ٱلرُّوم : ٢

  • غُلِبَتِ Have been defeated
  • ٱلرُّومُ the Romans
The Byzantines have been defeated1
Footnotes
1 - By the Persians.
The Byzantines - who are among the People of the Scripture - have been vanquished; the Persians vanquished them, and they are not people of a scripture, but worship graven images. The Meccan disbelievers rejoiced in this [defeat of the Byzantines] and said to the Muslims, 'We shall vanquish you as the Persians vanquished the Byzantines';