48. Al-Fath (Victory) [29 verses]

Medina Period 111

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

سُنَّةَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلُ ...

48: 23. (Such has been) the practice. (Approved) of Allah already in the past:

C4901. Cf. 33:62.

... وَلَن تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ تَبْدِيلًا ﴿٢٣﴾

no change wilt thou find in the practice (approved) of Allah.

Asad’s Version:

(48:23) such being God's way which has ever obtained in the past - and never wilt thou find any change in God's way. 27

[[ Asad’s note - 27 This reference to "God's way" (sunnat Allah) is twofold: on the one hand, "you are bound to rise high if you are [truly] believers" (3:139), and, on the other, "God does not change men's condition unless they change their inner selves" (13:11), in both the positive and negative connotations of the concept of "change".]]