CHAPTER 8.  THE SPOILS OF WAR                                                  SECTION 1.  PART IX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING THINGS TAKEN AS SPOILS OF WAR 
SAY, SUCH SPOILS ARE AT THE DISPOSAL OF GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
SO KEEP STRAIGHT YOUR RELATIONS AND FEAR YOUR MAKER
AND OBEY GOD AND HIS APOSTLE IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER  

2  BELIEVERS ARE THOSE WHO WHEN THEY HEAR GOD MENTIONED
FEEL IN THEIR HEARTS A TREMBLING SENSATION 
WHEN THEY HEAR HIS WORDS MENTIONED 
THEY FIND THEIR FAITH STRENGTHENED 
AND THEIR LORD IS WHOM THEY PUT ALL THEIR TRUST IN

3  THOSE WHO KEEP UP PRAYERS REGULARLY 
AND SPEND OUT OF WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN THEM FREELY

4  THESE ARE THE BELIEVERS TRULY
THEY HAVE WITH THEIR LORD GRADES OF DIGNITY  
AND THEY WILL INDEED BE REWARDED GENEROUSLY 

5  YOUR LORD SENT YOU FORTH FROM YOUR HOUSE WITH TRUTH 
ALTHOUGH A PARTY OF THE BELIEVERS DISPUTED WITH YOU

6  DISPUTING ABOUT THE TRUTH AFTER THE MANIFESTATION OF IT
AS IF THEY WERE BEING DRIVEN TO DEATH WHILE THEY SAW IT

7  GOD PROMISED YOU ONE OF THE ENEMY PARTIES SHOULD BE YOURS 
AND YOU WISHED THAT THE ONES UNARMED SHOULD BE YOURS 

BUT GOD WILLED TO ACCORDING TO HIS WORDS TO JUSTIFY TRUTH 
AND TO CUT OFF THE DISBELIEVERS AT THE ROOTS 

8  THAT HE MIGHT PROVE FALSEHOOD TO BE FALSE AND JUSTIFY TRUTH
DISTASTEFUL THOUGH IT BE TO THE GUILTY AMONG YOU

9  REMEMBER YOU IMPLORED 
THE ASSISTANCE OF YOUR LORD 

AND HE ANSWERED YOU SAYING, I WILL ASSIST YOU 
WITH A THOUSAND ANGELS IN RANKS TO HELP YOU

10  IT WAS A MESSAGE OF HOPE AND AN ASSURANCE FROM GOD
IN ANY CASE THERE IS NO HELP EXCEPT FROM GOD
EXALTED IN POWER AND ALL WISE IS GOD

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11  AND REMEMBER HE COVERED YOU 
WITH DROWSINESS TO GIVE PEACE TO YOU 
HE CAUSED TO DESCEND FROM HEAVEN ON YOU 
RAIN TO CLEANSE YOU AND TO REMOVE FROM YOU 
SATAN'S STAIN AND TO STRENGTHEN THE HEARTS OF YOU
AND TO PLANT YOUR FEET FIRMLY UNDER YOU

12  YOUR LORD INSPIRED THE ANGELS WITH THESE MESSAGES
I AM WITH YOU SO GIVE TO THE BELIEVERS FIRMNESS

FOR I WILL INSTILL HORROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE DISBELIEVERS 
AND SMITE THEM ABOVE THEIR NECKS AND SMITE THEIR FINGERS

13  BECAUSE THEY CONTENDED AGAINST GOD AND HIS APOSTLE
AND IF ANY DO CONTEND AGAINST GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
GOD IS STRICT IN PUNISHMENT AND SEVERE IN REQUITAL

14  SO WILL IT BE SAID, TASTE THEN OF THE PUNISHMENT 
FOR THOSE WHO RESIST GOD THE FIRE IS THEIR PUNISHMENT

15  YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
WHEN YOU MEET THE DISBELIEVERS 
NEVER TURN YOUR BACKS TO THEM EVER

16  IF ANY DO TURN HIS BACK TO THEM 
UNLESS IT BE IN A WAR STRATAGEM 

OR TO RETREAT TO A TROOP OF HIS OWN COMPANY
HE DRAWS ON HIMSELF GOD'S FURY

AND HIS ABODE IS HELL 
AN EVIL PLACE TO DWELL

17  IT IS NOT YOU WHO SLEW THEM IT WAS GOD 
YOU THREW A HANDFUL OF DUST, IT WAS NOT YOUR ACT BUT GOD'S 
SO THAT THE BELIEVERS MAY BE TESTED BY A TRIAL FROM GOD 
FOR ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS IS GOD

