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Al-Nisa’ 4: 70–4

the martyrs, and the right- eous. 56 How excellent will they be for companions! (70) That is a bounty from Allah, and Allah suffices to know the truth.

(71) Believers! Be ever prepared to encounter (the enemy); either advance in detachments or advance in one body (as the circumstance demands).57 (72) Among you there is such who lags behind, then if some affliction strikes you, he says: “Indeed Allah bestowed His favour upon me that I was not present with them.” (73) And if a bounty from Allah is given you, he says – and says as if there never was any affection between you and him – “Oh, would that I had been with them, I would have come by a great gain.” (74) Let those who seek the life of the Next World in exchange for the life of this world fight in the Way of Allah. ▶

56 This means that in the Hereafter they will be in the company of those blessed people. It does not mean, however, that any of them can ever attain the office of a Prophet by virtue of his righteous deeds.

57 This discourse was revealed after the Battle of Uhud when the tribes living around Madinah had been greatly emboldened by the defeat of the Muslims.

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