| جُنْدٌ مَا هُنَالِكَ مَهْزُومٌ مِنَ الْأَحْزَابِ |
| Asad | : | [But] there it is: any and all human beings, however [strongly] leagued together,15 are bound to suffer defeat [whenever they refuse to accept the truth]. |
| Malik | : | Their faction is no more than an army who will be beaten right here. |
| Mustafa Khattab | : | This is just another ˹enemy˺ force bound for defeat out there.1 |
| Pickthall | : | A defeated host are (all) the factions that are there. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | But there will be put to flight even a host of confederates. 4158 |
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The collective noun jund, which primarily denotes "a host" or "an army", has also the meaning of "created beings", in this context obviously human beings; in combination with the particle ma, "any number of human beings". The term hizb (of which ahzab is the plural), on the other hand, denotes "a party" or "a group of people of the same mind" or "people leagued together", i.e., for a definite purpose. |
