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And the past is recurred
[I
was made a witness to the caravan of travelers to you
The necks of the people of the two miseries are reaped]
(46/7)
Attribute
every
saying to the Qur'an: in order to understand this topic, we will
review some verses before the verse that we are talking about, which
is indicated in this qasida verse. These verses are: Bismillah
ar-Rahmaam ar-Raheem [they ask you about the spoils of war,
say: The spoils of war belongs to Allah and the Messenger, so, fear
Allah and reconcile the enmity amongst you and obey Allah and His
Messenger if you were believers ¤ Truly, the believers are those
whose hearts tremble whenever Allah is being Dhikr, and when His
revelations are recited unto them, it increases their faith, and
they trust in Allah ¤ those who keep up the prayers and spend of
that We have bestowed on them ¤ Those are the true believers who
have high ranks with their Lord, forgiveness and generous provision
¤ Even as your Lord caused you to go forth from your home with the
Truth, and lo! a party of the believers were averse ¤ Disputing with
you of the Truth after it had been made manifest, as if they were
being driven to death while seeing it ¤ And when Allah
promised you one of the two bands, that it should be yours, and you
longed that other than the armed one be yours. And Allah willed that
He should cause the Truth to triumph by His words, and cut the root
of the disbelievers ¤ That He might cause the Truth to
triumph and bring vanity to naught, however much the guilty might
hate it]
al-Anfal 8:1-8.
The topic of these verses is related to the people of Badr when they
 disagreed about dividing the spoils; some of them said that it
should be for Muhajerin because of their poverty, others said that
it should be for Ansar because of their support, and others said it
should for Allah and the Messenger [PPBUH],
that is; it should be divided by the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH],
just as Allah Almighty commands Him. The obedience of the command of
Allah, in that verse, stops the disagreement that separates the
nation. Then Allah, Almighty, said [So, fear Allah]
that is; in the fight and dispute [and reconcile the enmity
amongst you] with the consoling, the cordiality and the kind
clear hearts [and obey Allah and His Messenger] in
what He [PPBUH]
orders you to do. In order not to expand for you, we say that the
topic is limited to the obedience, the reconciliation, discarding
the disagreement and going out to the Jihad, if required, against
what was described as "the possessor of power", which is hated.
Allah will to show the Truth, which is the religion, and to annul
the falsehood, which is the disbelief [when you sought help of
your Lord then He answered you: I will support you with thousand of
the angels, successive]
al-Anfal 8:9,
that is; when you found yourself as few in number in the face of the
enemy, you prayed to your Lord for the succor and support. Then
Allah, Almighty, answered supported, strengthened and increased you
with a thousand angels successively following one another. This was
not but a good tiding, for the believers' hearts to be reassured and
to harvest the necks of miserable people in this worldly life and
the hereafter. In this context, the one whose hearing is the hearing
of Allah and whose sight is the sight of Allah…etc "the Hadith",
says:
[I
was made a witness to the caravan of travelers to you
The necks of the people of the two miseries are reaped] (46/7)
We say
that no wonder about him seeing, with the eyes of Allah, the greater
battle of Badr and what has happened in it, but the wonder comes in
the second verse when he says:
[the
Lord inspired to the angels to make them stand firm;
I will throw and the past is recurred]
(46/8)
And
here, stop and look attentively at the meaning of "and the past is
recurred". As the Lord Almighty said in His Holy Book [When
your Lord inspired the angels: I am with you, so make those who
believed stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who
disbelieved. So, smite over the necks and smite of them each
finger-tip]
al-Anfal 8:12.
Some
may say that "the past" which is "recurred" is what happened of
Allah's victory to his Prophets [PBUT]
and the others wish if they were of the people of Badr. We say to
both of them "That is Allah's custom with His creation and it did
not go away as the trials are still there. And the connection
between heaven and earth did not stop, after Allah concluded the
 messengers and prophets with sending sayyduna Mohammad [PPBUH].
