سورة التوبة، الآية ٥٦
وَيَحْلِفُونَ بِٱللَّهِ إِنَّهُمْ لَمِنكُمْ وَمَا هُم مِّنكُمْ وَلَٰكِنَّهُمْ قَوْمٌ يَفْرَقُونَ ٥٦
wayaḥlifūna bil-lahi innahum laminkum wamā hum minkum walākinnahum qawmun yafraqūna
And they swear by Allāh that they are from among you while they are not from among you; but they are a people who are afraid.
Verse 56 of Surah At-Tawbah (9:56), a Medinan surah, is in juz 10, on page 196 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
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The hypocrites swear to the believers, lying to them, that they are with them, when they are secretly not, although they make it look as if they were. But they are a scared people, cowards in fighting, and fear that what happened to the idolaters who were killed and captured will happen to them, so they pretend to be Muslim.
They swear by Allah that they belong to you51, but they do not belong to you; rather they are a people who are afraid [of you].
[51] In their precarious situation, they lie as a line of defence.
They swear by Allâh that they are truly of you while they are not of you, but they are a people (hypocrites) who are afraid (that you may kill them).
And they swear by Allah that they are in truth of you, when they are not of you, but they are folk who are afraid.
They swear by Allah that they are indeed of you; but they are not of you: yet they are afraid (to appear in their true colours).
And they swear by Allah that they are most surely of you, and they are not of you, but they are a people who are afraid (of you).
And they swear by Allah that surely they are indeed of you, and in no way are they of you; but they are a people who are terrified..
