So, (O Beloved,) if Allah again takes you back to a party of these (hypocrites, after getting free from the battle of Tabuk,) and they seek your permission to go forth (for fight in the event of some future conflict), then say to them: ‘(Now) you shall never go forth with me, nor shall you ever fight an enemy accompanying me (because, abandoning the sacred struggle,) you rejoiced over sitting behind the first time. So, (this time as well) stay behind along with those who remain behind.’