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General remarks.

chapter speaks of the great Divine Help and victory (from which it receives its title) with which the Holy Prophet's endeavours in the cause of truth were crowned. According to I'Ab it was an indication of the Holy Prophet's approaching end (Bkh). And Ibn-i-'Umar is reported as saying that this chapter was revealed during the last pilgrimage of the Holy Prophet, and that he lived only eighty days after its revelation (AH). Hence, though classed with the Medinian revelation, it was actually revealed in Mecca. As a complete chapter it may be said to be the last revelation of the Holy Prophet, and, coming down at Mecca, it showed how those wonderful prophecies, announced in utter loneliness and helplessness, were now fulfilled at Mecca by the Prophet visiting that sacred city with over a hundred thousand followers.

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