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believers put their trust in Allah. Allah helped If it was a decisive victory you were seeking, that
you at Badr when you were weak so have fear of victory has clearly been won. If you desist, it will
Allah, so that hopefully you will be thankful. And be better for you; but if you return, We also will
when you said to the believers, ‘Is it not enough return. Your troops will not help you at all, how-
for you that your Lord reinforced you with three ever many they are. Allah is with the believers.
thousand angels, sent down?’ Yes indeed! But if (8:19)
you are steadfast and guard against evil and they When you were on the nearer slope, and they
come upon you suddenly, your Lord will rein- were on the further slope and the caravan was
force you with five thousand angels, clearly iden- lower down than you. If you had made an ap-
tified. Allah only did this for it to be good news pointment with them you would have broken the
for you and so that your hearts might be set at rest appointment. However, it happened so that
by it (help comes from no one but Allah, the Allah could settle a matter whose result was pre-
Almighty, the All-Wise) and so that He might cut ordained: so that those who died would die with
off a group of those who disbelieve or crush them clear proof, and those who lived would live with
and they might be turned back in defeat. (3:121- clear proof. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
127) Remember when Allah showed them to you in
(Believers are) those to whom people said, ‘The your dream as only a few. If He had shown you
people have gathered against you, so fear them.’ them as many, you would have lost heart and
But that merely increased their faith and they quarrelled about the matter; but Allah saved you.
said, ‘Allah is enough for us and the Best of He knows what your hearts contain. Remember
Guardians.’ (3:173) when Allah made you see them as few when you
So they returned with blessings and bounty from met them, and also made you seem few in their
Allah and no evil touched them. They pursued eyes. This was so that Allah could settle a matter
the pleasure of Allah. Allah’s favour is indeed im- whose result was preordained. All matters return
mense. (3:174) to Allah. (8:42-44)
When Allah promised you that one of the two It is not fitting for a Prophet to take captives until
parties would be yours and you would have liked he has thoroughly subdued the land. You desire
it to have been the unarmed one, whereas Allah the goods of this world, whereas Allah desires
desired to verify the Truth by His words and to the hereafter. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (8:67)
cut off the last remnant of the disbelievers. This But if they mean to betray you, they have already
was so that He might verify the Truth and nullify previously betrayed Allah, so He has given you
the false, even though the evildoers hate that. power over them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-
Remember when you called on your Lord for Wise. (8:71)
help and He responded to you: ‘I will reinforce
you with a thousand angels riding rank after BAKKA
rank.’ Allah only did this to give you good news The first House established for mankind was that
and that so your hearts would be at rest. Victory at Bakka, a place of blessing and a guidance for
comes from no one but Allah. Allah is Almighty, all beings. (3:96)
All-Wise. And when He overcame you with
sleep, making you feel secure, and sent you down BALANCE
water from heaven to purify you and remove the We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of
taint of Satan from you, and to fortify your hearts Rising and no self will be wronged in any way.
and make your feet firm. And when your Lord re- Even if it is no more than the weight of a grain of
vealed to the angels, ‘I am with you so make mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are suffi-
those who believe firm. I will cast terror into the cient as a Reckoner. (21:47)
hearts of those who disbelieve, so strike their Weigh with a level balance. (26:182)
necks and strike all their finger joints!’ (8:7-12) As for him whose balance is heavy, he will have
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