VERSES:
1 – 29
Chapters
48. THE VICTORY ( Al – Fatah ) |
In
the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. |
1.
We certainly opened for you (a way by giving you) a clear victory, |
2.
that Allah may protect you from (every) sin of yours which you (could)
send in advance and which you (could) leave behind and complete His
favour on you and guide you on the right path, |
4.
He it is Who sent down tranquility into the hearts of the believers
that they may (thereby receive more) belief added to their belief, and
Allah’s are the forces of the skies and the earth and Allah is Knowing,
Wise, |
5.
that He may make the believing men and the believing women enter gardens
beneath which rivers flow, to stay therein, and to remove from them
their evils, and that is a great achievement in the sight of Allah, |
6.
and (that) He may punish the hypocrite men and the hypocrite women and
the polytheist men and the polytheist women who entertain an evil thought
about Allah. On them is an evil turn of fortune and the anger of Allah
is on them and He has cursed them and prepared for them hell and it
is an evil destination. |
7.
And Allah’s are the forces of the skies and the earth and Allah is Mighty,
Wise. |
8.
We have sent you as a witness and a conveyer of good news
and a warner, |
9.
so that you all should believe in Allah and His messenger
and honour Him and rever Him and glorify Him morning and evening.
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10.
Those who swear allegiance to you {1}
certainly swear allegiance
only to Allah, the hand of Allah is above their hands. So whoever breaks
(the agreement, the loss of) his breaking (it) is only on his own soul and whoever fulfils
the agreement which he has made with Allah, then He will give him a great reward. ( R 1 )
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11.
Those of the desert Arabs who were left behind will say to you, “Our wealth and our people kept us occupied, so
seek protective forgiveness for us.” They say with their tongues that
which is not in their hearts. Say, “Then who can control anything for you against Allah, if He intends
to harm you or intends to benefit you? No, Allah is informed of that which you do.”
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12.
No, you expected that the messenger of Allah and the
believers will never return to their people, and that was made fair seeming to your hearts, and
you expected an evil expectation and you are a people who are lost. |
13.
And whoever does not believe in Allah and His messenger, We have certainly
prepared a blazing fire for (such) infidels. |
14.
And Allah’s is the kingdom of the skies and the earth, He protectively
forgives whom He wills and He punishes whom He wills and Allah is Protectively
Forgiving, Merciful. |
15.
When you proceed to take the booty (of war), those who were left behind
will say, “Allow us to follow you.” They intend to change the word of
Allah, say, “You will never follow us, thus has Allah said before.”
Then they will say, “No, you are jealous of us.” No, they do not understand
except a little. |
16.
Say to those of the desert Arabs who were left behind, “You will be
called for (fighting against) a people who possess mighty strength,
you will fight them until they surrender. So if you obey, Allah will
give you a good reward but if you turn back as you turned back earlier,
He will punish you with a painful punishment. |
17.
There is no blame on the blind, nor is there any blame on the lame,
nor is there any blame on the sick (if they do not go out for participation
in religious wars); and whoever obeys Allah and His messenger, He will
make him enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, but whoever turns
back He will punish him with a painful punishment. (R 2, P 25 1/2) |
18.
Allah was indeed pleased with the believers when they swore allegiance
{ 2 } to you under
the tree, and He knew that which was in their hearts so He sent down
tranquility on them and rewarded them with a near victory, |
19.
and much booty which they take, and Allah is Mighty, Wise. |
20.
Allah promised you much booty which you will take, then He hastened
this for you and held back the hands of men from you so that it may
be a sign for the believers and (that) He may guide you on the straight
path, |
21.
and other (gains) on which you do not have power (right now), Allah
has indeed encompassed them (for you) and Allah has power over everything, |
22.
And if those who do not believe fight with you, they would certainly
turn (their) backs, then they would not find any guardian or a helper. |
23.
(This has been the) procedure of Allah which has passed earlier and
you will never find a change in the procedure of Allah. |
24.
And it was He Who had held back their hands from you and your hands
from them in the interior of Mecca, after He had given you victory over
them{3}, and Allah
is the Seer of what you do. |
25.
Those were the persons who did not believe and turned you away from
the Sacred Mosque and stopped the offering from reaching its destination.
And had believing men and believing women not been there, whom you did
not know and whom you would have trampled, then distress would have
befallen you on account of them, unknowingly. (You were held back) so
that Allah may make to enter into His mercy, whom He wills. Had they
(the believers and infidels) been separated (one from another). We would
have punished those who did not believe from among them, with a painful
punishment. |
26.
When those who did not believe, cherished in their hearts a rage and
(that too) the rage of ignorance, then Allah sent down His tranquility
on His messenger and on the believers, and made them stick to the statement
of restrain, and they deserved it and were worthy of it, and Allah has
knowledge of everything. (R 3) |
27.
Allah indeed made true, His messenger’s vision of reality, that if Allah
wills, you will definitely enter the Sacred Mosque secure, (some) having
your heads shaved while (others having their hair) reduced, (entering)
without fear. So He knew that which you did not know, therefore He brought
about a near victory (of Khaiber), besides that. |
28.
He it is Who has sent His messenger with guidance and the religion of
truth that He may make it prevail over every religion, and Allah is
sufficient as a Witness. |
29.
Muhammed is the messenger of Allah, and those with him are strong against
the infidels and merciful among themselves. You see them bowing down,
prostrating, seeking grace from Allah and (His) pleasure, their marks
due to the effect of, prostrations are there in their faces. That is
their likeness (mentioned) in the Torah and their likeness mentioned
in the Injeel. (They are) like vegetation which (first) puts forth its
sprout then it becomes firm then it becomes thick, then it stands balanced
on its stem, pleasing the sowers, that He may make the infidels angry
through them. Allah has promised those among them who believe and do
righteous works, protective forgiveness and a great reward.
(R 4) |