Allah said,
[وَلَوْ قَـتَلَكُمُ
الَّذِينَ كفَرُواْ لَوَلَّوُاْ الاٌّدْبَـرَ ثُمَّ لاَ يَجِدُونَ وَلِيّاً وَلاَ
نَصِيراً ]
(And if those who disbelieve fight against you, they certainly would have
turned their backs; then they would have found neither a protector nor a
helper.) Allah the Exalted and Most Honored delivers the glad tidings to His
believing servants that had the idolators fought them, Allah would have given
victory to His Messenger and His faithful servants. Then, the army of the
disbelievers would have been defeated and would have deserted the battlefield
and fled. They would not have found any helper or supporter, because they were
fighting Allah, His Messenger and His Faithful Party. Allah the Exalted and Most
Honored said,
[سُنَّةَ اللَّهِ
الَّتِى قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَن تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ تَبْدِيلاً
]
(That has been the way of Allah already with those who passed away before.
And you will not find any change in the way of Allah.) means this is the way
Allah deals with His creation. Whenever faith and disbelief meet at any
distinguishing juncture, Allah gives victory to faith over disbelief, raises
high truth and destroys falsehood. For instance, Allah the Exalted helped His
loyal faithful supporters during the battle of Badr and they defeated His
idolator enemies, even though the Muslims were few in num- ber and lightly
armed, while the idolators were large in number and heavily armed. Allah the
Exalted and Most Honored said,
[وَهُوَ الَّذِى
كَفَّ أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَنكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ عَنْهُم بِبَطْنِ مَكَّةَ مِن بَعْدِ
أَنْ أَظْفَرَكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيراً ]
(And He it is Who has withheld their hands from you and your hands from them
in the midst of Makkah, after He had made you victors over them. And Allah is
Ever the All-Seer of what you do.) Allah the Exalted reminds His faithful
servants of His favor when He restrained the hands of the idolators, and
thereby, no harm touched the Muslims from the idolators. Allah restrained the
hands of the believers and they did not fight the idolaters near Al-Masjid
Al-Haram. Rather, Allah saved both parties from battle and brought forth a peace
treaty that produced good results for the believers, in addition to, earning
them the good end in this life and the Hereafter. We stated a Hadith from
Salamah bin Al-Akwa` in which he narrated that when the Muslims brought forth
those seventy idolator prisoners, they tied and paraded them before the
Messenger of Allah , who looked at them and said,
«أَرْسِلُوهُمْ
يَكُنْ لَهُمْ بَدْءُ الْفُجُورِ وَثِنَاه»
(Release them, so that they earn the burden of starting hostilities and its
infamy.) Thereafter, Allah the Exalted and Most Honored sent down this Ayah
about that incident,
[وَهُوَ الَّذِى
كَفَّ أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَنكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ عَنْهُم]
(And He it is Who has withheld their hands from you and your hands from
them...) Imam Ahmad recor- ded that Anas bin Malik said, "On the day of
Hudaybiyyah, eighty armed men from Makkah went down the valley coming from Mount
At-Tan`im to ambush the Messen- ger of Allah . The Messenger invoked Allah
against them, and they were taken prisoners.'' `Affan added, "The Messenger
pardoned them, and this Ayah was later on revealed,
[وَهُوَ الَّذِى
كَفَّ أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَنكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ عَنْهُم بِبَطْنِ مَكَّةَ مِن بَعْدِ
أَنْ أَظْفَرَكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ]
(And He it is Who has withheld their hands from you and your hands from them
in the midst of Makkah, after He had made you victors over them.)'' Muslim, Abu
Dawud in his Sunan and At-Tirmidhi and An-Nasa'i, in the Tafsir section of their
Sunan, collected this Hadith.
[هُمُ الَّذِينَ
كَفَرُواْ وَصَدُّوكُمْ عَنِ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَالْهَدْىَ مَعْكُوفاً أَن
يَبْلُغَ مَحِلَّهُ وَلَوْلاَ رِجَالٌ مُّؤْمِنُونَ وَنِسَآءٌ مُّؤْمِنَـتٌ لَّمْ
تَعْلَمُوهُمْ أَن تَطَئُوهُمْ فَتُصِيبَكمْ مِّنْهُمْ مَّعَرَّةٌ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ
لِّيُدْخِلَ اللَّهُ فِى رَحْمَتِهِ مَن يَشَآءُ لَوْ تَزَيَّلُواْ لَعَذَّبْنَا
الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِنْهُمْ عَذَاباً أَلِيماً - إِذْ جَعَلَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ
فِى قُلُوبِهِمُ الْحَمِيَّةَ حَمِيَّةَ الْجَـهِلِيَّةِ فَأَنزَلَ اللَّهُ
سَكِينَتَهُ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ وَعَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَأَلْزَمَهُمْ كَلِمَةَ
التَّقْوَى وَكَانُواْ أَحَقَّ بِهَا وَأَهْلَهَا وَكَانَ اللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ
عَلِيماً ]
(25. They are those who disbelieved and hindered you from Al-Masjid Al-Haram
and detained the sacrificial animals, from reaching their place of sacrifice.
Had there not been believing men and believing women whom you did not know, that
you may kill and on whose account a sin would have been committed by you without
(your) knowledge, that Allah might bring into His mercy whom He wills -- if they
had been apart, We verily, would have punished with painful torment those of
them who disbelieved. ) (26. When those who disbelieve had put in their hearts
pride and haughtiness -- the pride and haughtiness of the time of ignorance, --
then Allah sent down His calmness and tranquillity upon His Messenger and upon
the believers, and made them stick to the word of Taqwa; and they were well
entitled to it and worthy of it. And Allah is the All-Knower of everything.
)
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