Verse. 564

٤ - ٱلنِّسَاء

4 - An-Nisa

يٰۗاَيُّھَا الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا خُذُوْا حِذْرَكُمْ فَانْفِرُوْا ثُبَاتٍ اَوِ انْفِرُوْا جَمِيْعًا۝۷۱
Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo khuthoo hithrakum fainfiroo thubatin awi infiroo jameeAAan

English

Ahmed Ali

O believers, take precautions, and advance in detachments, or go all together in a body.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : knowing that they went out to fight in the way of allah, allah said: (o ye who believe) in muhammad and the qur'an! (take your precautions) against your enemy and do not advance dispersed, (then advance the proven ones) then put forward the ones that are the best, (or advance all together) with your prophet.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : o you who believe, take your precautions, against your enemy, that is, be wary of him and be vigilant against him; then move forward, prepare to fight him, in companies, in separate groups, one raiding party followed by the next; or move forward all together, in one assembly.