In this verse, our Lord warns Muslims of some sort of, `FITNEH' which may affect the innocent as well as the guilty: ``And beware of the `fitneh' which will afflict not only the oppressors from among you.'' The root meaning of FITNEH is trail, test, or temptation; and other shades of its meanings are punishment, tumult, oppression, discord, sedition and civil war, which all of them can be covered by the word, `AFFLICTION'. Here, then, the warning might be against internal discord and differences which may lead to tumults and civil wars, which frequently occurred among the primtive Muslims! The ending of the verse gives a forewarning by a threat that: if you ignore the divine instruction, and disobey your Lord, then you should know that Allah is strict in punishment. VERSE NO. 25