Surah Al-Anfal, Ayah 7
Quran 8:7 · The Spoils of War · Madani · Para 9 · Page 177
وَاِذْ یَعِدُكُمُ اللّٰهُ اِحْدَی الطَّآىِٕفَتَیْنِ اَنَّهَا لَكُمْ وَتَوَدُّوْنَ اَنَّ غَیْرَ ذَاتِ الشَّوْكَةِ تَكُوْنُ لَكُمْ وَیُرِیْدُ اللّٰهُ اَنْ یُّحِقَّ الْحَقَّ بِكَلِمٰتِهٖ وَیَقْطَعَ دَابِرَ الْكٰفِرِیْنَ ۟ۙ
Transliteration
Wa-ith yaAAidukumu Allahu ihdaatta-ifatayni annaha lakum watawaddoonaanna ghayra thati ashshawkati takoonu lakumwayureedu Allahu an yuhiqqa alhaqqa bikalimatihiwayaqtaAAa dabira alkafireen
Saheeh International
[Remember, O believers], when Allāh promised you one of the two groups - that it would be yours - and you wished that the unarmed one would be yours. But Allāh intended to establish the truth by His words and to eliminate the disbelievers
Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir
Allah reminds the believers who were arguing about when Allah promised them success over one of the groups of the idolaters: either the caravan with its sizeable wealth, so that they could take its bounty, or a group of fighters whom they would encounter and achieve victory over them; but they had wanted it to be the caravan, as this would be easy to take without having to fight. Yet Allah willed for the truth to be established through commanding them to fight, to kill the leaders of the idolaters, and to capture many of them so that the strength of Islam would become clear.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged)
Explains 8:5–8:8 together — read it on 8:5