آل عمران

قُل لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا سَتُغْلَبُونَ وَتُحْشَرُونَ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ ۚ وَبِئْسَ الْمِهَادُ 12

OCCASION OF REVELATION (VERSE NO. 12)

      When the prophet and his companions won the battle of BADR, and vanquished the Pagans; some of the learned Jews said: ``The promised prophet is marked invincible in our scriptures, and Mohammad, is of surety the one we expect to come,'' Others said: ``We should wait a little longer, until another war breaks in, and then judge from what has happened.''

      Then when Muslims had some failure in the battle of Ohud, the Jews said: ``No! Mohammad can't be the promised prophet for whom we are longing, because he proved in the battle of Ohud that he is conquerable.'' The verse was sent down to answer them.

 

COMMENTS

      Here a warning is given to the Pagan Arabs, the Jews and the Christians and generally to all those who reject faith, that their resistance would be in vain and of no use at all: ``Say to the unbelievers; soon will you be vanquished and driven towards Hell and the evil abode.'' Quränic predictions are too many, and none have proved to be untrue. A few years later the jews of Bani nazir, Banighoraiza, and Khaibar, were all defeated and submitted to Mohammad and his forces, and the next few decades saw the Roman Empire and Persian Kingdom overthrown because of their arrogance, and their resistance to God's Message.