Tafheem-ul-Quran (En) - An-Naba : 66
قَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ اٰیَةٌ فِیْ فِئَتَیْنِ الْتَقَتَا١ؕ فِئَةٌ تُقَاتِلُ فِیْ سَبِیْلِ اللّٰهِ وَ اُخْرٰى كَافِرَةٌ یَّرَوْنَهُمْ مِّثْلَیْهِمْ رَاْیَ الْعَیْنِ١ؕ وَ اللّٰهُ یُؤَیِّدُ بِنَصْرِهٖ مَنْ یَّشَآءُ١ؕ اِنَّ فِیْ ذٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِّاُولِی الْاَبْصَارِ
You have already come across an instructive sign in the two hosts that encountered each other in battle (at Badr) : one host fighting in the way of Allah, and the other that of unbelievers. They saw with their own eyes that one host was twice the number of the other. 9 But (the result of the battle has proved that) Allah succours with His victory whomsoever He wills. In this there is surely a lesson for all who have eyes to see. 10
9. The actual disparity between the two armies was roughly three to one, but even a cursory glance was enough to tell the casual observer that the army of unbelievers was about twice as large as that of the believers.
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