5فَوَسَطنَ بِهِ جَمعًاAli UnalStorming thereby into a host, cleaving it -1The verses are normally interpreted as being concerned with Muslim warriors on horseback. According to Ikrimah, a classical commentator who lived in the first century of Islam, the second verse refers to arms of war. So modern commentators, such as Hamdi Yazır, maintain that the verses also imply firearms, especially modern tanks and other armored weaponry.