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Surah Al-Ma'idah — 5:24

قَالُوا۟ يَـٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِنَّا لَن نَّدْخُلَهَآ أَبَدًا مَّا دَامُوا۟ فِيهَا ۖ فَٱذْهَبْ أَنتَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقَـٰتِلَآ إِنَّا هَـٰهُنَا قَـٰعِدُونَ

Qaaloo yaa Moosaaa innaa lan nadkhulahaa abadam maa daamoo feehaa fazhab anta wa Rabbuka faqaatilaaa innaa haahunaa qaa'idoon

Powiedzieli: "O Mojżeszu! My nigdy nie wejdziemy do niej, jak długo oni tam się Znajdują. Idźże więc ty i twój Pan i walczcie obydwaj! My tutaj pozostaniemy."

They said, "Musa, we will never enter it as long as they are in it. So go, you and your Lord, and fight. We are staying right here."

Reflection

The insolence carries a grammatical detail English cannot show: the command to fight is dual, setting Musa and his Lord side by side as the two who will do it while the speakers stay seated. It answers the two men of the previous verse, who had just said the gate could be taken. Forty years of wandering follows, so the refusal to walk in becomes walking without arriving.

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