[2195] al-Khawālif are mainly women (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, al-Qurṭubī, cf. al-Sijistānī, Gharīb al-Qur’ān, Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lughah, al-Iṣfahānī, al-Mufradāt). Obviously, they were known with this designation because they would not join fighting campaigns. The hypocrites, however, are still being denigrated (cf. Ibn ʿĀshūr).
[2196] They were bereft of the faculty of discernment; they did not grasp the wisdom and benefits of God’s commands (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Ibn Kathīr). Also had they been discerning, they would not have been gratified with classification alongside the less bodily able segment of society (al-Saʿdī): “... but the hypocrites discern not!” (9: 87).
[2197] al-Khayrāt (intensive plural of khayr, i.e. good) denotes good aplenty both in this worldly life and in the Hereafter (cf. Ibn Kathīr, al-Qāsimī, al-Saʿdī): “You who Believe, shall I show you a trade that will save you from painful punishment? *That you Believe in Allah and His Messenger, and strive in the path of God with your money and lives; that is best for you, if you only knew. *He will forgive you your sins and admit you in Gardens under which rivers flow and comely abodes in Gardens of Eternity; that is ˹truly˺ the great triumph” (61: 10-12).
[2198] These nomad permission seekers either had valid excuses (in Yaʿqūb’s Qur’anic mode of reading where it is read as: al-Muʿdhirūna, cf. Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr, 2/280) or did not (in all other Qur’anic modes of reading it is read as: al-Muʿadhdhirūna, cf. Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr, 2/280) (cf. al-Wāḥidī, al-Basīṭ, Ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Ibn al-Jawzī, Ibn ʿĀshūr).
[2199] These are the hypocrite nomads who did not even make the effort to come to the Messenger (ﷺ) to seek his permission (cf. Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī, Ibn ʿĀshūr).
[2200] They did not realize the consequences of not joining the Messenger (ﷺ) in his campaign and were ignorant of the great rewards they were missing out on in this world and in the Hereafter (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Alūsī, al-Saʿdī).