The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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The Quran 4: 141
and disbelievers together into Hell. 141 The [hypocrites] wait to see
what happens to you and, if God brings you success, they say, ‘Were
we not on your side?’ but if the disbelievers have some success, they
say to them, ‘Did we not have the upper hand over you, and [yet]
protect you from the believers?’ God will judge between you all on
the Day of Resurrection, and He will give the disbelievers no means
of overcoming the believers.
142 The hypocrites try to deceive God, but it is He who causes
them to be deceived. When they stand up to pray, they do so sluggishly,
showing off in front of people, and remember God only a
little, 143 wavering all the time between this and that, belonging neither
to one side nor the other. If God leaves someone to stray, you
[Prophet] will never find a way for him. 144 You who believe, do not
take the disbelievers as allies and protectors instead of the believers:
do you want to offer God clear proof against you? 145 The hypocrites
will be in the lowest depths of Hell, and you will find no one to help
them. 146 Not so those who repent, mend their ways, hold fast to
God, and devote their religion entirely to Him: these will be joined
with the believers, and God will give the believers a mighty reward.
147 Why should God make you suffer torment if you are thankful and
believe in Him? God always rewards gratitude and He knows everything.
148 God does not like bad words to be made public unless
someone has been wronged: He is all hearing and all knowing. 149 If
you do good, openly or in secret, or if you pardon something bad, a
then God is most forgiving and powerful.
150 As for those who ignore God and His messengers and want to
make a distinction between them, saying, ‘We believe in some but
not in others,’ seeking a middle way, 151 they are really disbelievers:
We have prepared a humiliating punishment for those who disbelieve.
152 But God will give [due] rewards to those who believe in
Him and His messengers and make no distinction between any of
them. God is most forgiving and merciful.
153 The People of the Book demand that you [Prophet] make a
book physically come down to them from heaven, but they
demanded even more than that of Moses when they said, ‘Show us
God face to face,’ and were struck by the thunderbolt for their
a Razi suggests that this means: if the hypocrites repent, the believers should not
taunt them for what they did in the past.