And when their concern was intense with the constant presence of their homes. They showed the intensity of concern for its protection falsely. Allah made that clear and indicated it by ascribing to the homes, as a reminder that they are the protectors and the mainstay. He said: "And if they had entered" meaning their homes from any intruder among these factions or others. And He feminized the verb explicitly regarding the intended meaning and as a reference to what is attributed to them being worthy of weakness. He expressed it with a tool of elevation, saying: "upon them" as an indication that it is an entrance of dominance "from its corners" meaning all its sides, such that there would be no place for them to escape.

And when the intention of fleeing was with the encirclement of the house from all corners, without fighting to defend the family and wealth, far from the actions of men; He expressed it with a tool of delay, saying: "Then they were asked" meaning by any questioner that was "the trial" meaning the escape from it fleeing. It was as if he named it so because when it was the most severe trial in that it does not take a person out of his house except death or something close to it, it was as if there was no trial other than it. "They would have brought it" meaning the trial by fleeing, in response to the question of whoever asked them with the overwhelming assumption of entering in the state of encirclement that there is no escape. They always relied on fleeing without fighting to protect their honor or to avoid disgrace, or to defend their family or neighbor. This meaning aligns with the reading of the people of Hijaz with shortening and others with elongation. For whoever responded to fleeing has given what was as if it was in his hand, dominance and cowardice, and he came to it and did it.

And when this was among the Arabs - with what they have of bravery and fear of disgrace - it is hardly believable. He pointed to that by emphasizing in increasing his depiction, saying: "And they did not delay in it" meaning the houses "except a little." Thus it was confirmed that they do not intend except fleeing, not preserving the houses from harm. And this meaning is indicated by his following statement, confirming for what they have of denial and swearing falsely: