The Prophet’s Employment of Natural Elements in Military Confrontation, a Historical Study

The idea of ​​this research revolves around the military biography of the Messenger, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, which is the Messenger’s employment of natural elements in the military confrontation. The defensive, which is related to the terrain, but rather what nature brought from the elements of life, especially water, plants and soil, and how it uses them to intimidate the enemy and compensate for the shortage in the army or supplies and others. This was accompanied by several dimensions, including the moral dimension through employment, the strategic dimension or the use of natural elements as a weapon in battle. What is important in this context is to purify this proposition from the impurities that accompanied it, especially those related to the abuse of the Messenger, may God bless him and his family, in terms of cutting off water from the enemy until he obtains victory. In order to achieve this study for the desired results, a specific methodology was followed, that is, the chapters were organized in each chapter with several sections, and each topic was concerned with a particular natural element. Al-Rasoul’s unique way of thinking about the military leadership and in the search for solutions and alternatives according to the emergency situation. The result of this study is that the military thought of the Messenger is more famous than what is mentioned, and if some try to belittle it under the guise of infallibility, then the thinking of the military Messenger has been tested by the leaders of today, especially with the diversity of military principles, which the Messenger brought were not known before such as Employment of water, desert, trade roads, and more. There are many pictures that mention the narratives about these elements, which at the same time represented several confrontations and battles, where the results of the methods used by the Messenger, which led to raising the morale of Muslims on the one hand and threatening and terrifying the enemy on the other hand, as well as supplying and preparing and then achieving the results of it all.