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Sura 9
Aya 47
47
لَو خَرَجوا فيكُم ما زادوكُم إِلّا خَبالًا وَلَأَوضَعوا خِلالَكُم يَبغونَكُمُ الفِتنَةَ وَفيكُم سَمّاعونَ لَهُم ۗ وَاللَّهُ عَليمٌ بِالظّالِمينَ

Yusuf Ali

If they had come out with you, they would not have added to your (strength) but only (made for) disorder, hurrying to and fro in your midst1 and sowing sedition among you, and there would have been some among you who would have listened to them. But God knoweth well those who do wrong.
  • Khitalhas more than one meaning, but I follow the interpretation of Raghib and the majority of accepted Commentators, who take it to mean “in your midst”,###