Some of the Muslims were sad for the reverse of fortune in Ohud, and were anxious about their future. Through this verse, (No. 165) God notifies three important points which follows:

      1) You should not be confounded, and anxious for the results of the fight, because you had afflicted your enemy in the battle of Badr, with twice as much of that which they have afflicted you in Ohud. They slew seventy of your men in Ohud, but they could not take any captives. In the battle of Badr, you killed seventy of your enemies, and also you took seventy captives of them.

      2) You want to know what has gone wrong, and from which source or cause that calamity and affliction came to you? Say to them, O, Messenger: ``That has come to you from your ownselves, and you were the cause and creator of that misfortune.''

      True, that the reverse happened with the permission of God for wanting to test you, and purify you in faith and sincerity; but it may also teach you the lesson that you must do your best, so that you may deserve the help of God. When you disobey your apostle, and do not observe the order and discipline, such disasters are always probable to happen and afflict you; and you should not attribute them to God, but rather to blame yourself, and your ignorance and shortcomings.

      3- You should not be anxious about future, because Allah Has power over all things; and if you remove your weak points and return to your Lord, His help is sure and swift.