Revelation place: Medina
Revelation order: 88
Number of verses: 75
Revealed 2A.H. after the first battle of “Badr” between the Muslim believers and The Mecca Quraysh disbelievers where the ill-equipped few Muslims defeated the disbelievers and established Islam as a serious power. This chapter also contains laws and guidance, to add that fighting should not be for spoils of war but for just cause, victory is achieved by relying on Allah and His Messenger, laws regarding war and peace, and dealing with the rules of the Muslim community’s relationship with others. .
I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the condemned.
With the name of Allah, the gracious the merciful.
1- They ask you (Muhammed) about the spoils (of war), say the spoils (decision of allocation) is for Allah and His messenger, be pious to Allah and repair that which is between you (amend do not quarrel), and obey Allah and His messenger, if you are believers
2- Rather the believers are those who when the name of Allah is mentioned, their hearts become awe fearful, and when His verses is recited upon them it increases them in faith, and upon their God they rely
3- Those who establish prayers and from what We provided them they spend
4- Those are the true believers (At high degree of faith), for them are degrees at their God and forgiveness and generous provision
5- The like as had brought you out your God from your home (From Medina to battel the disbelievers) with the truth, and indeed a group of the believers were hateful (fearful of battel)
6- Arguing with you about the truth from after it became clear to them, as if they were been driven to death while looking (Invadable visible death in battel due to the unfavorable odds the face)
7- And as promised you your God one of two groups it is for you (When you went on expedition), and you wished that the other than the forked group (battel ready) to be for you (You wished to face the weaker group), but Allah wants to right the right with His word (Promise of triumph against the odds of the battel ready group), and cutoff the trace of the disbelievers (eliminate followers or remnants)
8- To right the right and halt the haltable even if hated it the criminals
9- As they cry out (for help) to your God, so He responds to you “Indeed I will reinforce you with a thousand angels forward (In front of you)
10- And did not make it Allah by good tiding and to assure with it their hearts, and the victory is not but from Allah, indeed Allah is Mighty Wise
11- And as membraned (enveloped, covered) you the slumber, as a calm from Him, and bring down from the sky water to purify you with it, and let go away from you the filth of Satan, and tighten on your hearts and firm with it your feet.
12- As revealed your God to the angels “Indeed I am with you” so firm those who had believed, I will cast in the hearts of those who disbelieved terror, so hit upon the necks (The head to kill or unbalance them) and hit among them every fingertip (To disable hands fighting with swords, spear and arrows)
13- That is because they split away (oppose) from Allah and His Messenger, and whoever split away from Allah and His Messenger, so indeed Allah is severe in torment
14- That is for you so taste it (hitting the disbeliever’s heads and fingertips), and indeed for the disbelievers the torment of the fire
15- Oh, you have believed when you meet the disbelievers crawling (Like one marching united block), do not turn to them your back (Face them do not back down and run away)
16- And whoever turns their back that day, except deviating to fight (maneuvering) or siding with a company, so had turned back with anger from Allah, and his refuge is Gehenna and miserable fate
17- And you did not kill them, but Allah killed them, and you did not throw as you threw but Allah threw (Victory from Allah), and to trial the believers from Him a good trial (Trial of good performance in battle lead to increased faith), indeed Allah is Hearing Knowing
18- That is indeed Allah debilitates the plot of the disbelievers
19- If you (The believers and disbelievers) had the opening (prayer during battle seeking victory), so had come to you (Muslims) the conquest, and if you cease (addressing the disbelievers to cease hostility to the Messenger and the believers) it is better for you, and if you return (To hostility) We will return, and will not avail away from you, your company (numbers) anything, even if it increased, and indeed Allah is with the believers
20- Oh, you have believed obey Allah and His Messenger and do not turn away from him while you hear (You now aware and have knowledge of Allah’s revelations)
21- And do not be like those who said “We heard but they do not hear” (They do not follow)
22- Indeed, the worst pounders (Creatures who walks, humans and animals) at Allah, are the deaf and dumb those who do not reason (Humans who lost the hearing of guidance, are worse than animals)
23- And had Allah known in them any good (No intension or actions in their choices to believe) He would have made them hear, and even if He made them hear they would have turned away while siding (opposing)
24- Oh, you have believed, respond to Allah and His Messenger when he calls you to what gives you life (Good for you), and know that Allah divert between the one and his heart (Gate the hearts, offer guidance, intervene in the outcome of ones desires, as He wills), and to Him you will be crammed
25- And be pious (Pay attention and fend yourself early on) against a trial that will not strikes the wrongdoers exclusively (It will affect the wrongdoers, the no doers, and the oppressed), and know that Allah is severe in torment
26- And remember as you were few and weak (Oppressed, reckoned) in the land, fearing that people will snatch you, so He sheltered you and supported you by His victory, and provided you with the goods, that you may (should) be thankful
27- Oh, you have believed, do not betray Allah and The Messenger, and betray your trust, while you know (Deliberately)
28- And know that your wealth and your children are but a trial, and indeed Allah has with Him a great reward
29- Oh, you have believed, if you become pious to Allah, He will make for you a separator (Between true and falsehood) and remove you bad deeds (the minor one) and forgive for you, and Allah is the possessor of the great favors
30- And as plotted for you those who disbelieved to restrain you or kill you or to expel you, and they plot (To unite and kill the prophet ), and Allah plot, and Allah is the best of plotters
31- And as recited upon them our serves the said “We heard, and if we will we would say the like of that, that is but the legends of the beginners (Tales of the ancients)
32- And as they said “ O Allah, if that was the truth from You, so rain down upon us stones from the sky, or bring to us a painful torment”
33- And was not for Allah to torment them while you are in them, and was not for Allah to torment them while they are seeking forgiveness.
