3. Sura al-Imran [The Family of Imran], Medina 89

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

قُلْ إِن كُنتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللّهُ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ ...

3: 31. Say:

"If ye do love Allah, follow me: Allah will love you, and forgive you your sins,

...وَاللّهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ ﴿٣١﴾

for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

Transliteration Walilla_hi ma_ fissama_wa_tiwa ma_ filard(i), yagfirulimayyasya_'u wayu'azzibu may yasya_'(u), walla_hugafu_rurrahim(un).

Other Versions:

3: 31

Pickthall Say, (O Muhammad, to mankind): If ye love Allah, follow me; Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Transliteration Qul in kuntumtuhibbu_nalla_hafattabi'u_niyuhbibkumulla_huwayagfirlakumzunu_bakum, walla_hugafu_rurrahim(un).

Ali’s notes:

C468. It was the duty of all who were able to fight, to fight in the sacred cause at Uhud.

But a small section were timid; they were not quite as bad as those who railed against Allah, or those who thoughtlessly disobeyed orders. But they still failed in their duty.

It is our inner motives that Allah regards. These timorous people were forgiven by Allah. Perhaps they were given another chance: perhaps they rose to it and did their duty then.