So when Talut departed with the forces , he said : Surely Allah will try you with a river ; whoever then drinks from it , he is not of me , and whoever does not taste of it , he is surely of me , except he who takes with his hand as much of it as fills the hand ; but with the exception of a few of them they drank from it . So when he had crossed it , he and those who believed with him , they said : We have today no power against Jalut and his forces .