Have you received the news of the armies?
This verse refers to the different troops belonging to Satan’s party, who prided themselves in physical strength and their multitudes, forgetting the Creator Lord. They lived in defiance of the Lord and acted in opposition to the believers. Today the Arabic Qur’an–reading Fujjar, including the Hypocrites and their blind followers—who by hiding and rejecting Adhikr deserve to be roasted in the Hellfire, the house of the worthless, as mentioned in verses 14: 28–30—are obstructing the propagation of Adhikr, the Splendid Book mentioned in verse 41: 41, and are engaged in deeds opposite to the believers. If they are mentioned in verse 98: 6 as the worst creatures in the land, in verse 8: 22 they are mentioned as the worst creatures among a thousand communities of the Lord’s creatures. See explanation 9: 67–68; 40: 5–6; and 83: 7.