صفحة 68

for Him to cleanse those who believe and for Him to destroy the disbelievers.

Did you think you would enter the Garden without God first proving which of you would struggle for His cause and remain steadfast?

Before you encountered death, you were hoping for it. Well, now you have seen it with your own eyes.

Muhammad is only a messenger before whom many messengers have been and gone. If he died or was killed, would you revert to your old ways? If anyone did so, he would not harm God in the least. God will reward the grateful.

No soul may die except with God’s permission at a predestined time. If anyone strives for the rewards of this world, We will give him some of them. If anyone strives for the rewards of the Hereafter, We will give him some of them: We will reward the grateful.

Many prophets have fought, with large bands of godly men alongside them who, in the face of their sufferings for God’s cause, did not lose heart or weaken or surrender: God loves those who are steadfast.

All they said was, ‘Our Lord, forgive us our sins and our excesses. Make our feet firm, and give us help against the disbelievers,’

and so God gave them both the rewards of this world and the excellent rewards of the Hereafter: God loves those who do good.