It would have been better for them if they had waited patiently for you to come out to them but God is all forgiving and merciful

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Believers, if a troublemaker brings you news, check it first, in case you wrong others unwittingly and later regret what you have done

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and be aware that it is God’s Messenger who is among you: in many matters you would certainly suffer if he were to follow your wishes. God has endeared faith to you and made it beautiful to your hearts; He has made disbelief, mischief, and disobedience hateful to you. It is people like this who are rightly guided

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through God’s favour and blessing: God is all knowing and all wise

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If two groups of the believers fight, you [believers] should try to reconcile them; if one of them is [clearly] oppressing the other, fight the oppressors until they submit to God’s command, then make a just and even-handed reconciliation between the two of them: God loves those who are even-handed

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The believers are brothers, so make peace between your two brothers and be mindful of God, so that you may be given mercy

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Believers, no one group of men should jeer at another, who may after all be better than them; no one group of women should jeer at another, who may after all be better than them; do not speak ill of one another; do not use offensive nicknames for one another. How bad it is to be called a mischief-maker after accepting faith! Those who do not repent of this behaviour are evildoers

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