Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 620
UNVEILING OF THE 'UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN – A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE survival of the Muslims. The Quran describes their state as follows: إِذْ جَاءُوكُمْ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَمِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ وَإِذْ زَاغَتِ الْأَبْصَارُ وَبَلَغَتِ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَنَاجِرَ وَتَظُنُّونَ بِاللَّهِ الظُّنُوْنَا * هُنَالِكَ ابْتُلِيَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَزُلْزِلُوا زِلْزَالًا شَدِيدًا * وَإِذْ يَقُولُ الْمُنْفِقُونَ والَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبهمْ مَّرَضٌ مَّا وَعَدَنَا الله وَرَسُوله إِلَّا غُرُوراً . وَاذْ قَالَتْ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْهُمْ يَاهْلَ يَشرِبَ لَا مُقَامَ لَكُمْ فَارْجِعُوا وَيَسْتَأْذِنُ فَرِيقٌ مِنْهُمُ النَّبِيَّ يَقُوْلُوْنَ إِنْ بُيُوْتَنَا عَوْرَةٌ وَمَا هِيَ بِعَوْرَة إِنْ يُرِيدُونَ إِلَّا فِرَارًا * 14-33:11. When they came upon you from above you, and from below you, and when your eyes became distracted, and your hearts reached to the throats, and you thought diverse thoughts about Allah. . There and then were the believers sorely tried, and they were shaken with a violent shaking. . And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was a disease said, 'Allah and His Messenger promised us nothing but a delusion. ". And when a party of them said, 'O people of Yathrib (Medina), you have possibly no stand against the enemy, therefore turn back. ' And a section of them even asked leave of the Prophet, saying, 'Our houses are exposed and defenceless. ' And they were in truth not exposed. They only sought to flee away. 11. This battle has earned the title The Battle of the Ditch, because when the news reached Prophet Muhammadsa that almost all the Arab tribes had colluded to invade Medina for a final conclusive encounter to finish off Islam once and for all, the building of a barrier on the open side of Medina became an absolute must. The number of Muslims in. Medina at that time, by comparison to the invading hosts, was so small that it was absolutely impossible for them to prevent the enemy from entering Medina in an open battle. 582