ٱلتَّوْبَة : ١٠٢

  • وَءَاخَرُونَ And others
  • ٱعۡتَرَفُواْ (who have) acknowledged
  • بِذُنُوبِهِمۡ their sins
  • خَلَطُواْ They had mixed
  • عَمَلٗا a deed
  • صَٰلِحٗا righteous
  • وَءَاخَرَ (with) other
  • سَيِّئًا (that was) evil
  • عَسَى Perhaps
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • أَن [that]
  • يَتُوبَ will turn (in mercy)
  • عَلَيۡهِمۡۚ to them
  • إِنَّ Indeed
  • ٱللَّهَ Allah
  • غَفُورٞ (is) Oft-Forgiving
  • رَّحِيمٌ Most Merciful
And [there are] others who have acknowledged their sins. They had mixed [i.e., polluted] a righteous deed with another that was bad.1 Perhaps Allāh will turn to them in forgiveness. Indeed, Allāh is Forgiving and Merciful.
Footnotes
1 - This refers to their having previously taken part in jihād but having abstained on the occasion of Tabūk.
And [there are] others (aakharoon is the subject), [another] folk, who have confessed their sins, for having stayed behind (i'tarafoo bi-dhunoobihim is an adjectival qualification of it [the subject] and the predicate is [the following, khalatoo 'amalan saalihan]) they have mixed a righteous deed, that is, their former [participation in the] struggle, or the their confession of their sins, or otherwise, with another that was bad, which is their having stayed behind. It may be that God will relent to them. Truly God is Forgiving, Merciful: this was revealed regarding Aboo Lubaaba and a group of men who tied themselves to the walls of the mosque after they heard what had been revealed regarding those who stayed behind; they swore that only the Prophet may peace and salutation be upon him would untie them, which he did when this [verse] was revealed.