54. Rükû ركوع ٥٤

[Prophet], remember when you left your home at dawn to assign battle positions to the believers: God hears and knows everything.

Remember when two groups of you were about to lose heart and God protected them- let the believers put their trust in God-

God helped you at Badr when you were very weak. Be mindful of God, so that you may be grateful.

Remember when you said to the believers, ‘Will you be satisfied if your Lord reinforces you by send-ing down three thousand angels?

Well, if you are steadfast and mindful of God, your Lord will reinforce you with five thousand swooping angels if the enemy should suddenly attack you!’ and God arranged it so,

as a message of hope for you [believers] to put your hearts at rest- help comes only from God, the Mighty, the Wise-

and in order to cut off the flanks of the disbelievers’ army and frustrate them, to make them withdraw in total defeat.

Whether God relents towards them or punishes them is not for you [Prophet] to decide: they are wrongdoers.

Everything in the heavens and earth belongs to God. He forgives whoever He will and punishes whoever He will: God is most forgiving and merciful.