S:  They who taunt those of the faithful who give their alms freely, and those who give to the extent of their earnings and scoff at them; Allah will pay them back their scoffing, and they shall have a painful chastisement.

009.080 Y:  Whether thou ask for their forgiveness, or not, (their sin is unforgivable):  if thou ask seventy times for their forgiveness, Allah will not forgive them:  because they have rejected Allah and His Messenger:  and Allah guideth not those who are perversely rebellious.

P:  Ask forgiveness for them (O Muhammad), or ask not forgiveness for them; though thou ask forgiveness for them seventy times Allah will not forgive them.  That is because they disbelieved in Allah and His messenger, and Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.

S:  Ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them; even if you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah will not forgive them; this is because they disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger, and Allah does not guide the transgressing people.

009.081 Y:  Those who were left behind (in the Tabuk expedition) rejoiced in their inaction behind the back of the Messenger of Allah:  they hated to strive and fight, with their goods and their persons, in the cause of Allah:  they said, “Go not forth in the heat.”  Say, “The fire of Hell is fiercer in heat.”  If only they could understand!

P:  Those who were left behind rejoiced at sitting still behind the messenger of Allah, and were averse to striving with their wealth and their lives in Allah’s way.  And they said:  Go not forth in the heat!  Say:  The fire of hell is more intense of heat, if they but understood.

S:  Those who were left behind were glad on account of their sitting behind Allah’s Messenger and they were averse from striving in Allah’s way with their property and their persons, and said:  Do not go forth in the heat.  Say:  The fire of hell is much severe in heat.  Would that they understood (it).

009.082 Y:  Let them laugh a little:  much will they weep:  a recompense for the (evil) that they do.

P:  Then let them laugh a little:  they will weep much, as the reward of what they used to earn.

S:  Therefore they shall laugh little and weep much as a recompense for what they earned.

009.083 Y:  If, then, Allah bring thee back to any of them, and they ask thy permission to come out (with thee), say:  “Never shall ye come out with me, nor fight an enemy with me:  for ye preferred to sit inactive on the first occasion:  Then sit ye (now) with those who lag behind.”

P:  If Allah bring thee back (from the campaign) unto a party of them and they ask of thee leave to go out (to fight), then say unto them:  Ye shall never more go out with me nor fight with me against a foe.  Ye were content with sitting still the first time.  So sit still, with the useless.

S:  Therefore if Allah brings you back to a party of them and then they ask your permission to go forth, say:  By no means shall you ever go forth with me and by no means shall you fight an enemy with me; surely you chose to sit the first time, therefore sit (now) with those who remain behind.