The Spoils of War
8. Al-Anfāl
الأنفال
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وَإِذْ
يَعِدُكُمُ
اللَّهُ
إِحْدَى
الطَّائِفَتَيْنِ
أَنَّهَا
لَكُمْ
وَتَوَدُّونَ
أَنَّ
غَيْرَ
ذَاتِ
الشَّوْكَةِ
تَكُونُ
لَكُمْ
وَيُرِيدُ
اللَّهُ
أَن
يُحِقَّ
الْحَقَّ
بِكَلِمَاتِهِ
وَيَقْطَعَ
دَابِرَ
الْكَافِرِينَ
wa-ʾidh yaʿidukumu llāhu ʾiḥdā ṭ-ṭāʾifatayni ʾannahā lakum wa-tawaddūna ʾanna ghayra dhāti sh-shawkati takūnu lakum wa-yurīdu llāhu ʾan yuḥiqqa l-ḥaqqa bi-kalimātihī wa-yaqṭaʿa dābira l-kāfirīna
When Allah promised you [victory over] one of the two companies, [saying], ‘It is for you,’ you were eager that it should be the one that was unarmed. But Allah desires to confirm the truth with His words, and to root out the faithless,
— Ali Quli Qarai
Behold! Allah promised you one of the two (enemy) parties, that it should be yours: Ye wished that the one unarmed should be yours, but Allah willed to justify the Truth according to His words and to cut off the roots of the Unbelievers;-
