Surah Al-Fath English Translation & Transliteration

¹Have no doubt that We have opened for you the way to a brilliant conquest and victory.

²And so Allah will forgive your past and future sins, complete the blessings He will bestow on you, and lead you to His straight path.

³And so Allah will help you with a most honorable and magnificent victory.

⁴For it is He who sends down peace and tranquility into the hearts of the believers, so that their faith and trust may grow. For all the armies/forces of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah. Allah knows all things, and His every judgment is right.

⁵All these favors are so that Allah may settle the believing men and believing women in gardens beneath which rivers flow, and cover over their evil deeds. That is the greatest salvation in Allah's sight.

⁶At the same time, these favors are so that Allah may punish the two-faced hypocrites, who pretend to believe when they do not, men and women alike, and the polytheists, men and women alike, who harbor evil thoughts about Allah. May every evil those hypocrites and polytheists have devised and plotted come down upon their own heads! For Allah is wrathful toward them, has cursed them and shut them out of His mercy, and has prepared Hell for them. What a wretched journey's end it is!

⁷For all the armies/forces of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah. Allah possesses limitless power, and His every judgment is right.

⁸Without any doubt, We have sent you as a messenger who is a witness, a bearer of good news, and a warner.

⁹This is so that you may believe and trust in Allah and His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages, defend and support his cause, never fall short in respect toward him, and at all times give voice to Allah's glory.

¹⁰Those who pledge allegiance (bay'ah) to you are in fact pledging allegiance to Allah. For Allah's power and might are above their power. So whoever breaks this pledge breaks it only to his own harm. But whoever stays true to the pledge he has given, Allah will give him a magnificent reward in time to come.

¹¹Some of the Bedouin Arabs who did not join this campaign will come to you and say: —We were taken up with our wealth and possessions, our families and children, and so we could not set out on the campaign with you; ask Allah to forgive us! Yet they say one thing with their tongues while their hearts hold another. Say: —If Allah willed to bring you harm or to bring you benefit, who could prevent it? In any case, Allah knows everything you do.

¹²In truth, you thought that the Messenger and the believers would never return to their families again. That thought was pleasing to your hearts. And so you gave yourselves over to evil thoughts, and thus became a people deserving of punishment.

¹³Whoever does not believe in Allah and does not believe and trust in His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages, let him know well that We have prepared for such disbelievers a fire that spews out flames.

¹⁴Absolute sovereignty over the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah. He forgives those who deserve it and punishes those who deserve it. And Allah is matchless in forgiveness and possesses infinite mercy.

¹⁵Those who stayed behind and did not join the campaign, when you set out on another campaign in which you will gain spoils of war, want to change Allah's judgment concerning them by saying: —Let us come with you too! Say to them: —You will never join us, for Allah has already declared this concerning you. And they will say: —No, the truth is that you begrudge us the spoils. On the contrary, they are people of little understanding.

¹⁶Say to those Bedouin Arabs who did not join the campaign: —Very soon you will be called to fight against a people of great might; either you will fight them to the end, or they will surrender. If you answer this call, Allah will give you a fine reward. But if you turn away again, as you did before, know that Allah will punish you with a painful punishment.

¹⁷The blind, the lame, and the sick, however, bear no responsibility for not taking part in the fighting. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages, He will settle in gardens beneath which rivers flow; whereas those who turn away He will punish with a painful punishment.

¹⁸Indeed, Allah was well pleased with the believers who pledged allegiance to you beneath that tree, declaring their loyalty to you. Knowing the sincerity in their hearts, He gave them inner peace and tranquility, and also rewarded them with a victory very near at hand.

¹⁹And He rewarded them with abundant spoils of war that they would take. For Allah has infinite power, and His every judgment is right.

²⁰Allah has promised you many spoils of war that you will take in the future, and this portion He has given you in advance. He has held back your enemies' hands from you and prevented them from harming you. All this is so that it may be a sign that Allah fulfills His promise to the believers, and so that He may keep you steadfast on the right path.

²¹And Allah has promised you many more victories and spoils which you have not yet been able to attain, but which are known to Him and which He has ordained for you. For Allah has power over all things.

²²Had the disbelievers fought you, they would certainly have turned their backs and fled, and moreover they would have found no one to protect and help them.

²³For this is Allah's sunnah/law, which He applied to earlier communities as well; and you will find no change at all in Allah's sunnah/law.

²⁴It is He who, after granting you victory over them, brought about peace between you in the valley of Mecca. And Allah sees everything you do.

²⁵Yes, it was those very disbelievers who barred you from entering the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram) and did not allow your sacrificial animals to reach it. But had it not been that you would have incurred a burden of guilt by unknowingly taking the lives of believing men and women there whom you did not yet know, you would certainly have been permitted to fight them. So Allah did not give you permission to fight, in order to protect with His mercy those who, by believing, deserved to be protected. Had it been possible to tell the disbelievers apart from the believers, We would without doubt have punished the disbelievers with a painful punishment.

²⁶While the treaty was being written, those disbelievers had filled their hearts with anger, the bigotry of the Age of Ignorance (jahiliyyah), and tribal zealotry. But at that time Allah, by giving peace and tranquility to the hearts of His Messenger and the believers, enabled them to meet this insolence with calm and composure, and strengthened their devotion to tawhid (Divine Oneness). For they are both deserving of it and fit for it. And Allah knew full well all that was taking place.

²⁷Indeed, Allah will confirm His Messenger's dream by making it come true. In sha' Allah (if Allah wills), the day will come when you will certainly enter the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram) in safety, with your heads shaved or your hair cut short, without any fear. For Allah knows what you do not know. Moreover, He will grant you yet another victory very soon.

²⁸For it is He who has sent His Messenger with the guidance of the right path and the religion of truth, to bring the true religion of tawhid fully to light in all its aspects. And Allah is sufficient as a witness to this.

²⁹Muhammad is most certainly Allah's Messenger. Those who are with him are uncompromising and very stern toward the disbelievers, and very compassionate and merciful toward one another. You see them constantly bowing (ruku) and prostrating (sajdah), seeking Allah's grace and good pleasure; their mark is the trace of prostration on their foreheads, and the sincerity in their faces and their conduct. This is their likeness in the Torah. And their likeness in the Gospel is this: they are like a seed that has put forth its shoot; Allah strengthens that shoot and thickens it, so that it stands upright, firmly rooted, and delights the farmer. The believers' growing strong in this way makes the disbelievers choke with rage. To them, that is, to those who believe and do good and beautiful deeds, Allah has promised both boundless forgiveness from His presence and a magnificent reward.