The Lord heard their prayer and answered : " I suffer not the good deeds of any to go waste , be he a man or a woman : The one of you is of the other . And those who were deprived of their homes or banished in My cause , and who fought and were killed , I shall blot out their sins and admit them indeed into gardens with rippling streams . " -- A recompense from God , and the best of rewards is with God .