Surah Al-Anfal — Verse 57

The Spoils of War · 8:57 · 57/75

فَإِمَّا تَثْقَفَنَّهُمْ فِى ٱلْحَرْبِ فَشَرِّدْ بِهِم مَّنْ خَلْفَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ

Fa-imma tathqafannahum fee alharbifasharrid bihim man khalfahum laAAallahum yaththakkaroon

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 7

So if you, [O Muḥammad], gain dominance over them in war, disperse by [means of] them those behind them that perhaps they will be reminded.

If you meet them in battle, make a fearsome example of them to those who come after them, so that they may take heed.

If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember.

If ye gain the mastery over them in war, disperse, with them, those who follow them, that they may remember.

So, if you find them in war, deal with them in a way that those behind them have to disperse fearfully, so that they take a lesson.

So if you gain the mastery over them in war, punish them severely in order to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may learn a lesson.

So if you meet them in war, make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them that they may he admonished.