11 Preface جُندٌ ما هُنالِكَ مَهزومٌ مِنَ الأَحزابِAli Quli Qarai[They are but] a routed host out there, from among the factions.1 A prophesy of the defeat of the Makkan army at Badr (see Ṭabarī and Ṭabrisī). Or ‘from among the confederates,’ that is, of Satan (cf. 35:6, 58:19).