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And why, when distress befell you, at Uhud, when seventy of you were slain, and you had afflicted twice the like of it, at Badr, slaying seventy of them and taking another seventy captive, did you say, in amazement, 'How is this?', that is, how did this defeat happen to us when we are Muslims and Allah’s Messenger (rasūl) is among us (the last statement [annā hādhā, 'how is this?'] constitutes [the locus of] the interrogative of denial). Say, to them: 'It is from yourselves, because you abandoned your [battle] stations and were thus defeated. Surely Allahu ta’ālā has power over everything', including [the giving of] assistance and the withholding of it, and He requited you for your disputing [the Prophet's command].