Surah Anfal ayat 6 Tafsir Quran 8:6

﴿يُجَادِلُونَكَ فِي الْحَقِّ بَعْدَمَا تَبَيَّنَ كَأَنَّمَا يُسَاقُونَ إِلَى الْمَوْتِ وَهُمْ يَنظُرُونَ﴾
[ الأنفال: 6]

8:6 Arguing with you concerning the truth after it had become clear, as if they were being driven toward death while they were looking on.

They dispute with you concerning the truth the order to fight after it had become clear after it had become evident to them as though they were being driven to death while they looked at it death with their very eyes utterly averse to it.

Contending with you with opposing arguments after it had been made clear to them that victory would sit on their helm. Yet they behaved as if they would be driven to death being shaped to them in their minds eyes as a monstrous apparition

(8:6) They disputed with you about the truth after that had become evident, as if they were being driven to death with their eyes wide open. *4

Arguing with you concerning the truth after meaning

*4).
When the people in question were required to fight, they were disinclined to do so for they felt that they were being driven to death and destruction.
Their condition is somewhat similar for they are now required not to contend about spoils of war and wait for God's command as to how the spoils of war should be distributed.

This verse could also mean that if Muslims obeyed God and followed the Prophet ( peace be on him ) rather than their own desires, they would witness as good a result as they witnessed on the occasion of the Battle of Badr.
On this occasion too many were reluctant to take on the Quraysh and considered it nothing short of suicide ( see verse 6 ).
But when they obeyed the command of God and His Prophet ( peace be on him ), it proved to be a source of life and survival.

Incidentally, this statement in the Qur'in implicitly negates reports usually mentioned in the works of Sirah and Maghazi and which suggest that the Prophet ( peace be on him ) and his Companions had initially set out from Madina in order to raid the trading caravan of the Quraysh, and that it was only when they came to know that the Quraysh army was advancing to provide protection to the trading caravan that the Muslims were faced with the option of either attacking the caravan or the Quraysh army.
The Qur'anic version is quite contrary.
Accordingly, from the moment when the Prophet ( peace be on him ) set out from his house, he was intent upon a decisive battlewith the Quraysh.
In addition, the decision as to whether the Muslims should confront the trading caravan or the army was taken at the very beginning rather than later on.
It is also evident that even though it was quite clear that it was essential to confront the Quraysh army, a group of Muslims tried to avoid it and kept pleading for their viewpoint.
Even when a firm decision had been taken that the Muslims would attack the Quraysh army rather than the caravan, this group set out for the encounter with the view that they were being driven to death and destruction.
( See verses 5-8.
Cf.
al-Waqidi.
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19-21; Ibn Sa'd, vol.
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( Disputing with thee of ) arguing with you about ( the Truth ) the war ( after it had been made manifest ) that you do not act upon or command anything except that with which your Lord has commanded you, ( as if they were being driven to death visible ) driven to death while looking straight at it.

Disputing with you concerning the truth after it was made manifest, as if they were being driven to death, while they were looking (at it).

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