When the Believers fight in Allah' cause they should be like…

                                                                                         

In Verse 2:216 Allah puts three valid Facts for mankind that are found all the time and anywhere on the earth and at whatever time.
The first Fact:
War is hateful but it is inevitable!
War is offensive but it is obligatory.
The second Fact:
You may hate a thing although it is good for you.
The third Fact:
You may love a thing although it is evil for you.
Surely, Allah knows, and you do not
Allah knows everything, while you do not know

Verse 61:4 talks about the best fighter in the eye of God.
Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array.
Fighting in Allah' cause means fighting against the devil and his parties.
Verse 61:4 has a story, it is:
‘Abd Allah bin Salam (one of the top Jewish Priest who became Muslim) said: “We sat a group of Companions of Muhammad and reminded each other. We said: ‘If only we knew the most beloved works to Allah, glorified and exalted is He, for we would then perform them’.
Then He encouraged them to strive in His way, saying: (Lo! Allah loves those who battle for His cause, in His obedience in ranks, as if they were a solid structure, like a cemented block.
Indeed
Allah loves,
Allah assists and
Allah honors
Those who fight for His cause in ranks as if they were a solid structure, with all of its parts compacted together, firm, like a cemented block.
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Verse 2:216 in different translations:

QARIB:
(Offensive) fighting is obligatory for you, though it is hateful to you. But you may hate a thing although it is good for you, and may love a thing although it is evil for you. Allah knows, and you do not.

SHAKIR:
Fighting is enjoined on you, and it is an object of dislike to you; and it may be that you dislike a thing while it is good for you, and it may be that you love a thing while it is evil for you, and Allah knows, while you do not know

PICKTHAL:
Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not.

YUSUFALI:
Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. but it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. but Allah knoweth, and ye know not.
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Verse 61:4 in different translations:

QARIB:
Allah loves those who fight in his way lining up as if they were a stacked building.

SHAKIR:
Surely Allah loves those who fight in his way in ranks as if they were a firm and compact wall

PICKTHAL:
Lo! Allah loveth them who battle for his cause in ranks, as if they were a solid structure.

YUSUFALI:
Truly Allah loves those who fight in his cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure.

About the author:
Safaa Abdel-Aziz
Co-Chief Editor, October Weekly Magazine,
Cairo, Egypt.


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