parties of you were about to lose heart; and God was their protector and let the believers rely on God. He brings forth everyone in the vest of free choice ikhtiyār as if their negation and affirmation their acts and abstention from acting were at their [own] command. In truth they are only turned about by the agency of His grasp taṣrīf al-qabḌa and the turning of His deliberative power taqlīb al-qudra.