Surah At-Tawba 9:56 — translation and meaning
التوبة · Verse 56 / 129 · Page 196
وَيَحْلِفُونَ بِاللَّهِ إِنَّهُمْ لَمِنكُمْ وَمَا هُم مِّنكُمْ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ قَوْمٌ يَفْرَقُونَ
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Transliteration
Wa yahlifoona billaahi innnahum laminkum wa maa hum minkum wa laakinnahum qawmuny yafraqoon
Translation
And they swear by Allah that they are from among you while they are not from among you; but they are a people who are afraid.
Verse interpretation (Tafsir)
The hypocrites swear to the believers, lying to them, that they are with them, when they are secretly not, although they make it look as if they were. But they are a scared people, cowards in fighting, and fear that what happened to the idolaters who were killed and captured will happen to them, so they pretend to be Muslim.
Source: Al-Mukhtasar Tafsir — Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies.
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