If you confront them in battle, make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them, that they may take heed.
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.
If you meet them in battle, make them an example to those behind them, so they might remember and learn.
So if you meet them in battle, make a clear example of them to warn those behind them, so they might remember.
So if you encounter them in war, make a harsh example of them for those behind them, so that they may take heed.
If you confront them in battle, make a fearsome example of them, so that those who follow them may be deterred.
If you confront them in battle, make a fearsome example of them, so that those who follow them may be deterred.
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.
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.
If you encounter them in battle, make a fearsome example of them for those who are behind them, so that they may be deterred.
If ye gain the mastery over them in war, disperse, with them, those who follow them, that they may remember.
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.
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.
So if you meet them in war, make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them that they may he admonished.
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.
Faimma tathqafannahum fee alharbi fasharrid bihim man khalfahum laAAallahum yaththakkaroona