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</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">THE LIGHT THEY FOLLOWED</span></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What a teacher he was, and what a man! He was filled with greatness, honesty, and sublimity!</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Truly, those overwhelmed with his greatness have their excuse, and those who sacrificed their lives for</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">his sake are the most triumphant.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad lbn Abd Allah was Allah's Messenger to the people in the midsummer of life. What</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">mystery was available to him that made him a man to honor among human beings And what grand hands</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">did he extend towards heaven to let all the gates of mercy, blessing, and guidance open widely. What</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">faith, what chastity, and what purity. What modesty, what love and what loyalty. What devotion to truth</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and what reverence to life and the living?</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Allah bestowed upon him the amount of blessing to qualify him to carry His standard and speak for</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Him, and made him capable of being the last of His messengers. Therefore, Allah's bounty towards him</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">was great. But however the brains, inspiration, and pens compete to talk about him or to sing hymns of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">praise to reveal his greatness, they all seem insignificant due to his superior traits.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">If the introductory pages of this book need to start with a talk about the Messenger (PBUH), they</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">cannot hope to give him his due of praise nor claim that they are really introducing the great Messenger</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">to the readers. It is only a mere reference to his eminence and some of his superior qualities which make</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">people cherish him and which drew him an unprecedented loyalty by some of the figures mentioned in</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the book whether they were Muhaajiruun or Ansaar or from the Quraish.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">No sooner had life emerged than Allah made all its breeze hail his coming, and sent messengers to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">all men everywhere, carrying the principles of the divine call and the fragrance of the caller, the truth of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the teachings, the eminence of the master, the enlightenment of the message and the compassion of the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Messenger (PBUH).</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">That is true. This was the main objective, no more. It is to perceive in the light of one of his beams</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">some of the traits of his rare eminence that brought about the believers' loyalty and made them perceive</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">in him the goal and the way, the teacher and the friend.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What made the nobles of his people hasten to his words and his religion. Abu Bakr, Talhah, Az-</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Zubair, `Uthmaan Ibn Affaan, Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn `Awf, and Sa'd Ibn Abi Waqqaas, all abandoned in</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">haste the wealth and glory of their community which surrounded them, receiving at the same time heavy</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">burdens in life, full of cares, troubles, and conflict.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What made the weak of his community seek his protection, hasten to his standard and his call, when</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">they saw him without wealth or weapon, with harm inflicted upon him and evil following him in a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">terrifying way, without his being able to avoid it;</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What made the pre-Islamic tyrant `Umar lbn Al-thattaab, who went to cut off his noble head with</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">his sword, return to cut off with the same sword - made sharper through faith - the heads of the Prophet's</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">enemies and his persecutors.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What made the city's elite and noble men go to him and promise to be his companions, voluntarily</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">embracing a set of trouble and terror, knowing that the struggle between them and the Quraish would be</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">more horrifying than terror itself.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What made those who believed in him increase and not decrease, though he declared day and night,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">"I hold no good or harm for you. I do not know what will become of me or you"!</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What made them believe that the world would open its countries to them and that their feet would</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">be wading in the gold and crowns of the world. And that the Qur'aan they were reciting in secret would</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">reverberate in strong tones and ringing voice, not only in their own generation or in their own peninsula</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">but throughout the ages and everywhere.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What made them believe the prophecy told them by the Messenger, though when they turned right</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and left they found nothing except heat, barren land, and stones emitting boiling vapor, their pointed</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">heads looking like devils' heads.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What filled their hearts with certainty and will- power. It was lbn `Abd Allah, who else could have</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">done that they saw themselves with their own eyes all his virtues and all that distinguished him. They</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">saw his chastity, his purity, his honesty, his straightforwardness, and his courage. They saw his</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">superiority and his compassion. They saw his intellect and his eloquence. They saw the sun shining the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">way his truth and eminence shone.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">They heard the growth of life running in his veins when Muhammad started to bestow upon them</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">his daily revelation and his past contemplation. They saw all these and more, not through a mask but face</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">to face and in practice, through their own vision and perception.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">When an Arab of those days saw something, he would talk as an expert. The Arabs were people of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">perception and intuition. If one of them saw some footprints on the road, he would tell you, "These are</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the footprints of such-and-such a person." He would smell the breath of the one talking to him and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">realize what truth or falsity was inherent.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">These men saw Muhammad and were his contemporaries since his coming into existence as a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">newborn babe. Nothing was concealed from them in his life. The stage of childhood which is</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">unperceived by other than the child's people and close relations was, in the case of Muhammad, seen and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">perceived by all the people of Makkah. That was because his childhood was not like any other. It drew</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">attention to itself for its early signs of manliness and initiative, and for rejecting the usual play of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">children for the seriousness of men.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">As an example, the Quraish used to talk about `Abd Al Muttalib's grandson who kept away from the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">children's playgrounds and their celebrations, and used to say whenever he was invited to them, "I was</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">not created for that."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Moreover, when his wet-nurse Haliimah took him back to his people, she told them her</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">observations, her experience with the child, and what she saw in him to convince them he was not an</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">ordinary child. She believed there was a hidden secret in him, unknown except to Allah, which might be</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">revealed one day.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">As to his youth, what chastity! He was clearer and more translucent. His people's preoccupation</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">with him and their talk about him were more constant and praising. As to his manhood, it was fully</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">perceived by every eye, ear, and heart. Above all, it was his community's conscience, measuring through</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">his conduct and behavior all their visions of truth, goodness, and beauty.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">It was, then, a transparent and comprehended life from cradle to grave. All his visions, his steps, his</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">words, his movements, even his dreams, his hopes, and his remembrances were the right of all the people</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">from the first day he was born. It was as if Almighty Allah wished it to be like that to tell the people,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">"That is My Messenger to you; his way is through reason and intellect, and that is his whole life since he</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">was a baby."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Therefore, with all you possess of reason and intellect, examine his life and judge. Do you perceive</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">any sense of suspicion? Do you see any false matter? Did he ever tell a lie or betray anyone? Did he ever</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">treat anyone unjustly? Did he ever expose a defect? Did he ever abandon his kinship relations? Did he</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">neglect a duty or leave a noble action? Did he insult anyone or worship an idol? Peruse well and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">meticulously and investigate, as there is no stage of his life that is hidden or veiled.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">If his life as you see and perceive is nothing but purity, truth, and eminence, does it appeal to reason</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">or logic that a man of such traits would tell lies after the age of forty? About whom would he lie? About</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Allah in order to claim he was His Messenger (PBUH), chosen, selected, and inspired by Him?</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">No, this is the answer of feeling and intuition. What is your way of thinking and what right do you</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">have to tell lies?</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">This, we believe, was the attitude of the early believers towards Allah's Messenger (PBUH), the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Muhaajiruun as well as those who sheltered and supported him.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">It was a firm and swift attitude that did not leave any place for hesitation or idleness. A man who</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">had such a pure and enlightened life could not play false with Allah. With such sharp insight, the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">believers saw the light of Allah and the followed.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">They would thank their insight when they saw later how Allah's Messenger (PBUH) was supported</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">by Allah and how the whole peninsula was obliged to him. Many unperceived blessings and spoils were</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">bestowed upon them while he became more modest, more austere, and more pious, until he met Allah at</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the appointed time, lying down on a mat that left its impressions on his body.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">And when they saw him, the Messenger whose standards victoriously and proudly filled the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">horizon, descended the pulpit and received the people, saying while he wept, "Whoever's back I</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">whipped, here is my back, let him take his revenge; whoever's money I took, here is my money, let him</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">take of it."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">The believers saw him while his uncle Al-Abbaas was asking him to offer him one of the jobs</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">obtained by ordinary Muslims, and he gently apologized, saying, Truly, uncle, we do not offer that job to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">someone who asks or someone who cares for it."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">They saw him not only sharing the trouble and hunger that befell people, but establishing for</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">himself and his folk an unforsaken principle which was, "To be the first to feel hunger if people go</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">hungry, and the last to satisfy his hunger when people were starving." Yes, the early believers would be</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">more thankful for their insight which perceived things well even before they came, thanking Allah Who</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">had guided them to faith.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">They would also see that life which was the best proof of the truth of the Messenger (PBUH) when</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">he said to them: "I am Allah's Messenger unto you." His life was truly eminent. Its eminence and purity</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">are the best evidence of the truth of the great teacher and noble Messenger (PBUH). Its level of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">excellence and eminence never declined nor fell, but remained steadfast from cradle to grave.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Throughout life and after reaching his prime, it was as clear as day that the man who led that life and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">conveyed such a message was not seeking wealth, money or sovereignty. When these were offered him</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">on a golden platter associated with his triumphant leadership, he rejected them all and lived his life till</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the last breath devoting himself to Allah, repentant and chaste.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">He never deviated from the purposes of his great life the breadth of a hair, and never broke a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">promise to Allah in worship or in jihaad.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">No sooner would the latter part of the night begin than he would get up, make his ablution and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">remain as he was accustomed to do, invoking Allah, praying, and crying.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Mountains of wealth and money were accumulated in his possession, yet he did not change and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">never took of it except as the poorest and lowest of Muslims did. Then he died leaving only his armor in</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">mortgage.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">All the countries of the world came closer due to his call, and most of the kings of the earth stood</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">before his message, in which he called them to Islam, in awe and supplication. Yet, not an atom of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">boasting or arrogance crossed his way even at a great distance. When he saw people approaching him</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">troubled and disturbed out of awe and reverence, he said to them, "Be easy, my mother used to eat dried</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">meat in Makkah."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">When all the enemies of his faith put down their weapons and bowed their heads waiting for him to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">pass judgment and while 10,000 swords of the Muslims were glittering on the Day of Conquest over the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">hills of Makkah, he merely said to his enemies, "Disperse, you are free!"</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Even at the height of the victory for which he devoted his life, he deprived himself of it. He walked</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">in the victory procession on the Day of the Conquest bowing his head down until people could not see</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">his face and repeated hymns of thanks to Allah in low tones, wet with tears, humbly raising his words to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Allah until he reached the Ka'bah. He then confronted the idols and did what he did to them and said,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">"Truth has come and falsehood has vanished, indeed, falsehood is bound to vanish" (17: 81).</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Is there any more doubt about his message? He was a man who dedicated his whole life to a call in</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">which he had no personal gain of wealth, position, sovereignty, or power. Biographical immortality was</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">not even considered by him because he believed solely in the immorality of the second life when one is</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">in the hands of Allah.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">He was a man who spent his life from childhood till the age of forty in purity and contemplation.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Then he spent the rest of it in worship, guidance, jihaad and struggle, and when the world was brightened</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">to him he rejected all its false glory and adhered to his way, his worship, and his message. How could</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">such a man be a liar? Why should be tell lies? Surely, such a man and such a messenger was above that!</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">We have mentioned that logic and reason were - and still are- the best proof of the truth of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad (PBUH) when he said, "I am Allah's Messenger." It does not appeal to good logic or to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">sound reason that a man who lived such a good life lies about Allah. Early believers who hastened to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">believe in his message, and whom we are honored to know something about through the pages of this</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">book, had such a relation with him after their guidance from Allah, which is the best evidence of logic</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and reason.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">We see Muhammad (PBUH) before his message, and we see him after his message. We see him in</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">his cradle, and we see him shrouded by death. But, have we seen any contradiction or inconsistency in all</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">his life? Never!</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Let us now approach the first years of his message. Those were years one rarely finds an equal to in</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the annals of history for the constancy, truth, and eminence. Those were the years which revealed, more</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">than any others, all the facets of the teacher and guide of all humanity. Those were years that opened the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">living book of his life and heroism and, more than any other years, represented the cradle of his miracles.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Throughout those years, the Messenger of Allah was alone. He left all he possessed of comfort,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">security, and settled life. He approached the people with what they were not familiar, or rather with what</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">they detested. He approached them and directed his words to their reasons, and it is a difficult task for a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">person who directs his speech to the minds of people instead of their feelings. The Messenger of Allah,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad (PBUH) did not only do that, since the consequence of addressing the mind might be</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">bearable if you are standing within the circle of common conventions and common aspirations. But when</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">you call them towards a distant future which you perceive but they do not, which you live in and they are</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">not aware of, it is a difficult task. Indeed, when you address their minds and rise to destroy the essence of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">their lives from the base, though you do that in a sincere, honest way and not urged by a certain purpose</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">or glory, it is a risk which cannot be taken except by the leaders of the righteous people and messengers.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">The Messenger (PBUH) was the hero and great master of that situation. The form of worship at that</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">time was worshiping idols, whose rites were observed as a religion. The Messenger (PBUH) did not turn</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">to any maneuvers or intrigues. The unpaved road and the heavy burden would have been good excuses if</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">he had used his brilliant mind to prepare them for the word "monotheism" instead of surprising them</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">with it. He was able and it was his right to prepare to isolate the community from its idol-gods which had</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">been handed down from generation to generation for centuries. He could have started by going around</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the issue to avoid as much as possible a direct confrontation he knew would bestir all the envy of his</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">people and draw upon them all their weapons against him.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Yet, he did not. This illustrates that he was a Messenger (PBUH). He heard a divine voice within</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">him telling him to rise, and he did, and telling him to deliver the message, and he did so without the force</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">of weapons and without fleeing! He confronted them from the first instant with the essence of the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">message and the core of the case: "O people, I am the Messenger of Allah unto you, to worship Him and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">not to set partners with Him. These idols are intellectual falsehood. They are of no harm or benefit to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">you".</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">From the very beginning he faced them with such clear and plain words, and from the very</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">beginning he faced the severe struggle which he had to undergo his departure from life!</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Or were the early believers in need of a prompting power to support the Prophet (PBUH)!</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What awakened conscience would not be stirred by such a rare and unique scene! It was the scene</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">of a man known to the people to have full intellectual power and immaculate behavior, standing alone,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">facing his people with a call which could bring mountains down. Words were issuing forth from his heart</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and lips, obedient and superb, as if in them lay all the power, will, and design of the future, as if it were</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">fate announcing its proclamation! But perhaps this was the prompting of a good spirit, after which</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad (PBUH) would worship his Lord as he liked, leaving the deities of his people in their place</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and leaving his community's religion alone.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">If such a thought occurred to some minds at that time, Muhammed (PBUH) soon dissipated it. He</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">made it quite clear to the people that he was a Messenger and had to convey the message, that he could</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">not be silent nor turn into himself after being guided by the truth and enlightenment. All the powers of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the world and nature could not have silenced him or stopped him because it was Allah Who made him</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">speak and move and Who guided his footsteps.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">The Quraish's reaction came as swift as flames stirred by a violent wind. Troubles began to be</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">wreaked upon a soul unaccustomed to anything but absolute grace. The Messenger (PBUH) then began</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">to teach his first lessons with utmost mastery and amazing loyalty. The image of this scene is paramount</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">in all places and at all times, as well as in history. Those with an awakened conscience in Makkah were</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">pleased, filled with admiration, and came closer. They beheld a lofty and majestic man. They did not</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">know whether his neck had become longer until it was able to touch the sky or the sky had come down to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">crown his head. They beheld loyalty, steadfastness and eminence.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">However, the best scene they beheld was on the day when the noblemen of the Quraish went to Abu</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Taalib saying, "Verily, we cannot tolerate a person who insults our fathers, mocks our dreams, and finds</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">fault with our deities. You either stop him or we fight both of you until one of the parties is destroyed."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Abu Taalib sent a message to his nephew saying, "My nephew, your people have approached me and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">talked about your affairs. You have to think of me and yourself and not burden me with what I cannot</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">endure."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">What then was the attitude of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH)?</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">The only man who had stood with him seemed to be abandoning him, or rather seemed unable to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">confront the Quraish who sharpened all their teeth. The Messenger (PBUH) did not hesitate in his reply,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and his determination did not waver. No! He did not even search for the words to show his tenacity. It</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">was already there, efficiently rising to deliver one of his most significant lessons to the whole of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">humanity and to dictate its highest principles.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Thus he spoke: "O uncle, by Allah, if they put the sun on my right and the moon on my left in order</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">to abandon this matter until it is manifested by Allah or I perish by it, I would never abandon it!" Peace</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">be upon you, O Prophet of Islam, you who were colossal among men, and your words were colossal.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Abu Taalib thereupon restored his courage and the courage of his forefathers at once, clasped the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">right hand of his nephew with his two hands, and said, "Say what you like, for, by Allah, I will never</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">force you to do anything at all."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad (PBUH) then did not depend on his uncle for protection and security, though his uncle</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">was capable of that, but he was the one bestowing security, protection and steadfastness on people</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">around him.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Any honest person who beholds a scene like that cannot but hasten to love, be loyal to, and believe</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">in that Messenger (PBUH).</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">His persistence regarding truth, his perseverence with the message, and his patience during great</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">troubles were all for the sake of Allah and not for personal benefit. All these were bound to attract</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">brilliant minds and to awaken the conscientious people to follow the light beckoning to them and hasten</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">to the honest and true Messenger (PBUH) who came to purify our souls and guide us. People beheld him</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">while harm was reaching him from every comer. The condolence he had sought in his uncle Abu Taalib</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and his wife Khadiijah was denied him because they both died within days of each other. Whoever</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">desires to imagine the extent of persecution and war launched by the Quraish against the unarmed</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Messenger, suffice it to know that Abu Lahab himself, who was his most bitter rival and enemy, was so</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">conscience-stricken one day by what he beheld that he announced he would protect the Messenger, help</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">him, and stand against any aggression against him. But the Messenger refused his protection and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">remained lofty, raising his head and remaining loyal to his message. Nobody could avert harm from him</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">because nobody dared to do so! Even the eminent Abu Bakr could do nothing but weep.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">One day, the Messenger (PBUH) went to the Ka'bah and, while he was circumambulating it, the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">nobles of the Quraish who were waiting for him suddenly ran and surrounded him, saying, "Is it you that</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">say such-and-such a thing about our deities?" And he calmly answered them, "Yes, I say that." They held</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">him by the end of his clothes while Abu Bakr pleaded for his release, saying with tears pouring, "Are you</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">going to kill a man for saying, Allah is my Lord?"</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Whoever saw the Messenger on the day of At-Taa'if was sure to see some example of his truth and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">loyalty worthy of him. He turned his face towards the tribe of Thaqiif, calling them to Allah, the One and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the Vanquisher.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Was not what he was encountering from his clan and his folk enough? Did it not warn him of an</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">increasing harm when it comes from people he had no blood relations with? Absolutely not, because</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">these harmful consequences were not considered by him. Almighty Allah had commanded him to deliver</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the message, and that was enough. He remembered the day when the intransigence of his community</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">increased and he went home covering himself in bed in sorrow. He heard the voice of heaven reaching</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">his heart, and immediately he heard the voice of revelation casting the same matter as on the day of the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">cave: "O you encovered --- Arise and warn" (74:1-2).</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Then he had to deliver the message and warn. Therefore, he was a Messenger who did not care</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">about harm and did not search for comfort. Let him go then to Al-Taa'if to convey the word of Allah to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">its people.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">There, however, the nobles of the community surrounded him and were more cunning than their</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">mates in Makkah. They set children and hooligans against him, and they abandoned the most sacred of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the customs of the Arabs, which is hospitality to guests and protection of the one who asks for help.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">They set their hooligans and their young boys after the Messenger (PBUH), throwing stones at him.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">This was the one for whom the Quraish offered to collect money to make him the richest among them</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and to be their leader and king! Yet, he refused saying, " l am but the slave of Allah and His Messenger."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Now we behold him in At-Taa'if where he retired to an orchard to be protected by its walls from the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">pursuit of the hooligans. His right hand was stretched towards heaven praying to Allah while his left</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">hand was protecting his face from the stones thrown at him. He was calling to his Creator and Lord,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">saying, "If You are not angry with me, I do not care for other things, but granting me Your mercy is too</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">generous of You.!'</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Indeed, he was a Messenger who knew how to address his Lord with courtesy! When he declared</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">that he did not care about harm for the sake of Allah, he also declared that he was in dire need for mercy</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">granted by Allah. In a situation like this, he did not feel proud about his endurance and courage, nor did</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">he boast. Boasting in such a situation might suggest bestowing favor on Allah, and this fact could not be</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">hidden from Muhammad. Therefore, the best way to express his courage and endurance in such a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">situation was his pleading and his invocation.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">So he went on asking Allah's pardon and invoking Him, "O Allah, to You I complain of the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">weakness of my strength, my inability to find a way, and my humiliation by the people. O the Most</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Compassionate, You are the Lord of the weak, and You are my Lord. To whom do You entrust me? To a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">distant relation who ignores me or to an enemy who has power over me? If You are not angry with me, I</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">do not care about other things, but granting me Your mercy is too generous of You. I seek refuge in the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">light of Your face that brightens the darkness and amends the affairs of this world and the next. Do not</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">be angry or dissatisfied with me. I beg Your favor until You are satisfied with me. There is no strength or</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">power except through You." What loyalty the Prophet (PBUH) had to his call! He was an unarmed</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">person faced with plots everywhere he went. He had nothing in life to strengthen him, yet he carried all</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">that persistence, all that steadfastness and loyalty!</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">People beheld him returning from Al-Taa'if to Makkah without any sense of despair or defeat, but</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">more hopeful, optimistic, and dedicated. Moreover, he presented himself to the tribes, reaching them in</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">their own localities and districts. One day he went to Bani Kindah, another day to Bani Haniifah, then to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Bani `Aamir, and thus from one tribe to another. He said to them all, "I am the Messenger of Allah to</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">you. He commands you to worship Allah and not to take partners with Him, and to abandon what you</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">worship of idols." At the houses of the close-by tribes, Abu Lahab used to follow him, saying to the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">people, "Do not believe him, for he is calling you to what is false."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">People beheld the Messenger of Allah in such a critical situation seeking believers and assistants,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">but he was met with ingratitude and enmity. They saw him refusing any bargains and refusing to have a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">worldly price for faith.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">In those scorching days, he presented himself to Bani `Aamir lbn sa`sa`ah and sat with them</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">speaking about Allah and reciting some of His words. They inquired, "Do you believe that if we</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">supported you in your affair and then Allah raised you above those who opposed you, we would take the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">matter after you?" He (PBUH) answered saying, "This matter is in the hands of Allah. He puts it</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">wherever He wishes." There and then they dispersed, saying, "We need not your affair." The Messenger</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) left them, looking for believers who do not buy a little worth with their faith.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">People beheld him, but few believed in him. Despite their number, he found in them comfort and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">company. But the Quraish decided that each tribe should be in charge of giving lessons to the believers</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">among them. So, suddenly, persecution descended like a mad storm and hit all the Muslims. The</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">polytheists did not know a crime but committed it against the Muslims. However, here an unexpected</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">surprise took place. Muhammad (PBUH) gave orders to all the Muslims to emigrate to Abyssinia and</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">decided to remain alone to face the aggression!</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Why did he not emigrate to convey the word of Allah in another place, for Allah is the Lord of All</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the Worlds and not the Lord of the Quraish alone? Or why did he not let them stay with him, since in</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">their staying there was confirmed benefit? Surely their stay in Makkah, in spite of their small number,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">would have induced others to embrace Islam, the religion of Allah.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Furthermore, there were among them a good number of the noblest families of the Quraish, the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">strongest and the most powerful. From the tribe of Bani Umaiyah there were `Uthmaan lbn `Affaan,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">`Amr lbn Sa'iid lbn al-'Aas and Khaalid lbn Sa'iid Ibn Al-'Aas From Bani Asad there were Az-Zubair lbn</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Al-' Awaam, Al-Aswad lbn Nawfal, Yaziid lbn Zam'ah ,and `Amr lbn Umaiyah. From the tribe of Bani</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Zahrah there were `Abd Ar-Rahman lbn `Awf, `Aamir lbn Abi Waqqaas Maalik Ibn Ahyab, and Al-</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Muttalib Ibn Azhar. There were these and others whose families would not be patient for long with their</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">persecution and infliction of harm upon them. Why, then, did the Messenger (PBUH) not let them stay</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">with him to support him and to be a sign of possible power in his hands?</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Here the eminence of Muhammad (PBUH), the Messenger of Allah shines. He did not want</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">commotion or civil war, even if the probability of his success was there, or even if he was sure of his</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">success! Here the Messenger's humanity and compassion are illustrated, for he could not bear to see</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">people persecuted because of him, although he was well aware that sacrifice was the price paid in every</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">noble struggle and in every great mission. Sacrifice should be made whenever it was inevitable. But now,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">when it is possible to avoid suffering, let the Muslims turn that way. Why, then, did he not join them?</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">He was not commanded to depart. His place was there where idols were. He would keep uttering the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">name of Allah, the One. He would keep receiving pain and harm without anxiety or disquietude since it</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">was he who was harmed and not those weak people who believed in him and followed him and not even</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">those noble men who also believed in him and followed him! Whoever knows examples of such cases of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">steadfastness and nobility of sacrifice, let him come up with them. It is a lofty matter capable only of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">leading messengers and chosen ones.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">The man and the Messenger came together in Muhammad (PBUH) in such a magnificent and well-</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">knit encounter. Those who had doubts in his message did not have any doubt in his eminence, the purity</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">of his quintessence, or the purity of his humanity. Allah, Who knew where to place His Message, had</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">chosen such a man who was the best humanity could achieve in elevation, loftiness, and honesty. People</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">heard him reprimanding them for any exaggeration in glorifying him or even when they merely stated his</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">eminence without any exaggeration. He prohibited them even from standing up in his presence when he</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">came upon them when they were seated. He said, "Do not stand as non-Arabs do when they glorify one</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">another."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">When the sun eclipsed on the day of the death of his beloved son Ibraahiim, the Muslims mentioned</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">that it was an eclipse out of sadness for the loss of Ibraahiim. But the great and honest Messenger</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) hastened to refute and negate this assumption before it turned into a legend. He stood among the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Muslims, addressing them as follows: "The sun and the moon are two of the signs of Allah. They never</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">eclipse for the death or life of anybody." He was the one trusted with the minds of people and their</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">thinking, and so accomplishing what was entrusted to him was more worthy than the glory of all the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">world. He was certain that he came to humanity to change their way of life and that he was not a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Messenger to the Quraish alone, or to the Arabs only, but was Allah's Messenger to all the people on</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">earth!</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Almighty Allah directed his vision to how far his mission would reach and his banner flutter. He</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">perceived the truth of the faith he announced, the living immortality it would have until Allah inherits the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">earth and those upon it. Nevertheless, he did not see in himself, or his religion or his unprecedented</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">success more than a brick in the construction! This great man stood to proclaim this idea in one of his</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">best statements, saying, "The relation between prophets who came before me and myself is like a man</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">who built a house and constructed it well and decorated it, except for a brick in one of its corners. This</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">made people go round it and express their astonishment, saying, Won't this brick be placed? I am such a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">brick, and I am the last of the Prophets."</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">All that long life he lived, all his struggles and heroism, all his glory and purity, all the victory</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">achieved in his life for his religion and the victory he knew would be achieved after his death were</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">nothing but a brick, a mere brick in a lofty and deeply founded building. He was the one who proclaimed</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">this and reiterated it. In addition, he did not make up such a speech out of assumed modesty, to nourish a</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">hunger for glory. He emphasized the situation as a fact. Its delivery and transmission he considered part</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">of the quintessence of his message. Though modesty was one of the essential characteristics of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad (PBUH), it was not the only sign of his greatness, which reached an unrivaled level of excellence and superiority to be a sign and a symbol itself.</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">That was the teacher of mankind and the last of the prophets. He was the light seen by the people,</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">and he lived among them as a human being, and then after his departure from this world, he was seen by</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">the whole world as a truth and a memory. Now, while we meet a number of his noble Companions on the</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">following pages of this book where we will be astonished by their faith, their sacrifices, and the good</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">cause they set for their lives, which was unprecedented - the reason for their marvelous lives will be clear</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">before us. This reason was nothing but the light they followed who was Muhammad, the Messenger of</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Allah (PBUH). Almighty Allah had combined in him the vision of truth and self-dignity, which honored</div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">life and illuminated the destiny of mankind.</div><div><br />
