Surah At-Taubah, Verse 13/14

*Surah At-Taubah, Verse 13:*

أَلَا تُقَاتِلُونَ قَوْمًا نَّكَثُوا أَيْمَانَهُمْ وَهَمُّوا بِإِخْرَاجِ الرَّسُولِ وَهُم بَدَءُوكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ أَتَخْشَوْنَهُمْ فَاللَّهُ أَحَقُّ أَن تَخْشَوْهُ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

Will you not fight a people who have violated their oaths (pagans of Makkah) and intended to expel the Messenger, while they did attack you first? Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him, if you are believers.

#COMMENTARY

The argument now takes a new turn. An appeal is made to the Muslims on various grounds:

1. The shameless disregard of treaties by the enemy,

2. The under-hand plots to discredit the Holy Prophet, and turn him out of Madīnah as he had been turned out of Makkah,

3. The aggressive taken by the Quraish and their confederates in Madīnah after the treaty of Hudaibiyya (A.H. 6, Dhul-Qa'adah. February, 638),

4. The manly attitude that fears ALLĀH rather than men, and 

5. The need to prove our sincere faith by test and trial and struggle and sacrifice (chapter ix, verse 6).

*Surah At-Taubah, Verse 14:*

قَاتِلُوهُمْ يُعَذِّبْهُمُ اللَّهُ بِأَيْدِيكُمْ وَيُخْزِهِمْ وَيَنصُرْكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَيَشْفِ صُدُورَ قَوْمٍ مُّؤْمِنِينَ

Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of a believing people,

#COMMENTARY

Heal the breasts of believers, i.e., of wounds that they may have sustained from the assaults, taunts, and cruelty of the enemy.