Allah states that He creates the actions that the servants perform and that
whatever good actions they take, it is He Who should be praised for them, for He
directed and helped them perform these actions. Allah said,
[فَلَمْ
تَقْتُلُوهُمْ وَلَـكِنَّ اللَّهَ قَتَلَهُمْ]
(You killed them not, but Allah killed them.) meaning, it is not because of
your power and strength that you killed the pagans, who were many while you were
few. Rather, it is He Who gave you victory over them, just as He said in another
Ayah,
[وَلَقَدْ نَصَرَكُمُ
اللَّهُ بِبَدْرٍ وَأَنتُمْ أَذِلَّةٌ]
(And Allah has already made you victorious at Badr, when you were a weak
little force.) [3:123], and,
[لَقَدْ نَصَرَكُمُ
اللَّهُ فِى مَوَاطِنَ كَثِيرَةٍ وَيَوْمَ حُنَيْنٍ إِذْ أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ
كَثْرَتُكُمْ فَلَمْ تُغْنِ عَنكُمْ شَيْئاً وَضَاقَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الأَرْضُ بِمَا
رَحُبَتْ ثُمَّ وَلَّيْتُم مُّدْبِرِينَ ]
(Truly, Allah has given you victory on many battlefields, and on the day of
Hunayn when you rejoiced at your great number, but it availed you naught and the
earth, vast as it is, was straitened for you, then you turned back in flight.)
[9:25]
Allah, the Exalted and Ever High, states that victory does not depend on
numbers or collecting weapons and shields. Rather, victory is from Him, Exalted
He is.
[كَم مِّن فِئَةٍ
قَلِيلَةٍ غَلَبَتْ فِئَةٍ كَثِيرَةً بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ مَعَ
الصَّـبِرِينَ]
(How often has a small group overcome a mighty host by Allah's leave'' And
Allah is with the patient.) [2:249]
Allah then mentioned the handful of sand that His Prophet threw at the
disbelievers during the day of Badr, when he went out of his bunker. While in
the bunker, the Prophet invoked Allah humbly and expressing his neediness before
Allah. He then threw a handful of sand at the disbelievers and said,
«شَاهَتِ
الْوُجُوه»
(Humiliated be their faces.) He then commanded his Companions to start
fighting with sincerity and they did. Allah made this handful of sand enter the
eyes of the idolators, each one of them were struck by some of it and it
distracted them making each of them busy. Allah said,
[وَمَا رَمَيْتَ إِذْ
رَمَيْتَ وَلَـكِنَّ اللَّهَ رَمَى]
(And you threw not when you did throw, but Allah threw.)
Therefore, it is Allah Who made the sand reach their eyes and busied them
with it, not you (O Muhammad) .
Muhammad bin Ishaq said that Muhammad bin Ja`far bin Az-Zubayr narrated to
him that `Urwah bin Az-Zubayr said about Allah's statement,
[وَلِيُبْلِىَ
الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْهُ بَلاَءً حَسَنًا]
(that He might test the believers by a fair trial from Him. ) "So that the
believers know Allah's favor for them by giving them victory over their enemy,
even though their enemy was numerous, while they were few. They should thus know
His right and express gratitude for His favor on them.'' Similar was said by Ibn
Jarir. It is stated in a Hadith,
«وَكُلَّ بَلَاءٍ
حَسَنٍ أَبْلَانَا»
(Every trail (from Allah) is a favor for us.)
Allah said next,
[إِنَّ اللَّهَ
سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ]
(Verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower.)
Allah hears the supplication and knows those who deserve help and triumph.
Allah said,
[ذلِكُمْ وَأَنَّ
اللَّهَ مُوهِنُ كَيْدِ الْكَـفِرِينَ ]
(This (is the fact) and surely Allah weakens the deceitful plots of the
disbelievers.) This is more good news, aside from the victory that the believers
gained. Allah informed them that He will weaken the plots of the disbelievers in
the future, degrade them and make everything they have perish and be destroyed,
all praise and thanks are due to Allah.
[إِن تَسْتَفْتِحُواْ
فَقَدْ جَآءَكُمُ الْفَتْحُ وَإِن تَنتَهُواْ فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ وَإِن
تَعُودُواْ نَعُدْ وَلَن تُغْنِىَ عَنكُمْ فِئَتُكُمْ شَيْئاً وَلَوْ كَثُرَتْ
وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ]
(19. (O disbelievers) if you ask for a judgement, now has the judgement come
unto you; and if you cease (to do wrong), it will be better for you, and if you
return (to the attack), so shall We return, and your forces will be of no avail
to you, however numerous they be; and verily, Allah is with the believers.)
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