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When a group retreated from Uhud, people were at variance over their status. Some said, 'Let us slay them', while others said, 'No!'. So the following was revealed: What is wrong with you, what is the matter with you, that you have become two parties, two groups, regarding the hypocrites, when Allahu ta’ālā has overthrown them, He has turned them back [to disbelief], for what they earned?, in the way of disbelief and acts of disobedience. What, do you desire to guide him whom Allahu ta’ālā has sent astray?, that is, to count them among the guided (the interrogative in both places is for disapproval). And he whom Allahu ta’ālā sends astray, you will never find for him a way, a path to guidance.