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الفتح29 āyāt · 22 tafsīrs
إِنَّا فَتَحْنَا لَكَ فَتْحًا مُّبِينًا
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1. I have given you, O Messenger, a clear victory by the Treaty of Hudaibiyya.
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لِّيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اللَّهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِن ذَنبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ وَيُتِمَّ نِعْمَتَهُ عَلَيْكَ وَيَهْدِيَكَ صِرَاطًا مُّسْتَقِيمًا
Al-Mukhtasar
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2. So that Allah may forgive you for your sins before this victory and after it and complete His favour on you by assisting your religion and guiding you to a straight path, in which there is no crookedness, which is the straight path of Islam.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
he future by force, as a result of your struggle, a clear victory, [one that is] plain and manifest; [48:2] that God may forgive you, by virtue of your struggle, what is pail of your sin and what is to come, of it, so that your community might then desire to struggle [like you] — this [verse] also constitutes a justification of the [concept of the] infallibility (' isma ) of prophets, peace be upon them, againSt sin, by way of a definitive rational proof (the lam [in li-yaghfira, ‘that He may forgive’] is for [indicating] the ultimate reason [for the conquest], so that the content [of this…
Open in library →وَيَنصُرَكَ اللَّهُ نَصْرًا عَزِيزًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
3. Allah will help you against your enemies with a mighty assistance that no one can remove.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
Straight path, upon which He will confirm you — and this [Straight path] is the religion of Islam; [48:3] and that God may grant you, therein, a mighty victory, one of glory, involving no humiliation.
Open in library →هُوَ الَّذِي أَنزَلَ السَّكِينَةَ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لِيَزْدَادُوا إِيمَانًا مَّعَ إِيمَانِهِمْ وَلِلَّهِ جُنُودُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
4. Allah is the One Who sent down stability and tranquility into the hearts of the believers so that they increase in faith over and above their faith. To Allah alone belongs the forces of the heavens and the earth, He supports with them whoever of His servants He wishes. Allah knows the interests of His servants and He is Wise in the assistance and support that He gives.
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48:3] and that God may grant you, therein, a mighty victory, one of glory, involving no humiliation. [48:4] He it is Who sent down the Spirit of Peace, [Divine] reassurance, into the hearts of the believers, that they might add faith to their faith, by way of [their embracing of] the legal Stipulations of religion: for every time He revealed one [of these], they would believe in it — including the [command to] Strug¬ gle. And to God belong the hoSts of the heavens and the earth, and so if He wanted to bring vidtory to His religion by means of others. He would have done so.…
Open in library →لِّيُدْخِلَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا وَيُكَفِّرَ عَنْهُمْ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ وَكَانَ ذَٰلِكَ عِندَ اللَّهِ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
5. To enter those men and women who have faith in Allah and in His Messenger into gardens with streams flowing under their palaces and trees, and obliterate from them their wrongdoings and not take them to task for it. That which has been mentioned - about the attainment of the objective of Paradise and removal of the dreaded culpability for wrongdoings - in the sight of Allah is a great success that no other success can come close to.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
r, of His creatures, Wise, in His adtions, in other words, He is ever possessed of such attributes; [48:5] so that He may admit (li-yudkhila is semantically connedted to an omitted clause, that is to say, amara bi’l-jihad, ‘He has enjoined the Struggle [so that He may admit]’) the believingmen and believing women into gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide, and that He may absolve them of their misdeeds; for that, in God’s sight, is a supreme triumph;
Open in library →وَيُعَذِّبَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتِ وَالْمُشْرِكِينَ وَالْمُشْرِكَاتِ الظَّانِّينَ بِاللَّهِ ظَنَّ السَّوْءِ عَلَيْهِمْ دَائِرَةُ السَّوْءِ وَغَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَعَنَهُمْ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُمْ جَهَنَّمَ وَسَاءَتْ مَصِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
6. And to punish the hypocrites, male and female, and to punish those men and women who ascribe partners to Allah, and who think that Allah will not assist His religion and not raise His word, and that fortune will turn against the believers, but fortune turned against them. Allah became angry with them because of their disbelief and evil thought and He expelled them from His mercy and prepared for them in the afterlife Hell, which they will enter to remain there forever. What a miserable place of return for them!
