Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an - English Translation - Dr. Waleed Bleyhesh Omary * - Translations’ Index
Translation of the meanings Ayah: (40) Surah: At-Tawbah
إِلَّا تَنصُرُوهُ فَقَدۡ نَصَرَهُ ٱللَّهُ إِذۡ أَخۡرَجَهُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ ثَانِيَ ٱثۡنَيۡنِ إِذۡ هُمَا فِي ٱلۡغَارِ إِذۡ يَقُولُ لِصَٰحِبِهِۦ لَا تَحۡزَنۡ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ مَعَنَاۖ فَأَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ سَكِينَتَهُۥ عَلَيۡهِ وَأَيَّدَهُۥ بِجُنُودٖ لَّمۡ تَرَوۡهَا وَجَعَلَ كَلِمَةَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ ٱلسُّفۡلَىٰۗ وَكَلِمَةُ ٱللَّهِ هِيَ ٱلۡعُلۡيَاۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ
(40) Should you not aid him ˹The Messenger (ﷺ)˺, then Allah had aided him, when those who Denied expelled him[2095], ˹as he was˺ one of two in the ˹small˺ cave[2096] when he said to his Companion: “Grieve not, Allah is verily with us”.[2097] Then Allah sent down His tranquillity on him, braced him with soldiers that you did not see[2098] and ˹thus˺ made the word of those who Deny the lower one; and the Word of Allah is ˹ever˺ the higher[2099]—verily Allah is All-Prevailing, All-Wise.
[2095] The Deniers compelled the Messenger (ﷺ) to leave his hometown of Makkah (cf. Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Abū Ḥayyān, Ibn Kathīr).
[2096] The Messenger (ﷺ) and Abū Bakr (رضي الله عنه) hid away from the Deniers in a small cave (ghār) in the Mount of Thawr near Makkah at the beginning of their migratory journey to Madinah (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Saʿdī, al-Shinqīṭī, al-ʿAdhb al-Namīr; for a detailed account of how this journey commenced, see: al-Bukhārī: 3905).
[2097] Anas Ibn Mālik (رضي الله عنه) narrated that Abū Bakr (رضي الله عنه) told him: “I looked at the feet of the Associators above our heads while we were in the small cave and said: “Messenger of Allah, if anyone of them looks down at his feet he would see us!” He said: “Abū Bakr, what do you think of two ˹people˺ whom Allah is their third!” (al-Bukhārī: 3653, Muslim: 2381).
[2098] These were angels who came to the Messenger’s aid in the small cave. How they did so is disputed (cf. al-Wāḥidī, al-Basīṭ, al-Rāzī, Ibn ʿĀshūr, al-Shinqīṭī, al-ʿAdhb al-Namīr).
[2099] That is as God Almighty made His religion, Islam, prevail (cf. al-Muyassar, al-Muḥarrar).
[2096] The Messenger (ﷺ) and Abū Bakr (رضي الله عنه) hid away from the Deniers in a small cave (ghār) in the Mount of Thawr near Makkah at the beginning of their migratory journey to Madinah (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Saʿdī, al-Shinqīṭī, al-ʿAdhb al-Namīr; for a detailed account of how this journey commenced, see: al-Bukhārī: 3905).
[2097] Anas Ibn Mālik (رضي الله عنه) narrated that Abū Bakr (رضي الله عنه) told him: “I looked at the feet of the Associators above our heads while we were in the small cave and said: “Messenger of Allah, if anyone of them looks down at his feet he would see us!” He said: “Abū Bakr, what do you think of two ˹people˺ whom Allah is their third!” (al-Bukhārī: 3653, Muslim: 2381).
[2098] These were angels who came to the Messenger’s aid in the small cave. How they did so is disputed (cf. al-Wāḥidī, al-Basīṭ, al-Rāzī, Ibn ʿĀshūr, al-Shinqīṭī, al-ʿAdhb al-Namīr).
[2099] That is as God Almighty made His religion, Islam, prevail (cf. al-Muyassar, al-Muḥarrar).
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Translation of the meanings Ayah: (40) Surah: At-Tawbah
Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an - English Translation - Dr. Waleed Bleyhesh Omary - Translations’ Index
Translation of the meanings of the Noble Qur’an into English - in progress - translated by Dr. Walid Bleihesh Al-Omari.