At-Tawbah 9:107 والذين اتخذوا مسجدا ضرارا وكفرا وتفريقا بين المومنين وارصادا لمن حارب الله ورسوله من قبل وليحلفن ان اردنا الا الحسنى والله يشهد انهم لكاذبون ١٠٧

9:107

وَٱلَّذِينَ

ٱتَّخَذُواْ

مَسۡجِدٗا

ضِرَارٗا

وَكُفۡرٗا

وَتَفۡرِيقَۢا

بَيۡنَ

ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ

وَإِرۡصَادٗا

لِّمَنۡ

حَارَبَ

ٱللَّهَ

وَرَسُولَهُۥ

مِن

قَبۡلُۚ

وَلَيَحۡلِفُنَّ

إِنۡ

أَرَدۡنَآ

إِلَّا

ٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰۖ

وَٱللَّهُ

يَشۡهَدُ

إِنَّهُمۡ

لَكَٰذِبُونَ

١٠٧

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Chapter 9, Page 204, Juz 11

100. As for the first and foremost of the Emigrants (Muhājirīn) and the Supporters (AnSār) and those who followed them in goodness, Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allah, and He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, where they will live for ever. That is the supreme achievement. 101. And among those Bedouins who are around you there are hypocrites, and among the people of Madīnah as well. They are adamant on hypocrisy. You do not know them. We know them. We will chastise them twice, then they shall be driven to a terrible punishment (in the Hereafter). 102. And there are others who admitted their sins while they had mixed a good deed with an evil one. It is likely that Allah will relent towards them. Surely, Allah is Most-Forgiving, Very-Merciful. 103. Take Sadaqah (obligatory alms) out of their wealth through which you may cleanse and purify them, and pray for them. Indeed, your prayer is a source of peace for them. And Allah is (All-) Hearing, (All-) Knowing. 104. Have they not come to know that Allah is He who accepts repentance from His slaves and accepts Sadaqāt, and that Allah is Most-Relenting, Very-Merciful. 105. Say, “Do (what you do); Allah will see your deed, as will the Messenger and the believers. And you shall be returned to the Knower of the Seen and the Unseen, then He will tell you what you have been doing.” 106. And there are others whose matter is deferred till the command of Allah (comes): either He would punish them or relent towards them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. 107. And (there are) those who have built a mosque to cause harm (to Islam) and to promote infidelity and to create dissention among the believers and to provide a station for one who has been at war with Allah and His Messenger even before. They will certainly swear (and say), “We intended to do nothing but good.” Allah testifies that they are liars 108. Do not ever stand there (in prayer). In fact, the mosque that was founded on Taqwā (piety) from the very first day has greater right that you stand in it. In it there are people who like to observe purity; and Allah loves those observing purity. 109. Then tell me, which one is better, whether the one who has founded his building on fear of Allah and on search of His pleasure, or the one who has founded his building on the edge of an abyss that is about to collapse, then it did collapse with him into the fire of Jahannam ? Allah does not give guidance to the unjust people. 110. The building they had built shall always remain a source of unrest in their hearts, unless their hearts are cut into pieces. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.

- T. Usmani