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O true believers, take your necessary precautions against your enemies, and either go forth to war in separate parties, or go forth all together in a body.

— George Sale The Koran (1734)

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Wheresoever ye be, death will overtake you, although ye be in lofty towers.

The Koran (1734)

As for him who voluntarily performeth a good work, verily God is grateful and knowing.

The Koran (1734)

If God should punish men according to what they deserve, he would not leave on the back of the earth so much as a beast.

The Koran (1734)

God obligeth no man to more than he hath given him ability to perform.

The Koran (1734)

Wherever ye be, God will bring you all back at the resurrection.

The Koran (1734)

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