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Session 38

Nahawand - Battle Begins

I (ra) shall (now) reinforce you with (another) 2000 men. They are Amr ibn Ma'a' dikarib (rah) and Tulayha (rah), as per Umar (ra).

The Companions faced 'A mountain of Iron- Persians' (Tabaree).

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Session 37

The Battle of Nahaawind 21 A.H.

The Binder is sent to Isfahan - Nu'maan ibn

Muqarrin (ra), the son of The Badri Hadrat Ubayd ibn

Aus (ra) Al Ansari.

Nu'maan (ra) rejects govnership & authority preferring martyrdom.

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Session 36

We observe that the tactics employed by the Muslims were highly flexible, changing as the situation demanded.

On the 1st day of battle they fought the elephants first by pelting them with arrows and then cutting off their saddles which made the animals

flee.

(Secondly)

Whilst waiting for reinforcements from Ash-Shaam, the leaders of those reinforcements let their brigades arrive in batches to make the enemy believe the size of the new army to be much larger

than it really was.

Another (ie third) innovative technique employed was that the Muslims dressed their camels in cloaks and attached bells to them this made them appear as elephants to the enemy's horses which duly fled in fright.

(Fourthly)

On the 3rd day however they changed their tactics, by attacking the largest of their elephants.

They attacked it in a platoon consisting of infantry and cavalry both.

Finally they pierced its eyes and cut its trunk making it flee back along with the other elephants.

This then levelled the field for both armies , as the Persians lost their flagship elephants.

(Fifthly)

When the Muslims sensed that the battle would drag on, they then decided to launch an all-out attack, charging forward and targeting their leader specifically.

The Persians continued to put up a fight until the Muslims were able to kill Rustum.

His demise led to a sudden collapse of their will to fight and resulted in a conclusive defeat for them.

Hence we see that the Muslim's syle of conducting warfare was not limited to textbook methods, instead it was highly adaptive and innovative.

The above was a glimpse of the strategy and tactics employed by Muslims in Qaadiseeyah.

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Session 35

Rustum in a grim state declares...

The enemy has now taken your land without doubt This is what the son of the hairdresser (ie referring to the Persian emperor for his mother was indeed a hairdresser) has done to the country. The enemy has now snatched away the keys of the kingdom!' (Tabaree).

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Session 34

Qaadiseeyah

Rustum offers Mugeerah (ra) clothing and gold coins so as to leave Persia.

The Muslims & Persians engage at Qaadiseeyah.

Mugeerah (ra) says...

'(Remember) I would not have come to your had your not sent for me but today I can see that your sovereignty is soon to vanish and that vou will be vanquished because no power can survive with such away of life and with such a mentality.

(Hearing this) The common people shouted,

"The Arab is right!

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Session 33

The Predicament of Rustum

Mugeerah (ra) invites Rustum the Persian to Islam, he recognises the truth but his people do not, the same predicament as the Roman Emperor Heraclius.

The second emissary converses with Rustum, Ribee ibn Aamir (ra) and states...

Allah (SWT) has sent us to remove those whom He (SWT) Wills

Fom the slavery of man to the slavery of Allah (SWT).

To remove them from the narrowness of this world towards its vastness.

And;

From the oppression of other religions towards the justice of Islaam.

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Session 32

Mugeerah (ra) loses an eye at Yarmook.

Qadisseyah

Against the 20,000 Muslims, the Persians had mobilised a force of around 200,000 men under the leadership of Rustum, one of their most brilliant commanders.

Rustam himself had seen in a dream that an Angel (as) descended from the heavens placed a seal on the weapons of the Persians and then handed them over to The Messenger ﷺ.

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Session 31

Mugeerah (ra) participates in Yamaamah,

Yarmmok & Qadisseyah.

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Session 30

Yassar (ra) the Abyssinan who diverts punishment from the earths inhabitants. He often swept and cleaned the Masjid (Tirmidhi).

There will never cease to be in my Ummah seven (elite souls), and they will never ask Allah (SWT) without Him answering them.

By means of them, you are given rain, victory and protection (Musanaaf).

"The Abdaal are 40 men and 40 women.." (Daylamee).

The Abdaal are from Ash-Shaam,

The Nujaba' are from Egypt.

And;

The Isaabah (ie the elite righteous servants) are, from Iraq (Ibn Assakir).

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Session 29

The marriages of Mugeerah (ra).