Salah Mahmoud – Stories Of The Quran 10.1.24

We finished Surat Al-A'raf, Alhamdulillah.

And as you know we started from Surat

Al-Baqarah, now Alhamdulillah may Allah give us

the tawfiq and allow us to witness Khatm

al-Quran in this mihrab, ameen.

And we'll start with Surat Al-Anfal.

And Surat Al-A'raf, Alhamdulillah, it was

the very last ayah in Surat Al-A

'raf, it's the very first Sajd Al-Tilawah,

right?

That's why you noticed that we meet Sajd

Al-Tilawah, it's the first one.

And then we moved on to Surat, what's

the surah after that?

Surat Al-Anfal, Surat Al-Anfal.

And Surat Al-Anfal, one of the surahs,

actually one of my favorite surahs, Surat Al

-Anfal.

If you want to feel like you are

actually witnessing the battle of Badr, you need

to recite Surat Al-Anfal.

Surat Al-Anfal describes to us the smallest

details of Ghazwat Badr.

And how the Prophet ﷺ and the companions,

how they felt about the whole situation.

Surat Al-Anfal talks about Ghazwat, the battle

of Badr.

And the way Allah describes the feelings of

the companions and how as human beings they

were not comfortable, because, well, think about it,

it was the first Ghazwat for them, they

had just moved to Medina, life wasn't rosy

in Medina, the Prophet ﷺ had to deal

with a lot of issues, different society, different

background, everything was different.

So the Prophet ﷺ, for him to bring

everyone together to deal with the people of

the book as well, and then you had

the Munafiqeen that started actually hating on the

Prophet ﷺ, especially after Ghazwat Badr when they

realized that the Islam and the Muslims, they're

getting stronger, subhanAllah.

So Allah ﷻ, He gave the command and

the amr of the Prophet ﷺ to conduct

the first Ghazwa, which is the Ghazwat Badr.

And, of course, the story behind Ghazwat Badr,

we've heard it so many times, but simply,

just briefly, the Prophet ﷺ, when he heard

that there was a caravan coming from Mecca

all the way to Bilad al-Sham, the

Prophet ﷺ, he consulted his companions, he made

the mashoorah, and he said, do we want

to do this?

And why, you know, a lot of people

when they talk about the Ghazwat Badr, they

say, was the Prophet ﷺ and his companions

were like thugs or something?

They're attacking and robbing other people's caravans and

commodities and properties and all of that?

That wasn't the case, it wasn't the case,

because while the Prophet ﷺ was forced out

of Mecca, him and the companions, they were

forced out of Mecca, they left their properties,

they left their wealth, their money, their businesses,

they left everything.

So that was time for them to get

their haqq back.

There was no, like, you know, court, there

was nothing like police or anything like that,

right?

It was time for them to basically show

themselves and show their strength and their power,

all right?

You know, jihad wasn't actually fard upon them

before that, but subhanAllah, Allah ﷻ said, now

it's time to actually start doing this and

defending yourselves.

You're not chicken, you're not going to be

chicken.

Someone took something from you, you take it

back from them.

So the Prophet ﷺ did mashoorah with Abu

Bakr as-Siddiq and they decided, but he

told them from the very beginning, you know,

we're very few.

They were how many, like 300, 330 or

something, like almost 300 people, right?

Soldiers.

And he knew what was happening after that.

Of course, the intention wasn't for the battle,

it was just to get the caravan first

and take their money and their wealth back

as much as they could, right?

And then subhanAllah al-'Azim, you know, when Abu

Jahl and the enemies of Islam, when they

heard about this, they actually decided that they

have to go out and meet the Prophet

ﷺ.

This is when the ghazwah started.

The Prophet ﷺ, he calmed the companions down

because he knew through his intelligence, they had

intelligence mukhabarat, you know, like the CIA at

the time, that there were many of them,

many of the mushrikeen, they're coming to fight

the Prophet ﷺ.

Over a thousand, you know, soldiers, they're coming

to fight the Muslims.

So you have 300 people versus a thousand.

And these 300 people, they did not really

have, you know, like experience in fighting and

all of that.

Everything was peaceful in the beginning.

So the Prophet ﷺ calmed the companions down.

And Allah ﷻ, in the middle of the

battle, Allah ﷻ calmed them down.

