Rabbana la tajAAalna fitnatan lillatheena kafaroo waghfir lana rabbana innaka anta alAAazeezu (surah Mumtahina: 5)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(60:5) Our Lord, do not make us a test for the unbelievers, *8 and forgive us, our Lord. Surely You are Most Mighty, Most Wise.”

Rabbana laa taj`alnaa fitnatal lillazeena kafaroo waghfir lanaa rabbanaa innaka antal azeezul hakeem

*8) There are several ways in which the believers can become a cause of trial for the disbelievers, for which every believer should seek Allah's refuge. For example, (1) the disbelievers may gain in upper hand over them and consider it a proof of their being in the right and the believers' being in the wrong; otherwise it could not be that in spite of Allah's good pleasure that they claim to enjoy, the disbelievers would have been able to gain an upper hand over them; (2) the persecution of the believers by the disbelievers may become unbearable with the result that they may yield to them and abandon their Faith and moral values this would subject the believers to public ridicule and would provide the disbelievers with an opportunity w humiliate and debase than and their religion: (3) in spite of being the standard-bearers of the true Faith the believers may lose their moral superiority that should accrue W than as believers. and the people ma! ste the same defects and deficiencies in their character as are commonly found in an unIslamic community: this would give the disbelievers an opportunity to say that the Faith of the believers was in no way superior W their disbelief. (For further details sec E.N. 8.3 of Surah Yunus).