Al-Fath 48:16 قل للمخلفين من الاعراب ستدعون الى قوم اولي باس شديد تقاتلونهم او يسلمون فان تطيعوا يوتكم الله اجرا حسنا وان تتولوا كما توليتم من قبل يعذبكم عذابا اليما ١٦

48:16

قُل

لِّلۡمُخَلَّفِينَ

مِنَ

ٱلۡأَعۡرَابِ

سَتُدۡعَوۡنَ

إِلَىٰ

قَوۡمٍ

أُوْلِي

بَأۡسٖ

شَدِيدٖ

تُقَٰتِلُونَهُمۡ

أَوۡ

يُسۡلِمُونَۖ

فَإِن

تُطِيعُواْ

يُؤۡتِكُمُ

ٱللَّهُ

أَجۡرًا

حَسَنٗاۖ

وَإِن

تَتَوَلَّوۡاْ

كَمَا

تَوَلَّيۡتُم

مِّن

قَبۡلُ

يُعَذِّبۡكُمۡ

عَذَابًا

أَلِيمٗا

١٦

Say to the desert Arabs who lagged behind: "Ye shall be summoned (to fight) against a people given to vehement war: then shall ye fight, or they shall submit. Then if ye show obedience, Allah will grant you a goodly reward, but if ye turn back as ye did before, He will punish you with a grievous Penalty."

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Chapter 48, Page 513, Juz 26

11. The desert Arabs who lagged behind will say to thee: "We were engaged in (looking after) our flocks and herds, and our families: do thou then ask forgiveness for us." They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: "Who then has any power at all (to intervene) on your behalf with Allah, if His Will is to give you some loss or to give you some profit? But Allah is well acquainted with all that ye do. 12. "Nay, ye thought that the Messenger and the Believers would never return to their families; this seemed pleasing in your hearts, and ye conceived an evil thought, for ye are a people lost (in wickedness)." 13. And if any believe not in Allah and His Messenger, We have prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire! 14. To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills: but Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. 15. Those who lagged behind (will say), when ye (are free to) march and take booty (in war): "Permit us to follow you." They wish to change Allah's decree: Say: "Not thus will ye follow us: Allah has already declared (this) beforehand": then they will say, "But ye are jealous of us." Nay, but little do they understand (such things). 16. Say to the desert Arabs who lagged behind: "Ye shall be summoned (to fight) against a people given to vehement war: then shall ye fight, or they shall submit. Then if ye show obedience, Allah will grant you a goodly reward, but if ye turn back as ye did before, He will punish you with a grievous Penalty." 17. No blame is there on the blind, nor is there blame on the lame, nor on one ill (if he joins not the war): But he that obeys Allah and his Messenger,- (Allah) will admit him to Gardens beneath which rivers flow; and he who turns back, (Allah) will punish him with a grievous Penalty.

- A. Yusuf Ali