244 Preface وَقاتِلوا في سَبيلِ اللَّهِ وَاعلَموا أَنَّ اللَّهَ سَميعٌ عَليمٌYusuf AliThen fight in the cause of God, and know that God Heareth and knoweth all things.1For God’s cause we must fight, but never to satisfy our own selfish passions or greed, for the warning is repeated: “God heareth and knoweth all things”; all deeds, words, and motives are perfectly open before Him, however we might conceal them from men or even from ourselves. See 2:216. n. 236.