34- And what was not for them, not to torment them Allah, while they are obstructing (The Muslim from pilgrimage) to the secret Mosque, and they were not its guardian, indeed its guardians are but the pious, but most of them do not know (The holiness of this Mosque to pray to Allah)
35- And it was not their prayers at the House except whistling and hand clapping, so taste the torment for what you disbelieved
36- Indeed, those who disbelieved spend their wealth to block from the path, so they will spend it and it will be upon them regret then they will be overcome, and those who disbelieved to Gehenna will be crammed
37- To distinguish Allah the wicked from the good, and make the wicked some of them upon others, then heap them all together and put them in Gehenna, those are the losers
38- Say to those who disbelieved “if they cease, Will forgive to them what have past, and if they return, then have passed the way of the formers (Like what happened with the former disbelievers)
39- And fight them so it does not become a trial (Protect your faith, as the strong promotes and dictates their way) and the religion wholly (Of Arabia) becomes to Allah, so if the cease, so indeed Allah with what they do is Seeing
40- And if they guarded (Guarded their own way), so know that Allah is your guardian, the blessed (best) guardian and blessed Triumpher
41- And know what you obtain (In booty) from anything, then indeed to Allah one fifth (The balance on the fighters) and to the Messenger and to near relatives and the orphans and the needy, and the wayfarer (stranded), if you have believed in Allah and what We had brought down on Our Servant on the day of separation (Truth from falsehood), the day when the two groups (on Badr the believers and disbelievers in battel) met, and Allah upon everything capable
42- As you were by the near side (Of the Medina) of the valley, and they (disbeliever army) by the farther side of the valley (Mecca Side), and the caravan (Disbelievers trading caravan) was lower you (Sea direction), and if you were to promised to meet, you would have differed the appointments (Failed to keep the promise coming from all these directions e.g. Some come late others different location), but so that Allah accomplish a matter that was done (Destined to happen), to perish whom had perished ( Some disbelievers will be killed in battel and who survived is already dead in disbelief) upon clear evidence (As the disbelievers has now been notified to believe and they choose to fight it), and to live whom had lived upon evidence (The believers are alive whether survived or were killed in battel), and indeed Allah is Hearing Knowing
43- As Allah show them to you (Muhammed) in your dream as few (As made to appears in the eyes of the believer soldiers), and would have showed them as many (The real count in the eyes of the believer soldiers) they would have failed and disputed in the matter (Of whether to fight or not), but Allah saved (From failure and dispute), He is indeed Knowing of that within the chest (Heart reactions, fear, courage etc..)
