God's victory for the believers and its conditions

نصر الله للمؤمنين وشروطه

Arjun holds that God's help for believers depends on their help for God: holding to the Shari'a and its limits, and on a single command, since division among leaders brings failure 1. He cites Badr, the Trench, Hunayn, the Ridda wars, the victories over Persia and Byzantium, 'Ayn Jalut and Hattin as cases where a united community won despite fewer numbers 2.

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'Arjun holds God's victory for the believers conditional on their victory for Him — holding to His law and establishing His bounds 3 — and on unity of word and leadership, scattered commands meaning failure and the wind's passing 4. Tamkin in the land means placing the law's authority in believers' hands with means of enforcement 5. Badr, the Trench, Hunayn, the ridda wars, the Persian and Roman conquests, 'Ayn Jalut and Hattin all witness that victory went to those who unified the word though few in number.

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The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

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  1. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 55-57
  2. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 67
  3. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 57
  4. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 55
  5. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 59
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