Sacred Books of the East eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 632 pages of information about Sacred Books of the East.

Sacred Books of the East eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 632 pages of information about Sacred Books of the East.
efficacious for confirming their faith; and we should then have surely given them in our sight an exceeding great reward, and we should have directed them in the right way.  Whoever obeyeth God and the apostle, they shall be with those unto whom God hath been gracious, of the prophets, and the sincere, and the martyrs, and the righteous; and these are the most excellent company.  This is bounty from God; and God is sufficiently knowing.  O true believers, take your necessary precaution against your enemies, and either go forth to war in separate parties, or go forth all together in a body.  There is of you who tarrieth behind; and if a misfortune befall you, he saith, Verily God hath been gracious unto me, that I was not present with them:  but if success attend you from God, he will say (as if there was no friendship between you and him), Would to God I had been with them, for I should have acquired great merit.  Let them therefore fight for the religion of God, who part with the present life in exchange for that which is to come; for whosoever fighteth for the religion of God, whether he be slain, or be victorious, we will surely give him a great reward.  And what ails you, that ye fight not for God’s true religion, and in defence of the weak among men, women, and children, who say, O Lord, bring us forth from this city, whose inhabitants are wicked; grant us from before thee a protector, and grant us from thee a defender.  They who believe fight for the religion of God; but they who believe not fight for the religion of Taghut.  Fight therefore against the friends of Satan, for the stratagem of Satan is weak.  Hast thou not observed those unto whom it was said, Withhold your hands from war, and be constant at prayers, and pay the legal alms?  But when war is commanded them, behold, a part of them fear men as they should fear God, or with a greater fear, and say, O Lord, wherefore hast thou commanded us to go to war, and hast not suffered us to wait our approaching end?  Say unto them, The provision of this life is but small; but the future shall be better for him who feareth God; and ye shall not be in the least injured at the day of judgment.  Wheresoever ye be, death will overtake you, although ye be in lofty towers.  If good befall them, they say, This is from God; but if evil befall them, they say, This is from thee, O Mohammed:  say, All is from God; and what aileth these people, that they are so far from understanding what is said unto them?  Whatever good befalleth thee, O man, it is from God; and whatever evil befalleth thee, it is from thyself.[73] We have sent thee an apostle unto men, and God is a sufficient witness thereof.  Whoever obeyeth the apostle, obeyeth God; and whoever turneth back, we have not sent thee to be a keeper over them.  They say, Obedience:  yet when they go forth from thee, part of them meditate by night a matter different from what thou speakest; but God shall write down what they meditate by night:  therefore let them alone, and trust in God, for God
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