And when the supplication may not be answered, he said - giving him good news that there is nothing between his supplication and its answer except his saying; and confirming that good news by the command to inform of it: "And say"; meaning: to your allies; and your enemies: "The truth has come"; and it is all that my Lord has commanded me with; and has revealed to me; "and falsehood has perished"; meaning: it has diminished; and become void; and perished; "falsehood"; and it is all that contradicts it; then he explained its demise by saying: "Indeed, falsehood was"; in itself; by its nature; and disposition; "perishing"; a decree decreed by Allah (glorified and exalted is He) from eternity; Al-Bukhari narrated in the tafsir and others from Ibn Mas'ud - may Allah be pleased with him - (p-497) he said: "The Prophet - blessings and peace be upon him and his family - entered and around the Ka'bah were sixty and three hundred idols; and he began to strike them with a stick in his hand; and he said: 'The truth has come and falsehood has perished; indeed, falsehood was perishing' 'The truth has come and what falsehood initiates and what it returns' [Saba: 49]".