In answer to the video "Surah 9:29 in Context"
Of course that God fights through the believers, inflicting His punishment on a nation of rejecters and transgressors as He did aforetime. In 8:17,9:14,59:2 the prophet and the believers are told that although they were physically waging war against their enemies, it was ultimately Allah who was smiting, not them. This is according to the Quranic principle that God, being the origin and sustainer of all causality, encompassing every happening by His will and power, is the indirect cause of every occurence.
In this case, God could have exacted His retribution on a nation of rejecters by unleashing calamities and cataclysms, but He has willed to do it differently with the Muslims 47:4, giving them the opportunity to increase in obedience to Him with this ultimate test of selflesness. God desired to achieve the same purpose in the times of Moses and the prophets after him, through whom He was fighting the enemy
Joshua10:14,42,23:3,10,1Sam17:47,2Sam23:9-12,Deut2:31-33,Ezek25:14,Ex12:12-23,Isa45:1,Zech14:3,Neh4:14,,Ps89:24,Ps18:35-48"The God Who grants me vengeance and destroys peoples instead of me".The Psalmist refers to the Israelites' conquest of Canaan with these words
Ps44:4"For not by their sword did they inherit the land, neither did their arm save them, but Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your countenance, for You favored them".The HB speaks of the same phenomenon through non-Jewish nations namely the Persians ruled by Cyrus Jer51:20-24 or the Babylonians incited to destroy the Egyptians and were thus doing God's "smiting" concretely Ezek32:11-15, or through pagan nations raised to destroy the Jews themselves through whom YHWH was acting Ezek5:17,6:3,38:1-4,Amos6:11-14,9:1-4etc.
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