وَلَوْ قَـٰتَلَكُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَوَلَّوُا۟ ٱلْأَدْبَـٰرَ ثُمَّ لَا يَجِدُونَ وَلِيًّا وَلَا نَصِيرًا Qur’an Al-Fath (48:22)Walaw q a talakumu alla th eena kafaroo lawallawoo aladb a ra thumma l a yajidoona waliyyan wal a na s eer a n
This divine promise was fulfilled 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 .
lit., turn their backs.
Their morale was now truly broken.