Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)
23. It is the law of Allah which hath taken course aforetime. Thou wilt not find for the law of Allah aught of power to change.
24. And He it is Who hath withheld men’s hands from you, and hath withheld your hands from them, in the valley of Mecca, after He had made you victors over them. Allah is Seer of what ye do.
25. These it was who disbelieved and debarred you from the Inviolable Place of Worship, and debarred the offering from reaching its goal. And if it had not been for believing men and believing women, whom ye know not — lest ye should tread them under foot and thus incur guilt for them unknowingly; that Allah might bring into His mercy whom He will — If (the believers and the disbelievers) had been clearly separated We verily had punished those of them who disbelieved with painful punishment.
26. When those who disbelieve had set up in their hearts zealotry, the zealotry of the Age of Ignorance, then Allah sent down His peace of reassurance upon His messenger and upon the believers and imposed on them the word of self-restraint, for they were worthy of it and meet, for it. And Allah is Aware of all things.
27. Allah hath fulfilled the vision 1 for His messenger in very truth. Ye shall indeed enter the Inviolable Place of Worship, if Allah will, secure, (having your hair) shaven and cut, not fearing. But He knoweth that which ye know not, and hath given you a near victory beforehand.
28. He it is Who hath sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may cause it to prevail over all religion. And Allah sufficeth as a witness.
29. Muḥammad is the messenger of Allah. And those
1 The Prophet had had a vision that he was entering the Sanctuary at Mecca in seace and safety.
