Tafsir Ibn Abbas: At-Tawba, Ayah 2
فَسِيحُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍۢ وَٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّكُمْ غَيْرُ مُعْجِزِى ٱللَّهِ ۙ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مُخْزِى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ
So travel freely, [O disbelievers], throughout the land [during] four months but know that you cannot cause failure to Allah and that Allah will disgrace the disbelievers.
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‘Journey freely travel in security O idolaters in the land for four months — beginning with the month of Shawwāl on the basis of what will come shortly — after which there will be no security for you and know that you cannot escape God that is you shall not elude His punishment and that God degrades the disbelievers’ humiliating them in this world by having them killed and in the Hereafter by sending them to the Fire.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
Allah said to them (Travel freely in the land) move about in the land beginning from the day of immolation for (four months) safe from being killed because of the treaty, (and know) O disbelievers (that ye cannot escape Allah) that you cannot escape Allah's punishment, by being killed, after the lapse of a the four months (and that Allah will confound the disbelievers) He will punish the disbelievers after four months by subjecting them to death.