The Children of Israel
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[17:76]
And [since they see that they cannot persuade thee,] they endeavour to estrange thee from the land [of thy birth] with a view to driving thee away from it – but, then, after thou wilt have left, they themselves will not remain [in it] for more than a little while:

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* v.76 : It must be borne in mind that this is a Meccan sūrah, revealed at a time when the persecution, both physical and moral, which the Prophet and his followers had to suffer at the hands of the pagan Quraysh reached the peak of its intensity.
* Lit., “after thee.”
* This prophecy was fulfilled a little over two years later, in the month of Ramadān, 2 H., when those same leaders of the Quraysh were killed in the battle of Badr.