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</span></b></span></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mahaguru macam manakah beliau . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Manusia corak apakah . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Beliau yang tak ubah sebagai telaga atau lubuk yang dalam . . . , yang penuh dengan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kebesaran, kejujuran dan ketinggian . . .! Sungguh, orang-orang yang terpesona melihat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kebesarannya itu taklah dapat disalahkan, sementara orang-orang yang sedia menebus </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dirinya dengan nyawa mereka, merekalah yang beroleh keberuntungan . . .! Muhammad </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">saw. putera Abdullah . . . , utusan Allah kepada ummat manusia, dalam arena kehidupan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang panas membara . ..! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rahasia dan syarat-syarat apakah yang dimilikinya secara sempurna, hingga ia berhasil </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menjadi seorang manusia yang mengatasi seluruh manusia? Dan tangan keramat macam </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">apakah yang ditadahkannya ke langit, hingga seluruh pintu rahmat, pintu ni'mat dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">petunjuk terbuka baginya selebar-lebarnya . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Keteguhan iman kekuatan dan kemauan macam apakah . . .? Kejujuran, ketulusan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kesucian corak manakah . . .? Kerendahan hati, kecintaan dan kesetiaan seperti apakah . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Lalu menjunjung tinggi kebenaran . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan kemudian penghargaan terhadap hidup dan segala makhluq yang hidup! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sungguh, Allah telah melimpahkan padanya karunia sebanyak-banyaknya, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyebabkannya mampu memikul panji-panji-Nya dan membicarakan asma-Nya, bahkan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menjadikannya sanggup sebagai penutup dari semua Rasul-Nya . . .! Itulah sebabnya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">karunia Allah kepadanya tidak terkira besarnya. Dan betapa juga asyiknya akal fikiran, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ilham maupun tulisan membicarakannya dan menggubah lagu-lagu kebesarannya, tapi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">seolah-olah semua itu tidak akan mampu mencapai tempatnya, dan tidak pernah mampu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bibir menuturkannya . . . . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan andainya lembaran-lembaran pertama dari buku ini menyajikan pembicaraan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengenai Rasulullah saw. sebagai pembuka kata, maka tidaklah maksudnya ingin hendak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menguraikannya dengan sepertinya, atau mengemukakan tokoh Rasulullah itu kepada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pembaca dengan selengkapnya. Itu tidak lebih dari ujung-ujung jari yang dengan segala </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kerendahan hati menunjukkan keunggulan dan kebesarannya yang telah memikat hati </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">manusia dan merebut cinta kasih yang tiada taranya dari orang-orang Muhajirin dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Anshar, yang sebagian mereka kita paparkan riwayatnya dalam buku ini. Belum lagi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kehidupan terhirup akan harum wanginya, maka ia telah menjadikan angin dan bayu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sebagai pertanda gembira bagi kedatangannya, sebagai utusan ke setiap pelosok bumi dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">daerah-daerah kediaman insani, membawa prinsip-prinsip da'wah dan pembekalan da'i, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kebesaran sang guru dan kebenaran ajarannya, cahaya risalat dan rahmat Rasul-Nya .... </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang, hanya itulah maksud tujuan, tidak lebih dan tidak kurang! Yaitu, agar kita </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dapat melihat dalam cahaya terang dari sinar cemerlangnya yang benderang, sebagian bukti </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kebesarannya yang luar biasa, yang telah memikat cinta kasih orang beriman, dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyebabkan mereka memandangnya sebagai ikutan dan pedoman, sebagai guru dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">teladan . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Alasan-alasan apakah yang telah menyebabkan pemimpin-pemimpin bangsanya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">berlomba-lomba untuk menerima ajaran dan Agamanya: Abu Bakar, Thalhah, Zubair, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Utsman bin 'Affan, Abdurrahman bin 'Auf, Sa'ad bin Abi Waqqash dan lain-lain, yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dengan tindakan mereka beriman itu berarti mereka rela melepaskan kemuliaan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kemegahan yang melingkungi mereka selama ini. Dan pada waktu yang bersamaan sedia </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menghadapi kehidupan yang bergejolak, penuh dengan kesulitan, perjuangan dan beban </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">penderitaan?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apa kira-kira yang telah menyebabkan golongan jelata di antara kaumnya berlindung </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">diri kepadanya, dan segera bernaung di bawah panji-panji dan bendera da'wahnya? Padahal </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mereka mengetahui bahwa ia tidak mempunyai harta maupun senjata, serta tidak sunyi dari </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">marabahaya dan dikejar-kejar bencana yang mengincarnya dengan amat kejamnya, tanpa </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kawan pembela yang akan melindunginya . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apakah yang mendorong adikara Jahiliyah Umar bin Khatthab yang sedang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mencarinya dengan maksud hendak memenggal kepalanya, tiba-tiba berbalik haluan lalu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pergi mencari musuh-musuh dan para penentangnya, untuk menebas kepala mereka dengan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pedang itu juga, yang kini kian bertambah tajam disebabkan keimanannya . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apakah yang menyebabkan orang-orang pilihan dan terkemuka Madinah pergi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menemuinya untuk bai'at dan berjanji akan sama-sama mendaki bukit yang tinggi dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menuruni lurah yang dalam, padahal mereka menyadari bahwa peperangan yang akan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">terjadi di antara mereka dengan orang-orang Quraisy akan berkecamuk dengan amat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dahsyatnya . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apakah yang menyebabkan jumlah orang-orang beriman kian bertambah dan tak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pernah berkurang, padahal setiap pagi dan petang ia selalu meneriakkan pada mereka: "Aku </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tidak mempunyai wewenang untuk memberimu manfa'at atau mudlarat, dan aku tidak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengetahui apa yang akan terjadi atas diriku begitu juga atas dirimu sekalian!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apakah pula yang menyebabkan mereka percaya bahwa pelosok dunia akan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dibebaskan dari kekufuran dan keni'matan dunia dipersembahkan untuk mereka, dan bahwa </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">telapak kaki mereka akan bergelimang dengan kekayaan dunia melintasi berbagai mahkota </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kerajaan. Apakah pula yang menyebabkan mereka percaya bahwa al-Quran yang ketika itu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mereka baca secara sembunyi-sembunyi, akan didengungkan ke segenap penjuru dengan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nada keras dan alunan tinggi, bukan di lingkungan kaum mereka saja atau di jazirah Arab </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">semata, tetapi meluas ke seluruh kolong langit dan menembus kurun waktu . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka apakah kiranya yang menyebabkan mereka yakin akan kebenaran ramalan yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dinubuwatkan Rasul mereka, pada hal di kala mereka berpaling kiri dan kanan dan melihat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">muka belakang, tak ada yang mereka temui kecuali tanah gersang dan pasir membara, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bahkan batu-batu panas bak lambaian neraka, dan pohon-pohon kering yang pucuknya tak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ubah kepala setan yang sedang dirajam siksa . . .? Dan apa gerangan yang telah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyebabkan kalbu mereka dipenuhi keyakinan dan kepekatan iman ini. . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tiada lain hanyalah putera Abdullah itu! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan siapa pula yang dapat mencapai semua keutamaan itu kecuali dirinya sendiri. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sungguh, telah mereka saksikan keutamaan dan keistimewaannya. Telah mereka lihat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kesucian, kesederhanaan, kejujuran, keberanian dan keteguhan pendiriannya. Mereka lihat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ketinggian dan rasa santunnya, akal budi dan buah fikirannya. Mereka lihat matahari </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bersinar, memancarkan kebenaran dan kebesarannya. Mereka dengar air kehidupan mulai </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengalir ke pembuluh hayat, demi Muhammad saw. itu menyiraminya dengan wahyu yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">diterimanya pada hari-hari itu dan dengan renungan-renungannya di masa lalu . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka saksikan semua itu, bahkan berlipat ganda dari itu, bukan dengan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mendengarnya dari mulut ke mulut, tetapi secara berhadap-hadapan muka dan melihatnya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dengan mata kepala, baik mata lahir, maupun mata bathin mereka . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan demi orang-orang Arab tadi menyaksikan peristiwa-peristiwa yang kita sebutkan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">itu serta selesai melakukan penyelidikan mereka, maka tak perlulah lagi diceritakan hal-hal </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">selanjutnya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka adalah ahli selidik dan siasat. Salah seorang di antara mereka melihat jejak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kaki di tengah jalan, maka ia akan dapat mengatakan kepada anda: "Ini adalah jejak telapak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kaki si Anu putera si Anu". Atau demi tercium olehnya ban nafas orang yang menjadi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lawan bicaranya, maka ia akan mengetahui apa yang tersembunyi dalam dada orang itu, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">apakah kebenaran ataukah dusta . . . .</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka telah melihat Muhammad saw. dan hidup semasa dengannya semenjak ia lahir </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ke alam dunia. Tidak satu pun yang tersembunyi bagi mereka mengenai perihidupnya. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bahkan masa kecilnya, yakni suatu masa yang tidak begitu menjadi perhatian kecuali bagi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">keluarga dan orang tua dari anak itu sendiri. Terhadap Muhammad saw., masa kecilnya itu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">disaksikan dan telah menjadi perhatian bagi seluruh penduduk Mekah. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebabnya ialah karena masa kanak-kanaknya tidaklah seperti masa kanak-kanak anak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lain. Perhatian orang tertoleh kepadanya melihat kedewasaannya yang cepat dan amat pagi, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">begitu pun peralihannya yang segera dari kegemaran bermain sebagai anak-anak kepada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sikap bersungguh-sungguh dari orang dewasa. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebagai contoh misalnya orang-orang Quraisy sering memperkatakan cucu Abdul </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mutthalib ini yang tidak menyukai permainan anak-anak serta obrolan mereka di malam </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hari. Setiap ada orang yang mengajaknya ikut serta, maka jawabnya: "Tidaklah untuk itu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">aku dicipta!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Juga sering menjadi pembicaraan mereka berita yang disiar-kan oleh ibu susunya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Halimah ketika ia mengantarkannya kem-bali kepada keluarganya. Hasil penglihatan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pengalamannya mengenai anak susunya selama ini, menyebabkannya yakin bahwa itu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bukanlah anak biasa, dan bahwa hal itu merupakan suatu rahasia terpendam yang hanya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">diketahui oleh Maha Pencipta, tetapi suatu waktu kelak pasti akan terbuka oleh peredaran </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">masa . . . . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mengenai masa remajanya . . . , aduhai alangkah bersih dan inya, bahkan lebih terang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan lebih terbuka lagi, dan perhatian kaumnya lebih tertumpah serta perbincangan lebih </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">meluas! Jangan dikata tentang masa dewasanya, yang menjadi tumpuan pengamatan, pusat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pendengaran dan penglihatan. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di samping itu ia menjadi hati nurani masyarakat dan bangsanya, hingga segala gerak- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gerik dan tindak-tanduknya menjadi ukuran bagi penilaian mereka terhadap barang haq, apa </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang baik dan yang terpuji . . . . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bila demikian halnya, maka ia merupakan suatu kehidupan yang gamblang dapat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bicara. Semenjak dari awal hingga akhirnya, dari buaian ke liang lahad! Segala pandangan, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">segala langkah dan ucapan, sekalian gerak-gerik bahkan sekalian impian, cita-cita dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">angan-angan hatinya, semenjak hari pertama ia lahir ke dunia, semua itu pantas untuk </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menjadi milik ummat manusia. Seolah-olah dengan itu Allah Ta'ala hendak mema'lumkan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kepada ummat manusia: "Inilah utusan-Ku kepada kamu semua, sarananya ialah akal dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">logika, dan inilah dari masa bayinya perihidupnya terbuka. Maka periksalah dengan segala </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">akal budi dan pertimbangan logika yang ada padamu, dan bawalah ke batu ujian . . .!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, adakah kiranya hal-hal yang meragukan? Terdapatkah kepalsuan? Pernahkah ia </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">berbohong agak sekali, pernahkah ia berkhianat? Pernahkah namanya ternoda? Pernahkah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ia membuka 'auratnya? Adakah seseorang yang dianiayanya, atau adakah janji yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dilanggarnya? Adakah silaturrahmi yang diputuskannya, tanggung jawab yang dilemparkan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dari pundak-nya atau perikemanusiaan yang diabaikannya? Pernahkah ia menghina orang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan pernahkah ia menghadapkan mukanya menyembah berhala? Periksalah dengan cermat, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">selidiki dengan teliti! Tidak satu tahap pun dari kehidupannya yang diselubungi kabut </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tertutup tirai besi! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka seandainya kehidupannya sebagai anda lihat dan saksikan demikian bersih, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">demikian benar dan luhur, apakah dapat diterima oleh akal dan fikiran yang sehat, apabila </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">laki-laki yang seperti itu corak kehidupannya akan berubah menjadi seorang pembohong </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">setelah mencapai 40 tahun usia . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian, terhadap siapa ia berbohong . . .? Apakah terhadap Allah swt., hingga </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">diakuinya bahwa ia utusan-Nya, yang dipilih serta diangkat-Nya, dan menerima wahyu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">daripada-Nya . . . ? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tidak...!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikian menurut kesaksian dan kenyataan. Dan demikian pula pendapat akal dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fikiran! Maka metoda mana yang anda gunakan dalam berfikir . . .? Dan haq mana yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">anda pakai untuk menyangkal. . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Menurut perkiraan kita, inilah dia daya pikat yang menarik orang-orang beriman </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">angkatan pertama kepada Rasulullah saw., baik golongan Muhajirin yaitu yang ikut hijrah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">di antara mereka, maupun golongan Anshar, yakni yang menyambut saudara-saudaranya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">jadi pembela. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Daya tarik itu demikian kuat dan menentukan, tak dapat bertangguh dan tak ada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kebimbangan. Karena manusia yang memiliki kehidupan yang suci dan menerangi ini, tak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mungkin akan berbohong kepada Allah! Maka dengan pandangan tajam dan menembus ini, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">orang-orang beriman melihat nur atau cahaya Ilahi, hingga mereka ikuti dan pedomani. . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka akan bersyukur atas pandangan itu, ketika di belakang nanti mereka lihat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bahwa Rasulullah ditolong oleh Allah swt., dan seluruh jazirah Arab tunduk taat di bawah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">telapak kakinya, serta pintu rizqi terbuka lebar bagi mereka, suatu hal yang tidak mereka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">duga dari semula. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kiranya dirinya sekarang tidak berbeda dengan dirinya dulu, tiada bertambah kecuali </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sifat zuhud dan keshalihannya, hidup sederhana dan bersahaja, tiada terpikat oleh dunia, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hingga di saat kembali menemui Allah, mereka dapati ia tidur di atas anyaman daun kurma, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hingga pelepahnya yang keras itu berbekas di sekujur tubuhnya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Juga mereka bersyukur ketika menyaksikan bahwa Rasul yang benderanya berkibar di </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">seluruh pelosok dengan megah dan jayanya, suatu waktu naik ke atas mimbar dan sambil </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menangis menghadapkan wajahnya kepada manusia, katanya: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Barangsiapa yang pernah terpukul punggungnya, maka inilah punggungku </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">balaslah . . .! Barangsiapa yang pernah kuambil hartanya, maka inilah hartaku, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ambillah . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka menyaksikan peristiwa ketika pamannya (Abbas) meminta agar diberi suatu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">jabatan yang juga dapat dipegang oleh orang-orang Islam kebanyakan, maka dengan lemah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lembut ditolaknya, sambil katanya: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demi Allah wahai paman, kita tidak akan memberikan jabatan ini kepada orang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang meminta dan mengharapkannya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika mereka melihatnya, tidak hanya turut merasakan penderitaan yang dirasai oleh </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">manusia semata, tetapi juga menggariskan prinsip bagi diri dan keluarganya yang sekali- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kali tak boleh mereka langgar atau menyimpang daripadanya, yaitu: Hendaklah mereka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">orang yang pertama kali lapar bila masa kelaparan tiba, dan orang yang terakhir sekali </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kenyang bila kebetulan dalam masa ma'mur dan jaya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang, orang-orang beriman angkatan pertama itu akan bersyukur atas pengamatan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mereka yang tepat di kala melihat sesuatu persoalan, yakni setelah mereka lebih dulu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">memanjatkan puji dan syukur ke hadlirat Allah yang telah menunjuki mereka kepada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">keimanan. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan mereka akan menyaksikan pula bahwa perikehidupan yang menjadi bukti </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kebenaran pemiliknya, ketika ia menyatakan kepada mereka "Sesungguhnya aku ini </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menjadi utusan Allah kepadamu", sungguh agung dan luhur, hingga dengan keagungan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">keluhurannya itu menjadi bukti terkuat pula atas kebenaran mahaguru dan Rasul utama itu. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan tingkat keagungan dan ketinggiannya itu tak pernah turun agak sesaat atau luntur agak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sekejap, hanya tetap bertahan dari waktu kecilnya sampai ia wafat. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan sepanjang jalan kehidupan ini dan setelah ia sampai ke puncaknya, ternyata </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dengan gamblang seperti cahaya siang, bahwa pemilik kehidupan dan risalah ini, sekali-kali </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tidak berusaha untuk merebut nama, kedudukan atau harta. Ketika semua ini datang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kepadanya terikat pada tiang-tiang benderanya yang jaya, ditolaknya mentah-mentah, dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">seperti biasa sampai ke saatnya yang akhir, ia hidup sebagai orang yang shalih dan tekun </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beribadat. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Seujung rambut pun dirinya tak hendak bergeser dari tujuan hidupnya yang mulia. Dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tak pernah ia melanggar ikrarnya kepada Allah, baik dalam beribadat maupun dalam </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">berjihad. Belum lagi datang sepertiga yang akhir dari malam, ia telah bangkit berdiri, lalu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">wudlu dan sebagai kebiasaannya yang sudah-sudah dan tak pernah berubah, ia munajat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kepada Allah lalu menangis, kemudian shalat sambil menangis .... </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Harta datang kepadanya bertumpuk-tumpuk, tapi sedikit pun ia tak berubah, dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tiadalah yang diambilnya untuk dirinya kecuali seperti yang diambil oleh orang yang paling </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bawah dan rakyat yang paling melarat . . . , kemudian ketika ia wafat, didapati orang baju </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">besinya telah tergadai pula . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika akhirnya seluruh negeri tunduk menerima da'wahnya, dan sebagian besar raja- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">raja buana berdiri dengan hormat dan ta'dhim sewaktu menerima surat-suratnya yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengajak mereka masuk Islam, maka tiada secuil pun kesombongan dan kemegahan berani </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mendekat kepada dirinya, walau dari jarak yang jauh daripadanya. Dan tatkala dilihatnya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beberapa orang yang berkunjung kepadanya merasa gugup dan takut, maka dikuatkannya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">semangat mereka, katanya: "Jangan malu-malu dan jangan takut! Ibuku adalah seorang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">perempuan yang biasa makan dendeng di Mekah!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Semua yang menolak Agamanya telah meletakkan senjata, dan mereka sama </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyerahkan leher untuk menerima dengan rela putusan yang akan dijatuhkannya, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sementara sepuluh ribu bilah pedang di tangan Kaum Muslimin beracungan dan berkilat- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kilatan di bukit-bukit sekeliling Mekah, tetapi ucapan yang dikeluarkannya kepada mereka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hanyalah: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pergilah kalian! semua kalian bebas. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bahkan sampai-sampai kepada menyaksikan kemenangan yang menjadi haknya dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">untuk itu ia telah menghabiskan usianya, tidak digunakannya dengan sepertinya. Dalam </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">perarakan di hari pembebasan itu, ia berjalan dengan menundukkan kepala, hingga sulit </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bagi orang-orang untuk melihat wajahnya, sambil berulang-ulang membaca dengan mulut </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan dalam hatinya ucapan syukur yang bercampur dengan tetesan air mata, dan dengan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">rendah diri menadahkannya kepada Allah yang Maha Tinggi lagi Maha Besar hingga </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">akhirnya sampailah ia di Ka'bah . . . , lalu berhadapan dengan kumpulan berhala. Maka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dirubuhkannya berhala-berhala itu dengan tembilang-tembilangnya sambil mengucapkan: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Telah datang yang haq dan telah rubuh yang bathil! Sesungguhnya barang bathil </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">itu pasti rubuh . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, masih adakah lagi keraguan terhadap risalahnya . . .? Suatu pribadi yang telah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">membaktikan seluruh kehidupannya untuk da'wah, tanpa maksud-maksud tertentu atau ada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">udang di balik batu, baik berupa kekayaan atau kemegahan, pengaruh atau kedudukan, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bahkan keabadian dirinya dalam sejarah pun tidak masuk perhitungannya, karena yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">diimaninya hanyalah keabadian di sisi Allah swt. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suatu pribadi yang menjalani kehidupan dari masa kecilnya hingga usia 40 tahun </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dalam kesucian dan renungan . . . , kemudian dari 40 tahun sampai akhir kesudahan diisinya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dengan beribadat dan membimbing ummat, dengan berjuang dan berperang, hingga pintu- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pintu gerbang dunia terbuka lebar untuknya, maka disingkirkannya segala kemuliaan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kemegahan palsu, dan ia tetap menekuni akhlaq, ibadat dan tugas risalat!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Masihkah ada kesempatan untuk menuduhnya sebagai pendusta . . .? Di manakah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kiranya letak kedustaannya itu? Hdakkah pribadi itu suci daripadanya? Dan tidakkah Rasul </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">itu bebas dan terhindar daripadanya? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">****** </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dulu kita kemukakan bahwa logika dan akal fikiran — sekarang juga demikian — </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menjadi bukti utama atas kebenaran Nabi Muhammad Rasulullah, ketika ia berkata </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"Sesungguhnya aku ini Rasulullah!" Tidaklah dapat diterima oleh logika dan akal yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sehat bahwa orang yang seperti itu kehidupannya dari awal hingga akhir, akan berbohong </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">terhadap Allah! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka orang-orang Mu'min angkatan pertama yang segera menerima seruannya dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kita beroleh kehormatan mengenal sekelumit dari riwayat mereka pada lembaran-lembaran </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">buku ini, setelah hidayat dan taufiq dari Allah Ta'ala, juga didorong oleh bukti logika dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">akal fikiran ini! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Begitu keadaan Muhammad saw. sebelum diangkat menjadi Rasul! Begitu pula ia </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">setelah diangkat! Demikian ketika ia dalam ayunan! Dan demikian pula ketika berada di </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ambang kematian! Apakah sepanjang hayat dan selama hidupnya itu ada sesuatu yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">meragukan? Bahkan walau agak sedikit pun? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sekarang marilah kita berdiri sejenak dekat tahun-tahun pertama dari kerasulannya! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tahun-tahun yang jarang kita jumpai bandingannya dalam sejarah mengenai keteguhan, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kejujuran dan kebesaran . . .! Tahun-tahun itu lebih mengungkapkan dari tahun-tahun </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lainnya tentang Mahaguru dan Pembimbing kemanusiaan ini. Tahun-tahun yang merupakan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">suatu prakata dari sebuah buku yang hidup, yaitu buku kehidupan dan kepahlawan-annya, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bahkan sebelum dan sesudah yang lain, merupakan pengantar bagi mu'jizat-mu'jizatnya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Selama tahun-tahun tersebut, di kala Rasulullah berada sebatang kara seorang diri, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ditinggalkannya segala suasana santai, tenteram dan damai, lalu tampil ke hadapan manusia </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengemukakan apa yang tidak mereka sukai, atau lebih tepat barang yang mereka benci! la </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tampil di hadapan mereka dengan menujukan ucapannya kepada otak dan fikiran mereka . . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. . Dan alangkah sulitnya pekerjaan berdialog dengan fikiran massa dan bukan dengan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">perasaan mereka! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan Muhammad Rasulullah tidak hanya berbuat itu saja. Mungkin berdialog dengan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fikiran manusia itu tidak begitu berat akibatnya, asal saja masih dalam batas lingkungan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">adat dan cita-cita yang dimiliki bersama. Tetapi bila anda berbicara dengan mereka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengenai masa yang jauh berada di depan, masa yang dapat anda lihat tapi mereka tidak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">melihatnya, yang dapat anda rasakan tapi mereka tidak merasakannya, maka sungguh . . . , </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">di kala anda berbicara dengan fikiran mereka dan bermaksud hendak merubuhkan sendi- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sendi dasar kehidupan mereka secara ikhlas dan jujur, tanpa mengharapkan keuntungan- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">keuntungan tertentu seperti kedudukan dan pengaruh, maka, di sini anda menghadapi risiko </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan bahaya yang tak dapat teratasi, kecuali oleh ulul 'azmi, tokoh-tokoh berkemauan baja di </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">antara Rasul-rasul dan para pahlawan . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka sungguh, Rasulullah adalah pahlawan dari arena ini dan Mahaguru luar biasa! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Waktu itu yang dikatakan ibadat adalah pemujaan berhala, sedang agama ialah upacara- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">upacaranya. Dan Rasulullah tidaklah memakai cara perdebatan bagaimana juga bentuknya. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sulitnya jalan dan beratnya beban akan dapat teratasi seandainya ia menggunakan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">keccrdasan yang luar biasa untuk mempersiapkan jiwa manusia sebelum disodori kalimah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tauhid secara tiba-tiba. Menjadi haknya dan termasuk dalam kemampuannya meratakan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">jalan lebih dulu untuk memisahkan masyarakat dari Tuhan-tuhan mereka, yang telah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mereka warisi pemujaannya selama ratusan tahun. Maka seyogyanya dimulai dengan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gerakan tolak angsur, dan sedapat mungkin menjauhkan diri dari pertentangan secara </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">terbuka yang diketahuinya sejak semula akan membangkitkan kebencian kaumnya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kepadanya dan mempertajam senjata mereka terhadap dirinya . . . .</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi hal itu tidak dilakukannya . . . , suatu bukti bahwa ia adalah Rasul! Didengarnya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dalam kalbunya suara langit berkata padanya: "Bangkitlah" maka ia pun bangkit, dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"Sampaikanlah!" maka disampaikannya . . . , tanpa bermanis mulut atau mengundurkan diri </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dari saat pertama, dihadapinya mereka dengan inti risalat dan pokok persoalan: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hai manusia! Aku ini utusan Allah kepadamu, dengan maksud agar kamu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengabdikan diri kepada-Nya dan tidak mempersekutukan dengan apa pun juga! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sesungguhnya berhala-berhala itu kosong dan percuma, tidak dapat memberi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mudlarat maupun manfa'at! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan dari awal mulanya, dihadapinya mereka dengan kata-kata tegas dan gamblang ini, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan dari mulanya pula dihadapinya peperangan sengit yang telah ditaqdirkan akan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">diterjuninya sampai ia berpisah dengan dunia . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apakah orang-orang Mu'min angkatan pertama memerlukan dorongan yang akan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mendesak mereka untuk bai'at kepada Rasul ini? Tetapi hati nurani siapakah yang tidak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">akan tergerak ketika menyaksikan peristiwa luar biasa dan satu-satunya ini . . .? Peristiwa </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">seorang laki-laki yang tidak dikenal manusia kecuali sebagai seorang yang sempurna akal </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan luhur budi, berdiri seorang diri menghadapi kaumnya dengan da'wah, yang karena </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pengaruhnya yang dahsyat, gunung-gunung belah berserpihan, sementara kalimat-kalimat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang keluar dari mulut dan lubuk hatinya demikian lantang dan mengharukan, seolah-olah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">di sana berhimpun seluruh kekuatan masa depan, seluruh kehendak dan kemauan bajanya, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">seakan-akan ia suara taqdir yang mema'lumkan keputusannya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi mungkin ini hanya merupakan cahaya kilat yang sekejap saat, dan setelah itu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nabi Muhammad akan pergi mengurus dirinya sendiri, mengabdikan diri kepada Allah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sesuka hatinya, dan meninggalkan berhala-berhala kaumnya di temp at bercokolnya, serta </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">membiarkan agama mereka sebagai sedia kala . . . . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Seandainya kekhawatiran ini terbayang-bayang dalam otak sebagian orang di kala itu, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">maka Muhammad saw. segera melenyapkannya. Secara gamblang ditegaskannya kepada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">manusia bahwa ia adalah utusan yang berkewajiban menyampaikan, dan tak dapat diam </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">berpangku tangan atau menyembunyikan cahaya dan kebenaran yang telah diperolehnya. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bahkan seluruh kekuatan dunia dan alam ini takkan mampu untuk membungkam dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menghalanginya, karena yang menyuruh dan menggerakkannya berkata serta membimbing </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">langkahnya, tiada lain dari Allah Ta'ala . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan jawaban dari orang-orang Quraisy datang secara tepat, tak ubah bagai lambaian </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">api tertiup angin kencang! Mulailah tekanan dan penderitaan mengalir menimpa dirinya, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang dari bermula sampai akhirnya hanya layak beroleh penghormatan tertinggi, tak ada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lagi yang lebih tinggi dari itu . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan laki-laki yang Rasulullah itu mengajarkan pelajaran pertamanya dengan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kemampuan seni mendidik yang istimewa dan semangat berqurban yang luar biasa. Dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gambaran peristiwa itu memenuhi ruang dan waktu, meliputi halaman sejarah. Sementara </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">orang-orang yang bersemangat dan hidup jiwanya di Mekah sama terpesona dan kagum </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lalu datang mendekat . . . . Kiranya mereka dapati seorang yang luhur dan tinggi; dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mereka tidak tahu, apakah kepalanya bertambah panjang hingga menjulang dan menyentuh </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">iangit, ataukah langit yang turun ke bawah lalu meletakkan mahkota di atas kepalanya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka lihat usaha mati-matian, keluhuran dan kebesaran . . . . Dan yang paling </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyegarkan dari yang mereka lihat dan saksikan itu ialah suatu hari, ketika bangsawan- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bangsawan Quraisy pergi mendapatkan Abu Thalib dan berkata: "Wahai Abu Thalib! Anda </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">adalah seorang yang kami tuakan, kami hormati dan muliakan. Dan kami telah meminta </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">anda agar melarang keponakan anda itu, tetapi rupanya tidak anda indahkan! Sungguh, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">demi Allah, kami telah tak dapat menahan kesabaran kami lagi mendengar cemoohan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">terhadap nenek moyang kami, ejekan terhadap orang-orang cerdik pandai kami, peng- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hinaan terhadap Tuhan-tuhan pujaan kami! Bila anda masih belum hendak mencegah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">perbuatannya itu, marilah kita berperang tanding, biar salah satu di antara kita tewas atau </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">celaka . . .!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Thalib pun segera menyuruh memanggil keponakannya itu, lalu katanya: "Wahai </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">keponakanku! Kaummu telah mendatangiku dan membicarakan soalmu dengan daku. Maka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">jagalah dirimu dan tengganglah daku, dan janganlah daku diberi beban yang tak sanggup </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">aku memikulnya . . .!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apa jawaban dan bagaimana pendirian Rasulullah saw. waktu itu . . .? Rupanya orang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">satu-satunya yang berdiri di sampingnya selama ini hendak berlepas tangan daripadanya. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Atau tampaknya ia tak hendak bersedia, atau tak mampu lagi menghadapi Qurasy yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">telah unjuk gigi. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tapi Rasulullah tidak ragu-ragu untuk menjawab serta semangatnya tak pernah kendor! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tidak, bahkan ia tak mencari-cari kalimat lebih dulu untuk memantapkan keyakinannya! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Karena ketika itu keyakinannya bangkit tegak di atas singgasana keguruan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengajarkan kepada manusia pelajaran yang teramat penting serta membacakan prinsip- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">prinsipnya yang mendasar. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah ia berbicara, dan kita tidak tahu apakah yang berkata itu manusia, ataukah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">seluruh wujud ini yang sedang berdendang: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Wahai paman, andainya mereka menaruh matahari di tangan kananku dan bulan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">di tangan kiriku, agar aku meninggalkan pekerjaan ini, tiadalah aku hendak me- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ninggalkannya, sampai aku berhasil, atau tewas dalam menunaikannya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salam atasmu wahai Nabi, rahmat Allah serta berkah-Nya ! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Wahai pemimpin laki-laki, kata-katamu itu adalah kata-kata laki-laki! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dengan segera Abu Thalib mengumpulkan kembali segala keberaniannya dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">keberanian nenek moyangnya, lalu digenggamnya erat-erat tangan kanan keponakannya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">seraya katanya: "Katakanlah apa yang kamu sukai, dan demi Allah, saya takkan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyerahkanmu karena suatu apapun untuk selama-lamanya . . .!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi ternyata, walaupun pamannya itu mempunyai kemampuan, tiadalah Muhammad </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">saw. hendak memperoleh perlindungan dan keamanan daripadanya, bahkan sebaliknya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nabi Muhammadlah yang melimpahkan keamanan, keteguhan dan perlindungan itu kepada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">orang-orang sekelilingnya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, manusia manakah di antara orang-orang yang berbudi, yang menyaksikan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tontonan seperti ini, yang takkan tergugah hatinya dan lari mengejar Muhammad saw., </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">demi cinta kasih, keimanan dan semangat pembelaan terhadap dirinya . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketabahan hatinya membela kebenaran, keteguhannya mengandalkan risalat dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kesabarannya menghadapi bahaya di jalan Allah, bukan di jalan diri atau karena </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kepentingannya pribadi, semua itu sudah selayaknya akan mempesonakan akal yang cerdas </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan membangkitkan fikiran dinamis, hingga ia akan mengikuti cahaya yang bersinar dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">suara yang menghimbau, dan segera mendapatkan "orang jujur dan terpercaya" tadi yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sengaja datang untuk mensucikan dan memberinya petunjuk. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Orang-orang melihat ia terancam bahaya dari segenap pen-juru, sedang hiburan yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">biasa diterima dari pamannya Abu Thalib dan isterinya Khadijah telah lenyap pula karena </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kedua mereka meninggal dunia pada hari-hari yang berdekatan . . . . Barangsiapa yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ingin hendak mengira-ngirakan sampai di mana penganiayaan dan betapa hebatnya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">permusuhan yang dilancarkan oleh orang-orang Quraisy terhadap Rasul yang sebatangkara </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">itu, cukuplah bila diketahui bahwa Abu Lahab sendiri yang menjadi seteru dan musuhnya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">terbesar, pada suatu hari hatinya jadi pilu melihat apa yang dilihatnya, hingga ia </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mema'lumkan akan melindungi dan membela Rasulullah serta akan menentang semua </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">permusuhan terhadap dirinya . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi Rasulullah menolak pembelaan Abu Lahab itu, hingga ia tetap tegak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyeruak, mati-matian membela pendirian dan bebas dari segala ikatan! Tidak seorang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pun yang akan dapat menyingkirkan bahaya daripadanya, karena tak seorang pun yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mempunyai kemampuan berbuat demikian. Bahkan Abu Bakar, tokoh utama itu, tiada yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dapat dilakukan olehnya kecuali hanyalah menangis . . . . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari Rasulullah pergi ke Ka'bah, dan sementara beliau thawaf, tiba-tiba </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beberapa orang bangsawan Quraisy yang sedang mengintai kedatangannya melompat dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengerumuninya, lalu kata mereka: "Kamukah yang mengatakan begini dan begitu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">terhadap Tuhan-tuhan kami . . .?" Maka dengan tenang dijawabnya: "Benar, akulah yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengatakan-nya . . .". Mereka pun mencengkram pangkal bajunya hendak membunuhnya, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sementara Abu Bakar datang melihat kejadian itu meneteskan air mata sambil berkata: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"Apakah kalian hendak membunuh seorang laki-laki, hanya karena ia mengatakan bahwa </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tuhannya Allah . . .?" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian, barangsiapa yang menyaksikan peristiwa Rasul-ullah di Thaif, maka ia </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">akan melihat bukti-bukti kebenaran dan pengurbanannya, suatu hal yang sudah wajar </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menjadi miliknya dan tak dapat digugat lagi! la menghadapkan tujuannya kepada kabilah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tsaqif menyeru mereka mengabdikan diri pada Allah Yang Maha Esa lagi perkasa .... </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Wahai, belum cukupkah kiranya apa yang diderita dari kaum dan keluarganya sendiri . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. .? Tidakkah beliau takut akan mendapat siksaan yang jauh berlipat ganda dari kaum yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hendak didatanginya itu, yang antaranya dengan mereka tak ada pertalian darah dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hubungan keluarga . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tidak, karena rupanya risiko tidak masuk sekali-kali dalam perhitungannya! Bukankah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tuhannya Yang Maha Tinggi itu telah menitahkan kepadanya: "Hendaklah kamu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sampaikan!" Beliau teringat akan suatu hari di kala ejekan dan celaan kaumnya kepadanya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">semakin meningkat. Maka kembalilah beliau ke rumah dan menyelimuti diri di tempat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tidurnya dalam keada-an duka dan kecewa. Tiba-tiba suara langit mengetuk pintu hatinya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan wahyu pun segera datang, menyampaikan perintah yang telah disampaikan padanya di </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gua Hira dulu: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hai orang yang berselimut! Bangkitlah dan sampaikanlah peringatan . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sadarlah beliau bahwa dirinya seorang muballigh dan juru nasihat! Dan kalau begitu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beliau adalah seorang Rasul yang tak menghiraukan bahaya dan tak boleh berpangku </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tangan! Maka sekarang beliau harus pergi ke Thaif untuk menyampaikan kalimat Allah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kepada penduduknya. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika itu datanglah penduduk Thaif mengepungnya. Rupanya mereka lebih jahat lagi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dari kawan-kawan mereka di Mekah ! Mereka hasut anak-anak dan orang-orang bodoh dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tanggalkan sopan santun Arab yang dianggap keramat yaitu memuliakan tamu dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">melindungi orang-orang yang teraniaya. Mereka lepas-kan orang-orang bodoh dan anak- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">anak itu mengejar Rasulullah dan melemparinya dengan batu. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Inilah dia orang yang mendapat tawaran dari orang-orang Quraisy dulu untuk </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menerima tumpukan harta hingga beliau akan menjadi seorang yang terkaya! Atau berupa </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kedudukan sehingga beliau akan menjadi pemimpin atau raja mereka! Tetapi tawaran itu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ditolaknya serta katanya: "Aku ini hanyalah hamba Allah dan utusan-Nya!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan sekarang beliau sedang berada di Thaif dan pergi ke sebuah kebun lalu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">melindungkan diri di balik pagar dari kejaran orang-orang bodoh tersebut . . . , tangan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kanannya terhampar dan tertadah ke langit memohon kepada Allah, sementara tangan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kirinya digunakannya sebagai tameng untuk melindungi wajahnya dari batu-batu lemparan. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Beliau bermunajat kepada Pencipta dan Pelindungnya, katanya: "Asal Engkau tidak murka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kepadaku, maka aku tidak peduli . . . , hanya keselamatan daripada-Mu akan lebih </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">melapangkan dada ini. . .!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang, beliau adalah Rasul yang tahu bagaimana caranya memohon kepada Allah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tanpa mengabaikan tata tertib kesopanan! Sementara beliau menyatakan tidak peduli </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">terhadap penderitaan di jalan Allah, dinyatakannya pula bahwa beliau amat memerlukan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">keselamatan yang akan dikaruniakan oleh Allah. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dalam keadaannya seperti itu beliau tidak bangga dengan ketabahan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">keberaniannya, dan tidak merasa sombong, karena kesombongan dalam keadaan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">suasana seperti itu mungkin akan mengandung ma'na berjasa kepada Allah. Hal itu tidak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">luput dari fikiran Nabi Muhammad. Oleh sebab itu cara sebaik-baiknya untuk menyatakan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ketabahan dan keberanian dalam situasi seperti demikian, ialah suara du'a dan kerendahan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">diri. . .! Demikianlah beliau melanjutkan do'a dan permohonan ampunnya kepada Allah, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">katanya: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"Ya Allah, kuadukan kepada-Mu kelemahan tenaga, kekurangan budi daya serta </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kerendahanku terhadap manusia . . .! Ya Allah, Yang Teramat Pengasih di antara </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang pengasih! Engkaulah pelindung orang-orang yang lemah, dan Engkaulah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rabbi! Kepada siapakah daku Engkau serahkan . . .? Apakah kepada orang yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">jauh yang akan menerimaku dengan wajah masam, ataukah kepada musuh yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">akan berlaku leluasa dan bersifat kejam . . .? Tetapi asal saja Engkau tidak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">murka kepadaku, maka aku tidak peduli, hanya keselamatan dari-Mu akan lebih </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">melapangkan hamba-Mu ini. . .! Aku berlindung dengan nur wajah-Mu yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menerangi kegelapan dan menjamin kebaikan dunia akhirat, dari amarah-Mu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang akan menimpa diriku dan murka-Mu yang akan membinasakan daku. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kumohon ridla-Mu sampai kuperolehnya, dan tiada daya maupun tenaga kecuali </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dengan-Mu juga . . .!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kecintaan manakah yang mendorong Rasul memikul tugas da'wahnya . . .? Seorang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">diri sebatang kara . .., akan berhadapan dengan tipu daya manusia . ..! Tak satu pun dari </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sarana kehidupan duniawi yang dapat menyokong perjuangannya, tetapi ia tetap bertahan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dengan kegigihan yang tak pernah kendor dan kecintaan yang tak pernah pudar. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika kembali ke Mekah dari Thaif, beliau dilihat orang bukan terpukul atau putus </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">asa, bahkan bertambah semangat dan meningkat gembira. Didatanginya suku-suku dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kabilah-kabilah, ditemuinya mereka di dusun-dusun dan kampung-kampung mereka. Suatu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hari di suku Kindah, suatu hari pula di Bani Hanifah, hari yang lain di Bani 'Amir. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikian seterusnya suku demi suku, kabilah demi kabilah. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kepada mereka semua dikatakannya: "Saya ini adalah utusan Allah kepadamu. Ia </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyuruhmu beribadah kepada-Nya dan tidak mempersekutukan-Nya dengan sesuatu, dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">agar kamu meninggalkan penyembahan lain-Nya berupa berhala-berhala . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di perkampungan kabilah-kabilah yang dekat letaknya, Abu Lahab selalu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mengikutinya seraya meneriakkan kepada orang-orang itu: "Jangan percaya kepadanya, ia </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hanya hendak membawa kalian kepada kesesatan . . .!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah dalam kedudukan sulit ini, ketika beliau dilihat orang hendak mencari </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">orang-orang yang mau beriman dan menjadi pembela, kiranya yang dijumpainya ialah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tentangan dan permusuhan! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan mereka lihat beliau menolak tawar-menawar, begitu pun menjual keimanan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dengan harta dunia, apa lagi kalau hanya dengan sekedar janji akan member! imbalan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kedudukan dan kekuasaan. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di musim pancaroba itu beliau mendatangi Bani 'Amir bin Sha'sha'ah dan duduk </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">membicarakan dengan mereka perihal Allah swt. sambil membacakan ayat-ayat-Nya. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka bertanya kepadanya sebagai berikut: "Bagaimana pendapat anda, seandainya kami </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bai'at kepada anda mengenai urusan ini, kemudian anda dimenangkan Allah atas musuh </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">anda, apakah kami berhak menguasai urusan dni nanti . . .?" Rasulullah saw. pun </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menjawab: "Semua urusan itu kepunyaan Allah, akan diserahkan-Nya kepada siapa yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dikehendaki-Nya . . .!" </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mendengar itu mereka pun bubar, seraya kata mereka: "Tak perlu bagi kami urusan ini </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. . .!" Maka pergilah Rasulullah saw. meninggalkan mereka untuk mencari orang-orang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beriman yang tak hendak memperjual-belikan keimanan mereka dengan harga murah . . . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Orang-orang telah melihat usaha Nabi Muhammad, daji beberapa di antara mereka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">telah ada juga yang beriman. Walaupun jumlah mereka tidak banyak, tetapi pada mereka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ditemukannya keakraban dan persahabatan. Tetapi Quraisy telah memutuskan agar masing- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">masing kabilah bertindak menertibkan orang-orang yang beriman di antara warganya. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka secara tiba-tiba, bagai angin puyuh yang bertiup kencang, adzab dan siksa </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menimpa Kaum Muslimin, hingga tiada satu macam kejahatan pun yang tidak dilakukan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">oleh orang-orang musyrik. Dan secara tiba-tiba pula terjadilah peristiwa yang tidak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">disangka-sangka, yaitu Muhammad saw. menyu-ruh semua Kaum Muslimin hijrah ke </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Habsyi, hingga tinggallah beliau menghadapi penantangnya seorang diri. . