Surah Fath Ayat 2 in Arabic Text
English Translation
Here you can read various translations of verse 2
That Allah may forgive for you what preceded of your sin and what will follow and complete His favor upon you and guide you to a straight path
That Allah may forgive thee thy faults of the past and those to follow; fulfil His favour to thee; and guide thee on the Straight Way;
so that Allah may forgive you your shortcomings, whether earlier or later, and may complete His favours upon you and guide you to the Straight Way,
That Allah may forgive you your sins of the past and the future, and complete His Favour on you, and guide you on the Straight Path;
That Allah may forgive thee of thy sin that which is past and that which is to come, and may perfect His favour unto thee, and may guide thee on a right path,
That Allah may forgive you your guilty (deeds)-whatever of them has gone forward and whatever is postponed-and perfect His favor upon you, and guide you (The Prophet) on a straight Path,
so that God may forgive you your past and future sins, complete His grace upon you, guide you to a straight path,
تاکہ جو کچھ تیرے گناه آگے ہوئے اور جو پیچھے سب کو اللہ تعالیٰ معاف فرمائے، اور تجھ پر اپنا احسان پورا کر دے اور تجھے سیدھی راه چلائے
Quran 48 Verse 2 Explanation
For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Fath ayat 2, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.
Ala-Maududi
(48:2) so that Allah may forgive you your shortcomings, whether earlier or later,[2] and may complete His favours upon you[3] and guide you to the Straight Way,[4]
2. If the context in which this sentence occurs is kept in view, one will certainly feel that the faults referred to here imply those shortcomings and weaknesses that had remained in the struggle that the Muslims had been making for the success and victory of Islam, under the leadership of the Prophet (peace be upon him), for the past nineteen years or so. These shortcomings are not known to any one because the intellect is absolutely helpless to find out any weakness in that struggle. But according to the highest standards of perfection in the sight of Allah there had remained some such weakness in it because of which the Muslims could not attain a decisive victory so soon over the pagans of Arabia. What Allah means to say is this: If you had carried on your struggle along with those weaknesses, it would have taken you much longer to subdue Arabia, but We have overlooked all those weaknesses and shortcomings and compensated for them only through Our grace, and opened for you at Hudaibiyah the door to victory and conquest which you could not have achieved only by your ordinary endeavors.
Here, this thing also should be understood well that for the weaknesses that might occur and remain in the struggle and endeavor that a group might be making for an object, the leader and guide of the group only is addressed. This does not mean that the weaknesses are the leader’s personal weaknesses. Those are, in fact, the weaknesses of the struggle that the group is making as a whole; but the address is made to the leader to tell him that his work suffers from such and such a weakness.
However, as the address is directed to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and declared that Allah has forgiven him all his former and latter faults, the general words also give this meaning that Allah pardoned all the shortcomings (which were the shortcomings in view of his high position) of His Messenger (peace be upon him). That is why when the companions saw that he took extraordinary pains over his worship, they would say: Why do you subject yourself to such hardships when all your former and latter errors and shortcomings have been pardoned? the Prophet (peace be upon him) would reply: Should I not behave as
Ibn-Kathir
The tafsir of Surah Fath verse 2 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Fath ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 3.
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