Re: Early Battles in Islam ; my evolution perception & Thesis
Sorry for the delay in compilation. It was due to busy ness in last few days. As you know the stuff is not copy-paste material, so delay in writing is natural.
I will Respond to posts of members after completion of this post, inshallah.
(spell check is off. there are spelling mistake in my posts. sorry)
Ghazwa - e Khayber
This was the very first war of Muslims against jews. Basically our leader wanted to avoid this confrontation and for this reason, early years they signed various accords with them to keep them in their limits. Some tribe stayed withing threshold others betrayed and supported enemy. This is quite a long story. Anyone can get hold by studying history.
Coming back to Khayber. The city is some 100 miles away from madina. Muslim went there to fight against those jewish trible who tried to stab muslim in back and isolated themselve in a strongly built fort. Muslim army despite having good number of soldier and weapons was unable to enter this fort, even weeks passed and they were feeling exhauted.
Then starts the interesting story. Prophet (pbuh) sent a messenger back to madina and Called his beloved companion to khayber. You all know then name. He was Hazrat Ali (ra)
That next day that event took place which turned the table in favour of muslim army.
Hazrat Ali woke up and reached the spot for combat. Told prophet that his eyes hurt. Prophet kissed his eyes and handed him the flag of muslim army and asked him to lead from the front. Then he marched alone towards the confined fort.
Interestingly, one of the leader of a jewish tribe Marhab, who was hugely well built wrestler. He came out only to fight Hazrat Ali. It was astonishing sight for muslim army in the back as they had not seen anyone opening the door in last few days.
Now what happend ???
Very interestingly the replica of that muslim history is portrayed in an english hollywood movie very well. I am talking about TROY
Watch the begining 20 minutes of the movies. How Achillies reached the battle field on call, and fought his opponent.. is almost the same to Hazrat Ali’ duel with Marhab …
This fight is almost a replication of that particular event at Khayber.