For Allah, Almighty; (sends for this nation at the head of every
one hundred years, someone who renews its religion) "Hadith"
said by the Beloved [PPBUH].
So, whosever wants to be from People of Badr, he should take the
initiative in obeying his Lord, discarding the disagreement,
spreading the spirit of cordiality among Muslims and reconcile the
enmity among them. We say to everyone that "the past is recurred"
with everyone sent by Allah to guide the people, and if they turned
away, refused and started to fight the rightly guided ones, then "the
past will recur". Otherwise what is the use of reminding us in
Qur'an and by Imams? The next qasida verse to the last one confirms
that. This verse is:
[If
an army came marching to me, it would turn away, right away
deflecting, to plot against me but then it would fall in the
plot]
(46/9)
Because he [AAH]
is a Prophetic inheritor and one of those whom Al-Mustafa [the
chosen one] [PPBUH]
said about them (Allah sends for this nation at the head of every
one hundred years, someone who renews its religion). The Prophet
[PPBUH]
also said (You should stick to my Sunna and the Sunna of the
rightly guided orthodox Caliphs after me, bite on it with the molars
and fangs). And as He [AAH]
represents the Prophet [PPBUH]
in his era and he is his deputy and his successor, and so, he [AAH]
says:
[We
inherited from him even what they charged him with
so, whoever spared him, spared us]
(89/17)
Then
what is the battle now? Is it being enemy to the saints of Allah
instead of being cordial to them? They want to tear down the shrines
of Ahl-al-Bayt [The Household of the Prophet [PPBUT]],
they accuse the visitor to the saints of being disbelievers. Thus
they are tearing the tissue of the nation and weakening it. On the
other hand the Prophet [PPBUH]
and his successors want to have the unity, the intimacy, the love
and the cordiality that Allah, Almighty, imposed in His Holy Book.
Then he [AAH]
said:
[If
an army came marching to me, it would turn away, right away
deflecting, to plot against me but then it would fall in the
plot]
(46/9)
That
is; whosoever came marching wanting the separation, the enmity and
hatred among the Muslims and wanting to beat the truth… as the
battle in each age was and still is between the truth and the
falsehood and the truth in every era is nothing but a prophet or a
saint and the falsehood is nothing but the devil and his supporters
of the humans. So whosoever came marching against the truth aiming
for the falsehood, he would turn away right away and will never get
his desire. And if he deviate to plot against the truth, he will be
plotting no one but himself. About this meaning Allah, Almighty,
says [Or seek they to ensnare? But those who disbelieve, they
are the ensnared!]
at-Tawr 52:42,
then the Imam and the teacher says in the following verse:
[Except
cordiality, we never asked our beloved for,
as
cordiality is a sublimity and rationality]
(46/10)
 The
battle is between the alienation and cordiality. Satan wants
alienation, separation, and charge with infidelity, while the
inheriting Imam [AAH]
wants cordiality, love and intimacy. History recurs and repeats
itself; as the people of Badr were few in face of the falsehood, and
today the people of denial are many and the people of faith are few;
however Allah, who sent the angles for fighting the people of
falsehood and supporting the Companions [AAT],
is of course, able to grant victory to the believers against the
people of denial who are happy with their large number nowadays.
As
cordiality is the sublimity, highness, rationality, and adherence to
the rope of Allah, Almighty. In this cordiality is the intimacy
between hearts, brotherhood, and rescue from hell.
And if
you want to know more about cordiality, read the articles of
"Cordiality" in the previous issues, and take the initiative with
carrying out what the Imam of your time asked you do, which is
cordiality, and then you will be happy and you will be from the
current's people of Badr. May Allah, Almighty, make us from them and
may He join us with Ahl-al-Bayt of the Beloved Prophet [PPBUT].
Until
the next issue, ISA, Allah's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.
Peace and prayers be upon sayyduna Mohammad, his Household and
Companions.
Written by Mohamed Maqboul.
Translated by Fatima az-Zahraa
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