48:1  We have opened the way for you to a clear victory

48:2  That God may forgive you your previous and later transgressions, complete His grace upon you and guide you on a straight path

48:3  That God may help you to a mighty victory.

48:4  It is He who sent down tranquility into the hearts of the believers that they would add faith to their faith. To God belong the forces of the heavens and Earth. God is All-Knowing and All-Wise.

48:5  He will admit the believing men and the believing women to Gardens with rivers flowing through them to remain there eternally and to remove their offenses. That, with God, is a great triumph

48:6  And He will punish the hypocrite men and hypocrite women, and the idolater men and idolater women, those who harbor evil thoughts about God. They will suffer an evil turn of fate; God is angry with them, has rejected them, and has prepared Hell for them. What a miserable destination.

48:7  And to God belongs the forces of heavens and Earth. God is Revered and All-Wise.

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

48:9  That you may believe in God and His Messenger, and honor Him, revere Him and to praise His limitless glory morning and evening.

48:10  Those who pledge allegiance to you [Prophet], are actually pledging allegiance to God. God’s hand is placed over theirs. Whoever breaks his pledge breaks it to his own detriment. And whoever fulfills his pledge with God, He will give him a great reward.

48:11  The Dessert-Arabs who stayed behind [when you went to battle] will say to you, "We were preoccupied with our properties and our families, so ask forgiveness for us." They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say, "If God intended harm for you or intended benefit, who can intervene for you? God is fully aware of what you do.

48:12  But you thought that the Messenger and the believers will never return to their families, ever, and this seemed fine to your hearts. You harbored evil thoughts, and were corrupt people."

48:13  For those who do not believe in God and His Messenger, We have prepared a blazing Fire

48:14  To God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the Earth. He forgives whom He wills and punishes whom He wills. And ever is God is the Most Forgiving, the Mercy Giver.

48:15  As soon as you are about to depart on a war that promises gains, those who [previously] stayed behind will say, "Allow us to go with you". They wish to alter the Words of God. Say: "You may not go with us: God has said so before." They will say, "You envy us". How little they understand.

48:16  Say to those Dessert-Arabs who stayed behind, "Eventually, you will be called to face people of great military might; you will either have to fight them, or they will submit to God’s will. If you obey, God will give you a good 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, the lame or the ill. God will admit anyone who obeys Him and His Messenger to Gardens with rivers flowing through them; But He will painfully punish anyone who turns away.

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

48:19  and abundant gains to capture. God is the Revered and All-Wise.

48:20  God has promised you abundant future gains. He has expedited this for you [victory], and has held hostile people‘s hands back from you; that it may be a sign for the believers, and that He may guide you to a straight path.

48:21  And there are yet other gains to come. God has already covered for you. God is Able to do all things.

48:22  If the unbelievers had fought you, they would have turned back and fled. Then they will find neither a protector nor a helper.

48:23  Such is God’s way which is ongoing. You will never find any change in God’s way.

48:24  It is He who held their hands from you and your hands from them, in the Makah valley, after He gave you the upper hand over them. God is ever seeing of what you do.

48:25  It is they who denied the truth, and barred you from the Sacred House, and prevented the offering from reaching its destination. Were it not for some believing men and believing women, whom you did not know, you were about to hurt them, and become unknowingly guilty. Thus God admits into His mercy whomever He wills. Had the unbelievers been clearly distinguishable, We would have inflicted on them a painful punishment.

48:26  The unbelievers had filled their hearts with fury, the fury of ignorance. But God sent down His tranquility on His Messenger and the believers, and made binding on them the word of God consciousness, to which they were most entitled and most deserving. God is Knowing of all things.

48:27  God has fulfilled His Messenger’s vision in Truth: “You will enter the Sacred House, God willing, in safety, with your heads shaved or hair shortened, with no fear. He knew what you did not know, and has granted you besides this, a victory soon to come.

48:28  It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of Truth, to prevail over all religions. God suffices as a Witness.

48:29  Muhammad the Messenger of God and those with him are tough on the unbelievers, yet compassionate to one another. You see them kneeling and bowing down, seeking God’s blessings and His approval. Their faces bear the mark of their prostrations. Such is their example in the Torah. And their description in the Gospel is like a plant that sprouts, becoming strong, grows thick, and rises on its stem to the delight of the farmer. Through them God infuriates the unbelievers. God has promised forgiveness and a great reward to those among them, who believe and do good deeds.