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, kenapa beliau tidak ikut berhijrah dan menyebarkan kalimat Allah di tempat yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lain? Bukankah Allah Tuhan semesta alam, dan bukan hanya untuk bangsa Quraisy semata </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. . .? Atau kenapa mereka tidak ditahan di sisinya, bukankah hal itu akan membawa </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">manfa'at yang nyata . . .? Walaupun jumlah mereka tidak seberapa, tetapi beradanya mereka </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">di Mekah akan menarik penduduk lainnya masuk Islam. Apalagi di kalangan mereka ada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beberapa orang tokoh yang termasuk bangsawan tinggi Quraisy, orang-orang kuat dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gagah berani. Misalnya dari kalangan Bani Umayah ada Utsman bin 'Affan, Amar Bin Sa'id </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bin Ash dan Khalid bin Sa'id bin 'Ash. Dari Bani Asad terdapat Zubair bin Awwam, Aswad </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bin Naufal, Yazid bin Zam'ah dan Amar bin Umayah. Dari Bani Zuhrah tercatat pula nama- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nama Abdurrahman bin 'Auf, 'Amir bin Abi Waqqash, Malik bin Ahyab dan Muthallib bin </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Azhar. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pendeknya ada keluarga tokoh-tokoh yang telah tak shabar lagi menyaksikan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">penganiayaan dan penyiksaan terhadap mereka. Maka kenapa Rasulullah saw. tidak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menahan mereka di samping-nya agar dapat membela dirinya dan menjadi sumber kekuatan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang berada dalam tangannya . . .? </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di sini terlukislah dengan nyata kebesaran Muhammad Rasulullah . . .! Beliau tidak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menginginkan timbulnya fitnah atau perang saudara, walau tidak mustahil beliau akan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beroleh kemenangan, bahkan pada akhirnya pasti akan menang . . .! Dan di sini ternyatalah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pula rasa belas kasih dan perikemanusiaannya . . .! Beliau tidak tega melihat orang-orang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">akan disiksa disebabkan dirinya, walau beliau tahu dan yakin bahwa pengurbanan itu </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">merupakan akibat yang lumrah dari setiap perjuangan mulia dan da'wah besar! Baginya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">biarlah pengurbanan itu diberikan, jika tak ada jalan lain sebagai gantinya! Adapun </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sekarang, karena masih ada jalan untuk menghindarkan bencana, maka biarlah Kaum </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muslimin menempuh jalan tersebut. . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian, kenapa beliau tidak ikut saja hijrah bersama mereka . . .? Jawabnya ialah </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">karena beliau belum lagi dititah untuk pergi. . .! Karena tempatnya ialah di sini, yaitu di </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kandang berhala-berhala . . .! Beliau selalu mendengungkan Asma Allah Yang Maha Esa . . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. , dan akan senantiasa menerima penyiksaan tanpa gelisah dan keluh kesah . . . , asal saja </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang dianiaya itu dirinya pribadi, dan bukan golongan lemah yang beriman dan menjadi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pengikutnya . . . , dan bukan pula golongan bangsawan yang juga telah beriman dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">memasuki barisannya . . . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, siapakah yang dapat mengemukakan kepada kita corak ketabahan, dan bentuk </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pengurbanan yang dapat menyamai itu . . .? Itulah suatu keagungan yang tak dapat </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dilakukan kecuali oleh ulul 'azmi, orang-orarig yang berkemauan baja di antara para Rasul </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan tokoh-tokoh pilihan . . .!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sungguh, manusia dan Rasul bertemu dan berpadu satu pada diri Nabi Muhammad </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">secara amat mengagumkan! Dan orang-orang yang meragukan kerasulannya, tidak akan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bimbang tentang kebesarannya, begitupun tentang keluhuran jiwa dan kesucian </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kemanusiaannya. Dan Allah yang lebih mengetahui di mana la akan menempatkan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kerasulannya itu, telah memilih seorang manusia yang dididik-Nya setinggi apa yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">diinginkan manusia untuk mencapainya, berupa keagungan, keluhuran dan kepercayaan. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Orang-orang mendengar dan menyaksikan bagaimana beliau mencela setiap sikap </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">berlebih-lebihan dalam memuliakan dirinya, bahkan juga terhadap sikap yang agak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">berlebih-lebihan itu. Dibentaknya mereka hanya karena mereka bangkit berdiri untuk </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyambut kedatangannya, katanya: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Janganlah kalian berdiri sebagaimana berdirinya orang asing, saling mendewakan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sesamanya. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada hari wafat puteranya (Ibrahim), terjadi gerhana sebagian dari matahari, hingga </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">orang-orang memperkatakan bahwa gerhana matahari itu terjadi disebabkan berkabung atas </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kematian Ibrahim. Maka Rasul besar yang terpercaya itu segera mematahkan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menyalahkan anggapan tersebut sebelum meningkat menjadi takhyul. Beliau berdiri </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">berpidato di hadapan manusia antara lain katanya: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"Sesungguhnya matahari dan bulan itu merupakan dua buah tanda dari tanda-tanda </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah. Kedua gerhana bukanlah karena meninggalnya salah seorang di antara kamu, dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bukan pula karena lahirnya . . ..' </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ia menjadi kepercayaan bagi otak dan fikiran manusia, dan berdirinya dalam </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">memenuhi tanggung jawab ini, baginya lebih baik dan lebih utama dari kemuliaan dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">penghormatan sepenuh bumi! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad saw. meyakini sepenuhnya bahwa kemunculannya dalam arena kehidupan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">manusia tiada lain hanyalah untuk merubahnya, dan bahwa beliau bukan hanya menjadi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">utusan bagi Quraisy, bahkan bukan hanya bagi bangsa Arab semata, tetapi adalah bagi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ummat manusia umumnya . . . Dan Allah swt. telah membukakan penglihatannya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menembus jarak jauh yang akan dicapai oleh da'wahnya, yang akan dinaungi oleh bendera </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan panji-panjinya. Maka telah disaksikannya dengan mata kepalanya masa depan Agama </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang diberitakan kepadanya, serta keabadian mutlak yang akan dimilikinya, sampai bumi </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan segala isinya kembali ke tangan Maha Penciptanya .... </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Namun semuanya itu, segala yang terdapat pada dirinya, begitupun pada Agamanya, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">serta keberhasilan yang belum pernah disaksikan dunia tolok bandingnya, menurun </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pandangannya tidak lebih dari sekeping batu bata pada sebuah bangunan . . .! Hal ini </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dinyatakan oleh orang besar itu dengan sejelas-jelasnya pada ucapannya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Perumpamaan diriku dengan para Nabi sebelumku, adalah seperti seorang yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">membangun sebuah gedung, hingga diselesaikannya dengan amat indah dan sempurna, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kecuali suatu tempat sebesar batu bata di salah satu pojoknya. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Orang-orang berkeliling dan sama-sama heran menyaksikannya. Kata mereka: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kenapa tidak diselesaikan tempat sebesar batu bata ini?" Nah, akulah batu bata yang me- </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nutupi lobang kecil itu, dan akulah yang jadi penutup dari semua Nabi. . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka segala kehidupan yang dijalaninya .... Segala perjuangan dan kepahlawanannya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">.... Segala kebesaran dan keluhurannya .... </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Segala kemenangan yang telah dicapai oleh Agamanya di waktu hidupnya, dan segala </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kebahagiaan yang diketahuinya akan dicapai setelah wafatnya .... Semua itu baginya tidak </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lebih dari batu bata . . . , hanya sekeping batu bata pada sebuah bangunan antik dan raksasa </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Beliau sendirilah yang mema'lumkan hal ini, yang mengata-kan dan terus-menerus </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">menguatkannya. Kemudian ucapan yang dikeluarkannya ini tidaklah dimaksudkannya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">untuk menutupi kehausannya akan kebesaran itu, tetapi dengan segala kerendah-an hati </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pendirian itu ditegaskannya sebagai suatu hal yang semestinya demikian, hingga tanggung </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">jawab menyampaikan dan menyebarkannya merupakan sebagian dari esensi kerasulannya . </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebabnya ialah karena kerendahan hati itu, walaupun merupakan salah satu tabi'at di </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">antara tabi'at-tabi'at Muhammad saw. yang telah berurat berakar, bukanlah menjadi bukti </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang memperkuat dan memperkukuh kebesarannya . . . ! Kebesaran Rasulullah mencapai </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">puncak yang tinggi dan dasar yang dalam, hingga menyebabkannya sebagai suatu bukti </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang tangguh dan tak dapat digugat tentang dirinya . . . ! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, inilah dia Mahaguru manusia dan penutup segala Nabi itu! Inilah dia cahaya </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gemilang yang disaksikan ummat selagi hidup di kalangan mereka sebagai manusia, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kemudian setelah kepergiannya disaksikan mereka sebagai suatu hakikat kenyataan yang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">takkan hilang dari kenangan . . .! </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan kini, sewaktu kita pergi menjelang beberapa orang shahabatnya yang mulia di </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">halaman-halaman berikut dari buku ini, di kala kita heran takjub menyaksikan keimanan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dan pe ngurbanan mereka, dan keluhuran cita yang mereka bina dan tak ada taranya itu, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">maka kita akan dapat menangkap secara jelas sebab-sebab keluarbiasaan ini. Yaitu tiada </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lain dari cahaya yang menjadi ikutan dan pedoman mereka. Dan tiada lain dari Muhammad </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rasulullah, yang dibekali Allah secara lengkap kemampuan melihat kebenaran dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kebesaran jiwa, menyebab-kan hidup ini jadi bernilai, dan jalan yang akan dilalui terang </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">benderang ....</div><div><br />
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font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></span></div></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div style=" font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#e51000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><b></b></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"><b><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><b></b></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;"><b><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><b></b></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;"><b><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/1-mushaab-bin-umar-islam-yang-pertama.html">1) MUSHA'AB BIN UMAR </a></span></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/1-mushaab-bin-umar-islam-yang-pertama.html">MUS'AB IBN `UMAIR</a></span></b></span></div><div style=" font: 15.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/2-salman-al-farisi-kebenaran.html">2)SALMAN AL-FARISI </a></b></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/2-salman-al-farisi-kebenaran.html">SALMAAN AL-FAARISIY </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/3-dzar-al-ghifari-gerakan-hidup.html">3) ABU DZAR AL-GHIFARI </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/3-dzar-al-ghifari-gerakan-hidup.html">ABU DHAR AL-GHIFAARIY </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/4-bilal-bin-rabah-rasulullah.html">4) BILAL BIN RABAH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/4-bilal-bin-rabah-rasulullah.html">BILAAL IBN RABAAH </a></b></span></div><div style=" font: 15.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/5-abdullah-bin-umar-tekun-beribadah-dan.html">5) ABDULLAH BIN UMAR </a></b></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/5-abdullah-bin-umar-tekun-beribadah-dan.html">`ABD ALLAH IBN `UMAR </a></b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/6-bin-abi-waqqash-yang-menyembunyikan.html">6) SA'AD BIN ABI WAQQASH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/6-bin-abi-waqqash-yang-menyembunyikan.html">SA'D IBN ABI WAQQAAS </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/7-shuhaib-bin-sinan-abu-yahya-yang.html">7) SHUHAIB BIN SINAN </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/7-shuhaib-bin-sinan-abu-yahya-yang.html">SUHAIB IBN SINAAN</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/8-muadz-bin-jabal-muslim-yang-palin.html">8) MU'ADZ BIN JABAL </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/8-muadz-bin-jabal-muslim-yang-palin.html">MU'AADH IBN JABAL </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 15.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/9-miqdad-bin-amr-barisan-berkuda-dan.html">9) MIQDAD BIN 'AMR </a></b></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/9-miqdad-bin-amr-barisan-berkuda-dan.html">AL- MIQDAAD IBN `AMR</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/10-said-bin-amir-pemilik-kebesaran-di.html">10) SA'ID BIN AMIR </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/10-said-bin-amir-pemilik-kebesaran-di.html">SA'IID IBN `AAMIR </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/11-hamzah-bin-abdul-muthalib-allah-dan.html">11) HAMZAH BIN ABDUL MUTHALIB </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/11-hamzah-bin-abdul-muthalib-allah-dan.html">HAMZAH IBN `ABD AL-MUTTALIB </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/12-abdullah-bin-masud-yang-pertama-kali.html">12) ABDULLAH BIN MAS'UD </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/12-abdullah-bin-masud-yang-pertama-kali.html">`ABD ALLAH IBN MAS'UUD </a></b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/13-hudzaifah-ibnul-yaman-seteru.html">13) HUDZAIFAH IBNUL YAMAN . </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/13-hudzaifah-ibnul-yaman-seteru.html">HUDHAIFAH IBN AL-YAMMAAN</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/14-bin-yasir-tokoh-penghuni-surga.html">14) 'AMMAR BIN YASIR </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/14-bin-yasir-tokoh-penghuni-surga.html">AMMAAR IBN YAASIR</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-ubaidah-bin-shamit-yang-gigih.html">15) 'UBAIDAH BIN SHAMIT </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-ubaidah-bin-shamit-yang-gigih.html">`UBAADAH IBN AS -SAAMIT </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/16-khabbab-bin-arats-besar-dalam.html">16) KHABBAB BIN ARATS </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/16-khabbab-bin-arats-besar-dalam.html">KHABBAAB IBN AL-ARAT</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/17-abu-ubaidah-ibnul-jarrah-kepercayaan.html">17) ABU 'UBAIDAH IBNUL JARRAH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/17-abu-ubaidah-ibnul-jarrah-kepercayaan.html">ABU `UBAIDAH IBN AL-JARRAAH</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/18-bin-mazhun-yang-pernah-mengabaikan.html">18) UTSMAN BIN MAZH'UN </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/18-bin-mazhun-yang-pernah-mengabaikan.html">`UTHMAAN IBN MADH'UUN </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/19-bin-haritsah-tak-ada-orang-yang.html">19) ZAID BIN HARITSAH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/19-bin-haritsah-tak-ada-orang-yang.html">ZAID IBN HAARITHAH</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/20-bin-abu-thalib-jasmani-maupun.html">20) JA'FAR BIN ABU THALIB </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/20-bin-abu-thalib-jasmani-maupun.html">JA'FAR IBN ABI TAALIB </a></b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/21-abdullah-ibnu-rawahah-bersemboyan.html">21) ABDULLAH IBNU RAWAHAH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/21-abdullah-ibnu-rawahah-bersemboyan.html">`ABD ALLAH IBN RAWAAHAH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/22-khalid-ibnul-walid-selalu-waspada.html">22) KHALID IBNUL WALID </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/22-khalid-ibnul-walid-selalu-waspada.html">KHAALID IBN AL-WALID </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/23-qeis-bin-saad-bin-ubadah-tidaklah.html">23) QEIS BIN SA'AD BIN 'UBADAH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/23-qeis-bin-saad-bin-ubadah-tidaklah.html">QAIS IBN SA`D IBN `UBAADAH</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/24-umeir-bin-wahab-quraisy-yang.html">24) UMEIR BIN WAHAB </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/24-umeir-bin-wahab-quraisy-yang.html">UMAIR IBN WAHB </a></b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/25-abu-darda-budiman-dan-ahli-hikmat.html">25) ABU DARDA </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/25-abu-darda-budiman-dan-ahli-hikmat.html">ABU AD-DARDAA'</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/26-ibnul-khatthab-rajawali-pertempuran.html">26) ZAID IBNUL KHATTHAB </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/26-ibnul-khatthab-rajawali-pertempuran.html">ZAID IBN AL- KHATTAAB </a></b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/27-thalhah-bin-ubaidillah-perang-uhud.html">27) THALHAH BIN UBAIDILLAH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/27-thalhah-bin-ubaidillah-perang-uhud.html">TALHAH IBN `UBAID ALLAH</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 15.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/28-bin-awwam-rasulullah-s.html">28) ZUBAIR BIN AWWAM </a></b></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/28-bin-awwam-rasulullah-s.html">AZ -ZUBAIR IBN AL `AWAAM</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/29-khubaib-bin-adi-yang-syahid-di-kayu.html">29) KHUBAIB BIN 'ADI </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/29-khubaib-bin-adi-yang-syahid-di-kayu.html">KHUBAIB IBN `ADIY</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/30-bin-saad-yang-tak-ada-duanya.html">30) UMEIR BIN SA'AD </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/30-bin-saad-yang-tak-ada-duanya.html">`UMAIR IBN SA'D</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/31-zaid-bin-tsabit-kitab-suci-al-quran.html">31) ZAID BIN TSABIT </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/31-zaid-bin-tsabit-kitab-suci-al-quran.html">ZAID IBN THAABIT</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/32-khalid-bin-said-bin-ash-pasukan.html">32) KHALID BIN SA'ID BIN 'ASH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/32-khalid-bin-said-bin-ash-pasukan.html">KHAALID IBN SA`IID </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/33-aiyub-al-anshari-pejuang-di-waktu.html">33) ABU AIYUB AL-ANSHARI </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/33-aiyub-al-anshari-pejuang-di-waktu.html">ABU AIYUUB AL-ANSAARIY </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 15.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/keluarlah-amirul-muminin-umar-bersama.html">34) ABBAS BIN ABDUL MUTHALIB </a></b></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/keluarlah-amirul-muminin-umar-bersama.html">AL -`ABBAAS IBN `ABD AL-MUTTALIB </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sewaktu-datang-masa-pemalsu-pemalsu.html">35) ABUHURAIRAH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sewaktu-datang-masa-pemalsu-pemalsu.html">ABU HURAIRAH</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/dan-barang-siapa-melihatnya-ia-sedang.html">36) AL BARRA' BIN MALIK </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/dan-barang-siapa-melihatnya-ia-sedang.html">AL-BARAA' IBN MAALIK</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/37-utbah-bin-ghazwan-esok-lusa-akan.html">37) UTBAH BIN GHAZWAN </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/37-utbah-bin-ghazwan-esok-lusa-akan.html">`UTBAH IBN GHAZWAAN </a></b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/38-tsabit-bin-qeis-juru-bicara.html">38) TSABIT BIN QEIS </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/38-tsabit-bin-qeis-juru-bicara.html">THAABIT IBN QAIS </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/dan-termasuk-salah-seorang-bangsawan.html">39) USAID BIN HUDLAIR </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/dan-termasuk-salah-seorang-bangsawan.html">USAID IBN HUDAIR</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/40-abdurrahman-bin-auf-apa-sebabnya_09.html">40) ABDURRAHMAN BIN 'AUF </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/40-abdurrahman-bin-auf-apa-sebabnya_09.html">`ABD AR-RAHMAN IBN `AWF </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/41-jabir-abdullah-bin-amr-bin-haram.html">41) ABU JABIR ABDULLAH BIN 'AMR BIN HARAM </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/41-jabir-abdullah-bin-amr-bin-haram.html">ABU JAABIR `ABD ALLAH IBN `AMR IBN HIRAAM </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/42-amr-ibnul-jamuh-dengan-cacat.html">42) AMR IBNUL JAMUH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/42-amr-ibnul-jamuh-dengan-cacat.html">`AMR IBN AI-JAMUUH</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/habiib-ibn-zaid-legend-of-sacrifice-and.html">43) HABIB BIN ZAID </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/habiib-ibn-zaid-legend-of-sacrifice-and.html">HABIIB IBN ZAID </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/ubaiy-ibn-kab-rejoice-with-knowledge.html">44) UBAI BIN KA'AB </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/ubaiy-ibn-kab-rejoice-with-knowledge.html">UBAIY IBN KA'B </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sad-ibn-muaadh-rejoice-abu-amr-he.html">45) SA'ADZ BIN MU'ADZ </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sad-ibn-muaadh-rejoice-abu-amr-he.html">SA'D IBN MU'AADH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sad-ibn-ubaadah-carrier-of-ansaar.html">46) SA'AD BIN UBADAH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sad-ibn-ubaadah-carrier-of-ansaar.html">SA`D IBN UBAADAH</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/usaamah-ibn-zaid-beloved-son-of-beloved.html">47) USAMAH BIN ZAID </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/usaamah-ibn-zaid-beloved-son-of-beloved.html">USAAMAH IBN ZAID</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/abd-ar-rahman-ibn-abi-bakr-hero-to-end.html">48) ABDURRAHMAN BIN ABI BAKAR </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/abd-ar-rahman-ibn-abi-bakr-hero-to-end.html">`ABD AR RAHMAN IBN ABI BAKR</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 15.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/abd-allah-ibn-amr-ibn-al-aas-submissive.html">49) ABDULLAH BIN 'AMR BIN 'ASH </a></b></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/abd-allah-ibn-amr-ibn-al-aas-submissive.html">`ABD ALLAH IBN `AMR IBN AL-'Aas </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/abu-sufyaan-ibn-aihaarith-from-darkness.html">50) ABU SUFYAN BIN HARITS </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/abu-sufyaan-ibn-aihaarith-from-darkness.html">ABU SUFYAAN IBN AIHAARITH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/51-imran-bin-hushain-menyerupai.html">51) 'IMRAN BIN HUSHAIN </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/51-imran-bin-hushain-menyerupai.html">`UMRAAN IBN HUSAIN </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/52-salamah-bin-al-akwa-pahlawan-pasukan.html">52) SALAMAH BIN AL-AKWA </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/52-salamah-bin-al-akwa-pahlawan-pasukan.html">SALAMAH IBN AL-AKWA' </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/53-abdullah-bin-zubeir-seorang-tokoh.html">53) ABDULLAH BIN ZUBEIR </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/53-abdullah-bin-zubeir-seorang-tokoh.html">`ABD ALLAH IBN AZ-ZUBAIR</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/54-abdullah-bin-abbas-kyai-ummat-ini.html">54) ABDULLAH BIN ABBAS </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/54-abdullah-bin-abbas-kyai-ummat-ini.html">`ABD ALLAH IBN `ABBAAS</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/55-bin-bisyir-selalu-disertai-cahaya.html">55) 'ABBAD BIN BISYIR </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/55-bin-bisyir-selalu-disertai-cahaya.html">ABBAAD IBN BISHR</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/56-suheil-bin-amar-dari-kumpulan-orang.html">56) SUHEIL BIN 'AMAR </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/56-suheil-bin-amar-dari-kumpulan-orang.html">SUHAIL IBN `AMR</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/57-abu-musa-al-asyari-yang-penting.html">57) ABU MUSA AL-ASY'ARI </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/57-abu-musa-al-asyari-yang-penting.html">ABU MUUSAA AL-ASH'ARIY</a></b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/58-thufeil-bin-amr-ad-dausi-suatu.html">58) THUFEIL BIN 'AMR AD-DAUSI </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/58-thufeil-bin-amr-ad-dausi-suatu.html">AT-TUFAIL IBN `AMR AD-DAWSIY</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/ada-tiga-orang-gembong-quraiay-yang.html">59) 'AMR BIN 'ASH </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/ada-tiga-orang-gembong-quraiay-yang.html">`AMR IBN AL -`AAs </a></b></span></div><div style=" font: 13.0px Georgia; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;color:#408000;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.8px 1.9px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/60-salim-maula-abu-hudzaifah-sebaik_09.html">60) SALIM MAULA ABU HUDZAIFAH</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 1.6px 1.7px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/60-salim-maula-abu-hudzaifah-sebaik_09.html"> </a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/60-salim-maula-abu-hudzaifah-sebaik_09.html">SAALIM MAWLAA ABIHUDHAIFAH</a></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia; text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b> </b></span></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174474199517824808.post-31377629473803439882011-06-10T07:59:00.000-07:002011-06-24T03:37:48.863-07:00<div style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;color:#c1ffe5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b></b></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><b></b></span><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal;font-size:medium;color:#009900;" ><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;" ><b></b></span></span></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal;font-size:medium;color:#009900;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#009900;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:130%;color:#006600;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:130%;color:#990000;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';color:black;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:130%;color:#e51000;" ><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;" ><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#009900;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;" ><b><span style="text-shadow: rgb(62, 62, 62) 2.5px 2.5px 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;color:silver;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal;font-size:medium;color:#009900;" ><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;" ><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#009900;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;" ><b><div style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;color:#c1ffe5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#f4cccc;"><div style="font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;color:#c1ffe5;"><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:12px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:130%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/2-salman-al-farisi-kebenaran.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">2)SALMAN AL-FARISI</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:130%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/2-salman-al-farisi-kebenaran.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"> </span></a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:16px;" ><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sirah-60-para-sahabat-rasulullah-saw.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"> PARA SAHABAT/COMPANIONS</span></a></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:16px;" ><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/60-salim-maula-abu-hudzaifah-sebaik_09.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">60) SALIM MAULA ABU HUDZAIFAH</span></a></span></span></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">(1) </span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">MUSHA'AB BIN UMAR </span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"> Duta Islam yang pertama </span></b></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div color="#c1ffe5" style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mush’ab bin Umair salah seorang di antara para shahabat Nabi. </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Alangkah baiknya jika kita memulai kisah dengan pribadinya: Seorang remaja Quraisy terkemuka, seorang yang paling ganteng dan tampan, penuh dengan jiwa dan semangat kepemudaan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Para muarrikh dan ahli riwayat melukiskan semangat kepemudaannya dengan kalimat: </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Seorang warga kota Mekah yang mempunyai nama paling harum”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ia lahir dan dibesarkan dalam kesenangan, dan tumbuh dalam lingkungannya. Mungkin tak seorang pun di antara anak-anak muda Mekah yang beruntung dimanjakan oleh kedua orang tuanya demikian rupa sebagai yang dialami Mush’ab bin Umair.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mungkinkah kiranya anak muda yang serba kecukupan, biasa hidup mewah dan manja, menjadi buah-bibir gadis-gadis Mekah dan menjadi bintang di tempat-tempat pertemuan, akan meningkat sedemikian rupa hingga menjadi buah ceritera tentang keimanan, menjadi tamsil dalam semangat kepahlawanan?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sungguh, suatu riwayat penuh pesona, riwayat Mush’ab bin Umair atau “Mush’ab yang baik”, sebagai biasa digelarkan oleh Kaum Muslimin. Ia salah satu di antara pribadi-pribadi Muslimin yang ditempa oleh Islam dan dididik oleh Muhammad saw.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi corak pribadi manakah … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sungguh, kisah hidupnya menjadi kebanggaan bagi kemanaiaan umumnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suatu hari anak muda ini mendengar berita yang telah tersebar luas di kalangan warga Mekah mengenai Muhammad al-Amin . . . Muhammad saw., yang mengatakan bahwa dirinya telah diutus Allah sebagai pembawa berita suka maupun duka, </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sebagai da’i yang mengajak ummat beribadat kepada Allah Yang Maha Esa.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sementara perhatian warga Mekah terpusat pada berita itu, dan tiada yang menjadi bush pembicaraan mereka kecuali tentang Rasulullah saw. serta Agama yang dibawanya, maka anak muda yang manja ini paling banyak mendengar berita itu. Karma walaupun usianya masih belia, tetapi ia menjadi bunga majlis tempat-tempat pertemuan yang selalu diharapkan kehadirannya oleh para anggota dan teman-temannya. Gayanya yang tampan dan otaknya yang cerdas merupakan keistimewaan Ibnu Umair, menjadi daya pemikat dan pembuka jalan pemecahan masalah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di antara berita yang didengarnya ialah bahwa Rasulullah bersama pengikutnya biasa mengadakan pertemuan di suatu tempat yang terhindar jauh dari gangguan gerombolan Quraisy dan </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ancaman-ancamannya, yaitu di bukit Shafa di rumah Arqam bin Abil Arqam.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Keraguannya tiada berjalan lama, hanya sebentar waktu ia menunggu, maka pada suatu senja didorong oleh kerinduannya pergilah ia ke rumah Arqam menyertai rombongan itu. Di tempat itu Rasulullah saw. sering berkumpul dengan para shahabatnya, tempat mengajarnya ayat-ayat al-Quran dan membawa mereka shalat beribadat kepada Allah Yang Maha Akbar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Baru saja Mush’ab mengambil tempat duduknya, ayat-ayat al-Quran mulai mengalir dari kalbu Rasulullah bergema melalui kedua bibirnya dan sampai ke telinga, meresap di hati para pendengar. Di senja itu Mush’ab pun terpesona oleh untaian kalimat Rasulullah yang tepat menemui sasaran pada kalbunya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hampir saja anak muda itu terangkat dari tempat duduknya karena rasa haru, dan serasa terbang ia karena gembira. Tetapi Rasulullah mengulurkan tangannya yang penuh berkat dan kasih sayang dan mengurut dada pemuda yang sedang pangsbergejolak, hingga tiba-tiba menjadi sebuah lubuk hati yang</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tenang dan damai, tak obah bagai lautan yang teduh dan dalam. Pemuda yang telah Islam dan Iman itu nampak telah memiliki ilmu dan hikmah yang luas — berlipat ganda dari ukuran usianya — dan mempunyai kepekatan hati yang mampu merubah jalan sejarah . . .!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi di kota Mekah tiada rahasia yang tersembunyi, apalagi dalam suasana seperti itu. Mata kaum Quraisy berkeliaran di mana-mana mengikuti setiap langkah dan menyelusuri setiap jejak.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kebetulan seorang yang bernama Usman bin Thalhah melihat Mush’ab memasuki rumah Arqam secara sembunyi. Kemudian pada hari yang lain dilihatnya pula ia shalat seperti Muhammad saw. Secepat Hat ia mendapatkan ibu Mush’ab dan melaporkan berita yang dijamin kebenarannya.</div></div></span></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></span></span></div></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div color="#c1ffe5" style="font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berdirilah Mush’ab di hadapan ibu dan keluarganya serta para pembesar Mekah yang berkumpul di rumahnya. Dengan hati yang yakin dan pasti dibacakannya ayat-ayat al-Quran yang disampaikan Rasulullah untuk mencuci hati nurani mereka, mengisinya dengan hikmah dan kemuliaan, kejujuran dan ketaqwaan.</div></div><div color="#c1ffe5" style="font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika sang ibu hendak membungkam mulut puteranya dengan tamparan keras, tiba-tiba tangan <sup>‘</sup>yang terulur bagai anak panah itu surut dan jatuh terkulai — demi melihat nur atau cahaya yang membuat wajah yang telah berseri cemerlang itu kian berwibawa dan patut diindahkan — menimbulkan suatu ketenangan yang mendorong dihentikannya tindakan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Karena rasa keibuannya, ibunda Mush’ab terhindar memukul dan menyakiti puteranya, tetapi tak dapat menahan diri dari tuntutan bela berhala-berhalanya dengan jalan lain. Dibawalah puteranya itu ke suatu tempat terpencil di rumahnya, laludikurung dan dipenjarakannya amat rapat.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah beberapa lama Mush’ab tinggal dalam kurungan sampai saat beberapa orang Muslimin hijrah ke Habsyi. Mendengar berita hijrah ini Mush’ab pun mencari muslihat, dan berhasil mengelabui ibu dan penjaga-penjaganya, lalu pergi ke Habsyi melindungkan diri. Ia tinggal di sana bersama saudara saudaranya kaum Muhajirin, lalu pulang ke Mekah. Kemudian ia pergi lagi hijrah kedua kalinya bersama para shahabat atas titah Rasulullah dan karena taat kepadanya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Baik di Habsyi ataupun di Mekah, ujian dan penderitaan yang harus dilalui Mush’ab di tiap saat dan tempat kian meningkat. la telah selesai dan berhasil menempa corak kehidupannya menurut pola yang modelnya telah dicontohkan Muhammad saw. Ia merasa puas bahwa kehidupannya telah layak untuk dipersembahkan bagi pengurbanan terhadap Penciptanya Yang Maha Tinggi, Tuhannya Yang Maha Akbar …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari ia tampil di hadapan beberapa orang Muslimin yang sedang duduk sekeliling Rasulullah saw. Demi memandang Mush’ab, mereka sama menundukkan kepala dan memejamkan mata, sementara beberapa orang matanya basah karena duka. Mereka melihat Mush’ab memakai jubah usang yang bertambal-tambal, padahal belum lagi hilang dari ingatan mereka — pakaiannya sebelum masuk Islam — tak obahnya bagaikan kembang di taman, berwarna warni dan menghamburkan bau yang wangi.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Adapun Rasulullah, menatapnya dengan pandangan penuh arti, disertai cinta kasih dan syukur dalam hati, pada kedua bibirnya tersungging senyuman mulia, seraya bersabda:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dahulu saya lihat Mush’ab ini tak ada yang mengimbangi dalam memperoleh kesenangan dari orang tuanya, kemudian ditinggalkannya semua itu demi cintanya kepada Allah dan Rasul-Nya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Semenjak ibunya merasa putus asa untuk mengembalikan Mush’ab kepada agama yang lama, ia telah menghentikan segala pemberian yang biasa dilimpahkan kepadanya, bahkan ia tak sudi nasinya dimakan orang yang telah mengingkari berhala dan patut beroleh kutukan daripadanya, walau anak kandungnya sendiri.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Akhir pertemuan Mush’ab dengan ibunya, ketika perempuan itu hendak mencoba mengurungnya lagi sewaktu ia pulang dari Habsyi. Ia pun bersumpah dan menyatakan tekadnya untuk membunuh orang-orang suruhan ibunya bile rencana itu dilakukan. Karena sang ibu telah mengetahui kebulatan tekad puteranya yang telah mengambil satu keputusan, tak ada jalan lain baginya kecuali melepasnya dengan cucuran air mata, sementara Mush’ab mengucapkan selamat berpisah dengan menangis pula.</div></div><div color="#c1ffe5" style="font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Saat perpisahan itu menggambarkan kepada kita kegigihan luar biasa dalam kekafiran fihak ibu, sebaliknya kebulatan tekad yang lebih besar dalam mempertahankan keimanan dari fihak anak. Ketika sang ibu mengusirnya dari rumah sambil berkata: “Pergilah sesuka hatimu! Aku bukan ibumu lagi”. Maka Mush’ab pun menghampiti ibunya sambil berkata: “Wahai bunda! Telah anakanda sampaikan nasihat kepada bunda, dan anakanda menaruh kasihan kepada bunda. Karena itu saksikanlah bahwa tiada Tuhan melainkan Allah, dan Muhammad adalah hamba dan utusan-Nya”.</div><div><br /></div></div><div color="#c1ffe5" style="font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#d9ead3;">Demikian Mush’ab meninggalkari kemewahan dan kesenangan yang dialaminya selama itu, dan memilih hidup miskin dan sengsara. Pemuda ganteng dan perlente itu, kini telah menjadi seorang melarat dengan pakaiannya yang kasar dan usang, sehari makan dan beberapa hari menderita lapar.</span></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tapi jiwanya yang telah dihiasi dengan ‘aqidah suci dan cemerlang berkat sepuhan Nur Ilahi, telah merubah dirinya menjadi seorang manusia lain, yaitu manusia yang dihormati, penuh wibawa dan disegani …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suatu saat Mush’ab dipilih Rasulullah untuk melakukan suatu tugas maha penting saat itu. Ia menjadi duta atau utusan Rasul ke Madinah untuk mengajarkan seluk beluk Agama kepada orang-orang Anshar yang telah beriman dan bai’at kepada Rasulullah di bukit ‘Aqabah. Di samping itu mengajak orang-orang lain untuk menganut Agama Allah, serta mempersiapkan kota Madinah untuk menyambut hijratul Rasul sebagai peristiwa besar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebenarnya di kalangan shahabat ketika itu masih banyak yang lebih tua, lebih berpengaruh dan lebih dekat hubungan kekeluargaannya dengan Rasulullah daripada Mush’ab. Tetapi Rasulullah rnenjatuhkan pilihannya kepada “Mush’ab yang baik”. Dan bukan tidak menyadari sepenuhnya bahwa beliau telah memikulkan tugas amat penting ke atas pundak pemuda itu, dan menyerahkan kepadanya tanggung jawab nasib Agama Islam di kota Madinah, suatu kota yang tak lama lagi akan menjadi kota tepatan atau kota hijrah, pusat para da’i dan da’wah, tempat berhimpunnya penyebar Agama dan pembela al-Islam.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mush’ab memikul amanat itu dengan bekal karunia Allah kepadanya, berupa fikiran yang cerdas dan budi yang luhur. Dengan sifat zuhud, kejujuran dan kesungguhan hati, ia berhasil melunakkan dan menawan hati penduduk Madinah hingga mereka berduyun-duyun masuk Islam</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sesampainya di Madinah, didapatinya Kaum Muslimin di sana tidak lebih dari dua betas orang, yakn<sup>i</sup> hanya orang-orang yang telah bai’at di bukit ‘Aqabah. Tetapi tiada sampai beberapa bulan kemudian, meningkatlah orang yang sama-sama memenuhi panggilan Allah dan Rasul-Nya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada musim haji berikutnya dari perjanjian ‘Aqabah, Kaum Muslimin Madinah mengirim perutusan yang mewakili mereka menemui Nabi. Dan perutusan itu dipimpin oleh guru mereka, oleh duta yang dikirim Nabi kepada mereka, yaitu Mush’ab bin Umair.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dengan tindakannya yang tepat dan bijaksana, Mush’ab bin Umair telah membuktikan bahwa pilihan Rasulullah saw.atas dirinya itu tepat. Ia memahami tugas dengan sepenuhnya, hingga tak terlanjur melampaui batas yang telah ditetapkan. Ia sadar bahwa tugasnya adalah menyeru kepada Allah, menyampaikan berita gembira lahirnya suatu Agama yang mengajak manusia mencapai hidayah Allah, membimbing mereka ke jalan yang lurus. Akhlaqnya mengikuti pola hidup Rasulullah yang diimaninya, yang mengemban kewajiban hanya menyampaikan belaka……</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di Madinah Mush’ab tinggal sebagai tamu di rumah As’ad bin Zararah. Dengan didampingi As’ad, ia pergi mengunjungi kabilah-kabilah, rumah-rumah dan tempat-tempat perternuan, untuk membacakan ayat-ayat Kitab Suci dan Allah, menyampaikan kalimattullah “bahwa Allah Tuhan Maha Esa” secara hati-hati.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pernah ia menghadapi beberapa peristiwa yang mengancam keselamatan diri serta shahabatnya, yang nyaris celaka kalau tidak karena keeerdasan akal dan kebesaran jiwanya. Suatu hari, ketika ia sedang memberikan petuah kepada orang-orang, tiba tiba disergap Usaid bin Hudlair kepada suku kabilah Abdul Asyhal di Madinah. Usaid menodong Mush’ab dengan menyen‑</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">takkan lembingnya. Bukan main marah dan murkanya Usaid, menyaksikan Mush’ab yang dianggap akan mengacau dan menyelewengkan anak buahnya dari agama mereka, serta mengemukakan Tuhan Yang Maha Esa yang belum pernah mereka kenal dan dengar sebelum itu. Padahal menurut anggapan Usaid, tuhan-tuhan mereka yang bersimpuh lena di tempatnya masing‑ masing mudah dihubungi secara kongkrit. Jika seseorang memerlukan salah satu di antaranya, tentulah ia akan mengetahui tempatnya dan segera pergi mengunjunginya untuk memaparkan kesulitan serta menyampaikan permohonan . . . . Demikianlah yang tergambar dan terbayang dalam fikiran suku Abdul Asyhal. Tetapi Tuhannya Muhammad saw. — yang diserukan beribadah kepada-Nya — oleh utusan yang datang kepada mereka itu, tiadalah yang mengetahui tempat-Nya dan tak seorang pun yang dapat melihat-Nya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demi dilihat kedatangan Usaid bin Hudlair yang murka bagaikan api sedang berkobar kepada orang-orang Islam yang duduk bersama Mush’ab, mereka pun merasa kecut dan takut. Tetapi “Mush’ab yang baik” tetap tinggal tenang dengan air muka yang tidak berubah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bagaikan singa hendak menerkam, Usaid berdiri di depan Mush’ab dan As’ad bin Zararah, bentaknya: “Apa maksud kalian datang ke kampung kami ini, apakah hendak membodohi rakyat kecil kami? Tinggalkan segera tempat ini, jika tak ingin segera nyawa kalian melayang!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Seperti tenang dan mantapnya samudera dalam . . . , laksana tenang dan damainya cahaya fajar . . . , terpancarlah ketulusan hati “Mush’ab yang baik”, dan bergeraklah lidahnya mengeluarkan ucapan halus, katanya: “Kenapa anda tidak duduk dan mendengarkan dulu? Seandainya anda menyukai nanti, anda dapat menerimanya. Sebaliknya jika tidak, kami akan menghentikan apa yang tidak anda sukai itu!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebenarnya Usaid seorang berakal dan berfikiran sehat. Dan sekarang ini ia diajak oleh Mush’ab untuk berbicara dan meminta petimbangan kepada hati nuraninya sendiri. Yang dimintanya hanyalah agar ia bersedia mendengar dan bukan lainnya. Jika ia menyetujui, ia akan membiarkan Mush’ab, dan jika tidak, maka Mush’ab berjanji akan meninggalkan kampung dan masyarakat mereka untuk mencari tempat dan masyarakat lain, dengan tidak merugikan ataupun dirugikan orang lain.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“sekarang saya insaf”, ujar Usaid, lalu menjatuhkan lembingnya ke tanah dan duduk mendengarkan. Demi Mush’ab membacakan ayat-ayat al-Quran dan menguraikan da’wah yang</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dibawa. oleh Muhammad bin Abdullah saw., maka dada Usaid pun mulai terbuka dan bercahaya, beralun berirama mengikuti naik turunnya suara serta meresapi keindahannya. Dan belum lagi Mush’ab selesai dari uraiannya. Usaid pun berseru kepadanya dan kepada shahabatnya: “Alangkah indah dan benarnya ucapan itu . . .! Dan apakah yang harus dilakukan oleh orang yang hendak masuk Agama ini?” Maka sebagai jawabannya gemuruhlah suara tahlil, serempak seakan hendak menggoncangkan bumi. Kemudian ujar Mush’ab: “Hendaklah ia mensucikan diri, pakaian dan badannya, serta bersaksi bahwa tiada Tuhan yang haq diibadahi melainkan Allah”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Beberapa lama Usaid meninggalkan mereka, kemudian kembali sambil memeras air dari rambutnya, lalu ia berdiri sambil menyatakan pengakuannya bahwa tiada Tuhan yang haq diibadahi melainkan Allah dan bahwa Muhammad itu utusan Allah ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Secepatnya berita itu pun tersiarlah. Keislaman Usaid disusul oleh kehadiran Sa’ad bin Mu’adz. Dan setelah mendengar uraian Mush’ab, Sa’ad merasa puas dan masuk Islam pula.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Langkah ini disusul pula oleh Sa’ad bin Tbadah. Dan dengan keislaman mereka ini, berarti selesailah persoalan dengan berbagai suku yang ada di Madinah. Warga kota Madinah saling berdatangan dan tanya-bertanya sesama mereka: “Jika Usaid bin Hudlair, Sa’ad bin ‘Ubadah dan Sa’ad bin Mu’adz telah masuk Islam, apalagi yang kita tunggu …. Ayolah kita pergi kepada Mush’ab dan beriman bersamanya! Kata orang, kebenaran itu terpancar dari celah-celah giginya!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah duta Rasulullah yang pertama telah mencapai hasil gemilang yang tiada taranya, suatu keberhasilan yang memang wajar dan layak diperolehnya. Hari-hari dan tahun-tahun pun berlalu, dan Rasulullah bersama para shahabatnya hijrah ke Madinah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Orang-orang Quraisy semakin geram dengan dendamnya, mereka menyiapkan tenaga untuk melanjutkan tindakan kekerasan terhadap hamba-hamba Allah yang shalih. Terjadilah</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">perang Badar dan kaum Quraisy pun beroleh pelajaran pahit yang menghabiskan sisa-sisa fikiran sehat mereka, hingga mereka berusaha untuk menebus kekalahan. Kemudian datanglah giliran perang Uhud, dan Kaum Muslimin pun bersiap-siap mengatur barisan. Rasulullah berdiri di tengah barisan itu, menatap setiap wajah orang beriman menyelidiki siapa yang sebaiknya membawa bendera. Maka terpanggillah “Mush’ab yang balk”, dan pahlawan itu tampil sebagai pembawa bendera.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Peperangan berkobar lalu berkecamuk dengan sengitnya. Pasukan panah melanggar tidak mentaati peraturan Rasulullah, mereka meninggalkan kedudukannya di celah bukit setelah melihat orang-orang musyrik menderita kekalahan dan mengundurkan diri. Perbuatan mereka itu secepatnya merubah suasana, hingga kemenangan Kaum Muslimin beralih menjadi kekalahan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dengan tidak diduga pasukan berkuda Quraisy menyerbu Kaum Muslimin dari puncak bukit, lalu tombak dan pedang pun berdentang bagaikan mengamuk, membantai Kaum Muslimin yang tengah kacau balau. Melihat barisan Kaum Muslimin porak poranda, musuh pun menujukan serangan ke arah Rasulullah dengan maksud menghantamnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mush’ab bin Umair menyadari suasana gawat ini. Maka diacungkannya bendera setinggi-tingginya dan bagaikan aungan singa ia bertakbir sekeras-kerasnya, lalu maju ke muka, melompat, mengelak dan berputar lalu menerkam. Minatnya tertuju untuk menarik perhatian musuh kepadanya dan melupakan Rasulullah saw. Dengan demikian dirinya pribadi bagaikan membentuk barisan tentara …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sungguh, walaupun seorang diri, tetapi Mush’ab bertempur <span style="text-decoration: underline;">laksana pasukan tentara besar </span>….<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>Sebelah tangannya memegang bendera bagaikan tameng kesaktian, sedang yang sebelah lagi menebaskan pedang dengan matanya yang tajam . . . . Tetapi musuh kian bertambah banyak juga, mereka hendak menyeberang dengan menginjak-injak tubuhnya untuk mencapai Rasulullah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sekarang marilah kits perhatikan saksi mata, yang akan menceriterakan saat-saat terakhir pahlawan besar Mush’ab bin Umair.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berkata Ibnu Sa’ad: “Diceriterakan kepada kami oleh Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Syurahbil al-’Abdari dari bapaknya, ia berkata:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Mush’ab bin Umair adalah pembawa bendera di Perang Uhud. Tatkala barisan Kaum Muslimin pecah, Mush’ab bertahan pada kedudukannya. Datanglah seorang musuh berkuda, Ibnu Qumaiah namanya, lalu menebas tangannya hingga putus, sementara Mush’ab mengucapkan: “Muhammad itu tiada lain hanyalah seorang Rasul, yang sebelumnya telah didahului oleh beberapa Rasul”. Maka dipegangnya bendera dengan tangan kirinya sambil membungkuk melindunginya. Musuh pun menebas tangan kirinya itu hingga putus pula. Mushab membungkuk ke arah bendera, lalu dengan kedua pangkal lengan meraihnya ke dada sambil mengucapkan: “Muhammad itu tiada lain hanyalah seorang Rasul, dan sebelumnya telah didahului oleh beberapa Rasul” . Lalu orang berkuda itu menyerangnya ketiga kali dengan tombak, dan menusukkannya hingga tombak itu pun patah. Mushab pun gugur, dan bendera jatuh “.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Gugurlah Mush’ab dan jatuhlah bendera …. la gugur sebagai bintang dan mahkota para syuhada . . . . Dan hal itu dialaminya setelah dengan keberanian luar biasa mengarungi kancah pengorbanan dan keimanan. Di saat itu Mush’ab berpendapat bahwa sekiranya ia gugur, tentulah jalan para pembunuh akan terbuka lebar menuju Rasulullah tanpa ada pembela yang akan mempertahankannya. Demi cintanya yang tiada terbatas kepada Rasulullah dan cemas memikirkan nasibnya nanti, ketika ia akan pergi berlalu, setiap kali pedang jatuh menerbangkan sebelah tangannya, dihiburnya dirinya dengan ucapan: “Muhammad itu tiada lain hanyalah seorang Rasul, dan sebelumnya telah didahului oleh beberapa Rasul”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kalimat yang kemudian dikukuhkan sebagai wahyu ini selalu diulang dan dibacanya sampai selesai, hingga akhirnya menjadi ayat al-Quran yang selalu dibaca orang …. Setelah pertempuran usai, ditemukanlah jasad pahlawan ulung yang syahid itu terbaring dengan wajah menelungkup ke tanah digenangi darahnya yang mulia . . . . Dan seolah-olah tubuh yang telah kaku itu masih takut menyaksikan bila Rasulullah ditimpa bencana, maka disembunyikannya wajahnya agar tidak melihat peristiwa yang dikhawatirkan dan ditakutinya itu. Atau mungkin juga ia merasa malu karena telah gugur sebelum hatinya tenteram beroleh kepastian akan keselamatan Rasulullah, dan sebelum ia selesai menunaikan tugasnya dalam membela dan mempertahankan Rasulullah sampai berhasil.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Wahai Mush’ab cukuplah bagimu ar-Rahman …. Namamu harum semerbak dalam kehidupan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rasulullah bersama para shahabat datang meninjau medan pertempuran untuk menyampaikan perpisahan kepada para syuhada. Ketika sampai di tempat terbaringnya jasad Mush’ab, bercucuranlah dengan deras air matanya. Berkata Khabbah ibnul ‘Urrat:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Kami hijrah di jalan Allah bersama Rasulullah saw. dengan mengharap keridlaan-Nya, hingga pastilah sudah pahala di sisi Allah. Di antara kami ada yang telah berlalu sebelum menikmati pahalanya di dunia ini sedikit pun juga. Di antaranya ialah Mushab bin Umair yang tewas di perang Uhud. Tak sehelai pun kain untuk menutupinya selain sehelai burdah. Andainya ditaruh di atas kepalanya, terbukalah kedua belah kakinya. Sebaliknya bila ditutupkan ke kakinya, terbukalah kepalanya. Maka sabda Rasulullah saw.: “Tutupkanlah ke bagian kepalanya, dan kakinya tutupilah dengan rumput idzkhir!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Betapa pun luka pedih dan duka yang dalam menimpa Rasulullah karena gugur pamanda Hamzah dan dirusak tubuhnya oleh orang-orang musyrik demikian rupa, hingga bercucurlah air mata Nabi . . . . Dan betapapun penuhnya Medan laga dengan mayat para shahabat dan kawan-kawannya, yang masing-masing mereka baginya merupakan panji-panji ketulusan, kesucian dan cahaya …. Betapa juga semua itu, tapi Rasulullah tak melewatkan berhenti sejenak dekat jasad dutanya yang pertama, untuk melepas dan mengeluarkan isi hatinya …. Memang, Rasulullah berdiri di depan Mush’ab bin Umair dengan pandangan mata yang pendek bagai menyelubunginya dengan kesetiaan dan kasih sayang, dibacakannya ayat:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di antara orang-orang Mu min terdapat pahlawan pahlawan yang telah menepati janjinya dengan Allah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian dengan mengeluh memandangi burdah yang digunakan untuk kain tutupnya, seraya bersabda:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika di Mekah dulu, tak seorang pun aku lihat yang lebih halus pakaiannya dan lebih rapi rambutnya dari padamu. Tetapi sekarang ini, dengan rambutmu yang kusut Masai, hanya dibalut sehelai burdah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Setelah melayangkan pandang, pandangan sayu kearah medan serta para syuhada kawan-kawan Mush’ab yang tergeletak di atasnya, Rasulullah berseru:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sungguh, Rasulullah akan menjadi saksi nanti di hari qiamat, bahwa tuan-tuan semua adalah syuhada di sisi Allah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian sambil berpaling ke arah shahabat yang masih hidup, Sabdanya :</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hai manusia! Berziarahlah dan berkunjunglah kepada mereka, serta ucapkanlah salam! Demi Allah yang menguasai nyawaku, tak seorang Muslim pun sampai hari qiamat yang memberi salam kepada mereka, pasti mereka akan membalasnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salam atasmu wahai Mush’ab</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salam atasmu wahai para syuhada ……</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">MUS'AB IBN `UMAIR </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">The First Envoy of Islam </span></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">This man among the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), how good it is for us to start </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">with him. He was the flower of the Quraish, the most handsome and youthful! Historians and narrators </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">describe him as "The most charming of the Makkans". </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He was born and brought up in wealth, and he grew up with its luxuries. Perhaps there was no boy </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">in Makkah who was pampered by his parents like Mus`ab lbn `Umair. This mirthful youth, caressed and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pampered, the talk of the ladies of Makkah, the jewel of its clubs and assemblies: is it possible for him to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">be one of the legends of faith? