Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 129
sa. The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa walaqad naṣarakumullahu bi badriñwwa badriñwwa antum antum adhillatun fattaqullaha la'allakum tashkurūn. Idh laʻallakum tashkurun. Idh taqūlu lilmu'minina alañyyakfiyakum añyyumiddakum rabbukum bi thalathatin alafimminal mala'ikati munzalin. bala in taşbirū wa tattaqū wa ya'tu kummin faurihim hadha yumdidkum rabbukum bi khamsati alafimminal mala'ikati musawwimin. . And Allāh had already helped you at Badr when you were weak. So take Allāh for your Protector that you may be grateful. When you did say to the believers, 'Will it not suffice you that your Lord should help you with three thousand angels sent down from on high? Yes, if you be steadfast and righteous and they come upon you immediately in hot haste, your Lord will help you with five thousand angels, attacking vehemently. (3:124-126). Permission to take up arms in self-defense had been accorded in. Divine revelations: أُذِنَ لِلَّذِينَ يُقْتَلُونَ بِأَنَّهُمْ ظُلِمُوا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى نَصْرِهِمْ لَقَدِيرُ ) udhina lilladhına yuqātalūna bi annahum zulimū wa innallaha ‘ala nasrihim laqadir. Permission to fight is given to those against whom war is made, because they have been wronged - and Allāh indeed has power to help them. (22:40). According to the consensus of scholarly opinion this is the first verse which gave the Muslims permission to take up arms in self-defense. . The verse was revealed very early in Medina. . The next verse also lends support to this inference. It states that the permission to fight was given after the Muslims had been driven out of their hearths and homes. If, as some Commentators of the Qur'ān hold, the verse was revealed at Mecca, it must have been revealed immediately before Hijra when most of the Muslims had already emigrated to Medina 129