18  THAT, AND ALSO BECAUSE GOD IS HE 
WHO MAKES FEEBLE THE PLANS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

19  IF YOU PRAYED FOR VICTORY AND JUDGMENT 
NOW HAS MOST ASSUREDLY COME TO YOU THE JUDGMENT 
IF YOU DESIST FROM WRONG IT WILL BE FOR YOUR BETTERMENT 

IF YOU RETURN TO THE ATTACK THEN INDEED SO WILL WE 
NOT THE LEAST GOOD TO YOU WILL YOUR FORCES BE 
EVEN IF THEY WERE MULTIPLIED GREATLY
FOR GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE

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20  OH YOU BELIEVERS
OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND TURN NOT AWAY WHEN YOU HEAR 
HIM SPEAK THE MESSAGE HE HAS TO DELIVER

21  AND DO NOT
BE LIKE THOSE WHO SAY, WE HEAR BUT LISTEN NOT

22  IN THE SIGHT OF GOD THE WORST CREATURES LIVING
ARE THE DEAF AND THE DUMB, WITH NO UNDERSTANDING

23  IF GOD HAD FOUND IN THEM ANY GOOD INDEED
HE WOULD HAVE MADE THEM ALL TAKE HEED

IF HE HAD MADE THEM LISTEN TO HIS MESSAGES
THEY WOULD HAVE REJECTED THE MESSAGES

24  OH YOU BELIEVERS
GIVE YOUR RESPONSE TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
WHEN HE CALLS YOU TO WHAT GIVES YOU LIFE AND VIGOR 
GOD COMES IN BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS HEART 
AND TO HIM YOU WILL ALL BE GATHERED  

25  AND FEAR TUMULT OR OPPRESSION WHICH AFFECTS NOT ONLY 
THOSE WHO DO WRONG AND KNOW THAT GOD IS STRICT IN PENALTY 

26  CALL TO MIND WHEN YOU WERE A SMALL BAND 
DESPISED AND OPPRESSED THROUGH THE LAND

AFRAID THAT MEN MIGHT DESPOIL AND KIDNAP YOU 
BUT HE PROVIDED A SAFE ASYLUM FOR YOU 
AND ALSO WITH HIS AID HE STRENGTHENED YOU 
AND GAVE GOOD THINGS FOR SUSTENANCE TO YOU 
IN ORDER THAT GRATITUDE MIGHT BE SHOWN BY YOU

27  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, BETRAY NOT GOD'S TRUST 
OR THE APOSTLE, NOR MISAPPROPRIATE THE TRUST
OF THINGS THAT ARE GIVEN INTO YOUR TRUST

28  YOUR CHILDREN AND THE POSSESSIONS YOU HOARD
ARE BUT A TRIAL FOR YOU AND WITH YOUR LORD
IS WITH WHOM LIES YOUR HIGHEST REWARD

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29  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, IF YOU FEAR GOD
YOU WILL BE GIVEN A CRITERION BY GOD 

TO JUDGE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG AND REMOVE FROM YOU 
ALL OF THE EVIL THAT MAY AFFLICT YOU AND FORGIVE YOU 
FOR GOD IS THE LORD OF GRACE UNBOUNDED TO YOU

30  REMEMBER HOW THE DISBELIEVERS PLOTTED AGAINST YOU 
TO KEEP YOU IN BONDS OR TO SLAY YOU 

OR GET YOU OUT OF YOUR HOME, AND THEY PLOT AND PLAN
AND GOD ALSO PLANS AND IS THE BEST OF THOSE WHO PLAN

31  WHEN OUR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM THEY SAY 
WE HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE, THE SAME WE COULD SAY 
THESE ARE ONLY TALES OF THE ANCIENTS ANYWAY

32  REMEMBER HOW THEY SAID, OH GOD, IF TO US 
THIS IS INDEED THE TRUTH FROM YOU, RAIN DOWN ON US 
A SHOWER OF STONES FROM THE SKY OR SEND A PENALTY ON US 
 
