About the Surah
Surah Title : التوبة
English Title : At-Taubah
Order in Al-Mushaf : 9
Number of Verses : 129
Type : madinah
Page Number in Al-Mushaf : From Page 187 To Page 207
At-Taubah
لَا تَعۡتَذِرُواْ قَدۡ كَفَرۡتُم بَعۡدَ إِيمَٰنِكُمۡۚ إِن نَّعۡفُ عَن طَآئِفَةٖ مِّنكُمۡ نُعَذِّبۡ طَآئِفَةَۢ بِأَنَّهُمۡ كَانُواْ مُجۡرِمِينَ
66Don’t make excuses. You have disbelieved after you have believed. Even if We forgive some of you, We will punish some of you because they were criminals (i.e. disbelievers).
66The reason for descending the verse
Zayd ibn Aslam and Muhammad ibn Ka'b narrated from Abdullah ibn Umar (r.a), he said, “One of the hypocrites said at the Battle of Tabuk, 'I have never seen anyone whose belly is more hungry, whose tongue lies more, or who is more cowardly in fighting than these reciters of ours', meaning the Messenger of Allah and his Companions. 'Awf ibn Malik said to him, 'You lie; rather, you are a hypocrite! I will inform the Messenger of Allah of what you have just said'. But 'Awf found that the Qur'an had already informed him. The man went to the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) when he had already mounted his camel and set off and said to him, 'O Messenger of Allah! We were but talking idly and jesting; we were talking the way riders do to make our travelling easy'. (And if you ask them, they will surely say, ‘We were only conversing and playing.’ Say, ‘Is it Allah and His verses and His Messenger that you were mocking?...)” [Surah At-Taubah, 9: 65] (Al-Wahidi,Reasons of Revelation)
