When you were on the nearer side,¹ and they² on the farther side, while the caravan was below you, and had you agreed together on an encounter, you would have certainly failed to keep the tryst,³ but in order that Allah may carry through a matter that was bound to be fulfilled, so that he who perishes might perish by a manifest proof, and he who lives may live on by a manifest proof, and Allah is indeed all-hearing, all-knowing.