22. وَلَوْ قَاتَلَکُمْ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا لَوَلَّوْا الاَْدْبَارَ ثُمَّ لاَ یَجِدُونَ وَلِیّآ وَلاَ نَصِیرآ
22- AND IF THE UNBELIEVERS WOULD FIGHT WITH YOU, (IN HODAYBEYEH) THEY WOULD CERTAINLY TURN THEIR BACKS AND THEN THEY WOULD FIND NEITHER A GUARDIAN NOR A HELPER.
23. سُنَّةَ اللهِ الَّتِی قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَلَنْ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللهِ تَبْدِیلا
23- (SUCH IS) THE WONT OF ALLAH, IT ALSO WAS SO IN THE PAST; AND YOU WILL NEVER FIND FOR THE WONT OF ALLAH A CHANGE. (THE WONT OF ALLAH WILL NEVER CHANGE)
24. وَهُوَ الَّذِی کَفَّ أَیْدِیَهُمْ عَنْکُمْ وَأَیْدِیَکُمْ عَنْهُمْ بِبَطْنِ مَکَّةَ مِنْ بَعْدِ أَنْ أَظْفَرَکُمْ عَلَیْهِمْ وَکَانَ اللهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِیرآ
24- AND IT WAS HE WHO RESTRAINED THEIR HANDS FROM YOU, AND YOUR HANDS FROM THEM IN THE MIDST OF MECCA, AFTER HE HAD MADE YOU VICTORIOUS OVER THEM; AND ALLAH WAS SEEING ALL THAT YOU WERE DOING.
25. هُمْ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا وَصَدُّوکُمْ عَنْ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَالْهَدْىَ مَعْکُوفآ أَنْ یَبْلُغَ مَحِلَّهُ وَلَوْلاَ رِجَالٌ مُؤْمِنُونَ وَنِسَاءٌ مُؤْمِنَاتٌ لَمْ تَعْلَمُوهُمْ أَنْ تَطَئُوهُمْ فَتُصِیبَکُمْ مِنْهُمْ مَعَرَّةٌ بِغَیْرِ عِلْمٍ لِیُدْخِلَ اللهُ فِی رَحْمَتِهِ مَنْ یَشَاءُ لَوْ تَزَیَّلُوا لَعَذَّبْنَا الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا مِنْهُمْ عَذَابآ أَلِیمآ
25- THEY ARE THE ONES WHO DISBELIEVED, AND BARRED FROM THE SACRED MOSQUE. AND THEY DETAINED THE SACRIFICES FROM REACHING ITS (PROPER) PLACE. HAD THERE BEEN NO BELIEVING MEN, AND BELIEVING WOMEN, THAT YOU DID NOT KNOW THEM SO AS TO AVOID TRAMPLING THEM, AND BEING UNWITTINGLY GUILTY ON ACCOUNT OF THEM, (ALLAH WOULD NOT FORBID YOU FIGHTING, BUT HE ORDAINED IT SO THAT) HE MIGHT ADMIT TO HIS MERCY WHOM HE WILL. HAD THEY (i.e. THE BELIEVERS AND NON-BELIEVERS) BEEN CLEARLY SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER, WE WOULD PUNISH THE UNBELIEVERS OF THEM, WITH A PAINFUL PUNISHMENT.