1. We have given
you a clear conquest.
2. So that God may forgive your present sins, as well as those past, and so
that He may complete His blessings upon you, and guide you on a straight path.
3. And God will grant you a conquest which is mighty.
4. He is the One who sends down tranquility into the hearts of the believers,
so that they may increase in faith along with their present faith. And to God
belongs the soldiers of the heavens and the earth, and God is Knowledgeable,
Wise.
5. That He may admit the believing men and believing women into Gardens with
rivers flowing beneath them, abiding eternally therein, and He will remit their
sins from them. And with God this is a great triumph.
6. And He will punish the hypocrite men and the hypocrite women, and the idolater
men and the idolater women, who think evil thoughts about God. Their evil will
come back to them, and God was angry with them, and He Has cursed them and prepared
for them Hell. What a miserable destiny!
7. And to God belongs the soldiers of the heavens and the earth. And God is
Noble, Wise.
8. We have sent you as a witness, a bearer of good news, and a warner.
9. So that you may believe in God and His messenger, and that you may support
Him, honour Him, and glorify Him, morning and night.
10. Surely, those who pledge allegiance to you, are pledging allegiance to God;
God's hand is above their hands. Those of them who violate such a pledge, are
violating it only upon themselves. And whosoever fulfills what he has pledged
to God, then God will grant him a great reward.
11. The Nomads who lagged behind will say to you: "We were preoccupied
with our money and our family, so ask forgiveness for us" They say with
their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: "Who then would possess
any power for you against God if He wanted harm to afflict you or if He wanted
benefit for you?" No, God is fully Aware of everything you do.
12. Alas, you thought that the messenger and the believers would not return
to their families, and this was deemed pleasant in your hearts, and you thought
the worst thoughts; you were a wicked people.
13. Anyone whosoever does not believe in God and His messenger, then We have
prepared for the rejecters a Hellfire.
14. And to God is the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. He forgives
whomever He wills, and punishes whomever He wills. God is Forgiver, Merciful.
15. Those who lagged behind will say, when you venture out to collect the spoils:
"Let us follow you!" They want to change God's words. Say: "You
will not follow us; this is what God has decreed beforehand" They will
then say: "No, you are envious of us" No, they rarely understood anything.
16. Say to those Nomads who lagged behind: "You will be called on to fight
a people who are very powerful in warfare, unless they surrender. Then if you
obey, God will grant you a good reward, but if you turn away as you turned away
before, He will punish you with a painful retribution"
17. There is no burden on the blind, nor is there any burden on the cripple,
nor is there on the sick any burden. And whosoever obeys God and His messenger,
He will admit them into gardens with rivers flowing beneath; and whosoever turns
away, He will punish him with a painful retribution.
18. God is pleased with the believers who pledged allegiance to you under the
tree. He thus knew what was in their hearts, so He sent down tranquility upon
them, and rewarded them with a near victory.
19. And abundant spoils that they will take. God is Noble, Wise.
20. God has promised you abundant spoils that you will take. Thus He Has hastened
this for you, and He Has withheld the people's hands against you; that it may
be a sign for the believers, and that He may guide you to a straight path.
21. And the other group which you could not vanquish, God took care of them.
And God was capable of all things.
22. And if the rejecters had fought you, they would have turned and ran, then
they would have found neither an ally nor a victor.
23. Such is God's way with those who have passed away before, and you will find
any change in God's way.
24. And He is the One who withheld their hands against you, and your hands against
them in the interior of Mecca, after He had made you victorious over them. God
is Seer of what you do.
25. They are the ones who rejected and barred you from the restricting temple,
and barred your offerings from reaching their destination. And there had been
believing men and women whom you did not know, and you may have hurt them, and
on whose account you would have committed a sin unknowingly. God will admit
into His mercy whomever He wills. If they were apart, We would have punished
those of them who rejected with a painful retribution.
26. Those who rejected had put in their hearts the rage of the days of ignorance,
then God sent down tranquility upon His messenger and the believers, and directed
them to uphold the word of righteousness, and they were well entitled to it
and worthy of it. And God is fully aware of all things.
27. God has fulfilled with truth His messenger's vision: "You will enter
the restricting temple, God willing, secure, with your heads shaven and shortened,
having no fear" Thus, He knew what you did not know, and He has coupled
with this a near victory.
28. He is the One who sent His messenger with the guidance and the system of
truth, so that it would expose all other systems. And God is sufficient as a
witness.
29. Muhammad is the messenger of God, and those who are with him are severe
against the rejecters, but merciful between themselves. You see them yielding
and submitting, they seek God's blessings and approval. Their distinction is
in their faces, as a result of submitting. Such is their example in the Torah.
And their example in the Injeel is like a plant which shoots out and becomes
strong and thick and it stands straight on its stem, pleasing to the farmers
that He may enrage the rejecters with them. God promises those among them who
believe and do good works a forgiveness and a great reward.