(O ye who believe!) the address is to the Companions of Muhammad (pbuh) (What aileth you that when it is said unto you: Go forth) with your Prophet (in the way of Allah) in obedience of Allah at the Battle of Tabuk, (ye are bowed down to the ground with heaviness) you wish to remain bowed down to the ground. (Take ye pleasure in the life of the world) i. e. in that which is in the life of this world (rather than in the Hereafter? The comfort of the life of the world is but little in the Hereafter) and will not last.
- 9:3838
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَا لَكُمْ إِذَا قِيلَ لَكُمُ انْفِرُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ اثَّاقَلْتُمْ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ ۚ أَرَضِيتُمْ بِالْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ ۚ فَمَا مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ
What has happened to you, O believers, that when you are asked to set out in the cause of God your feet begin to drag? Do you find the life of the world so pleasing that you forget the life to come? Yet the profit of the life of this world is but meagre as compared to the life to come.
- common.revelation-Medinan
- common.hizb : 77