and recall what time allah was promising you one of the two parties that it should be yours and ye would fain to have that the one without whilst allah besought arms were yours to justify the truth by his words and to cut off the root of the infidels.
وإذ يعدكم الله إحدى الطائفتين أنها لكم وتودون أن غير ذات الشوكة تكون لكم ويريد الله أن يحق الحق بكلماته ويقطع دابر الكافرين