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de, and that He may absolve them of their misdeeds; for that, in God’s sight, is a supreme triumph; [48:6] and so that He may chaStise the hypocrites, men and women, and the idolaters, men and wom¬ en, and those who make evil assumptions about God (read al-saw’ or al-su, ‘evil’, in all three places); 2 they assumed that He will not assiSt Muhammad (s) and the believers. For them will be an evil turn of fortune, by way of abasement and chastisement; and God is wroth with them, and He has cursed them.…
Open in library →وَلِلَّهِ جُنُودُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
7. To Allah belong the forces of the heavens and the earth. He supports with it whoever of His servants He wishes. Allah is Mighty Whom none can overcome; Wise in His creation, estimation and planning.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
], and has prepared for them Hell — and it is an evil destina¬ tion!, [an evil] place to return to. [48:7] And to God belong the ho Sts of the heavens and the earth; and God is ever Mighty, in His king¬ dom, Wise, in His adtions, in other words, He is ever possessed of such attributes. [48:8] Indeed We have sent you as a witness, againSt your community at the Resurredtion, and a bearer of good tidings, to them in this world, and a Warner, to threaten those in it who do evil with [the pun¬ ishment of] the Fire; [48:9] that you may believe (li-tu’minu, may also here be read li-yuminu, ‘tha…
Open in library →إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ شَاهِدًا وَمُبَشِّرًا وَنَذِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
8. I have sent you - O Messenger - as a witness to give testimony against your nation on the day of resurrection, and as one to give good news to the believers of the victory and empowerment Allah has prepared for them in the world, and of the bliss He has prepared for them in the Hereafter, and to warn the disbelievers of the humiliation and defeat at the hands of the believers that He has prepared for them in the world, and the painful punishment awaiting them that He has prepared for them in the Hereafter,
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لِّتُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَتُعَزِّرُوهُ وَتُوَقِّرُوهُ وَتُسَبِّحُوهُ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا
Al-Mukhtasar
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9. in the hope that you have faith in Allah and have faith in His messenger, and you revere and honour His messenger, and that you glorify Allah at the beginning and at the end of the day.
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إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُبَايِعُونَكَ إِنَّمَا يُبَايِعُونَ اللَّهَ يَدُ اللَّهِ فَوْقَ أَيْدِيهِمْ فَمَن نَّكَثَ فَإِنَّمَا يَنكُثُ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِهِ وَمَنْ أَوْفَىٰ بِمَا عَاهَدَ عَلَيْهُ اللَّهَ فَسَيُؤْتِيهِ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
10. Those who pledge the allegiance of Al-Ridwan to you, O Messenger, to fight the idolaters of Makkah, are only pledging allegiance to Allah, because He is the One Who instructed them to fight the idolaters and He is the One Who will give them recompense. The hand of Allah is over their hands at the time of the pledge and He is aware of them. Nothing of theirs is hidden from them. Whoever breaks his pledge and does not fulfil the promise he made with Allah to assist His religion, then his breaking his pledge and promise is to his own detriment. Allah is not harmed by that.…
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
may refer either to God or to His Mes¬ senger) and glorify Him, that is, God, morning and evening. [48:10] Truly those who pledge allegiance to you, the ‘Pledge of Beatitude’ ( bay’at al-ridwan ) given at al-Hudaybiyya, 3 in fad pledge allegiance to God — this [Statement] is akin to: Whoever obeys the Mes¬ senger, verily obeys God [Q. 4:80]. The Hand of God is above their hands, [the hands] with which they pledged allegiance to the Prophet, in other words, God, exalted be He, has observed their pledge of al¬ legiance and will requite them in accordance with [their adherence to] it.…
