What Happens If Disobeyed In War?

 

The Believers must put their trust in God (L-450)

إِذْ هَمَّت طَّآئِفَتَانِ مِنكُمْ أَن تَفْشَلَا وَٱللَّهُ وَلِيُّهُمَا وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ 122.

122.  ‘Iz  hammat-taaa-‘ifataani  minkum  ‘an-  tafshalaa,  WAllaahu  Waliy-yu-humaa. Wa ‘alAllaahi  fal-yata-wakkalil-Mu’-minuun.

122.  When two groups among you almost faltered, but God was their Protector. So in God let the believers put their trust.

 Taaa-‘ifataani - (Two parties), the aim from these two parties is the people of those two tribes ‘Banu Harthah’ and ‘Banu Salmah’, who had become broken hearted and almost fallen away at the time of the Battle of ‘Uhud.

The plan of the battlefield has been described in the previous lesson. You have read it earlier that the total numbers of Muslims were just one thousand against three thousand Quraysh braves. Three hundred Fraudster Hypocrites returned in the way out of those one thousand with their leader ‘Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy . It was not extraordinary thing for feeble-hearted persons to be worried after observing this situation. The people of ‘Banu Harthah’ and ‘Banu Salmah’ became perplexed and thought, “What will happen now?” God raised feelings of ambition and courage in their hearts, and drew out the concept of deficiency and majority of manpower from their hearts.   

The Muslims advanced with such power of trust in God that the spirit of Infidels went to an end and they began to run from the battleground. The Warriors of Islam began to arrest them and collect their equipment. When the fifty archers, appointed at the hill-pass, observed this situation, they also involved in it. Even they forgot the warning of Holy Messenger (ﷺ) and did not care to their leader’s advice.     

Khalid bin Waleed had not embraced Islam till then. He was leading the enemy’s Army (of Makkan Infidels). As soon as he observed that the hill-pass was without the archers, he collected his deserting companions, attacked with their help from that side and changed the map of battlefield. The Muslims were confused and they suffered with many casualties. Even the Messenger of God (ﷺ) personally was injured.

The Muslims drew up in a line again. They advanced and engaged in a desperate undertaking once again, beat the Quraysh braves and drove them back. The world knew that deficiency or surplus manpower had no value in the battlefield, but the steadfastness and patience of the crusaders, victory and support from God are of use.

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