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Al [Imran 3: 167–71

and in order that He might mark out those who believe (167) from those who are hypocrites. And when these hypocrites were asked: “Come and fight in the Way of Allah,” or (at least) “defend your- selves,” they answered: “If we but knew that there would be fighting, we would certainly have followed.” They were then nearer to infidelity than to faith. They utter from their mouths what is not in their hearts. Allah knows well what they conceal. (168) These are the ones who stayed away, saying about their brothers: “Had they followed us, they would not have been slain.” Say: “If you speak the truth then avert death when it comes to you.”

(169) Think not of those slain in the Way of Allah as dead. Indeed they are living, and with their Lord they have their sustenance, (170) rejoicing in what Allah has bestowed upon them out of His bounty, jubilant that neither fear nor grief shall come upon the believers who have been left behind in the world and have not yet joined them. (171) They rejoice at the favours and bounties of Allah, ▶

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