48:1  Indeed, We have granted you a clear conquest,

48:2  so that God may forgive your former sins as well as the latter ones, and to perfect His blessings upon you and guide you to a straight path,

48:3  and for God to support you with an honourable victory.

48:4  He is the One who brought down tranquillity into the hearts of the believers so that they would increase in faith on top of their own faith. To God belong the soldiers of the heavens and the earth. God is Knowledgeable, Wise.

48:5  He will admit the believing men and women into Gardens beneath which rivers flow. Therein, they shall permanently remain, and He will wipe out their bad deeds. That is a great triumph with God.

48:6  And He will punish the hypocrite men and hypocrite women, and the men and women who commit shirk and who harbour bad thoughts about God. They will suffer an evil turn of fate. God is angry with them; He cursed them and has prepared Hell for them. What a miserable destination!

48:7  To God belong the soldiers of the heavens and the earth. God is Dignified, Wise.

48:8  We have sent you as a witness, a bearer of good news and a warner,

48:9  so that you shall all believe in God and His messenger, and honour Him, and respect Him, and glorify Him in the morning and the evening.

48:10  Those who pledge allegiance to you are in fact pledging allegiance to God. God's hand is over their hands. The one who breaks the pledge only breaks it to his own detriment. As for the one who fulfils the pledge God took from him, He will grant him a great reward.

48:11  The Arabs who lagged behind will say to you, "We were preoccupied with our money and our families, so ask forgiveness for us." They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say, "Who possesses for you any power against God if He willed harm to befall you or He willed benefit to come to you?" Rather, God is All-Aware of what you do.

48:12  But no, you thought that the messenger and the believers would never make it back to their families. Such a thought was most appealing to your hearts! You harboured evil thoughts, and you were a wasted people.

48:13  With regards to whoever does not believe in God and His messenger, We have prepared for the disbelievers a Blaze.

48:14  To God belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. He forgives whom He wills and punishes whom He wills. God is Forgiver, Merciful.

48:15  When you go forth to collect spoils, those who lagged behind will say, "Let us follow you." They wish to alter God's Words. Say, "You may not follow us. Thus did God say before." They will then say, "No, you just envy us." Rather, it is but little that they understand!

48:16  Say to the Arabs who lagged behind, "You will be called up against a people of great might whom you must fight unless they submit. If you obey, God will grant you a fine reward, but if you turn away as you turned away before, He will punish you with a painful punishment."

48:17  There is no blame on the blind, nor is there blame on the cripple, nor is there blame on the sick. Whoever obeys God and His messenger, He will admit him into Gardens beneath which rivers flow. And whoever turns away, He will punish him with a painful punishment.

48:18  God was pleased with the believers when they pledged allegiance to you under the tree. He knew what was in their hearts, and so He brought down tranquillity upon them and rewarded them with an imminent conquest,

48:19  as well as numerous spoils for them to take. God is Dignified, Wise.

48:20  God has promised you numerous spoils that you will take. He has hastened this for you and restrained people's hands against you so that it may be a sign for the believers, and so that He may guide you to a straight path.

48:21  There were also others that you were not able to attain and which God has encompassed. God is Capable of all things.

48:22  Had the disbelievers fought you, they would have turned their backs, and then they would not have found an ally or supporter.

48:23  Such is the Sunna of God that has passed away before, and you will find that there is no substitute for the Sunna of God.

48:24  He is the One who withheld their hands against you and your hands against them inside Mecca after He made you victorious over them. God is Seer of what you do.

48:25  They are the ones who disbelieved and repelled you from the Masjid Al-Haram and with the offerings being prevented from reaching their destination. Had it not been for some believing men and believing women whom you did not know, you may have trampled them underfoot, thereby incurring guilt without knowledge. God thus admits into His mercy whom He wills. If they had become separated, We would have punished the disbelievers among them with a painful punishment.

48:26  When those who disbelieved filled their hearts with rage, the rage of the days of ignorance, God brought down His tranquillity upon His messenger and upon the believers and bound them to the word of reverence. They had more right to it, and were worthy of it. God is Knowledgeable of all things.

48:27  God has fulfilled His messenger's vision truthfully: "You shall enter the Masjid Al-Haram God willing secure with your head's hair shaved and shortened, and with no fear. He knew what you did not know, and so He has granted besides this an imminent conquest."

48:28  He is the One who sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth to make it manifest over all other religions, and God suffices as a Witness.

48:29  Muhammad, the messenger of God, and those with him are stern with the disbelievers and merciful amongst one another. You see them bowing and prostrating, seeking favour from God and consent. Their traits are evident in their faces, displaying the signs of submission and humility. Such is their example in the Torah. And their example in the Injeel is like a plant that sprung its shoots and became stronger and thicker until it stood up straight upon its stalk, thus pleasing the farmers and enraging the disbelievers. God promises those among them who believe and do good deeds forgiveness and a great reward.