Surah 33. Al-Ahzab, Ayah 25

I.e., the pagans among the Confederates (see note [13] above); their Jewish allies are mentioned separately in the next verse.

In spite of the mighty preparations and the great forces which the Makkans in concert with the Central Arabian Bedouins, the discontented Jews, and the treacherous Hypocrites, brought to the siege of Madinah, all their plans were frustrated. Their fury availed them nothing. They departed in hot haste. This was their last and dying effort. The initiative thereafter lay with the forces of Islam.

For the meaning of Aziz, see n. 2818 to xxii. 40