8. Surah Al Anfal
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
يِا
أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ
آمَنُواْ إَن
تَتَّقُواْ
اللّهَ يَجْعَل
لَّكُمْ فُرْقَاناً...
8: 29. O ye who believe!
if ye fear Allah, He will grant you a criterion (to judge between right and wrong),
The battle of Badr is called the Furqan in Muslim theology, because it was the first trial of strength by battle, in Islam, between the powers of good and evil. Evil was defeated, and those who had real faith were tested and sorted out from those who had not faith enough to follow the banner of Faith.
...وَيُكَفِّرْ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ...
remove from you (all) evil (that may afflict) you,
and forgive you:
...وَاللّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ ﴿٢٩﴾
for Allah is the Lord of grace unbounded.
Asad’s Version:
8: 29 O you who have attained to faith! If you remain conscious of God, He will endow you with a standard by which to discern the true from the false, and will efface your bad deeds, and will forgive you your sins: for God is limitless in His great bounty.