Open in library →سَيَقُولُ لَكَ الْمُخَلَّفُونَ مِنَ الْأَعْرَابِ شَغَلَتْنَا أَمْوَالُنَا وَأَهْلُونَا فَاسْتَغْفِرْ لَنَا يَقُولُونَ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِم مَّا لَيْسَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ قُلْ فَمَن يَمْلِكُ لَكُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ شَيْئًا إِنْ أَرَادَ بِكُمْ ضَرًّا أَوْ أَرَادَ بِكُمْ نَفْعًا بَلْ كَانَ اللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرًا
Al-Mukhtasar
Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
11. Those desert Arabs whom Allah had kept behind from accompanying you, O Messenger, on your journey to His House will say to you when you reproach them: ‘Taking care of our wealth and looking after our children kept us busy from going out with you. So ask for forgiveness from Allah on our behalf for our sins.’ They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts by asking the Prophet (peace be upon him) to seek forgiveness for them; because they have not repented from their sins.…
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
h God, He will give him (fa-sa- yu’tihi; or read fa-sa-nu’tihi, ‘We will give him’) a great reward. [48:11] Those of the Bedouins who were left behind, around Medina — that is to say, those whom God made to stay behind and not to accompany you when you had asked them to set out with you for Mecca, fearing that Quraysh would attack you upon your return, in the year of al-Hudaybiyya — will say to you, ‘Our possessions and our families kept us occupied, [preventing us] from going forth with you. So ask forgiveness for us!’, of God, for our failure to go forth with you.…
Open in library →بَلْ ظَنَنتُمْ أَن لَّن يَنقَلِبَ الرَّسُولُ وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِلَىٰ أَهْلِيهِمْ أَبَدًا وَزُيِّنَ ذَٰلِكَ فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ وَظَنَنتُمْ ظَنَّ السَّوْءِ وَكُنتُمْ قَوْمًا بُورًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
12. The excuse of being preoccupied with taking care of your wealth and children as presented by you was not the reason for remaining behind going out with him. Rather, you thought that the Messenger and his companions will all die and they won't return to their families in Madina. Satan also made this seem fine in your hearts and you had an evil thought about your Lord that He will not help His prophet. You were a ruined people because of the evil thought that you had about Allah and because of your remaining behind His messenger.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
y, but God is ever Aware of what you do, in other words. He is ever possessed of such an attribute. [48:12] Nay ( bal in both instances marks a transition from one subjed to another), but you thought that the Messenger and the believers wotdd never return to their families, and that [ thought] was adorned in your hearts, that is to say, [you thought] that they would be annihilated by being slain and would not return, and you thought evil thoughts, that [just mentioned], and other things, and you were a ruined lot’ ( bur is the plural of bair ), in other words, [a lot to be] destroyed acco…
Open in library →وَمَن لَّمْ يُؤْمِن بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ فَإِنَّا أَعْتَدْنَا لِلْكَافِرِينَ سَعِيرًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
13. The person who does not have faith in Allah and His Messenger is a disbeliever. I have prepared on the Day of Resurrection for those who deny Allah a blazing fire by which they will be punished.
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وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ يَغْفِرُ لِمَن يَشَاءُ وَيُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَاءُ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا
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14. To Allah alone belongs the control of the heavens and the control of the earth. He forgives the sins of those of His servants whom He wills and enters them into Paradise through His grace. He punishes those of His servants whom He wills out of His justice. Allah forgives the sins of those of His servants who repent to Him and He is merciful towards them.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
not believe in God and His Messenger, We have prepared for the disbelievers a blaze, a severe fire. [48:14] And to God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth: He forgives whomever He will and chastises whomever He will; and God is ever Forgiving, Merciful, that is to say, He is ever possessed of the attributes mentioned.
