Tafsir for verse: 27:37
ٱرۡجِعۡ إِلَيۡهِمۡ فَلَنَأۡتِيَنَّهُم بِجُنُودٖ لَّا قِبَلَ لَهُم بِهَا وَلَنُخۡرِجَنَّهُم مِّنۡهَآ أَذِلَّةٗ وَهُمۡ صَٰغِرُونَ ٣٧ ﴿37﴾
37Go back to them, and we will bring to them forces they have no power to face, and we will certainly drive them out from there in humiliation while they are disgraced.”
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Commentary
Return the message to the Messenger. It was said: The hoopoe carried another letter that they are not able to bear.
And the reality of 'bearing' is resistance and confrontation, meaning: they are not able to confront them. Ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, read: 'They have no ability against them.' The pronoun in 'them' refers to Sheba.
And humiliation is for them to lose what they were in of honor and kingship.
And degradation is for them to fall into captivity and servitude, and it is not limited to them returning as commoners after they were kings.
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