So submit patiently to your Lord’s decree to you to deliver His Message and do not obey of them that is of the disbelievers any sinner or disbeliever namely ‘Utba b. Rabī‘a and al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra — both of whom said to the Prophet s ‘Abandon this affair of yours!’; it is also possible that what is meant is every sinner or disbeliever in other words ‘Do not obey any of these whichever of the two he may be in what he may summon you to of sin or disbelief’.