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">By Allah, how interesting a tale, the story of Mus`ab Ibn `Umair or Mus`ab the Good, as he was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nicknamed among the Muslims! He was one of those made by Islam and fostered by the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad (PBUH). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">But who was he? His story is a pride of all mankind. The youth heard one day what the people of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Makkah had begun to hear about Muhammad the Truthful, that Allah had sent him as bearer of glad </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tidings and a warner to call them to the worship of Allah the One God. When Makkah slept and awoke </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">there was no other talk but the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his religion, and this spoiled boy was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">one of the most attentive listeners. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">That was because, although he was young, the flower of clubs and assemblies, the outward </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">appearance of wisdom and common sense were among the traits of Mus`ab. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He heard that the Prophet (PBUH) and those who believed in him were meeting far away from the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dignitaries and great men of the Quraish at As-safaa in the house of Al-Arqam lbn Al-Arqam daar Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Arqam. He wasted no time. He went one night to the Daar Al Arqam, yearning and anxious. There, the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet (PBUH) was meeting his Companions, reciting the Qur'aan to them and praying with them to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah the Most Exalted. Mus`ab had hardly taken his seat and contemplated the verses of Qur'aan recited </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">by the Prophet (PBUH) when his heart became the promised heart that night. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The pleasure almost flung him from his seat as he was filled with a wild ecstasy. But the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) patted his throbbing heart with his blessed right hand, and the silence of the ocean's depth filled </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his heart. In the twinkling of an eye, the youth who had just become Muslim appeared to have more </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">wisdom than his age and a determination that would change the course of time! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mus`ab's mother was Khunaas Bint Maalik, and people feared her almost to the point of terror </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">because she possessed a strong personality. When Mus`ab became a Muslim, he was neither careful </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">before nor afraid of anyone on the face of the earth except his mother. Even if Makkah, with all its idols, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nobles, and deserts were to challenge him, he would stand up to it. As for a dispute with his mother, this </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was an impossible horror, so he thought quickly and decided to keep his Islam secret until Allah willed. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He continued to frequent Daar Al-Arqam and take lessons from the Prophet (PBUH). He was satisfied </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">with his faith and avoided the anger of his mother, who had no knowledge of his embracing Islam. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">However, Makkah at that time kept no secret, for the eyes and ears of the Quraish were everywhere, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">very alert and checking every footprint in its hot sands. Once, `Uthmaan Ibn Taihah saw him steadily </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">entering alarm's house, then he saw him a second time praying the prayer like Muhammad. No sooner </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">had he seen him than he ran quickly with the news to Mus`ab's mother, who was astonished by it. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mus`ab stood before his mother, the people, and the nobles of Makkah who assembled around him, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">telling them the irrefutable truth and reciting the Qur'aan with which the Prophet (PBUH) cleansed their </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hearts and filled them with honor, wisdom, justice, and piety. His mother aimed a heavy blow at him, but </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the hand which was meant as an arrow soon succumbed to the powerful light which increased the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">radiance of his face with innocent glory because it demanded respect with its quiet confidence. However, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his mother, under the pressure of her motherliness, spared him the beating and the pain, although it was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">within her power to avenge her gods whom he had abandoned. Instead she took him to a rough corner of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">her house and shut him in it. She put shackles on him and imprisoned him there until he heard the news </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of the emigration (hijab) of some of the believers to Abyssinia. He thought to himself and was able to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">delude his mother and his guards, and so escaped to Abyssinia. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">There he stayed in Abyssinia with his fellow emigrants and then returned with them to Makkah. He </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">also emigrated to Abyssinia for the second time with the Companions whom the Prophet (PBUH) </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">advised to emigrate and they obeyed. But whether Mus`ab was in Abyssinia or Makkah, the experience </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of his faith proclaimed itself in all places and at all times. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Musa became confident that his life had become good enough to be offered as a sacrifice to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Supreme Originator and great Creator. He went out one day to some Muslims while they were sitting </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">around the Prophet (PBUH) , and no sooner did they see him than they lowered their heads and shed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">some tears because they saw him wearing worn out garments. They were accustomed to his former </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">appearance before he had become a Muslim, when his clothes had been like garden flowers, elegant and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fragrant. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) saw him with the eyes of wisdom, thankful and loving, and his lips smiled </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gracefully as he said, "I saw Mus`ab here, and there was no youth in Makkah more petted by his parents </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">than he. Then he abandoned all that for the love of Allah and His Prophet!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">His mother had withheld from him all the luxury he had been overwhelmed by, when she could not </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">return him to her religion. She refused to let anyone who had abandoned their gods eat of her food, even </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">if he was her son. Her last connection with him was when she tried to imprison him for a second time </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">after his return from Abyssinia, and he swore that if she did that, he would kill all those who came to her </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">aid to lock him up. She knew the truth of his determination when he was intent and decided to do </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">something, and so she bade him good bye weeping. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The parting moment revealed a strange adherence to infidelity on the part of his mother, and the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">greater adherence to faith on the part of her son. When she said to him, while turning him out of her </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">house, "Go away, I am no longer your mother," he went close to her and said, "O mother, I am advising </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">you and my heart is with you, please bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">His servant and messenger." She replied to him, angrily raging, "By the stars, I will never enter your </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">religion, to degrade my status and weaken my senses!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">So Mus`ab left the great luxury in which he had been living. He became satisfied with a hard life he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">had never seen before, wearing the roughest clothes, eating one day and going hungry another. This </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">spirit, which was grounded in the strongest faith, adorned with the light of Allah, made him another man, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">one who appeals to the eyes of other great souls. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">While he was in this state, the Prophet (PBUH) commissioned him with the greatest mission of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">life, which was to be his envoy to Al-Madiinah. His mission was to instruct the Ansaar who believed in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Prophet (PBUH) and had pledged their allegiance to him at `Aqabah, to call others to Islam, and to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">prepare Al-Madiinah for the day of the great Hijrah. There were among the Companions of the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) at that time others who were older than Mus`ab and more prominent and nearer to the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) by family relations. But the Prophet (PBUH) chose Mus`ab the Good, knowing that he was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">entrusting to him the most important task of that time, putting into his hands the destiny of Islam at Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Madiinah. The radiant city of Al-Madiinah was destined to be the home of Hijrah, the springboard of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Islamic preachers and the liberators of the future. Mus`ab was equal to the task and trust which Allah had </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">given him and he was equipped with an excellent mind and noble character. He won the hearts of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Madinites with his piety, uprightness and sincerity. And so they embraced the religion of Allah in flocks. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">At the time the Prophet (PBUH) sent him there, only twelve Muslims had pledged allegiance to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet (PBUH) at the Pledge of `Aqabah. He had hardly completed a few months when they answered </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to the call of Allah and the Prophet (PBUH). During the next pilgrimage season, the Madinite Muslims </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sent a delegation of 70 believing men and women to Makkah to meet the Prophet (PBUH). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">They came with their teacher and their Prophet's envoy, Mus`ab Ibn `Umair. Mus`ab had proven, by </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his good sense and excellence, that the Prophet (PBUH) knew well how to choose his envoys and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">teachers. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mus'ab had understood his mission well. He knew that he was a caller to Allah and preacher of His </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">religion, which calls people to right guidance and the straight path. Like the Prophet (PBUH) in whom he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">believed, he was no more than a deliverer of the message. There he stood fast, with As`ad Ibn Zoraarah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">as host, and both of them used to visit the tribes, dwellings, and assemblies, reciting to the people what </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he had of the Book of Allah, instilling in them that Allah is no more than One God. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He had confronted certain instances which could have put an end to his life and that of those with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him but for his active, intelligent, great mind. One day, he was taken by surprise while preaching to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">people to find Usaid lbn hudair, leader of the `Abd Al-Ashhal tribe, at Al-Madiinah confronting him with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">a drawn arrow. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He was raging with anger and animosity against the one who had come to corrupt the religion of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">people by telling them to abandon their gods and talking to them about the idea of only One God Whom </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">they did not know before and had never heard of. Their gods were to them the center of their worship. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Whenever any of them needed them, he knew their places. They would invoke them for help. That was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">how they thought and imagined! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">As for the God of Muhammad, to whom this envoy was calling, nobody knew His place, nor could </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">anybody see Him! When the Muslims who were sitting around Mus`ab, saw Usaid lbn hudair advancing </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">in his unbridled anger, they were frightened, but Mus`ab the Good stood firm. Usaid stood before him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and As`ad lbn Zoraarah shouting, "What brought you here? Are you coming to corrupt our faith? Go </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">away if you wish to be saved!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">And like the calmness of the sea and its force, Mus`ab started his fine speech saying, "Won't you sit </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">down and listen? If you like our cause, you can accept; and if you dislike it, we will spare you of what </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">you hate." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah is the Greatest! How grand an opening whose ending would be pleasant! Usaid was a thoughtful </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and clever man, and here he saw Mus`ab inviting him to listen and no more. If he was convinced he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">would accept it, and if he was not convinced, then Mus`ab would leave his neighborhood and his clan, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and move to another neighborhood without harm, nor being harmed. There and then Usaid answered him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">saying, "Well, that is fair," and he dropped his arrow to the ground and sat down listening. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mus`ab had hardly read the Qur'aan, explaining the mission with which Muhammad lbn `Abd Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) came, when the conscience of Usaid began to dear and brighten and change with the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">effectiveness of the words. He became overwhelmed by its beauty. When Mus`ab finished speaking, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Usaid lbn Hudair exclaimed to him and those with him, "How beautiful is this speech, and how true! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">How can one enter this religion?" Mus`ab told him to purify his body and clothes and say, "I bear </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">witness that there is no god but Allah." Usaid retired for some time and then returned pouring clean </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">water on his head and standing there proclaiming, "I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and that </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The news spread like lightning and then Sa`d Ibn Mu`aadh came and listened to Mus`ab, and he was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">convinced and embraced Islam. Then came Sa`d lbn `Ubaadah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">There and then blessings came with their entering Islam. The people of Al-Madiinah came together </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">asking one another, "If Usaid lbn Hudair, Sa`d Ibn Mu`aadh and Sa`d Ibn `Ubaadah have embraced </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Islam, what are we waiting for? Go straight to Mus`ab and believe. By Allah, he is calling us to the truth </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and the straight path!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The first envoy of the Prophet (PBUH) succeeded without comparison. It was a success which he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">deserved and to which he was equal. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The days and years passed by. The Prophet (PBUH) and his Companions emigrated to Al-Madiinah, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and the Quraish were raging with envy and their ungodly pursuit after the pious worshippers. So the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Battle of Badr took place, in which they were taught a lesson and lost their strong hold. After that they </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">prepared themselves for revenge, and thus came the Battle of Uhud. The Muslims mobilized themselves, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and the Prophet (PBUH) stood in their midst to sort out among their faithful faces and to choose one to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bear the standard. He then called for Mus`ab the Good, and he advanced and carried the standard. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The terrible battle was raging, the fighting furious. The archers disregarded the orders of the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) by leaving their positions on the mountain when they saw the polytheists withdrawing as if </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">defeated. But this act of theirs soon turned the victory of the Muslims to defeat. The Muslims were taken </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">at unawares by the cavalry of the Quraish at the mountain top, and many Muslims were killed by the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">swords of the polytheists as a consequence. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">When they saw the confusion and horror splitting the ranks of the Muslims, the polytheists </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">concentrated on the Prophet of Allah to finish him off. Mus`ab saw the impending threat, so he raised the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">standard high, shouting, "allahu Akbar! Allah is the Greatest!" like the roar of a lion. He turned and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">jumped left and right, fighting and killing the foe. All he wanted was to draw the attention of the enemy </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to himself in order to turn their attention away from the Prophet (PBUH). He thus became as a whole </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">army in himself. Nay, Mus`ab went alone to fight as if he were an army of giants raising the standard in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sanctity with one hand, striking with his sword with the other. But the enemies were multiplying on him. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">They wanted to step on his corpse so that they could find the Prophet (PBUH). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Let us allow a living witness to describe for us the last scene of Mus`ab the Great. Ibn Sa`d said: </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ibraahiim lbn Muhammad lbn Sharhabiil Al-'Abdriy related from his father, who said: Mus`ab lbn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Umair carried the standard on the Day of Uhud. When the Muslims were scattered, he stood fast until he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">met lbn Qumaah who was a knight. He struck him on his right hand and cut it off, but Mus`ab said, "and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad is but a Messenger. Messengers have passed away before him " (3:144). He carried the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">standard with his left hand and leaned on it. He struck his left hand and cut it off, and so he leaned on the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">standard and held it with his upper arms to his chest, all the while saying, "And Muhammad is but a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Messenger. Messengers have passed away before him". Then a third one struck him with his spear, and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the spear went through him. Mus`ab fell and then the standard. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nay, the cream of martyrdom had fallen! He fell after he had struggled for the sake of Allah in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">great battle of sacrifice and faith. He had thought that if he fell, he would be a stepping stone to the death </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of the Prophet (PBUH) because he would be without defense and protection. But he put himself in harm's </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">way for the sake of the Prophet (PBUH). overpowered by his fear for and love of him, he continued to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">say with every sword stroke that fell on him from the foe, "and Muhammad is but a Messenger. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Messengers have passed away before him "(3:144). This verse was revealed later, after he had spoken it. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">After the bitter battle, they found the corpse of the upright martyr lying with his face in the dust, as if </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he feared to look while harm fell on the Prophet (PBUH). So he hid his face so that he would avoid the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">scene. Or perhaps, he was shy when he fell as a martyr, before making sure of the safety of the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of Allah, and before serving to the very end, guarding and protecting him. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah is with you, O Mus`ab! What a great life story! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) and his Companions came to inspect the scene of the battle and bid farewell to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">its martyrs. Pausing at Mus`ab's body, tears dripped from the Prophet's eyes. Khabbaab lbn Al-Arat </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">narrated: We emigrated with the Prophet (PBUH) for Allah's cause, so our reward became due with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah. Some of us passed away without enjoying anything in this life of his reward, and one of them was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mus`ab Ibn`Umair, who was martyred on the Day of Uhud. He did not leave behind anything except a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sheet of shredded woolen cloth. If we covered his head with it, his feet were uncovered, and if we </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">covered his feet with it, his head was uncovered. The Prophet (PBUH) said to us, "Cover his head with it </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and put lemon grass over his feet." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Despite the deep, sad pain which the Prophet (PBUH) suffered over the loss of his uncle Hamzah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and the mutilation of his corpse by the polytheists in a manner that drew tears from the Prophet (PBUH) </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and broke his heart; despite the fact that the field of battle was littered with the corpses of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions, all of whom represented the peak of truth, piety and enlightenment; despite all this, he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">stood at the corpse of his first envoy, bidding him farewell and weeping bitterly. Nay, the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) stood at the remains of Mus`ab lbn `Umair saying, while his eyes were flowing with tears, love </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and loyalty, "Among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah " (33:23). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Then he gave a sad look at the garment in which he was shrouded and said, "I saw you at Makkah, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and there was not a more precious jewel, nor more distinguished one than you, and here you are bare- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">headed in a garment!" Then the Prophet (PBUH) looked at all the martyrs in the battlefield and said, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"The Prophet of Allah witnesses that you are martyrs to Allah on the Day of Resurrection." Then he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gathered his living Companions around him and said, "O people, visit them, come to them, and salute </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">them. By Allah, no Muslim will salute them but that they will salute him in return." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Peace be on you, O Mus`ab. Peace be on you, O Martyrs. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 10.0px Times New Roman; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 11.0px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; 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text-align: center; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; min-height: 21.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#177733;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #dafffe; min-height: 21.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#177733;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">(2)</span></b></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">SALMAN AL-FARISI </span></span></p> <div style="text-align: center;font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b> Pencari kebenaran.</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(193, 255, 229); "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(193, 255, 229); ">Dari Persi . . . datangnya pahlawan kali ini. Dan dari Persi pula Agama Islam nanti dianut oleh orang-orang Mu’min yang tidak sedikit jumlahnya, dari kalangan mereka muncul pribadi pribadi istimewa yang tiada taranya, baik dalam bidang keilmuan dan keagamaan, maupun dalam ilmu pengetahuan dan keduniaan.</span></div><div style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;color:#c1ffe5;"> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Dan memang, salah satu dari keistimewaan dan kebesaran al-Islam ialah, setiap islam memasuki suatu negeri dari negeri-negeri Allah, maka dengan keajaiban luar biasa dibangkitkannya setiap keahlian, digerakkannya segala kemampuan serta digalinya bakat-bakat terpendarn dari warga dan penduduk negeri itu, hingga bermunculanlah filosof-filosof Islam, dokter-dokter Islam, ahli-ahli falak Islam, ahli-ahli fiqih Islam, ahli-ahli ilmu pasti Islam dan penemu-penemu mutiara Islam ….</p></div><div style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;color:#c1ffe5;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Ternyata bahwa pentolan-pentolan itu berasal dari setiap penjuru dan muncul dari setiap bangsa, hingga masa-masa pertama perkembangan Islam penuh dengan tokoh-tokoh luar biasa dalam segala lapangan, baik cita maupun karsa, yang berlainan tanah air dan suku bangsanya, tetapi satu Agamanya</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Dan perkembangan yang penuh berkah dari Agama ini telah lebih dulu diramalkan oleh Rasulullah saw., bahkan beliau telah menerima janji yang benar dari Tuhannya Yang Maha Besar lagi Maha Mengetahui. Pada suatu hari diangkatlah baginya jarak pemisah dari tempat dan waktu, hingga disaksikannyalah dengan mata kepala panji-panji Islam berkibar di kota-kota di muka bumi, serta di istana dan mahligai-mahligai para penduduknya.</p></div><div color="#c1ffe5" style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">S<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(193, 255, 229); ">Salman al-Farisi sendiri turut menyaksikan hal tersebut, karena ia memang terlibat dan mempunyai hubungan erat dengan kejadian itu. Peristiwa itu terjadi waktu perang Khandaq, yaitu pada tahun kelima Hijrah. Beberapa orang pemuka Yahudi pergi ke Mekah menghasut orang-orang musyrik dan golongan golongan kuffar agar bersekutu menghadapi Rasulullah dan Kaum Muslimin, serta mereka berjanji akan memberikan bantuan dalam perang penentuan yang akan menumbangkan serta mencabut urat akar Agama baru ini.</span></div> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Siasat dan taktik perang pun diaturlah secara licik, bahwa tentara Quraisy dan Ghathfan akan menyerang kota Madinah dari luar, sementara Bani Quraidlah (Yahudi) akan menyerangnya dari dalam yaitu dari belakang barisan Kaum Muslimin sehingga mereka akan terjepit dari dua arah, karenanya mereka akan hancur lumat dan hanya tinggal nama belaka.</p><div color="#c1ffe5" style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Demikianlah pada suatu hari Kaum Muslimin tiba-tiba melihat datangnya pasukan tentara yang besar mendekati kota Madinah, membawa perbekalan banyak dan persenjataan lengkap untuk menghancurkan. Kaum Muslimin panik dan mereka bagaikan kehilangan akal melihat hal yang tidak diduga-duga itu. Keadaan mereka dilukiskan oleh al-Quran sebagai berikut:</p></div><div color="#c1ffe5" style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika mereka datang dari sebelah atas dan dari arah bawahmu, dan tatkala pandangan matamu telah berputar liar, seolah-olah hatimu telah naik sampai kekerongkongan, dan kamu menaruh sangkaan yang bukan-bukan terhadap Allah.</div><div color="#c1ffe5" style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(Q.S. 33 al-Ahzab:10)</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dua puluh empat ribu orang prajurit di bawah pimpinan Abu Sufyan dan Uyainah bin Hishn menghampiri kota Madinah dengan maksud hendak mengepung dan melepaskan pukulan menentukan yang akan menghabisi Muhammad saw., Agama serta para shahabatnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pasukan tentara ini tidak saja terdiri dari orang-orang Quraisy, tetapi juga dari berbagai kabilah atau suku yang menganggap Islam sebagai lawan yang membahayakan mereka. Dan peristiwa ini merupakan percobaan akhir dan menentukan dari fihak musuh-musuh Islam, baik dari perorangan, maupun dari suku dan golongan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kaum Muslimin menginsafi keadaan mereka yang gawat ini, Rasulullah pun mengumpulkan para shahabatnya untuk bermusyawarah. Dan tentu saja mereka semua setuju untuk bertahan dan mengangkat senjata, tetapi apa yang harus mereka lakukan untuk bertahan itu?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika itulah tampil seorang yang tinggi jangkung dan berambut lebat, seorang yang disayangi dan amat dihormati oleh Rasulullah saw. Itulah dia Salman al-Farisi! Dari tempat ketinggian ia melayangkan pandang meninjau sekitar Madinah, dan sebagai telah dikenalnya juga didapatinya kota itu di lingkungan gunung dan bukit-bukit batu yang tak ubah bagai benteng juga layaknya. Hanya di sana terdapat pula daerah terbuka, luas dan terbentang panjang, hingga dengan mudah akan dapat diserbu musuh untuk memasuki benteng pertahanan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di negerinya Persi, Salman telah mempunyai pengalaman luas tentang teknik dan sarana perang, begitu pun tentang siasat dan liku-likunya. Maka tampillah ia mengajukan suatu usul kepada Rasulullah, yaitu suatu rencana yang belum pernah dikenal oleh orang-orang Arab dalam peperangan mereka selama ini. Rencana itu berupa penggalian khandaq atau parit perlindungan sepanjang daerah terbuka Wiling kota.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan hanya Allah yang lebih mengetahui apa yang akan dialami Kaum Muslimin dalam peperangan itu seandainya mereka tidak menggali parit atau usul Salman tersebut.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demi Quraisy menyaksikan parit terbentang di hadapannya, mereka merasa terpukul melihat hal yang tidak disangka-sangka itu, hingga tidak kurang sebulan lamanya kekuatan mereka bagai terpaku di kemah–kemah karena tidak berdaya menerobos kota. Dan akhirnya pada suatu malam Allah Ta’ala mengirim angin. Topan yang menerbangkan kemah-kemah dan memporak-porandakan tentara mereka.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Sufyan pun menyerukan kepada anak buahnya agar kembali pulang ke kampung mereka . . . dalam keadaan kecewa dan berputus asa serta menderita kekalahan pahit .. .</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sewaktu menggali parit, Salman tidak ketinggalan bekerja bersama Kaum Muslimin yang sibuk menggali tanah. Juga Rasulullah saw. ikut membawa tembilang dan membelah batu. Kebetulan. di tempat penggalian Salman bersama kawan-kawannya, tembilang mereka terbentur pada sebuah batu besar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salman seorang yang berperawakan kukuh dan bertenaga besar. Sekali ayun dari lengannya yang kuat akan dapat membelah batu dan memecahnya menjadi pecahan-pecahan kecil. Tetapi menghadapi batu besar ini ia tak berdaya, sedang bantuan dari teman-temannya hanya menghasilkan kegagalan belaka.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salman pergi mendapatkan Rasulullah saw. dan minta idzin mengalihkan jalur parit dari garis semula, untuk menghindari batu besar yang tak tergoyahkan itu. Rasulullah pun pergi bersama Salman untuk melihat sendiri keadaan tempat dan batu besar tadi. Dan setelah menyaksikannya, Rasulullah meminta sebuah tembilang dan menyuruh Para shahabat mundur dan menghindarkan diri dari pecahan-pecahan batu itu nanti</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rasulullah lalu membaca basmalah dan mengangkat kedua tangannya yang mulia yang sedang memegang erat tembilang itu, dan dengan sekuat tenaga dihunjamkannya ke batu besar itu. Kiranya batu itu terbelah dan dari celah belahannya yang besar keluar lambaian api yang tinggi dan menerangi. “Saya lihat lambaian api itu menerangi pinggiran kota Madinah”, kata Salman, sementara Rasulullah saw. mengucapkan takbir, sabdanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah Maha Besar ! Aku telah di karuniai kunci kunci israna dari negeri Persi dan dari lambaian api tadi nampak olehku dengan nyata istana istana kerajaan Hirah begitupun kota kota maha raja Persi dan bahwa umatku akan menguasai semua itu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Lalu Rasulullah mengangkat tembilang itu kembali dan memukulkannya ke batu untuk kedua kalinya. Maka tampaklah seperti semula tadi. Pecahan batu besar itu menyemburkan lambaian api yang tinggi dan menerangi, sementara Rasulullah bertakbir sabdanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah Maha Besar! Aku telah dikaruniai kunci-kunci negeri Romawi, dan tampak nyata olehku istana-istana megahnya, dan bahwa ummatku akan menguasainya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian dipukulkannya untuk ketiga kali, dan batu besar itu pun menyerah pecah berderai, sementara sinar yang terpancar daripadanya amat nyala dan terang benderang. Rasulullahpun mengucapkan la ilaha illallah diikuti dengan gemuruh oleh kaum Muslimin. Lalu diceritakanlah oleh Rasulullah bahwa beliau sekarang melihat istana-istana dan mahligai-mahligai di Syria maupun Shan’a, begitu pun di daerah-daerah lain yang suatu ketika nanti akan berada di bawah naungan bendera Allah yang berkibar. Maka dengan keimanan penuh Kaum Muslimin pun serentak berseru:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Inilah yang dijanjikan Allah dan Rasul-Nya . . . . Dan benarlah Allah dan Rasul-Nya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salman adalah orang yang mengajukan saran untuk membuat parit. Dan dia pulalah penemu batu yang telah memancarkan rahasia-rahasia dan ramalan-ramalan ghaib, yakni ketika ia meminta tolong kepada Rasulullah saw. la berdiri di samping Rasulullah menyaksikan cahaya dan mendengar berita gembira itu. Dan dia masih hidup ketika ramalan itu menjadi kenyataan, dilihat bahkan dialami dan dirasakannya sendiri. Dilihatnya kota-kota di Persi dan Romawi, dan dilihatnya mahligai istana di Shan’a, di Mesir, di Syria dan di Irak. Pendeknya disaksikan dengan mata kepalanya bahwa seluruh permukaan bumi seakan berguncang keras, karena seruan mempesona penuh berkah yang berkumandang dari puncak menara-menara tinggi di setiap pelosok, memancarkan sinar hidayah dan petunjuk Allah ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, itulah dia sedang duduk di bawah naungan sebatang pohon yang rindang berdaun rimbun, di muka rumahnya di kola Madain; sedang menceriterakan kepada shahabat-shahabatnya perjuangan berat yang dialaminya demi mencari kebenaran, dan mengisahkan kepada mereka bagaimana ia meninggalkan agama nenek moyangnya bangsa Persi, masuk ke dalam agama Nashrani dan dari sana pindah ke dalam Agama Islam. Betapa ia telah meninggalkan kekayaan berlimpah dari orang tuanya dan menjatuhkan dirinya ke dalam lembah kemiskinan demi kebebasan fikiran dan jiwanya . . . ! Betapa ia dijual di pasar budak dalam mencari kebenaran itu, bagaimana ia berjumpa dengan Rasulullah dan iman kepadanya … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Marilah kita dekati majlisnya yang mulia dan kita dengarkan kisah menakjubkan yang diceriterakannya!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Aku berasal dari Isfahan, warga suatu desa yang bernama “Ji”. Bapakku seorang bupati di daerah itu, dan aku merupakan makhluq Allah yang paling disayanginya. Aku membaktikan diri dalam agama majusi, hingga diserahi tugas sebagai penjaga api yang bertanggung jawab atas nyalanya clan tidak membiarkannya padam.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bapakku memiliki sebidang tanah, dan pada ‘suatu hari aku disuruhnya ke sana. Dalam perjalanan ke tempat tujuan, aku lewat di sebuah gereja milik kaum Nashrani. Kudengar mereka sedang sembahyang, maka aku masuk ke dalam untuk melihat apa yang mereka lakukan. Aku kagum melihat cara mereka sembahyang, dan kataku dalam hati: “Ini lebih baik dari apa yang aku anut selama ini!” Aku tidak beranjak dari tempat itu sampai matahari terbenam, dan tidak jadi pergi ke tanah milik bapakku serta tidak pula kembali pulang, hingga bapak mengirim orang untuk menyusulku.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Karena agama mereka menarik perhatianku, kutanyakan kepada orang-orang Nashrani dari mana asal-usul agama mereka. “Dari Syria”, ujar mereka.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika telah berada di hadapan bapakku, kukatakan kepadanya: “Aku lewat pada suatu kaum yang sedang melakukan upacara sembahyang di gereja. Upacara mereka amat mengagumkanku. Kulihat pula agama mereka lebih baik dari agama kita”. Kami pun bersoal-jawab melakukan diskusi dengan bapakku dan berakhir dengan dirantainya kakiku dan dipenjarakannya diriku ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kepada orang-orang Nashrani kukirim berita bahwa aku telah menganut agama mereka. Kuminta pula agar bila datang rombongan dari Syria, supaya aku diberi tahu sebelum mereka kembali, karena aku akan ikut bersama mereka ke sana. Permintaanku itu mereka kabulkan, maka kuputuskan rantai, lalu meloloskan diri dari penjara dan menggabungkan diri kepada rombongan itu menuju Syria.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sesampainya di sana kutanyakan seorang ahli dalam agama itu, dijawabnya bahwa ia adalah uskup pemilik gereja. Maka datanglah aku kepadanya, kuceriterakan keadaanku. Akhirnya tinggallah aku bersamanya sebagai pelayan, melaksanakan ajaran mereka dan belajar . . . Sayang uskup ini seorang yang tidak baik beragamanya, karena dikumpulkannya sedekah dari orang orang dengan alasan untuk dibagikan, ternyata disimpan untuk dirinya pribadi. Kemudian uskup itu wafat ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka mengangkat orang lain sebagai gantinya. Dan kulihat tak seorang pun yang lebih baik beragamanya dari uskup baru ini. Aku pun mencintainya demikian rupa, sehingga hatiku merasa tak seorang pun yang lebih kucintai sebelum itu daripadanya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan tatkala ajalnya telah dekat, tanyaku padanya: “sebagai anda maklumi, telah dekat saat berlakunya taqdir Allah atas diri anda. Maka .apakah yang harus kuperbuat, dan siapakah sebaiknya yang harus kuhubungi?” “Anakku!”, ujarnya: “tak seorang pun menurut pengetahuanku yang sama langkahnya dengan aku, kecuali seorang pemimpin yang tinggal di Mosul”. Lalu tatkala ia wafat aku pun berangkat ke Mosul dan menghubungi pendeta yang disebutkannya itu. Kuceriterakan kepadanya pesan dari uskup tadi dan aku tinggal bersamanya selama waktu yang dikehendaki Allah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian tatkala ajalnya telah dekat pula, kutanyakan kepadanya siapa yang harus kuturuti. Ditunjukkannyalah orang shalih yang tinggal di Nasibin. Aku datang kepadanya dan kuceriterakan perihalku, lalu tinggal bersamanya selama waktu yang dikehendaki Allah pula.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tatkala ia hendak meninggal, kubertanya pula kepadanya. Maka disuruhnya aku menghubungi seorang pemimpin yang tinggal di ‘Amuria, suatu kota yang termasuk wilayah Romawi. Aku berangkat ke sana dan tinggal bersamanya, sedang sebagai bekal hidup aku berternak sapi dan kambing beberapa ekor banyaknya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian dekatlah pula ajalnya dan kutanyakan padanya kepada siapa aku dipercayakannya. Ujarnya: “Anakku! Tak seorang pun yang kukenal serupa dengan kita keadaannya dan dapat kupercayakan engkau padanya. Tetapi sekarang telah dekat datangnya masa kebangkitan seorang Nabi yang mengikuti agama Ibrahim secara murni. Ia nanti akan hijrah ke suatu tempat yang ditumbuhi kurma dan terletak di antara dua bidang tanah berbatu-batu hitam. Seandainya kamu dapat pergi ke sana, temuilah dia! Ia mempunyai tanda-tanda yang jelas dan gamblang: ia tidak mau makan shadaqah, sebaliknya bersedia menerima hadiah dan di pundaknya ada cap kenabian yang bila kau melihatnya, segeralah kau mengenalinya”.Kebetulan pada suatu hari lewatlah suatu rombongan berkendaraan, lalu kutanyakan dari mana mereka datang. Tahulah aku bahwa mereka dari jazirah Arab, maka kataku kepada mereka: “Maukah kalian membawaku ke negeri kalian, dan sebagai imbalannya kuberikan kepada kalian sapi-sapi dan kambing-kambingku ini?” “Baiklah”, ujar mereka.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah mereka membawaku serta dalam perjalanan hingga sampai di suatu negeri yang bernama Wadil Qura. Di sana aku mengalami penganiayaan, mereka menjualku kepada seorang yahudi. Ketika tampak olehku banyak pohon kurma, aku berharap kiranya negeri ini yang disebutkan pendeta kepadaku dulu, yakni yang akan menjadi tempat hijrah<sup>.</sup> Nabi yang ditunggu. Ternyata dugaanku meleset.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mulai saat itu aku tinggal bersama orang yang membeliku, hingga pada suatu hari datang seorang yahudi Bani Quraidhah yang membeliku pula daripadanya. Aku dibawanya ke Madinah, dan demi Allah baru saja kulihat negeri itu, aku pun yakin itulah negeri yang disebutkan dulu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Aku tinggal bersama yahudi itu dan bekerja di perkebunan kurma milik Bani Quraidhah, hingga datang saat dibangkitkannya Rasulullah yang datang ke Madinah dan singgah pada Bani ‘Amar bin ‘Auf di Quba.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari, ketika aku berada di puncak pohon kurma sedang majikanku lagi duduk di bawahnya, tiba-tiba datang seorang yahudi saudara sepupunya yang mengatakan padanya: “Bani Qilah celaka! Mereka berkerumun mengelilingi seorang laki-laki di Quba yang datang dari Mekah dan mengaku sebagai Nabi. . .”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demi Allah, baru saja ia mengucapkan kata-kata itu, tubuhku pun bergetar keras hingga pohon kurma itu bagai bergoncang dan hampir saja aku jatuh menimpa majikanku. Aku segera turun dan kataku kepada orang tadi: “Apa kata anda?” Ada berita apakah?”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Majikanku mengangkat tangan lalu meninjuku sekuatnya, serta bentaknya: “Apa urusanmu dengan ini, ayoh kembali ke pekerjaanmu!” Maka aku pun kembalilah bekerja …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Setelah hari petang, kukumpulkan segala yang ada padaku, lalu aku keluar dan pergi menemui Rasulullah di Quba. Aku masuk kepadanya ketika beliau sedang duduk bersama beberapa orang anggota rombongan. Lalu kataku kepadanya: “Tuan-tuan adalah perantau yang sedang dalam kebutuhan. Kebetulan aku mempunyai persediaan makanan yang telah kujanjikan untuk sedekah. Dan setelah mendengar keadaan tuan-tuan, maka menurut hematku, tuan-tuanlah yang lebih layak menerimanya, dan makanan itu kubawa ke sini”. Lalu makanan itu kutaruh di hadapannya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Makanlah dengan nama Allah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sabda Rasulullah kepada para shahabatnya, tetapi beliau tak sedikit pun mengulurkan tangannya menjamah makanan itu. “Nah, demi Allah!” kataku dalam hati, “inilah satu dari tanda tandanya …bahwa ia tak mau memakan harta sedekah “.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Aku kembali pulang, tetapi pagi-pagi keesokan harinya aku kembali menemui Rasulullah sambil membawa makanan, serta kataku kepadanya: “Kulihat tuan tak hendak makan sedekah, tetapi aku mempunyai sesuatu yang ingin kuserahkan kepada tuan sebagai hadiah”, lalu kutaruh makanan di hadapannya. Maka sabdanya kepada shahabatnya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Makanlah dengan menyebut nama Allah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan beliaupun turut makan bersama mereka. “Demi Allah”, kataku dalam hati, “inilah tanda yang kedua, bahwa ia bersedia menerima hadiah “.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Aku kembali pulang dan tinggal di tempatku beberapa lama. Kemudian kupergi mencari Rasulullah saw. dan kutemui beliau di Baqi’, sedang mengiringkan jenazah dan dikelilingi oleh shahabat-shahabatnya. la memakai dua lembar kain lebar, yang satu dipakainya untuk sarung dan yang satu lagi sebagai baju.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kuucapkan salam kepadanya dan kutolehkan pandangan hendak melihatnya. Rupanya ia mengerti akan maksudku, maka disingkapkannya kain burdah dari lehernya hingga nampak pada pundaknya tanda yang kucari, yaitu cap kenabian sebagai disebutkan oleh pendeta dulu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Melihat itu aku meratap dan menciuminya sambil menangis. Lalu aku dipanggil menghadap oleh Rasulullah. Aku duduk di hadapannya, lalu kuceriterakan kisahku kepadanya sebagai yang telah kuceriterakan tadi.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian aku masuk Islam, dan perbudakan menjadi penghalang bagiku untuk menyertai perang Badar dan Uhud. Lalu pada suatu hari Rasulullah menitahkan padaku: Mintalah pada majikanmu agar ia bersedia membebaskanmu dengan menerima uang tebusan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka kumintalah kepada majikanku sebagaimana dititahkan Rasulullah, sementara Rasulullah menyuruh para shahabat untuk membantuku dalam soal keuangan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah aku dimerdekakan oleh Allah, dan hidup sebagai seorang Muslim yang bebas merdeka, serta mengambil bagian bersama Rasulullah dalam perang Khandaq dan peperangan lainnya.’)</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dengan kalimat-kalimat yang jelas dan manis, Salman menceriterakan kepada kita usaha keras dan perjuangan besar serta mulia untuk mencari hakikat keagamaan, yang akhirnya dapat sampai kepada Allah Ta’ala dan membekas sebagai jalan hidup yang harus ditempuhnya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Corak manusia ulung manakah orang ini? Dan keunggulan besar manakah yang mendesak jiwanya yang agung dan melecut kemauannya yang keras untuk mengatasi segala kesulitan dan membuatnya mungkin barang yang kelihatan mustahil? Kehausan dan kegandrungan terhadap kebenaran manakah yang telah menyebabkan pemiliknya rela meninggalkan kampung halaman berikut harta benda dan segala macam kesenangan, lalu pergi menempuh daerah yang belum dikenal — dengan segala halangan dan beban penderitaan — pindah dari satu daerah ke daerah lain, dari satu negeri ke negeri lain, tak kenal letih atau lelah, di samping tak lupa beribadah secara tekun . . .?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sementara pandangannya yang tajam selalu mengawasi manusia, menyelidiki kehidupan dan aliran mereka yang berbeda, sedang tujuannya yang utama tak pernah beranjak dari semula, yang tiada lain hanya mencari kebenaran. Begitu,pon pengurbanan mulia yang dibaktikannya demi mencapai hidayah Allah, sampai ia diperjual belikan sebagai budak belian . . . Dan akhirnya ia diberi Allah ganjaran setimpal hingga dipertemukan dengan al-Haq dan dipersuakan dengan Rasul-Nya, lalu dikaruniai usia lanjut, hingga ia dapat menyaksikan dengan kedua matanya bagaimana panji-panji Allah berkibaran di seluruh pelosok dunia, sementara ummat Islam mengisi ruangan dan sudut-sudutnya dengan hidayah dan petunjuk Allah, dengan kemakmuran dan keadilan … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bagaimana akhir kesudahan yang dapat kita harapkan dari seorang tokoh yang tulus hati dan keras kemauannya demikian rupa? Sungguh, keislaman Salman adalah keislamannya orangorang utama dan taqwa. Dan dalam kecerdasan, kesahajaan dan kebebasan dari pengaruh dunia, maka keadaannya mirip sekali dengan Umar bin Khatthab.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ia pernah tinggal bersama Abu Darda di sebuah rumah beberapa hari lamanya. Sedang kebiasaan Abu Darda beribadah di waktu malam dan shaum di waktu Siang. Salman melarangnya keterlaluan dalam beribadah seperti itu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari Salman bermaksud hendak mematahkan niat Abu -Darda untuk shaum sunnat esok hari. Dia menyalahkannya: “Apakah engkau hendak melarangku shaum dan shalat karena Allah?” Maka jawab Salman: “Sesungguhnya kedua matamu mempunyai hak atas dirimu, demikian pula keluargamu mempunyai hak atas dirimu. Di samping engkau shaum, berbukalah; dan di samping melakukan shalat, tidurlah!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Peristiwa itu sampai ke telinga Rasulullah, maka sabdanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rasulullah saw. sendiri sering memuji kecerdasan Salman serta ketinggian ilmunya, sebagaimana beliau memuji Agama dan budi pekertinya yang luhur. Di waktu perang Khandaq, kaum Anshar sama berdiri dan berkata: “Salman dari golongan kami”. Bangkitlah pula kaum Muhajirin, kata mereka: “Tidak, ia dari golongan kami!” Mereka pun dipanggil oleh Rasulullah saw., dan sabdanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salman adalah golongan kami, ahlul Bait<br />Dan memang selayaknyalah jika Salman mendapat kehormatan seperti itu . . .!<br />Ali bin Abi Thalib karramallahu wajhah menggelari Salman dengan “Luqmanul Hakim”. Dan sewaktu ditanya mengenai Salman, yang ketika itu telah wafat, maka jawabnya:<br />“Ia adalah seorang yang datang dari kami dan kembali kepada kami Ahlul Bait.<br />Siapa pula di antara kalian yang akan dapat menyamai Luqmanul Hakim.<br />Ia telah beroleh ilmu yang pertama begitu pula ilmu yang terakhir.<br />Dan telah dibacanya kitab yang pertama dan juga kitab yang terakhir.<br />Tak ubahnya ia bagai lautan yang airnya tak pernah kering”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dalam kalbu para shahabat umumnya, pribadi Salman telah mendapat kedudukan mulia dan derajat utama. Di masa pemerintahan Khalifah Umar r.a. ia datang berkunjung ke Madinah. Maka Umar melakukan penyambutan yang setahu kita belum penah dilakukannya kepada siapa pun juga. Dikumpulkannya para shahabat dan mengajak mereka: “Marilah kita pergi menyambut Salman!” Lalu ia keluar bersama mereka menuju pinggiran kota Madinah untuk menyambutnya …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Semenjak bertemu dengan Rasulullah dan iman kepadanya, Salman hidup sebagai seorang Muslim yang merdeka, sebagai pejuang dan selalu berbakti. Ia pun mengalami kehidupan masa Khalifah Abu Bakar; kemudian di masa Amirul Mu’minin Umar; lalu di masa Khalifah Utsman, di waktu mana ia kembali ke hadlirat Tuhannya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di tahun-tahun kejayaan ummat Islam, panji-panji Islam telah berkibar di seluruh penjuru, harta benda yang tak sedikit jumlahnya mengalir ke Madinah sebagai pusat pemerintahan baik sebagai upeti ataupun pajak untuk kemudian diatur pembagiannya menurut ketentuan Islam, hingga negara mampu memberikan gaji dan tunjangan tetap. Sebagai akibatnya banyaklah timbul masalah pertanggungjawaban secara hukum mengenai perimbangan dan cara pembagian itu, hingga pekerjaan pun bertumpuk dan jabatan tambah meningkat.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka dalam gundukan harta negara yang berlimpah ruah itu, di manakah kita dapat menemukan Salman? Di manakah kita dapat menjumpainya di saat kekayaan dan kejayaan, kesenangan dan kemakmuran itu … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bukalah mata anda dengan baik!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tampaklah oleh anda seorang tua berwibawa duduk di sana di bawah naungan pohon, sedang asyik memanfaatkan sisa waktunya di samping berbakti untuk negara, menganyam dan menjalin daun kurma untuk dijadikan bakul atau keranjang. Nah, itulah dia Salman … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Perhatikanlah lagi dengan cermat!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Lihatlah kainnya yang pendek, karena amat pendeknya sampai terbuka kedua lututnya. Padahal is seorang tua yang berwibawa, mampu dan tidak berkekurangan. Tunjangan yang diperolehnya tidak sedikit, antara empat sampai enam ribu setahun. Tapi semua itu disumbangkannya habis, satu dirham pun tak diambil untuk dirinya. Katanya: “Untuk bahannya kubeli daun satu dirham, lalu kuperbuat dan kujual tiga dirham. Yang satu dirham kuambil untuk modal, satu dirham lagi untuk nafkah keluargaku,. sedang satu dirham sisanya untuk shadaqah. Seandainya Umar bin Khatthab melarangku berbuat demikian, sekali-kali tiadalah akan kuhentikan!