The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 135
PT. 4 ĀL-E-‘IMRĀN CH. 3 ثُمَّ انْزَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ الْغَمِّ أَمَنَةً Then, after the sorrow, He. 155 نُعَاسًا يَغْشَى طَابِفَةً مِّنْكُمُ لا sent down peace on you- -a slumber that overcame a party وَطَائِفَةٌ قَدْ أَهَمَّتْهُمُ اَنْفُسُهُمْ of you, while the other party يَظُنُّونَ بِاللهِ غَيْرَ الْحَقِّ ظَنَّ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ own selves, thinking wrongly of يَقُولُونَ هَلْ لَّنَا مِنَ الْأَمْرِ مِنْ شَيْءٍ was anxious concerning their Allah like unto the thought of ignorance. They said, 'Is there for us any part in government of affairs?' Say, 'All government belongs to b قُلْ إِنَّ الْأَمْرَ كُلَّهُ لِلَّهِ يُخْفُونَ فِي the أَنْفُسِهِمْ مَّا لَا يُبْدُونَ لَكَ يَقُولُونَ لَوْ كَانَ لَنَا مِنَ الْأَمْرِ شَيْ مَّا قُتِلْنَاهُهُنَا Allah. They hide in their minds قُلْ لَّوْ كُنْتُمْ فِي بُيُوتِكُمْ لَبَرَزَ الَّذِينَ we had any part كُتِبَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقَتْلُ إِلَى مَضَاجِعِهِمْ ج what they disclose not to thee. They say, b'If in the government of affairs, we should not have been killed وَلِيَبْتَلِيَ اللهُ مَا فِي صُدُورِكُمْ here. Say, “If you had remained وَلِيُمَحِّصَ مَا فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ in your homes, surely those on بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ whom fighting had been enjoined would have gone forth "8:12. 3:169. were at once made to realize not only the greatness of his rank but also the magnitude of their own mistake. rendered as The Arabic words a sorrow in recompense for a sorrow, may also be rendered as "a sorrow in addition to another sorrow", i. e. one sorrow coming after another. In that case, later proved to be unfounded, should obliterate the effect of the former sorrow, thus effacing the harmful effects of the defeat. The clause, what escaped you, refers to the victory which the Muslims lost after they had almost gained it. So great was the joy of the the words would mean that God Muslims at the safety of the Holy so designed that the sorrow pertaining Prophet that they actually forgot their to the unfounded report of the Holy sorrow at the loss of victory. Prophet's death should come | Similarly, the clause, what befell you, immediately after the sorrow of a refers to the loss of their men in the reverse so that the latter sorrow, which | battlefield. The Muslims lost 70, 575