CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WE HAVE GRANTED A VICTORY TO YOU

2  THAT GOD MAY FORGIVE YOU 
AND WILL FULFILL HIS FAVOR TO YOU 
AND WILL TO THE RIGHT WAY GUIDE YOU

3  AND WITH POWERFUL HELP GOD MAY HELP YOU

4  GOD SENT DOWN TRANQUILITY 
INTO THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
SO THAT THEY MAY ADD BELIEF TO THEIR BELIEF
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BELONG TO GOD ONLY
AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXALTED IN WISDOM IS HE

5  THAT HE MAY ADMIT THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
TO GARDENS BENEATH WHICH FLOW RIVERS 
THAT THEY MAY DWELL IN THEM FOREVER 
AND REMOVE FROM THEM THEIR ERRORS 
THAT IS IN THE SIGHT OF THE CREATOR
THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT FOR BELIEVERS

6  AND THAT HE MAY PUNISH THE HYPOCRITICAL MEN
AND THE HYPOCRITICAL WOMEN 
AND THE POLYTHEISTIC MEN
AND THE POLYTHEISTIC WOMEN 
WHO IMAGINE OF GOD AN EVIL OPINION 
FOR UPON THEM IS A ROUND OF PERDITION
GOD HAS CURSED THEM AND MADE HELL A PROVISION 
AND FOR THEM IT IS AN EVIL DESTINATION 

7  THE FORCES OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BELONG TO GOD
AND EXALTED IN POWER AND FULL OF WISDOM IS GOD

8  WE HAVE SENT YOU AS A WITNESS AND AS A BRINGER 
OF GLAD TIDINGS AND AS A WARNER

9  THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND MORNING AND EVENING GIVE HIM PRAISE AND HONOR

10  SURELY THOSE WHO SWEAR TO YOU THEIR LOYALTY
DO NO LESS THAN SWEAR TO GOD THEIR LOYALTY
AND GOD'S HAND IS OVER THEIR HANDS GREATLY
AND ANY ONE WHO VIOLATES HIS TESTIMONY
DOES SO TO HIS OWN INJURY 
ANY ONE WHO FULFILLS WHAT HE DECREES 
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   CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                              SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

11  THE DESERT ARABS WHO LAGGED BELATEDLY
WILL SAY, WE WERE LOOKING AFTER OUR FAMILIES AND PROPERTY
WILL YOU THEN ASK GOD TO FORGIVE US AND HAVE MERCY?  
THEIR TONGUES SAY WHAT THEIR HEARTS DO NOT HEED

TO THEM SAY, WHO HAS POWER TO INTERVENE WITH GOD FOR YOU
IF HIS WILL IS TO GIVE SOME LOSS OR SOME PROFIT TO YOU? 
BUT GOD IS WELL AWARE OF ALL THAT YOU DO

12  BUT YOU THOUGHT THAT THE APOSTLE AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WOULD NEVER RETURN TO THEIR FAMILIES 
THIS SEEMED PLEASING IN YOUR HEARTS AND YOU CONCEIVED 
AN EVIL THOUGHT FOR YOU ARE A LOST PEOPLE INDEED

13  AND IF ANY BELIEVE NOT IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
WE HAVE. PREPARED FOR THE DISBELIEVERS A BLAZING FIRE

14  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
HE PUNISHES WHOM HE WILLS AND WHOM HE WILLS IS FORGIVEN 
AND GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS FOR MEN

15  THOSE WHO LAGGED BEHIND WILL SAY TO YOU
WHEN YOU MARCH AND TAKE SPOILS IN WAR LET US FOLLOW YOU 
THEY WISH TO CHANGE THE DECREE OF GOD, SAY, NOT SO WILL YOU 

FOR GOD HAS ALREADY DECLARED THIS BEFOREHAND 
THEY WILL SAY YOU ARE JEALOUS BUT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND 

16  SAY TO THE DESERT ARABS WHO LAGGED BELATEDLY
YOU WILL FIGHT AGAINST A PEOPLE GIVEN TO WAR FIERCELY 
YOU WILL FIGHT OR THEY WILL SURRENDER TO YOU SUBMISSIVELY
AND THEN IF YOU SHOW OBEDIENCE GOD WILL GRANT YOU BOUNTY 
BUT IF YOU TURN BACK AGAIN YOU WILL RECEIVE A SEVERE PENALTY

17  ON THE BLIND THERE IS NO BLAME 
NOR ON THE ILL NOR ON THE LAME 

BUT HE THAT OBEYS GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
GOD WILL ADMIT HIM TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 

AND HE WHO TURNS BACK, GOD WILL DEFINITELY
PUNISH HIM WITH A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

 