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Lalu bagaimana wahai ummat Rasulullah? Betapa wahai peri kemanusiaan, di mana saja dan kapan saja? Ketika mendengar sebagian shahabat dan kehidupannya yang amat bersahaja, seperti Abu Bakar, Umar, Abu Dzar dan lain-lain; sebagian kita menyangka bahwa itu disebabkan suasana lingkungan padang pasir, di mana. seorang Arab hanya dapat menutupi keperluan dirinya secara bersahaja.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi sekarang kita berhadapan dengan seorang putera Persi, suatu negeri yang terkenal dengan kemewahan dan kesenangan serta hidup boros, sedang ia bukan dari golongan miskin atau bawahan, tapi dari golongan berpunya dan kelas tinggi. Kenapa is sekarang menolak harta, kekayaan dan kesenangan; bertahan dengan kehidupan bersahaja, tiada lebih dari satu dirham tiap harinya, yang diperoleh dari hasil jerih payahnya sendiri … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kenapa ditolaknya pangkat dan tak bersedia menerimanya? Katanya: “Seandainya kamu masih mampu makan tanah — asal tak membawahi dua orang manusia. —, maka lakukanlah!” Kenapa ia menolak pangkat dan jabatan, kecuali jika mengepalai sepasukan tentara yang pergi menuju medan perang? Atau dalam suasana tiada seorang pun yang mampu memikul tanggung jawab kecuali dia, hingga terpaksa ia melakukannya dengan hati murung dan jiwa merintih? Lalu kenapa ketika memegang jabatan yang mesti dipikulnya, ia tidak mau menerima tunjangan yang diberikan padanya secara. halal?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Diriwayatkan oleh Hisyam bin Hisan dari Hasan: “Tunjangan Salman sebanyak lima ribu setahun, (gambaran kesederhanaannya) ketika ia berpidato di hadapan tigapuluh ribu orang separuh baju luarnya (aba’ah) dijadikan alas duduknya dan separoh lagi menutupi badannya. Jika tunjangan keluar, maka dibagi- bagikannya sampai habis, sedang untuk nafqahnya dari hasil usaha kedua tangannya”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kenapa ia melakukan perbuatan seperti itu dan amat zuhud kepada dunia, padahal ia seorang putera Persi yang biasa tenggelam dalam kesenangan dan dipengaruhi arus kemajuan? Marilah kita dengar jawaban yang diberikannya ketika berada di atas pembaringan menjelang ajalnya, sewaktu ruhnya yang mulia telah bersiap-siap untuk kembali menemui Tuhannya Yang Maha linggi lagi Maha Pengasih.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad bin Abi Waqqash datang menjenguknya, lalu Salman menangis. “Apa yang anda tangiskan, wahai Abu Abdillah”,’) tanya Sa’ad, “padahal Rasulullah saw. wafat dalam keadaan ridla kepada anda?” “Demi Allah, ujar Salman, “daku menangis bukanlah karena takut mati ataupun mengharap kemewahan dunia, hanya Rasulullah telah menyampaikan suatu pesan kepada kita, sabdanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hendaklah bagian masing-masingmu dari kekayaan dunia ini ni seperti bekal seorang pengendara.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">padahal harta milikku begini banyaknya”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kata Sa’ad: “Saya perhatikan, tak ada yang. tampak di sekelilingku kecuali satu piring dan sebuah baskom. Lalu kataku padanya: “Wahai Abu Abdillah, berilah kami suatu pesan yang akan kami ingat selalu darimu!” Maka ujarnya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Wahai Sa’ad!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ingatlah Allah di kala dukamu, sedang kau derita. Dan pada putusanmu jika kamu menghukumi. Dan pada saat tanganmu melakukan pembagian”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rupanya inilah yang telah mengisi kalbu Salman mengenai kekayaan dan kepuasan. Ia telah memenuhinya dengan zuhud terhadap dunia dan segala harta, pangkat dengan pengaruhnya; yaitu pesan Rasulullah saw. kepadanya dan kepada semua shahabatnya, agar mereka tidak dikuasai oleh dunia dan tidak mengambil bagian daripadanya, kecuali sekedar bekal seorang pengendara.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salman telah memenuhi pesan itu sebaik-baiknya, namun air matanya masih jatuh berderai ketika ruhnya telah siap untuk berangkat; khawatir kalau-kalau ia telah melampaui batas yang ditetapkan. Tak terdapat di ruangannya kecuali sebuah piring wadah makannya dan sebuah baskom untuk tempat minum dan wudlu . . . , tetapi walau demikian ia menganggap dirinya telah berlaku boros . . . . Nah, bukankah telah kami ceritakan kepada anda bahwa ia mirip sekali dengan Umar?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada hari-hari ia bertugas sebagai Amir atau kepala daerah di Madain, keadaannya tak sedikit pun berubah. sebagai telah kita ketahui, ia menolak untuk menerima gaji sebagai amir, satu dirham sekalipun. Ia tetap mengambil nafkahnya dari hasil menganyam daun kurma, sedang pakaiannya tidak lebih dari sehelai baju luar, dalam kesederhanaan dan kesahajaannya tak berbeda dengan baju usangnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari, ketika sedang berjalan di suatu jalan raya, ia didatangi seorang laki-laki dari Syria yang membawa sepikul buah tin dan kurma. Rupanya beban itu amat berat, hingga melelahkannya. Demi dilihat olehnya seorang laki-laki yang tampak sebagai orang biasa dan dari golongan tak berpunya, terpikirlah hendak menyuruh laki-laki itu membawa buah-buahan dengan diberi imbalan atas jerih payahnya bila telah sampai ke tempat tujuan. Ia memberi isyarat supaya datang kepadanya, dan Salman menurut dengan patuh. “Tolong bawakan barangku ini!”, kata orang dari Syria itu. Maka barang itu pun dipikullah oleh Salman, lalu berdua mereka berjalan bersama-sama.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di tengah perjalanan mereka berpapasan dengan satu rombongan. Salman memberi salam kepada mereka, yang dijawabnya sambil berhenti: “Juga kepada amir, kami ucapkan salam”. “Juga kepada amir?” Amir mana yang mereka maksudkan?” tanya orang Syria itu dalam hati. Keheranannya kian bertambah ketika dilihatnya sebagian dari anggota rombongan segera menuju beban yang dipikul oleh Salman dengan maksud hendak menggantikannya, kata mereka: “Berikanlah kepada kami wahai amir!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sekarang mengertilah orang Syria itu bahwa kulinya tiada lain Salman al-Farisi, amir dari kota Madain. Orang itu pun menjadi gugup, kata-kata penyesalan dan permintaan maaf bagai mengalir dari bibirnya. Ia mendekat hendak menarik beban itu dari tangannya, tetapi Salman menolak, dan berkata sambil menggelengkan kepala: “Tidak, sebelum kuantarkan sampai ke rurnahmu! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suatu ketika Salman pernah ditanyai orang: Apa sebabnya anda tidak menyukai jabatan sebagai amir? Jawabnya: “Karena manis waktu memegangnya tapi pahit waktu melepaskannya!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada ketika yang lain, seorang shahabat memasuki rumah Salman, didapatinya ia sedang duduk menggodok tepung, maka tanya shahabat itu: Ke mana pelayan? Ujarnya: “Saya suruh untuk suatu keperluan, maka saya tak ingin la harus melakukan dua pekerjaan sekaligus ” *</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apa sebenarnya yang kita sebut “rumah” itu? Baiklah kita ceritakan bagaimana keadaan rumah itu yang sebenarnya. Ketika hendak mendirikan bangunan yang berlebihan disebut sebagai “rumah” itu, Salman bertanya kepada tukangnya: “Bagaimana corak rumah yang hendak anda dirikan?” Kebetulan tukang bangunan ini seorang ‘arif bijaksana, mengetahui kesederhanaan Salman dan sifatnya yang tak suka bermewah – mewah. Maka ujarnya: “Jangan anda khawatir! Rumah itu merupakan bangunan yang dapat digunakan bernaung di waktu panas dan tempat berteduh di waktu, hujan. Andainya anda berdiri, maka kepala anda akan sampai pada langit-langitnya; dan jika anda berbaring, maka kaki anda akan terantuk pada dindingnya”. “Benar”, ujar Salman, “seperti itulah seharusnya rumah yang akan anda bangun!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tak satu pun barang berharga dalam kehidupan dunia ini yang digemari atau diutamakan oleh Salman sedikit pun, kecuali suatu barang yang memang amat diharapkan dan dipentingkannya, bahkan telah dititipkan kepada isterinya untuk disimpan di tempat yang tersembunyi dan aman.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika dalam sakit yang membawa ajalnya, yaitu pada pagi hari kepergiannya, dipanggillah isterinya untuk mengambil titipannya dahulu. Kiranya hanyalah seikat kesturi yang diperolehnya waktu pembebasan Jalula dahulu. Barang itu sengaja disimpan untuk wangi-wangian di hari wafatnya. Kemudian sang isteri disuruhnya mengambil secangkir air, ditaburinya dengan kesturi yang dibasuh dengan tangannya, lalu kata Salman kepada isterinya: “Percikkanlah air ini ke sekelilingku . . . Sekarang telah hadir di hadapanku makhluq Allah’) yang tiada dapat makan, hanyalah gemar wangi-wangian . . .!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Setelah selesai, ia berkata kepada isterinya: “Tutupka’nlah pintu dan turunlah!” Perintah itu pun diturut oleh isterinya. Dan tak lama antaranya isterinya kembali masuk, didapatinya ruh yang beroleh barkah telah meninggalkan dunia dan berpisah dari jasadnya … Ia telah mencapai alam tinggi, dibawa terbang oleh sayap kerinduan; rindu memenuhi janjinya, untuk bertemu lagi dengan Rasulullah Muhammad dan dengan kedua shahabatnya Abu Bakar dan Umar, serta tokoh-tokoh mulia lainnya dari golongan syuhada dan orang-orang utama ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salman ….<br />Lamalah sudah terobati hati rindunya<br />Terasa puas, hapus haus hilang dahaga.<br />Semoga Ridla dan Rahmat Allah menyertainya</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:large;color:#c1ffe5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:18px;"></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:large;color:#c1ffe5;"></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:large;color:#c1ffe5;"><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">SALMAAN AL-FAARISIY </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">The Seeker after Truth </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;"><br /></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> From Persia comes our hero this time, and from Persia many came to embrace Islam in the long run, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and it made some of them extraordinary, unsurpassable in faith and knowledge in religion and worldly </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">affairs. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> It is one of the wonders of Islam and its greatness that it never enters a country on Allah's earth but </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that it exerts invaluable influence on all its potentialities and forces, bringing forth the latent genius of its </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">people and followers. From there came forth Muslim philosophers, physicians, jurists, astronomers, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">inventors, and mathematicians. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Behold, they reached all heights, broke all frontiers, until the first era of Islam flourished with great </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">geniuses in all fields of intellectual activity such as administration and science. Verily, they came from </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">various nations, but their religion remained one. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Prophet (PBUH) had prophesied this blessed spread of his religion. Indeed, he had been so </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">promised by his Almighty Lord. He had pointed to the time, place, and day, and he had seen in his mind's </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">eye the banner of Islam fluttering in all comers of the earth and over the palaces of its earthly rulers. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Salmaan Al-Faarisiy (The Persian) bore witness to this and was firmly connected with what </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">happened. That was on the Day of Al Khandaq (The Trench) in the year A.H. 5, when the leaders of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Jews approached Makkah to stir up the polytheists and form an alliance against the Prophet (PBUH) and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Muslims, asking the polytheists to enter upon a treaty for decisive battle to eradicate this new </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">religion. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The ungodly war was planned: the Quraish army and allies would attack Al-Madiinah from outside, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">while the Bani Ouraidhah would attack from within, behind the ranks of the Muslims, who would then </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fall prey and be crushed. One day the Prophet (PBUH) and the Muslims were taken unaware by a huge </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">well-armed army marching on Al-Madiinah. The Qur'aan depicts the scene thus: "When they came </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">against you from above you and from below you and your eyes turned away and your hearts reached to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">your throats, and you imagined vain thoughts about GOD; in that place the believers were tried and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">shaken most severely" (33:10-11). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Twenty-four thousand fighters under the command of Abu Sufyaan and `Uyainah lbn Hisn were </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">advancing on Al-Madiinah to storm it and to lay siege to it in order to get rid of Muhammad, his religion, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and his Companions. This army did not represent the Quraish alone, for they were in alliance with all the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tribes, and all had vested interests that were threatened by Islam. It was a last and decisive attempt </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">embarked on by all the enemies of the Prophet (PBUH), based upon individual, collective, and tribal </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">interests. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Muslims found themselves in a precarious situation. The Prophet (PBUH) assembled his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions for consultation. Certainly they were gathered to reach a decision on defense and battle, but </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">how could they put up a defense? And then a long - legged man with flowing hair for whom the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) bore great love, Salmaan Al-Faarisiy, held up his head and took a look at Al Madiinah, which </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was surrounded by hills, mountains, and exposed open country which could be easily broken through by </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the enemy. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Salmaan had much experience, in warfare and its tactics in his native Persia. So he proposed to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet (PBUH) something which the Arabs had never seen before in warfare. It was the digging of a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">trench in the exposed places around Al- Madiinah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">And Allah knows what could have been the position of the Muslims in that battle had they not dug </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the trench, which was no sooner seen by the Quraish than they were stunned by despair. The forces of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">enemy still remained in their tents for a month, unable to take Al-Madiinah, until Allah sent them one </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">night a storm which devastated their tents and tore them asunder. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Then Abu Sufyaan announced to his forces that they should return to where they had come from. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">They were despondent and frustrated. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> During the excavation of the trench, Salmaan took his place among the Muslims while they dug and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">removed the sand. The Prophet (PBUH) was also taking part in digging where Salmaan was working in a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">group. Their pickaxes could not smash a stubborn rock, in spite of the fact that Salmaan was of strong </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">build and hard working. A single stroke of his would break a rock to pieces, but he stood in front of this </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">stubborn one. He let all those around him try to break it, but in vain. Salmaan went to the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) to ask him to divert the trench around that stubborn and challenging rock. The Prophet (PBUH) </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">returned with Salmaan to see the rock himself. When he saw it, he called for a pickax and asked the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions to keep back from the splinters. He said, "In the name of Allah," and then raised his blessed, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">firm hands gripping the pickax and let it fall. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The rock broke, making a great light. Salmaan said that he himself saw that light shining upon Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Madiinah. The Prophet (PBUH) raised the pickax and gave a second blow and the rock broke more. At </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that moment the Prophet (PBUH) said loudly, "Allahu akbar - Allah is the Greatest - I have been given </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the keys to Rome; its red palaces have been lit for me and my nation has vanquished it." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Prophet (PBUH) struck his third blow. Then the rock shattered and its glittering light was seen! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) told them that he was now looking at the palaces of Syria, San'aa' and others like </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">them, and the cities of the world over which the banner of Islam would flutter one day. The Muslims </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">shouted in deep faith, "This is what Allah and His Prophet have promised us!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Salmaan was the originator of the project to dig the trench, and he was associated with the rock out </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of which poured some secrets of the unseen and of destiny. When he called the Prophet (PBUH) to break </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">it, he stood by the side of the Prophet (PBUH), saw the light, and heard the glad omen, and he lived to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">see the prophecy fulfilled and abided in its living reality. He saw the great capitals of Persia and Rome </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(Byzantium), the palaces of San'aa', Syria, Egypt, and Iraq. He saw every place trembling with the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">blessed ecstasy which was issuing forth from the high minarets in all parts of the world, spreading the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">light of guidance and goodness. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> And here he is sitting there in the shade of a tree before his house in Al-Madiinah telling his guests </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">about his great adventures in the quest for truth, explaining to them how he abandoned the religion of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Persian people for Christianity and then for Islam. How he abandoned his father's wealth and estate and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">threw himself into the arms of the wilderness in the quest for the release of his tension and soul. How he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was sold in a slave market on his way to search for truth. How he met with the Prophet (PBUH) and how </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he came to believe in him. Now let us approach his great court and listen to his grand tale which he is </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">recounting. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> I come from Isfahan, from a place called Jai, and I was the most beloved son of my father, who was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">a figure of high esteem among his people. We used to worship fire. I devoted myself to fire worship until </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I became custodian of the fire which we lit and never allowed to be extinguished. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> My father had an estate. One day, he sent me there. I passed by a Christian church and heard them </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">praying. I went in and saw what they were doing. I was impressed by what I saw in their prayers. I said, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"This is better than our religion." I did not leave them until sunset, nor did I go to my father's estate, nor </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">did I return to my father until he sent people to search for me. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> I asked the Christians about their affair and prayers which impressed me, and about the origin of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">their religion. They answered, "In Syria." I said to my father when I returned to him, "I passed by people </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">praying in a church of theirs, and I was impressed by their prayer, and I could see that their religion is </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">better than ours." He questioned me and I questioned him, and then he put fetters on my feet and locked </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">me up. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Then I sent to the Christians saying I had entered their religion, and I requested that whenever a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">caravan came from Syria, they should tell me before its return in order for me to travel with them, and so </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">they did. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> I broke loose from the iron fetters and went away. I set out with them for Syria. While I was there, I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">asked about their learned man, and I was told that he was the bishop, leader of the church. I went to him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and told him my story. I lived with him, serving, praying, and learning. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> But this bishop was not faithful in his religion, because he used to gather money from the people to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">distribute it, but he would keep it for himself. Then he died. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> They appointed a new leader in his place. I have never seen a man more godly than he in his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">religion, nor more active in his bid for the Hereafter, nor more pious in the world, nor more punctual at </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">worship. I loved him more than I had ever loved any other person before. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When his fate came, I asked him, "To whom would you recommend me? And to whom would you </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">leave me?" He said, "O my son, I do not know anyone who is on the path I am and who leads the kind of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">life I lead, except a certain man in Mosul." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When he died, I went to that man in Mosul, and told him the story, and I stayed with him as long as </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah wished me to stay. Then death approached him. So I asked him, "To whom would you advise me </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to go to?" He directed me to a pious man in Nisiibiin." So I went to him and told him my story. I stayed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">with him as long as Allah wished me to stay. When death overtook him, I asked him as before. He told </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">me to meet a person at `Amuriah in Byzantium. So, to Byzantium I went and stayed with that man, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">earning my living there by rearing cattle and sheep. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Then death approached him, and I asked him, "To whom should I go?" He said, "O my son, I know </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">no one anywhere who is on the path we have been on so that I can tell you to go to him. But you have </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">been overtaken by an epoch in which there will appear a prophet in the pure creed of lbraahiim </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(Abraham). He will migrate to the place of palm trees. If you can be sincere to him, then do so. He has </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">signs which will be manifested: he does not eat of charity, yet he accepts gifts, and between his shoulders </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">is the seal of prophethood. When you see him, you will know him." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> A caravan passed by me on that day. I asked them where they had come from and learned that they </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">were from the Arabian Peninsula. So I told them, "I give you these cattle and sheep of mine in return for </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">your taking me to your land." They agreed. So they took me in their company until they brought me to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Wadi Al-Quraa and there they wronged to me. They sold me to a Jew. I saw many palm trees and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">cherished the hope that it was the land that had been described to me and which would be the future </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">place of the advent of the prophet, but it was not. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> I stayed with this Jew who bought me until another from Bani Quraidhah came to him one day and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bought me from him. I stayed with him until we came to Al -Madiinah. By Allah, I had hardly seen it </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">when I knew that it was the land described to me. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> I stayed with the Jew, working for him on his plantation in Bani Quraidhah until Allah sent His </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet, who later emigrated to Al-Madiinah and dismounted at Qubaa' among the Bani `Amr lbn `Awf. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Indeed, one day, I was at the top of a palm tree with my master sitting below it when a Jewish man came. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He was a cousin of his and said to him, "May Allah destroy Bani Qubaa'. They are spreading a rumor </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">about a man at Qubaa' who came from Makkah claiming that he is a prophet." By Allah, he had hardly </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said it, when I was seized by a tremor, and the palm tree shook until I almost fell on my master. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I climbed down quickly saying, "What are you saying? What news?" My master gave me a nasty </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">slap and said, `What have you got to do with this? Return to your work!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> So, I returned to work. At nightfall I gathered what I had and went out until I came to the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) at Qubaa'. I entered and found him sitting with some of his Companions. Then I said, "You are </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">in need and a stranger. I have some food which I intend to give out as charity. When they showed me </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">your lodgings, I thought you most deserve it, so I have come to you with it." I put the food down. The </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet (PBUH) said to his Companions, "Eat in the name of Allah." He abstained and never took of it. I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said to myself, "This, by Allah, is one sign. He does not eat of charity!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> I returned to meet the Prophet (PBUH) again the next day, carrying some food, and said to him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH), "I can see that you do not partake of charity. I have something which I want to give to you as a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">present." I placed it before him. He said to his Companions "Eat in the name of Allah" and he ate with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">them. So I said to myself, "This indeed is the second sign. He eats of presents." I returned and stayed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">away for a while. Then I came to him, and I saw him sitting, having returned from a burial, and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">surrounded by his Companions. He had two garments, carrying one on his shoulder and wearing the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">other. I greeted him, then bent to see the upper part of his back. He knew what I was looking for, so he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">threw aside his garment off his shoulder and, behold, the sign between his shoulders, the seal of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophethood, was clear just as the Christian monk had described." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> At once, I staggered towards him, kissing him and weeping. He called to me to come forward and I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sat before him. I told him my story as you have already heard me describe the events. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When I became a Muslim, slavery prevented me from taking part in the battles of Badr and Uhud. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Therefore the Prophet (PBUH) advised me, "Go into terms with your master for him to free you," and so </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I did. The Prophet (PBUH) told the Companions to assist me, and Allah freed me from bondage. I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">became a free Muslim, taking part with the Prophet (PBUH) in the Battle of Al-khandaq and others. With </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">these simple clear words, Salmaan spoke of his great, noble, and sacrificial adventure for the sake of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah, seeking after the reality of religion that led him to Allah and helped him to find his role in this life. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> What kind of a noble person was this man? What great superiority was achieved by his aspiring </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">spirit, that restless spirit that withstood difficulties and defeated them, confronted the impossible and it </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gave way! What devotion to the truth, and what sincerity that led its owner voluntarily away from the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">estate of his father, with all its wealth and luxury, to the wilderness, with all its difficulties and suffering. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He moved from land to land, town to town, seeking acquaintances, persevering, worshiping and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">searching for his destiny among people, sects, and different ways of life. And adhering all the way to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">truth with all its noble sacrifices, for the sake of guidance until he was sold into slavery. He was then </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">rewarded by Allah the best of rewards, making him reach the truth and come into the presence of His </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet. And then He granted him longevity, enough for him to see the banner of Islam fluttering in all </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">parts of the world and His Muslim worshippers filling its space and corners with guidance, progress and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">justice! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> What do you expect of the Islam of a man with such a noble character but to be a man of such truth! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">It was an Islam of the God- fearing and innocent. In his devotion he was intelligent, pious, and the person </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nearest to `Umar Ibn Al-khattaab. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He once stayed with Abu Ad-Dardaa', under the same roof. Abu Ad-Dardaa' used to pray all night </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and fast all day. Salmaan blamed him for this excessive worship. One day, Salmaan wanted to stop him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">from fasting and to say it was supererogatory. Abu Ad-Dardaa' asked him, "Would you prevent me from </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fasting for my Lord and from praying to Him?" Salmaan replied, "No, your eyes have a claim upon you, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">your family has a claim upon you, so fast intermittently, then pray and sleep." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> This reached the Prophet (PBUH) who said, "Salmaan is, indeed, full of knowledge." The Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) was often impressed by his wisdom and knowledge, just as he was impressed by his character </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and religion. On the Day of Al-khandaq the Ansar stood up and said, "Salmaan is of us," the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muhaajiruun stood up also and said, "Salmaan is of us." The Prophet called to them saying, "Salmaan is </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of us, O People of the House (Prophet's house)." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Indeed, he deserved this honor! `Aliy lbn Abi Taalib , (May Allah honor his face) nicknamed him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"Luqmaan the Wise ". He was asked about after his death: "There was a man who was of the People of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the House. Who among you is like Luqmaan the Wise? He was a man of knowledge who absorbed all </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the scriptures of the People of the Book. He was like a sea that was never exhausted!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He was held in the minds of Prophet's Companions with all highest regards and in the greatest </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">position and respect. During the Caliphate of `Umar, he came to Al-Madiinah on a visit and `Umar </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">accorded him what he had never accorded to anyone before when he assembled his Companions and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said, "Come, let us go out and welcome Salmaan!" They received him at the border of Al-Madiinah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salmaan had lived with the Prophet (PBUH) ever since he met him, and believed in him as a free </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muslim, and worshiped with him. He lived during the Caliphate of Abu Bakr, `Umar and `Uthmaan, in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">whose era he met his Lord. In most of these years, the banner of Islam spread everywhere, and the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">treasures of Islam were carried to Al Madiinah in floods and distributed to the people in the form of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">regular allowance and fixed salaries. The responsibilities of ruling increased on all fronts, as well as </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">duties and the overwhelming burden of holding official posts. So where did Salmaan stand in this </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">respect? Where do we see him in the time of splendor, plenty, and enjoyment? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Open wide your eyes. Do you see that humble man sitting there in the shade making baskets and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">utensils out of palm fronds? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> That is Salmaan. Take a good look at him. Look at his short garment, which is so short that it is only </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">down to his knees. That was him in grand old age. His grant was 4,000 to 6,000 dirhams a year, but he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">distributed all of it, refusing to take a dirham of it, and he used to say, "I would buy palm fronds with one </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dirham to work on and then sell it for three dirhams. I retained one dirham of it as capital, spent one </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dirham on my family, and gave away one dirham, and if `Umar lbn Al-Khattaab prevented me from that, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I would not stop." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> What next, O followers of Muhammad? What next, O noblest of mankind in all ages? Some of us </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">used to think, whenever we heard the conduct of the Companions and their piety - for example, Abu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bakr, `Umar, Abu Dhar and their brethren - that it was based on the life of the Arabian Peninsula, where </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Arabs find pleasure in simplicity. And here we are before a man from Persia, the land of pleasure, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">luxury, and civilization, and he was not of the poor but of its upper class. What about him now refusing </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">property, wealth, and enjoyment, and insisting that he live on one dirham a day from the work of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hands? How about his refusing leadership and position except for something relating to jihaad and only if </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">none but he were suitable for it, and it was forced upon him, and he accepted it weeping and shy? How </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">about when he accepted leadership which was forced upon him but he refused to take his lawful dues? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hishaam lbn Hasaan relates from Al-Hassan: The allowance of Salmaan was 5,000. He lived among </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">30,000 people and used to dress in a garment cut into halves. He wore one and sat on the other half. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Whenever his allowance was due him, he distributed it to the needy and lived on the earnings of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hands! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Why do you think he was doing all this work and worshiping with all this devotion, and yet he was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">a Persian child of luxury, the upbringing of civilization? You can hear the reply from him. While he was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">on his deathbed, the great spirit mounting forth to meet his Lord, Exalted and Merciful, Sa`d lbn Abi </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Waqaas went to greet him, and Salmaan wept! Sa'd said, "What makes you weep, O Abu `Abd Allah? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet of Allah died pleased with you!" Salmaan replied, "By Allah, I am not weeping in fear of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">death, nor for love of the world. But the Prophet of Allah put me on an oath. He said, `Let any of you </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">have in this world like the provision of the traveler,' and here I have owned many things around me." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa'd said: I looked around, and I saw nothing but a water-pot and vessel to eat in! Then I said to him, "O </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Abd Allah, give us a parting word of advice for us to follow." He said, O Sa'd, remember Allah for </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">your cares, if you have any. Remember Allah in your judgment, if you judge. Remember Allah when you </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">distribute the share." This was the man who filled his spirit with riches just as it filled him with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">renunciation of the pleasures of this world, its riches, and pride. The oath which he and the rest of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions had taken before the Prophet of Allah was that they must not let the world possess them and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that they should take nothing from it but the provision of the traveler in his bag. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Salmaan had kept the oath, yet still his tears ran when he saw his soul preparing for departure, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fearing that he had gone beyond the limits. There was nothing around him except a vessel to eat in and a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">water-pot and yet still he considered himself lavish! Did I not tell you that he was the nearest in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">resemblance to `Umar? During the days of his rule over the Madiinah area, he never changed his way. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He had refused, as we have seen, to receive his salary as a ruler, but went on making baskets to earn his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">living. His dress was no more than a gown, resembling his old clothes in simplicity. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> One day while on the road, he met a man arriving from Syria, carrying a load of figs and dates. The </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">load was too heavy for him and made him weary. No sooner did the Syrian see the man in front of him, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">who appeared to be one of the common people and poor than he thought of putting the load on his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">shoulders and when he reached his destination he would give him something for his labor. So he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beckoned to the man (Salmaan, the governor), and he came up to him. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Syrian said to him, "Relieve me of this load." He carried it, and they walked together. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> While on their way, they met a group of people. He greeted them and they stood up in obeisance, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">replying, "And unto the governor be peace!" "Who is the governor?" The Syrian asked himself. His </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">surprise increased when he saw some of them rushing towards Salmaan to take the load off his shoulders. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"Let us carry it, O governor". When the Syrian knew that he was the governor of Al Madiinah, he was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">astonished. Words of apology and regret fell from his lips, and he went forward to grab the load. But </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salmaan shook his head in refusal, saying, "No, not until I take you to your destination." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He was asked one day, "What troubles you in the leadership?" He replied, "The pleasure of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nurturing it and the bitterness of meaning!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> A friend of his came to him one day at his house and found him kneading dough. He asked him, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"Where is your servant? "He replied, We have sent her on an errand and we hate to charge her with two </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">duties." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When we say "his house" let us remember what kind of house it was. When Salmaan thought of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">building it, he asked the mason, "How are you going to build it?" The mason was courteous and yet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">witty. He knew the piety and devotion of Salmaan, so he replied to him saying "Fear not. It is a house </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">for you to protect yourself against the heat of the sun and dwell in the cold weather. When you stand </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">erect in it, it touches your head." Salmaan said to him, "Yes, that is it, so go on and build it." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> There was nothing of the goods of this world which could attract Salmaan for a moment, nor did </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">they leave any traces in his heart except one thing, which he was particularly mindful of and had </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">entrusted to his wife, requesting her to keep it far away in a safe place. In his last sickness, and in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">morning on which he gave up his soul, he called her, "Bring me the trust which I left in safe keeping!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">She brought it and behold, it was a bottle of musk. He had gained it on the day of liberating the city of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Jalwalaa' and kept it to be his perfume on the day of his death. Then he called for a pot of water, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sprinkled the musk into it, stirred it with his hand and then said to his wife, "Sprinkle it on me, for there </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">will now come to me creatures from the creatures of Allah. They do not eat food and what they like is </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">perfume." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Having done so he said to her, "Shut the door and go down." She did what he bade her to do. After a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">while she went up to him and saw his blessed soul had departed his body his frame. It was gone to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Supreme Master, and it ascended with the desire to meet Him as he had an appointment there with the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his two Companions Abu Bakr and `Umar and the noble circle of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">martyrs! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Long had the burning desire stirred Salmaan. The time had come for him to rest in peace. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174474199517824808.post-56746641449584545532011-06-10T07:52:00.000-07:002011-06-11T06:29:21.399-07:00<div color="#c1ffe5" style="font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><div color="#c1ffe5" style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-size:16px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/4-bilal-bin-rabah-rasulullah.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">4) BILAL BIN RABAH</span></a></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sirah-60-para-sahabat-rasulullah-saw.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">PARA SAHABAT/COMPANIONS</span></a></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-size:16px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/2-salman-al-farisi-kebenaran.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">2)SALMAN AL-FARIS</span></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5"><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">(3)</span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"> ABU DZAR AL-GHIFARI </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"> Tokoh gerakan hidup sederhana.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5; min-height: 21.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Ia datang ke Mekah terhuyung-huyung letih tetapi matanya bersinar bahagia . . . Memang, sulitnya perjalanan dan panasnya udara padang pasir telah menyengat badannya dengan rasa sakit dan lelah, tetapi tujuan yang hendak dicapainya telah meringankan penderitaan dan meniupkan semangat serta rasa gembira dalam jiwanya.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5; min-height: 21.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Ia memasuki kota dengan menyamar. Seolah-olah ia seorang yang hendak melakukan thawaf keliling berhala-berhala besar di Ka’bah; atau seolah-olah musafir yang tersesat dalam perjalanan; atau lebih tepat orang yang telah menempuh jarak amat jauh, yang memerlukan istirahat dan menambah perbekalan.</p><div><br /></div></div></div><div color="#c1ffe5" style="font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><div color="#c1ffe5" style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Padahal seandainya orang-orang Mekah mengetahui bahwa kedatangannya itu untuk menemui Muhammad saw. dan mendengar keterangannya, pastilah mereka akan membunuhnya! Tetapi ia tak perduli akan dibunuh, asal saja setelah melintasi padang pasir luas, ia dapat menjumpai laki-laki yang dicarinya dan menyatakan iman kepadanya. Kebenaran dan da’wah yang diberikan Muhammad saw. dapat memuaskan hatinya.</p><div><br /></div></div></div><div color="#c1ffe5" style=" font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Ia terus melangkah sambil memasang telinga, dan setiap didengarnya orang memperkatakan Muhammad saw., ia pun mendekat dan menyimak dengan hati-hati; hingga dari cerita yang tersebar di sana-sini, diperolehnya petunjuk yang dapat menunjukkan tempat persembunyian Muhammad saw., dan mempertemukannya dengan beliau.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 20.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5">Di suatu pagi hari, ia pergi ke tempat itu, didapatinya Muhammad saw. sedang duduk seorang diri. Didekatinya Rasulullah, katanya: “Selamat pagi, wahai kawan sebangsa!” “‘Alaikas salam, wahai shahabat”, ujar Rasulullah.</p></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kata Abu Dzar: “Bacakanlah kepadaku hasil gubahan anda!” “la bukan sya’ir hingga dapat digubah, tetapi adalah Quran yang mulia!”, ujar Rasulullah: “Bacakanlah kalau begitu!”, kata Abu Dzar pula. Maka dibaca hanlah oleh Rasulullah, sedang Abu Dzar mendengarkan dengan penuh perhatian, hingga tidak berselang lama Ia pun berseru: “Asyhadu alla ilaha illallah wa asyhadu anna Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa rasuluh</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Anda dari mana, saudara sebangsa?”, tanya Rasulullah. “Dari Ghifar”, ujarnya. Maka terbukalah senyum lebar di kedua bibir Rasulullah, sementara wajahnya diliputi rasa kagum dan ta’jub. Abu Dzar tersenyum pula, karena ia mengetahui rasa terpendam di balik rasa kagum Rasulullah<sub>.</sub> demi mendengar bahwa orang yang telah mengaku Islam di hadapannya secara terns terang itu, seorang laki-laki dari Ghifar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ghifar adalah suatu kabilah atau suku yang tak ada taranya dalam soal menempuh jarak. Mereka jadi tamsil perbandingan dalam melakukan perjalanan yang luar biasa. Malam yang Warn dan gelap gulita tidak menjadi soal bagi mereka,,dan celakalah orang yang kesasar atau jatuh ke tangan kaum Ghifar di waktu malam!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sekarang, di kala Agama Islam yang baru saja lahir. dan berjalan sembunyi-sembunyi, mungkinkah ada di antara orang‑ orang Ghifar itu seorang yang sengaja datang untuk masuk Islam? Berkatalah Abu Dzar dalam menceritakan sendiri kisah itu: “Maka pandangan Rasulullah pun turun naik, tak putus ta’jub memikirkan tabi’at orang-orang Ghifar, lalu sabdanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sesungguhnya Allah memberi petunjuk kepada siapa yang disukai-Nya …!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Benar, Allah menunjuki siapa yang la kehendaki! Abu Dzar salah seorang yang dikehendaki Allah beroleh petunjuk, orang yang dipilih-Nya akan mendapat kebaikan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan memang, Abu Dzar ini seorang yang tajam pengamatannya tentang kebenaran. Menurut riwayat, ia termasuk salah seorang yang menentang pemujaan berhala di zaman jahiliyah, mempunyai kepercayaan akan Ketuhanan serta iman kepada Tuhan Yang Maha Besar lagi Maha Pencipta.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah, baru saja ia mendengar bangkitnya seorang Nabi yang mencela berhala serta pemuja-pemujanya dan menyeru kepada Allah Yang Maha Esa lagi Perkasa, maka ia pun menyiapkan bekal dan segera mengayunkan langkahnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar telah masuk Islam tanpa ditunda-tunda lagi . Urutannya di kalangan Muslimin adalah yang kelima atau keenam. Jadi ia telah memeluk Agama itu pada hari-hari pertama, bahkan pads saat-saat pertama Agama Islam, hingga keislamannya termasuk dalam barisan terdepan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika ia masuk Islam, Rasulullah masih menyampaikan da’wahnya secara berbisik-bisik. Dibisikkannya kepada Abu Dzar begitu pun kepada lima orang lainnya yang telah iman kepadanya. Dan bagi Abu Dzar, tak ada yang dapat dilakukannya sekarang selain memendam keimanan itu dalam dada, lalu meninggalkan kota Mekah secara diam-diam dan kembali kepada kaumnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi Abu Dzar yang nama aslinya Jundub bin Janadah, seorang radikal dan revolusioner. Telah menjadi watak dan tabi’atnya menentang kebathilan di mana pun ia berada. Dan sekarang kebathilan itu berada di hadapannya serta disaksikannya dengan kedua matanya sendiri . . . . Batu-batu yang ditembok, yang dibentuk oleh para pemujanya, disembah oleh orang-orang yang menundukkan kepala dan merendahkan akal mereka, dan diseru mereka dengan ucapan yang muluk: Inilah kami, kami datang demi mengikuti titahmu!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang, ia melihat Rasulullah memilih cara bisik-bisik pada hari-hari tersebut, tetapi tak dapat tidak harus ada suatu teriakan keras yang akan dikumandangkan pemberontak ulung ini sebelum ia pergi. Baru Baja masuk Islam, ia telah menghadapkan pertanyaan kepada Rasulullah:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Wahai Rasulullah, apa yang harus saya kerjakan menurut anda?” “Kembalilah kepada kaummu sampai ada perintahku nanti!”‘ ujar Rasulullah. “Demi Tuhan yang menguasai nyawaku’ , kata Abu Dzar pula, “soya takkan kembali sebelum meneriakkan Islam dalam masjid!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bukankah telah saya katakan kepada kalian … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Jiwa yang radikal dan revolusioner! Apakah Abu Dzar pada saat terbukanya alam baru secara gamblang, yang jelas terlukis pada pribadi Rasulullah yang diimaninya, serta da’wah yang uraiannya disampaikan dengan lisannya . .., apakah pada saat seperti itu ia mampu kembali kepada keluarganya dalam keadaan membisu seribu bahasa? Sungguh, hal itu di luar kesanggupan dan kemampuannya!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar pergi menuju Masjidil Haram dan menyerukan dengan sekeras-kerasnya suaranya: “Asyhadu alla ilaha illallah, wa asyhadu anna Muhammadan rasulullah “. Setahu kita, teriakan ini merupakan teriakan pertama tentang Agama Islam yang menentang kesombongan orang-orang Quraisy dan memekakkan anak telinga mereka …. diserukan oleh seorang perantau asing,</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">yang di Mekah tidak mempunyai bangsa, sanak keluarga maupun pembela. Dan sebagai akibatnya, ia mendapat perlakuan dari mereka yang sebetulnya telah dimaklumi akan ditemuinya .. . Orang-orang musyrik mengepung dan memukulnya hingga rubuh.