Verse. 1322

٩ - ٱلتَّوْبَة

9 - At-Tawba

رَضُوْا بِاَنْ يَّكُوْنُوْا مَعَ الْخَـوَالِفِ وَطُبِـــعَ عَلٰي قُلُوْبِہِمْ فَہُمْ لَا يَفْقَہُوْنَ۝۸۷
Radoo bian yakoonoo maAAa alkhawalifi watubiAAa AAala quloobihim fahum la yafqahoona

English

Ahmed Ali

They prefer to be with women who (are allowed to) stay at home during war, and their hearts are sealed; so they fail to understand.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (they are content that they should be with the useless) with the women and children (and their hearts are sealed, so that they apprehend not) the command of allah.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : they are content to be with those who stay behind (khawālif is the plural of khālifa, meaning the women who ‘stay behind’ [takhallafna] at home) and a seal has been set upon their hearts, so they do not understand, [what is] good.