when He showed them to you as few in your eyes, when you met them [on the battlefield], and He made you [appear] few in their eyes, [it was] in order that Allah may carry through a matter that was bound to be fulfilled, and to Allah all matters are returned.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾidhā laqītum fiʾatan fa-thbutū wa-dhkurū llāha kathīran laʿallakum tufliḥūna

O you who have faith! When you meet a host [in battle], then stand firm, and remember Allah greatly so that you may be felicitous.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-ʾaṭīʿū llāha wa-rasūlahū wa-lā tanāzaʿū fa-tafshalū wa-tadhhaba rīḥukum wa-ṣbirū ʾinna llāha maʿa ṣ-ṣābirīna

And obey Allah and His Apostle, and do not dispute, or you will lose heart and your power will be gone. And be patient; indeed Allah is with the patient.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lā takūnū ka-lladhīna kharajū min diyārihim baṭaran wa-riʾāʾa n-nāsi wa-yaṣuddūna ʿan sabīli llāhi wa-llāhu bi-mā yaʿmalūna muḥīṭun

Do not be like those who left their homes vainly and to show off to the people, and to bar [other people] from the way of Allah, and Allah comprehends what they do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾidh zayyana lahumu sh-shayṭānu ʾaʿmālahum wa-qāla lā ghāliba lakumu l-yawma mina n-nāsi wa-ʾinnī jārun lakum fa-lammā tarāʾati l-fiʾatāni nakaṣa ʿalā ʿaqibayhi wa-qāla ʾinnī barīʾun minkum ʾinnī ʾarā mā lā tarawna ʾinnī ʾakhāfu llāha wa-llāhu shadīdu l-ʿiqābi

When Satan made their deeds seem decorous to them, and said [to the faithless], ‘No one shall overcome you today from among all mankind, and I will stand by you.’ But when the two hosts sighted each other, he took to his heels, saying, ‘Indeed I am quit of you. I see what you do not see. Indeed I fear Allah, and Allah is severe in retribution.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh yaqūlu l-munāfiqūna wa-lladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun gharra hāʾulāʾi dīnuhum wa-man yatawakkal ʿalā llāhi fa-ʾinna llāha ʿazīzun ḥakīmun

When the hypocrites said, and [also] those in whose hearts is a sickness, ‘Their religion has deceived them.’ But whoever puts his trust in Allah, then Allah is indeed all-mighty, all-wise.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-law tarā ʾidh yatawaffā lladhīna kafarū l-malāʾikatu yaḍribūna wujūhahum wa-ʾadbārahum wa-dhūqū ʿadhāba l-ḥarīqi

Were you to see when the angels take away the faithless, striking their faces and their backs, [saying], ‘Taste the punishment of the burning.

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālika bi-mā qaddamat ʾaydīkum wa-ʾanna llāha laysa bi-ẓallāmin li-l-ʿabīdi

That is because of what your hands have sent ahead, and because Allah is not tyrannical to the servants.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ka-daʾbi ʾāli firʿawna wa-lladhīna min qablihim kafarū bi-ʾāyāti llāhi fa-ʾakhadhahumu llāhu bi-dhunūbihim ʾinna llāha qawiyyun shadīdu l-ʿiqābi

Like the precedent of Pharaoh’s clan and those who were before them, who defied Allah’s signs, so Allah seized them for their sins. Indeed Allah is all-strong, severe in retribution.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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dhālika bi-ʾanna llāha lam yaku mughayyiran niʿmatan ʾanʿamahā ʿalā qawmin ḥattā yughayyirū mā bi-ʾanfusihim wa-ʾanna llāha samīʿun ʿalīmun

That is because Allah never changes a blessing that He has bestowed on a people unless they change what is in their own souls, and Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing:

— Ali Quli Qarai

ka-daʾbi ʾāli firʿawna wa-lladhīna min qablihim kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyāti rabbihim fa-ʾahlaknāhum bi-dhunūbihim wa-ʾaghraqnā ʾāla firʿawna wa-kullun kānū ẓālimīna

Like the precedent of Pharaoh’s clan and those who were before them, who denied the signs of their Lord; so We destroyed them for their sins, and We drowned Pharaoh’s clan; and they were all wrongdoers.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna sharra d-dawābbi ʿinda llāhi lladhīna kafarū fa-hum lā yuʾminūna

Indeed the worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are those who are faithless; so they will not have faith.

