Secrete Fight from Quranic Perspective with a Glance at the Term Sariyyan

Secret fight or night attack is one way to ambush the enemy. This kind of fighting seems to be mentioned in the Holy Quran. Threatening enemies through making them aware of existence of secret soldiers or concealed facilities results in the enemy becoming unable to estimate accurately facilities and capabilities of divine forces, and this is a kind of threatening and intimidation. The term sariyyan and other derivations of the stem sara mean "secret army" or "night expedition." The present research aims at presenting a precise etymology of the said word first, introducing its development in the passage of time secondly, expounding the relation between this stem and Maryam and Isra’ Quranic suras thirdly, and revising viewpoints of Quranic commentators on the meaning of this word on the basis of context of Quranic verses and Arabic literature finally.It can be concluded from this research that the term sariyya is related to the stem asra and can refer to God's secret and concealed troops.