At-Tawbah 25: Verily, Allah has helped you in many places. On the day of Khunayn, your large numbers had elated you but could not save you from suffering a defeat. Despite its wideness, the face of the earth felt narrow and you returned.
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
Surely Allah helped you in many places (in the battlefields) and in the battle of Hunayn. You know, your multitude made you like yourself, but it couldn't save you from being defeated. The earth, for all its breadth, was narrow to you, and at last you turned back (deteriorating).
The right translation
Verily, Allah has helped you in many places. On the day of Khunayn, your large numbers had elated you but could not save you from suffering a defeat. Despite its wideness, the face of the earth felt narrow and you returned.
Explanation
The wrong opening here is this: Allah helped you in many places and in the battle of Hunayn. And you were flattered by your multitude, but it did not save you from defeat. Indeed: Allah has certainly helped you in many places. And on the day of Hunayn, your multitude made you admire yourselves, but it did not save you from defeat.
In the wrong opening of this verse, it is as if our Lord helped the defeated Companions in the Battle of Hunayn, but He was unable to help them and they were defeated on the battlefield.
If we pay attention to the verse that was opened wrongly, it says: He helped you in the battle of Hunayn. You were flattered by your multitude, but it did not save you from defeat. The truth of this is: Allah helped you in many places. And on the day of Hunayn, your multitude flattered you, but it did not save you from defeat. In other words, instead of seeking help from Allah, you underestimated the enemy in your own strength, and your arrogance and arrogance did not prevent you from being defeated in the Battle of Hunayn.
There is a difference here between the two openings. In the wrong one, our Lord helped the Companions in the Battle of Hunayn, but in the face of the large number and pride of the Companions, our Lord's help was of no avail and they retreated. In fact, in the Battle of Hunayn, they forgot to ask for help from our Lord in the face of the large number and arrogance of the Companions. In this case, in the face of the large number and arrogance of the Companions, their large number did not benefit them and they lost the war.
What is said in the video
Verse 25: it has been translated wrongly.
Indeed Allah has helped you in many places, on battlefields, and at Hunayn of Hunayn. When your childhood had made you pleased with yourselves, your great number, not your childhood – when your great number had made you pleased with yourselves, but it could not save you from defeat.
In this Battle of Hunayn, although they were winning the battle, they were defeated. They grew proud. We are many. Our great number, sir, brought them pride. The earth, for all its breadth, had become narrow for you, it says. In the end you turned back in rout, it says. Where is the word here? (?) does not grow proud, but how could people whom Allah is pleased with ever be saved? I'm reading it once more. In many places, on the battlefields, and in the battle of Hunayn, Allah had helped you. They prevailed, of course. When your great number had made you pleased with yourselves, but it could not save you from defeat. The earth, for all its breadth, had become narrow for you.
In the end you turned back in rout, it says. Hodja, Allah Almighty says here that though He helped, you were defeated, Hodja. Sit down. Indeed Allah has helped you in many places. Correct. And on the day of Hunayn your great number made you pleased with yourselves. This is correct too. But it could not save you from defeat. The earth to you – the earth, for all its breadth, had become narrow for you. In the end you turned back, it says. What does it say here?
In the end you turned back in rout. What does it say here? In the end you turned back. A single word. In rout. The Companions can be defeated, but they don't break and flee. They don't flee from battle. In Islam it is so. Among Muslims, whoever flees from battle is shot, he is shot, but there is a kind of withdrawal, it says: in some way joining another unit, gaining strength, and turning back to wage jihad against the enemy. Yes.