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So fight, O Muhammad "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" , in the way of Allahu ta’ālā; you are charged only with yourself, so do not be concerned with their failing to join you, the meaning being: fight, even if you are on your own, for you have been promised victory. And urge on the believers, incite them to fight and make them desire it; maybe Allahu ta’ālā will restrain the might, the war, of the disbelievers; Allahu ta’ālā is mightier, than them, and more severe in castigation, in punishment, than them. And so the Messenger (rasūl) of Allahu ta’ālā "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" said: 'By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, I shall sally forth [to fight], even if [I go] alone'. Thereupon, he sallied forth with seventy cavalrymen to the first [battle at] Badr, where Allahu ta’ālā restrained the might of the disbelievers by casting terror into their hearts and preventing Abū Sufyān from sallying forth, as has already been mentioned in [sūrat] āl 'Imrān [Q. 3:151].