5 Preface رَبَّنا لا تَجعَلنا فِتنَةً لِلَّذينَ كَفَروا وَاغفِر لَنا رَبَّنا ۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ العَزيزُ الحَكيمُYusuf Ali“Our Lord! Make us not a (test and) trial1 for the Unbelievers, but forgive us, our Lord! for Thou art the Exalted in Might, the Wise.” In n. 1198 to 8:25, 1 have explained the shades of meaning in the word Fitnah. In 2:102 Harut and Marut were a trial to test the righteous who trusted in God from the unrighteous who resorted to evil and superstition. Here the prayer to God is that we should be saved from becoming so weak as to tempt the Unbelievers to try to attack and destroy us.