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If you have sought a judgement, O disbelievers, if you have sought a decisive conclusion [of this battle] - Abū Jahl had said, 'O Allahu ta’ālā! Whoever among [the two of] us is the one who has severed the ties of kinship and brought us what we had never known, destroy them today!' - the judgement, the decisive conclusion, has now come to you, by the fact that the one so described has [already] perished: this was Abū Jahl and those killed with him, and not the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" and the believers; and if you desist, from unbelief and waging war, it will better for you. But if you return, to fight against the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" , We shall return, to assist him against you, and your host, your troops, will not avail, will not protect, you in any way, however numerous it be; and verily Allahu ta’ālā is with the believers (read thus inna, indicating a new sentence; or read anna, with an implicit lām [li-anna'llāha ma'a'l-mu'minīn, 'because Allahu ta’ālā is with the believers'].