24 Preface وَهُوَ الَّذي كَفَّ أَيدِيَهُم عَنكُم وَأَيدِيَكُم عَنهُم بِبَطنِ مَكَّةَ مِن بَعدِ أَن أَظفَرَكُم عَلَيهِم ۚ وَكانَ اللَّهُ بِما تَعمَلونَ بَصيرًاYusuf AliAnd it is He Who has restrained their hands from you and your hands from them in the midst1 of Mecca, after that He gave you the victory over them. And God sees well all that ye do.Little incidents had taken place that might have plunged Quraish and the Muslims from Medīna into a fight. On the one hand, Quraish were determined to keep out the Muslims, which they had no right to do: and on the other hand, the Muslims, though unarmed, had sworn to stand together, and if they had counter-attacked they could have forced their entrance to the Ka‘ba, the centre of Mecca. But God restrained both sides from anything that would have violated the Peace of the Sanctuary, and after the Treaty was signed, all danger was past.