Deception by the Hypocrites (L-485)
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قَالُوا۟ لَوْ نَعْلَمُ قِتَالًا لَّٱتَّبَعْنَٰكُمْ هُمْ لِلْكُفْرِيَوْمَئِ ذٍ أَقْرَبُ مِنْهُمْ لِلْإِيمَٰنِ يَقُولُونَ بِأَفْوَٰهِهِم مَّا لَيْسَ فِى قُلُوبِهِمْ وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَكْتُمُونَb.
167 ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوا۟ لِإِخْوَٰنِهِمْ وَقَعَدُوا۟ لَوْ أَطَاعُونَا مَاقُتِلُوا۟ قُلْ فَٱدْرَءُوا۟ عَنْ أَنفُسِكُمُ ٱلْمَوْتَ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ
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167b. Qaaluu law na’-lamu qitaalal-lattaba’-naakum. Hum lil-kufri yawma-‘izin ‘aqrabu minhum lil-‘iimaan. Yaquu-luuna bi-‘afwaahi-him-maa laysa fii quluubihim. WAllaahu ‘A’-lamu bimaa yaktumuun. 168. ‘Allaziina qaaluu li-‘ikh-waanihim
wa qa-‘aduu law ‘ataa- ‘uunaa maa
qutiluu. Qul fadra-‘uu ‘an ‘anfusikumul-mawta
‘in- kuntum saadiqiin. |
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167b. They said, “If we knew how to fight, we would have followed you.” On that day they were closer to infidelity than they were to faith. They say with their mouths what is not in their hearts; but God knows what they hide. 168. Those who said of their brethren, as they stayed behind, “Had
they obeyed us, they would not have been killed.” Say, “Then avert death from
yourselves, if you are truthful.” |
Greatest help and power, which is considered most useful in the battlefield, is that either the fighters would have complete support from their rear or they have expectation that their companions and protectors exist on their back, and they will be reaching very soon. Contrary to it, those soldiers remain in an excessive distressed condition and withered whose own companions leave them helpless and they have no hope regarding any help.
Abdullah bin ‘Ubayy adopted
such behavior with the Muslim Crusaders. That is to say; at that time; when the
enemy was in front of them and the Infidelity and Islam were near to knocking
against each other, he brought back his companions. When he was advised in this
connection, he replied that there is no chance of war. If we would have known
that really; the both armies are going to fight, then we would have gone with
you. Even now, if we felt that the war has begun, we would come to help you. He
aimed also from this conversation that if really there were any encounter, we
certainly would have remained with you. There is no comparison among your army
and the army of Infidels and Idolaters. You have only one thousand personnel
and they have three thousand braves. In addition, even you have no war
equipment. It is not a battle, but to put oneself into destruction
unnecessarily. In other words, it means from this description, “If we would
know how to fight or aware of the art of war, then we would have remained with
you”. As though, they taunted the Muslims in their hearts, “You did not act
upon our advice, accepted opinion of others, as if; we were considered as
ignorant from the established orders of war”. They tried to harm the Muslims by
this act and strengthened the Infidels. They began to say the ‘Ansaar (a
tribe of sheikhs supposed to have belonged originally to Madinah and
embraced Islam), “If they had followed us and remained at their homes; they
would not have been slain”. God
commanded to them that if it was not possible to escape from death at home,
then why not it should be accepted, by coming out in the battlefield like the
brave people.
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