ٱلْمُؤْمِنُون : ٥٣

  • فَتَقَطَّعُوٓاْ But they cut off
  • أَمۡرَهُم their affair (of unity)
  • بَيۡنَهُمۡ between them
  • زُبُرٗاۖ (into) sects
  • كُلُّ each
  • حِزۡبِ faction
  • بِمَا in what
  • لَدَيۡهِمۡ they have
  • فَرِحُونَ rejoicing
But they [i.e., the people] divided their religion among them into portions [i.e., sects] - each faction, in what it has,1 rejoicing.
Footnotes
1 - Of beliefs, opinions, customs, etc.
But they, the followers, split into sects regarding their affair, their religion (zuburan, 'sects', is a circumstantial qualifier of the subject of the verb taqatta'oo, 'they split'), in other words, [they became] opposing parties, the likes of the Jews and the Christians and others, each party rejoicing in, exultant with, what they had, that is, with the religion they had.