Yasir Qadhi – Resident Scholar of EPIC was Live from Mount Uhud

			Bismillah Mohamed Hamdan Amin, we thank Allah subhana wa Tada for allowing us the opportunity to
come to the mountain.
		

			And the mountain is the entire range of mountains behind us. I'm going to summarize for you the
bottle of water that took place over here. So we are standing, we are standing in the in front of
the range of the mountains. As I explained, the mountain is not one mountain, it's a range of
mountains. So this is one section and it keeps on going behind us and our prophets of Allah, why do
you want to send them said that the mountain is a mountain that loves us and we love it. And inside
the mountain the road is a mountain our agenda. So this is a blessing mountain it is a mountain that
the people of Medina will see every day there was nothing blocking them, we have skyscrapers, it
		

			blocks our view, but from the city, you will always see the mountain in the background. So the
mountain of work was was symbolic for them from India that symbolizes Medina because they see it all
the time. Now we know that in the Battle of Britain, the Muslims won a resounding victory the second
year of the Hijra. So the Quran promised that the next year, they would come and they would defeat
the Muslims. So they promised them that just right one year, we're going to recuperate, we're going
to come in annihilate you. So one year later in Chawan, Ramadan of second year was was the other
show run of the third year was
		

			over 1000 people of course marched. And 1000 was a large number. The Muslims as we know, we're not
even 300 Do the math yourself 123 And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		

			was, excuse me, sorry, I said 1000 400,000 Muslims and three that was I mean, I mentioned about 1000
Muslims versus 3000. Polish was was the triple that. So 3004 He came in, and 1000 Muslims left the
city to come and face them. On the way here, a dispute happened between the hypocrites and between
the Muslims. Because the hypocrite said, We don't want to go and fight outside, we want to stay in
our houses and use our houses to fortify ourselves. And they decided to break away at the 11th hour
to abandon the ranks of the Muslims at the very end. And that's why the army of the Muslims
decreased from 1000 to 700. Because 300 of the hypocrites broke away. This was the beginning of the
		

			phenomenon of NIFA of hypocrisy. The beginning of separating Muslims from hypocrites took place in
the battle of
		

			700 Muslims came here and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam scoured the land. And he decided
to use the following tactic, knowing that the price would be quadrupled their number four times
their number, you realize that he had to strategize? How did he strategize, he maximize the
efficiency of those 700 By looking at quality and not spreading them thin. So what he did was he
camped behind the mountain, you see the masjid, that's where his camp was. That was the camp of the
Muslims. And he used the the mountain as a natural barrier to protect to protect over three fourths
of the army. So most of the army was not truly protected with the mountain. So they could not have
		

			an attack from there. The Quraysh were coming from this area to my right where my finger is pointing
the place we're coming from that area. If you look in that area over there, you'll find a grove of
date palms roughly in that direction. And that direction was where the French were going to be
count. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam decided to strategize by making sure that the 700
would be fighting in a narrow place such that they couldn't be attacked from anywhere else, the
small area would maximize their potential that their their their potent force. So on the right hand
was the mountain of one of the Muslims. And they chose this mount over here, which is called the
		

			mount of archers, this small little mount over here to be on their left hand. And in the time of the
Prophet sallallahu. It was send them this this archers mount was probably five or seven times larger
than it is it wasn't the small, right? It has become small because of what
		

			when you climb and come back, you will take some specs back to America with you and the mountain
will automatically diminish. So over the last 14 centuries, this mini mountain has diminished
oversight, so it was much larger than it is. So the prophets have. Famously we know the story. He
station 50 archers on the top of the mountain. Why? Because he realized that the weak spot was their
back flank, and he couldn't allow the Christ to come from behind and surprise attack them. As long
as they were protected. From the behind surprise. They could concentrate on the offensive in the
front. And that's what happened. He told the archer
		

			Is that you are going to remain at the top of that mountain. And no matter what happens, guard your
posts until I tell you the coast is clear, no matter what happens, you have to stay there. Right? So
we all know what happened. The Muslims were actually winning in the beginning. And the wife of the
Sophia unhemmed fled for her life on that mountain over there, where you see this mountain over
here. She fled for her life up on that mountain, and the Muslims attacked and the Quraysh fled and
turned and returned back to Makkah. In other words, they thought Helter Skelter, the Muslims were so
successful, the Quraysh panicked, and they fled back most of them most, but not all, hardly, they've
		

			never where they eat, regrouped, and he took a small group of around 200 And he waited far away. He
didn't wait to see what's going to happen. And he saw that most of the archers abandon their post
war and hours have gone by so we're talking about now, three hours after the battle two hours after
the battle. Why did the archers leave? Because they saw the other Muslims gathering stuff from the
field, gathering war booty gathering swords and