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhīna ʿāhadta minhum thumma yanquḍūna ʿahdahum fī kulli marratin wa-hum lā yattaqūna

—Those with whom you made a treaty, and who violated their treaty every time, and who are not Godwary.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾimmā tathqafannahum fī l-ḥarbi fa-sharrid bihim man khalfahum laʿallahum yadhdhakkarūna

So if you confront them in battle, treat them [in such a wise] as to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may take admonition.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾimmā takhāfanna min qawmin khiyānatan fa-nbidh ʾilayhim ʿalā sawāʾin ʾinna llāha lā yuḥibbu l-khāʾinīna

And if you fear treachery from a people, break off [the treaty] with them in a like manner. Indeed Allah does not like the treacherous.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lā yaḥsabanna lladhīna kafarū sabaqū ʾinnahum lā yuʿjizūna

Let the faithless not suppose that they have outmanoeuvred [Allah]. Indeed, they cannot frustrate [His power].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾaʿiddū lahum mā staṭaʿtum min quwwatin wa-min ribāṭi l-khayli turhibūna bihī ʿaduwwa llāhi wa-ʿaduwwakum wa-ʾākharīna min dūnihim lā taʿlamūnahumu llāhu yaʿlamuhum wa-mā tunfiqū min shayʾin fī sabīli llāhi yuwaffa ʾilaykum wa-ʾantum lā tuẓlamūna

Prepare against them whatever you can of [military] power and war-horses, awing thereby the enemy of Allah, and your enemy, and others besides them, whom you do not know, but Allah knows them. And whatever you spend in the way of Allah will be repaid to you in full, and you will not be wronged.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾin janaḥū li-s-salmi fa-jnaḥ lahā wa-tawakkal ʿalā llāhi ʾinnahū huwa s-samīʿu l-ʿalīmu

If they incline toward peace, then you [too] incline toward it, and put your trust in Allah. Indeed He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-ʾin yurīdū ʾan yakhdaʿūka fa-ʾinna ḥasbaka llāhu huwa lladhī ʾayyadaka bi-naṣrihī wa-bi-l-muʾminīna

But if they desire to deceive you, Allah is indeed sufficient for you. It is He who strengthened you with His help and with the means of the faithful,

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wa-ʾallafa bayna qulūbihim law ʾanfaqta mā fī l-ʾarḍi jamīʿan mā ʾallafta bayna qulūbihim wa-lākinna llāha ʾallafa baynahum ʾinnahū ʿazīzun ḥakīmun

and united their hearts. Had you spent all that is in the earth, you could not have united their hearts, but Allah united them together. Indeed He is all-mighty, all-wise.

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yā-ʾayyuhā n-nabiyyu ḥasbuka llāhu wa-mani ttabaʿaka mina l-muʾminīna

O Prophet! Sufficient for you is Allah and those of the faithful who follow you.

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yā-ʾayyuhā n-nabiyyu ḥarriḍi l-muʾminīna ʿalā l-qitāli ʾin yakun minkum ʿishrūna ṣābirūna yaghlibū miʾatayni wa-ʾin yakun minkum miʾatun yaghlibū ʾalfan mina lladhīna kafarū bi-ʾannahum qawmun lā yafqahūna

O Prophet! Urge on the faithful to fight: If there be twenty patient men among you, they shall overcome two hundred; and if there be a hundred of you, they shall overcome a thousand of the faithless, for they are a lot who do not understand.

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al-ʾāna khaffafa llāhu ʿankum wa-ʿalima ʾanna fīkum ḍaʿfan fa-ʾin yakun minkum miʾatun ṣābiratun yaghlibū miʾatayni wa-ʾin yakun minkum ʾalfun yaghlibū ʾalfayni bi-ʾidhni llāhi wa-llāhu maʿa ṣ-ṣābirīna

Now Allah has lightened your burden, knowing that there is weakness in you. So if there be a hundred patient men among you, they shall overcome two hundred; and if there be a thousand, they shall overcome two thousand, by Allah’s leave; and Allah is with the patient.

