Those who stay behind from the striving in the cause of Allah-other than the owners of excuses from them-and the mujahidin in the cause of Allah, with their wealth and their souls, are not equal, Allah the Exalted preferred the mujahidin over the sitting ones, and raised their status a high degree in Paradise, and Allah promised each of the mujahidin with their wealth and their souls and the sitting ones from the owners of excuses the Paradise for what they exerted and sacrificed in the cause of the truth, and Allah the Exalted preferred the mujahidin over the sitting ones as a abundant reward.