Chastised for not Fighting

And indeed, among you is one who will hold back, dragging his feet, then if hardship strikes you, he says, 'Ah, how gracious was God to me, that I was not there to witness their fate.'"

4:72Lo! among you there is he who loitereth; and if disaster overtook you, he would say: Allah hath been gracious unto me since I was not present with them.

If fortune comes your way, they say, as if no bond ever existed between you, ‘Oh, I wish I had been with them to gain such success!’

4:73And if a bounty from Allah befell you, he would surely cry, as if there had been no love between you and him: Oh, would that I had been with them, then should I have achieved a great success!

What holds you back from fighting for the oppressed men, women, and children, who cry out, ‘Our Lord, rescue us from this unjust land and grant us a protector and a helper!’

4:75How should ye not fight for the cause of Allah and of the feeble among men and of the women and the children who are crying: Our Lord! Bring us forth from out this town of which the people are oppressors! Oh, give us from thy presence some protecting friend! Oh, give us from Thy presence some defender!

O believers! What is wrong with you when you are told, “March forth in Allah’s cause,” but you cling heavily to the earth?

9:38O ye who believe! What aileth you that when it is said unto you: Go forth in the way of Allah, ye are bowed down to the ground with heaviness. Take ye pleasure in the life of the world rather than in the Hereafter? The comfort of the life of the world is but little in the Hereafter.

If you do not march forth, He will punish you severely and replace you with another people.

9:39If ye go not forth He will afflict you with a painful doom, and will choose instead of you a folk other than you. Ye cannot harm Him at all. Allah is Able to do all things.

If you do not support him, Allah has already helped him, when the disbelievers drove him out, and he was one of two in the cave. He said to his companion, “Do not grieve; Allah is with us.” Then Allah sent down His tranquillity upon him, strengthened him with unseen forces, and made the word of the disbelievers the lowest, while Allah’s word is supreme.

9:40If ye help him not, still Allah helped him when those who disbelieve drove him forth, the second of two; when they two were in the cave, when he said unto his comrade: Grieve not. Lo! Allah is with us. Then Allah caused His peace of reassurance to descend upon him and supported him with hosts ye cannot see, and made the word of those who disbelieved the nethermost, while Allah's Word it was that became the uppermost. Allah is Mighty, Wise.

Those who believe say, “Why has a surah not been sent down?” But when a decisive surah is revealed and fighting is mentioned, you see those with sickness in their hearts looking at you as if death looms over them.

47:20And those who believe say: If only a surah were revealed! But when a decisive surah is revealed and war is mentioned therein, thou seest those in whose hearts is a disease looking at thee with the look of men fainting unto death. Therefor woe unto them!

Obedience and good words would be better for them. But when the matter is resolved, if they had been true to God, it would have been better for them.

47:21Obedience and a civil word. Then, when the matter is determined, if they are loyal to Allah it will be well for them.

So, would you perhaps turn away, causing corruption in the land and severing family ties?

47:22Would ye then, if ye were given the command, work corruption in the land and sever your ties of kinship?

These are the ones God has cursed; He made them deaf and blinded their sight.

47:23Such are they whom Allah curseth so that He deafeneth them and maketh blind their eyes.