أُذِنَ لِلَّذِينَ يُقَـٰتَلُونَ بِأَنَّهُمْ ظُلِمُوا۟ ۚ وَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ نَصْرِهِمْ لَقَدِيرٌ(39) ٱلَّذِينَ أُخْرِجُوا۟ مِن دِيَـٰرِهِم بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ إِلَّآ أَن يَقُولُوا۟ رَبُّنَا ٱللَّهُ (40)
Permission [to fight] is given to those who are attacked, because they were oppressed, and Allah is indeed Most Capable of granting them victory (39) Those who have been driven from their homes unjustly only because they said: “Our Lord is Allah” (40). (22:39-40)
Correlating Hadith:
Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq said [regarding the meaning of the Qur’anic verse]: “The masses say that this was revealed to the Messenger of Allah when Quraysh expelled him from Mecca, but, indeed, [this verse] is about the Qa’im [Imam al-Mahdi] when he rises up to avenge the blood of [Imam] Hussain, saying: ‘We are the successors of the martyr, and we demand retribution.'”
لصّادق (علیه السلام) عَنْ أَبِی‌عَبْدِ‌اللَّهِ (علیه السلام) فِی قَوْلِهِ (أُذِنَ لِلَّذِینَ یُقاتَلُونَ بِأَنَّهُمْ ظُلِمُوا وَ إِنَّ اللهَ عَلی نَصْرِهِمْ لَقَدِیرٌ) قَالَ إِنَّ الْعَامَّهًَْ یَقُولُونَ نَزَلَتْ فِی رَسُول‌اللَّهِ (صلی الله علیه و آله) لَمَّا أَخْرَجَتْهُ قُرَیْشٌ مِنْ مَکَّةَْ وَ إِنَّمَا هُوَ الْقَائِمُ (عجل الله تعالی فرجه الشریف) إِذَا خَرَجَ یَطْلُبُ بِدَمِ الْحُسَیْنِ (علیه السلام) وَ هُوَ قَوْلُهُ نَحْنُ أَوْلِیَاءُ الدَّمِ وَ طُلَّابُ التِّرَهًِْ (الدِّیَهًِْ).
Sources
Tafsir al-Qummi, vol. 3, pg. 342; Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 24, pg. 224.
تفسیر اهل بیت علیهم السلام ج9، ص680/بحارا لأنوار، ج51، ص47/ القمي، ج2، ص84/ نورالثقلین/ البرهان
