4:76

Salaam all,

This is 4:76
الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ الطَّاغُوتِ فَقَاتِلُواْ أَوْلِيَاء الشَّيْطَانِ إِنَّ كَيْدَ الشَّيْطَانِ كَانَ ضَعِيفًا
Allatheena amanoo yuqatiloona fee sabeeli Allahi waallatheena kafaroo yuqatiloona fee sabeeli alttaghooti faqatiloo awliyaa alshshaytani inna kayda alshshaytani kana daAAeefan

The aya says:
Those who made themselves safe, physically fight in Allah’s path, while those who rejected physically fight in the contrary’s path. Therefore, fight Satan’s allies/ protégés. Indeed, Satan’s scheming happened to be weak.

My personal note:
One of the messages here is that the path that is contrary to Allah’s path and judgment is defined by injustice and misjudgment. The Aya then goes further and defines that the one who fights against Allah’s path is someone who has allied himself or herself with Satan, whether they are conscious of that alliance or not.

The Aya ends up with something that is very important in the Qur’anic message. Satan is weak. His techniques are weak and whoever is allied with him is also weak. It is always a message of hope, strength and peace to those who put their safety and trust in God.

Translation of the transliterated words:
Allatheena: those who
Amanoo: they made themselves safe
Note: the root Hamza-M-N and it means safety. Conceptually, it can also be extended to trust as well, because we feel safe in the entity we trust. AMANOO is an action that is completed. It means: the action of making oneself safe is happened by the subject (third person plural).
Yuqatiloona: they physically fight
Note: The root is Qaf-T-L and it means killing or actions that potentially can lead to death including injury and others. YUQATILOONA is an action that is being completed or will be completed. It means: the action of physically fighting is happening or will be happening in an interactive manner (fighting the one who fights them) by the subject (third person plural).
Fee: in
Sabeeli: path of
Note: the root is S-B-L and it means and it means flowing water from the falling rain from the sky to the flowing water in the river and so forth. This is the concrete and the other uses are related as in path, which allows the flow, to soft flowing hair and so forth. SABEELI is the flowing water or the path of. It takes the meaning of path or even the trip on the path.
Allahi: Allah
Waallatheena: and those who/ while those
Kafaroo: rejected (Allah and His message)/ discarded
Note: the root is K-F-R and it means cover or bury in the ground, as in put the seed in the ground and cover it. This is then used conceptually for many purposes as in discarding and rejecting as well as burying. KAFARO is an action that is completed. It means: the action of rejection or discarding of the object (not declared, but understood from the context to point to God and/or the message) happened by the subject (third person plural).
Yuqatiloona: they physically fight
Note: The root is Qaf-T-L and it means killing or actions that potentially can lead to death including injury and others. YUQATILOONA is an action that is being completed or will be completed. It means: the action of physically fighting is happening or will be happening in an interactive manner (fighting the one who fights them) by the subject (third person plural).
Fee: in
Sabeeli: path of
Note: the root is S-B-L and it means and it means flowing water from the falling rain from the sky to the flowing water in the river and so forth. This is the concrete and the other uses are related as in path, which allows the flow, to soft flowing hair and so forth. SABEELI is the flowing water or the path of. It takes the meaning of path or even the trip on the path.
Alttaghooti: bad rule/ unjust rule/ other than God’s rule
Note: ALTTAGHOOTI is derived from the root Ta-Ghain-Y and it means overwhelming to bad effect. It is used for the flood waters when they cause damage and destruction and so forth in the concrete sense and for any matter that overwhelms and leads to bad effects. ALTTAGHOOT points to the big matters that lead to bad effects. This can mean the idols that people worship or the leaders who actively fight God and his message. In this context, it points to any rule or judgment that is unjust or bad and that would be any that is contrary to God’s rule or justice.
Faqatiloo: then physically fight
Note: FA means then or therefore or so. QATILOO is derived from the root Qaf-T-L and it means killing or actions that potentially can lead to death including injury and others. QATILOO is an order to a group. It means: engage in the action mentioned above in an interactive manner. This carries the meaning of a physical fight where the two groups are involved in potentially physically killing each other.
Awliyaa: protégés/ allies
Note: the root is W-L-Y and it means direction or following direction with some guarantee. It comes close to guardianship. AWLIYAA is either the one who is a guardian or the one who receives guardianship of another or both. In this context, they are the ones who receive guardianship of Satan. Therefore I used protégés or allies of.
Alshshaytani: Satan/ the one that is displaced from God’s mercy and works on displacing others.
Note: the root is SH-Ta-N and it means in one of the concrete meanings the long rope and in another the long rope at the well that one uses to get the bucket out of the water. The term is used to mean far and away (in all the planes of thought) as the long rope and it is also used for displacement or pulling away, as a parallel to the rope that pulls the bucked out of the water. ALSHAITAN is the one who is far or away (from God’s mercy) and who works at pulling others away through his long “rope”. It is the word used from Satan.
Inna: indeed
Kayda: Scheming of
Note: the root is K-Y-D and it means to plan and start doing something, but not clear if it was done or not/ to nearly do something. For the noun it means scheme. KAYDA means scheming of or scheme of.
alshshaytani: Satan/ the one that is displaced from God’s mercy and works on displacing others.
Note: the root is SH-Ta-N and it means in one of the concrete meanings the long rope and in another the long rope at the well that one uses to get the bucket out of the water. The term is used to mean far and away (in all the planes of thought) as the long rope and it is also used for displacement or pulling away, as a parallel to the rope that pulls the bucked out of the water. ALSHAITAN is the one who is far or away (from God’s mercy) and who works at pulling others away through his long “rope”. It is the word used from Satan.
Kana: happened to be
Note: the root is K-W-N and it means being. KANA is an action that is completed that is derived from the root. It means: the action of being happened by the subject (third personal singular). This in turn means: He was or He happened to be
daAAeefan: weak
Note: the root is Dhad-Ain-F and it means in concrete, when the thing is folded upon itself, therefore giving two potential meanings for the derivatives, one is weakness, since the weak gets folded and the other is multiplication since the folding one object becomes two. DaAAeeFAN means weak.

Salaam all and have a great day.

Hussein