Hateful .... Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; 1 but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not. 1 for if ye hate them it may happen that ye hate a thing wherein Allah hath placed much good 1 He said : Even though we hate it? 1 Even as thy Lord caused thee (Muhammad) to go forth from thy home with the Truth, and lo! a party of the believers were averse (to it) 1 That He might cause the Truth to triumph and bring vanity to naught, however much the guilty might oppose; 1 Those who were left behind rejoiced at sitting still behind the messenger of Allah, and were averse to striving with their wealth and their lives in Allah's way. And they said: Go not forth in the heat! 1 ....

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