20 Preface وَعَدَكُمُ اللَّهُ مَغانِمَ كَثيرَةً تَأخُذونَها فَعَجَّلَ لَكُم هٰذِهِ وَكَفَّ أَيدِيَ النّاسِ عَنكُم وَلِتَكونَ آيَةً لِلمُؤمِنينَ وَيَهدِيَكُم صِراطًا مُستَقيمًاYusuf AliGod has promised you many gains that ye shall1 acquire, and He has given2 you these beforehand; and He has restrained the hands of men from you; that it may be a Sign for3 the Believers, and that He may guide you to a Straight Path;The gains so far seen from the Bay'ah and their calm and disciplined behaviour were certainly great; but greater still were to follow in the spiritual sense, in the rapid spread of Islam, in the clearance from the Sacred House of the idolatrous autocracy, and in the universal acceptance of the Message of God in Arabia.The first fruits of the Bay'ah were the victory or treaty of Hudaybiyah, the cessation for the time being of the hostility of the Meccan Quraish, and the opening out of the way to Mecca. These things are implied in the phrase. “He has restrained the hands of men from you.”Hudaybiyah (in both the Bay'ah and the Treaty) was truly a sign post for the Believers: it showed the solidarity of Islam, and the position which the Muslims had won in the Arab world.