Open in library →سَيَقُولُ الْمُخَلَّفُونَ إِذَا انطَلَقْتُمْ إِلَىٰ مَغَانِمَ لِتَأْخُذُوهَا ذَرُونَا نَتَّبِعْكُمْ يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُبَدِّلُوا كَلَامَ اللَّهِ قُل لَّن تَتَّبِعُونَا كَذَٰلِكُمْ قَالَ اللَّهُ مِن قَبْلُ فَسَيَقُولُونَ بَلْ تَحْسُدُونَنَا بَلْ كَانُوا لَا يَفْقَهُونَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
15. Those whom Allah had kept behind - when you, O believers, set off to take the spoils of Khaybar which Allah had promised you after the Treaty of Hudaibiyya, will say: ‘Let us go out with you to get some of it.’ These people who were left behind want to change, by this request of theirs, Allah’s promise that He made to the believers after the Treaty of Hudaibiyya to give them alone the spoils of Khaybar. Say to them, O Messenger: You will never follow us to those spoils, because Allah has promised us that the spoils of Khaybar are only for those who were present at Hudaibiyya.…
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
God is ever Forgiving, Merciful, that is to say, He is ever possessed of the attributes mentioned. [48:15] Those, mentioned, who were left behind will say, when you set forth after spoils, namely, the spoils of Khaybar, in order to capture them, ‘Let us follow you’, that we might [also] take a share of it. They desire, thereby, to change the words of God ( kaldma’Llahi : a variant reading has kalima’Llahi ), in other words, His promising of the spoils of Khaybar exclusively for those who were at al-Hudaybiyya.…
Open in library →قُل لِّلْمُخَلَّفِينَ مِنَ الْأَعْرَابِ سَتُدْعَوْنَ إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ أُولِي بَأْسٍ شَدِيدٍ تُقَاتِلُونَهُمْ أَوْ يُسْلِمُونَ فَإِن تُطِيعُوا يُؤْتِكُمُ اللَّهُ أَجْرًا حَسَنًا وَإِن تَتَوَلَّوْا كَمَا تَوَلَّيْتُم مِّن قَبْلُ يُعَذِّبْكُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
16. O Messenger! Say to those bedouins who failed to travel to Makkah with you, testing them: “You will soon be called to fighting against a strong, courageous group of people whom you shall either have to fight in the path of Allah, or they may enter into Islam without a fight. If you obey Allah in Him inviting you to fight them, He will give you a good reward, i.e. Paradise, but if you turn away from His obedience, just like you turned away from travelling with the Messenger to Makkah, He will inflict a painful punishment on you.”
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
s [that you say]. Nay, but they never understood, anything of religion, [all] except a few, of them. [48:16] Say to those of the Bedouins, mentioned, who were left behind, to ted them: ‘You shall be called againSt a people possessed of great might — these are said to have been the [tribe of] Banu Hanlfa, the inhabitants of [the region of] al-Yamama; but it is also said that these were the Persians and the Byzan¬ tines — you shall fight them (tuqatilunahum is a circumdancial qualifier referring to an implied [future] situation, which conditutes that to which the ‘call’ will be made); or the…
Open in library →لَّيْسَ عَلَى الْأَعْمَىٰ حَرَجٌ وَلَا عَلَى الْأَعْرَجِ حَرَجٌ وَلَا عَلَى الْمَرِيضِ حَرَجٌ وَمَن يُطِعِ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ يُدْخِلْهُ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ وَمَن يَتَوَلَّ يُعَذِّبْهُ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
17. There is no sin on a person excused due to blindness, disability or illness if he fails to fight in the path of Allah. Whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, He will enter him into gardens under the trees and palaces of which rivers flow; whilst whoever turns away from their obedience, Allah will inflict a painful punishment on him.
