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So if (fa-immā: here the letter nūn of the conditional particle in, 'if', has been assimilated with the extra mā) you come upon them, [if] you find them, anywhere in the war, [deal with them so as to] cause those, fighters, behind them to scatter, to disperse, by making an example of them and punishing them, to scatter, so that they, the ones behind them, might remember, [that they might] take heed from their example.