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Allahu ta’ālā has promised you abundant spoils which you will capture, through the [various] conquests. So He has expedited this one, the spoils of Khaybar, for you, and withheld men's hands from you, with regard to your families, after you had set off [on the campaign], as the Jews had intended [to plot] against them; but Allahu ta’ālā cast terror into their hearts; so that it, the expedited one (wa-li-takūna is a supplement to an implied verb, that is to say, li-tashkurūhu, 'that you may give thanks to Him') may be a sign for the believers, of their being assisted [by Allahu ta’ālā], and that He may guide you on a straight path, that is to say, the way in which you should rely on Him and entrust any affair to Him, exalted be He;