The Repentance
9. At-Tawbah
التوبة
Page #206
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مَا
كَانَ
لِأَهْلِ
الْمَدِينَةِ
وَمَنْ
حَوْلَهُم
مِّنَ
الْأَعْرَابِ
أَن
يَتَخَلَّفُوا
عَن
رَّسُولِ
اللَّهِ
وَلَا
يَرْغَبُوا
بِأَنفُسِهِمْ
عَن
نَّفْسِهِ
ذَلِكَ
بِأَنَّهُمْ
لَا
يُصِيبُهُمْ
ظَمَأٌ
وَلَا
نَصَبٌ
وَلَا
مَخْمَصَةٌ
فِي
سَبِيلِ
اللَّهِ
وَلَا
يَطَئُونَ
مَوْطِئًا
يَغِيظُ
الْكُفَّارَ
وَلَا
يَنَالُونَ
مِنْ
عَدُوٍّ
نَّيْلًا
إِلَّا
كُتِبَ
لَهُم
بِهِ
عَمَلٌ
صَالِحٌ
إِنَّ
اللَّهَ
لَا
يُضِيعُ
أَجْرَ
الْمُحْسِنِينَ
mā kāna li-ʾahli l-madīnati wa-man ḥawlahum mina l-ʾaʿrābi ʾan yatakhallafū ʿan rasūli llāhi wa-lā yarghabū bi-ʾanfusihim ʿan nafsihī dhālika bi-ʾannahum lā yuṣībuhum ẓamaʾun wa-lā naṣabun wa-lā makhmaṣatun fī sabīli llāhi wa-lā yaṭaʾūna mawṭiʾan yaghīẓu l-kuffāra wa-lā yanālūna min ʿaduwwin naylan ʾillā kutiba lahum bihī ʿamalun ṣāliḥun ʾinna llāha lā yuḍīʿu ʾajra l-muḥsinīna
It was not fitting for the people of Medina and the Bedouin Arabs of the neighbourhood, to refuse to follow Allah's Messenger, nor to prefer their own lives to his: because nothing could they suffer or do, but was reckoned to their credit as a deed of righteousness,- whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of Allah, or trod paths to raise the ire of the Unbelievers, or received any injury whatever from an enemy: for Allah suffereth not the reward to be lost of those who do good;-
— Abdullah Yusufali
It is not fitting for the people of Madinah and the Bedouins around them to hang back behind the Apostle of Allah and prefer their own lives to his life. That is because they neither experience any thirst, nor fatigue, nor hunger, in the way of Allah, nor do they tread any ground enraging the faithless, nor do they gain any ground against an enemy but a righteous deed is written for them on its account. Indeed Allah does not waste the reward of the virtuous.
