And when the context indicated that the meaning is: 'Indeed, you used to say: If you go out with us, Allah will certainly test us with a good trial'; he added to it his saying: 'And indeed'; and it is permissible that it be a state from the subject of 'you thought'. 'You were wishing for death'; meaning: war; he expressed it by this because it is its cause; and indeed some of them wished for death itself by wishing for martyrdom; 'before you encounter it'; meaning: a desire for what Allah has prepared for the martyrs; 'Indeed, you have seen it'; meaning: by witnessing the killing of your brothers; and the pronoun can refer to death which is expressed by war; and to death itself; by witnessing its immediate causes; and his saying: 'And you are looking'; means the sight of the eye; so it is a realization of the will of the truth.