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RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 221 296. Fighting is ordained for you, while it is repugnant to you. It may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and it may also be that you prefer a thing and it may be the worse for you. Allah knows all and you know not (2. 217). 297. Go forth, without equipment or with equipment, and strive in the cause of Allah with your belongings and your persons (9. 41). 298. Allah has purchased of the believers their persons and their belongings in return for the promise that they shall have Paradise, for they fight in the cause of Allah and they slay the enemy or are themselves slain. This is a promise that He has made incumbent upon Himself as set out in the Torah, and the Gospel and the Quran; and who is more faithful to his promises than Allah? Rejoice, then, in the bargain that you have made with Him; that indeed is the supreme triumph (9. 111). 299. Those of the believers who remain at home, except those who are disabled, and those who strive in the cause of. Allah with their belongings and their persons are not equal. . Allah has exalted in rank those who strive with their belongings and their persons above those who remain at home. To all Allah has promised good. Allah has exalted those who strive above those who remain at home with the promise of a great reward, in the shape of degrees of excellence to be bestowed by Him, and forgiveness and mercy. Allah is Most Forgiving, Ever Merciful (4. 96-97). 300. O ye who believe, shall I guide you to a commerce that will deliver you from a painful chastisement? It is that you believe in Allah and His Messenger, and strive in the cause of Allah with your belongings and your persons, that is the better for you, did you but know. He will forgive you your sins and will admit you to gardens beneath which rivers flow, and to pure and pleasant dwellings in Gardens of Eternity. That is the supreme triumph (61. 11-14). 1290. This hadith is the same as No. 1278. 1291. This hadith is the same as No. 314. 1292. This hadith is comprehended in No. 1278. 1293. Anas relates that the Holy Prophet said: To be occupied in the cause of Allah a morning or evening is better than the world and all it contains (Bokhari and Muslim). 1294. Abu Sa'id Khudri relates that a man came to the Holy Prophet