 when you were on the near side of the valley and they on the farther side and the caravan on the ground lower than you. even if you had made a mutual appointment to meet you would certainly have failed in the appointment but that allah might accomplish a matter already ordained so that those who were to be destroyed might be destroyed after a clear evidence and those who were to live might live after a clear evidence. and surely allah is allhearer allknower.
إذ أنتم بالعدوة الدنيا وهم بالعدوة القصوى والركب أسفل منكم ولو تواعدتم لاختلفتم في الميعاد ولكن ليقضي الله أمرا كان مفعولا ليهلك من هلك عن بينة ويحيى من حي عن بينة وإن الله لسميع عليم