Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
that when you are told:
‘Go forth in the way of Allah,’
you sink heavily to the ground?
Are you pleased with the life of this world
instead of the Hereafter?
But the wares of the life of this world
compared with the Hereafter are but insignificant.
39 If you do not go forth,
He will punish you with a painful punishment,
and replace you with another people,
and you will not hurt Him in the least,
and Allah has power over all things.
40 If you do not help him,1
then Allah has already helped him
when the faithless expelled him,
as one of two [refugees],
when the two of them were in the cave,
he said to his companion,
‘Do not grieve; Allah is indeed with us.’
Then Allah sent down His composure upon him,
and strengthened him with hosts you did not see,
and He made the word of the faithless the lowest;
and the word of Allah is the highest;
and Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.
41 Go forth, whether [armed] lightly or heavily,
and wage jihād with your possessions and persons
in the way of Allah.
That is better for you, should you know.
1 That is, the Prophet (ṣ).
