Surah 3. Al-i'Imran, Ayah 153
| ۞ إِذْ تُصْعِدُونَ وَلَا تَلْوُونَ عَلَىٰ أَحَدٍ وَالرَّسُولُ يَدْعُوكُمْ فِي أُخْرَاكُمْ فَأَثَابَكُمْ غَمًّا بِغَمٍّ لِكَيْلَا تَحْزَنُوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَاتَكُمْ وَلَا مَا أَصَابَكُمْ ۗ وَاللَّهُ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | 'idh tus.cidon wa- laa talwon calaa 'ah.ad wa- ar- rasol yadco -kum fe 'ukhraa -kum fa- athaaba -kum ghamm(an) bi- ghamm li- kay laa tah.zano calaa maa faata -kum wa- laa maa as.aaba -kum wa- 'allaah khaber bi- maa tacmalon |
| Pickthall | : | When ye climbed (the hill) and paid no heed to anyone, while the messenger, in your rear, was calling you (to fight). Therefore He rewarded you grief for (his) grief, that (He might teach) you not to sorrow either for that which ye missed or for that which befell you. Allah is Informed of what ye do. |
| Asad | : | [Remember the time] when you fled, paying no heed to anyone, while at your rear the Apostle was calling out to you - wherefore He requited you with woe in return for [the Apostle's] woe, so that you should not grieve [merely] over what had escaped you, nor over what had befallen you: for God is aware of all that you do.111 |
| Malik | : | Remember how you fled in panic and did not even look back at one another while the Rasool, at your rear, was calling out to you! Consequently, Allah inflicted upon you one sorrow after another to teach you a lesson: not to grieve for what you lose nor at any misfortune you may encounter. Allah is well aware of all that you do. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Behold! ye were climbing up the high ground without even casting a side glance at anyone and the Apostle in your rear was calling you back. There did Allah give you one distress after another by way of requital to teach you not to grieve for (the booty) that had escaped you and for (the ill) that had befallen you. For Allah is well aware of all that ye do. 464 |
Note - 111I.e., the realization of how shamefully they had behaved
at Uhud (see note [90] above) would be, in the end, more
painful to them than the loss of victory and the death of
so many of their comrades: and this is the meaning of the
"test" mentioned in the preceding verse.
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Note - 464It would seem that a party of horsemen led by the dashing
Khalid ibn Al-walid came through the gap in the passes
where the Muslim archers should have been, and in the
confusion that arose, the retreating foe rallied and
turned back on the Muslims. From the low ground on the
bank of the valley the Muslims retreated in their turn
and tried to gain the hill. They had a double loss: (1)
they were baulked of the booty they had run after, and
(2) their own lives and the lives of their whole army
were in danger, and many lives were actually lost from
their ranks. Their own lives being in danger, they had
hardly time to grieve for the general calamity. But it
steadied them, and some of them stood the test.
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It would seem that a party of horsemen led by the dashing Khalid ibn Al-walid came through the gap in the passes where the Muslim archers should have been, and in the confusion that arose, the retreating foe rallied and turned back on the Muslims. From the low ground on the bank of the valley the Muslims retreated in their turn and tried to gain the hill. They had a double loss: (1) they were baulked of the booty they had run after, and (2) their own lives and the lives of their whole army were in danger, and many lives were actually lost from their ranks. Their own lives being in danger, they had hardly time to grieve for the general calamity. But it steadied them, and some of them stood the test. |
