Q. & A. 711 to 1707 with solved Papers css 1971 to date

MajidAliKhan,P.183.

120
Political and Cultural History of Islam

The Battle of Uhud
121
broken. The enemies also sho\,er;d arrows upor; him. Despite all the barbarities of the non-believers, the merciful Holy Prophet (PBUH) neither cursed them nor did he think ill of them. He only said: ”How can a people be successful who dye the face of their Prophet with blood while he is calling them to Allah.” He prayed for them: ”O my Lord! Forf’ve my people, for they do not know.” This is the stage when ”History of Nations’ fails to produce such an example of mercy and prayer for the bitterest enemy.
However, the exhausted Muslims succeeded in repelling the enemy. The scattered Muslims assembled and the Holy Prophet (PBUH) went up the hill to command. The believers regained their self-confidence and dispersed the Makkhans. When the rumour of the death of the Holy Prophet (PBl /K> reached Mtdma, his daughter Fatimah rushed headlong to Uhud. She met her father over there and found that the blood was profusely gushing out. Hazrat Fatimah (Rad. A.) dressed the wounds. When the two armies withdrew from the battlefield, the Muslims were completely exhausted. But the Holy Prophet (PBUH) feared that the non-believers might re-attack the Muslims. Therefore he asked them to chase the enemy. Immediately a party of seventy persons, including Hazrat Abu Bakr and Hazrat Zubair offered their services and chased the retreating enemy.
While the frustrated Quraysh were retreating, some of them took their revenge by mutilating the corpses of Muslims in order to quench their thirst of hatred and passion. Some of the bodies were •nercilesbly mutilated and were hard to be recognized. As stated before, Hind, the wife of Abu Sufyan, tore out the heart and Siver of the great martyr, Hamzah, the uncle of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), and chewed them. Some other women of the non-believers, made a necklace of the ears, noses and other parts of the dead bodies of Muslims. The details of the battle are ignored here which could be seen in history books by: Ibn Hisham, Tabari, and Ibn Sa’d etc.; and also in Hadith books likes: ”Sahih al-Bukhari” and ”Sahih Muslim” etc. Some seventy Muslims were martyred in the battle of Uhud. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) never lost patience and courage and remained like an unmoved rock. The dead persons were buried, some of them without adequate shroud because of poverty.
. According to Hugh Kennedy, ”The military skill and tactics of Kitaiid bin Walid, the untimely blowing of wind, the Isck oi discipline and the negligence of duties by the soldiers constituted the iactors for the defeat of the Muslims in the battle of Uhud. Khalid
bin Walid, a great General, attacked the Muslims in the right moment when the latter left the most important strategic position of the battlefield. Their love of plunder proved stronger than their sense of duty. Moreo^ er, the Muslims could not distinguish their friends from their enemies on account of the blowing of wind. The defeat of Muhammad (PBUH) in the battle of Uhud was not a defeat in the true sense of the term. God wanted to examine his belief i, Him and in tnis the Holy Prophet proved himself successful. In spite of all troubles and dangers he stood firm in his mission. It was also a lesson to his followers who disobeyed his orders. In the subsequent battles they did not commit such mistakes.6