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berita mengenai peristiwa yang dialami Abu Dzar itu akhirnya sampai juga kepada paman Nabi, Abbas. la segera mendatangi tempat terjadinya peristiwa tersebut, tapi dirasanya ia tak dapat melepaskan Abu Dzar dari cengkeraman mereka kecuali dengan menggunakan diplomasi halus, maka katanya kepada mereka: “Wahai kaum Quraisy! Anda semua adalah bangsa pedagang yang mau tak mau akan lewat di kampung Bani Ghifar. Dan orang ini salah seorang warganya, bila ia bertindak akan dapat menghasut kaumnya untuk merampok kafilah – kafilahmu nanti!” Mereka pun sama menyadari hal itu, lalu pergi meninggalkannya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi Abu Dzar yang telah mengenyam manisnya penderitaan dalam membela Agama Allah, tak hendak meninggalkan Mekah sebelum berhasil memperoleh tambahan dari darma baktinya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah pada hari berikutnya, tampak olehnya dua orang wanita sedang thawaf keliling berhala-berhala Usaf dan Na-ilah sambil memohon padanya. Abu Dzar segera berdiri menghadangnya, lalu di hadapan mereka berhala-berhala itu dihina sejadi-jadinya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kedua wanita itu memekik berteriak, hingga orang-orang gempar dan berdatangan laksana belalang, lalu menghujani Abu Dzar dengan pukulan hingga tak sadarkan diri. Ketika ia siuman, maka yang diserunya tiada lain hanyalah “bahwa tiada Tuhan yang haq diibadahi melainkan Allah, dan bahwa Muhammad itu utusan Allah”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maklumlah sudah Rasulullah saw. akan watak dan tabi’at murid barunya yang ulung ini serta keberaniannya yang menakjubkan dalam melawan kebathilan. Hanya sayang saatnya belum lagi tiba, maka diulanginyalah perintah agar din pulang, sampai bila telah didengarnya nanti Islam lahir secara terang‑ terangan, ia dapat kembali dan turut mengambil bagian dalam percaturan dan aneka peristiwanya . Abu Dzar kembali mendapatkan keluarga serta kaumnya dan menceritakan kepada mereka tentang Nabi yang barn diutus Allah, yang menyeru agar mengabdi kepada Allah Yang Maha Esa dan membimbing mereka supaya berakhlaq mulia. seorang demi seorang kaumnya masuk Islam. Bahkan usahanya tidak terbatas pada kaumnya semata, tapi dilanjutkannya pada suku lain — yaitu suku Aslam — di tengah-tengah mereka ia pancarkan cahaya Islam ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hari-hari berlalu mengikuti peredaran masa, Rasulullah telah hijrah ke Madinah dan menetap di sana bersama Kaum Muslimin. Pada suatu hari, satu barisan panjang yang terdiri atas para pengendara dan pejalan kaki menuju pinggiran kota, meninggalkan kepulan debu di belakang mereka. Kalau bukanlah bunyi suara takbir mereka yang gemuruh, tentulah<sub>.</sub>yang melihat akan menyangka mereka itu suatu pasukan tentara musyrik yang hendak menyerang kota.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rombongan besar itu semakin dekat . . . lalu masuk ke dalam. kota … dan menujukan langkah mereka ke masjid Rasulullah dan tempat kediamannya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ternyata rombongan itu tiada lain dari kabilah-kabilah Ghifar dan Aslam yang dikerahkan semuanya oleh Abu Dzar dan tanpa kecuali telah masuk Islam; laki-laki, perempuan, orang tua, remaja dan anak-anak.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sudah selayaknyalah Rasulullah semakin ta’jub dan kagum! Belum lama berselang, ia ta’jub ada seorang laki-laki dari Ghifar yang menyatakan keislaman di hadapannya. Sabdanya menunjukkan keta’juban itu:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sungguh, Allah memberi hidayah kepada siapa yang dikehendaki-Nya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka sekarang yang datang itu adalah seluruh warga Ghifar yang menyatakan keislaman mereka. Setelah beberapa tahun lamanya mereka menganut Agama itu, semenjak mereka diberi hidayah Allah di tangan Abu Dzar. Dan ikut pula bersama mereka suku Aslam. Raksasa garong dan komplotan syetan telah beralih rupa menjadi raksasa kebajikan dan pendukung kebenaran! Nah, tidakkah sesungguhnya Allah memberi petunjuk kepada siapa yang dikehendaki-Nya?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rasulullah melayangkan pandangannya kepada wajah-wajah yang berseri-seri, pandangan yang diliputi rasa haru dan cinta kasih. Sambil menoleh kepada suku Ghifar, ia bersabda:<br />Suku Ghifar telah di-ghafar — diampuni — oleh Allah.<br />Kemudian sambil menghadap kepada suku Aslam, sabdanya pula :<br />Suku Aslam telah disalam — diterima dengan damai oleh Allah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan mengenai Abu Dzar, muballigh ulung yang berjiwa,bebas dan bercita-cita mulia itu, tidakkah Rasulullah akan menyampaikan ucapan istimewa kepadanya? Tidak pelak lagi, pastilah ganjarannya tidak terhingga, serta – ucapan kepadanya dipenuhi berkah! Dan tentulah pada dadanya akan tersemat bintang tertinggi, begitu pun riwayat hidupnya akan penuh dengan medali. Turunan demi turunan serta generasi demi generasi akan berlalu pergi, tetapi manusia akan selalu mengulang-ulang apa yang disabdakan oleh Rasulullah saw. mengenai Abu Dzar ini:<br />Takkan pernah lagi dijumpai di bawah langit ini, orang yang lebih benar ucapannya dari Abu Dzar<br />Lebih benarkah ucapannya dari Abu Dzar. Sungguh, Rasulullah saw. bagai telah membaca hari depan shahabatnya itu, dan menyimpulkan kesemuanya pada kalimat, tersebut. Kebenaran yang disertai keberanian, itulah prinsip hidup Abu Dzar secara keseluruhan!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Benar bathinnya, benar pula lahirnya.<br />Benar ‘aqidahnya, benar pula ucapannya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ia akan menjalani hidupnya secara benar, tidak akan melakukan kekeliruan. Dan kebenarannya itu bukanlah keutamaan yang bisu, karena bagi Abu Dzar, kebenaran yang bisu bukanlah kebenaran! Yang dikatakan benar ialah menyatakan secara terbuka dan terus terang, yakni menyatakan yang haq dan menentang yang bathil, menyokong yang betul dan meniadakan yang salah.<br />Benar itu kecintaan penuh terhadap yang haq, mengemukakannya secara berani dan melaksanakannya secara terpuji.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dengan penglihatannya yang tajam, bagai menembus ke alam ghaib yang jauh tidak terjangkau atau samudera yang tidak terselami, Rasulullah saw. menampakkan segala kesusahan yang akan dialami oleh Abu Dzar sebagai akibat dari kebenaran dan ketegasannya. Maka selalu dipesankan kepadanya agar melatih diri dengan keshabaran dan tidak terburu nafsu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pads suatu hari Rasulullah mengemukakan kepadanya pertanyaan berikut ini:<br />“Wahai Abu Dzar, bagaimana pendapatmu bila menjumpai para pembesar yang mengambil barang upeti untuk diri mereka pribadi?” Jawab Abu Dzar: “Demi yang telah mengutus anda dengan kebenaran, akan saya tebas mereka dengan pedangku!” Sabda Rasulullah pula: “Maukah kamu aku beri jalan yang lebih baik dari itu . . . ? Ialah bershabar sampai kamu menemuiku “.<br />Tahukah anda kenapa Rasulullah mengajukan pertanyaan seperti itu? Itulah persoalan pembesar dan harta … !<br />Nah itulah persoalan pokok bagi Abu Dzar dan untuk itu ia harus membaktikan hidupnya, suatu kemusykilan menyangkut masyarakat ummat dan masa depan yang harus dipecahkannya!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hal itu telah dimaklumi oleh Rasulullah, dan itulah sebabnya kepada beliau mengajukan pertanyaan seperti demikian, yaitu untuk membekalinya dengan nasihat yang amat berharga: “Bershabarlah sampai kamu menemuiku”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka Abu Dzar akan selalu ingat kepada wasiat guru dan Rasul ini. Ia tiadalah akan menggunakan ketajaman pedang terhadap para pembesar yang mengaut kekayaan dari harta rakyat sebagai ancamannya dulu . . . , tetapi juga ia tidak akan bungkam atau berdiam diri walau agak sesaat pun terhadap mereka!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang, seandainya Rasulullah saw. melarangnya menggunakan senjata untuk menebas leher mereka, tetapi beliau tidak melarangnya menggunakan lidah yang tajam demi membela kebenaran. Dan wasiat itu akan dilaksanakannya … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Masa Rasulullah berlalulah sudah, disusul kemudian oleh masa. Abu Bakar, kemudian masa Umar. Dalam kedua Khilafah ini masih dapat dijinakkan sebaik-baiknya godaan hidup dan unsur-unsur fitnah pemecah belah, hingga nafsu angkara yang haus dahaga tidak beroleh angin atau mendapatkan jalan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika itu tidak terdapat penyelewengan-penyelewengan yang akan mengakibatkan Abu Dzar bangkit menentang dengan suaranya yang lantang dan kecamannya yang pedas. Telah lama berlaku dalam pemerintahan Amirul Mu’minin Umar keharusan hidup sederhana dan menjauhi kemewahan serta menegakkan keadilan bagi setiap pejabat dan pembesar Islam. Begitu pun para hartawan di mana mereka berada, telah melaksanakan disiplin ketat yang hampir saja tidak terpikul oleh kernampuan manusia.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tiada seorang pun di antara pejabatnya, baik di Irak, di Syria, Shan’a, atau di negeri yang jauh letaknya sekalipun, yang memakan panganan mahal yang tidak terjangkau oleh rakyat biasa, kecuali selang beberapa hari berita itu akan sampai kepada Umar dan perintah keras pun akan memanggil pejabat yang bersangkutan menghadap Khalifah di Madinah untuk menjalani Pemeriksaan ketat.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Akan tenanglah Abu Dzar kalau demikian … tenteram dan damai, selama al-Faruqul ‘adhim’<sup>)</sup> masih menjabat Amirul Mu’- minin . . . . Dan selama Abu Dzar dalam kehidupannya tidak diganggu oleh kepincangan-kepincangan seperti penumpukan harta dan penyalahgunaan kekuasaan, maka dengan pengawasan Umar ibnul Khatthab yang ketat terhadap fihak penguasa dan pembagian yang merata terhadap harta, berarti telah memberikan kepuasan dan kelegaan kepada dirinya …. Dan dengan demikian dapatlah ia memusatkan perhatiannya dalam beribadat kepada Allah penciptanya dan berjihad di jalan-Nya, tanpa sedikit pun hendak berdiam diri jika melihat kesalahan-kesalahan di sana-sini, yang ketika itu memang jarang terjadi ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Akan tetapi setelah khalifah besar yang teramat adil dan paling mengagumkan di antara tokoh kemanusiaan telah pergi, terasa adanya kehampaan dalam kepemimpinan. Bahkan hal tersebut menimbulkan kemunduran yang tak dapat dikuasai dan dibatasi oleh tenaga manusia. Sementara itu meluasnya ajaran al-Islam ke berbagai pelosok dunia menumbuhkan kemakmuran hidup. Orang yang tidak dapat menahan godaan dunia banyak yang terjerumus ke dalam kemewahan yang melebihi batas.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar melihat bahaya ini ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Panji-panji kepentingan pribadi hampir saja menyeret dan mendepak orang-orang yang tugasnya sehari-hari menegakkan panji-panji Allah. Dan dunia, dengan daya tarik serta tipu muslihatnya yang mempesona, hampir pula memperdayakan orang-orang yang mengemban risalah untuk mempergunakannya sebagai wadah untuk menyemai dan menanamkan kebajikan!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan harta yang dijadikan Allah sebagai pelayan yang harus tunduk kepada manusia, cenderung berubah rupa, menjadi tuan yang mengendalikan manusia.<br />Dan kepada siapa . . .?<br />Tiada lain kepada shahabat-shahabat Muhammad saw., yang di waktu wafatnya baju besinya sedang tergadai, sementara gundukan upeti dan harta rampasan perang bertumpuk di bawah telapak kakinya!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hasil kekayaan bumi yang sengaja diperuntukkan Allah bagi semua ummat manusia, dengan menjadikan mereka mempunyai hak yang sama, hampir berubah menjadi suatu keistimewaan dan hak monopoli bagi mereka yang terbenam dalam kemewahan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan jabatan, yang merupakan amanat untuk dipertanggungjawabkan kelak di hadapan pengadilan Ilahi, beralih menjadi alat untuk merebut kekuasaan, kekayaan dan kemewahan yang menghancur binasakan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar melihat semua ini. Ia tidak memikirkan apakah itu menjadi kewajiban dan tanggung jawabnya. Hanya ia langsung menghunus pedang, meletakkannya ke udara dan membedahnya. Kemudian ia bangkit berdiri dan menantang masyarakat yang telah menyimpang dari ajaran Islam dengan pedangnya yang tak pernah tumpul itu. Tetapi secepatnya bergemalah dalam kalbunya bunyi wasiat yang telah disampaikan Rasulullah kepadanya dulu. Maka dimasukkannya kembali pedang itu. ke dalam sarungnyanya, karena tiada sepantasnya ia akan mengacungkannya ke wajah seorang Muslim.<br />Dan tidak ada haq bagi seorang Mu’min untuk membunuh Mu min lainnya kecuali karena keliru (tidak sengaja).<br />(Q.S. 4 an-Nisa:92).</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bukankah dulu Rasulullah telah menyatakan di hadapan para shahabatnya bahwa di bawah langit ini takkan pernah lagi muncul orang yang lebih benar ucapannya dari Abu Dzar? Orang yang memiliki kemampuan seperti ini, berupa kata-kata tepat dan jitu, tidak memerlukan lagi senjata lainnya. Satu kalimat yang diucapkannya, akan lebih tajam dan banyak hasilnya daripada pedang walau sepenuh bumi.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka dengan senjata kebenarannya ia akan pergi mendapatkan para pembesar, kaum hartawan; pendeknya kepada dunia manusia yang cenderung menumpuk kekayaan yang membahayakan Agama, yakni Agama yang sengaja datang untuk memberikan bimbingan dan bukan untuk memungut upeti, sebab kenabian bukan suatu kerajaan, menjadi rahmat karunia bukan adzab sengsara, mengajarkan kerendahan hati bukan kesombongan diri, persamaan bukan pengkastaan, kesahajaan bukan keserakahan, kesederhanaan bukan keborosan, kedamaian dan kebijaksanaan dalam menghadapi hidup bukan terpedaya dan mati-matian dalam mengejarnya …!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Baiklah ia pergi mendapatkan mereka semua, dan biarlah Allah menjadi Hakim di antaranya dengan mereka, dan Dialah sebaik-baik hakim!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka. pergilah Abu Dzar menemui pusat-pusat kekuasaan dan gudang harta, dan dengan lisannya yang tajam dan benar merubah sikap mental mereka satu persatu. Dalam beberapa hari saja tak ubahnya ia telah menjadi panji-panji yang di bawahnya bernaung rakyat banyak dan golongan pekerja, bahkan sampai di negeri yang jauh yang penduduknya selama itu belum pernah melihatnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nama Abu Dzar bagaikan terbang ke sana dan tak satu daerah pun yang dilaluinya — bahkan walau baru namanya yang sampai ke sana — menimbulkan rasa takut dan ngeri hati fihak penguasa dan golongan berharta yang berlaku curang.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Seandainya penggerak hidup sederhana ini hendak mengambil suatu panji bagi diri pribadi dan gerakannya, maka lambang yang akan terpampang pada panji-panji itu tiada lain dari sebuah seterika dengan baranya yang merah menyala. Sedang yang akan menjadi semboyan dan lagi yang selalu diulang-ulangnya setiap waktu dan tempat, dan diulang-ulang Pula oleh para. pengikutnya seolah-olah suatu lagu perjuangan, ialah kalimat kalimat ini:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Beritakanlah kepada Para penumpuk harta,yang menumpuk emas dan Perak,<br />mereka akan diseterika dengan seterika api neraka, menyeterika kening dan pinggang mereka di hari qiamat</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Setiap ia mendaki bukit, menuruni lembah memasuki kota; dan setiap ia berhadapan dengan seorang pembesar, selalu kalimat itu yang menjadi buah mulutnya. Begitu pun setiap orang melihatnya datang berkunjung, mereka akan menyambutnya dengan ucapan: “Beritakan kepada para penumpuk harta . . .!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kalimat ini benar-benar telah menjadi panji-panji suatu missi yang menjadi tekad serta pendorong dalam membaktikan hidupnya, demi dilihatnya harta itu telah ditumpuk dan dimonopoli, serta jabatan disalahgunakan untuk memupuk kekuatan dan mengaut keuntungan; serta disaksikannya bahwa cinta dunia telah merajalela dan hampir saja melumuri hasil yang telah dicapai di tahun-tahun kerasulan, berupa keutamaan dan keshalihan, kesungguhan dan keikhlasan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar menujukan sasarannya yang pertama terhadap poros utama kekuasaan dan gudang raksasa kekayaan, yaitu Syria, tempat bercokolnya Mu’awiyah bin Abi Sufyan yang memerintah wilayah Islam paling subur, paling banyak hasil bumi dan paling kaya dengan barang upetinya. Mu’awiyah telah memberikan dan membagi-bagikan harta tanpa perhitungan, dengan tujuan untuk mengambil hati orang-orang terpandang dan berpengaruh, dan demi terjaminnya masa depan yang masih dirindukannya, didambakan oleh keinginannya yang luas tidak terbatas ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di sana tanah-tanah luas, gedung-gedung tinggi dan harta berlimpah telah menggoda sisa-sisa yang tinggal dari pemikul da’wah, maka Abu Dzar harus cepat mengatasinya, sebelum hal itu berlarut-larut, sebelum pertolongan datang terlambat hingga nasi telah menjadi bubur.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pemimpin gerakan hidup sederhana ini pun berkemas-kemas, dan secepat kilat berangkat ke Syria. Dan demi berita itu didengar oleh rakyat jelata, mereka pun menyambut kedatangannya dengan semangat menyala penuh kerinduan, dan mengikuti ke mana perginya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Bicaralah, wahai Abu Dzar!” kata mereka: “bicaralah, wahai shahabat Rasulullah!” Abu Dzar melepaskan pandang menyelidik ke arah orang-orang yang berkerumun. Dilihatnya kebanyakan mereka adalah orang-orang miskin yang dalam kebutuhan. Lalu dilayangkan pandangnya ke arah tempat-tempat ketinggian yang tidak jauh letaknya dari sana, maka tampaklah olehnya gedung-gedung dan mahligai tinggi. Berserulah ia kepada orang-orang yang berhimpun sekelilingnya itu:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Saya heran melihat orang yang tidak punya makanan di rumahnya, kenapa ia tidak mendatangi orang-orang itu dengan menghunus pedangnya!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi segera pula teringat olehnya wasiat Rasulullah yang menyuruhnya memilih cara evolusi daripada cara revolusi, menggunakan kata-kata tandas daripada senjata pedang. Maka ditinggalkannyalah bahasa perang dan kembali menggunakan Bahasa logika dan kata-kata jitu. Diajarkannyalah kepada orangorang itu bahwa mereka sama tak ubah bagai gigi-gigi sisir . bahwa.semua mereka berserikat dalam rizqi bahwa tak ada kelebihan seseorang dari lainnya kecuali dengan taqwa dan bahwa pemimpin serta pembesar dari suatu golongan, haruslah yang pertama kali menderita kelaparan sebelum anak buahnya, sebaliknya yang paling belakang menikmati kekenyangan setelah mereka … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dengan ucapan serta keberaniannya. Abu Dzar telah memutuskan untuk membentuk suatu pendapat umum di setiap negeri Islam; hingga dengan kebenaran, kekuatan dan ketangguhannya menjadi kekangan terhadap para pembesar dan kaum hartawan, dan dapat mencegah munculnya suatu golongan yang menyalahgunakan kekuasaan atau menumpuk harta kekayaan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dalam beberapa hari saja daerah Syria seakan berubah menjadi sel-sel lebah yang tiba-tiba menemukan ratu yang mereka ta’ati. Dan seandainya Abu Dzar memberikan isyarat untuk berontak, pastilah api pemberontakan akan berkobar. Tetapi sebagai telah kita katakan tadi, niatnya hanya, terbatas untuk membentuk suatu pendapat umum yang harus dihormati, dan agar ucapan-ucapannya menjadi busa bibir di tempat-tempat pertemuan, di masjid dan di jalan-jalan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bahaya terhadap perbedaan-perbedaan yang timbul itu mencapai puncaknya, ketika ia mengadakan dialog dengan Mu’awiyah di hadapan umum, di mana yang hadir menyampaikan kepada yang tidak hadir dan beritanya, bagaikan terbang dibawa angin. Abu Dzar tampil sebagai orang yang paling jitu ucapannya sebagai telah dilukiskan oleh Nabi sebagai gurunya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dengan tidak merasa gentar dan tanpa tedeng aling-aling ditanyainya Mu’awiyah tentang kekayaannya sebelum menjadi wali negeri dan kekayaannya sekarang …. Mengenai rumah yang dihuninya di Mekah dulu, dan mahligai-mahligainya, yang terdapat di Syria dewasa ini . . . .</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian dihadapkannya pertanyaan kepada para shahabat yang duduk di sekelilingnya, yaitu yang ikut bersama Mu’awiyah ke Syria dan telah memiliki gedung-gedung serta, tanah-tanah pertanian yang luas pula. Lalu ia berseru kepada semua yang hadir: “Apakah tuan-tuan yang sewaktu Qur’an diturunkan kepada Rasulullah, ia berada di lingkungan tuan-tuan”. Jawaban pertanyaan itu diberikannya sendiri, katanya: “Benar, kepada tuan-tuanlah al-Quran diturunkan, dan tuan-tuanlah yang telah mengalami sendiri berbagai peperangan!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian diulangi pertanyaannya: “Tidakkah tuan-tuan jumpai dalam al-Quran ayat ini”:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan orang-orang yang menyimpan emas dan perak dan tidak menafqahkannya di jalan Allah, bahwa mereka akan menerima siksa yang pedih. Yaitu ketika emas dan perak dipanaskan dalam api neraka, lalu diseterikakan ke kening, ke pinggang dan ke punggung mereka — sambil dikatakan —. Nah, inilah dia yang kalian simpan untuk diri kalian itu, maka rasailah akibatnya!”<br />(Q.S. 9 at-Taubah: 24 — 35).</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mu’awiyah memotong jalan pembicaraannya, katanya: “Ayat ini diturunkan kepada Ahlul Kitab!”, “tidak!”, seru Abu Dzar; “bahkan ia diturunkan kepada kita dan kepada mereka!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar melanjutkan ucapannya, menasehati Mu’awiyah dan para anak-buahnya agar melepaskan gedung, tanah serta harta kekayaan itu; dan tidak menyimpan untuk diri masing-masing kecuali sekedar keperluan sehari-hari.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berita tentang Abu Dzar dan soal jawab ini tersebar dari mulut ke mulut, dari orang banyak ke orang banyak. Semboyannya semakin nyaring terdengar di rumah-rumah dan di jalan-jalan: “Sampaikan kepada para penumpuk harta akan seterikaseterika api neraka!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mu’awiyah sadar akan adanya bahaya, ia cemas akan akibat ucapan tokoh ulung ini. Tetapi ia pun mengerti akan pengaruh dan kedudukannya, hingga tidak akan melakukan hal-hal yang menyakitkannya. Hanya dengan segera ditulisnya surat kepada Khalifah Utsman r.a. menyatakan: “Abu Dzar telah merusak orang-orang di Syria!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebagai jawabannya Utsman mengirim surat meminta Abu Dzar datang ke Madinah. Kembali Abu Dzar berkemas-kemas menyingsingkan kaki celananya, lalu berangkat ke Madinah. Dan pada hari keberangkatannya itu, Syria menyaksikan saat-saat perpisahan dan ucapan selamat jalan dari khalayak ramai, suatu peristiwa yang luar biasa yang belum pernah disaksikannya selama ini … !<br />“Aku tidak memerlukan dunia tuan-tuan . . ”<br />Demikianlah jawaban yang diberikan oleh Abu Dzar kepada Utsman setelah ia tiba di Madinah, yakni setelah berlangsung diskusi yang lama antara mereka. Dari pembicaraan dengan shahabatnya itu, dan berita-berita yang berdatangan kepadanya dari seluruh pelosok yang menyatakan dukungan sebagian besar rakyat terhadap pendapat Abu Dzar, Utsman menyadari sepenuhnya bahaya gerakan ini dan kekuatannya. Dari itu ia mengambil keputusan akan membatasi langkahnya, yaitu dengan menyuruh Abu Dzar tinggal di dekatnya di Madinah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Keputusan itu disampaikan dan ditawarkan oleh khalifah secara lunak lembut dan bijaksana, katanya: “Tinggallah di sini di sampingku! Disediakan bagimu unta yang gemuk, yang akan mengantarkan susu pagi dan sore!” “Aku tak perlu akan dunia tuan-tuan!”, ujar Abu Dzar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Benar, ia tidak memerlukan dunia manusia karena ia termasuk golongan orang suci yang mencari kekayaan ruhani dan menjalani kehidupan untuk memberi dan bukan untuk menerima! Dimintanyalah kepada khalifah Utsman r.a. agar ia diberi idzin tinggal di Rabadzah, maka diperkenankannya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dalam hangat-hangatnya gerakan revolusi itu Abu Dzar tetap memelihara amanat Allah dan Rasul-Nya, dan meresapkan sampai ke tulang sum-sumnya nasihat yang diberikan oleh Nabi saw. agar tidak menggunakan senjata. Dan seolah-olah Rasulullah telah melihat semua yang ghaib; terutama mengenai Abu Dzar dan masa depannya, maka disampaikannyalah nasihat amat berharga itu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Oleh sebab itu Abu Dzar tak hendak menyembunyikan rasa terkejutnya mendengar sebagian orang yang gemar menyalakan fitnah, telah menggunakan ucapan dan da’wahnya untuk memenuhi keinginan dan siasat licik mereka. Pada suatu hari sewaktu ia sedang berada di Rabadzah, datanglah perutusan dari Kufah memintanya untuk mengibarkan bendera pemberontakan terhadap khalifah. Maka disemburnya mereka dengan kata-kata tegas sebagai berikut:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Demi Allah, seandainya Utsman hendak menyalibku di tiang kayu yang tertinggi atau di atas bukit sekalipun, tentulah saya dengar titahnya dan saya taati, saya bershabar dan sadarkan diri, dan saya merasa bahwa demikian adalah yang sebaik-baiknya bagiku . . .! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Dan seandainya ia menyuruhku berkelana dari ujung ke ujung dunia, tentulah akan saya dengar dan taati, saya bershabar dan sadarkan diri, dan saya merasa bahwa demikian adalah yang sebaik-baiknya bagiku . . .!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Begitu pun jika ia meyuruhku pulang ke rumahku, tentulah akan saya dengar dan taati, saya bershabar dan sadarkan diri, dan saya merasa bahwa <sub>-</sub>demikian adalah yang sebaik-baiknya bagiku … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Itulah dia seorang pahlawan yang tidak menginginkan sesuatu tujuan duniawi; dan karena itu Allah melimpahinya “pandangan tembus” hingga sekali lagi ia melihat bahaya dan bencana yang tersembunyi di balik pemberontakan bersenjata maka dijauhinya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebagaimana ia telah melihat apa akibatnya bila ia membisu dan tidak buka suara yang tidak lain dari bahaya dan bencana, maka dihindarinya pula. Lalu ditariklah suaranya bukan pedangnya, menyerukan ucapan benar dan kata-kata tegas, tanpa suatu keinginan pun yang mendorong atau akibat yang akan menghalanginya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar telah mencurahkan segala tenaganya untuk melakukan perlawanan secara damai dan menjauhkan diri dari segala godaan kehidupan dunia. Ia akan menghabiskan sisa umurnya untuk melakukan penyelidikan yang lebih dalam tentang harta dan kekuasaan, karena keduanya mempunyai daya tarik dan pangkal fitnah yang dikhawatirkan Abu Dzar terhadap kawan-kawannya yang telah memikul panji-panji Islam bersama Rasulullah saw. dan yang harus tetap memikulnya untuk seterusnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di samping itu kekuasaan dan harta merupakan urat nadi kehidupan bagi ummat dan masyarakat, hingga bila keduanya telah beres, maka nasib manusia pun akan menghadapi bahaya benar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar berkeinginan agar tak seorang pun di antara shahabat Rasul menjadi pejabat atau pengumpul harta, tetapi hendaklah mereka tetap menjadi pelopor kepada hidayah Allah dan pengabdi bagi-Nya. Ia telah mengenali benar tipu daya dunia dan harta ini, dan menyadari pula bahwa Abu Bakar dan Umar tak mungkin bangkit kembali. Telah pula didengarnya Nabi saw. memperingatkan shahabat-shahabatnya akan daya tarik dari jabatan ini dan dinasihatkannya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ini merupakan amanat, dan di hari qiamat menyebabkan kehinaan dan penyesalan . . . , kecuali orang yang mengambilnya secara benar, dan menunaikan kewajiban yang dipikulkan kepadanya . . . “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikian ketatnya Abu Dzar mengenal hal ini, sampai – sampai ia menjauhi saudara dan handai taulannya, jika tak boleh dikatakan memutuskan hubungan dengan mereka, disebabkan mereka telah menjadi pejabat yang dengan sendirinya memiliki harta dan berkecukupan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari ia ditemui oleh Abu Musa al-Asy’ari, dan demi dilihatnya Abu Dzar, maka dibentangkan kedua tangannya sambil berseru kegirangan dengan pertemuan itu. “selamat wahai Abu Dzar . . . selamat wahai saudaraku!”; tetapi Abu Dzar menolak, katanya: “Aku bukan saudaramu lagi! Kita bersaudara dulu sebelum kamu menjadi pejabat dan gubernur!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikian pula ketika pada suatu hari ia ditemui oleh Abu Hurairah yang memeluknya sambil mengueapkan selamat, Abu Dzar menolakkan dengan Langan, katanya: “Menyingkirlah daripadaku, bukankah kamu telah menjadi seorang pejabat; hingga terus-menerus mendirikan gedung, memelihara ternak dan mengusahakan pertanian!” Abu Hurairah menyanggah dengan gigih dan menolak semua desas-desus itu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Yah, mungkin Abu Dzar bersikap keterlaluan dalam pandangannya terhadap harta dan kekuasaan. Tetapi ia mempunyai logika yang harus dikukuhkan dengan kebenaran dan keimanan‑ nya. Maka Abu Dzar berdiri dengan cita-cita dan karyanya, dengan fikiran dan perbuatannya, mengikuti pola yang telah dicontohkan bagi mereka oleh Rasulullah dan kedua shahabatnya Abu Bakar dan Umar</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan seandainya sebagian orang melihat, bahwa ukuran itu terlalu ideal yang tak mungkin dapat dicapai, tetapi Abu Dzar menyaksikannya sebagai contoh nyata; yang telah menggariskan jalan hidup dan usaha, terutama bagi pribadi yang hidup di masa Rasulullah; yakni yang melakukan shalat di belakangnya, berjihad bersamanya dan telah mengambil bai’at akan patuh dan mentaatinya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Lagi pula, sebagaimana telah kita kemukakan, dengan penglihatannya yang tajam ia melihat bahwa harta dan kekuasaan itu mempunyai pengaruh menentukan terhadap nasib manusia. Oleh sebab itu, setiap kebobrokan yang menimpa amanat tentang keadilan dan kekuasaan dalam soal harta, akan menimbulkan bahaya hebat yang harus segera disingkirkan!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sepanjang hayatnya, dengan sekuat tenaga Abu; Dzar memikul panji contoh utama dari Rasulullah dan kedua shahabatnya, menjadi penyangga dan sebagai orang terpercaya memeliharanya. Dan ia menjadi maha guru dalam seni menghindarkan diri dari godaan jabatan dan harta kekayaan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu kali ditawarkan orang kepadanya sebuah jabatan sebagai amir di Irak, katanya: “Demi Allah, tuan-tuan takkan dapat memancingku dengan<sup>,</sup> dunia tuan-tuan itu untuk selamalamanya!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kali yang lain, seorang kawan melihatnya memakai jubah usang, maka katanya: “Bukankah anda masih punya baju yang lain? Beberapa hari yang lewat saya lihat anda punya dua helai baju baru!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Jawab Abu Dzar: “Wahai putera saudaraku! Kedua baju itu telah kuberikan kepada orang yang lebih membutuhkannya daripadaku!” Kata kawan itu pula: “Demi Allah! Anda juga membutuhkannya!” Menjawablah Abu Dzar: “Ampunilah ya Allah . . .! Kamu terlalu membesarkan dunia! Tidakkah kamu lihat burdah yang saya pakai ini? Dan saya punya satu lagi untuk shalat Jum’at. saya punya seekor kambing untuk diperah susunya, dan -seekor keledai untuk ditunggangi! Ni’mat apa lagi yang lebih besar dari yang kita miliki ini …T’</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu’hari ia duduk menyampaikan sebuah Hadits, katanya:<br />“Aku diberi wasiat oleh junjunganku dengan tujuh perkara: Disuruhnya aku agar menyantuni orang-orang miskin dan mendekatkan diri kepada mereka. Disuruhnya aku melihat kepada orang yang di bawahku dan bukan kepada orang yang di atasku . . . . Disuruhnya aku agar tidak meminta sesuatu kepada orang lain …. Disuruhnya aku agar menghubungkan tali shilaturahmi …. Disuruhnya aku mengatakan yang haq walaupun pahit . . . . Disuruhnya aku agar dalam menjalankan Agama Allah, tidak takut celaan orang. Dan disuruhnya agar memperbanyak menyebut: “Las hauls walaa quwwata illaa billah ” ‘<br />Sungguh, ia hidup menjalani wasiat itu, dan ditempanya corak hidupnya sesuai dengan wasiat itu, hingga ia pun menjadi hati nurani masyarakat dari ummat dan bangsanya. Berkata Imam Ali: “Tak seorang pun tinggal sekarang ini yang tidak memperdulikan celaan orang dalam menegakkan Agama Allah, kecuali Abu Dzar … ! “<br />Hidupnya dibaktikan untuk menentang penyalahgunaan kekuasaan dan penumpukan harta!<br />Untuk Menjatuhkan yang salah dan menegakkan yang benar! Mengambil alih tanggung jawab untuk menyampaikan nasihat dan peringatan!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka larang ia memberikan fatwa, tapi suaranya bertambah lantang, katanya kepada yang melarang itu:<br />“Demi Tuhan yang nyawaku berada di tangan-Nya! Seandainya tuan-tuan menaruh pedang di atas pundakku, sedang menurut rasa hatiku masih ada kesempatan untuk menyampaikan ucapan Rasulullah yang kudengar daripadanya, pastilah akan kusampaikan juga sebelum tuan-tuan menebas batang leherku … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Wahai …. kenapa Kaum Muslimin tak hendak mendengarkan nasihat dan tutur katanya waktu itu – – .! Seandainya mereka dengarkan, pastilah fitnah yang berkobar dan berlarut-larut; yang menjerumuskan pemerintah dan masyarakat Islam pada bahaya, padam dan mati dalam kandungan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sekarang Abu Dzar sedang menghadapi sakaratul maut di Rabadzah . . . , suatu tempat yang dipilihnya sebagai tempat kediaman setelah terjadi perbedaan pendapat dengan Utsman r.a. Nah, marilah kita mendapatkannya, untuk melepas kepergian orang besar ini, dan menyaksikan akhir kesudahan dari kehidupannya yang luar biasa!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Seorang perempuan kurus yang berkulit kemerah-merahan dan duduk dekatnya menangis. Perempuan itu adalah isterinya. Abu Dzar bertanya kepadanya: “Apa yang kamu tangiskan padahal maut itu pasti datang?” Jawabnya: “karena anda akan meninggal, padahal pada kita tak ada kain untuk kafanmu! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar tersenyum dengan amat ramah — seperti halnya orang yang hendak merantau jauh — lalu berkata kepada isterinya itu:<br />“Janganlah menangis! Pada suatu hari, ketika saya berada di sisi Rasulullah bersama beberapa orang shahabatnya, saya dengar beliau bersabda: “Pastilah ada salah seorang di antara kalian yang akan meninggal di padang pasir liar, yang akan disaksikan nanti oJeh serombongan orang-orang beriman – . .!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Semua yang ada di Majlis Rasulullah itu telah meninggal di kampung dan di hadapan jama’ah Kaum Muslimin, tak ada lagi yang masih hidup di antara mereka kecuali daku . . . . Nah, inilah daku sekarang menghadapi maut di padang pasir, maka perhatikanlah olehmu jalan . . . . siapa tabu kalau-kalau rombongan orang-orang beriman itu sudah datang! Demi Allah saya tidak bohong, dan tidak pula dibohongi!”<br />Dan ruhnya pun kembali ke hadlirat Allah …. Dan benarlah, tidak salah ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kafilah yang sedang berjalan cepat di padang sahara itu terdiri atas rombongan Kaum Mu’minin yang dipimpin oleh Abdullah bin Mas’ud, shahabat Rasulullah saw. Dan sebelum sampai ke tempat tujuan, Ibnu Mas’ud telah melihat sesosok tubuh; sesosok tubuh yang terbujur seperti tubuh mayat, sedang di sisinya seorang wanita tua dengan seorang anak, kedua-duanya menangis.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dibelokkannya kekang kendaraan ke tempat itu, diikuti dari belakang oleh anggota rombongan. Dan demi pandangannya jatuh ke tubuh mayat, tampak olehnya wajah shahabatnya; saudaranya seagama dan saudaranya dalam membela Agama Allah, yakni Abu Dzar. Air matanya mengucur lebat, clan di hadapan tubuh mayat yang suci itu ia berkata:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Benarlah ucapan Rasulullah ….<br />Anda berjalan sebatang kara ….<br />mati sebatang kara ….<br />dan dibangkitkan nanti sebatang kara . . .<br />Ibnu Mas’ud r.a. pun duduklah, lalu diceiitakan kepada para shahabatnya maksud dari pujian yang diucapkannya itu: “Anda berjalan seorang diri, mati seorang diri dan dibangkitkan nanti seorang diri!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ucapan itu terjadi di waktu perang Tabuk tahun kesembilan Hijrah . . . . Rasulullah saw. telah menitahkan untuk maju memapak dan menghadang pasukan Romawi yang telah berkumpul di suatu tempat, telah siap perang akan menggempur ummat Islam.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kebetulan waktu Nabi menyerukan Kaum Muslimin untuk berjihad itu, di saat musim susah dan panas terik. Tempat yang akan dituju jaraknya amat jauh, sedang musuh menakutkan pula. Sebagian Kaum Muslimin ada yang enggan ikut serta karena berbagai alasan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rasulullah dan para shahabatnya berangkatlah diikuti oleh sebahagian orang setengah terpaksa karena enggan. Dan bertambah jauh perjalanan mereka, bertambah pula kesulitan dan kesusahan yang diderita.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bila ada orang yang tertinggal di belakang, mereka berkata: “Wahai Rasulullah! si anu telah tertinggal”. Maka ujarnya:<br />“Biarkanlah! Andainya ia berguna, tentu akan disusulkan oleh Allah pada kalian. Dan andainya tidak, maka Allah telah membebaskan kalian daripadanya!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu kali, mereka melihat berkeliling, kiranya tiada tampak oleh mereka Abu Dzar. Maka kata mereka kepada Rasulullah saw.: “Abu Dzar telah tertinggal, keledainya menyebabkan ia terlambat”. Rasulullah mengulangi jawabannya tadi.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Keledai Abu Dzar memang telah amat lelah disebabkan lapar dan haus serta terik matahari, hingga langkahnya menjadi gontai. Ada dicobanya dengan berbagai akal menghalaunya agar berjalan cepat, tetapi kelelahan bagai merantai kakinya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dzar merasa bahwa jika demikian ia akan ketinggalan jauh dari Kaum Muslimin hingga tak dapat mengikuti jejak mereka. Maka ia pun turun dari punggung kendaraannya, diambilnya barang-barang dan dipikul di atas punggungnya, lalu diteruskannya perjalanan dengan berjalan kaki. Dipercepatlah langkahnya di tengah-tengah padang pasir yang panas bagai menyala itu, agar dapat menyusul Rasulullah saw. dan para shahabatnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di waktu pagi, ketika Kaum Muslimin telah menurunkan barang-barang mereka untuk beristirahat, tiba-tiba salah seorang dari anggota rombongan melihat dari kejauhan debu naik ke atas, sedang di belakangnya kelihatan sosok tubuh seorang lakilaki yang mempercepat langkahnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Wahai Rasulullah!” kata orang yang melihat itu, “itu ada seorang laki-laki berjalan seorang diri!” Ujar Rasulullah saw.: “Mudah-mudahan orang itu Abu Dzar … !” Mereka melanjutkan pembicaraan sambil menunggu pendatang itu selesai menempuh jarak yang memisahkan mereka, di saat mana mereka akan mengetahui siapa dia.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Musafir mulia itu mendekati mereka secara lambat, langkahnya bagai disentakkan dari pasir lembut yang membara, sementara beban di punggung bagai menggantungi tubuhnya. Namun ia tetap gembira penuh harapan, karena berhasil menyusul kafilah yang dilingkungi barkah, dan tidak ketinggalan dari Rasulullah saw. dan saudara-saudaranya seperjuangan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Setelah ia sampai dekat rombongan, seorang berseru: “Wahai Rasulullah! demi Allah ia Abu Dzar”. Sementara itu Abu Dzar menujukan langkahnya ke arah Rasulullah. Dan demi Rasulullah melihatnya, tersungginglah senyuman di kedua bibir beliau, sebuah senyuman yang penuh santun dan belas kasihan, sabdanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Semoga Allah melimpahkan rahmat-Nya<br />kepada Abu Dzar … !<br />Ia berjalan sebatang kara ….<br />Meninggal sebatang kara ….<br />Dan dibangkitkan nanti sebatang kara ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Setelah berlalu masa dua puluh tahun atau lebih dari hari yang kits sebutkan tadi, Abu Dzar wafat di padang pasir Rabadzah sebatang kara . . . , Setelah sebatang kara pula ia menempuh hidup yang luar biasa yang tak seorang pun dapat menyamainya. Dan dalam lembaran sejarah, ia muncul sebatang kara — yakni orang satu-satunya — baik dalam keagungan zuhud maupun keluhuran cita . . . , dan kemudian di sisi Allah ia akan dibangkitkan nanti sebagai tokoh satu-satunya pula, karena dengan tumpukan jasa-jasanya yang tidak terpemadai banyaknya, tak ada lowongan bagi orang lain untuk berdampingan … </div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:180%;color:#C1FFE5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:large;color:#c1ffe5;"><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">ABU DHAR AL-GHIFAARIY </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">The Leader of Opposition and an Enemy of Wealth </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Cheerfully and happily did he turn toward Makkah. Indeed, the difficulty of his journey and the hard, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">burning desert sand made him suffer pain. However, the goal he was striving to reach made him forget </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his pain and filled his soul with joy and delight. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He entered Makkah disguised as one of those who came to circumambulate the great idols of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sacred House of the Ka'bah or as a passer-by who had lost his way or who had traveled far and sought </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">provision and shelter. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">If the inhabitants of Makkah knew that he had come to search for Muhammad (PBUH) and to listen </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to him, they would cut him into pieces. He did not fear being cut up piece by piece, but not before </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">meeting the person he had crossed the hot burning deserts to see and for whose sake afterwards he was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">willing to risk his life because he believed in him and was convinced of his honesty and the truth of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">message. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He went about secretly gathering information and whenever he heard someone speaking about </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad (PBUH), he carefully approached him until he was finally able to compile all the scattered </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pieces of information which he had heard here and there. Finally, he was guided to the place where he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was able to see Muhammad (PBUH). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">One morning he went there and found the Prophet (PBUH) sitting alone. He approached him and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said, "O my Arab brother, good morning." Thereupon the Prophet replied, "And may peace be upon you, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">my brother." Abu Dhar then said, "Sing to me some of what you are saying." The Prophet (PBUH) </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">answered, "It isn't a poem to be sung, but a Holy Qur'aan." Abu Dhar said, "Then recite for me." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) recited to him while he listened. It was not long until Abu Dhar shouted, "I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His Prophet (PBUH) and Messenger." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) asked him, "Where are you from, my Arab brother?" Abu Dhar answered, "From </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ghifaar." A broad smile appeared on the Prophet's lips (PBUH) and his face was filled with wonder and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">astonishment. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">However, Abu Dhar was also smiling, for he knew well that the reason behind the Prophet's </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">astonishment was because the man who had just embraced Islam in front of him was from Ghifaar. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ghifaar was a tribe with a notorious reputation for highway robbery. Its people were famous for theft and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">were known as allies of darkness and night. Woe to him who fell into their hinds on a dark night! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Was it possible that one of them would embrace Islam while it was still a new, secret religion? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Narrating the story himself, Abu Dhar said: The Prophet (PBUH) lifted his eyes out of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">astonishment, due to Ghifaar's reputation. Then he said, "Allah guides whom He wills." Indeed, Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">guides whom He wills. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar (May Allah be pleased with him) was one of those whom Allah wanted to be rightly </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">guided and for whom He wanted the best. His insight was always directed towards truth. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">It has been narrated that he worshiped Allah during the period of Jaahiliyah, which means that he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">revolted against the worship of idols and turned towards the belief in One Great Creator. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Therefore, he had hardly heard about the appearance of a prophet rejecting idols and their worship </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and calling to the worship of Allah, the One, the Sublime, the Vanquisher, when he immediately set out </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and quickened his steps to meet this new Messenger of Allah (PBUH). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Immediately, without hesitation, he embraced Islam. His order among the converts was fifth or </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sixth, which means that he converted during the first days, if not the first hours, of Islam. His conversion </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was indeed very early. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">When he embraced Islam the Prophet (PBUH) was till secretly whispering the call to Islam to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">himself and to the five who believed in him. Abu Dhar could not do anything except carry his faith </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">within his heart, secretly leaving Makkah and returning to his people. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">However, Abu Dhar - his real name was Jundub lbn Janaadah - had a restless and agitated temper. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He had been created to revolt against falsehood wherever it existed. Now he saw falsehood with his own </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">eyes as lifeless rocks piled upon each other. The birth of their worship was long before his existence: </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">minds and foreheads bowed down in front of them and people calling to them saying, "At your service, at </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">your service!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">It is true that he saw the Prophet's preference to whisper in those days, but he wished that a loud </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">shout declaring Islam publicly be made by the venerable and honorable followers before his departure. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Immediately after embracing Islam, he turned to the Prophet (PBUH) with the following question: </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"O Messenger of Allah, what is it that you order me?" The Prophet (PBUH) replied, "Go back to your </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kin until my order reaches you." Abu Dhar said, "In the name of the One Who owns my soul between </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">His hands, I am not going back until I cry out loudly declaring Islam within the mosque!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Did I not tell you? His temper was restless and agitated. At the same moment when Abu Dhar </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">discovered a totally new world, a wonderful new world represented by the Prophet (PBUH) whom he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">believed in and by the call which he became acquainted with by the Prophet's tongue, at that same </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">moment he was asked to return silently to his kin. ! that possible? It was beyond his ability. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hereupon, he entered the Sacred House and cried out as loud as he could, "I bear witness that there </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His Messenger!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">As far as we know, it was the first public pronouncement declaring Islam and challenging the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">arrogance of the Quraish which reached their ears. It was cried out by a stranger who did not have any </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">relatives, reputation, or protection in Makkah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He acted out of his own dedication and courage even though he knew what was going to happen. He </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was surrounded by the polytheists, who hit him till he fell down. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">This news reached Al `Abbaas, the Prophet's uncle. He came quickly but could not rescue Abu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dhar! except by a clever trick. Thus he told them, "O you Quraish! You are merchants and your route </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">crosses over Ghifaar and this man here is one of their tribesmen. Beware, he may incite his kin against </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">you, provoking them to rob your caravans while passing by." They came back to their senses and left him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">alone. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Having tasted the sweetness of being hurt in the cause of Allah, Abu Dhar did not want to leave </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Makkah without being given more. So, on the next day, or perhaps on the same day, Abu Dhar </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">encountered two women circling around two idols (Usaaf and Naa'ilah) and calling upon them. He stood </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">in front of them rudely disgracing their idols. The women shouted loudly, and men hastened as fast as </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lightening, immediately hitting him until he fell down unconscious. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">When he regained consciousness he shouted again that there is no god but Allah and Muhammed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) is His Messenger. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) realized the nature of his new disciple and his amazing ability to encounter </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">falsehood. However, the time for public declaration of the message had not yet come, so again he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ordered Abu Dhar to go back to his kin and whenever he heard the announcement of the new religion, he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">would play his role. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar returned to his kin and tribe, telling them about the Prophet (PBUH) who called people to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">worship only Allah and who guided them to noble manners. His people embraced Islam one by one. Bani </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ghifaar alone did not suffice him; he turned to Bani Aslim, to spread his lights there. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Time passed and the Prophet (PBUH) emigrated to Al Madiinah and there, together with Muslims, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he settled down. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">One day the city welcomed long lines of people on horseback and on foot. Their feet made a great </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">noise. Were it not for their loud shout "Allah is the Greatest", the viewer would have thought it was an </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">attacking polytheist army. The great parade approached and entered Al-Madiinah. Their destination was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Prophet's (PBUH) Mosque. The parade consisted of two tribes, Bani Ghifaar and Bani Aslim. Abu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dhar made them come as Muslims, all of them: men, women, elderly, youth, and even the children! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">No doubt, the Prophet's wonder and astonishment increased. In the distant past he had been very </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">astonished when he witnessed one of the tribe of Ghifaar his embracement of Islam, and he had </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">expressed on that day his wonder saying, "Allah guides whom He wills." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">But now, the whole tribe had come after already becoming Muslim. It had lived several years under </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the banner of Islam since Allah guided it by means of Abu Dhar. Now it had come together with Bani </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Aslim. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The former allies of the devil, the notorious highwaymen, had become the allies of truth and great </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">men of good deeds. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Is it not true that Allah guides whom He pleases? The Prophet (PBUH) looked at their kind faces </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">with eyes full of joy, tenderness, and love. He looked at Bani Ghifaar and said, "May Allah forgive </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ghifaar." Then he turned to Bani Aslim and said, "May Allah make peace with Aslim." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar, this magnificent propogator of Islam who was obstinate, unyielding, and difficult to be </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">defeated: was the Prophet (PBUH) not going to salute him with a special greeting? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Indeed, his reward was going to be abundant and his greeting blessed. He was going to carry on his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">chest- but also his history was going to carry - the highest, most honorable, and most respectable medals. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Generations and centuries will pass away, but the Prophet's opinion about Abu Dhar will always stay </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">alive in people's memory: "The earth never carried above it, nor did the sky ever shade under it a more </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">truthful tongue than Abu Dhar's". </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) determined his Companion's future and summed up his whole life in those </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">simple words. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bold and daring truthfulness was the essence of Abu Dhar's whole life. Truthfulness of his inner </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">soul as well as his appearance. Truthfulness of his faith as well as his tongue. All his life he was truthful. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Neither deceiving himself or anyone else, nor allowing anyone to deceive him. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">His truthfulness was not mute merit. According to Abu Dhar, truthfulness is never silent. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Truthfulness is equivalent to openness and publicity, publicity of truth and challenge to falsehood, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">support of right and refutation of wrong. Truthfulness is a reasonable ally to truth and a courageous </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">expression of it; both quicken their pace. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) could see with his unmistaken insight- across remote distances and the far </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">unknown future - all the different difficulties Abu Dhar had to face due to his truthfulness and firmness. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He therefore was always ordering him to let patience and deliberateness be his manner. