Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
if thou find them at war [with you], make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them, so that they might take it to heart
Arthur John Arberry
So, if thou comest upon them anywhere in the war, deal with them in such wise as to scatter the ones behind them; haply they will remember
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
If ye gain the mastery over them in war, disperse, with them, those who follow them, that they may remember
Arabic
فَإِمَّا تَثۡقَفَنَّهُمۡ فِی ٱلۡحَرۡبِ فَشَرِّدۡ بِهِم مَّنۡ خَلۡفَهُمۡ لَعَلَّهُمۡ یَذَّكَّرُونَ ٥٧
Transliteration (2021)
fa-immā tathqafannahum fī l-ḥarbi fasharrid bihim man khalfahum laʿallahum yadhakkarūn