Hashim Amir-Ali, The Message of the Qur’an: Presented in Perspective (1974)

81 The laggard stay-behinds squat smugly with their backs to the Messenger of Allah; disdain they service to Allah through their possessions or persons; “Go not forth,” they sneer, “in this awful heat!’ Tell them, “The heat of hell shall be severer still!” O would that they had understood.

82 Let them laugh a while — long have they to weep in lieu of what they do.

83 If Allah should restore thee, and some of these were ever to ask thee permission to go forth, then thou must say: “Never shall ye go forth with me; never shall ye face an enemy with me! Content were ye to lag behind!”

84 For them who die among them, pray thou not; nor visit thou their graves. They have been false to Allah and His Prophet and they have died as traitors.

85 Let not impress thee (the extent of) their wealth nor (the number of) their progeny Verily, Allah doth intend to punish them through these presently — they will have lost themselves in their infidelity.

86 When a Sura doth proclaim: “Trust ye in Allah and fight ye by the side of His Apostle”, those with purses long excuse themselves: “Permit us, we would rather stay with those who're kept on guard!”

87 Would they prefer to be classed among the (women and the children) left behind? Fear is stamped upon their hearts; they cannot understand.

88 But the Apostle and those who trust with him strive forth with all their possessions and their lives. For them awaits their due reward, they are the ones who will be prosperous.

89 Allah promiseth for them gardens ever green beneath which rivers flow, therein they shall abide. That is Grace indeed!