IT RAINED CATS AND DOGS

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 02)
Verses 15-18VERSE NO. 9

IT RAINED CATS AND DOGS

      The second remarkable event in Badr, was the light sleep or slumber, that took the Muslims over, the night before the fight; and that it rained cats and dogs upon them.

      Some of the young Muslims must have been sexually polluted in their dreams, and if so a wash of their body or performing the religious ablution was incumbent upon them, particularly before having the honour of being martyred. If not cleaned through ceremonial ablution, they would have their spiritual anxiety, and Satanic temptations added to it; for thinking their martyrdom would not be correct and pure. This was, because water was very scarce there, and they could not perform the incumbent ablution before proceeding to the sacred war:

      ``When a slumber took you over, when you felt safe and secure by the Grace of God; and then Allah sent down from the sky a heavy rain to purify you of Satan's filth and to strengthen your hearts, and to make your foothold firm.''

      Besides cleaning them, as we mentioned in the above narrative of the war, the rain also served to stabilize Muslim's foothold and footstep too, because the land under the feet of Muslims was of sand, so the rain washed the sands and consolidated it, enabling them to stand firm on their feet and contrary to that, was the case with the idolaters. The piece of earth beneath them was of soil, which the rain turned it to a sticky mud, making their movements very difficult!

      In spite of all the physical aids of the rain, and the spiritual aids of the angels, Muslims had to know, and have to know that, it was Allah who gave the victory, and it is Allah who gives the victory; and that, everything else, and every one else, are only means used by Him for the purpose. ``There is no victory, except from Allah who is All- mighty All- wise.''

 

 

 

 

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