Battle of Badr

Battle of badr is the most important battle in the history of Islam. The battle was the turning point of Prophet Muhammad struggle against the opponents of Islam in Makah. After this battle Muslims was recognized as a force and Islam as a religion. The battle of Badr gave a new recognition to Islam. The batter was fought on Saturday march 13,624 AD in the Hejaz region located at the west of Arabia. The battle of Badr was so important that it is one of the few battles that are mentioned in Quran.  Before this battle, Muslims had fought many small battles with Qureish but battle of Badr was the first face to face war between two forces. In this battle many main leader of Qureish were killed by Muslims with gives a new strength and bravery to Muslims.  The Muslim victory in the battle showed that muslins are arising as new power. There are different reasons for the battle of Bader. According to sources Meccan’s wanted to take revenge of Umroh Al Tafarmi.

As prophet Muhammad came to know that a caravan under the command of Abu Sufyan is travelling from Syria to Makah. The caravan was guarded by thirty to forty men. This caravan contains belongings of Muslims which were taken by the people of Makah as the Muslims migrated to Madinah. So prophet with an army of 313 people followed the caravan in order to take the belongings of Muslims. Prophet Muhammad marched toward the Badr with his companions’ including Abu Bakar, Ali, Hamza, Musab Bin Umair, Ammar Ibn Yasir and Abu Dharr Al Ghifari. When Muslim army came to know that Makah army departed, Prophet Muhammad called a meeting in order to discuss the strategy of war. At March 11 both the armies were a day’s march from Badr.

Prophet Muhammad ordered his army to march towards Badr. The army stayed at the wells of Badr located on the slope of eastern valley named as YALYAL. At the time when Quraish reached just south of Badr they received a message from Abu Suyfan that the caravan has safely reached Makah they can return back but most of the leaders in the clan refused to go back they decided to fight a war against Muslims. On 13 of March both the armies faced each other. The Ansars in Muslim army was nervous and terrified so hazart Hamza comes out from Muslim army with Hazrat Ali and Hazrat Ubayda. These three soldiers of Islam killed each of their opponents. After this the both the armies began striking arrows on each other. The battle lasted for only few hours and ended early afternoon. During the battle only few Muslims were killed but unknown number of Qureish were killed. According to al bukhari about seventy people of Makah died and seventy were caught as prisoners. The battle of Badr gave a new position to two men in the history. First was Prophet Muhammad who was arisen as the new leader of Arab and Abd Allah Ibn Ubayy, whose position was weakened.

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