behold! allah promised you one of the two parties that it should be yours ye wished that the one unarmed should be yours but allah willed to justify the truth according to his words and to cut off the roots of the unbelievers that he might justify truth and prove falsehood false distasteful though it be to those in guilt.
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