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet once asked him, "O Abu Dhar! What would you do if you witnessed a time when </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">commanders monopolize the war booty?" He replied, "I swear by Allah Who sent you with the truth, I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">would strike them with my sword!" The Prophet (PBUH) said to him, "Shall I guide you to what is </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">better? Be patient till you meet me." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Why did the Prophet (PBUH) ask him this specific question? Commanders, money? It was the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">cause Abu Dhar was going to devote his life to and the problem he was to encounter with society in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">future. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) knew it; therefore he asked him this question in order to provide him with this </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">precious advice: "Be patient till you meet me." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar kept his teacher and Prophet's instruction unforgotten. Therefore, he did not carry a sword </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">against those commanders who enriched themselves by taking what was the public money. But also, he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">did not keep silent, and he did not let them rest. Indeed, although the Prophet (PBUH) had forbidden him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to carry his sword against them, he did not forbid him to carry a sharp truthful tongue. And that is what </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he did. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The era of the Prophet (PBUH) and of Abu Bakr and `Umar passed with its complete transcendence </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">over all worldly temptations. Even the tempted desirous and greedy souls could not find a paved and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">open way for their devious desires. In those days there were no deviations to be oppossed loudly by Abu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dhar's sharp words. As long as the Commander of the Faithful `Umar lived, Muslim governors, rulers, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and even the wealthy, were forced to live a humble, modest, aesthetic and just life, almost beyond human </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">capacity. No governor of the Caliph, whether in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, or anywhere else in the region, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">could ever eat a kind of sweet unaffordable by ordinary people without such a piece of information soon </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">reaching Umar, who would immediately order that governor to return to Al-Madiinah, where he would </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">face a severe punishment. Therefore, Abu Dhar lived without trouble and happily, with much inward </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">peace, as long as `Umar was Commander of the Faithful. Nothing ever annoyed Abu Dhar more than the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">abuse of power and the monopoly of wealth. `Umar's firm control over power and his fair distribution of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">wealth allowed him tranquility and satisfaction. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">It was because of this that he was able to devote himself to Allah's worship and jihaad in the cause </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of Allah, never keeping silent if any infringement was seen here or there, which rarely happened. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">However, the greatest, most just and most magnificent ruler that human beings were ever to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">experience left our world one day, leaving behind a tremendous gap, causing inevitable reactions beyond </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">human expectations. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Islamic campaigns continued, thus bringing under control more regions. At the same time, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">desires and longing for ambition to enjoy the comforts and luxury of life started to float to the surface. In </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">these events, Abu Dhar saw the impending danger. The banners of personal glory were about to tempt </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">those whose role in life was to lift the standard of Allah. Life with its false embellishments and its wild </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">arrogance was about to tempt those whose role was to make out of life a plantation of good deeds. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Money - created by Allah to be obedient to His servants for the benefit of mankind - was about to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">turn into a tyrant master. A master of whom? The Prophet's Companions. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) died with a pawned shield, although piles of war booty were under his service. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The excellence of the earth created by Allah for all human beings and with their rights upon it mutually </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">corresponding - was about to turn into a monopoly and privilege Power - a responsibility that pious </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">people tremble at when thinking about its horrible charge in the Hereafter - turned into a means of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">authority, wealth, and destructive luxury. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar realized all that. He did not search for his duties or responsibilities, but rather took his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sword, waved it in the air and set out to face his society with his unbeatable sword. But soon the echo of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Prophet's (PBUH) advice struck his heart, so he returned it to its scabbard. He remembered the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet (PBUH) had said he should not lift it in the face of a Muslim. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"It is not lawful for a believer to kill another believer except by error " (4: 92). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">His role was not to fight but to oppose. The sword was not a means of change and reformation, but </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the truthful, sincere, and brave word was. The fair word does not lose its path, and its consequences are </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">not terrifying. The Prophet (PBUH) once said, while surrounded by his Companions, that the earth never </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">carried above it, nor did the sky ever shade a more truthful tongue than Abu Dhar's. Why should </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">someone who owns such a truthful tongue and truthful conviction need a sword? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">A single word by him hit the target more than uncountable swords. Therefore, Abu Dhar was to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">encounter all the governors, the wealthy, and all those who worshipped the worldly life and relied upon </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">it, thereby representing an even greater danger to the religion which came to be a guide, not a tax </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">collector; prophethood, not dominion; mercy, not afflication; humbleness, not superiority; equality, not </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">differentiation; satisfaction, not greed; sufficiency, not luxury and a life of ease full of temptation, with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">this life the only goal. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">So Abu Dhar went out to face all those challenges, and Allah will judge truthfully between him and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">them, and Allah is the Most Just of Judges. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar went out to the strongholds of power and wealth, attacking them one after the other. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Within a short time he became the standard around which the laborers of Islam and the masses gathered. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Even in the remote districts where people had not yet met him, word about him got around and he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">became well known until he hardly passed through a land in which his name had not reached the ears of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">some the people and without crucial questions being raised which threatened the welfare and worldly </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">interests of the powerful and wealthy. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">If this honorable, rebellious Companion was to select an appropriate standard for himself and his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">movement, he would not find a better one than an iron, a glowing, hot, and flaming iron. Thus he turned </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the following words into his chant and earnest appeal, repeating them every time and every place he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">went. People repeated them after him as if they were an anthem: </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Announce to those who hoard up gold and silver, the warning of branding irons with which their </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">foreheads and bodies will be branded in the hereafter. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He never ascended a mountain or descended a valley or entered a city or faced a ruler without </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">repeating the same words, so much so that people would always welcome him when he approached them </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">by repeating "Announce to those who hoard up gold and silver, the warning of branding irons." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">This statement turned into "signature time" for his message to which he devoted his life. That was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">because he saw wealth being accumulated and monopolized for power and being turned into a means of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">supremacy and abuse. He saw an overwhelming passion for life which was about to erase all beauty, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">piety, devotion, and sincerity built up during the previous years of the great mission of the Messenger of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">When he began his attack, he started with the most authoritative and horrible stronghold: there in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Syria, where Mu`aawiyah Ibn Abi Sufyaan was ruling one of the most fertile lands in the world of Islam, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">granting and distributing money carelessly, thereby bestowing undeserved privileges upon people of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">power and rank in order to guarantee his future, a future he aspired to promote. There in Syria, the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">country of overwhelming palaces, country estates and fortunes which tempted the remnants of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">carriers of the Islamic message, he began his attack. Abu Dhar wanted to confront the center of danger </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">before it ruined and destroyed all Muslims. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The leader of the opposition to corrupt worldly power wore his humble gown and hastened as fast as </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lightning towards Syria. Ordinary people hardly heard about his arrival before they hurried to welcome </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him with great enthusiasm and longing desire, surrounding him wherever he would go or stay. "O Abu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dhar, please tell us... O, Companion of the Prophet (PBUH) please tell us..." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sharp-eyed he would take a glance at the multitude around him, seeing the majority of them </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">suffering from poverty and need. He then directed his eyes to a place not too far away where he saw </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">many palaces and landed estates. Then he shouted to those around him, "I wonder why those who don't </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">find something to eat don't go out holding their swords ready to fight?" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Then he immediately remembered the Prophet's admonition to replace opposition and rebellion with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">patience, and to replace the sword with brave and daring words, abandoning the language of war and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">returning to logic, reason, and conviction; teaching people that they are all equal like the teeth of a comb; </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that they are all partners as far as the means of living are concerned; that no one is superior to another </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">except in piety; and that their ruler should be the first to starve if the people suffer hunger and the last to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">satisfy his appetite if they become sated. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He decided to create by means of his words and bravery a public opinion all over the Muslim </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">countries which would represent, through its intelligence, indomitability, and strength, a hindering force </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to the deviations of the rulers and the rich and wealthy, in order to hinder the appearance and spread of a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">power- and wealth- monopolizing class. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Within a few days, the whole of Syria turned into what resembled a bee-hive which had found its </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">queen. If Abu Dhar would have given the slightest passing gesture of revolt, the whole of Syria would </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">have been set on fire. But, as mentioned before, he focused his interest on creating a respectable public </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">opinion. His words turned into the subject of conversation everywhere, inside mosques, during meetings, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and even on roads. Danger increased and reached its peak for Abu Dhar, speaking about the newly </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">acquired privileges of the rich and powerful, on the day in which be argued with Mu'aawiyah in front of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the masses. Every witness of that debate told those who missed it, so that its news spread as fast as </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">wildfire. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar, who possessed the most truthful tongue on earth, as the Prophet (PBUH) described him, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">stood up. He asked Mu'aawiyah about his wealth before and after being in power, about the house in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">which he was living in Makkah, and the castles he owned in Syria. Then he raised the question to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions who had accompanied Mu`aawiyah to Syria and were now owners of estates and castles. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">After that he cried to them "is it you among whom the Prophet lived when the Qur'aan was being </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">revealed? Then he answered himself, "Yes, it is you! The Qur'aan was revealed among you. It is you who </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">experienced with the Prophet (PBUH) all the different scenes. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Then he asked them again, "Can't you find this verse in the Book of Allah? .... and those who hoard </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">up gold and silver, and do not expend it in the cause of GOD, announce to them a painful chastisment - </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">On the Day when it shall be heated in the Fire of Hell, and with it their foreheads, and their bodies, and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">their backs shall be branded, "This is what you treasured for yourselves, so taste the evil of what you </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">were treasuring " (9: 34-35). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">However, Mu'aawiyah wanted to end the whole dispute by arguing that this verse was mentioned </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">regarding the People of the Book (i.e. the Jews and Christians). Hereupon cried Abu Dhar, "No, it has </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">been revealed for us all." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar then continued his talk, advising Mu'aawiyah and his followers to give up their landed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">estates, castles, money, and all their possessions, and to abstain from saving for themselves more than </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">their daily need. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Through the people's assemblies, congregations, and meetireached everyone's ears. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Louder and louder was Abu Dhar's anthem to be heard everywhere: "Announce to those who hoard </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">up gold and silver the warning of branding irons." Mu'aawiyah felt the danger of the words of the great, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">honorable, and rebellious Companion who terrified him. Yet Mu'aawiyah appreciated his value and did </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">not harm him, but he immediately wrote to the Caliph `Uthmaan say Allah be pleased with him), "Abu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dhar spoils the people in Syria." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Uthmaan sent for Abu Dhar, asking him to come to Al-Madiinah. Abu Dhar set off from Syria with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kindness, affection, and honor. His farewell day was celebrated in Syria in a manner Damascus had never </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">witnessed the like of. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"I don't need your world!" That is what Abu Dhar said to the Caliph `Uthmaan after be reached Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Madlinah and a prolonged conversation took place between them. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">After this conversation and after having heard the news coming from all different regions of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muslim world, it was confirmed that Abu Dhar's opinions had actually agitated the multitudes, who </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">began to crystallize around them. It was at that time that `Uthmaan began to truly realize the actual </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">danger of Abu Dhar's opinion and its strength. He therefore decided to keep him beside him at Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Madiinah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Uthmaan presented to him his decision in a very kind and friendly way. He said to him, "Stay here </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beside me. You will be endowed with blessings day and night." Abu Dhar then answered, "I don't need </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">your world." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Indeed, he did not need people's world. He was one of those saints who searched for the enrichment </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of their soul, dedicating his life to giving, not to receiving! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He asked the Caliph `Uthmaan (May Allah be pleased with him) to allow him to go out to Ar- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rabadhah, and he allowed him. Despite his fierce opposition, he stayed dose to Allah and His Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) in a very honest way, always keeping within his soul the Prophet's advice never to carry a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sword. It was as if the Prophet had seen the whole of Abu Dhar's destiny and future, so he bestowed upon </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him this precious advice. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar never hid his annoyance when seeing those who liked to ignite the flames of civil strife </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">by using his words and opinions as a mean to satisfy their passionate desire and cunning deceits. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">One day, while in Ar-Rabadhah, a delegation from Kufa came to ask him to raise the flag of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">revolution against the caliph. He drove them back with decisive words: "By Allah, if `Uthmaan was to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">crucify me on the longest board or on a mountain, I would patiently obey, for Allah's reward would be </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">waiting for me, and I see it to be the best for me. And if he was to force me to walk from one end of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">horizon to the other, I would patiently obey, for Allah's reward would be waiting for me, and I see it to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">be the best for me. And if he was to force me back to my home I would patiently obey, for Allah's reward </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">would be waiting for me, and I see it to be the best for me." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He was a man who was not interested in any worldly gain; thus he was blessed with insight by </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah. He realized again the tremendous danger involved in armed civil strife; therefore, he abstained </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">from it. But he also realized the tremendous danger involved in silence; therefore, he abstained from it. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">That is why he raised his voice, not his sword, and raised the word of truth and sincerity. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He was not tempted by greedy desires nor hindered by worldly obstacles. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar kept himself busy with and devoted himself to sincere, honest opposition. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He spent his whole life focusing on the faults of power and the faults of money. Thus power and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">money possessed the temptation. Abu Dhar was afraid his brethren would fall into their traps - his same </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">brethren who had carried the standard of Islam with the Prophet (PBUH) and whom he wanted to remain </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the carriers of the Prophet's message (PBUH). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Power and money were, furthermore, the backbone of societies and communities. If misused, the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">destiny of people would encounter serious and imminent danger. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar wished so much that the Prophet's companions would not be appointed as governors and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">would not collect fortunes, but would rather stay as they always had been: as spiritual guides to the right </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">path for Allah's worshipers. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He knew well the voracity of life and the voracity of money, and he knew that the example of Abu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dhar and `Umar was never going to be repeated! How often did he hear the Prophet (PBUH) asking his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions to be aware of the temptation of authority saying, "It's a deposition in trust, and on the Day </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of Resurrection it will be a shame and regret except to the one who was endowed with it justly and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">accomplished his duty." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar went so far that he avoided his brethren if he did not boycott them, for no other reason </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">than that they had become rules and, of course, had become wealthier. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Muusaa Al-Ash'ariy once met him. He had hardly seen him when he stretched his arms with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">joy and delight shouting, "Welcome Abu Dhar! Welcome my brother!" But Abu Dhar held himself back </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">saying, "I am not your brother; I was so before you became an administrator and governor". </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">In the same way, Abu Hurairah once met and embraced him in welcome, but Abu Dhar pushed him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">back and said, "Isn't it you who became goveror, then extended your buildings and possessed plantations </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and cattle?" Abu Hurairah defended himself, trying to prove his innocence and refute those rumors. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">It may seem that Abu Dhar had an exaggerated position towards power and wealth, but he had a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">logic which was shaped by his sincerity to himself and his faith. Thus, Abu Dhar stood with his dreams, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">deeds, behavior, and viewpoints according to the same standard the Prophet (PBUH) and his two </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions Abu Bakr and `Umar had left behind. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">If some people saw that standard to be an out-of-reach ideal, Abu Dhar saw it to be an example </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">charting the path of life and toil especially for those who had actually experienced the Prophet (PBUH), </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">prayed behind him, taken part in jihaad with him, and sworn the oath of allegiance to him. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">In addition to that - as mentioned before - his inspired intellect knew the decisive influence of power </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and property in determining people's destiny. Therefore, any disturbance which might afflict the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">trustworthiness of power or the fairness of wealth represents an imminent danger which must be resisted </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and opposed. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">As long as he lived, Abu Dhar upheld the standard of the Prophet (PBUH) and his two Companions' </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">good example. He was a great figure in the art of predominance over the temptation of power and wealth. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The governorship of Iraq was once offered to him, but he said, "By Allah, you will never tempt me with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">your world." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Once, one of his companions saw him wearing an old gown and asked him, "Don't you have another </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">one? I saw you a couple of days ago with two other gowns in your hands." Abu Dhar replied, "O cousin! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I gave them to someone who needed them more than I do." He said to him, " By Allah, you need them!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Dhar then answered, "May Allah forgive us. You glorify this life! Can't you see that I am wearing a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gown? And I own another one for the congregational Friday prayer. Moreover, I own a goat which I milk </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and a donkey which I ride. Is there a better blessing?" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He once sat down talking to people and said, "My friend advised me to do seven things: </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">*He asked me to love the poor and to get closer to them. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">*He asked me to look to those who are inferior and not to those who are superior. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">*He asked me never to ask anyone for anything (i.e. to abstain from begging). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">* He asked me to be kind to my relatives. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">* He asked me to say the truth, no matter how sour it may be. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">* He asked me never to be afraid of a critic's censure. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">*And he asked me to frequently say, "There is no power nor might except Allah's." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He lived according to this advice until he became a living conscience moving among his people. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Imam Aliy once said, "There is no one nowadays who is nonchalant about people's criticism - as far </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">as Allah and His rules are concerned - except Abu Dhar." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He lived opposing the abuse of power and the monopoly of property. He lived resisting all that was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">wrong and building all that was right. He lived devoted to the responsibility of good advice and warning. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">When he was hindered from spelling out his fatwaa (formal legal opinion in Islamic law), he raised </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his voice and said to those hindering him, "By the name of the One in Whose hands my soul is, if you put </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the sword to my neck and I still thought that I could carry out a word I've heard from the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) before you cut, I would carry it out." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Had the Muslims listened on that day to his advice, a lot of civil strife and turmoil would have been </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">prevented - turmoil that reached its peak and dangers that became grave, serious, and imminent. The </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">state, society and Muslim nation had to face all that rebellion and aggrevated, alarming danger. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">But then Abu Dhar was suffering the agony of death in Ar Rabadhah, the place he chose to stay in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">after his disagreement with Uthmaan say Allah be pleased with him). Let us go to him to give him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">farewell and let us see how the last scene of his admirable life is. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">This slim dark-skinned woman sitting crying beside him is his wife. He is asking her, "Why do you </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">cry and death is true?" She answers crying, "You are dying and I don't have a gown which suffices to be </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">a winding sheet!!" He smiles like a passing evening glow and says to her "Calm down. Don't cry. I heard </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Prophet (PBUH) once saying while I was sitting among a number of Companions "one of you will </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">die in a desert land, and a group of the faithful will witness him." All those who were sitting with me at </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that assembly have died, whether in a village or among a congregation. No one is left except me, and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">now I am dying in a desert land. Watch out, a group of the faithful will soon show up. By Allah, I didn't </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lie in my life." He passed away. Blessed was he. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">There is a caravan which sets off on a journey across the desert. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">It consists of a group of the faithful with `Abd Allah Ibn Mas'uud, the Prophet's Companion, at their </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">head. lbn Mas'uud visualized the scene before he reached it: a scene of an out-stretched body like that of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">a dead person and beside him a crying woman and boy. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He redirects his camel's bridle and the whole caravan follows him towards the scene. He has hardly </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">taken a look at the dead body, when he realizes that it is his companion brother in Islam, Abu Dhar. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">His tears roll down abundantly while he stands in front of this virtuous body saying, "The </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Messenger of Allah was truthful You will walk alone, die alone, and resurrect alone." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lbn Mas'uud (May Allah be pleased with him) narrated the interpretation of the statement "You will </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">walk alone, die alone, and resurrect alone," to his companions: </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">That was in the ninth year after Hijrah, during the Battle of Tabuuk, when the Prophet, (PBUH) had </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ordered full preparation to meet the Romans, who had begun to carry out their conspiracies and cunning </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tricks against Islam. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The days in which people were asked to go out for jihaad were very hot, distressful, and hard. The </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">destination was far away and the enemy terrifying. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">A group of Muslims refrained from going forth, justifying their position with different apologies. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Prophet (PBUH) and his Companions went forth. The farther they went, the more exhausted and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tired they became. Whenever a man stayed behind people said, "O Prophet! So-and-so stayed behind." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He then said, "Let him! If he's any good, he will reach you. If he's something else, then Allah will save </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">you his trouble." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">One day the people turned around. They could not find Abu Dhar. They told the Prophet (PBUH) </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that Abu Dhar had stayed behind and his camel had slowed down. It is here that the Prophet (PBUH) </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">repeated his first statement. Abu Dhar's camel became weaker under the severe pressure of hunger, thirst, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and hot weather. It stumbled due to weakness and fatigue. Abu Dhar tried by all means to force it to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">move forward, but the burden of the camel's exhaustion was too heavy. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Finally, Abu Dhar felt that he would be left behind, losing the caravan's traces. Therefore, he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dismounted from his camel, took his belongings, carried them on his back, and continued his route on </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">foot over the burning desert sand, hurrying in order to rejoin the Prophet (PBUH) and his Companions. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">In the early morning, while the Muslims were stopped for a while to rest, one of them saw a cloud </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of dust and sand behind which the shadow of a man could be seen. The one who saw that said to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet (PBUH), "O Messenger of Allah, there is someone walking alone." The Prophet (PBUH) said, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"It is Abu Dhar." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Muslims continued their talk until the man crossed the remaining distance between them. Only </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">then were they able to know who he was. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The respectful traveler approached little by little. Although he could only with great effort pull his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">feet out of the burning sand and with a lot of pain carry the heavy burden on his back, he was very </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">delighted to have finally reached the blessed caravan without staying behind and abandoning the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) and his Companions. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">When he at last reached the caravan, someone shouted, "O Prophet, it's Abu Dhar." Abu Dhar </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beaded towards the Prophet (PBUH). The Prophet (PBUH) had hardly seen him, when he tenderly, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kindly, and sadly smiled and said, "Allah will have mercy upon Abu Dhar. He walks alone, dies alone, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and resurrects alone." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Twenty years or more had passed since then. Abu Dhar died alone in the desert of Ar-Rabadhah, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">having walked on a path no one else had passed over so gloriously . </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He is also remembered alone by history for his brave resistance and his great asceticism. Allah will </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">also resurrect him alone, because the multitude of his various merits will not enable anyone else to find a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">place near him. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174474199517824808.post-33491254548730374362011-06-10T07:44:00.000-07:002011-06-11T06:32:31.093-07:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:small;color:#cc0000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:medium;color:#009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:small;color:#cc0000;"><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/5-abdullah-bin-umar-tekun-beribadah-dan.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">5) ABDULLAH BIN UMAR</span></a></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sirah-60-para-sahabat-rasulullah-saw.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">PARA SAHABAT/COMPANIONS</span></a></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/3-dzar-al-ghifari-gerakan-hidup.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">3) ABU DZAR AL-GHIFARI</span></a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#177733;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">(4) </span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;">BILAL BIN RABAH</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Muadzin Rasulullah ... Lambang persamaan derajat manusia. </span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; line-height: 18.0px; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; color: #c1ffe5; min-height: 21.0px"><br /></p>Bila disebut nama Abu Bakar, maka Umar akan berkata: “Abu Bakar adalah pemimpin kita, yang telah memerdekakan pemimpin kita”. Maksudnya ialah Bilal </div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></div></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></b></div></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(193, 255, 229); font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:18px;">seorang yang diberi gelar oleh Umar “pemimpin kita”, tentulah suatu pribadi besar yang layak memperoleh kehormatan seperti itu! Tetapi setiap menerima pujian yang ditujukan kepada dirinya, maka laki-laki yang berkulit hitam, kurus kerempeng, tinggi jangkung, berambut lebat dan bercambang tipis — sebagai dilukiskan oleh ahli-ahli riwayat — akan menundukkan kepala dan memejamkan mata, serta dengan air mata mengalir membasahi pipinya, akan berkata: “Saya ini hanyalah seorang Habsyi, dan kemarin saya seorang budak belian!”</span></div></b></span></span></b></span></span></b><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, siapakah kiranya orang Habsyi yang kemarin masih jadi budak belian ini … ? Itulah dia Bilal. bin Rabah, muaddzin Islam dan penggoncang berhala yang dipuja Quraisy sebagai tuhan! la merupakan salah satu keajaiban iman dan kebenaran! Salah satu mujizat Islam yang maka besar!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dari tiap sepuluh orang, semenjak munculnya Agama itu sampai sekarang, bahkan sampai kapan saja dikehendaki Allah, kita akan menemukan sedikitnya tujuh orang yang kenal terhadap Bilal. Artinya dalam lintasan kurun dan generasi, terdapat jutaan manusia yang mengenal Bilal; hafal akan namanya dan tahu riwayatnya secara lengkap, sebagaimana mereka kenal akan dua Khalifah terbesar dalam Islam (Abu Bakar dan Umar).</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Anda akan dapat menanyakan kepada setiap anak yang masih merangkak pada tahun-tahun pelajaran dasarnya; baik di Mesir, Pakistan, Indonesia atau Cina . . . di Amerika Utara, Amerika Selatan, Eropa dan Asia … di Irak, Syria, Turki, Iran dan Sudan . . . di Tunisia, Aljazair, dan Maroko … pendeknya di seluruh permukaan bumi yang didiami oleh Kaum Muslimin …. anda akan dapat menanyakan kepada setiap remaja Islam: “Siapakah Bilal itu, wahai buyung?” Tentulah akan keluar jawabannya yang lancar: “Ia adalah muaddzin Rasul. Asalnya seorang budak, yang disiksa oleh tuannya dengan batu pan<sup>g</sup>s, agar ia meninggalkan Islam, tetapi jawabnya: “. . . Ahad … Ahad . . Allah Yang Maha Tunggal … Allah Yang Maha Tunggal … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan setelah anda lihat keabadian yang telah dianugerahkan Islam kepada Bilal . . . , bahwa sebelum Islam, Bilal ini tidak lebih dari seorang budak belian; yang menggembalakan unta milik tuannya dengan imbalan dua genggam kurma! Tanpa Islam, pastilah ia takkan luput dari kenistaan perbudakan — sampai maut datang merenggutnya — setelah itu orang melupakannya….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi kebenaran iman dan keagungan Agama yang diyakini-nya telah meluangkan baginya dalam kehidupan dan riwayat hidup, suatu kedudukan tinggi pada deretan tokoh-tokoh Islam dan orang-orang sucinya . . .! Banyak di antara orang-orang terkemuka — golongan berpengaruh dan mempunyai harta —yang tidak berhasil mendapatkan agak sepersepuluh dari keharuman nama yang diperoleh Bilal si Budak Habsyi ini . . . ! ‘Bahkan tidak sedikit tokoh-tokoh sejarah yang tidak mencapai separoh kemasyhuran yang dicapai oleh Bilal!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kehitaman warna kulit; kerendahan kasta dan bangsa, serta kehinaan dirinya di antara manusia selama itu sebagai budak belian, sekali-kali tidaklah menutup pintu baginya untuk menempati kedudukan tinggi yang dirintis oleh kebenaran, keyakinan, kesucian dan kesungguhannya setelah ia memasuki Agama Islam.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Semua itu adalah karena dalam neraca penilaian dan penghormatan yang diberikan kepadanya, tak ada perhitungan lain kecuali kekaguman; yakni ketika dijumpai kebesaran yang tidak terduga. Orang menyangka bahwa seorang hamba seperti Bilal, biasanya asal-usulnya tidak menentu; tidak berdaya dan tidak mempunyai keluarga, serta tidak memiliki suatu hak pun dari hidupnya. Dirinya adalah milik tuannya yang telah membeli dengan hartanya, dan kerjanya berada di tengah hewan ternak, pulang balik di antara unta dan domba tuannya. Menurut dugaan mereka, makhluq seperti ini takkan mampu melakukan sesuatu, atau menjadi sesuatu yang berarti!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kiranya ia berbeda dengan spa yang disangka dan diper-kirakan itu. Karena ia mampu mencapai derajat keimanan yang tidak mungkin dicapai oleh lainnya …. lalu menjadi muaddzin pertama bagi Rasulullah dan Islam; suatu aural yang menjadi inceran bagi setiap pemimpin dan pembesar Quraisy yang telah masuk Islam dan menjadi pengikut Rasul.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Benar . . . , Bilal bin Rabah!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Corak kepahlawanan apakah, dan bentuk kebesaran manakah yang ditonjolkan oleh ketiga kata-kata ini, “Bilal bin Rabah .. .?” Ia seorang Habsyi dari golongan orang berkulit hitam. Taqdir telah membawa nasibnya menjadi budak dari Bani Jumah di kota Mekah, karena ibunya salah seorang hamba sahaya mereka.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kehidupannya tidak berbeda dengan budak biasa. Hariharinya berlalu secara rutin tapi gersang, tidak memiliki sesuatu pada hari itu, tidak pula menaruh harapan pada hari esok. Dan berita-berita mengenai Muhammad saw. telah mulai sampai ke telinganya, yakni ketika orang-orang di Mekah menyampaikan-nya dari mulut ke mulut. Juga ketika mendengar obrolan majikannya bersama tetamunya; terutama majikannya Umayah bin khdaf, salah seorang pemuka Bani Jumah, yaitu kabilah yang menjadi majikan yang dipertuan oleh Bilal.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Lamalah sudah didengarnya Umayah ketika membicarakan Rasulullah, baik dengan kawan-kawannya maupun sesama warga sukunya; mengeluarkan kata-kata berbisa; penuh dengan rasa amarah, tuduhan dan kebencian. Di antara apa yang dapat ditangkap oleh Bilal dari ucapan kemarahan yang tidak berujung pangkal itu, ialah sifat-sifat yang melukiskan Agama baru baginya. Dan menurut hematnya, sifat-sifat itu merupakan hal-hal baru dipandang dari sudut lingkungan di mana ia tinggal. Sebagaimana juga di antara ucapan-ucapan yang keras penuh ancaman itu, tapi pula kedengaran olehnya pengakuan mereka akan kemuliaan Muhammad saw., tentang kejujuran dan keterpercayaannya …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Benar, didengarnya mereka ta’jub dan keheranan terhadap ajaran yang dibawa oleh Muhammad saw.! Sebagian mereka mengatakan kepada yang lain: “Tidak pernah Muhammad saw. berdusta atau menjadi tukang sihir . . . tidak pula sinting atau berubah akal . . . , walau kita terpaksa menuduhnya demikian, demi untuk membendung orang-orang yang berlomba-lomba memasuki Agamanya!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Didengarnya mereka mempercakapkan kesetiaannya menjaga amanat . . . , tentang kejujuran dan ketulusannya – . . , tentang akhlaq dan kepribadiannya …. Didengarnya pula mereka berbisik-bisik mengenai sebab yang mendorong mereka menentang dan memusuhinya, yaitu: pertama kesetiaan mereka terhadap kepercayaan yang diwariskan nenek moyangnya; dan kedua kekhawatiran merosotnya kemuliaan Quraisy, kemuliaan yang mereka peroleh sebagai imbalan kedudukan mereka menjadi markas keagamaan, sebagai pusat ibadat dan upacara haji di serata jazirah Arab . . . , kemudian kedengkian terhadap Bani Hasyim, kenapa munculnya Nabi dan Rasul itu dari golongan ini dan bukan dari fihak mereka ..</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari, Bilal bin Rabah melihat Nur Ilahi dan mendengar imbauannya dalam lubuk hatinya yang suci murni. Maka ia mendapatkan Rasulullah saw. dan menyatakan keislamannya. Dan tidak lama antaranya, berita rahasia keislaman Bilal terungkaplah …. dan beredar di antara kepala tuan-tuannya dari Bani Jumah, yakni kepala-kepala yang selama ini ditiup oleh kesombongan dan ditindih oleh kecongkakan . . . ! Maka setan-setan di muka bumi tampillah bermunculan dan bersarang dalam dada Umayah bin Khalaf, yang menganggap keislaman seorang hambanya sebagai tamparan pahit yang menghina dan menjatuhkan kehormatan mereka semua ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apa . . . ? Budak mereka orang Habsyi itu masuk Islam dan menjadi pengikut Muhammad . . . ? Walaupun demikian, tidak apa! kata Umayah dalam hatinya. “Matahari yang terbit hari ini takkan tenggelam dengan Islamnya budak durhaka itu … ! ” Memang, bukan saja sang surya itu tidak tenggelam dengan Islamnya Bilal, tetapi pada suatu hari kelak matahari akan tenggelam dengan membawa semua patung-patung dan pembela pembela berhala itu … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mengenai Bilal, tidak saja ia beroleh kedudukan yang merupakan kehormatan bagi Agama Islam semata — walau Islam memang lebih berhak untuk itu — tetapi juga merupakan kehormatan bagi perikemanusiaan umumnya … ! la telah menjadi sasaran berbagai macam siksaan sebagai dialami oleh tokoh-tokoh utama lainnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Seolah-olah Allah telah menjadikannya sebagai tamsil perbandingan bagi ummat manusia, bahwa hitamnya warna kulit dan perbudakan, sekali-kali tidak menjadi penghalang untuk mencapai kebesaran jiwa, asal saja ia beriman dan taat kepada Tuhannya serta memegang teguh haq-haqnya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bilal telah memberikan pelajaran kepada orang-orang yang semasa dengannya, juga bagi orang-orang di segala masa; bagi orang-orang yang seagama dengannya, bahkan bagi pengikut<sup> </sup>pengikut agama lain; suatu pelajaran berharga yang menjelaskan bahwa kemerdekaan jiwa dan kebebasan nurani, tak dapat dibeli dengan emas separuh bumi, atau dengan siksaan bagaimanapun dahsyatnya … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dalam keadaan telanjang ia dibaringkan di atas bara, dengan tujuan agar ia meninggalkan Agamanya atau mencabut pengakuannya, tetapi ia menolak ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka budak Habsyi yang lemah tidak berdaya ini telah dijadikan oleh Rasulullah saw. dan Agama Islam sebagai guru bagi seluruh kemanusiaan dalam soal menghormati hati nurani dan mempertahankan kebebasan serta kemerdekaannya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu ketika, di tengah hari bulat; waktu padang pasir berganti rupa menjadi neraka jahannam, mereka membawanya ke luar, lalu melemparkannya ke pasir yang bagai menyala dalam keadaan telanjang, kemudian beberapa orang laki-laki mengangkat batu besar panas laksana bara, dan menjatuhkannya ke atas tubuh dan dadanya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Siksaan kejam dan biadab ini mereka ulangi setiap hari, hingga karena dahsyatnya lunaklah hati beberapa orang di antara algojo-algojo yang menaruh kasihan kepadanya. Mereka berjanji dan bersedia melepaskannya asal saja ia mau menyebut nama tuhan-tuhan mereka secara baik-baik walau dengan sepatah kata sekalipun — tak usah lebih — yang akan menjaga nama baik mereka di mata umum, hingga tidak menjadi buah pembicaraan bagi orang-orang Quraisy bahwa mereka telah mengalah dan bertekuk lutut kepada seorang budak yang gigih dan keras kepala.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi, walau sepatah kata pun yang dapat diucapkan bukan dari lubuk hatinya, dan yang dapat menebus nyawa dan hidupnya tanpa kehilangan iman dan melepas keyakinannya, Bilal tak hendak mengucapkannya … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang, ditolaknya mengucapkan hal itu, dan sebagai gantinya diulang-ulanglah senandungnya yang abadi: “Ahad … ! Ahad . . .! Allah Yang Maha Tunggal . . . ! Allah Yang Maha Tunggal . . .!” Pendera-pendera itu pun berteriak, bahkan seakan-akan hendak memohon kepadanya: “Sebutlah Lata dan ‘Uzza!” Tetapi jawabannya tidak berubah dari: “Ahad … ! Ahad … ! ” “Sebutlah apa yang kami sebut!”, pinta mereka pula. Tetapi dengan ejekan pahit dan penghinaan yang mena’jubkan ia menjawab: “lidahku tak dapat mengucapkannya … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tinggallah Bilal dalam deraan panas dan tindihan batu, hingga ketika hari petang mereka tegakkan badannya dan ikatkan tali pada lehernya, lalu mereka suruh anak-anak untuk mengaraknya keliling bukit-bukit dan jalan-jalan kota Mekah, sementara Bilal tiada lekang kedua bibirnya melagukan senandung sucinya: “Ahad. . .! Ahad. . .!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berat dugaan kita, bahwa bila malam telah tiba, orang-orang itu akan menawarkan padanya: “Esok, ucapkanlah kata-kata yang baik terhadap tuhan-tuhan kami, sebutlah: tuhanku Lata dan ‘Uzza . . . , nanti kami lepaskan dan biarkan kamu sesuka hatimu! Telah letih kami menyiksamu, seolah-olah kami sendirilah yang disiksa!” Tetapi pastilah Bilal akan menggelengkan kepalanya dan hanya menyebut: “Ahad … ! Ahad . ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Karena tak dapat menahan gusar dan amarah murkanya, Umayah meninju sambil berseru: “Kesialan apa yang menimpa kami disebabkanmu, hai budak celaka?! Demi tuhan Lata dan ‘Uzza, akan kujadikan kau sebagai contoh bagi bangsa budak dan majikan-majikan mereka!” Dengan keyakinan seorang Mu’min dan kebesaran seorang suci, Bilal menyahut: “Ahad … Ahad…</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Orang-orang yang diserahi tugas berpura-pura menaruh kasihan kepadanya, kembali membujuk dan mengajukan tawaran, katanya kepada Umayah: “Biarkanlah ia wahai Umayah! Demi Lata dan ‘Uzza! Mulai saat ini ia takkan disiksa lagi! Bilal ini anak buah kami, bukankah ibunya sahaya kami . . .? Nah, ia takkan rela bila dengan keislamannya itu nama kami menjadi ejekan dan cemoohan bangsa Quraisy . . .!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bilal membelalakkan matanya menentang para penipu dan pengatur muslihat licik itu, tetapi tiba-tiba ketegangan itu menjadi kendur dengan tersunggingnya sebuah senyuman bagai cahaya fajar dari mulutnya. Dan dengan ketenangan yang dapat menggoncangkan dan mengarubirukan mereka, katanya: “Ahad…! Ahad . ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Waktu pagi hampir berlalu, waktu dhuhur dekat menjelang, dan Bilal pun dibawa orang ke padang pasir, tetapi tetap shabar dan tabah, tenang tak tergoyah. Sementara mereka menyiksanya, tiba-tiba datanglah Abu Bakar Shiddiq, serunya: “Apakah kalian akan membunuh seorang laki-laki karena mengatakan bahwa Tuhanku ialah Allah?!” Kemudian katanya kepada Umayah bin Khalaf: “Terimalah ini untuk tebusannya, lebih tinggi dari harganya, dan bebaskan ia … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bagai orang yang hampir tenggelam, tiba-tiba diselamatkan oleh sampan penolong, demikianlah halnya Umayah saat itu; hatinya lega dan merasa amat beruntung demi didengarnya Abu Bakar hendak menebus budaknya. la telah berputus asa akan dapat menundukkan Bilal. Apalagi mereka adalah orang-orang saudagar, dengan dijualnya Bilal mereka melihat keuntungan yang tidak akan diperoleh dengan jalan membunuhnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dijualnyalah Bilal kepada Abu Bakar yang segera membebaskannya, dan dengan demikian Bilal pun tampillah mengambil tempatnya dalam lingkungan orang-orang merdeka . . . . Dan ketika as-Shiddiq mengepit Bilal membawanya ke alam bebas, berkatalah Umayah: “Bawalah ia! Demi Lata dan ‘Uzza, seandainya harga tebusannya tak lebih dari satu ugia, pastilah ia akan kulepas juga!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Abu Bakar ‘arif akan keputusasaan dan pahitnya kegagalan yang tersirat dalam ucapan itu, hingga lebih baik tidak dilayaninya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi karena ini menyangkut kehormatan seorang laki-laki yang sekarang telah menjadi saudara yang tak berbeda dengan dirinya, maka jawabnya kepada Umayah: “Demi Allah, andainya kalian tak hendak menjualnya kecuali seratus ugia, pastilah akan kubayar juga!