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Yea, it is sufficient for you. In [sūrat] al-Anfāl [it is stated] with a thousand [Q. 8:9], because at first He reinforced them with this [thousand], then it became three [thousand] then five [thousand], as Allahu ta’ālā says: if you are patient, in encountering the enemy, and fear, Allahu ta’ālā in not contravening [His command], and they, the idolaters, come against you instantly, your Rabb will reinforce you with five thousand angels accoutred' (read musawimmīn or musawammīn), that is to say, distinctively marked [for the battle]. Indeed, they were patient and Allahu ta’ālā fulfilled His promise to them, so that the angels fought together with them riding upon piebald horses wearing yellow or white turbans, let loose down to their shoulders.