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mā kāna li-nabiyyin ʾan yakūna lahū ʾasrā ḥattā yuthkhina fī l-ʾarḍi turīdūna ʿaraḍa d-dunyā wa-llāhu yurīdu l-ʾākhirata wa-llāhu ʿazīzun ḥakīmun

A prophet may not take captives until he has thoroughly decimated [the enemy] in the land. You desire the transitory gains of this world, while Allah desires [for you] [the reward of] the Hereafter, and Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.

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law-lā kitābun mina llāhi sabaqa la-massakum fī-mā ʾakhadhtum ʿadhābun ʿaẓīmun

Had it not been for a prior decree of Allah, surely there would have befallen you a great punishment for what you took.

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fa-kulū mimmā ghanimtum ḥalālan ṭayyiban wa-ttaqū llāha ʾinna llāha ghafūrun raḥīmun

Avail yourselves of the spoils you have taken as lawful and good, and be wary of Allah. Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

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yā-ʾayyuhā n-nabiyyu qul li-man fī ʾaydīkum mina l-ʾasrā ʾin yaʿlami llāhu fī qulūbikum khayran yuʾtikum khayran mimmā ʾukhidha minkum wa-yaghfir lakum wa-llāhu ghafūrun raḥīmun

O Prophet! Say to the captives who are in your hands, ‘If Allah finds any good in your hearts, He will give you [something which is] better than what has been taken away from you, and He will forgive you, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.’

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wa-ʾin yurīdū khiyānataka fa-qad khānū llāha min qablu fa-ʾamkana minhum wa-llāhu ʿalīmun ḥakīmun

But if they seek to betray you, then they have already betrayed Allah earlier, and He gave [you] power over them; and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise.

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ʾinna lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-hājarū wa-jāhadū bi-ʾamwālihim wa-ʾanfusihim fī sabīli llāhi wa-lladhīna ʾāwaw wa-naṣarū ʾulāʾika baʿḍuhum ʾawliyāʾu baʿḍin wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-lam yuhājirū mā lakum min walāyatihim min shayʾin ḥattā yuhājirū wa-ʾini stanṣarūkum fī d-dīni fa-ʿalaykumu n-naṣru ʾillā ʿalā qawmin baynakum wa-baynahum mīthāqun wa-llāhu bi-mā taʿmalūna baṣīrun

Indeed those who have believed and migrated and waged jihad with their possessions and persons in the way of Allah, and those who gave [them] shelter and help—they are heirs of one another. As for those who have believed but did not migrate, you have no heirdom in relation to them whatsoever until they migrate. Yet if they ask your help for the sake of religion, it is incumbent on you to help them, excepting against a people with whom you have a treaty; and Allah watches what you do.

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wa-lladhīna kafarū baʿḍuhum ʾawliyāʾu baʿḍin ʾillā tafʿalūhu takun fitnatun fī l-ʾarḍi wa-fasādun kabīrun

As for the faithless, they are heirs of one another. Unless you do the same, there will be strife in the land and great corruption.

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wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-hājarū wa-jāhadū fī sabīli llāhi wa-lladhīna ʾāwaw wa-naṣarū ʾulāʾika humu l-muʾminūna ḥaqqan lahum maghfiratun wa-rizqun karīmun

Those who have believed, migrated, and waged jihad in the way of Allah, and those who gave them shelter and help, it is they who are truly the faithful. For them shall be forgiveness and a noble provision.

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wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū min baʿdu wa-hājarū wa-jāhadū maʿakum fa-ʾulāʾika minkum wa-ʾulū l-ʾarḥāmi baʿḍuhum ʾawlā bi-baʿḍin fī kitābi llāhi ʾinna llāha bi-kulli shayʾin ʿalīmun

Those who believed afterwards and migrated, and waged jihad along with you, they belong to you; but the blood relatives are more entitled to inherit from one another in the Book of Allah. Indeed Allah has knowledge of all things.

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