سورة ص، الآية ١١
جُندٌ مَّا هُنَالِكَ مَهْزُومٌ مِّنَ ٱلْأَحْزَابِ ١١
jundun mā hunālika mahzūmun mina l-aḥzābi
[They are but] soldiers [who will be] defeated there among the companies [of disbelievers].
Verse 11 of Surah Sad (38:11), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 453 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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These deniers of Muhammad (peace be upon him) are a defeated army like the armies which came before them who denied their messengers and so I destroyed them. So that will occur with this army as occurred with others.
This is only a small army8 among several armies9 that will soon be defeated.
[8] It alludes to the defeat of the pagans of Makkah at Badr.
[9] i.e., the defeated armies of the past who rejected their messengers.
(As they denied Allâh’s Message) they will be a defeated host like the Confederates of the old times (who were defeated).
A defeated host are (all) the factions that are there.
But there - will be put to flight even a host of confederates.
A host of deserters of the allies shall be here put to flight.
A very host of the (allied) parties is routed from these.
أَوَمَا تَقْرَأُ {وَمِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِهِ دَاوُدَ وَسُلَيْمَانَ} {أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ هَدَى اللَّهُ فَبِهُدَاهُمُ اقْتَدِهْ} فَكَانَ دَاوُدُ مِمَّنْ أُمِرَ نَبِيُّكُمْ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنْ يَقْتَدِيَ بِهِ…
