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The invasion of Mo'eta

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By Dr Ahamed Moslem Shaltoot

Translated by Fawzi Al-Shamsi

Revised by Magdy Abd Al-SHafy

The Holly Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) sent, with Alhare


th Iben Umair Al-Azdari
, a message to Hercules, the  ruler of Busra.
Nevertheless, the messenger didn’t arrive because that
Shurahbeel Iben Amr Alghassani
, one of Hercules's princes in Alsham,

  killed him in a place called Mu'ta when he saw him.


Actually, this was the only murdered messenger of the
Holly Prophet Muhammad PBUH. However, the prophet
was very angry because of  this heinous deed. Therefore,
he sent Zaid Iben
Haritha with
three thousand soldiers under his leadership , in Jamada

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Alawal in 8.A.H.  Prophet Mohummed gave the leader of


the army the following instructions :

"If Zaid is killed, Jaffar Iben Abi Talleb will be the leader,
and if he is killed, A
bdullah
will be the leader, and if he is killed, Muslims should
choose a leader for them."

However, the Prophet saw off the army and he said:


"Invade in the name of Allah and fight in  His cause ,don’t
hurt the people whom you find in hermitages ,don’t kill a
woman or a child or an aged man. Never ever cut a plant
or a palm. And don’t destroy a building."

  The prophet's instruction to the commander Zaid Ben


Haritha Al-kalbi
shows: the Islamic magnanimity, noble principles, and

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the adherence to reform the whole disgrace of human


society .

This is because that he asked them not to hurt priests,


aged people, patients, women, children, houses and
farms. The Islamic wars, which were distinguished by
these instructions in the 1st .A.H. lead us to compare
between this situation and what we have seen in the
wars of the last 1400 years, which destroyed the houses,
places of worships, schools and hospitals, as the case is
in Afghanistan and Palestine. The Zionists and crusaders
were very savage barbarians throughout  history ; these
noble Islamic principles of wars didn't exist in their wars
with Muslims and non-Muslims and even among
themselves.

The Islamic army arrived at Ma'an, in south of Syria.


At that time, the Romans heard about the Islamic
coming and they were will prepared. Their number
was between 100,000 and 200,000 soldiers. The
Muslims camped  two nights in Ma'an thinking of
 the enemy army that outnumbered them . Then, Ab
dullah Ben Abi Rauaha

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stood and said:

"O people, you fear what you went for, the


martyrdom . And we don’t fight others using our
courage or number; rather we fight by our religion
which God gifted us with . Therefore, go to attain
either of the  two  choices : martyrdom , which is
better , or victory"

Here, Muslims said " you are right, O Abdullah."

Then, they went to Mu'ta village and the fight was


very harsh. At that time, Zaid be Haritha took the
flag, as the prophet said, and fought until he  met
his martyrdom , then the flag went to
Jaffar Ben Abi Talleb , who also fought bravely until
he met his
martyrdom, and finally to
Abdullah Ben Abi
 

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Rauaha who also fought till he met his martyrdom .


After that, Muslims chose
Khaled Ben Alwaleed
,
The Sword of God
as prophet Mohummed nicknamed him , to be their
leader. Khaled made a very intelligent maneuver
and Muslims could go back to their home, whereas
Romans were very tired from the battle and they
couldn’t even follow the Muslims. The battle lasted
seven days, and the number of the Muslims' killed
soldiers was 12 whereas Romans lost hundreds of
soldiers.

This battle, however, was the first between Muslims


and Romans, who were very experienced in wars.

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Despite the fact that the enemy outnumbered the


Moslem both in number and weapons , This war ,
launched by Moslems , wasn’t a suicide or even
rashness. Rather, it was to pay the price of dignity
and honesty, and to raise the voice of Islam
between those Romans who persisted in
underestimating Islam.

Thus, Romans realized the Islamic high will in


fighting and this made them afraid despite their
superiority in arms and soldiers.

Abdullah Ben Omar said:" I was in that battle and


we searched for Jaffar Ben Abi Talleb, and when we
found him we found that he had about ninety stabs
in his body". This denotes 
how high  the will of Muslims who fought to death
was ; they aspired for  one of the two best choices :
martyrdom  or victory.   ----never will we lose this
spirit of Jihad as long as we adhere to Quran .

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A comment by Feras , the supervisor

There is a great inimitability in the Prophet's speech


when he told his companions about the successive
martyrdom  of the three leaders in Mu'ta. This is
clear when he said :

If Zaid is killed, Jaffar Iben Abi Talleb will be the


leader, and if he is killed,
Abdullah
will be the leader, and if he is killed, Muslims should
choose a leader for them.

This happened exactly as the Prophet Muhammad


(PBUH) prophesied . And the question now is: who
taught him these unknown things?

He is absolutely God.

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