Al-Anfal 8:12 اذ يوحي ربك الى الملايكة اني معكم فثبتوا الذين امنوا سالقي في قلوب الذين كفروا الرعب فاضربوا فوق الاعناق واضربوا منهم كل بنان ١٢
إِذۡ
يُوحِي
رَبُّكَ
إِلَى
ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ
أَنِّي
مَعَكُمۡ
فَثَبِّتُواْ
ٱلَّذِينَ
ءَامَنُواْۚ
سَأُلۡقِي
فِي
قُلُوبِ
ٱلَّذِينَ
كَفَرُواْ
ٱلرُّعۡبَ
فَٱضۡرِبُواْ
فَوۡقَ
ٱلۡأَعۡنَاقِ
وَٱضۡرِبُواْ
مِنۡهُمۡ
كُلَّ
بَنَانٖ
١٢
˹Remember, O Prophet,˺ when your Lord revealed to the angels, “I am with you. So make the believers stand firm. I will cast horror into the hearts of the disbelievers. So strike their necks and strike their fingertips.”
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
[Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, "I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip."1
— Saheeh International
Soma Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Slumber overcomes Muslims
Allah reminds the believers of the slumber that He sent down on them as security from the fear they suffered from, because of the multitude of their enemy and the sparseness of their forces. They were given the same favor during the battle of Uhud, which Allah described,
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…Slumber overcomes Muslims
Allah reminds the believers of the slumber that He sent down on them as security from the fear they suffered from, because of
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