Al-Hashr 59:12
The Exile · Medinan · Juz 28 · Page 547
Promises Proven False
لَئِنۡ أُخۡرِجُواْ لَا يَخۡرُجُونَ مَعَهُمۡ وَلَئِن قُوتِلُواْ لَا يَنصُرُونَهُمۡ وَلَئِن نَّصَرُوهُمۡ لَيُوَلُّنَّ ٱلۡأَدۡبَٰرَ ثُمَّ لَا يُنصَرُونَ ١٢
(For) indeed if they are driven out they go not out with them, and indeed if they are attacked they help them not, and indeed if they had helped them they would have turned and fled, and then they would not have been victorious.
Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall
Meaning
If they are expelled, they will not leave with them; if they are fought, they will not help them.
Insight
According to Elmalılı, both of the hypocrites’ promises were lies, and so it happened: they neither left with them nor fought.
Reflect
Make your actions match your words today.
This short note is based on Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır’s Turkish commentary and has not yet been reviewed by a scholar.
Elmalılı’s commentary
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