ٱلْمُنَافِقُون : ٤

  • وَإِذَا And when
  • رَأَيۡتَهُمۡ you see them
  • تُعۡجِبُكَ pleases you
  • أَجۡسَامُهُمۡۖ their bodies
  • وَإِن and if
  • يَقُولُواْ they speak
  • تَسۡمَعۡ you listen
  • لِقَوۡلِهِمۡۖ to their speech
  • كَأَنَّهُمۡ as if they (were)
  • خُشُبٞ pieces of wood
  • مُّسَنَّدَةٞۖ propped up
  • يَحۡسَبُونَ They think
  • كُلَّ every
  • صَيۡحَةٍ shout
  • عَلَيۡهِمۡۚ (is) against them
  • هُمُ They
  • ٱلۡعَدُوُّ (are) the enemy
  • فَٱحۡذَرۡهُمۡۚ so beware of them
  • قَٰتَلَهُمُ May destroy them
  • ٱللَّهُۖ Allah
  • أَنَّىٰ How
  • يُؤۡفَكُونَ are they deluded
And when you see them, their forms please you, and if they speak, you listen to their speech. [They are] as if they were pieces of wood propped up1 - they think that every shout is against them. They are the enemy, so beware of them. May Allāh destroy them; how are they deluded?
Footnotes
1 i.e., bodies with empty minds and empty hearts.
And when you see them, their figures please you, on account of their fairness; and if they speak, you listen to their speech, because of its eloquence. [Yet] they are, by virtue of the enormous size of their figures, [yet] in their lack of comprehension, like blocks of timber (read khushbun or khushubun) [that have been] propped-up, set reclining against a wall. They assume that every cry, made, like a battle-cry or one made to [retrieve] a lost camel, is [directed] against them, because of the [extent of] terror in their hearts, lest something should be revealed deeming their blood licit. They are the enemy, so beware of them, for they communicate your secrets to the disbelievers. May God assail them!, destroy them! How can they deviate?, how can they be turned away from faith after the proofs [for it] have been established?