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- When you talk about the Battle of Badr,
as we said, there are Khasa'is
there are these specific miracles,
specific companions that were honored
and then there is the general outpouring
of angels that come.
Now we talked about Abu Bakr radiAllahu Anhu
and Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and the way
that Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
and Mika'eel Alayhi Salaam are attached
to those two in specific.
But I wanna talk about before Badr,
another honor that is bestowed upon one man,
and the entire preparation of Badr, you know,
the day of Badr, is an encounter with the angels as a whole.
First of all, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
spent the entire night before
crying to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa ta'ala,
praying to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa ta'ala,
asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa ta'ala for His support.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa ta'ala mentions
Ith tastagheethoona rabbakum fastajabalakum
when you called upon your Lord, so He answered you
annee mumiddukum bi-alfin mina almala-ikatimurdifeen
that I am going to support you
with 1000 of my angels, one after the other.
And so the way that the Ulema
explained this is that first it was 1000,
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
continued to pray
and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa ta'ala continued to respond.
So Allah sent another 2000 and then 'mur'difīn'
the rows behind another 2000 behind those 2000.
So if you do the math 1000 1st,
and then another 2000 and behind those 2000, another 2000,
so in total, that's where the number 5,000 angels total
comes from the Quran,
that 5,000 angels came down on the day of Badr.
What does 5,000 angels look like
when that is almost five times the entire population
of human beings on the battlefield at that time?
SubhanAllah and if you've been to Badr,
it's not a very large battlefield.
So the angels are basically occupying
every spot in the battlefield and around the battlefield.
And they all come out at one time
and you can feel the presence of them arriving.
Abu Said Radiallahu ta'ala anhu,
he was a companion who fought in the battle of Badr
and he was blind later on in life.
And he said, Lau Kuntu Ma'akumul Aana Bi Badrin,
Wa Maee BaSaree
He said, "If I was with you," he's talking to his students.
If I was with you right now, in Badr,
and I had my eyesight, I would show you
Ash shi'bilathi Kharajat Minhul Malaa'ikah
I would show you the exact valley,
the exact place that all of the angels came out from.
We felt their presence arrive in the skies from the valley.
And SubhanAllah they took the form of our companions.
What does that mean?
Some of them came up to us in the form of our companions,
but we knew that they weren't our companions.
We knew they weren't human beings, right?
And they were walking up to us and saying to us,
Abshiroo, FaInnahum Laisuu BiShay', Wallahu Ma'Akum
Glad tidings to you. That side they're nothing.
And Allah is with you.
So the angels were coming to us
in the form of our human companions
and telling us to have the Thabat
telling us to be firm, telling us to have the glad tidings,
that this is going to play out
in a way that is going to be
to the detriment of the other side.
You have nothing to worry about,
that as soon as the swords start to strike,
the malāʾikah are going to be with you
because Allah sent the angels to be with you.
And that's why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says
that Shaytan had a really bad day on the day of Badr.
In fact, it was the worst day of his existence, right?
So you look at Shaytan,
the Prophet SallAllahu alaihi Wasallam mentions
that the worst day of the year for Shaytan
annually is Arafah, he hates Arafah.
Why does he hate Arafah?
Because, and we're talking about Iblees, the devil, right?
He has sent his troops to work on these believers,
to destroy them, right, for the entire year,
their entire lifetimes.
And here they are on the day of Arafah
and Allah forgives them all.
So undoes all of their work,
all of the work of the Shayateen.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
that's his worst day, is the day of Arafah, except for Badr.
Why? Amaa Innahu Qad Raa'a Jibreel Yaza'ul Mala'ikah
Shaytan looked across and he saw Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
putting the angels in the rows.
Okay, so Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
was commanding the army of the angels.
When Shaytan saw that,
Shaytan knew that this was over, right?
This was over before it started.
And in fact, even Allah speaks to that.
nakasaAAala AAaqibayhi waqala innee baree-on minkum
inneeara ma la tarawn
Shaytan who was pumping them up, the other side,
when he saw Jibreel Alayhi Salaam ,
it's like he threw his arms up
and he turned back on his heels.
And he said to the mushrikeen,
he said to the disbelievers,
"I have nothing to do with you people.
I see what you don't see."
Meaning this battle's over.
Okay so Shaytan gave up on the battle before it even started
after he was giving them the 'hirs'
this determination to actually go forward
on the day of Badr.
Now how did this happen right?
Some of the narrations say that Shaytan
took the form of a warrior,
particularly the form of Suraaqah ibn Maalik
And he's calling out to them from behind and saying,
you might as well turn back
because this army is going to defeat you.
Abu Jahal responded and Abu Jahal
shouted out and said, he's lying.
This is all just the plan of deception
from Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and his companions to stop you from going forward.
And that's one of the reasons why the ulema say
that Abu Jahal is the Fir'oun of this ummah.
He's the Fir'oun of this ummah.
He's the Pharaoh of this ummah,
because that's what Fir'oun said to his people
when they saw the clear domination of Mussa Alayhi Salaam
over the magicians, and they had a chance to believe.
He said that this is just the plan of deception, right?
makartumoohu fee almadeenah
You plotted this before you came here
so that you could destroy our people,
so that you could take the people out of their place.
So Abu Jahal was truly being a Pharaoh
until the last moment where he was killed
in that battle of Badr, okay?
So this is all happening before the battle even starts,
this interaction of the angels and the believers,
this sight, this vision of Shaytan,
of the angels on the other side,
the sakeena, the tranquility that is descending
into the hearts of the believers.
All of this is happening before this even starts.
Abu Bakr and Ali,
but there's one person who's going to be distinguished
in the greatest way SubhanAllah
before this battle even starts.
And that man is Al-Zubair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
Al-Zubair, the first person to draw his sword
in defense of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
In Makkah, when he had heard
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was attacked,
he immediately took his sword
to defend the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he was known as the first person
to draw his sword in defense of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
LeeKulli Nabiyyin Hawariyuun
that every single prophet had disciples.
My hawari, my disciple is Al-Zubair.
Al-Zubair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
Istajabah LirRasul SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
He answers the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
throughout his entire life.
Anything the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
calls for, Al-Zubair comes forward.
When no one else would answer the call to march forward,
Al-Zubair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu would always come forward.
So what is the honor?
Al-Zubair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
was wearing a yellow turban on the day of Badr
and when Jibreel and the angels arrive,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
looks at Al-Zubair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
And he says Innal Mala'ikah Nazalat Ala Assimaa'A Zubair
The angels came down dressed with the turban of Al-Zubair.
So imagine SubhanAllah,
the feeling of Al-Zubair Radiallahu ta'ala anhu
the honor to Al-Zubair that Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
and Mika'eel Alayhi Salaam and all of those angels
came down, wearing the same turban that you are wearing
as a sign of honoring you.
Not just because you're someone beloved
to the Prophet SallAllahu alaihi Wasallam
but because like the angels respond to Allah,
you responded to the Prophet of Allah,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, in every single situation.
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