11جُندٌ ما هُنالِكَ مَهزومٌ مِنَ الأَحزابِMuhammad Asad[But] there it is: any and all human beings, however [strongly] leagued together,1 are bound tosuffer defeat [whenever they refuse to accept the truth].The collective noun jund, which primarily denotes "a host" or "an army", has also the meaning of "created beings", in this context obviously human beings; in combination with the particle ma, "any number of human beings". The term hizb (of which ahzab is the plural), on the other hand, denotes "a party" or "a group of people of the same mind" or "people leagued together", i.e., for a definite purpose.