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*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 127:*
لِيَقْطَعَ طَرَفًا مِّنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَوْ يَكْبِتَهُمْ فَيَنقَلِبُوا خَائِبِينَ
That He might cut off a part of those who disbelieve, or expose them to infamy, so that they retire frustrated.
*COMMENTARY*
A fringe of the Unbelievers: an extremity, an end, either upper or lower. Here it may mean that chief of the Makkan Pagans, who had come to exterminate the Muslims with such confidence, went back frustrated in their purpose. The shameless cruelty with which they and their women mutilated the Muslim Corpses on the battlefield will stand recorded to their eternal infamy. Perhaps it also exposed their real nature to some of those who fought for them. e.g Khālid Ibn Al-Walīd, who not only accepted Islam afterwards, but became one of the most notable champions of Islam. He was with the Muslims in the Conquest of Makkah and later on, won distinguished honours in Syria and Iraq.
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*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 128:*
لَيْسَ لَكَ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ شَيْءٌ أَوْ يَتُوبَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَوْ يُعَذِّبَهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ ظَالِمُونَ
Not for you (O Muhammad [Blessings and Peace of Allāh be upon him], but for Allah) is the decision; whether He turns in mercy to (pardons) them or punishes them; verily, they are the Zalimun (polytheists, disobedients, and wrong-doers, etc.).
*COMMENTARY*
Uhud is as much a sign-post for Islam as Badr. For us in these latter days it carries an ever greater lesson. Allāh's help will come if we have faith, obedience, discipline, unity, and the spirit of acting in righteousness and justice. If we fail, His mercy is always open to us. But it is also open to our enemies, and those who seem to us His enemies. His plan may be to bring sinners to repentance, and to teach us righteousness and wisdom through those who seem in our eyes to be rebellious or even defiant. There may be good in them that He sees and we do not, - a humbling thought that must lead to our own self-examination and self-improvement.
*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 127:*
لِيَقْطَعَ طَرَفًا مِّنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَوْ يَكْبِتَهُمْ فَيَنقَلِبُوا خَائِبِينَ
That He might cut off a part of those who disbelieve, or expose them to infamy, so that they retire frustrated.
*COMMENTARY*
A fringe of the Unbelievers: an extremity, an end, either upper or lower. Here it may mean that chief of the Makkan Pagans, who had come to exterminate the Muslims with such confidence, went back frustrated in their purpose. The shameless cruelty with which they and their women mutilated the Muslim Corpses on the battlefield will stand recorded to their eternal infamy. Perhaps it also exposed their real nature to some of those who fought for them. e.g Khālid Ibn Al-Walīd, who not only accepted Islam afterwards, but became one of the most notable champions of Islam. He was with the Muslims in the Conquest of Makkah and later on, won distinguished honours in Syria and Iraq.
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*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 128:*
لَيْسَ لَكَ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ شَيْءٌ أَوْ يَتُوبَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَوْ يُعَذِّبَهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ ظَالِمُونَ
Not for you (O Muhammad [Blessings and Peace of Allāh be upon him], but for Allah) is the decision; whether He turns in mercy to (pardons) them or punishes them; verily, they are the Zalimun (polytheists, disobedients, and wrong-doers, etc.).
*COMMENTARY*
Uhud is as much a sign-post for Islam as Badr. For us in these latter days it carries an ever greater lesson. Allāh's help will come if we have faith, obedience, discipline, unity, and the spirit of acting in righteousness and justice. If we fail, His mercy is always open to us. But it is also open to our enemies, and those who seem to us His enemies. His plan may be to bring sinners to repentance, and to teach us righteousness and wisdom through those who seem in our eyes to be rebellious or even defiant. There may be good in them that He sees and we do not, - a humbling thought that must lead to our own self-examination and self-improvement.
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