The Spoils of War
8. Al-Anfāl
الأنفال

Al Anfāl (The Spoils of War)

ٱلْأَنْفَال

8:42
8:42

ʾidh ʾantum bi-l-ʿudwati d-dunyā wa-hum bi-l-ʿudwati l-quṣwā wa-r-rakbu ʾasfala minkum wa-law tawāʿadtum la-khtalaftum l-mīʿādi wa-lākin li-yaqḍiya llāhu ʾamran kāna mafʿūlan li-yahlika man halaka ʿan bayyinatin wa-yaḥyā man ḥayya ʿan bayyinatin wa-ʾinna llāha la-samīʿun ʿalīmun

When you were on the nearer side, and they on the farther side, while the caravan was below you, and had you agreed together on an encounter, you would have certainly failed to keep the tryst, but in order that Allah may carry through a matter that was bound to be fulfilled, so that he who perishes might perish by a manifest proof, and he who lives may live on by a manifest proof, and Allah is indeed all-hearing, all-knowing.

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