وَ إِذَا تِلْكَ الْأَنْوَارُ قَدْ أَضَاءَتْ مُعَسْكَرَنَا حَتَّى إِنَّهُ أَضْوَأُ مِنْ نِصْفِ النَّهَارِ وَ أَعْدَاؤُنَا فِي ظُلْمَةٍ شَدِيدَةٍ فَأَبْصَرْنَاهُمْ وَ عَمُوا عَنَّا فَفَرَّقَنَا زَيْدٌ عَلَيْهِمْ حَتَّى أَحَطْنَا بِهِمْ وَ نَحْنُ نُبْصِرُهُمْ وَ هُمْ لَا يُبْصِرُونَنَا فَنَحْنُ بُصَرَاءُ وَ هُمْ عُمْيَانٌ فَوَضَعْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ السُّيُوفَ فَصَارُوا بَيْنَ قَتِيلٍ وَ جَرِيحٍ وَ أَسِيرٍ And it was so that those lights had illuminated our soldiers until it was brighter than the middle of the day, and our enemies were in intense darkness.
We could see them, but they were blinded from us, and Zayd Bin Harisa separated us to go against them until we had surrounded them, and we could see them, but they could not see us, and we were seeing ones and they were blind ones. We unsheathed our swords upon them, and they came to be between the killed, and the injured, and the captive.
وَ دَخَلْنَا بَلَدَهُمْ فَاشْتَمَلْنَا عَلَى الذَّرَارِيِّ وَ الْعِيَالِ وَ الْأَثَاثِ وَ الْأَمْوَالِ [وَ] هَذِهِ عِيَالاتُهُمْ وَ ذَرَارِيُّهُمْ وَ هَذِهِ أَمْوَالُهُمْ وَ مَا رَأَيْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَعْجَبَ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْأَنْوَارِ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِ هَؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمِ الَّتِي عَادَتْ ظُلْمَةً عَلَى أَعْدَائِنَا حَتَّى مَكَّنَنَا مِنْهُمْ And we entered their city, so we rounded up the offspring and the dependants, and the belongings, and the wealth – and these are their dependants and their offspring, and this here is their wealth.
And, O Rasool-Allah -saww ! We have not seen anything stranger than those lights, from the mouths of these people, which returned the darkness upon our enemies until it enabled us from (being victorious over) them’.
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقُولُوا الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ عَلَى مَا فَضَّلَكُمْ بِهِ مِنْ شَهْرِ شَعْبَانَ هَذِهِ كَانَتْ غُرَّةَ شَعْبَانَ وَ قَدِ انْسَلَخَ عَنْهُمُ الشَّهْرُ الْحَرَامُ وَ هَذِهِ الْأَنْوَارُ بِأَعْمَالِ إِخْوَانِكُمْ هَؤُلَاءِ فِي غُرَّةِ شَعْبَانَ وَ أُسْلِفُوا لَهَا أَنْوَاراً فِي لَيْلَتِهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَقَعَ مِنْهُمُ الْأَعْمَالُ Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘Say, ‘The Praise is for Allah -azwj , Lord -azwj of the worlds’, upon what He -azwj has Graced you all with from the month of Shaban.
This was the night of the first of Shaban, and the Sacred month had passed away from them, these are the lights with the deeds of these brothers of yours during the first of Shaban. They sent forth the lights during its nights, before the deeds had even occurred from them’.