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Sura 17
Aya 76
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وَإِن كادوا لَيَستَفِزّونَكَ مِنَ الأَرضِ لِيُخرِجوكَ مِنها ۖ وَإِذًا لا يَلبَثونَ خِلافَكَ إِلّا قَليلًا

Muhammad Asad

And [since they see that they cannot persuade thee,] they endeavour to estrange thee from the land [of thy birth]1 with a view to driving thee away from ,it - but, then, after thou wilt have left,2 they themselves will not remain [in it] for more than a little while:3
  • It must be borne in mind that this is a Meccan surah, revealed at a time when the persecution, both physical and moral, which the Prophet and his followers had to suffer at the hands of the pagan Quraysh reached the peak of its intensity.
  • Lit., "after thee".
  • This prophecy was fulfilled a little over two years later, in the month of Ramadan, 2 H., when those same leaders of the Quraysh were killed in the battle of Badr.