Profile of the Week : Sneering at Horror!..(continued)

BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIM

It was Bilaal, who had shouted thirteen years before while the torture was destroying him, "Allah is One! One!" He was chosen by the Messenger that day to be the first muezzin in Islam. With his melodious soul-stirring voice, he filled the hearts with faith and the ears with awe when he called;

Allah is the Greatest 4x
I bear witness that there is no god but Allah 2x
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah 2x
Come to Prayer 2x
Come to Success 2x
Allah is the Greatest 2x
There is no god but Allah

Fighting broke out between the Muslims and the army of the Quraish who cane to invade Al-Madiinah. The war raged fiercely and terribly while Bilaal was there attacking and moving about in the first battle. Islam was plunged into the Battle of Badr, whose motto the Messenger (PBUH) ordered to be, "One! One!"

In this battle, the Quraish sacrificed their youth and all their noblemen to their destruction. Umayah Ibn Khalaf, who had been Bilaal's master and who used to torture him with deadly brutality , was about to retreat from fighting. But his friend 'Uqbah Ibn Abu Mu'iit went to him when he heard the news of his withdrawal, carrying a censer in his right hand. when he arrived he was sitting among his people. He threw the censer between his hand and said to him, "O 'Abu 'Aliy, use this. You are one of the women." But Umayah shouted at him saying, "May Allah make you and what you came with ugly!" And he did not find a way out, so he went out to fight.

Indeed destiny would be very mush pleased to mock the tyrants. 'Uqbah, whose provocations Umayah used to listen to follow his desire to torture the innocent believers, was the same person

who would lead Umayah to his death. By the hand of whom? By the hand of Bilaal himself and Bilaal alone!. The same hands that Umayah used to chain and whose owner he beat and tortured. Those very hands were on that day, in the Battle of Badr, on a rendezvous that destiny had set the best time for, with the torture of the Quraish who had humiliated the believers unjustly and aggressively. that is what really happened.

When the fighting began between the two sides, and the side of the Muslims shouted the motto, "One! One!" the heart of the Umayah was startled, and a warning came to him. The word, which his slave used to repeat yesterday under torture and horror, became today the motto od a whole religion and of a whole new nation.

"One! One!" is it so? what this quickness? and with this rapid growth?......

The sword dashed in the battle and the fighting became severe. Bilaal realized that he would not be able alone to storm the sanctuary of his brother in faith, 'Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn 'Awf. So he shouted at the top of his voice to the Muslims, "O helpers of Allah! The head of Kuffar, Umayah Ibn Khalaf! May I not be saved if he saved!. 

A band of Muslims approached with swords dripping blood. They surrounded the Umayah and his son, who was fighting with the Quraish. 'Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn 'Awf could not do anything. He could not even protect his armor, which the crowd removed. Bilaal gazed long at the body of Umayah, who fell beneath the smashing swords. Then he hastened away from him shouting, "One! One!"

The swords were blazing, the killed was falling. Then Bilaal saw Umayah, who had no left even a small place on his body free of the traces of his torture.

The days went by and Makkah was conquered. The Messenger (PBUH) entered it, thankful and saying, "Allah is the Greatest," at the head of 10,000 Muslims. he needed for the Ka'bah immediately, this holy place which the Quraish had crowded with idols amounting to the number of days of the year. "The truth has come and falsehood has vanished."

Alhamdulillah....

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Profile of the Week : Sneering at Horror!....

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Bilaal ibn Rabaah 

His tortures shouted at him, imploring him, "Mention the name of Al-Laat and Al-'Uzzaa." But he answered , One! One! They said to him,  "Say as we say, but he answered them with remarkable mockery and caustic irony, "Indeed my tongue is not good at that." 

So Bilaal remained in the melting heat and under the weight of the heavy rock, and by sunset they raised him up and put a rope around his neck. Then they ordered their boys to take him around the muntains and streets of Makkah. And Bilaal's tongue did not mention anything oter than his holy chant, One! One!.

When the night overtook them, they began bargaining with him, "Tomorrow, speak well of our gods, say, "My Lord is Al-Laat and Al-'Uzzaa," and we'll leave you alone. We are tired of torturing you as if we are the tortured ones." But he shook his head and said, "One! One!" So, Umayah Ibn Khallaf kicked him and exploded with exasperating fury, and shouted, "What bad luck has thrown you upon us, O slave of evil? By Al-Laat and Al-'Uzzaa, I'll make you an example for slaves ad master." But Bilaal answered with the holy greatness and certainty of a believer, "One! One!"


It was the next day and midday approached. Bilaal was taken to the sun-baked ground.he was patient, brave, firm and expecting the reward in the Hereafter. Abu Bakr As-Siddiq went to them while they were torturing him and shouted at them, "Are you killing a man because he says, 'Allah is may Lord?" Then he shouted at Umayah Ibn Khalaf, "Take more than his price and set him free." It was as if Umayah were drowning and had caught a lifeboat. It was to his liking and he was very much pleased when he heard Abu Bakr offering the price of his freedom, since they had despaired of subjugating Bilaal. And as they were merchants, they realized that selling him was more profitable to them than his death.


They sold him to Abu Bakr, and then he emancipated him immediately, and Bilaal took his place among free men. When As-Siddiq put his arm around Bilaal, rushing with him to freedom, Umayah said to him, "Take him, for Al-Laat and Al-'Uzzaa, if you had refused to buy him except for one ounce of gold, I would have sold him to you." Abu Bakr realized the bitterness of despair and disappointment hidden in these words. It was appropriate not to answer, but because they violated the dignity of this man who had become his brother and his equal, he answered Umayah saying, "But Allah, if you had refused to sell him except for hundred ounces, I would have paid it." He departed with his companion to the Messenger of Allah, giving him news of his liberation, and there was a great celebration.


After the Hijrah of the Messenger (PBUH) and the Muslims to Al-Madiinah and their settling there, the Messenger instituted the Adhaan. so who would become the muezzin five times a day? Who would call across distant lands, "Allah is the Greatest" and "There is no god but Allah"?


                                                                                                                             to be continued.........