At-Tawba (The Repentance)

13. “Will you not fight a people who broke their oaths and aimed at the expulsion of the Messenger, and they did attack you first? Do you fear them? But Allah is most deserving that you should fear Him, if you are believers.”

In order to encourage Muslims and to banish any kind of listlessness, fear, and hesitation concerning this vital affair from their minds and their selves, the Qur’ān says:

“Will you not fight a people who broke their oaths and aimed at the expulsion of the Messenger…”

You were not the beginners of attack and perjury to be worried and anxious about it, but the fight and perjury was started form their own side. The verse says:

“…and they did attack you first?…”

So, if some of you hesitate fighting against them because of fear, this fright is quietly improper. The verse continues saying:

“…Do you fear them? But Allah is most deserving that you should fear Him, if you are believers.”