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طَاعَةٌ وَقَوْلٌ مَّعْرُوفٌ فَإِذَا عَزَمَ ٱلأَمْرُ فَلَوْ صَدَقُواْ ٱللَّهَ لَكَانَ خَيْراً لَّهُمْ
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-Muhammad ( محمد )

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

would be [to offer] obedience and honourable words, that is, [words] that are kind to you. Then, when the matter has been resolved upon, that is to say, [when] fighting has been prescribed, if they are loyal to God, in faith and obedience, it will be better for them (the sentence beginning with law, ‘if’, constitutes the response to idhā, ‘when’).


Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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