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Remember, when you were ascending, fleeing in the distance, not turning around, [not] stopping, for anyone and the Messenger (rasūl) was calling you from your rear, saying, 'Come to me servants of Allahu ta’ālā, this way, servants of Allahu ta’ālā!', so He rewarded you, He requited you, with grief, through defeat, for grief (ghamman bi-ghamm; the bā' [bi-], 'with', is said to mean 'alā, 'for') because of the grief that you caused the Prophet when you disobeyed [his command], that is, [with grief] doubled, [being] in addition to the grief of the booty forfeited, so that (li-kaylā is semantically connected either to 'afā, 'He has pardoned', or athābakum, 'He rewarded you'; the lā [of kay-lā] is thus extra) you might not grieve for what escaped you, of booty, neither for what befell you, of being slain and [of] defeat; and Allahu ta’ālā is aware of what you do.