Surah Al-Anfal

They will question thee concerning the spoils. Say: 'The spoils belong to God and the Messenger; so fear you God, and set things right between you, and obey you God and His Messenger, if you are believers.'

Those only are believers who, when God is mentioned, their hearts quake, and when His signs are recited to them, it increases them in faith, and in their Lord they put their trust,

those who perform the prayer, and expend of what We have provided them,

those in truth are the believers; they have degrees with their Lord, and forgiveness, and generous provision.

As thy Lord brought thee forth from thy house with the truth, and a part of the believers were averse to it,

disputing with thee concerning the truth after it had become clear, as though they were being driven into death with their eyes wide open.

And when God promised you one of the two parties should be yours, and you were wishing that the one not accoutred should be yours; but God was desiring to verify the truth by His words, and to cut off the unbelievers to the last remnant,

and that He might verify the truth and prove untrue the untrue, though the sinners were averse to it.

When you were calling upon your Lord for succour, and He answered you, 'I shall reinforce you with a thousand angels riding behind you.'

God wrought this not, save as good tidings and that your hearts thereby might be at rest; help comes only from God; surely God is All-mighty, All-wise.

When He was causing slumber to overcome you as a security from Him, and sending down on you water from heaven, to purify you thereby, and to put away from you the defilement of Satan, and to strengthen your hearts, and to confirm your feet.

When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, 'I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers' hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!'

That, because they had made a breach with God and with His Messenger; and whosoever makes a breach with God and with His Messenger, surely God is terrible in retribution.

That for you; therefore taste it; and that the chastisement of the Fire is for the unbelievers.

O believers, when you encounter the unbelievers marching to battle, turn not your backs to them.