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 encompassed and surrounded by the enemy's cavalry: the Prophet himself was wounded, and narrowly escaped with life; seventy Moslems were slain, and amongst them Hamza, the uncle and standard-bearer of Mohammed. The Koreish wanted strength or courage to pursue their advantages, by laying siege to Medina; and the Musulmans rallied again. The following specimen of his skill in restoring the spirits of his party, is in the third chapter of the Koran; "It was," he says, “to try and prove them. We cause these days of different success interchangeably to succeed each other among men, that God may know those who believe, and have martyrs from among you; and that God might prove those that believe, and destroy the infidels." He further says, "Thou shalt by no means reckon those that have been slain in the cause of God at Ohod, dead; nay, they are sustained alive with their Lord, rejoicing for what God of