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لَّقَدْ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ يُبَايِعُونَكَ تَحْتَ الشَّجَرَةِ فَعَلِمَ مَا فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ فَأَنزَلَ السَّكِينَةَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَأَثَابَهُمْ فَتْحًا قَرِيبًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
18. Verily, Allah was pleased with the believers when they were giving their oaths to you at Ḥudaybīyyah i.e. Bay‘at Al-Riḍwān under the tree. Allah knew of the faith, sincerity and honesty in their hearts and sent down tranquility on their hearts. And He rewarded them for it with a victory in the near future i.e. the victory over Khaybar, as consolation for them missing out on being able to enter Makkah.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ll chaStise (read yuadhdhibhu, or nuadhdhibhu, ‘him We will chastise’) with a painful chastisement. [48:18] Verily God was pleased with the believers when they pledged allegiance to you, at al-Hudaybiyya, under the tree, this was an acacia — they [these believers] numbered 1300 or more; he took an oath of allegiance from them that they would fight against Quraysh and not [attempt to] flee from death.…
Open in library →وَمَغَانِمَ كَثِيرَةً يَأْخُذُونَهَا وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا
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19. And He also granted them with many spoils that they took from the people of Khaybar. Allah is the Almighty whom no one can overcome; the Wise in His creation, decree and management.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
with a near victory, which was the conquest of Khaybar, following their departure from al-Hudaybiyya, [48:19] and abundant Spoils which they will capture, from Khaybar, and God is ever Mighty, Wise, that is to say. He is ever possessed of such attributes.
Open in library →وَعَدَكُمُ اللَّهُ مَغَانِمَ كَثِيرَةً تَأْخُذُونَهَا فَعَجَّلَ لَكُمْ هَٰذِهِ وَكَفَّ أَيْدِيَ النَّاسِ عَنكُمْ وَلِتَكُونَ آيَةً لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَيَهْدِيَكُمْ صِرَاطًا مُّسْتَقِيمًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
20. O believers! Allah promises you of acquiring many spoils in future Islamic victories, but He has given you the spoils of Khaybar in advance and stopped the hands of the Jews when they intended to capture your families after you. And He has done this so that these advanced spoils become a sign for you of the help of Allah and His support for you. And Allah guides you to a straight path in which there is no deviance.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
rom Khaybar, and God is ever Mighty, Wise, that is to say. He is ever possessed of such attributes. [48:20] God has promised you abundant Spoils which you will capture, through the [various] conquests. So He has expedited this one, the Spoils of Khaybar, for you, and withheld men’s hands from you, with regard to your families, after you had set off [on the campaign], as the Jews had intended [to plot] against them; but God caSt terror into their hearts; so that it, the expedited one ( wa-li-takuna is a supplement to an implied verb, that is to say, li-tashkuruhu, ‘that you may give thanks…
Open in library →وَأُخْرَىٰ لَمْ تَقْدِرُوا عَلَيْهَا قَدْ أَحَاطَ اللَّهُ بِهَا وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
21. And Allah promises you with spoils you have not yet been able to attain. Allah alone is capable of letting you acquire them; they are part of the plans and knowledge of Allah. Allah is capable of everything; nothing is outside His ability.
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at is to say, the way in which you should rely on Him and entrust any affair to Him, exalted be He; [48:21] and others (wa-ukhrd is an adjectival qualification of the implied subject maghanima, ‘foils’) which you were not able to capture — namely, [Spoils] from the Persians and the Byzantines; God has verily encompassed these [already], that is to say, He knows that they will be yours.…
Open in library →وَلَوْ قَاتَلَكُمُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوَلَّوُا الْأَدْبَارَ ثُمَّ لَا يَجِدُونَ وَلِيًّا وَلَا نَصِيرًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
22. O believers! If those who disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger were to fight you, they would turn their backs, defeated and fleeing. They would not find any guardian who would take care of their matter, nor any helper who would help them in fighting against you.
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سُنَّةَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَن تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ تَبْدِيلًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
23. The believers being victorious and consequent defeat of the disbelievers is established in every place and era; it is a divine custom of Allah prevalent in the nations that have passed before these rejectors. O Messenger! You will not find any change in the divine custom of Allah.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ned their backs [to flee] — then they woidd not have found any protestor, to guard them, or helper. [48:23] [That is] the way of God (sunnata’Llahi is a verbal noun emphasising the import of the preceding sentence about the defeat of the disbelievers and the victory of the believers, that is to say, sanna’Llahu dhalika sunnatan, ‘God has established this as [His] way [of dealing with believers and disbelievers]’) which has taken its course before, and you will never find in God’s way any change, by Him.
