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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Al Mizan an Exegesis of the Quran (volume Seven) Volume 7: Surah Ale-imran, Verses 149-155 O you who believe! if you obey those who disbelieve, they will turn you back upon your heels, so you will turn back losers (149). Nay! Allah is your Guardian and He is the best of the helpers (150).

We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire; and evil is the abode of the unjust (151).

And certainly Allah made good to you His promise, when you were extirpating them by His permission, until when you became weak-willed and disputed about the affair and disobeyed after He had shown you that which you loved; of you were some who desired this world and of you were some who desired the hereafter; then He turned you away from them that He might try you; and He has certainly pardoned you, and Allah is Gracious to the believers (152).

When you ran off precipitately and did not turn towards any one, and the Messenger was calling you from your rear, so He gave you another sorrow instead of (your) sorrow, so that you might not grieve at what had escaped you, nor (at) what befell you; and Allah is aware of what you do (153).

Then after sorrow He sent down security upon you, a slumber coming upon a party of you, and (there was) another party who cared only for their own selves; they entertained about Allah thoughts of ignorance quite unjustly. They say: "Do we have any hand in the affair?" Say: "Surely the affair is wholly (in the hands) of Allah." They conceal within their souls what they would not reveal to you. They say: "Had we any hand in the affair, we would not have been slain here.

" Say: "Had you remained in your houses, those for whom slaughter was ordained would certainly have gone forth to the places where they (now) lie;" and that Allah might test what was in your breasts and that He might purge what was in your hearts; and Allah knows what is in the breasts (154).

(As for) those of you who turned back on the day when the two armies met, only the Satan sought to cause them to make a slip on account of some deeds they had done, and certainly Allah has pardoned them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Forbearing (155). COMMENTARY It is the continuation of the verses revealed about the battle of Uhud.