The hypocrites think that the Confederates whom Allah the Exalted defeated an evil defeat did not go; that is from the intensity of fear and cowardice, and had the Confederates returned to -Medina- those hypocrites would have surely wished that they were absent from -Medina- among the bedouins of the desert, seeking information about your news and asking about your reports, and had they been among you they would not have fought with you except a little because of the abundance of their cowardice, their baseness, and the weakness of their certainty.