48. Al-Fath (Victory) [29 verses]
Medina Period 111
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
لَقَدْ
صَدَقَ
اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ
الرُّؤْيَا
بِالْحَقِّ
لَتَدْخُلُنَّ
الْمَسْجِدَ
الْحَرَامَ
إِن شَاء اللَّهُ
...
48: 27. Truly did Allah fulfil the vision for His Messenger:
Ye shall enter the Sacred Mosque, if Allah wills,
C4910. The Prophet had had a dream that he had entered the Sacred Mosque at Makkah, just before he decided on the journey which resulted in the Treaty of Hudaybiyah. By it he and his people could enter next year without the least molestation and in the full customary garb, with head shaved or hair cut short, and all the customary minor rites of pilgrimage.
...آمِنِينَ مُحَلِّقِينَ رُؤُوسَكُمْ وَمُقَصِّرِينَ لَا تَخَافُونَ ...
- with minds secure,
- heads shaved,
- hair cut short,
- and without fear.
...فَعَلِمَ مَا لَمْ تَعْلَمُوا فَجَعَلَ مِن دُونِ ذَلِكَ فَتْحًا قَرِيبًا ﴿٢٧﴾
For He knew what ye knew not, and He granted, besides this, a speedy victory.
C4911. See above, 48:18, and n. 4895.
هُوَ
الَّذِي
أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ
بِالْهُدَى
وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ
لِيُظْهِرَهُ
عَلَى الدِّينِ
كُلِّهِ ...
48: 28. It is He who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all religion:
...وَكَفَى بِاللَّهِ شَهِيدًا ﴿٢٨﴾
and enough is Allah for a Witness.
C4912. The divine disposition of events in the coming of Islam and its promulgation by the holy Prophet are themselves evidence of the truth of Islam and its all-reaching character; for there is nothing which it has not influenced.
Asad’s Version:
48:27
Indeed, God has shown the truth in His Apostle's true vision: 38 most certainly shall you enter the Inviolable House of Worship, if God so wills, in full security, with your heads shaved or your hair cut short," without any fear: for He has (always] known that which you yourselves could not know. 40 And He has ordained [for you], besides this, a victory soon to come. 41
48:28
He it is who has sent forth His Apostle with the [task of spreading] guidance and the religion of truth, to the end that He make it prevail over every [false] religion; and none can bear witness [to the truth] as God does. 42
[[Asad’s note - 42 Sc, "through the revelations which He grants to His prophets". See also 3:19 "the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [maris] self-surrender unto Him": from which it follows that any religion (in the widest sense of this term) which is not based on the above principle is, eo ipso, false. ]]