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And when Allahu ta’ālā made you see them, O believers - when you met - in your eyes as few, as 70 or 100, when they were [in fact] 1000, so that you would advance against them; and He made you seem as few in their eyes, so that they would advance and not turn back from fighting you - this was before close combat had begun, but when it began, He made them [the disbelievers] see these [believers] as twice their number, as stated in sūrat āl 'Imrān [Q. 3:13] - so that Allahu ta’ālā might conclude a matter that was to be done; and to Allahu ta’ālā all things are returned, reverting.