Essence of the Holy Qur’an — Page 65
Al-‘Ankab ū t 65 for Signs and miracles. Towards its close believers are consoled and comforted with the assurance that if they remained steadfast under the persecution to which they are being subjected a great and bright future lies before them. The S u rah ends on the note that believers will have to take up the sword in defence of Islam and to conduct vigorous Jih a d against the forces of evil. But the real Jih a d, it says, does not consist in killing and being killed, but in striving hard to win the pleasure of God and in preaching the Message of the Qur’ a n.