Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 618
UNVEILING OF THE ‘UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN – A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE * اَمْ يَقُوْلُوْنَ نَحْنُ جَمِيْعٌ مُنْتَصِرٌ * سَيُهْزَمُ الْجَمْعُ وَيُوَلُّوْنَ الدُّبُرَ السَّاعَةُ مَوْعِدُهُمْ وَالسَّاعَةُ اَدْهَى وَاَمَرُّ * 47-54:45 بَلِ. Do they say, 'We are a victorious host?". The hosts shall soon be routed and will turn their backs in flight. . Aye, the Hour is their appointed time; and the Hour will be most calamitous and most bitter. '. The devastating defeat inflicted upon the Meccan army was clearly predicted in the verses quoted above. The last of these verses highlights for them the bitterness of the. Hour. . The very pick of the chieftains, the sworn enemies of. Islam, who were also renowned for their hatred of the Holy. Propheta, fell one after the other and were made to bite the dust in the field of Badr. . Abu-Jahl was slain by two young Muslim lads, so also. Shaibah and ‘Utbah met their fated hour and were put to sword within a few hours. The night fell upon the gloomy hearts of the Meccans like Doomsday. They were put to flight in utter disarray. It is this humiliating defeat which is referred to in the following verse of Surah Al-Anfāl: 580 وَاذْ يَعِدُكُمُ اللهُ احْدَى الطَّائِفَتَيْن أَنَّهَا لَكُمْ وَتَوَدُّونَ أَنْ غَيْرَ ذَات الشَّوْكَةِ تَكُونُ لَكُمْ وَيُريدُ الله أنْ يُحِقَّ الْحَقَّ بِكَلِمـ * وَيَقْطَعَ دَابِرَ الْكَفِرِينَ ته. I 8:8. And remember the time when Allah promised you one of the two parties that it should be yours, and you wished that one without sting should be yours, but Allah desired to establish the truth by His words and to cut off the root of the disbelievers. ³