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| 12. O ye who believe ! when you consult the Messenger in private, give alms before your consultation. That is better for you and purer. But if you find not anything to give then ALLAH is Most Forgiving, Merciful. 13. Are you afraid of giving alms before your consultation ? So when you do not do so and ALLAH has been Merciful to you, then observe Prayer and pay the Zakaat and obey ALLAH and HIS Messenger. And ALLAH is Well-Aware of what you do. 14. Seest thou not those who take for friends a people with whom ALLAH is wroth ? They are neither of you nor of them, and they swear to falsehood knowingly. 15. ALLAH has prepared for them a severe punishment. Evil, indeed, is that which they used to do. 16. They have made their oaths a shield for their falsehoods, and thereby they seek to turn men away from the path of ALLAH; for them therefore, will be an humiliating punishment. 17. Neither their wealth nor their children will avail them aught against ALLAH. They are the inmates of the Fire wherein they will abide. 18. On the day when ALLAH will raise them all together, they will swear to HIM, even as they now swear to you, and they will think that they have something to stand upon. Now, surely, it is they who are the liars. 19. Satan has gained mastery over them, and has made them forget the remembrance of ALLAH. They are Satan's party. Now, surely, it is Satan's party that are the losers. 20. Certainly those who oppose ALLAH and His Messenger are among the most abject. 21. ALLAH has decreed: `Most surely, I will prevail, I and MY Messengers.' Verily, ALLAH is Powerful, Mighty. |