Open in library →وَهُوَ الَّذِي كَفَّ أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَنكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ عَنْهُم بِبَطْنِ مَكَّةَ مِن بَعْدِ أَنْ أَظْفَرَكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
24. He is the one who prevented the hands of the idolaters from getting to you when approximately seventy men came at Ḥudaybīyyah, intending to cause you harm. He stopped you from them; you did not kill them or cause them any harm. Rather, you freed them after Allah made it possible for you to capture them. And Allah is watchful over your actions; none of your actions are hidden from Him.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
vers]’) which has taken its course before, and you will never find in God’s way any change, by Him. [48:24] And it is He Who withheld their hands from you, and your hands from them, in the valley of Mecca, at al-Hudaybiyya, after He had made you viitors over them-, for eighty of them surrounded your camp in order to infliCt losses upon you, but they were captured and taken to the Prophet (5), who par¬ doned them and set them free, and this resulted in the truce.…
Open in library →هُمُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَصَدُّوكُمْ عَنِ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَالْهَدْيَ مَعْكُوفًا أَن يَبْلُغَ مَحِلَّهُ وَلَوْلَا رِجَالٌ مُّؤْمِنُونَ وَنِسَاءٌ مُّؤْمِنَاتٌ لَّمْ تَعْلَمُوهُمْ أَن تَطَئُوهُمْ فَتُصِيبَكُم مِّنْهُم مَّعَرَّةٌ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ لِّيُدْخِلَ اللَّهُ فِي رَحْمَتِهِ مَن يَشَاءُ لَوْ تَزَيَّلُوا لَعَذَّبْنَا الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
25. They are the ones who disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger, and stopped you and the sacrificial animals from Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām. The animals remained barred from reaching the Ḥaram where they were to be sacrificed. Had it not been for a few believing men whom you did not know were believers, and by killing the disbelievers you could have killed them also, and incurred sin and had to pay blood money unknowingly, Allah would have allowed you to liberate Makkah so that He may enter into His mercy whoever He wished i.e. the believers in Makkah.…
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
do (read tamaluna, or yamaluna, ‘they do’), that is to say, He is ever possessed of this attribute. [48:25] They are the ones who disbelieved and barred you from the Sacred Mosque, that is, [barred you] from reaching it, and [prevented] the offering (wa’l-hadya is a supplement to the [suffixed pronoun] -kum, ‘you’ [of saddukum, ‘they barred you’]), which was detained (makufan is a circumstantial quali¬ fier), from reaching its destination, that is, [from] the place at which it is customarily sacrificed, namely, the SanCtuary [itself] (an yablugha mahillahu, is an inclusive substitution).…
Open in library →إِذْ جَعَلَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الْحَمِيَّةَ حَمِيَّةَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ فَأَنزَلَ اللَّهُ سَكِينَتَهُ عَلَىٰ رَسُولِهِ وَعَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَأَلْزَمَهُمْ كَلِمَةَ التَّقْوَىٰ وَكَانُوا أَحَقَّ بِهَا وَأَهْلَهَا وَكَانَ اللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
26. Remember when those who disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger harboured in their hearts the pride of ignorance; an ignorance that was linked to desires and not the truth. They haughtily rejected the entrance of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) into Makkah the year of the treaty of Ḥudaybīyyah, fearing and blaming him that he would overpower them and take control over it. Therefore, Allah sent down tranquility from Himself upon the His Messenger and upon the believers so their anger did not lead to them confronting the idolaters with the same actions.…
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ely] thereat, by permitting you to go ahead with the conquest thereof, with a painful chastisement. [48:26] When those who disbelieve ( alladhina kafaru is the subject [of the following verb ja’ala]) nour¬ ished (idh ja’ala is semantically connected to ’adhdhabna) in their hearts zealotry ( al-hamiyya, [means] ‘disdain of something’), the zealotry of pagandom (hamiyyata’l-jahiliyyati substitutes for al-hamiyyata, ‘zealotry’), namely, their barring of the Prophet and his Companions from [visiting] the Sacred Mosque, [but] then God sent down His Spirit of Peace upon His Messenger and the be…
