The Prophet (PBUH) Gave Glad Tidings during the Hardest of Situations


What we,
Muslims, need today is a change of understanding; we need to step out
of our time and place and see our situation in light of the laws that
Allah placed for His creation, and the guidance that He sent His
Messenger (PBUH) with. "And don't be weak in the pursuit of the enemy;
if you are suffering (hardships) then surely, they (too) are suffering
(hardships) as you are suffering, but you have a hope from Allah (for
the reward, i.e. Paradise) that for which they hope not, and Allah is
Ever All-Knowing, All-Wise." (Holy Qur'an, 4:104)

In
this verse we can see the glad tidings given to the true believers in
the hardest of moments. We may think at times there is no exit for the
Ummah (nation), but we have to remember that Allah, the Almighty, has
promised victory to this Ummah, a victory He will bring when He wants,
due to His Wisdom.

Our
situation is one of weakness and we know it will change to one of
strength. Imam Ahmad was quoted as saying that the Falsehood will not
be manifest over the Truth until our hearts leave the Truth. We are
certain, when we fulfill the conditions of victory, that the Truth will
be manifest over the Falsehood. We know it is near. By Allah, it is
close, as even the Day of Judgment is referred to as "Tomorrow."

The
following are three dire situations from the Prophet's Seerah
(biography) during which he reassured and gave glad tidings to his
followers.

The Prophet (PBUH) in Ta'if

When
the harm and plotting of Quraish increased, after the death of the
Prophet's uncle and wife, he headed to Ta'if hoping that he might find
in that trip greater attentiveness and support for his message.
Instead, they turned him away in a very impolite manner. They
encouraged their boys to stone him. They stoned him until his noble
feet were bleeding.
The
Prophet (PBUH) turned his face towards Makkah with fresh determination
to resume his earlier plan to expose people to Islam and communicate
his Message in a great spirit of zeal and matchless enthusiasm.

Zaid bin Harithah, his companion, said to the
Prophet (PBUH) : 'How dare you step into Makkah after they (Quraish)
have expatriated you?' The Prophet (PBUH) answered: 'Allâh will surely
provide relief and He will verily support His religion and Prophet.'"

The Prophet (PBUH) with Abu Bakr during the Hijrah (their way to Madinah after leaving Makkah)

The
notables of Makkah convened an emergency session to determine the
future course of action and explore all areas that could help arrest
the Prophet and Abu Bakr. They decided to block all avenues leading out
of Makkah and imposed heavy armed surveillance over all potential
exits. A price of 100 camels was set upon the head of each one.
Horsemen, infantry and tracers of tracks scoured the country.

Once
they even reached the cave where the Prophet (PBUH) and Abu Bakr were
hiding. When he saw the enemy at a very close distance, Abu Bakr
whispered to the Prophet (PBUH): 'What, if they were to look through
the crevice and detect us?' The Prophet (PBUH) in his God-inspired calm
replied: 'Silence Abu Bakr! What do you think of those two with whom
the Third is Allâh?'

It was really a Divine miracle; the chasers were only few steps from the cave.

The Battle of the Ditch

It
was the winter season, the air was cold and there was a food crisis in
Medina, which was about to come under a brutal siege, and there is
nothing more deadly to the spirit of resistance than despair, for if
the besieged were to be exposed to its violent bouts, the way of
humiliating surrender would be the only alternative.

For
this reason, the Prophet (PBUH) strove hard to arouse the moral
strength of his men to the highest pitch so that they'd feel certain
that the trial which faced them was just a passing cloud which would
soon disperse, and thereafter Islam would resume its march and people
would enter into it in large numbers, and the strongholds of tyranny
would crumble before it and no plots would come from them nor would any
evil be feared from them. It is a rule of politics that this wide hope
should accompany the stages of ceaseless effort.

Another
illustrious preternatural example went to the effect that an obstinate
rock stood out as an immune obstacle in the ditch. The Prophet (PBUH)
took the spade and struck, and the rock immediately turned into a loose
sand dune.

So when the confederates swept down upon Medina
and laid a tight siege around it, the Muslims didn't give up in despair
but faced the bitter reality with unshakeable hope in a noble future.
"And when the true believers saw the clans, they said: this is that
which Allah and His Messenger promised us. Allah and His Messenger are
true. And it increased them only in faith and acceptance." (Holy
Qur'an, 33:22)

As
for the weaklings, the doubters and the sick of heart, they made fun of
the promises of victory and thought them to be the desires of deluded
people, and they said to the Prophet's companions: 'He tells you that
he sees from Yathrib the palaces of Heerah and the city of Kisra, while
you are there digging the ditch and you cannot pass stool (for fear).'

About
them Allah says, "And when the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is
a disease (of doubts,) said: 'Allah and His Messenger promised us
nothing but delusion!" (Holy Qur'an, 33:12)

Twelve or thirteen years later, the Prophet's promise about Persia
came true. Maybe it should be noted here that the hypocrites of today
are also telling us that Allah has promised us nothing but delusion.
Allah says, "Allah is predominant over his affair, but most of the
people do not know." (Holy Qur'an, 12:21)

The Prophet (PBUH) Gave Glad Tidings during the Hardest of Situations

The Prophet (PBUH) Gave Glad Tidings during the Hardest of Situations
بسم الله ما شاء الله عليكم
موضوع جميل
زادك الله علما
ونور بصرتكم واكثر الله من امثالكم
وثبتنا واياكم على دين الحق
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