Qabasوَيَقُولُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لَوۡلَا نُزِّلَتۡ سُورَةٞۖ فَإِذَآ أُنزِلَتۡ سُورَةٞ مُّحۡكَمَةٞ وَذُكِرَ فِيهَا ٱلۡقِتَالُ رَأَيۡتَ ٱلَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٞ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَيۡكَ نَظَرَ ٱلۡمَغۡشِيِّ عَلَيۡهِ مِنَ ٱلۡمَوۡتِۖ فَأَوۡلَىٰ لَهُمۡ ٢٠
Wayaqūlul-ladhīna āmanū lawlā nuzzilat sūratun fa idhā unzilat sūratum muhkamatun wadhukira fīhal-qitālu ra'aytal-ladhīna fī qulūbihim maradun yanzurūna ilayka nazaral-maghshiyyi 'alayhi minal-mawti fa awlā lahum
Those who believe say, "Why has a sūrah1502 not been sent down?" But when a precise sūrah is revealed and battle is mentioned therein, you see those in whose hearts is disease [i.e., hypocrisy] looking at you with a look of one overcome by death. And more appropriate for them1503 [would have been]
Footnotes
1502 i.e., one in which permission is given the believers to fight their enemies.
1503 The words "awlā lahum" can also be interpreted as "woe to them!" In that case, the following verse would begin, "[Better for them would have been] obedience and good words."