Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

and those of the faithful who follow you.
65 O Prophet!
Urge on the faithful to fight:
If there be twenty patient men among you,
they shall overcome two hundred;
and if there be a hundred of you,
they shall overcome a thousand of the faithless,
for they are a lot who do not understand.
66 Now Allah has lightened your burden,
knowing that there is weakness in you.
So if there be a hundred patient men among you,
they shall overcome two hundred;
and if there be a thousand,
they shall overcome two thousand,
by Allah’s leave;
and Allah is with the patient.
67 A prophet may not take captives
until he has thoroughly decimated [the enemy]
in the land.
You desire the transitory gains of this world,
while Allah desires [for you]
[the reward of] the Hereafter,
and Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.
68 Had it not been for a prior decree of Allah,
surely there would have befallen you
a great punishment for what you took.
69 Avail yourselves of the spoils you have taken
as lawful and good,
and be wary of Allah.
Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 29 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=283