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129 world; but you are under the protection of God Almighty, and He has promised that no power can destroy or obliterate you. The umma of Muhammad sa would never have been able to discharge the onus of (convey to the people what has been revealed to thee from thy Lord) had this promise [of protection] not been given to them. For, they would have been worried about the complete end of promulgation had the enemy destroyed them. God Almighty says that some of you may be killed; some of you may be destroyed; some of you may be imprisoned; some of you may be restricted not to preach your religion; some of you may be denied freedom of speech and some of you may be restrained freedom of pen, but on the whole the Muslim umma is under the protection of God Almighty against such trials and hardships. No such calamity will befall them which could wipe them out of existence. If you reflect you will realize that there was a time when any lunatic of Mecca could have slain the Holy Prophet sa had he not been under the Divine protection. That is to say, only one person was enough to wipe out Islam. Then, there came a time that if three thousand men had made up their minds to lay their lives they would have obliterated Islam. But God said that He would not grant that many number and that much strength to the opponents of Islam to strike a fatal blow to it. Thus, with about threefold they came for the battle of Badr; some Companions got martyred though, but they were not allowed to be wiped out. And God