You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin
what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah . If only the
People of the Scripture had believed, it would have been better for them.
Among them are believers, but most of them are defiantly disobedient.
They have been put under humiliation [by Allah ] wherever they are
overtaken, except for a covenant from Allah and a rope from the Muslims.
And they have drawn upon themselves anger from Allah and have been put
under destitution. That is because they disbelieved in the verses of Allah
and killed the prophets without right. That is because they disobeyed and
[habitually] transgressed.
They are not [all] the same; among the People of the Scripture is a
community standing [in obedience], reciting the verses of Allah during
periods of the night and prostrating [in prayer].
They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and they enjoin what is right and
forbid what is wrong and hasten to good deeds. And those are among the
righteous.
Indeed, those who disbelieve - never will their wealth or their children
avail them against Allah at all, and those are the companions of the Fire;
they will abide therein eternally.
The example of what they spend in this worldly life is like that of a wind
containing frost which strikes the harvest of a people who have wronged
themselves and destroys it. And Allah has not wronged them, but they wrong
themselves.
O you who have believed, do not take as intimates those other than
yourselves, for they will not spare you [any] ruin. They wish you would
have hardship. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, and what
their breasts conceal is greater. We have certainly made clear to you the
signs, if you will use reason.
Here you are loving them but they are not loving you, while you believe in
the Scripture - all of it. And when they meet you, they say, "We believe."
But when they are alone, they bite their fingertips at you in rage. Say,
"Die in your rage. Indeed, Allah is Knowing of that within the breasts."
If good touches you, it distresses them; but if harm strikes you, they
rejoice at it. And if you are patient and fear Allah, their plot will not
harm you at all. Indeed, Allah is encompassing of what they do.
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