When they came upon you from above you and from below you,1 when your eyes were stupefied with horror and your hearts leapt to your throats, and you began to entertain diverse thoughts about Allah.
Footnotes
[1]
It may mean: The enemies came upon you from every side, and also that those coming from Najd and Khaiber came from above and those coming from Makkah from below you.”
[2]Qira’at: Hamza, Al-Kesa’i and Khalaf read it as: “. . . what you pl associate . . .”