22وَلَو قاتَلَكُمُ الَّذينَ كَفَروا لَوَلَّوُا الأَدبارَ ثُمَّ لا يَجِدونَ وَلِيًّا وَلا نَصيرًاMuhammad AsadAnd [now,] if they who are bent on denying the truth should fight against you, they will indeed turn their backs [in flight], and will find none to protect them and none to bring them succour:1This divine promise was fulfllled in the unbroken sequence of Muslim victories after the Truce of Hudaybiyyah, ultimately leading to the establishment of an empire which extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the confines of China. - For the conditional nature of the above promise, see note 82 on 3:111.