Angels In Their Presence | Season 2
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What happened during the battles of Hunayn and Khandaq? As the Muslims’ stomachs rolled in fear and nerves, Allah sent help in the most miraculous of ways: through the armies of angels.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. While there is never another battle that has the amount of angels that the battle of Badr has, you have to realize that in all of the battles, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is pleased with the believers. Uhud has an exception and that's the second half of it. Hunayn, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentions that some of the believers took it for granted because of the large size of their numbers. However, the way the mala'ika play a role in each one of these battles has to be noted. And so I want to actually talk about two incidents and what happens in between. Al-Khandaq and then Hunayn. Al-Khandaq of course was a time when Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la was extremely pleased with the believers, right? They are putting everything on the line and they are surrounded from all directions and they have, you know, the external thing to worry about, which is the largest army they've ever heard of. And they have internal treason to worry about as well. And all the while they're being starved. They are going through a lot of difficulty in Al-Khandaq. And Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha describes a scene of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that when he came home after the battle of Al-Khandaq and he took a bath, Jibreel Alayhi As-Salam came to the door. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam came to the door as well. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam described Jibreel Alayhi As-Salam in his full armor, in his full angelic armor, whatever that would look like. And he was shaking the dust off of his head and he said, qad wadaAAtas silaah wallahi ma wadaAAtu that you have laid down your arms, O Messenger of Allah. I have not laid them down, meaning there's still something that has to happen here. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said ila ayn, where to? faashara ila bani quraidah
Jibreel Alayhi As-Salam pointed towards Bani Quraidah where there was treason that was taking place. So Jibreel Alayhi As-Salam is coming to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and saying we still have to proceed to this direction. Anas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu describes then when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam comes out of his home and he starts to make his way towards Bani Quraidah. He says that I could see the dust and the sand just kicking up into the sky because of the marching of Jibreel Alayhi As-Salam's procession when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was going out to Bani Quraidah. So you could see in Bani Ghanm, a very particular area in Medina, just all of the earth kicking up because of Jibreel Alayhi As-Salam and that mighty army of the angels making their way towards Bani Quraidah. Now what's happening in other parts? There's a man by the name of Saeed bin Shuhaym. He was actually part of a tribe from Murrah that was of those that had conspired to come from outside and assist on the inside to attack the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam with Bani Quraidah. So he was a disbeliever at the time and he says that they were coming from the inside to harm the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. They were conspiring and as they were approaching, they heard an announcement to their army that said, Oh people, your families are under attack. And so all of them returned back and while they were returning back, they realized that that voice that they heard was not a human voice. So SubhanAllah, even the enemies were being told to go back and your families are under attack. And that of course deterred them from continuing inwards to harm the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam from the inside. There's another narration also from someone that was on the other side, Sa'ib bin Yasar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhum. He relates, he said that I asked Yazid bin Amr radiAllahu Anhu, who at that time was again on the other side. He was fighting against the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
I said, what was it like for you during the Battle of Hunayn when you were fighting against the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam? What happened to you and to the disbelievers when you were fighting against us in the Battle of Hunayn, fighting against the Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam? So he said, what was the feeling? And Yazid said, we felt fear and he took some pebbles, some stones and he started to throw them into a platter. So he's basically shaking a bunch of stones on a platter and he says, this is what our stomachs were like. Kunna najidu fee ajwaafina misal hadha, like we felt this in our stomachs because of what we were encountering on the other side with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Another man by the same, in the same position, Auf bin Abdur Rahman, he says that when we were fighting the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam on the day of Hunayn, he said as we were about to attack him, now remember in Hunayn, if you go back and you read the details of that battle, I mean, even though it was a large number of people that went out because of the ambushes on the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and his army, it was only a few people that were left in the battlefield. It became a very dangerous situation because of all that had been prepared for them. So he says, as we were about to attack the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, we saw these beautiful men that were huge that came up to us and they said, shahatil wujuh, they said, may your faces be disgraced, farji'u, go back. And he says, hazimna min dhalikal kalam, he said, it was the roar of those words from those huge, handsome men that we had never seen before that caused us to be defeated. So we turned back and we were defeated. Jubayr ibn Mut'im radiAllahu ta'ala Anwi says when we were with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in the battle of Hunayn and the battle was raging, he said, I looked up in the sky and I saw what appeared to be a black blanket that was descending from the heavens. And we were all just staring up and looking as it was coming down and it landed right between us and the enemies.
And what came out of it? A bunch of ants that scattered about. And he said that caused the enemy to panic. And he said, we had no doubt as the Muslims that these were in fact the mala'ika that were being sent by Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So you see incident after incident where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la sends these angels, sends these troops, and no one knows the junood, no one knows the armies of Allah except for him. And the angels are only one part of that assistance that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la sends to his believers.
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