And when He forbade them from what had preceded; and He gave them glad tidings; He comforted them; and He enlightened them with His saying: "If a wound should touch you"; meaning: a calamity; by their being granted victory over you today; "then indeed the people have been touched"; meaning: those who have strength in the attempt as you have known; meaning: on the day of 'Uhud' itself; and on the day of 'Badr'; "a wound like it"; meaning: in its absolute nature a wound; even if it was less than your wound on the day of 'Uhud'; and more than it on the day of 'Badr'; on the condition that just as He granted them victory - after they were struck and harmed on the day of Badr with the defeat that was followed by no weakness - by killing like those who were killed among you; and capturing like you; and on the day of 'Uhud'; by killing and defeat; at the beginning of the day; while they were His enemies; so it is fitting that He grants you victory after your weakness; and you are His allies; just as their weakness did not weaken them; while they were upon falsehood; so do not weaken yourselves; while you are upon the truth; hoping from Allah what they do not hope; for indeed We granted you victory over them one day and We granted them victory over you another day; "and those are the days"; and when He alerted to their greatness with the tool of distance; and they only become great by the greatness of their conditions; He mentioned the condition alerted to; with His saying: "We alternate them among the people"; meaning: by raising whom We will at one time; and lowering him at another time.

And when the decree was: "to grant victory to the one who had the dominion; so that everyone knows that the matter is ours without a partner; nor a rival"; He added to it His saying: "and so that Allah may know"; meaning: the All-Encompassing of all perfection; "those who have believed"; meaning: by affirming the claim of faith; with the intention of striving; so He honors them; and the meaning of "so that He may know"; is that He does the action of one who wishes to know that; by bringing forth what He knows in the unseen to the realm of testimony; to establish the proof against those who act upon what is commonly recognized among people; "and to take from you witnesses"; meaning: by making their killing the essence of life; which is martyrdom; there is no absence in it; so He - glorified and exalted is He - increases in honoring them for what they were truthful in their faith; by not having them be witnesses against them at all; by a trial in their graves; nor otherwise; nor do they forget with fear; nor shock; nor otherwise; for indeed Allah loves the believers; and so that He may know those who have wronged; and to obliterate from them the people of denial and transgression; "and Allah"; meaning: the Most High King; "does not love the wrongdoers"; meaning: those whose actions contradict their words; so He does not take them as witnesses; rather He makes their killing the beginning of their disappointment; and their punishment; and in it is a glad tidings in encouragement that He does not act with the disbelievers as the one who loves; so that they do not grieve over what has befallen them; and a warning in discipline that they were not taken except by their neglecting the gap that He commanded them to uphold; and Allah commanded it in ease and hardship; by preserving it; and they rushed towards the spoils before they finished with the enemy; and the verse is from the intertwining: "The affirmation of taking first indicates the negation of it second; and the affirmation of dislike second indicates the love first."