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Ali 'Imran 168

Ayah 168 of 200 · Medinan

ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُواْ لِإِخۡوَٰنِهِمۡ وَقَعَدُواْ لَوۡ أَطَاعُونَا مَا قُتِلُواْۗ قُلۡ فَٱدۡرَءُواْ عَنۡ أَنفُسِكُمُ ٱلۡمَوۡتَ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَٰدِقِينَ ١٦٨

Those who said about their brothers while sitting [at home], "If they had obeyed us, they would not have been killed." Say, "Then prevent death from yourselves, if you should be truthful."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. ٱلَّذِينَThose whoalladhīna
  2. قَالُواْsaidqālū
  3. لِإِخۡوَٰنِهِمۡabout their brothersli-ikh'wānihim
  4. وَقَعَدُواْwhile they satwaqaʿadū
  5. لَوۡIflaw
  6. أَطَاعُونَاthey (had) obeyed usaṭāʿūnā
  7. مَاnotmā
  8. قُتِلُواْۗthey would have been killedqutilū
  9. قُلۡSayqul
  10. فَٱدۡرَءُواْThen avertfa-id'raū
  11. عَنۡfromʿan
  12. أَنفُسِكُمُyourselvesanfusikumu
  13. ٱلۡمَوۡتَ[the] deathl-mawta
  14. إِنifin
  15. كُنتُمۡyou arekuntum
  16. صَٰدِقِينَtruthfulṣādiqīna

Tafsir

Those who stayed behind from fighting, and said of their relatives who suffered on the day of Uḥud that if they had done as they said and not gone to fight then they would not have been killed, tell them, O Prophet, in reply, to keep death away from themselves when it arrives, if they are telling the truth in their claim that they would not have been killed if they had listened to them; and that the reason they themselves escaped death was because they stayed behind from fighting in Allah’s cause.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran