The Majestic Quran

16 Or did you think you would be left untested ? God has not yet marked out those amongst you who are willing to struggle on His path, and those who will keep secrets safe from anyone besides God, His Messenger and the believers. God is well aware of what you do. W M ? 17 It isn’t right for the idolaters to be caretakers of God’s Mosques while they are witnesses of their disbelief. Their deeds are worthless, and they will live in the Fire forever. 18 The Mosques of God are looked after by people who believe in God and the Last Day, perform prayer, pay Zakat and fear none but God; these are the rightly guided. 19 Do you consider providing water to the pilgrims and the maintenance of the Sacred Mosque equal to piety of those who believe in God and the Last Day and do Jihad in God’s way? In God’s sight the two things are not equal ; 12 and God does not guide the wrongdoers. 20 Those who believed, migrated and struggled in God’s way with their wealth and lives have a special place near God; those are the real winners. 21 Your Lord gives them glad tidings of kindness, pleasure and gardens in which they will enjoy everlasting delights, 22 living there forever. Surely, God will give them a mighty reward. G 23 Believers, don’t take your fathers and brothers as supporters if they prefer disbelief over faith; anyone who does so is a wrongdoer. 24 Say: “If your fathers, children, brothers, spouses, relatives and the wealth you have gathered, the business whose downturn you fear and the houses that delight you, if these things are dearer to you than God, His Messenger and struggling in His path, then you should wait until God’s Judgement comes to pass. God doesn’t guide the disobedient.” T B H 25 God helped you in many battlefields, including on the day of Hunai n 13 when you were proud of your large numbers, but that wasn’t any use to you. The Earth, for all its vastness, seemed to close in on you, and you turned back and fled. 26 Then God sent down His stillnes s 14 on his Messenger and the believers; and He sent down troops that you couldn’t see, and He punished the disbelievers; that was the reward of their disbelief. 27 Afterwards, God forgave whom He pleased; God is Most