They said ‘Truly if la-in the lām here is for oaths the wolf were to devour him when we are so hardy a band a group then we indeed are losers!’ incapable of anything. Thus he sent him off with them.
- 12:1414
قَالُوا لَئِنْ أَكَلَهُ الذِّئْبُ وَنَحْنُ عُصْبَةٌ إِنَّا إِذًا لَخَاسِرُونَ
They replied: "If a wolf should devour him when we are there, a well-knit band, we shall certainly be treacherous."
- common.revelation-Meccan
- common.hizb : 95