unto them, saying, We fear lest some adversity befall us; but it is easy for God to give victory, or a command from him, that they may repent of that which they concealed in their minds.  And they who believe will say, Are these the men who have sworn by God, with a most firm oath, that they surely held with you? their works are become vain, and they are of those who perish.  O true believers, whoever of you apostatizeth from his religion, God will certainly bring other people to supply his place, whom he will love, and who will love him; who shall be humble towards the believers, but severe to the unbelievers; they shall fight for the religion of God, and shall not fear the obloquy of the detractor.  This is the bounty of God, he bestoweth it on whom he pleaseth:  God is extensive and wise.  Verily your protector is God, and his apostle, and those who believe, who observe the stated times of prayer, and give alms, and who bow down to worship.  And whoso taketh God, and his apostle, and the believers for his friends, they are the party of God, and they shall be victorious.  O true believers, take not such of those to whom the scriptures were delivered before you, or of the infidels, for your friends, who make a laughing-stock and a jest of your religion; but fear God, if ye be true believers; nor those who, when ye call to prayer, make a laughing-stock and a jest of it; this they do because they are people who do not understand.  Say, O ye who have received the scriptures, do ye reject us for any other reason than because we believe in God, and that revelation which hath been sent down unto us, and that which was formerly sent down, and for that the greater part of you are transgressors?  Say, Shall I denounce unto you a worse thing than this, as to the reward which ye are to expect with God?  He whom God hath cursed, and with whom he hath been angry, having changed some of them into apes and swine, and who worship Taghut, they are in the worse condition, and err more widely from the straightness of the path.  When they came unto you, they said, We believe:  yet they entered into your company with infidelity, and went forth from you with the same; but God well knew what they concealed.  Thou shalt see many of them hastening unto iniquity and malice, and to eat things forbidden; and woe unto them for what they have done.  Unless their doctors and priests forbid them uttering wickedness, and eating things forbidden; woe unto them for what they shall have committed.  The Jews say, the hand of God is tied up.  Their hands shall be tied up, and they shall be cursed for that which they have said.  Nay, his hands are both stretched forth; he bestoweth as he pleaseth:  that which had been sent down unto thee from thy Lord, shall increase the transgression and infidelity of many of them; and we have put enmity and hatred between them, until the day of resurrection.  So often as they shall kindle a fire for war, God shall extinguish it; and they shall set their minds to act corruptly