ٱلرُّوم : ٣

  • فِيٓ In
  • أَدۡنَى (the) nearest
  • ٱلۡأَرۡضِ land
  • وَهُم But they
  • مِّنۢ after
  • بَعۡدِ after
  • غَلَبِهِمۡ their defeat
  • سَيَغۡلِبُونَ will overcome
In the nearest land.1 But they, after their defeat, will overcome
Footnotes
1 - Another meaning is "in the lowest land."
in the nearer [part of the] land, that is, in the Byzantine land [that lies] nearest to Persia in Mesopotamia (al-Jazeera). There the two armies met and the Persians were the ones who had begun the invasion. But they, that is the Byzantines, after their vanquishing (ghalabihim: the verbal noun [ghalab] has been annexed to the direct object [hum], in other words, ghalabatu faaris iyyaahum, 'the Persians' vanquishing of them') shall be the victors, over the Persians,