Surah 8. Al-Anfal

In the name of ALLAH, the Benevolent, the Merciful

1. They ask you of the spoils of war. Say: The spoils of war belong to ALLAH and the messenger, so keep your duty to ALLAH, and adjust the matter of your difference, and obey ALLAH and His messenger, if you are faithful.
2. They only are the faithful whose hearts feel fear when ALLAH is mentioned, and when the Revelations of ALLAH are recited to them they increase their faith, and who trust in their Lord;
3. Who establish worship and spend of that We have bestowed on them.
4. Those are they who are in truth faithful. For them are grades with their Lord, and pardon, and a bountiful provision.
5. Even as your Lord caused you to go forth from your home with the Truth, and lo! a party of the faithful were averse,
6. Disputing with you of the Truth after it had been made manifest, as if they were being driven to death visible.
7. And when ALLAH promised you one of the two bands (of the enemy) that it should be yours, and you longed that other than the armed one might be yours. And ALLAH willed that He should cause the Truth to triumph by His words, and cut the root of the deniers;
8. That He might cause the Truth to triumph and bring vanity to nothing, however much the guilty might oppose;
9. When you sought help of your Lord and He answered you: I will help you with a thousand of the angels, rank on rank.
10. ALLAH appointed it only as good tidings, and that your hearts thereby might be at rest. Victory comes only by the help of ALLAH. Lo! ALLAH is Mighty, Wise.

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