Open in library →لَّقَدْ صَدَقَ اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ الرُّؤْيَا بِالْحَقِّ لَتَدْخُلُنَّ الْمَسْجِدَ الْحَرَامَ إِن شَاءَ اللَّهُ آمِنِينَ مُحَلِّقِينَ رُءُوسَكُمْ وَمُقَصِّرِينَ لَا تَخَافُونَ فَعَلِمَ مَا لَمْ تَعْلَمُوا فَجَعَلَ مِن دُونِ ذَٰلِكَ فَتْحًا قَرِيبًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
27. Verily, Allah truly made the dream of His Messenger a reality; He showed it to him in his sleep and he them informed his companions of it. The dream was that he and his companions were entering the sacred house of Allah in safety from their enemies, with some of them having shaved their heads and some having only trimmed their hair, indicating the completion of their acts of pilgrimage. O believers! Allah knows some advantages that you did not know of, and so instead of making the dream a reality by letting you enter Makkah that year, He will give you a victory in the near future i.e.…
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s ever possessed of such an attribute, and among the things He knows is that they are worthy of it. [48:27] Verily God has fulfilled the vision for His Messenger in all truth: The Messenger of God (s) saw in his sleep, in the year of al-Hudaybiyya before his departure [from Medina], that he would enter Mecca together with his Companions safely, whereafter they would shave [completely] or shorten [their hair]. 4 He informed his Companions of this and they rejoiced.…
Open in library →هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَىٰ وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَكَفَىٰ بِاللَّهِ شَهِيدًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
28. Allah is the one who sent His Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) with a clear message and a true religion: the religion of Islam, so that He may make it prevail over all its opposing religions. Allah has testified to that, and He is sufficient as a witness.
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, a near victory, namely, the conquest of Khaybar — the vision was fulfilled in the following year. [48:28] It is He Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, that He may make it, that is, the religion of truth, prevail over all religion, over all the other religions. And God suffices as witness, to the fadt that you have been sent with what has been mentioned, as God, exalted be He, says:
Open in library →مُّحَمَّدٌ رَّسُولُ اللَّهِ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ أَشِدَّاءُ عَلَى الْكُفَّارِ رُحَمَاءُ بَيْنَهُمْ تَرَاهُمْ رُكَّعًا سُجَّدًا يَبْتَغُونَ فَضْلًا مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَرِضْوَانًا سِيمَاهُمْ فِي وُجُوهِهِم مِّنْ أَثَرِ السُّجُودِ ذَٰلِكَ مَثَلُهُمْ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ وَمَثَلُهُمْ فِي الْإِنجِيلِ كَزَرْعٍ أَخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ فَآزَرَهُ فَاسْتَغْلَظَ فَاسْتَوَىٰ عَلَىٰ سُوقِهِ يُعْجِبُ الزُّرَّاعَ لِيَغِيظَ بِهِمُ الْكُفَّارَ وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ مِنْهُم مَّغْفِرَةً وَأَجْرًا عَظِيمًا
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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary
29. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and his companions are strict against the combatant disbelievers and merciful, affectionate and friendly among themselves. O onlooker! You will see them bowing and prostrating, seeking from Allah that He grace them with forgiveness, a generous reward and that He becomes pleased with them. Their mark is on their faces as a result of prostrating in obedience to Allah. That is how they have been described by the Torah: the book that was revealed to Moses (peace be upon him).…
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ness, to the fadt that you have been sent with what has been mentioned, as God, exalted be He, says: [48:29] Muhammad (the subjedt) is the Messenger of God (its predicate) and those who are with him, that is, his Companions from among the believers ( wa’lladhina maahu, [another] subjedt, the predicate of which [is the following, ashiddau ]) are hard, tough, againSt the disbelievers, showing them no mercy [but], merciful among themselves (ruhamau is a second predicate [of wa’lladhina maahu, ‘and those who are with him’]), that is to say, they show mutual sympathy and affedtion for one anoth…
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