Believers, be always prepared for encounter,102 and advance in detachments or march in a body, as the occasion may require. Well, there are among you such as shirk fight;'103 if a disaster befalls you, they say, "Allah has been very gracious to us that we did not accompany these people." And if you are blessed with grace from Allah, they say, as though there never had been any friendly relations between you and them "We wish we had also accompanied them and thus would have gained our end." (Let such people understand that) those alone, who barter away this worldly life for that of the Hereafter,104 should fight in the way of Allah; then We will bestow a great reward upon him who fights in the way of Allah whether he be slain or be victorious. Why should you, then, not fight in the way of Allah for the sake of those helpless men, women and children who, being weak, have been oppressed, and are crying out, "Our Lord, deliver us from this habitation whose inhabitants are unjust oppressors, and raise a protector for us by Thy grace and a helper from Thyself."105 Those, who follow the way of Faith, fight in the way of Allah, and those who follow the way of disbelief fight in the way of taghut.106 So fight against the helpers of Satan with this conviction that Satan's crafty schemes are in fact very weak.107