44- And as He show them as to you met in your eyes as few, and made you appear fewer (Than your real count) in their eyes (Allah belittled both parties to encourage them to battel) to accomplish a matter that was done, to Allah return the matters (All final matters up to Allah will including victory and defeat)
45- Oh, you have believed if you meet a unit (military), so stand firm, and remember Allah much, so that you may be successful
46- And obey Allah and His messenger, and do not dispute thus loose, and go away your wind (Your strength holding you together, so you do not vanish), and be patient, indeed Allah is with patient
47- And do not be like those who left their homes arrogantly ungrateful and show off to the people (Ungrateful that their trading craven survived, but still they wanted to go ahead with battel to show off) and to obstruct against Allah’s path, and Allah by what they do is encompassing
48- And as ornamented to them Satan their doing (In deceit), and Said “ No one can overcome you today among the people, and indeed I am a protector for you” and when the tow groups sighted each other he turned back on his heels, and said “I am innocent of you, indeed I see what you do not see, indeed I fear Allah” and Allah is sever in torment
49- As say the hypocrites and those whom in their hearts sickness “Deluded those (The believers due to victory) their religion” (that is what their hypocrisy dictates to them), and whomever rely on Allah, then indeed Allah is Might and Wise
50- And if you could see, as the angels collects those who disbelieved while striking their faces and their backs and taste the torment of the fire
51- That is for what your hands have put forth, and indeed Allah is not unjust to the servants
52- The like the custom of the folks of Pharoah and those from before them, they disbelieved in the signs of Allah (Surrounding nature signs to all), so took them Allah by their sins, indeed Allah is powerful, server in punishment
53- That is because Allah will not change a favor He favored upon folks, until they change what is within themselves (From faith to disbelief, so they deserve punishment), and indeed Allah is Hearing seeing
54- The like the custom of the folks of Pharoah and those from before them they denied our signs (Bestowed upon them specifically),so We perished them with their bad deed, and drowned the folks of Pharoah, and all were wrongdoers. (Made them an example despite their might)
55- Indeed, the worst pounders (Creatures who walk, humans and animals) at Allah, those who disbelieved, as they do not believe (The disbeliever does not use their mind to prioritize existence)
56- The ones that you had made a treaty among them (Jew Beni Qurayza), but they demolish their pledge every time and they do not fear Allah
57- And if you would overcome them so stray them from behind (Make them an example so no one follows their path against you), that perhaps they remember (What happened and do not try again)
58- And if you fear a folks betrayal, so repudiate them and be on even ground (Inform them of your intention and void the treaty with them), indeed Allah loves not the betrayals
59- And let not those who disbelieved count they had outrun (escaped), indeed they cannot unable (Still in Allah’s grip and will be held accountable)
60- And prepare for them whatever you are able of power and harnessed horses (Power that can spread forward), by which you terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others who are inferior from them (in power, values, faith), you do not know them, Allah knows them, and whatever you spend from anything in the path of Allah shall ped paid back in full, and you will not be wronged
61- And if they winged (inclined) to peace, so wing to it and rely upon Allah, indeed He is The Hearing The Knowing
62- And if they want to deceive you, then sufficient for you is Allah, He is Who took by your hand (supported) you and the believers
63- And He familiarized between their hearts (In amiability between the different believers tribes), and had you spent all what in the earth, you would not have familiarized between their hearts, but Allah familiarized between them as He is Might Wise
64- Oh, prophet sufficient for your Allah and whoever followed you among the believers
65- Oh, prophet, urge the believers to fight, if there are among you twenty patients, they will overcome two hundred, and if there are among you one hundred, they will overcome one thousand from among those who disbelieved, because they are folks who do not understand (That the afterlife is lasting abode)
66- Now (From now on), Allah has lightened (The burden) upon you, and He knows in you weakness (To come), so if there are among you one hundred patients, they will overcome two hundred, and if there are among you one thousand, they will overcome two thousand, by Allah’s permission, and Allah is with the patients
67- It was not for a prophet to be for him captives (Of war), until he thickens (control, power, authority) in the land (Battel fiercely for Allah’s path, not just for the purpose to acquire wordily valuable captives of war), you want the lure of this world, and Allah wants the hereafter (For you), and Allah Mighty Wise
68- If not for a decree from Allah had preceded, then would have touched you (believers) in what you took (Of captives of war) great torment (No fault of what captive you took before Allah’s decree)
69- So, spend from what you have taken as booty, lawful and good, and be pious to Allah, indeed He is Forgiving Merciful
70- Oh, prophet say to whoever in your hands of captives, “If Allah knows what in your hearts are good, He will bring you better than that was taken from you and forgives you” and Allah is Forgiving Merciful
71- And if they want to betrayal you (Claiming they will bring ransom and return), they had betrayed Allah from before so He empowered you upon them (Do not agree on what they want), and Allah is Knowing Wise
72- Indeed, those who believed and migrated and strived with their wealth and their selves in the path of Allah, and those who gave shelter and helped, those are allies to one another, and those who believed and did not migrate, is not for you their guardianship, until they migrate, and if they seek you for help in the religion, then you must help them, except for folks that between you and them a treaty, and Allah with what you do is Seeing
73- And those who disbelieved some of them are allies to some, if you do not do so (unit on faith), it will be a trial (Oppression, exploitation) in the land and great corruption
74- And those who believed and migrated and strived in the path of Allah, and those who sheltered and helped, those are the true believers, for them forgiveness and generous provision
75- And those who believed from after, and migrated and strived with you, so they are of you, and those of (First blood line) relation is more entitled in the book of Allah (In inheritance),and indeed Allah with everything is Knowing
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