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In “Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya” V-4 (See page 427), MGA begins to argue that ilham/wahi is very normal and many high ranking companions (sahaba) also received wahi/ilham, he then cites the case of Hazrat Umar (ra) and he received an ilham about his army and General Sariyah, 600+ miles away.
Via Imām Fakhr al-Dīn ar-Rāzī mentions in his Tafsīr that these Four Elements obeyed ‘Umar Ibn al-Khattāb: Al-Bayhaqī, Imām Aḥmad and many others have recorded:
When Sayyidunā ‘Umar Ibn al-Khattāb sent out an army, he appointed a man named Sariyah (Sariyah bin Zunaim) as their leader. Then while Sayyidunā ‘Umar was delivering the Khutbah, he started shouting: “O Sariyah, the mountain! O Sariyah, the mountain, the mountain!” Then a messenger from the army came and he [‘Umar رضي الله عنه] questioned him [concerning the army], he said: “O Leader of the Believers! We met with the enemy and they had [almost] defeated us, then a voice proclaimed, ‘O Sariyah, the mountain!’ So we put our backs against the mountain and due to this Allāh vanquished them.” This shows us the Karāmah (miracle performed by a friend of Allāh) of Sayyidunā ‘Umar and his knowledge of the Unseen (‘ilm al-ghayb).
Ahmadiyya sources allege that this is from the Battle of Ray (651), this was in Persia and had to do with the Sasanians vs. the Rashidun Caliphate in 651. It was also part of the rivalry between the Ispahbudhan family and the Mihran family.
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Sasanian Empire – Wikipedia
In 637, a Muslim army under the Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattāb defeated a larger Persian force led by General Rostam Farrokhzad at the plains of al-Qādisiyyah, and then advanced on Ctesiphon, which fell after a prolonged siege. Yazdegerd fled eastward from Ctesiphon, leaving behind him most of the empire’s vast treasury. The Arabs captured Ctesiphon shortly afterward. Thus the Muslims were able to seize a powerful financial resource, leaving the Sassanid government strapped for funds. A number of Sassanid governors attempted to combine their forces to throw back the invaders, but the effort was crippled by the lack of a strong central authority, and the governors were defeated at the Battle of Nihawānd. The empire, with its military command structure non-existent, its non-noble troop levies decimated, its financial resources effectively destroyed, and the Asawaran (Azatan) knightly caste destroyed piecemeal, was now utterly helpless in the face of the Arab invaders.
Upon hearing of the defeat in Nihawānd, Yazdegerd along with Farrukhzad and some of the Persian nobles fled further inland to the eastern province of Khorasan. Yazdegerd was assassinated by a miller in Merv in late 651. His sons, Peroz and Bahram, fled to Tang China.[80] Some of the nobles settled in Central Asia, where they contributed greatly to spreading the Persian culture and language in those regions and to the establishment of the first native Iranian Islamic dynasty, the Samanid dynasty, which sought to revive Sassanid traditions.
The abrupt fall of the Sassanid Empire was completed in a period of just five years, and most of its territory was absorbed into the Islamic caliphate; however, many Iranian cities resisted and fought against the invaders several times. Islamic caliphates repeatedly suppressed revolts in cities such as Rey, Isfahan, and Hamadan.[81] The local population was initially under little pressure to convert to Islam, remaining as dhimmi subjects of the Muslim state and paying a jizya.[82] In addition, the old Sassanid “land tax” (known in Arabic as Kharaj) was also adopted. Caliph Umar is said to have occasionally set up a commission to survey the taxes, to judge if they were more than the land could bear.[83]
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Imām Fakhr al-Dīn ar-Rāzī mentions in his Tafsīr that these Four Elements obeyed ‘Umar Ibn al-Khattāb:
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