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O you who have believed! Be patient, surpass in patience, stand ready with firmness, and guard yourselves toward God, perhaps you will succeed.

When He covered you with drowsiness, as a security from Himself, and sent down upon you, from the sky, water, to purify you with it, to remove from you the defilement of the Diverter, to bind your cores, and to make firm your steps with it.

And prepare, against them, whatever you can of force and of horses held ready for battle,

And We bound their cores, when they stood up and said: "Our Guardian is the Guardian of the heavens and the earth; never shall we call upon any deity besides Him — we would then have said an enormous excess.

And the Conscience of Moussa's mother became vacant; she nearly made it appear, had We not bound her core, so that she would be among those who believe.