Al-Anfaal (The Spoils of War)

49. “(Remember) when the hypocrites said, and those in whose hearts were a disease: ‘Their religion has deluded them, But whoever puts his trust in Allah, then Allah is indeed the Mighty, the Wise.”

The persons who apparently express that they have believed in Islam but inwardly they hesitate about it are those who carry a disease in their hearts. The verse says:

“(Remember) when the hypocrites said, and those in whose hearts was a disease:...”

Some commentators have said that there were several young men from Quraysh in Mecca who embraced Islam, and then, their fathers put them in prison. They were: Qays-ibn- Walid-ibn-Muqayrah, Ali-ibn-'Ummayit-ibn-Khalf, -ibn- Munbih, Harith-ibn-Zam'ah, and Abu-Qays-ibn-Fakihat-ibn- Muqayrah.

As soon as they saw the small number of the Muslims in war, they said that those people were proud of their religion and, disregard the large crowd of pagans there, they had been deceived by the Prophet (S) and they came to fight.

“...‘Their religion has deluded them.’...”

Then Allah states the following phrase, meaning that they themselves were deluded. The verse says:

“...But whoever puts his trust in Allah, then Allah is indeed the Mighty, the Wise.”

That is, whoever delivers his affairs to Allah (s.w.t) and, trusts in Him while he tries to please Him by his good behaviour, Allah (s.w.t) helps him and prepares the means of victory for him. The reason is that Allah is Mighty and Wise, and the one who refuges to Him will be secured by His mightness and wisdom.