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“Alif ‘A’, Lam ‘L’, Mim ‘M’.” 2. “Do people imagine that they will be left off on saying: ‘We believe’ and they will not be tried?” 3. “And certainly We tried those before them, and assuredly Allah knows those who speak truly, and assuredly He knows the liars.” The Occasion of Revelation Some of the commentators have mentioned a narration according to which the beginning eleven verses of this Surah were revealed in Medina.

These verses are about the Muslims who were in Mecca but, though they expressed Islam they did not agree to migrate to Medina, then they received a letter from their brothers lived in Medina who wrote in it: “Allah does not accept your confession to Faith unless you migrate and come unto us.” Therefore, they decided to migrate and went out from Mecca. A group of pagans pursued them and fought against them. Some of those believers were killed but some others delivered.

(Probably some others surrendered and returned to Mecca). Some other commentators believe that the second verse is about ‘Ammar Yasir and a group of other first Muslims who embraced Islam and were seriously tortured by the enemies of Islam. Some other commentators have said that the eighth verse of the Surah has been revealed upon the belief of Sa‘d-ibn-’Abi-Waqqas.

But the study of these verses themselves shows that there is no indication in them upon the relation of these verses with emigration. They only point to the pressures that the believers received from the side of the enemies at that time, and even from the side of their parents who were polytheists. And, also if these verses refer to the hypocrites, it is probable that they point to a group of persons with superficial belief who were among Muslims in Mecca.

They were sometimes with Muslims and sometimes with the disbelievers, and whenever each of them were in a better position they turned to them.