«فَإِنْ آمَنُوا بِمِثْلِ مَا آمَنْتُمْ بِهِ فَقَدِ اهْتَدَوْا»
If they believe in the like of what you believe in, then they will have been guided.
The verse makes the relationship between believing and guidance conditional. The conditional structure illustrates that a conditional can define the criterion for a result even when the speaker’s own knowledge or the addressees’ circumstances are settled.
A conditional is therefore not merely a statement about chronological future events; it can provide the standard by which an outcome is assessed.