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59. "The Exile"
  
     
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 All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifies Allah, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
 
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 It is He Who has caused those of the People of the Scripture who disbelieved to go forth from their homes unto the first exile. He deemed not that they would go forth, while they deemed that their strongholds would protect them from Allah. But Allah reached them from a place of which they wrecked not, and cast terror in their hearts so that they ruined their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers. So learn a lesson, O you who have eyes!
 
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 And if Allah had not decreed migration for them, He verily would have rebuked them in the world, for theirs in the Afterlife is regret, pain and isolation from unity.
 
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 That is because they were opposed to Allah and His messenger; and whoso is opposed to Allah, for him verily Allah is stern in reprisal.
 
5.
 Whatsoever palm-trees you cut down or left standing on their roots, it was by Allah's leave, in order that He might confound the evil-livers.
 
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 And that which Allah gave as spoil unto His messenger from them, you urged not any horse or riding-camel for the sake thereof, but Allah gives His messenger lordship over whom He will. Allah is Able to do all things.
 
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 That which Allah gives as spoil unto His messenger from the people of the townships, it is for Allah and His messenger and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, that it become not a commodity between the rich among you. And whatsoever the messenger gives you, take it. And whatsoever he forbids, abstain from it. And keep your duty to Allah. Behold! Allah is stern in reprisal.
 
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 And it is for the poor fugitives who have been driven out from their homes and their belongings, who seek bounty from Allah and help Allah and His messenger. They are the loyal.
 
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 Those who entered the city and the faith before them love those who flee unto them for refuge, and find in their breasts no need for that which has been given them, but prefer the fugitives above themselves though poverty become their lot. And whoso is saved from his own avarice - such are they who are successful.
 
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 And those who came into the faith after them say: Our Lord! Forgive us and our brethren who were before us in the faith, and place not in our hearts any rancour toward those who believe. Our Lord! You are Full of Pity, Merciful.
 
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 Have you not observed those who are hypocrites, how they tell their brethren who disbelieve among the People of the Scripture: If you are driven out, we surely will go out with you, and we will never obey anyone against you, and if you are attacked we verily will help you. And Allah beareth witness that they verily are liars.
 
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 For indeed if they are driven out they go not out with them, and indeed if they are attacked they help them not, and indeed if they had helped them they would have turned and fled, and then they would not have been victorious.
 
13.
 You are more awful as a fear in their bosoms than Allah. That is because they are a folk who understand not.
 
14.
 They will not fight against you in a body except in fortified villages or from behind walls. Their adversity among themselves is very great. Ye think of them as a whole whereas their hearts are divers. That is because they are a folk who have no sense.
 
15.
 On the likeness of those who suffered a short time before them, they taste the ill-effects of their own conduct, and theirs is painful judgment.
 
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 And the hypocrites are on the likeness of the devil when he telleth man to disbelieve, then, when he disbelieve says: Behold! I am quit of you. Behold! I fear Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.
 
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 And the consequence for both will be that they are in the Fire, therein abiding. Such is the reward of evil-doers.
 
18.
 O you who believe! Observe your duty to Allah. And let every soul look to that which it sends on before for the morrow. And observe your duty to Allah. Behold! Allah is Informed of what you do.
 
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 And be not you as those who forgot Allah, Therefore He caused them to forget their souls. Such are the evil-doers.
 
20.
 Not equal are the owners of the Fire and the owners of the Garden. The owners of the Garden, they are the victorious.
 
21.
 If The Lord had caused this Qur'an to descend upon a mountain, you O Messenger verily hadst seen it humbled, rent asunder by the fear of Allah. Such likenesses The Lord makes for humanity that haply they may reflect.
 
22.
 He is Allah, than Whom there is no other God, the Knower of the Invisible and the Visible. He is the Beneficent, Merciful.
 
23.
 He is Allah, than Whom there is no other God, the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One, Peace, the Keeper of Faith, the Guardian, the Majestic, the Compeller, the Superb. Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner unto Him.
 
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 He is Allah, the Creator, the Shaper out of nothing, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
 
   
 
 

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