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Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allāh, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakāh; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous.
And [remember] when you, [O Muḥammad], left your family in the morning to post the believers at their stations for the battle [of Uḥud] - and Allāh is Hearing and Knowing -
O you who have believed, persevere1 and endure2 and remain stationed3 and fear Allāh that you may be successful.
O you who have believed, when you meet those who disbelieve advancing [in battle], do not turn to them your backs [in flight].
So do not obey the disbelievers, and strive against them with it [i.e., the Qur’ān] a great striving.