With the name of Allah, the Impartial, the Compassionate.
(48) Al-Fath'h
This Surah got the name ‘Al-Fath’h’ which means ‘The Victory’ from the first verse which says ‘indeed We have opened to you a manifest Victory’. In the sixth year of Hijra, the Messenger and companions started to Maccah for performing ‘Umra’. But on the way, the disbelievers from Maccah obstructed Messenger and companions at Hudaibiya which is 20 Kilo Meters far from Maccah. From there a treaty was made between the Messenger and Maccan pagans containing some conditions such as in that year Messenger and companions should return to Madeena without performing Umra, and in the next year they can come to Maccah and perform ‘Umra’. Thus they returned to Madeena. At that time was this Surah containing 29 verses revealed.
It as Almighty Allah who created mankind in the Paradise and deputed them in the earth causes to happen everything including battle, treaty, etc. It is to separate the believers and hypocrites. And also for the believers to increase their belief, to get forgiveness for their offences, and to get great reward from Allah in the Hereafter; and for Allah punishing the hypocritical men and women as well as the Mushrik men and women who are having evil concept regarding Allah. This Surah warns that the hypocrites who are desiring to happen disaster for believers are a worthless people, and to such disbelievers who don’t believe with Allah and His Messenger, the blazing fire is kept prepared for them.
By mentioning that on the Day of Maccan Victory, the believers were not given permission to fight with disbelievers, this Surah teaches that since today the odd believers and hypocrites are living here in mingling without separated, the command of the verses 4: 91; 5: 33; 9: 5, 123; and 33: 60-61 to kill the hypocrites is not come in force here. It is told in this Surah that the lifestyle which Allah satisfied to His entire creatures will be implemented in this world itself. Muhammad is the Messenger to convey Allah’s Message to His entire mankind, and those who are with him behave merciful among them, and are harsh towards the kuffar who hide the verses of Allah. If it is mentioned about them in Thourath that in their faces the mark of prostration is visible, in Injeel they are compared to a crop which grows flourishingly in its own stem without any support causing to surprise the farmer.