Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Anfaal, Ayah 50
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(If thou couldst see) O Muhammad (how the angels) on the Day of Badr (receive those who disbelieve) how they take away their souls, (smiting their faces and their backs and (saying): Taste the punishment of burning!) the severe punishment of burning.
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
And if you could only see O Muhammad (s) when the angels take read either as yatawaffā or tatawaffā the disbelievers beating yadribūna is a circumstantial qualifier their faces and their backs with hooked iron rods and they say to them ‘Taste the chastisement of burning that is the Fire the response to the clause beginning with law ‘if’ would be la-ra’ayta amran ‘azīman ‘you would truly have seen an terrible sight’.