[2441] This could have two meanings: 1) they prayed for God not to try the Deniers by making them overrun the Believers and, hence, fall into the misconception of taking this as a sign of their rightfulness and the Believers’ wrongfulness; thus giving falsehood the upper hand over the Truth (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Wāḥidī, al-Wajīz, Ibn Kathīr); and 2) that they should not be tried through the Deniers overpowering of them and making them revert from the right path to Denial (cf. Abū Ḥayyān, al-Baiḍāwī, al-Qāsimī).