Al-Anfal 8:57

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فَإِمَّا تَثْقَفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْحَرْبِ فَشَرِّدْ بِهِمْ مَنْ خَلْفَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ

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If you confront them in battle, make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them, that they may take heed.

ClearQuran • Talal Itani • Allah

If you confront them in battle, make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them, that they may take heed.

ClearQuran • Talal Itani • God

If you meet them in battle, make them an example to those behind them, so they might remember and learn.

ClearQuran for Kids • Talal Itani

So if you meet them in battle, make a clear example of them to warn those behind them, so they might remember.

ClearQuran for Teens • Talal Itani

So if you encounter them in war, make a harsh example of them for those behind them, so that they may take heed.

ClearQuran • AI-assisted

If you confront them in battle, make a fearsome example of them, so that those who follow them may be deterred.

Community • Allah

If you confront them in battle, make a fearsome example of them, so that those who follow them may be deterred.

Community • God

So if you, [O Muḥammad], gain dominance over them in war, disperse by [means of] them those behind them that perhaps they will be reminded.

Saheeh International

So if you gain the mastery over them in war, punish them severely in order to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may learn a lesson.

Hilali and Khan

If you encounter them in battle, make a fearsome example of them for those who are behind them, so that they may be deterred.

Rowwad Translation Center

If ye gain the mastery over them in war, disperse, with them, those who follow them, that they may remember.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember.

Marmaduke Pickthall

Should you encounter them in war, then deal with them in such a manner that those that follow them should abandon their designs and may take warning.

Wahiduddin Khan

So if you meet them in war, make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them that they may he admonished.

Abul A'la Maududi

So if you confront them in battle, treat them [in such a wise] as to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may take admonition.

Ali Quli Qarai

Faimma tathqafannahum fee alharbi fasharrid bihim man khalfahum laAAallahum yaththakkaroona

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