and lo god gave you the promise that one of the two hosts would fall to you and you would have liked to seize the less powerful one whereas it was gods will to prove the truth to be true in accordance with his words and to wipe out the last remnant of those who denied the truth so that he might prove the truth to be true and the false to be false however hateful this might be to those who were lost in sin.
وإذ يعدكم الله إحدى الطائفتين أنها لكم وتودون أن غير ذات الشوكة تكون لكم ويريد الله أن يحق الحق بكلماته ويقطع دابر الكافرين ليحق الحق ويبطل الباطل ولو كره المجرمون