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Those who (alladhīna, substitutes for the previous alladhīna [of verse 139]) wait in watch for you, [hoping] for misfortunes [to befall you], and, if a victory, such as a conquest or booty, comes to you from Allahu ta’ālā, say, to you: 'Were we not with you?', in religion and in the struggle? So give us from the booty; but if the disbelievers have some luck, by gaining a victory over you, they say, to them: 'Did we not gain mastery, authority, over you, capable of capturing you and slaying you, but we spared you, and did we not defend you against the believers?', lest they be victorious over you, by forsaking them and apprising you of their plans, and thus have we not done you a favour? Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He, says: Allahu ta’ālā will judge between you, and them, on the Day of Resurrection, admitting you into Paradise and them into the Fire; and Allahu ta’ālā will never grant the disbelievers a way, a means [to success], over the believers, by annihilating them.