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Tafheem-ul-Quran - Abul Ala Maududi translation for Surah An-Naml — Ayah 37

27:37
ٱرۡجِعۡ إِلَيۡهِمۡ فَلَنَأۡتِيَنَّهُم بِجُنُودٖ لَّا قِبَلَ لَهُم بِهَا وَلَنُخۡرِجَنَّهُم مِّنۡهَآ أَذِلَّةٗ وَهُمۡ صَٰغِرُونَ ٣٧
Envoy, go back to those who sent you and we shall certainly come upon them with hosts1 whom they will be unable to resist. We shall drive them out from there, and they will suffer humiliation and disgrace."
Footnotes
  • [1] Qira’at: All except for Ibn Kathir, Abu ʻAmr, ʻAsem, Hamza and Yaʻqub read it as: “Those of the believers—except for the disabled—who stay behind are . . .”
  • [2] There is a subtle gap between this and the previous sentence, which one can easily fill up by a careful study of the discourse. It means this: “O messengers, take these gift back to the people who have sent you. They will either have to yield to our first proposal, i.e. they should come before us as Muslims, or we shall bring forces against them.”