[1928] Most of the Qurayshites do not realize this obvious fact (cf. Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, al-Saʿdī).
[1929] Their humiliating defeat, killing and captivation at Badr (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʿĀshūr).
[1930] When the Deniers used their power to their advantage and forcefully turned the pious away from the Holy Sanctuary, which proved to be futile, they mustered up their power and resources to eradicate Islam (cf. Ibn ʿĀshūr).
[1931] al-Shinqīṭī (al-ʿAdhb al-Namīr) notes the common view among scholars that the Qurayshites used the very lucrative caravan (1,000 camels loaded with precious goods) that Abū Sufyān managed to steer to safety just before the Battle of Badr took place, to hit back at the Believers and take revenge on them.
[1932] “Truly those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, they will be among the abased. *Allah has decreed: “I and My Messengers will certainly prevail”. Surely Allah is All-Powerful, Almighty” (58: 20-21).
[1933] That they are unceremoniously piled on top of each other is humiliation incarnate (cf. Ibn ʿĀshūr): “So worship whatsoever you will besides Him”. Say: “Truly the ˹real˺ losers are those who lose their souls and their families on the Day of Judgement. Surely, that is the manifest loss” (39: 15).
[1934] They are called to follow the call of Islam and disown Denial (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī). ʿAmr Ibn al-ʿĀṣ (رضي الله عنه) narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him: “Did you not know that Islam abolishes all that went on before it?” (Muslim: 121): “Say ˹Allah says˺: “O My servants, who have committed excesses against themselves, do not despair of Allah’s Mercy; Allah surely forgives all sins. He is truly the Most Forgiving, the Most Merciful” (39: 53).
[1935] Sunnat al-awwalīn (also found in 15: 13, 18: 55, 35: 43) or sunnat Allāh (as in 33: 38 and 62, 35: 43, 40: 85, 48: 23) is used invariably to caution in the Qur’an; the earlier nations who rebelled against God were destroyed. People are always encouraged to consider their fate vis-a-vis the fate of earlier nations and contemplate God's time-honoured law: “… then do they await except the canon of the ancients? But you shall never find any change in the canon of Allah; you shall never find any alteration in the canon of Allah. *Have they not travelled through the land and observed how the end of those before them was; they were ˹even˺ greater than them in power. Allah is not to be frustrated by anything in the Heavens or on Earth – He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful” (35: 43-44).
[1936] The Believers are bade to fight the Deniers until their hostile behaviour is curbed, and until the Believers are free to practice their religion without anyone daring to interfere with their worship or turn them away from their religion, and until people are able to freely worship God alone without Associating any with Him (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr al-Saʿdī, Tafsīr al-Madīnah al- Munawwarah).