وَلَا يَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا سَبَقُوا إِنَّهُمْ لَا يُعْجِزُونَ
Let the faithless not suppose that they have outmanoeuvred [Allah]. Indeed, they cannot frustrate [His power].
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 8:59
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 8:59] (see commentary for verse 57)
Ali Muhammad Fazil Chinoy Commentary
Commentary on Quran 8:59-64
1. Chance given to infidels to rectify, must not lead them to believe they have defeated Divine Designs. 2. Maintenance of a standing army, duly financed is necessary to produce awe in enemy (although Divine Help is really active and effective) and all what you spend for the sake of God will not be voided. 3. Do not necessarily pursue fighting course. If they sue for peace you also give in, and if they play a game, trust in God who’s Help is real as you have seen in Badr. this for the Prophet as a Divine Light who alone in such time is empowered to make a crusade, and God has power to control human hearts, whereby without warning, he can subdue hearts of the enemies who cannot otherwise be won over. Islam is not a militant faith in the world of trial, though it has to fight in self-defence under sanction of Divine Light.