هل كل رحلة جيش تنتهي بالقتال؟
وصل النبي ﷺ وأصحابه إلى تبوك، ولم تقع مواجهة كما كان يخاف الناس. كان مجرد الاستعداد والثبات سببًا في حماية المدينة وإظهار القوة.
ليس النجاح في كثرة القتال؛ بل قد يكون في منع الأذى وحفظ السلام. لذلك لا نضيف تفاصيل اتفاقات لا نملك لها توثيقًا قويًا.
خرج المسلمون إلى تبوك ولم تقع فيها مواجهة.
متى يمنع التخطيط مشكلة قبل أن تبدأ؟
خطط لرحلة أو نشاط صغير قبل بدايته.
كيف تنهي خلافاً قبل أن يتحوّل إلى شجار؟
المصادر: صحيح البخاري ومسلم في أصل غزوة تبوك.؛ تفاصيل المصالحات في كتب السيرة.
The army reached Tabuk on the Syrian frontier and made camp. When the people there saw an army that had crossed the desert in high summer, no one came out to fight it. The Prophet ﷺ stayed some days, made treaties of safety with the border towns, and the army went home without a drop of blood being spilt.
The best confrontation is the one that ends before it starts.
The army marched north until it reached Tabuk on the edge of Syria, and made camp. No one came out against them: they saw an army that had crossed the desert in the worst of the heat and had not turned back, and chose not to begin a fight. The Prophet ﷺ stayed at Tabuk some days, and did not waste them: he made terms of safety with the rulers of the frontier towns — Ayla, Jarba and Adhruh — and wrote them a covenant protecting their land and their caravans, so the trade roads to the north were safe. Then the army returned to Madinah having got everything it went for: secure borders, written agreements, and enough standing to prevent a war — without a drop of blood being spilt.
Allah says: ﴿وَكَفَى اللَّهُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْقِتَالَ﴾ — “And Allah sufficed the believers in fighting.”