33  BUT GOD WAS NOT GOING TO SEND THEM 
A PENALTY WHILE YOU WERE AMONG THEM 

NOR WAS HE GOING TO SEND IT 
WHILE THEY COULD ASK FOR PARDON FROM IT

34  BUT WHAT REASON SHOULD GOD NOT PUNISH THEM
WHEN MEN ARE KEPT OUT OF THE SACRED MOSQUE BY THEM?

AND THEY ARE NOT ITS GUARDIANS 
NO MEN CAN BE ITS GUARDIANS 

EXCEPT THE RIGHTEOUS IN THE LAND
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT UNDERSTAND

35  THEIR PRAYER AT THE HOUSE OF GOD IS NOTHING 
BUT WHISTLING AND HAND CLAPPING 
 
THEREFORE TASTE THE PENALTY 
BECAUSE OF YOUR BLASPHEMY

36  THE DISBELIEVERS SPEND THEIR WEALTH TO HINDER MEN 
FROM THE PATH OF GOD SO THEY CONTINUE TO SPEND 
BUT THEY WILL HAVE ONLY REGRETS IN THE END

AT LENGTH THEY WILL BE OVERCOME AND THE DISBELIEVERS 
WILL BE GATHERED AND THROWN INTO HELL ALL TOGETHER 

37  SO THAT GOD MAY SEPARATE THE IMPURE FROM THE PURE
AND PUT THE IMPURE ON ONE ANOTHER
AND HEAP THEM ALL TOGETHER 
AND CAST THEM INTO HELL AND THEY WILL BE THE LOSERS

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38  SAY TO THE  DISBELIEVERS, IF FROM UNBELIEF THEY DESIST 
THEIR PAST WILL BE FORGIVEN, BUT IF THEY PERSIST 

THE PUNISHMENT OF THOSE BEFORE THEM 
IS ALREADY A MATTER OF WARNING FOR THEM

39  FIGHT THEM UNTIL THERE IS NO MORE PERSECUTION 
AND JUSTICE PREVAILS AND GOD'S RELIGION 
BUT IF THEY CEASE GOD IS THE SEER AND THE PATRON 

40  IF THEY REFUSE KNOW THAT GOD IS YOUR PROTECTOR 
THE BEST PROTECTOR AND THE BEST HELPER

PART  X

41  KNOW THAT OF ALL THAT YOU MAY ACQUIRE IN WAR 
A FIFTH SHARE IS ASSIGNED TO GOD AND TO THE MESSENGER
AND TO RELATIVES, ORPHANS, THE NEEDY AND THE WAYFARER 
IF YOU DO BELIEVE IN GOD AND IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE SCRIPTURE 

WE SENT DOWN TO OUR SERVANT ON THE DAY OF TESTING 
ON THE DAY OF THE TWO FORCES MEETING 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

42  REMEMBER YOU WERE ON THE NEAR SIDE OF THE VALLEY
AND THEY WERE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE VALLEY

AND THE CARAVAN ON LOWER GROUND THAN YOU 
IF YOU HAD MADE AN APPOINTMENT BETWEEN YOU
THE APPOINTMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN FAILED BY YOU

BUT YOU MET THAT GOD MIGHT ACCOMPLISH A MATTER 
ALREADY ENACTED, THAT THOSE WHO DIED MIGHT DIE AFTER 
A CLEAR SIGN HAD BEEN GIVEN AND THOSE WHO LIVED AFTER 
MIGHT LIVE AFTER SIGNS HAD TO THEM BEEN MADE CLEAR 
AND GOD IS THE HEARER AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

43  GOD SHOWED THEM TO YOU IN YOUR DREAM AS FEW
AND IF HE HAD SHOWN THEM AS MANY TO YOU 
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DISCOURAGING TO YOU
YOU WOULD HAVE DISPUTED BUT GOD SAVED YOU
FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE  HEARTS OF YOU

44  HE SHOWED THEM TO YOU AS FEW IN YOUR EYES
AND HE MADE YOU APPEAR AS CONTEMPTIBLE IN THEIR EYES
SO THAT GOD MIGHT ACCOMPLISH A MATTER THAT HE DID DECIDE
FOR TO GOD DO ALL QUESTIONS GO BACK TO DECIDE

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45  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WHEN YOU MEET A FORCE BE FIRM AND REMEMBER 
YOUR LORD MUCH AND OFTEN THAT YOU MAY PROSPER 

46  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS, OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND FALL INTO NO DISPUTES OR YOU WILL LOSE YOUR POWER 
AND BE PATIENT AND CONSTANT AND PERSEVERE 
FOR GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO PERSEVERE

