CHAPTER CX
THE HELP
(An-Naṣr)
Revealed at Mecca
(3 verses)
General remarks.
This chapter speaks of the great Divine Help and victory (from which it receives its title) with which the Holy Prophet's endeavours in the cause of truth were crowned. According to I'Ab it was an indication of the Holy Prophet's approaching end (Bkh). And Ibn-i-'Umar is reported as saying that this chapter was revealed during the last pilgrimage of the Holy Prophet, and that he lived only eighty days after its revelation (AH). Hence, though classed with the Medinian revelation, it was actually revealed in Mecca. As a complete chapter it may be said to be the last revelation of the Holy Prophet, and, coming down at Mecca, it showed how those wonderful prophecies, announced in utter loneliness and helplessness, were now fulfilled at Mecca by the Prophet visiting that sacred city with over a hundred thousand followers.
| In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. | بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ | |
| 1 When there comes the help of Allah and the victory,[1] | إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَالْفَتْحُ ١ | |
| Ar. thou seest. | 2 And you see men entering the religion of Allah in companies; | وَرَأَيْتَ النَّاسَ يَدْخُلُونَ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ أَفْوَاجًا ٢ |
| Ar. thy. Or, protection. | 3 Then celebrate the praise of your Lord, and ask His forgiveness;[2] surely He is oft-returning (to mercy). | فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَاسْتَغْفِرْهُ إِنَّهُ كَانَ تَوَّابًا ٣ |
- ↑ The great victory which had come, and been followed by the conversion of Arabs in companies, was the conquest of Mecca in the year 8 a.h., while the next year was the year of deputations from Arab tribes embracing Islam one after another. The great and wonderful prophecies of the conversion of Arabia and of its subjugation being thus clearly fulfilled, the Prophet was given to understand that the time had now come when he should prepare to meet the Lord.
- ↑ Here the Prophet is told that when that great victory is attained which will make the truth of Islam shine as the midday sun, so that people would enter into the religion of Islam not by ones and twos but in whole companies, as happened after the conquest of Mecca, then he should give glory to Allah for bringing about this wonderful change and
