Those who believe say, "Why has a surah not been sent down? But when a precise surah is revealed and fighting is mentioned therein, you see those in whose hearts is hypocrisy looking at you with a look of one overcome by death. And more appropriate for them [would have been]
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{ ويقول الذين آمنوا } طلبا للجهاد { لولا } هلا { نزلت سورة } فيها ذكر الجهاد { فإذا أنزلت سورة محكمة } أي لم ينسخ منها شيء { وذكر فيها القتال } أي طلبه { رأيت الذين في قلوبهم مرض } أي شك وهم المنافقون { ينظرون إليك نظر المغشي عليه من الموت } خوفا منه وكراهة له، أي فهم يخافون من القتال ويكرهونه { فأولى لهم } مبتدأ خبره .
And those who believe say, seeking jihad, “Why was a surah not sent down?” in which jihad is mentioned. But when a decisive surah is sent down, and fighting is mentioned therein, you will see those in whose hearts is disease, i.e. doubt, and they are the hypocrites, “looking at you with the look of one fainting from death,” out of fear of it and hatred of it, i.e. they fear fighting and hate it. “It is more fitting for them to do so.”
