4 Preface في بِضعِ سِنينَ ۗ لِلَّهِ الأَمرُ مِن قَبلُ وَمِن بَعدُ ۚ وَيَومَئِذٍ يَفرَحُ المُؤمِنونَYusuf AliWithin a few years.1 With God is the Decision, in the past and in the Future: on that Day shall the Believers rejoice-2Bid' in the text means a short period-a period of from three to nine years. The period between the loss of Jerusalem (614-15 A.C.) by the Romans and their victory at Issus (622 A.C.) was seven years, and that to the penetration of Persia by Heraclius was nine years. See last note.See n. 3506 and Appendix 8. The battle of Badr (2 A.H. = 624 A.C.) was a real time of rejoicing for the Believers and a time of disillusionment for the arrogant Quraish, who thought that they could crush the whole movement of Islam in Medīna as they had tried to do in Mecca, but they were signally repulsed. Seen. 352 to 3:13.