Spoils of War
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[8:38]
Tell those who are bent on denying the truth that if they desist, all that is past shall be forgiven them; but if they revert [to their wrongdoing], let them remember what happened to the like of them in times gone by.

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* v.38 : I.e., from their endeavour to turn others away from the path of God and from waging war against the believers.
* Lit., “the example (sunnah) of the people of old times has already come to pass”: an allusion to the disasters that have overtaken, and are bound to overtake, those who persistently deny moral truths.