(And those who became fugitives for the cause of Allah) in obedience of Allah from Mecca to Medina (after they had been oppressed) after being tortured by the people of Mecca; the reference here is to 'Ammar Ibn Yasir, Bilal [Ibn Rabah], Suhayb [al-Rumi] and their fellow believers, (We verily shall give them goodly) an honoured and safe land with lawful gains (lodging in the world) in Medina, (and surely the reward of the Hereafter is greater) than that of this worldly life, (if they but knew) and they did know;
