1إِذا جاءَ نَصرُ اللَّهِ وَالفَتحُMir Ahmed AliWhen1 cometh the help of God and the Victory,The great prophecy was wonderfully fulfilled in the bloodless conquest of Mecca, and the other Arab tribes sent their deputations to the Holy Prophet and entered the folds of the faith, Islam, one after another. The world know that the one, the Holy Prophet who was persecuted and hunted out of his birth-place Mecca, and who took refuge in Madina, could not be defeated or stopped from having his godly way, even by the most formidable forces of the Meccans and their confederates. His mission gradually made its way and all the wickedness and the treachery of the enemy, recoiled on the enemies themselves. Now this prophecy and the promise came from the Lord with which all the outlying parts of Arabia ranged themselves under the banner of Islam. This was the return for the conviction, sincerity, perseverance and sacrifice, in the way of the Lord. Now the tribes together offered their collective adherence, paving the way for further triumph of the faith in the outer world to its limits, remaining in store for the future.It is said that this chapter was the last of the revelations from which people sensed the closing days of the ministry of the Holy Prophet were approaching. The 1st and the 2nd verse refer to the apparent progress of the religion throughout Arabia and it also refers to the spiritual state of the realization where the Holy Prophet saw every being in submission to the will of God—conforming with 3:83. (A.P.)