Part-3 | Biography hazrat khalid bin walid | سیرت حضرت خالد بن الولید رضی اللہ عنہ

Part -3 Biography hazrat khalid bin walid سیرت حضرت خالد بن الولید رضی اللہ عنہ
Asslamoalaikum, sisters brothers and friends we are discribing THIRD part of biography of Hazrat Khaalid Ibn Alwalid

It was in the Battle of Al-Yamaamah that Bani Hanijfah and their allies from the Arab tribes organized one of the most dangerous armies of the apostasy, led by Musailamah the Liar. A number of Muslim forces tried to defeat Musailamah's army but failed. Finally the caliph ordered Khaalid to march to where Bani Haniifah was camped.

No sooner had Musailamah heard that Khaalid was on his way to fight him than he reorganized his army, turning it into a devastating and horrible enemy machine. Both armies met in fierce combat. When you read the history of the Prophet (PBUH) a perplexing awe will take hold of you, for you will find yourself watching a battle that resembles our modern battles in its atrocityand horrors, though it differs in weapons and tactics.

Khaalid's army stopped at a sand dune that overlooked Al Yamaamah. Atthe same time, Musailamah marched haughtily and with great might followedby endless waves of his soldiers. Khaalid assigned the brigades and standard to the commanders of his army. As the two armies clashed in a terrible,large-scale, devastating war, the Muslim martyrs fell one by one like rosesin a garden on which a stubborn tempest blew!. Immediately Khaalid realizedthat the enemy was about to win the battle, so he galloped up a nearby hilland surveyed the battlefield. He realized that his soldiers morale was waningunder the pressure of the blitz of Musailamah's army.

Instantly, he decided to trigger a new feeling of responsibility inside the Muslim army, so he summoned the flanks and reorganized their positions on the battlefield. He cried out victoriously, "Fight together in your own groups and let us see who will surpass the other and win the field." They all obeyed and reorganized themselves in their own groups. Thus, the Muhaajiruun fought under their standard, the Ansaar fought under theirs, and every group fought under its standard. It became fairly easy to determine where defect came from. As a result, the Muslims were charged with a enthusiasm, firmness, and determination.

Every now and then, Khaalid was careful to cry out, "Allahu akbar" and "There is no god but Allah." He ordered his army in such a way that he turned the swords of his men into an inevitable victory that no one could escape. It was striking that, in a few minutes, the Muslim army turned the tables on Musailamah's army. Musailamah's soldiers fell in tens of hundreds and thousandslike flies that were suffocated by the deadly spray of a pesticide. Khaalidordered his soldiers with a kind of enthusiasm that flowed into them likean electric current. This was a manifestation of his striking genius. Thiswas the manner in which the most decisive and fierce battle of apostasy wasconducted. In the end, Musailamah was slain and the bodies of his men werescattered on the battlefield. Finally, the standard of the liar imposter wasburied forever.

On hearing the good news, the caliph offered the Prayer of Thanksgiving to Allah the Great and Most High for bestowing victory on the hands of this hero.

Abu Bakr had enough discernment and insight to realize the danger of the evil powers that perched on the borders, threatening the promising future of Islam and Muslims. These evil powers were the Persians in Iraq and the Romans in Syria. These two dwindling empires that clung tenaciously to the distorted remnant of their past glory were not only afflicting the people of Iraq and Syria with horrible torment, but also manipulating them. Notwithstanding the fact that the majority populations were Arabs, they instigated them to fight Muslim Arabs who carried the standard of the new religion which sought to pull down the vestiges of the ancient world and eradicate the decay and corruption in which it was steeped. The great and blessed caliph sent his orders to Khaalid to march towards Iraq, so the hero did so.

I wish that 1 were given more space to follow up in detail the proceedings of his magnificent victory.

Upon arriving in Iraq, the first thing that Khaalid did was to dispatch messages to every governor and deputy who ruled the provinces and cities ofIraq in the name of the emperor. These messages were as follows: In the nameof Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. Khaalid Ibn Al-Waliid sendsthis message to the satraps of Persia. Peace will be upon him who follows the guidance. All praises and thanks be to Allah Who dispersed your power and thwarted your deceitful plots. On the one hand, he who performs our prayers directing his face to our Qiblah to face the Sacred Mosque in Makkah and eats our slaughtered animals is a Muslim. He has the same rights and duties that we have. On the other hand, if you do not want to embrace Islam, then as soon as you receive my message, send over the jizyah (tax levied upon non-Muslimpeople who are under the protection of a Muslim government) and I give youmy word that I will respect and honor this covenant. But if you do not agreeto either choice, then, by Allah, I will send to you people who crave deathas much as you crave life.