Tawba 38-41
38- YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHY IT IS WHEN IT IS SAID TO YOU TO GO OUT IN THE CAUSE OF ALLAH, YOU BECOME HEAVY, STICKING TO THE GROUND, ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE LOWER LIFE INSTEAD OF THE HEREAFTER, INDEED THE PLEASURES OF THE LOWER LIFE ARE BUT LITTLE COMPARED TO THE HEREAFTER.
39- SHOULD YOU NOT GO OUT, ALLAH WILL PUNISH YOU A PAINFUL PUNISHMENT, REPLACE YOU WITH OTHERS, THEN YOU WILL NOT HARM HIM IN ANY WAY, AND ALLAH IS ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS.
40- IF YOU DO NOT SUPPORT HIM, ALLAH HAD SUPPORTED HIM WHEN THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED TURNED HIM OUT OF HIS HOME AND AS HE WAS ONE OF TWO IN THE CAVE, AND AS HE SAID TO HIS COMPANION: “DO NOT GRIEVE, FOR ALLAH IS WITH US”. ALLAH SENT HIS PEACE AND SERENITY DOWN ON HIM AND SUPPORTED HIM WITH SOLDIERS YOU DID NOT SEE, AND MADE THE WORD OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED THE LOWEST AND THE WORD OF ALLAH THE HIGHEST, FOR ALLAH IS MOST EXALTED AND MOST WISE.
41- GO OUT, LIGHT OR HEAVY, AND STRUGGLE WITH YOUR MONEY AND YOURSELVES IN THE CAUSE OF ALLAH, THIS IS BETTER FOR YOU, IF YOU REALLY KNOW.
Allah the Highest commanded Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him to fight the disbelievers and the people of the book, and open their land to Islam. The Roman Empire’s borders were just north of the Arab Peninsula. Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him sent them an army of 3000 men, which they met at a place called Moatah. The Roman army with their allies were 200000 men. The Muslim Army engaged the Roman army but withdraw losing 12 men only.
After taking Makah and after the battle of Honin, Islam spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula. The summer that followed was a particularly hot summer, and people liked to site in the shade of the trees and eat their ripe fruit, but then Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him commanded the Muslims to prepare themselves to march towards the Roman Empire.
The Muslims had to march a long distance in the heat of the summer and in the Arabian Desert and fight the army of the strongest empire then. This was nothing like fighting a tribe or alliance of tribes. This made some of the Muslims slow to respond.
I should note that men used to go to war at their own expense totally. They had to have their own weapons, armour, animal to ride, food, water and cloths. They also had to provide for their families during their period of absence, which in that case was about 2 months.
However, Allah the Highest is critical in these Ayahs of the attitude of some of the Muslims toward going to fight the Romans then. He described them as being too heavy as if bound to the Earth. Allah the Highest is promising the Muslims who do not go out to fight in his cause with painful punishment and those who do go with a great reward, then compares the pleasures and comforts of this lower life and consider it little compared to the Hereafter.
Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him said: “In comparison to the Hereafter, this lower life is like when one of you dips his finger in the sea water, let him see what it will come back with”. (M: Janah; 4, 55 & a: 4; 228,229)
When Abd El-Aziz Ibn Marwan, the father of Omar Ibn Abd El-Aziz was on his death bed, he asked to see his shroud. When it was brought to him, he looked at it and said: “Is this the most I take out of this lower life?” Then he turned his back to his visitors, cried and said: “What a bad home is this, its plenty is little, and your little is short lived, and we had nothing but vanity from you”.
Allah the Highest promised the Muslim severe punishments if they do not fight in His cause:
- Direct punishment which may take many forms. The tribes which did not go out to fight at the time of Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him had no rain at the time, and suffered draught.
- Lets our enemies defeat us and take our land and property.
- Lets those people perish and replace them with others who will obey Allah’s commands. Allah the Highest said: “BUT SHOULD YOU TURN AWAY, HE WILL REPLACE YOU WITH OTHER PEOPLE, WHO WILL NOT BE LIKE YOU”. (S:47 A:38)
Allah the Highest does not need us to fight for Him, but we need to fight our enemies, and to show the sincerity of our belief, he said: “AND WHOEVER DOES THE JIHAD, HE DOES IT FOR HIMSELF, FOR ALLAH IS NOT IN NEED OF ANY ONE”. (S: 29 A: 6)
Allah the Highest reminds us of how His support for Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him was better than the support of a big army when he migrated from Makah and was in the cave with Abu Bakr, and no one else. Also when the disbelievers put a prize of 100 camels on his head, and many men went out chasing them and hoping to win the prize. When they reached the cave, they did not see Mohamed prayer and peace upon him and Abu Bakr although they would have if they looked under their feet. Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him said to Abu Bakr: “Do not grief, for Allah is with us”.
And said: “What do you think about two people the third of whom is Allah”.
Mohamed prayer and peace upon him reached Medina safely, where Islam spread. From there, Islam spread throughout Arabia and then throughout the world. Allah’s word was raised, and the disbeliever’s word lowered.
Allah the Highest is commanding us to go for Jihad light or heavy; meaning young and old, lightly equipped or heavily equipped, in small groups or large groups. They are all forms of struggling.
Struggling in the cause of Allah can be with one’s self or finances. Supporting this army, Othman Ibn Afan supplied the army with 300 camels and all they need and carry of food and equipment. Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him then said: “Nothing Othman does will do him any harm after this”.
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