Those who have been attacked are permitted to take up arms because they have been wronged- God has the power to help them

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those who have been driven unjustly from their homes only for saying, ‘Our Lord is God.’ If God did not repel some people by means of others, many monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, where God’s name is much invoked, would have been destroyed. God is sure to help those who help His cause- God is strong and mighty

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those who, when We establish them in the land, keep up the prayer, pay the prescribed alms, command what is right, and forbid what is wrong: God controls the outcome of all events

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If they reject you [Prophet], so did the people of Noah before them, and those of Ad, Thamud

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Abraham, Lot

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Midian. Moses too was called a liar. I gave the disbelievers time, but in the end I punished them. How I condemned them

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How many towns steeped in wrongdoing We have destroyed and left in total ruin; how many deserted wells; how many lofty palaces

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Have these people [of Mecca] not travelled through the land with hearts to understand and ears to hear? It is not people’s eyes that are blind, but their hearts within their breasts

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