Remember Allah’s blessing upon you when hosts came against you…” Then...

📌Remember Allah’s blessing upon you when hosts came against you…” Then, it continues saying: “…so We sent upon them a strong wind and hosts, that you saw not, and Allah sees what you do.” Points Worthy to Be Noted 1- The application of the Qur’anic phrase: /’uŏkuru/ (remember) shows that these holy verses were revealed after the end of the Battle when some length of time had passed during which the Muslims could contemplate over what they had seen in that Battle and analysed them so that it had a deep effect in them.

2- The application of the word /junud/ points to different clans of the Age of Ignorance[^2] and the Jews of Medina inside the city. 3- The purpose of “ hosts that you saw not. ”, who came to help the Muslims, is the same angels whose help to the believers in the Battle of Badr has also explicitly been mentioned in the Qur’an, but, as it was said in the commentary of verse No.

9 from Surah Al-’Anfal, there is not any evidence that these angels, these unseen Divine forces, had formally participated in the Battle and started fighting. But there are some hints which show that they came down for strengthening the spirit of the believers and to encourage them.

Surah Al-’Ahzab – Verses 10-11 اِذْ جَآءُوكُمْ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَمِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنكُمْ وَاِذْ زَاغَتِ الأَبْصَارُ وَبَلَغَتِ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَنَاجِرَ وَتَظُنُّونَ بِاللَّهِ الظُّنُونَاْ هُنَالِكَ ابْتُلِيَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَزُلْزِلُوا زِلْزَالاً شَدِيداً 10. “When they came against you from above you and from below you, and when the eyes swerved and the hearts reached to the throats, and you did imagine about Allah diverse thoughts,” 11.

“There it was that the believers were tried, and they were shaken a tremendous shaking.” You can taste the sweetness of the graces of Allah when you depict the bitter scenes before you. The spiritual moods affect on the body. (Fear causes the ordinary function of the eyes and the heart to be disturbed.

For example, the eye becomes terrified and the pulse of the heart becomes fast.) This holy verse illustrates the dangerous situation of the Battle of ’Ahzab, the great power of the enemy’s army, and the intensive anxiety of a lot of Muslims.

It implicitly says that you may remember when the enemies entered your city from above you and from below you and surrounded Medina and when the eyes swerved because of fear and the hearts reached to the throats and you imagined badly about Allah with diverse thoughts.

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