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Sura 26
Aya 227
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إِلَّا الَّذينَ آمَنوا وَعَمِلُوا الصّالِحاتِ وَذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ كَثيرًا وَانتَصَروا مِن بَعدِ ما ظُلِموا ۗ وَسَيَعلَمُ الَّذينَ ظَلَموا أَيَّ مُنقَلَبٍ يَنقَلِبونَ

Muhammad Asad

[Most of them are of this kind - ] save those who have attained to faith, and do righteous deeds, and remember God unceasingly, and defend them selves [only] after having been wronged,1 and [trust in God's promise that] those who are bent on wrong doing will in time come to know how evil a turn their destinies are bound to take!2
  • Thus the Qur'an makes it clear that a true believer may fight only in self-defence: cf. 22:39-40, the earliest reference to war as such, and 2:190-194, where the circumstances making war fully justified are further elaborated.
  • Lit., "by what [kind of] turning they will turn".