*8:12-16 All wars are governed by the basic rule in 60:8-9.
*8:17 Believing in God necessitates believing in His qualities, one of which is that He is doing everything. Without knowing God, there is no belief (23:84-90). Bad things are incurred by us, and executed by Satan, in accordance with God's laws (4:78-79, 42:30).
*8:24 See Appendix 17. When the righteous exit their bodies, they go straight to Heaven.
*8:25 A community that tolerates homosexuality, for example, may be hit by an earthquake.
*8:35 All religious practices in Islam came to us through Abraham; when the Quran was revealed, all rites in "Submission" were already in existence (21:73, 22:78).