Verse. 3543

٣٣ - ٱلْأَحْزَاب

33 - Al-Ahzab

اِذْ جَاۗءُوْكُمْ مِّنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَمِنْ اَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ وَاِذْ زَاغَتِ الْاَبْصَارُ وَبَلَغَتِ الْقُلُوْبُ الْحَـنَاجِرَ وَتَظُنُّوْنَ بِاللہِ الظُّنُوْنَا۝۱۰
Ith jaookum min fawqikum wamin asfala minkum waith zaghati alabsaru wabalaghati alquloobu alhanajira watathunnoona biAllahi alththunoona

English

Ahmed Ali

When they came upon you from above and below you, when the eyes were stupefied with horror, and hearts jumped to the throats, and you made wild suppositions about God.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (when they) the disbelievers of mecca (came upon you from above you) from above the valley: talhah ibn khuwaylid al-asdi and his host (and from below you) from below the valley: abu'l-a'war al-aslami and his host and abu sufyan and his host, (and when eyes grew wild) when the eyes of the hypocrites grew wild (and hearts) the hearts of the hypocrites (reached to the throats) because of fear, (and ye were imagining vain thoughts concerning allah) and thought, o host of hypocrites, that allah will not help his prophet.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : when they came at you from above you and from below you, in other words, from the higher side of the valley and from its lower side, from the east and from the west, and when the eyes turned away [in fear], from everything, to [gaze at] their enemies [approaching] from every side, and the hearts lept to the throats (hanājir, the plural of hunjura, which lies at the bottom of the gullet) out of intense fear, while you entertained all sorts of, different, thoughts concerning god, [some] of assistance, some of despair;