Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)

not meet, but when the truce came and war laid down its burdens and people felt safe one with another, then they met and indulged in conversation and discussion. And no man spoke of Al-Islâm to another but the latter espoused it, so that there entered Al-Islâm in those two years (i.e. between Al-Ḥudeybîyeh and the breaking of the truce by Qureysh) as many as all those who had entered it before, or more.”¹

The date of revelation is the sixth year of the Hijrah.

Victory

1. Lo! We have given th.ee (O Muhammad) a signal victory,

2. That Allah may forgive tnee of thy sin that which is past and that which is to come, and may perfect His favour unto thee, and may guide thee on a right path,

3. And that Allah may help thee with strong help —

4. He it is Who sent down peace of reassurance into the hearts of the believers that they might add faith unto their faith. Allah’s are the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is ever Knower, Wise —

5. That He may bring the believing men and the believing women into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein tkey will abide, and may remit from them their evil deeds — That, in the sight of Allan, is the supreme triumph —

6. And may punish the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women, and the idolatrous men and the idolatrous women, who think an evil thought concerning Allah. For