allah has promised that you take many spoils. he has hastened this to you, and restrained the hands of people from you so that he makes it a sign to the believers and to guide you on a straight path. (20)

and there were (other spoils) which you were unable to take. allah has encompassed it already, allah is powerful over all things. (21)

if the unbelievers had fought you they would have been put to flight, and found none to protect or help them. (22)

such is the way of allah in days gone by, and you shall find no change in the ways of allah. (23)

it was he who restrained their hands from you and your hands from them in the hollow (hudaibiah) of mecca after he had given you victory over them. allah sees the things you do. (24)

they are those who disbelieved and barred you from the holy mosque and the offering detained so as not to reach its place of sacrifice if it had not been for certain believing men and certain believing women whom you did not know, you might have trampled upon them, and so sin reached you because of (killing) them while you did not know. in order that allah admits into his mercy whom he will, had they (the believers) been easy to distinguish, we would have punished the unbelievers among them with a painful punishment. (25)

and when the unbelievers established in their hearts fierce bigotry, the fierce bigotry of ignorance, allah sent down his tranquility on his messenger and the believers and firmly fastened to them the word of 'taqwa' (there is no god except allah, and muhammad is his messenger, as it is the cause of righteousness) to which they have better right and are worthy of it. allah has knowledge of all things. (26)

indeed, allah, in truth, has realized his messenger's vision. you shall enter the sacred mosque in security if allah wills, with hair shaven or cut short and without fear. he knew what you did not know, and granted you a near victory. (27)

it is he who has sent his messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, so that he exalts it above all other religions. allah is the sufficient witness. (28)

muhammad is the messenger of allah. those who are with him are harsh against the unbelievers but merciful to one another. you see them bow and prostrate themselves seeking the bounty and pleasure of allah. their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration. that is their likeness in the torah and their likeness in the gospel, as the seed which puts forth its shoot and strengthens it, so that it grows stout and rises straight upon its stalk, delighting the sowers, and through them he enrages the unbelievers. allah has promised those of them who believe and do good deeds, forgiveness and a great wage. (29)