12 - Commentary on Surah al-Fath (48) - Review of Verses 16 & 17

In this Ramadan series of lectures, Shaykh Saleem reviews Surah al-Fath (48) - The Chapter of the Victory. In part 12, he goes over the sixteenth and seventeenth verses: "Say, O Muḥammad, to those of the dwellers of the desert, the Aʿrab, who stayed behind during the Umrah and the subsequent Peace Treaty of Ḥudaybiyyah: “Soon you will be called to fight against a people of great military power, then either you will fight against them or they will submit to Allah and become Muslims. If you obey this order to follow the Prophet and go to fight, Allah will grant you a handsome reward; but if you turn away as you turned away before during the trip to Umrah, He will punish you with a painful chastisement. There is no blame on the blind nor any blame on those with physical disabilities nor any blame on the sick for staying away from a war in the way of Allāh. Whoever obeys Allāh and His Messenger - Muḥammad in the religious duties he is charged with and can carry out, Allah will admit him into Gardens through which rivers flow. But whoever turns away, He will punish him with a painful punishment."