when allah promised you one of the two companies it is for you you were eager that it should be the one that was unarmed. but allah desires to confirm the truth with his words and to root out the faithless so that he may confirm the truth and bring falsehood to naught though the guilty should be averse.
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