If a wound should touch you - there has already touched the [opposing] people a wound similar to it. And these days [of varying conditions] We alternate among the people so that Allāh may make evident those who believe and [may] take to Himself from among you martyrs - and Allāh does not like the wrongdoers -
وَلِيَعۡلَمَ[and] so that makes evidentwaliyaʿlama
ٱللَّهُAllahl-lahu
ٱلَّذِينَthose whoalladhīna
ءَامَنُواْbelieve[d]āmanū
وَيَتَّخِذَand takewayattakhidha
مِنكُمۡfrom youminkum
شُهَدَآءَۗmartyrsshuhadāa
وَٱللَّهُAnd Allahwal-lahu
لَا(does) notlā
يُحِبُّloveyuḥibbu
ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَthe wrongdoersl-ẓālimīna
Tafsir
O believers, if you suffered injuries and losses on the day of Uḥud, then the disbelievers also suffered injuries and losses just as you did. Allah distributes such days between people, whether they have faith or disbelieve, giving victory and defeat as He wills, for reasons of great wisdom. Among these reasons is to make it clear, those who truly have faith as opposed to those who are hypocrites, and to honour whomever He wills with martyrdom in His cause. Allah dislikes those who wrong themselves by giving up striving in his path.