47  BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO STARTED FROM WHERE
THEY DWELL TO BE SEEN OF MEN AND TO HINDER 
MEN FROM THE PATH OF THE CREATOR
FOR ALL THAT THEY DO IS ENCOMPASSED BY THEIR MAKER

48  REMEMBER SATAN MADE THEIR ACTS OF SIN TO SEEM FAIR 
AND SAID, NO ONE CAN OVERCOME YOU WHILE I AM NEAR 
WHEN THE TWO FORCES CAME IN SIGHT OF EACH OTHER
SATAN TURNED BACK AND SAID, OF YOU I AM CLEAR  
I SEE WHAT YOU SEE NOT, IT IS GOD THAT I FEAR 
FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF GOD IS SEVERE

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49  HYPOCRITES SAY AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
THESE PEOPLE THEIR RELIGION HAS MISLEAD THEM INDEED                                   
IF ANY TRUST IN GOD HE IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

50  IF YOU COULD SEE THE ANGELS TAKING
THE SOULS OF THE DISBELIEVERS AT DEATH AND STRIKING 
THEIR FACES AND THEIR BACKS AND SAYING 
TASTE THE PENALTY OF BURNING

51  BECAUSE OF THE DEEDS WHICH YOUR OWN HANDS HAVE SENT 
FOR GOD IS NEVER UNJUST TO HIS SERVANTS

52  AFTER THE MANNER OF THE PEOPLE 
OF PHARAOH AND OF THE PRIOR PEOPLE 

THEY REJECTED THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AND WERE PUNISHED FOR THEIR CRIMES BY GOD
SURELY STRONG AND STRICT IN PUNISHMENT IS GOD

53  THIS IS BECAUSE GOD WILL NEVER CHANGE  THE CONDITION
OF A PEOPLE UNTIL THEY CHANGE THEIR OWN CONDITION
AND HE IS THE ALL HEARING, THE ALL KNOWING ONE

54  GOD'S MESSAGES WERE TREATED AS FALSE BY PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
AND BY THOSE BEFORE HIM SO WE DESTROYED THOSE PEOPLE
AND WE DROWNED ALL OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
FOR THEY WERE ALL OPPRESSIVE AND EVIL

55  FOR THE WORST OF BEASTS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD 
ARE THOSE WHO REJECT HIM AND WILL NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

56  THEY ARE THOSE WITH WHOM YOU MADE A COVENANT 
BUT THEN EVERY TIME THEY BROKE THEIR COVENANT 
AND THEY HAVE NO FEAR OF GOD'S PUNISHMENT 

57  IF YOU GAIN MASTERY OVER THEM DISPERSE WITH THEM 
THAT THOSE WHO FOLLOW THEM MAY REMEMBER THEM

58  IF FROM ANY GROUP YOU FEAR TREACHERY  
THROW BACK THEIR COVENANT TO THEM SO AS TO BE 
ON EQUAL TERMS, FOR SURELY GOD LOVES NOT TREACHERY

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59  LET NOT DISBELIEVERS THINK THAT THEY CAN GET THE BEST OF US 
THEY WILL NOT ESCAPE PUNISHMENT FROM US

60  MAKE READY YOUR STRENGTH TO THE UTMOST OF YOUR POWER
TO ATTACK THEM INCLUDING STEEDS OF WAR
TO INTO THE HEARTS OF GOD'S ENEMIES STRIKE TERROR
AND OTHERS WHO YOU KNOW NOT, BUT GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER
AND WHATEVER YOU SPEND IN THE CAUSE OF THE CREATOR
WILL BE REPAID AND YOU WILL NOT BE TREATED UNFAIR 

61  BUT IF THE ENEMY INCLINES TOWARDS PEACE 
THEN YOU ALSO INCLINE TOWARDS PEACE 
AND TRUST IN GOD COMPLETELY
FOR HE HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS SURELY

62  SHOULD THEY INTEND TO DECEIVE YOU
THEN SURELY GOD SUFFICES YOU 
AND WITH HIS AID HAS STRENGTHENED YOU 
AND WITH THE COMPANY OF THE BELIEVERS TOO

63  HE HAS PUT IN THEIR HEARTS AFFECTION  
IF YOU HAD SPENT ALL THAT IS IN EARTH AND HEAVEN
STILL YOU COULD NOT PRODUCE THAT AFFECTION
BUT GOD HAS DONE IT FOR HE IS FULL OF POWER AND WISDOM

