[3:168] Those who said to their brothers, whilst they themselves stayed put, 'Had they obeyed us, they would not have been slain'. Say: 'Then avert death from yourselves, if you speak the truth'.
Those who relied on that to which their souls seduced them in preferring their caprice, and who then opposed those who turn things over to the decrees of divine fate, saying, 'If only they had taken warning about going out to the battle, they would not have fallen from the station of security' - these thoughts are blameworthy and these hearts have lost the witnessing of realization. Say to them, O Muḥammad, '[Then] extend the life of your souls against the attacks of death'. How would they be able to do that? How preposterous!