THE EFFECTS OF THE BATTLE OF MUTAH The Battle of Mutah had some strange effects on the minds of different communities. The Muslims were not pleased with the return of their fellows without a apparent-victory. To them, there were only two ways
Victory or Martyrdom in the Path of Allah. The Christians neither
considered it their victory nor defeat. They were astonished by the courage, initiative and dash of Muslims. They thought that to make war \\ ith a people like that was to court cnttin a people who fought 1 ike 1 ions and eacli of whom seemed to possess many lives. Tney realised their strength through men like Ja’far who fought after botn arms had been cut oft” and Khalid who broke eight swords in a single afternoon. So the Romans \\ere in favour of leaving the Muslims alone but due to their arrogance thev coi.ld not declare peace, and the war went on Hov ever, the Jews and the nonbelievers were happy at the apparent catastrophe of the Muslims Tliex reached so far that they started to think abc jt the fall of Muslims at the hands of Romans. Therefore, they conspired to harass the Holy Piophet (PBUH) in the South while his men were engaged in the North with the Romans.1 H.G. Sarwar says, ”The onl> peopl< who, like fools, exulted over the apparent catastrophe of the Muslims at Mutah were the Jexvs and the Makkhan unbelievers. TNO lesson was enough for them. The\ vaiiily imagined that the days of Muhammad (PBUI1) were numbered and that the Romans would soon eat him up, so to say, ”t was, therefore, tune to start harassing him in the south whilst his men wtre engaged in the north.’’0
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