64  GOD IS SUFFICIENT TO YOU, OH MESSENGER
AND TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW YOU AMONG THE BELIEVERS

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65  OH APOSTLE, URGE FIGHTING TO THE BELIEVERS 
IF THERE ARE TWENTY PATIENT AND PERSEVERING BELIEVERS
THEY WILL VANQUISH TWO HUNDRED DISBELIEVERS
IF A HUNDRED THEY WILL VANQUISH A THOUSAND DISBELIEVERS
FOR NO UNDERSTANDING HAVE THE DISBELIEVERS

66  FOR THE PRESENT GOD HAS LIGHTENED YOUR TASK FOR YOU 
FOR HE KNOWS THAT THERE IS A WEAK SPOT IN YOU 
BUT EVEN SO IF THERE ARE A HUNDRED OF YOU

WHO ARE PERSEVERING WILL VANQUISH TWO HUNDRED DISBELIEVERS
OR A THOUSAND OF YOU WILL VANQUISH TWO THOUSAND DISBELIEVERS 

WITH THE HELP OF ALL MIGHTY GOD 
FOR THOSE WHO PERSEVERE ARE HELPED BY GOD

67  IT IS NOT FIT FOR A MESSENGER 
THAT HE SHOULD HAVE WAR PRISONERS  
UNTIL HE HAS SUBDUED THE LAND ALL TOGETHER
BUT THE GOODS OF THIS WORLD IS WHAT YOU DESIRE
BUT YOUR LORD DESIRES FOR YOU THE HEREAFTER 
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

68  HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A PREVIOUS ORDAINMENT FOR YOU
A SEVERE PUNISHMENT WOULD HAVE REACHED YOU 
FOR THE RANSOM THAT WAS TAKEN BY YOU

69  BUT NOW ENJOY WHAT YOU TOOK IN WAR GOOD AND LAWFUL
BUT FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL

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70  OH APOSTLE, SAY TO THE CAPTIVES IN THE HANDS OF YOU
THAT IF GOD FINDS THAT THERE IS ANY GOOD IN YOU 
HE WILL GIVE YOU BETTER THAN WHAT HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM YOU 
AND HE WILL FORGIVE YOU FOR GOD IS FORGIVING TO YOU

71  BUT IF THEY HAVE AGAINST YOU DESIGNS OF TREACHERY
THEY HAVE BEEN IN TREASON AGAINST GOD ALREADY 
AND HE HAS GIVEN YOU POWER OVER THEM SURELY
AND GOD IS FULL KNOWLEDGE AND ALL MIGHTY

72  THE BELIEVERS WHO ADOPTED EXILE AND FOUGHT FOR RELIGION
IN GOD'S CAUSE WITH THEIR PROPERTY AND THEIR PERSONS 
AS WELL AS THOSE WHO GAVE THEM ASYLUM 
THESE ARE ALL FRIENDS AND GIVE EACH OTHER PROTECTION 
TO BELIEVERS THAT CAME NOT INTO EXILE YOU OWE NO PROTECTION 
UNTIL THEY COME INTO EXILE, IF THEY SEEK YOUR AID IN RELIGION
THEN FOR YOU TO HELP THEM IS YOUR OBLIGATION
EXCEPT PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU HAVE A PEACEFUL ASSOCIATION
AND REMEMBER THAT GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

73  THE DISBELIEVERS GIVE EACH OTHER PROTECTION
UNLESS YOU GIVE EACH OTHER PROTECTION 
ON EARTH THERE WOULD BE PERSECUTION AND OPPRESSION 
AND GREAT MISCHIEF AND CORRUPTION

74  THOSE BELIEVERS WHO ADOPT EXILE AND WHO FIGHT FOR RELIGION 
IN GOD'S CAUSE, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO GIVE THEM ASYLUM
THESE ARE ALL TRUE RIGHTEOUS ONES IN RELIGION
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GENEROUS PROVISION

75  THOSE WHO ADOPT EXILE AND ACCEPT FAITH AFTER
AND FOR THE FAITH THEY ARE FIGHTERS
THEY ARE OF YOU BUT BLOOD KIN HAVE PRIOR 
RIGHTS AGAINST EACH OTHER IN THE BOOK OF THE CREATOR 
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER

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