Mujámmad 47:20 ويقول الذين امنوا لولا نزلت سورة فاذا انزلت سورة محكمة وذكر فيها القتال رايت الذين في قلوبهم مرض ينظرون اليك نظر المغشي عليه من الموت فاولى لهم ٢٠
وَيَقُولُ
ٱلَّذِينَ
ءَامَنُواْ
لَوۡلَا
نُزِّلَتۡ
سُورَةٞۖ
فَإِذَآ
أُنزِلَتۡ
سُورَةٞ
مُّحۡكَمَةٞ
وَذُكِرَ
فِيهَا
ٱلۡقِتَالُ
رَأَيۡتَ
ٱلَّذِينَ
فِي
قُلُوبِهِم
مَّرَضٞ
يَنظُرُونَ
إِلَيۡكَ
نَظَرَ
ٱلۡمَغۡشِيِّ
عَلَيۡهِ
مِنَ
ٱلۡمَوۡتِۖ
فَأَوۡلَىٰ
لَهُمۡ
٢٠
Those who believe say, "Why has a sūrah1 not been sent down?" But when a precise sūrah is revealed and battle is mentioned therein, you see those in whose hearts is disease [i.e., hypocrisy] looking at you with a look of one overcome by death. And more appropriate for them2 [would have been]
— Saheeh International
And the believers say, “If only a sûrah was revealed ˹allowing self-defence˺!” Yet when a precise sûrah is revealed, in which fighting is ˹explicitly˺ mentioned, you see those with sickness in their hearts staring at you like someone in the throes of death. It would have been better for them
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
Lee Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Situation of the True Believer and the Sick-Hearted when the Command for Jihad was revealed
Allah mentions that the believers were hoping that Jihad would be legislated. But when Allah ordained it, many of the people turned back, as Allah says,
أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ قِيلَ لَهُمْ كُفُّواْ أَي
…The Situation of the True Believer and the Sick-Hearted when the Command for Jihad was revealed
Allah mentions that the believers were hoping that Jiha
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