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CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                                  SECTION 3.  PART XXVI

18  GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE WAS UPON THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WHEN THEY SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO YOU UNDER THE TREE 
HE KNEW WHAT WAS IN THEIR HEARTS COMPLETELY
AND HE SENT DOWN TO THEM TRANQUILLITY 
AND HE REWARDED THEM WITH A SPEEDY VICTORY

19  AND MANY GAINS BESIDES WILL THEY ACQUIRE 
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER 

20  GOD HAS PROMISED MANY GAINS TO YOU 
AND HE HAS BEFOREHAND GIVEN THESE TO YOU 
HE HAS RESTRAINED THE HANDS OF MEN FROM YOU
THAT IT MAY BE A SIGN FOR THE BELIEVERS AMONG YOU
AND ALSO THAT TO THE STRAIGHT WAY HE MAY GUIDE YOU 

21  OTHER GAINS THERE ARE WHICH ARE NOT WITHIN YOUR POWER 
BUT WHICH GOD HAS COMPASSED, AND GOD HAS ALL POWER 

22  IF THE DISBELIEVERS SHOULD FIGHT YOU
THEY WOULD SURELY TURN THEIR BACKS TO YOU
AND THEY WOULD NOT FIND ANY HELPER AGAINST YOU

23  THIS HAS IN THE PAST BEEN THE PRACTICE OF GOD 
NO CHANGE WILL YOU FIND IN THE PRACTICE OF GOD

24  GOD RESTRAINED THEIR HANDS FROM YOU 
AND RESTRAINED YOUR HANDS FROM THEM TOO
IN THE MIDST OF MECCA, AFTER THAT HE GAVE YOU 
VICTORY OVER THEM AND GOD SEES ALL THAT YOU DO

25  THEY ARE THE ONES WHO DENIED REVELATION
AND HINDERED YOU FROM THE SACRED REGION

AND DETAINED THE ANIMALS FOR SACRIFICE 
FROM REACHING THEIR PLACE OF SACRIFICE 

HAD THERE NOT BEEN BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
WHO DID NOT KNOW THAT YOU HAD TRODDEN 
AND ON WHOSE ACCOUNT A CRIME WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE TO YOU HAVING BEEN GIVEN
 
THAT WE MAY ADMIT WHOM WE WILL TO OUR MERCY 
AND IF THEY HAD BEEN A PART OF IT THEN WE SURELY
WOULD HAVE PUNISHED THEM WITH A SEVERE PENALTY

26  THE DISBELIEVERS GOT UP IN THEIR PRIDE AND ARROGANCE 
THE PRIDE AND ARROGANCE OF IGNORANCE 

GOD SENT DOWN TO HIS MESSENGER TRANQUILITY
AND UNTO THE BELIEVERS AND MADE THEM STICK CLOSELY
TO THE OBSERVANCE OF THEIR DUTY
AND OF IT THEY WERE WELL WORTHY  
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

  
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CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                                 SECTION 4.  PART XXVI

27  AND GOD FULFILLED THE VISION FOR HIS MESSENGER
THE SACRED MOSQUE YOU WILL CERTAINLY ENTER 
IF GOD WILLS WITH MINDS SECURE 
HEADS SHAVED, HAIR CUT AND WITHOUT FEAR 
FOR HE KNEW THAT YOU WERE NOT THE KNOWER
AND HE BESIDES THIS MADE YOU THE  SPEEDY VICTOR

28  GOD SENT HIS MESSENGER WITH THE TRUE RELIGION
AND TO PROCLAIM IT OVER ALL RELIGIONS 
AND ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A PATRON

29  MUHAMMAD IS GOD'S MESSENGER 
THOSE WITH HIM ARE STRONG AGAINST DISBELIEVERS 
BUT THEY ARE COMPASSIONATE AMONG EACH OTHER 
THEY BOW AND PROSTRATE THEMSELVES IN PRAYER 
SEEKING GOD'S GRACE AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
ON THEIR FACES ARE MARKS BEING INDICATORS
OF THEIR PROSTRATIONS IN THEIR PRAYERS
IN THE TORAH THIS IS TO WHAT THEY ARE SIMILAR
AND ALSO IN THE GOSPEL TO WHAT THEY ARE SIMILAR 
IS LIKE A SEED WHICH SENDS ITS BLADE AND MAKES IT STRONGER
AND THEN IT GROWS AND THEN IT BECOMES THICKER
AND IT STANDS ON ITS OWN STEM FILLING THE SOWERS 
WITH WONDER AND FILLING THE DISBELIEVERS WITH ANGER
AND GOD HAS PROMISED THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
FORGIVENESS AND A REWARD IN GREAT MEASURE

 

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