One of the ayat when I was just

reciting and Allah mentioning that he sent angels

to fight with them and they were physically,

you could actually physically see, you know, angels

fighting with the Prophet ﷺ and the enemies

are dying right and left, Allah ﷻ said,

إِذْ يُغَشِّيكُمُ النُّعَاسَ أَمَنَةً مِّنْ When he covered

you, remember, when he covered you with a

slumber as a security from him and he

caused water, rain to descend on you from

the sky, you know, sometimes when you're exhausted,

when you're tired, when there is so much

going on and you sit down and you

feel like, you know, the water is just

coming on your face, you feel like you're,

subhanAllah, you're relaxed, right, you feel like you're

relaxed.

So Allah ﷻ actually caused him to take

like a nap.

And that nap kind of freshened them up

completely, you know, that now they're ready, they're

fresh and they're ready to, you know, to

start the fight and to take the haqq

back and subhanAllah, follow the command of Allah

ﷻ.

إِذْ يُغَشِّيكُمُ النُّعَاسَ أَمَنَةً مِّنْ وَيُنَزِّلُ عَلَيْكُم مِّنَ

السَّمَاءِ مَا الَّذِي تَهِيرَكُم بِهِ وَيُذْهِبَ عَنْكُمْ وَيُجْزَلْ

شَيْطَانِ وَلْيَغْبِطْ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِكُمْ وَيَثَبِّتَ بِهِ الْأَخْدَامِ But

Allah ﷻ gave this slumber and this nap

as a sign for you and the water

that comes down from the sky to calm

you down and this is to show you

a sign from Allah ﷻ.

So ghazwat, so surat al-Anfal, as I

said, describes the battle of Badr and the

fadl of Allah ﷻ and then the nasr

of Allah ﷻ comes from wherever you expect,

subhanAllah.

As I said many times before, ikhwan yakhawati,

that in the history of Islam, in the

history of ghazwat and battles, there was no

single battle or ghazwa or fight where Muslims

actually outnumbered the enemy.

Again, I repeat this.

There was no single battle, ghazwa, where Muslims

outnumbered the enemy except one.

It was Hunayn, ghazwa al-Tabuk.

And ghazwa al-Tabuk, subhanAllah, that's the Muslims

when they thought because mashallah there are many

of them, they outnumbered the enemy, they said,

لَنْ نُغْلَبَ الْيَوْمَ مِنْ قِلَّةٍ We'll never be

defeated today.

Look how many of us versus the enemy.

And guess what?

Allah ﷻ caused them to be defeated in

the beginning because of the arrogance.

But aside from that, there was no single

battle or ghazwa or a fight where they

outnumbered the enemies, be it in Uhud, battle,

you name it, in the history of Islam,

subhanAllah.

So when you think that the enemies, when

you think they're too much, they have weapons,

they have this modern technology and all of

that, and they're going to take over and

they're going to destroy everyone, trust me, دَنَصْرَ

وَمَنْ نَصْرُ إِلَّا مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ دَنَصْرَ comes

from somewhere we never expected, never expected.

And usually when you see the enemy in

the peak, they're like, when they think that

nobody can defeat them, subhanAllah, دَنَصْرَ comes from

wherever you don't expect, wallahi.

And that's what we're going to see very

soon, inshallah.

دَنَصْرَ will come from Allah ﷻ.

And of course, we need to do something.

Your salawat, your zakah, your connection with Allah

ﷻ, your dua to your brothers and sisters,

this is very much needed.

So it's not just about how powerful you

are.

The Quraysh, they were much more powerful than

our Prophet ﷺ.

But دَنَصْرَ came from Allah ﷻ.

And we are certain, we are confident that

دَنَصْرَ will come from Allah ﷻ.

If you want to learn history, if you

want to be confident of the نصر of

Allah, read Surah Al-Anfal and you will

see how Allah ﷻ gives تثبيت and firmness

to the believers.

That's why they defeated the enemy, subhanAllah, and

became very strong after that.

Inshallah, we'll continue with more reflections from these

beautiful surahs as we recite them.

We ask Allah ﷻ to make us from

those who recite the Qur'an and apply

and implement the rulings of the Qur'an

to their lives.

اللهم أمين أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لولاكم

جزاكم الله خير As

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