(And there is a ban upon) an absence of success for (any community) for the people of Mecca: Abu Jahl and his host (which We have destroyed) which We have forsaken through their disbelief: (that they shall not return) to faith from their disbelief; it is also said that the verse means: it is forbidden for the people of Mecca, whom We have destroyed on the Day of Badr through killing them, to return to this worldly life,