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian pergilah Abu Bakar bersama shahabatnya itu kepada Rasulullah saw. dan menyampaikan berita gembira tentang kebebasannya, maka saat itu pun tak ubah bagai hari rays besar juga … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan setelah Rasulullah saw. bersama Kaum Muslimin hijrah dan menetap di Madinah, beliau pun mensyari’atkan adzan untuk melakukan shalat. Maka siapakah kiranya yang akan menjadi muaddzin untuk shalat itu sebanyak lima kali dalam sehari semalam . . . yang suara takbir dan tahlilnya akan berkumandang ke seluruh pelosok … ? Ialah Bilal . . . , yang telah menyerukan: “Ahad . . . ! Ahad . . . ! Allah Maha Tunggal . . . ! Allah Maha Tunggal . . .!” semenjak 13 tahun yang lalu, sementara siksaan membantai dan menyelai tubuhnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada hari itu pilihan Rasulullah jatuh atas dirinya sebagai muaddzin pertama dalam Islam. Dan dengan suaranya yang merdu dan empuk diisinya hati dengan keimanan dan telinga dengan keharuan, sementara seruannya menggemakan:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Allahu Akbar. . . Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar … Allahu Akbar Asyhadu allailaha illallah</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Asyhadu allailaha illallah</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Asyhadu anna Muhammadar Rasulullah Asyhadu anna Muhammadar Rasulullah Hayya ‘alas shalah</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hayya ‘alas shalah</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hayya ‘alal falah</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hayya alai falah</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allahu Akbar.. . Allahu Akbar La ilaha illallah. . . “.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Antara Kaum Muslimin dan tentara Quraisy yang datang menyerang Madinah terjadi peperangan . . . . Pertempuran berkecamuk dengan amat sengit dan dahsyat . . . , sementara Bilal maju dan menerjang dalam perang pertama yang diterjuni Islam itu, yaitu Bakar . . . , yang sebagai semboyannya dititahkan oleh Rasulullah menggunakan ucapan: “Ahad … ! Ahad … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dalam peperangan ini Quraisy mengerahkan tenaga intinya, dan pemuka-pemukanya terjun untuk akhirnya menemui tempat pembantaian mereka . . .! Pada mulanya Umayah bin Khalaf, yaitu bekas majikan Bilal yang telah menyiksanya secara kejam dan biadab, tak hendak ikut dalam peperangan itu. Tetapi demi mendengar keengganan dan sifat pengecutnya itu, maka salah seorang di antara kawannya yang bernama ‘Uqbah bin Abi With mendatanginya sambil di tangan kanannya membawa sebuah mijmar — pedupaan yang dipergunakan wanita untuk mengasapi tubuhnya dengan kayu wangi —.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Setelah sampai dan ia berhadapan muka dengan Umayah Yang ketika itu sedang duduk di tengah-tengah anak buahnya, ditaruhlah pedupaan itu di hadapannya seraya berkata: “Hai Abu Ali! Terimalah dan pergunakanlah pedupaan ini. Karena kamu tak lebih dari seorang wanita!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Keparat! apa yang kau bawa ini?, teriak Umayah dengan seramnya. Tetapi tak dapat mengelak terpaksa akhirnya ia turut dalam peperangan itu bersama kawan-kawannya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Amboi, rahasia taqdir apakah kiranya yang tersembunyi di balik peristiwa ini . . .? Uqbah bin Mu’ith adalah seorang yang paling gigih mendorong Umayah untuk melakukan siksaan terhadap Bilal dan orang-orang tak berdaya lainnya dari Kaum Muslimin Dan sekarang, ia pulalah yang mendesaknya<br />supaya ikut dalam Perang Badar, tempat ia akan menemui ajalnya . . .! Tetapi juga tempat tewasnya ‘Uqbah itu sendiri tanpa kecuali …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mulanya Umayah keberatan dan enggan untuk ikut dalam peperangan . . . , dan kalau bukanlah karena desakan Uqbah dengan cara sebagai kita ketahui itu, tidaklah ia hendak mengambil bagian di dalamnya …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi rencana Allah pasti berlaku!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Umayah harus ikut. Ada piutang lama antara dirinya dengan salah seorang hamba Allah yang datang saatnya untuk diselesaikan. Allah tak pernah mati, dan sebagaimana kalian memperlakukan orang demikianlah pula kalian diperlakukan orang!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan taqdir ini gemar sekali mempermainkan orang sombong dan aniaya! Uqbah yang kata-katanya didengar oleh Umayah dan kemauannya untuk menyiksa orang-orang Mu’min yang tak berdosa diturutnya, justeru yang menyeretnya ke liang kubur … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian di tangan siapakah Di tangan Bilal. . . , tidak lain di tangan Bilal sendiri! Tangan yang oleh Umayah dulu diikat dengan rantai, sedang pemiliknya didera dan disiksa.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka tangan inilah pula pada hari itu — ya’ni di waktu perang Badar — suatu saat yang tepat dan diatur oleh taqdir, yang telah menyelesaikan utang-piutang dan membuat perhitungan dengan algojo-algojo Quraisy yang telah menimpakan penghinaan dan kedhaliman terhadap orang-orang Mu’min … ! Peristiwa ini terjadi secara sempurna, tanpa ditambah atau dibumbui … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika pertempuran di antara dua pihak telah mulai, dan barisan Kaum Muslimin maju bergerak dengan semboyannya: “Ahad . ..! Ahad … !’,’maka jantung Umayah pun bagai tercabut dari urat akarnya dan rasa takut mengancam dirinya. . . Kalimat yang kemarin diulang-ulang oleh hambanya di bawah tekanan siksa dan dera, sekarang telah menjadi semboyan dari suatu Agama secara utuh, dan dari suatu ummat yang baru secara keseluruhan . . . ! “Ah ad ! Ahad . . .!” Demikianlah dan dengan kecepatan seperti ini . . . , serta pertumbuhan yang demikian besar … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pertempuran telah berkecamuk dan pedang bertemu pedang</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika perang telah hampir usai, kelihatanlah oleh Umayah, abdurrahman bin ‘Auf, seorang shahabat Rasulullah saw. Maka segera ia melindungkan diri kepadanya, dan meminta untuk menjadi tawanannya; dengan harapan akan dapat menyelamatkan nyawanya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Permintaan itu dikabulkan oleh Abdurrahman yang bersedia melindunginya, dan di tengah-tengah hiruk-pikuknya perang dibawanyalah Umayah ke tempat orang-orang tawanan. Di tengah jalan ia kelihatan oleh Bilal, yang segera berseru: “Ini dia .. . gembong kekafiran, Umayah bin Khalaf! Biar aku mati daripada orang ini selamat … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sambil menyatakan itu diangkatlah pedangnya hendak memenggal kepala yang selama ini menjadi besar disebabkan kecongkakan dan kesombongan. “Hai Bilal, ia tawananku! ” seru Abdurrahman. “Tawanan – . . ? ” ujar bilal, ‘padahal pertempuran masih berkobar dan roda</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">peperangan masih berputar . . . ? ” la diterima sebagai tawanan . . . , padahal belum lama berselang senjatanya terhunjam di tubuh Kaum Muslimin yang sampai sekarang masih meneteskan darahnya … ? Tidak . . .! bagi Bilal itu artinya berolok-olok dan penindasan. Dan cukuplah selama ini Umayah berolok-olok dan melakukan penindasan. la telah menindas demikian rupa, hingga hari ini tak ada lagi kesempatan tersisa, dalam keadaan segawat ini . . . dalam akibat yang menentukan ini!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">orang kafir, Umayah bin Khalaf … ! Biar aku mati daripada dia lolos … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berdatanganlah serombongan Kaum Muslimin dengan pedang penyebar maut di tangan mereka dan mengepung Umayah bersama puteranya — yang berperang di pihak Quraisy — sementara Abdurrahman bin Auf tak dapat berbuat apa pun, bahkan juga tidak dapat melindungi bajunya yang telah terkoyak-koyak oleh desakan orang banyak.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bilal memandangi tubuh Umayah yang telah rubuh oleh tebasan pedang-pedang itu dengan lama sekali, kemudian ia bergegas meninggalkan tempat itu, sementara suaranya yang nyaring mengumandangkan: “Ahad … ! Ahad</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Menurut hemat saya, bukanlah haq kita untuk membahas keutamaan toleransi dari pihak Bilal dalam suasana seperti itu …. Tetapi seandainya pertemuan antara Bilal dengan Umayah terjadi pada suasana lain, maka bolehlah kita meminta kepadanya agar memberi ma’af, yang tak mungkin ditolak oleh orang yang seperti Bilal keimanan dan ketaqwaannya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hanya sebagai kita ketahui, mereka bertemu di medan laga, masing-masing pihak mendatanginya dengan tujuan untuk menghancurkan pihak. lawannya . . . . Pedang dan tombak herkelebatan … para korban berguguran – – – , dan maut merajalela berseliweran . . .! Tiba-tiba pada saat seperti itu Bilal melihat Umayah, yang tak sejengkal pun dari tubuhnya luput dari bekas kekejaman dan adzab siksa Umayah!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Lalu di manakah dan betapa tampak olehnya … ? Dilihatnya dalam kancah pertempuran; memenggal kepala Kaum Muslimin yang ditemui Umayah, dan seandainya ia beroleh kesempatan untuk memenggal kepala Bilal pada saat itu, tentulah tidak akan disia-siakannya! Nah, dalam keadaan seperti demikianlah kedua laki-laki itu berhadapan muka! Maka tidaklah adil menurut logika, bila kita bertanya kepada Bilal, kenapa ia tak hendak memberi ma’af dengan sebaik-baiknya . . .!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hari-hari berlalu . . . dan Mekah dibebaskan . . . . Dengan mengepalai sepuluh ribu Kaum Muslimin, Rasulullah memasuki kota itu, bersyukur dan mengucapkan takbir. Beliau langsung menuju Ka’bah yang telah dipadati berhala oleh Quraisy dengan jumlah bilangan hari dalam setahun, ialah tidak kurang dari 360 buah berhala. Yang benar telah datang, hancur luluhlah kebathilan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mulai hari itu tak ada lagi Lata . ‘Uzza … atau. Hubal</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">, dan semenjak itu manusia tidak lagi menundukkan kepalanya kepada batu atau berhala – . . , dan tak ada lagi yang mereka puja sepenuh hati kecuali Allah yang tak ada tara atau bandingan-Nya; Tuhan yang Maha Tunggal lagi Esa, Maha Tinggi dan Maha Besar ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rasulullah memasuki Ka’bah dengan membawa Bilal sebagai teman . . .! Baru saja masuk, beliau telah berhadapan dengan sebuah patung pahatan, menggambarkan Ibrahim ‘alaihissalam sedang berjudi dengan menggunakan anak panah. Rasulullah amat murka, sabdanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Semoga mereka dihancurkan Allah! Tak pernah nenek moyang kita melakukan perjudian demikian . . .. Dan Ibrahim itu bukanlah seorang yahudi, bukan pula seorang nasrani, tetapi seorang yang beragama suci dan seorang Muslim, dan sekali-kali bukan dari golongan musyrik “.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rasulullah menyuruh Bilal naik ke bagian atas masjid untuk mengumandangkan adzan. Maka Bilal pun adzanlah . . ‘ dan amboi . . . , alangkah mengharukan saat itu, tempat itu dan suasana kala itu … ! Gerakan kehidupan di Mekah terhenti, dan dengan jiwa yang satu, ribuan Kaum Muslimin dengan hati khusyu’ dan secara berbisik mengulangi kalimat demi kalimat yang diucapkan Bilal.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Orang-orang musyrik di rumahnya masing-masing hampir tak percaya dan bertanya-tanya dalam hatinya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">— Inikah dia Muhammad dengan orang-orang miskinnya yang<br />kemarin terusir meninggalkan kampung halamannya … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">— Betulkah dia, yang mereka usir, mereka perangi, dan mereka bunuh keluarga yang paling dicintainya serta kerabat yang paling dekat kepadanya … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">— Dan betulkah dia, yang beberapa saat yang lalu, nyawa mereka berada di tangannya, memaklumkan kepada mereka: “Pergilah kalian . . . , kalian semua bebas … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tiga orang bangsawan Quraisy sedang duduk-duduk di pekarangan Ka’bah. Mereka tampak terpukul menyaksikan panorama itu, yaitu ketika Bilal menginjak-injak berhala-berhala mereka dengan kedua telapak kakinya, kemudian di atas reruntuhannya yang telah hancur luluh, menyenandungkan suara adzannya yang berkumandang di seluruh pelosok Mekah yang tak ubahnya bagai tiupan angin di musim bunga ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketiga orang itu ialah: Abu Sufyan bin Harb — yang telah masuk Islam beberapa saat yang lalu — dan ‘Attab bin Useid serta Harits bin Hisyam — kedua mereka belum lagi masuk Islam —. Sementara matanya tertuju kepada Bilal yang sedang menyuarakan adzan, ‘Attab berkata: “Sungguh Useid dimuliakan Allah, ia tidak mendengar sesuatu yang amat dibencinya!” Berkata pula Harits: “Demi Allah, seandainya saya tahu bahwa Muhammad saw. itu di pihak yang benar, pastilah saya paling dahulu akan mengikutinya . . .! Sedang Abu Sufyan yang diplomat itu menukas pembicaraan kedua shahabatnya dengan katanya: “Saya tak hendak mengatakan sesuatu, karena seandainya saya berkata pastilah akan disebarkan oleh kerikil kerikil ini!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika Nabi saw. meninggalkan Ka’bah tampaklah mereka olehnya, lalu dalam sekejap waktu dibacanya wajah-wajah mereka. Kemudian dengan kedua matanya yang bersinar dengan Nur Hahi, sabdanya kepada mereka: “Saya tahu apa yang telah kalian katakan tadi . . …. Lalu diceriterakannyalah apa yang mereka katakan itu. Maka Harits dan ‘Attab pun berseru: “Kami menyaksikan bahwa anda adalah Rasulullah. Demi Allah tak seorang pun mendengarkan pembicaraan kami, hingga kami dapat menuduh bahwa ia telah men<sup>y</sup>ampaikannya kepada anda … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sekarang mereka menghadapi Bilal dengan pandangan baru</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. Dalam lubuk hati mereka bergema kembali kalimat-kalimat yang mereka dengar dalam pidato Rasulullah sewaktu mula-mula masuk Mekah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hai golongan Quraisy . . Allah telah melenyapkan daripada kalian kesombongan jahiliyah dan kebanggaan dengan nenek moyang… , Manusia itu dari Adam …. sedang Adam dari tanah … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bilal melanjutkan hidupnya kini bersama Rasulullah saw. dan ikut mengambil bagian dalam semua perjuangan bersenjata yang dialaminya. la tetap menjadi muaddzin, menjaga serta menyemarakkan syi’ar Agama besar ini, yang telah membebaskan dari kegelapan kepada cahaya, dari perbudakan kepada kemerdekaan … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kedudukan Agama Islam semakin tinggi, demikian pula halnya Kaum Muslimin, taraf dan derajat mereka ikut naik; dan Bilal semakin lama semakin dekat di hati Rasulullah saw. yang menyatakannya sebagai “seorang laki-laki penduduk surga”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi sikapnya tidak berubah, tetap seperti biasa; mulia dan besar hati, yang selalu memandang dirinya tidak lebih dari “seorang Habsyi yang kemarin menjadi budak belian”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari ia pergi meminang dua orang wanita untuk diperisterikannya dan diperisterikan saudaranya, maka katanya kepada bapa wanita itu: “Saya ini Bilal, dan ini saudaraku, kami berasal dari budak bangsa Habsyi. . . . Pada mulanya kami<sup> </sup>berada dalam kesesatan kemudian diberi petunjuk oleh Allah, dahulu kami budak-budak belian lalu dimerdekakan oleh Allah</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">. . . . Jika pinangan kami anda terima alhamdulillah — segala puji bagi Allah, dan seandainya anda tolak, maka Allahu Akbar, Allah Maha Besar … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rasulullah saw. pergi meninggalkan alam fana dan <sub>.</sub>naik ke rafiqul a’la dalam keadaan ridla dan diridlai, dan penanggung jawab Kaum Muslimin sepeninggal beliau dibebankan di atas pundak khalifahnya Abu Bakar as-Shiddiq</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bilal pergi mendapatkan khalifah Rasulullah, menyampaikan isi hatinya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Wahai Khalifah Rasulullah, saya mendengar Rasulullah bersabda:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Aural orang Mu’min yang utama adalah berjihad fi sabilillah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Jadi apa maksudmu, hai Bilal?” tanya Abu Bakar. “Saya ingin berjuang di jalan Allah sampai saya meninggal dunia”, ujar Bilal. “Siapa lagi yang akan menjadi muaddzin bagi kami?”, tanya Abu Bakar pula. Dengan air mata berlinang Bilal menjawab: “Saya takkan menjadi muaddzin lagi bagi orang lain setelah Rasulullah”. “Tidak” kata Abu Bakar, “tetaplah tinggal di sini hai Bilal, dan menjadi muaddzin kami!” Jawab Bilal pula: “seandainya anda memerdekakan saya dulu adalah untuk kepentingan anda, baiklah saya terima permintaan anda itu. Tetapi bila anda memerdekakan saya karena Allah, biarkanlah diri saya untuk Allah sesuai dengan maksud baik anda itu!” “Tak lain saya memerdekakanmu itu, hai Bilal, semata-mata karena Allah!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian mengenai kelanjutannya terjadi perbedaan pendapat di antara para ahli riwayat. Sebagian meriwayatkan bahwa ia pergi ke Syria dan menetap di sana sebagai pejuang dan mujahid. Sementara menurut lainnya, ia menerima permintaan Abu Bakar untuk tinggal bersamanya di Madinah. Kemudian setelah Abu Bakar wafat dan Umar diangkat sebagai khalifah, barulah Bilal minta idzin dan mohon diri kepadanya, lalu berangkat ke Syria.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bagaimanapun juga, Bilal telah menadzarkan sisa hidup dan usianya untuk berjuang menjaga benteng-benteng Islam di perbatasan, dan membulatkan tekadnya untuk dapat menjumpai Allah dan Rasul-Nya, sewaktu ia sedang melakukan aural yang paling disukai oleh keduanya . . . . Dan suaranya yang syandu, dalam dan penuh wibawa itu, tidak lagi mengumandangkan adzan seperti biasa. Sebabnya ialah karena demi ia membaca “Asyhadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah “, maka kenangan lamanya bangkit kembali, dan suaranya tertelan oleh kesedihan, digantikan oleh cucuran tangis dan air mata ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Adzannya yang terakhir, ialah ketika Umar sebagai Amirul Mu’minin datang ke Syria. Orang-orang menggunakan kesempatan tersebut dengan memohon kepada khalifah untuk meminta Bilal menjadi muaddzin bagi satu shalat saja. Amirul Mu’minin memanggil Bilal; ketika waktu shalat telah tiba, maka dimintanya ia menjadi muaddzin.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bilal pun<sup>,</sup> naik ke menara dan adzanlah . . . . Shahabat shahabat yang pernah mendapati Rasulullah di waktu Bilal menjadi muaddzinnya sama-sama menangis mencucurkan air mata, yang tak pernah mereka lakukan selama ini …. sedang yang paling keras tangisnya di antara mereka ialah Umar …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bilal berpulang ke rahmatullah di Syria sebagai pejuang di jalan Allah seperti diinginkannya. Dan di bawah bumi Damsyiq, sekarang terpendam kerangka dan tulang-belulang suatu pribadi yang besar di antara pribadi-pribadi manusia, yang amat teguh dan tangguh pendiriannya dalam mempertahankan ‘aqidah dan keimanan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Semoga Rahmat dan Karunia Allah melimpah rush kepada Bilal dan kepada kita semua</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">BILAAL IBN RABAAH </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">Sneering at Horror! </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Whenever Umar lbn Al khattaab mentioned Abu Bakr he would say, "Abu Bakr is our master and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the emancipator of our master." That is to say, Bilaal. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Indeed, the man to whom `Umar would give the agnomen "Our Master" must be a great and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fortunate man. However, this man - who was very dark in complexion, slender, very tall, thick- haired </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and with a sparse beard, as described by the narrators - would hardly hear words of praise and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">commendation directed at him and bestowed bountifully upon him without bending his head, lowering </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his eyelids and saying with tears flowing down his two cheeks, "Indeed, I am an Abyssinian. Yesterday, I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was only a slave!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> So who is this Abyssinian who was yesterday only a slave? He is Bilaal Ibn Rabaah the announcer of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the time of Muslim prayer and the troublemaker to the idols. He was one of the miracles of faith and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">truthfulness, one of Islam's great miracles. For out of every ten Muslims, from the beginning of Islam </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">until today and until Allah wills, we will meet seven, at least, who know Bilaal. That is, there are </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hundreds of millions of people throughout the centuries and generations who know Bilaal, remember his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">name, and know his role just as they know the two greatest Caliphs in Islam, Abu Bakr and `Umar! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Even if you ask a child who is still in his first years of primary school in Egypt, Pakistan, Malaysia, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">or China, in the two Americas, Europe, or Russia, in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran, or Sudan, in Tunis, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Algeria, or Morocco, in the depth of Africa and in the mountains of Asia, in every place on the earth </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">where Muslims reside, you can ask any Muslim child, "Who is Bilaal, child?" He will answer you, "He </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was the muezzin of the Messenger (PBUH) and he was the slave whose master used to torture him with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hot burning stones to make him apostatize. But instead he said, "One, One." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Whenever you consider this enduring fame that Islam bestowed upon Bilaal, you should know that </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">before Islam this Bilaal was no more than a slave who tended herds of camels for his master for a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">handful of dates. Had it not been for Islam, it would have been his fate to remain a slave, wandering </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">among the crowd until death brought an end to his life and caused him to perish in the profoundest </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">depths of forgetfulness. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> However, his faith proved to be true, and the magnificence of the religion which he believed in gave </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him, during his lifetime and in history, an elevated place among the great and holy men of Islam. Indeed, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">many human beings of distinction, prestige, or wealth have not obtained even one-tenth of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">immortality which Bilaal the Abyssinian slave gained. Indeed, many historical figures were not conferred </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">even a portion of the fame which has been bestowed upon Bilaal. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Indeed, the black color of his complexion, his modest lineage, and his contemptible position among </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">people as a slave did not deprive him, when he chose to embrace Islam, of occupying the high place </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">which his truthfulness, certainty, purity, and self-sacrifice qualified him for. For him, all this would not </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">have been on the scale of estimation and honor except as an astonishing occurrence when greatness is </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">found where it could not possibly be. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> People thought that a slave like Bilaal - who descended from strange roots, who had neither kinfolk </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nor power, who did not possess any control over his life but was himself a possession of his master who </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">had bought him with his money, who came and went amid the sheep, camels, and other livestock of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">master - they thought that such a human creature would neither have power over anything, nor become </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">anything. But he went beyond all expectations and possessed great faith that no one like him could </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">possess! He was the first muezzin of the Messenger and of Islam, a position which was aspired to by all </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the masters and nobles of the Quraish who embraced Islam and followed the Messenger. Yes, Bilaal lbn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rabaah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Oh what valor and greatness are expressed by these three words Bilaal Ibn Rabaah! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He was an Abyssinian from the black race. His destiny made him a slave of some people of the tribe </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of Jumah in Makkah, where his mother was one of their slave girls. He led the life of a slave whose bleak </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">days were alike and who had no right over his day and no hope for his tomorrow. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The news of Muhammad's (PBUH) call began and reached his ears when people in Makkah began </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to talk about it and when he began listening to the discussions of his master and his guests, especially </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Umayah lbn khalaf, one of the elders of the Bani Jumah, of which Bilaal was one of the slaves. How </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">often did he hear Urnayah talking to his friends for some time and to some persons of his tribe. Many </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">times they talked about the Messenger with words that were overflowing with anxiety, rage, and malice! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Bilaal, on the other hand, was receiving between those words of insane fury and rage the attributes </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of this new religion. He began to feel that they were new qualities for the environment which he lived in. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He was also able to receive during their threatening, thunderous talks their acknowledgement of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muhammad's nobility, truthfulness, and loyalty. Yes indeed, he heard them wondering and amazed at </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">what Muhammad came with. They said to one another, "Muhammad was never a liar, magician, or mad, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">but we have to describe him this way until we turn away from him those who rush to his religion." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He heard them talking about his honesty and loyalty, about his manliness and nobility, and about his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">purity and composure of his intelligence. He heard them whispering about the reasons which caused </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">them to challenge and antagonize him: First, their allegiance to the religion of their fathers; Second, their </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fear over the glory of the Quraish which was bestowed upon them because of their religious status as a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">center of idol worship and resort in the whole of the Arabian Peninsula; Third, the envy of the tribe of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bani Haashim that anyone from them should claim to be a prophet or messenger. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> One day Bilaal Ibn Rabaah recognized the light of Allah and heard His resonance in the depths of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his good soul. So he went to the Messenger of Allah and converted to Islam. It did not take long before </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the news of his embracing Islam was spread. It was a shock to the chiefs of the Bani Jumah, who were </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">very proud and conceited. The devils of the earth sat couched over the breast of Umayah Ibn khalaf, who </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">considered the acceptance of Islam by one of their slaves a blow that overwhelmed them with shame and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">disgrace. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Their Abyssinian slave converted to Islam and followed Muhammad. Umayah said to himself, "It </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">does not matter. Indeed the sun this day shall not set but with the Islam of this stray slave." However, the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sun never did set with the Islam of Bilaal, but it set one day with all the idols of the Quraish and the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">patrons of paganism among them. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> As for Bilaal, he adopted an attitude that would honor not only Islam, even though Islam was more </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">worthy of it, but also all humanity. He resisted the harshest kind of torture like all pious great men. Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">made him an example of the fact that blackness of skin and bondage would not decry the greatness of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">soul if it found its faith, adhered to its Creator, and clung to its right. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Bilaal gave a profound lesson to those of his age and every age, for those of his religion and every </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">religion, a lesson which embraced the idea that freedom and supremacy of conscience could not be </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">bartered either for gold or punishment, even if it filled the earth. He was stripped naked and laid on hot </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">coals to make him renounce his religion, but he refused. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Messenger (PBUH) and Islam made this weak Abyssinian slave a teacher to all humanity in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">art of respecting conscience and defending its freedom and supremacy. They used to take him out in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">midday heat when the desert turned to a fatal hell. Then they would throw him naked on its scorching </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">rocks and bring a burning hot rock, which took several men to lift from its place, and throw it onto his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">body and chest. This savage torture was repeated every day until the hearts of some of his executioners </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">took pity on him. Finally, they agreed to set him free on condition that he would speak well of their gods, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">even with only one word that would allow them to keep their pride so that the Quraish would not say </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">they had been defeated and humiliated by the resistence of their persevering slave. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> But even this one word, which he could eject from outside his heart and with it buy his life and soul </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">without losing his faith or abandoning his conviction, Bilaal refused to say. Yes, he refused to say it and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">began to repeat his lasting chant Instead: "One... One!" His torturers shouted at him, imploring him, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"Mention the name of Al-Laat and Al-'Uzzaa." But he answered, "One . . . One" They said to him, "Say </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">as we say." But he answered them with remarkable mockery and caustic irony, "Indeed my tongue is not </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">good at that." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> So Bilaal remained in the melting heat and under the weight of the heavy rock, and by sunset they </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">raised him up and put a rope around his neck. Then they ordered their boys to take him around the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mountains and streets of Makkah. And Bilaal's tongue did not mention anything other than his holy </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">chant, "One... One." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When the night overtook them, they began bargaining with him, "Tomorrow, speak well of our </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gods, say, `My lord is Al-Laat and Al `Uzzaa,' and we'll leave you alone. We are tired of torturing you as </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">if we are the tortured ones." But he shook his head and said, "One... One." So, Umayah Ibn khalaf kicked </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him and exploded with exasperating fury, and shouted, "What bad luck has thrown you upon us, O slave </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of evil? By Al-Laat and Al-'Uzzaa, I'll make you an example for slaves and masters." But Bilaal </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">answered with the holy greatness and certainty of a believer, "One... One." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> And he who was assigned to play the role of a sympathizer returned to talking and bargaining. He </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said "Take it easy, Umayah. By Al-Laat, he will not be tortured again. Indeed Bilaal is one of us, his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mother is our slave girl He will not be pleased to talk about and ridicule us because of his Islam." But </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bilaal gazed at their lying cunning faces, and his mouth slackened like the light of dawn. He said with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">calmness that shook them violently, "One... One." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> It was the next day and midday approached. Bilaal was taken to the sun-baked ground. He was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">patient, brave, firm, and expecting the reward in the Hereafter. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Abu Bakr As-siddiiq went to them while they were torturing him and shouted at them, "Are you </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">killing a man because he says, `Allah is my Lord?"' Then he shouted at Umayah lbn khalaf, "Take more </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">than his price and set him free." It was as if Umayah were drowning and had caught a lifeboat. It was to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his liking and he was very much pleased when he heard Abu Bakr offering the price of his freedom, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">since they had despaired of subjugating Bilaal. And as they were merchants, they realized that selling </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him was more profitable to them than his death. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> They sold him to Abu-Bakr, and then he emancipated him immediately, and Bilaal took his place </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">among free men. When As- siddilq put his arm round Bilaal, rushing with him to freedom, Umayah said </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to him, "Take him, for by Al-Laat and Al-' Uzzaa if you had refused to buy him except for one ounce of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gold, I would have sold him to you." Abu Bakr realized the bitterness of despair and disappointment </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hidden in these words. It was appropriate not to answer, but because they violated the dignity of this man </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">who had become his brother and his equal, he answered Umayah saying, "By Allah, if you had refused to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sell him except for a hundred ounces, I would have paid it." He departed with his companion to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Messenger of Allah, giving him news of his liberation, and there was a great celebration. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> After the Hijrah of the Messenger (PBUH) and the Muslims to Al-Madiinah and their settling there, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Messenger instituted the Adhaan. So who would become the muezzin five times a day? Who would </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">call across distant lands, "Allah is the Greatest" and "There is no god but Allah"? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> It was Bilaal, who had shouted thirteen years before while the torture was destroying him, "Allah is </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">One... One." He was chosen by the Messenger that day to be the first muezzin in Islam. With his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">melodious soul-stirring voice, he filled the hearts with faith and the ears with awe when he called: </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I bear witness that there is no god but Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I bear witness that there is no god but Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Come to Prayer </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Come to Prayer </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Come to Success </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Come to Success </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">There is no god but Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Fighting broke out between the Muslims and the army of the Quraish who came to invade Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Madiinah. The war raged fiercely and terribly while Bilaal was there attacking and moving about in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">first battle. Islam was plunged into the Battle of Badr, whose motto the Messenger (PBUH) ordered to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">be, "One... One." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> In this battle, the Quraish sacrificed their youth and all their noblemen to their destruction. Umayah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ibn khalaf, who had been Bilaal's master and who used to torture him with deadly brutality, was about to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">retreat from fighting. But his friend Uqbah Ibn Abu Mu`iit went to him when he heard the news of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">withdrawal, carrying a censer in his right hand. When he arrived he was sitting among his people. He </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">threw the censer between his hands and said to him, "O Abu `Ally, use this. You are one of the women." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">But Umayah shouted at him saying, "May Allah make you and what you came with ugly!" And he did </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">not find a way out, so he went out to fight. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> What other secrets does destiny conceal and unfold? `Uqbah Ibn Abu Mu'iit had been the greatest </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">supporter of Umayah in the torture of Bilaal and other weak Muslims. And on that day, he himself was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the one who urged him to go to the Battle of Badr where he would die, just as it would be the place </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">where Uqbah would die! Umayah had been one of the shirkers from war. Had it not been for what Uqbah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">did to him, he would not have gone out fighting. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> But Allah executes His command. So let Umayah go out, because there was an old account between </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him and one of the slaves of Allah. It was time to settle it. The Judge never dies. As you owe, you shall </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">be owed to. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Indeed destiny would be very much pleased to mock the tyrants. Uqbah, whose provocations </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Umayah used to listen to and follow his desire to torture the innocent believers, was the same person who </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">would lead Umayah to his death. By the hand of whom? By the hand of Bilaal himself and Bilaal alone! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The same hands that Umayah used to chain and whose owner he beat and tortured. Those very hands </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">were on that day, in the Battle of Badr, on a rendezvous that destiny had set the best time for, with the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">torture of the Quraish who had humiliated the believers unjustly and aggressively. That is what really </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">happened. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When the fighting began between the two sides, and the side of the Muslims shouted the motto, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"One . . . One," the heart of Umayah was startled, and a warning came to him. The word which his slave </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">used to repeat yesterday under torture and horror became today the motto of a whole religion and of a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">whole new nation. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> "One . . . One" Is it so? With this quickness? And with this rapid growth? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The swords clashed in the battle and the fighting became severe. As the battle neared its end, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Umayah lbn Khalaf noticed `Abd Ar Rahman Ibn `Awf, the Companion of the Messenger of Allah. He </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sought refuge with him and asked to be his captive, hoping to save his life. `Abd Ar-Rahman accepted </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his supplication and granted him refuge. Then he took him and walked with him amidst the battle to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">place where captives were held. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> On the way Bilaal noticed him and shouted, "The head of kuft (disbelief), Umayah lbn Khalaf! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">May I not be saved if he is saved!" he lifted up his sword to cut off the head which was all the time full </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of pride and arrogance. But `Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn `Awf shouted at him, "O Bilaal, he is my captive!" A </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">captive while the war was still raging? A captive while his sword was still dripping blood because of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">what he had been doing just moments before to the bodies of the Muslims? No! In Bilaal's opinion, this </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was irony and abuse of the mind, and Umayah had scoffed and abused the mind enough. He scoffed until </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">there was no irony remaining for such a day, such a dilemma, and such a fate! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Bilaal realized that he would not be able alone to storm the sanctuary of his brother in faith, `Abd </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ar-rahman Ibn `Awf. So he shouted at the top of his voice to the Muslims, "O helpers of Allah! The head </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of Kufr, Umayah Ibn khalaf! May I not be saved if he is saved!" A band of Muslims approached with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">swords dripping blood. They surrounded Umayah and his son, who was fighting with the Quraish. `Abd </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ar-Rabman Ibn `Awf could not do anything. He could not even protect his armor which the crowd </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">removed. Bilaal gazed long at the body of Umayah, who fell beneath the smashing swords. Then he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hastened away from him shouting, "One... One." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> I do not think it is our right to examine the virtue of leniency in Bilaal on this occasion. If the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">meeting between Bilaal and Umayah had taken place in other circumstances, we would have been </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">allowed to ask Bilaal for leniency, and a man like him in faith and piety would not have withheld it. But </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the meeting which took place between them was in a war, where each party came to destroy its enemy. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The swords were blazing, the killed were failing. Then Bilaal saw Umayah, who had not left even a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">small place on his body free of the traces of his torture. Where and how did he see him? He saw him in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the arena of battle and fighting, mowing down with his sword all of the heads of Muslims he could. If he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">had reached the head of Bilaal then, he would have cut it off. In such circumstances as the two men met, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">it is not fair to ask Bilaal: Why did you not forgive him gently? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The days went by and Makkah was conquered. The Messenger (PBUH) entered it, thankful and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">saying, "Allah is the Greatest," at the head of 10,000 Muslims. He headed for the Ka`bah immediately, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">this holy place which the Quraish had crowded with idols amounting to the number of days of the year. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"The truth has come and falsehood has vanished." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Ever since that day, there has been no Uzzaa, no Laat and no Hubal. Man will not bow to a rock or idol </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">after today. People will worship no one with all his conscience but Allah, Who has no likeness, the One, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Most Great, Most High. The Messenger entered the Ka`bah accompanied by Bilaal. He had hardly </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">entered it when he faced a carved idol representing lbraahiim (Abraham) (PBUH) prophesying with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sticks. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Messenger (PBUH) was angry and said, "May Allah kill them. Our ancestor never did prophesy </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">with sticks. lbraahiim was not a Jew or Christian, but he was a true Muslim and was never a polytheist." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Then he ordered Bilaal to ascend to the top of the mosque and call to Prayer, and Bilaal called the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Adhaan. How magnificent `was the time, place, and occasion! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Life came to a standstill in Makkah, and thousands of Muslims stood like motionless air, repeating </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">in submissiveness and whispering the words of the Adhaan after Bilaal while the polytheists were in their </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">homes hardly believing what was happening. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Is this Muhammad (PBUH) and his poor followers who were expelled yesterday from their homes? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Is this really he, with 10,000 of his believers? Is this really he whom we chased away, fought and killed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his most beloved kin and relations? Is this really he who was speaking to us a few minutes ago while our </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">necks were at his mercy, saying, "Go, you are free!"? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> But three nobles of the Quraish were sitting in the open space in front of the Kabah, as if they were </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">touched by the scene of Bilaal treading their idols with his feet and sending above its heaped wreckage </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his voice with the Adhaan, spreading to all the horizons of Makah, like a passing spring. These three </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">were Abu Sufyaan lbn Harb, who had embraced Islam only hours ago, and `Attaab Ibn Usaid and Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">haarith Ibn Hishaam, who had not yet embraced Islam. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> `Attaab, with his eyes on Bilaal crying out the Adhaan, said, "Allah has honored Usaid in that he did </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">not hear this, or else he would have heard what would infuriate him." Al-haarith said, "By Allah, if I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">were sure that Muhammad (PBUH) is telling the truth, I would follow him." Abu Sufyaan, the old fox, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">commented on their speech saying, "I am not saying a word, for if I do, these pebbles will inform about </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">me." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When the Prophet left the Ka'bah he saw them, read their faces instantly, and said with his eyes </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">shining with the light of Allah and the joy of victory, "I know what you've said," and he told them what </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">they had said. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Al-Haarith and Attaab shouted, `We bear witness that you are the Messenger of Allah. By Allah, no </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">one heard us, so we can't say somebody informed you!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> And they welcomed Bilaal with new hearts, which enclosed the echo of the words which they had </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">heard in the Messenger's speech just after he entered Makkah. "O people of the Quraish, Allah has </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">removed from you the arrogance of pre-Islamic paganism, and its boasting about forefathers. People are </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">descended from Adam, and Adam was from dust." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Bilaal lived with the Messenger of Allah (PBUH), witnessing all the battles with him, calling to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prayer and observing the rites of this great religion that took him out of darkness to light and from </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">servitude to freedom. The stature of Islam along with the stature of Muslims was elevated. Every day </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bilaal was getting closer to the heart of the Messenger of Allah, who used to describe him as "one of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">inhabitants of Paradise." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> But Bilaal remained just as he was, noble and humble, always considering himself "the Abyssinian </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">who only yesterday was a slave." One day he was proposing to two girls for himself and his brother, so </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">be said to their father, " I am Bilaal and this is my brother, two slaves from Abyssinia. We were astray </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and Allah guided us. We were two slaves and Allah emancipated us. If you agree on us marrying your </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">daughters, all praise is to Allah; if you refuse, then Allah is the Greatest." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Messenger passed away to Allah, well pleased and well pleasing, and Abu Bakr As-siddiiq took </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the command of the Muslims after him. Bilaal went to the caliph (successor) of the Messenger of Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and said to him, "O Caliph of the Messenger of Allah, I heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) say, "The </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">best deed of a believer is jihaad in the cause of Allah." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Abu Bakr said to him, "So what do you want, Bilaal?" He said,"I want to defend in the cause of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah until I die." Abu Bakr said, "And who will call the Adhaan for us?" Bilaal said, with his eyes </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">overflowing with tears, "I will not call the Adhaan for anyone after the Messenger of Allah." Abu Bakr </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said, "Stay and call to Prayer for us, Bilaal." Bilaal said, "If you emancipated me to be for you, I will do </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">what you want, but if you emancipated me for Allah, leave me to Whom I was emancipated for." Abu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bakr said, "I emancipated you for Allah, Bilaal." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The narrators differ. Some of them believe that he traveled and remained fighting and defending. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Some others narrate that he accepted Abu Bakr's request to stay with him in Madiinah. When Abu Bakr </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">died and Umar succeeded him, Bilaal asked his permission and went to Syria. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Anyhow, Bilaal vowed the remaining part of his life to fight in the cause of Islam, determined to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">meet Allah and His Messenger having done the best deed they love. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His melodious, welcoming, awe-inspiring voice did not call the Adhaan any more, because </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">whenever he uttered in his Adhaan, "I bear witness that Muhammad (PBUH) is the Messenger of Allah," </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">memories would stir him, and his voice would vanish under his sadness while the tears cried out the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">words. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His last Adhaan was during the days Umar, the Commander of the Faithful, when he visited Syria. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Muslims entreated him to persuade Bilaal to call one Adhaan for them. The Commander of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Faithful called Bilaal when it was time for Prayer and pleaded with him to make the Adhaan. Bilaal </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ascended and did so. The Companions of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) who were with the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Commander of the Faithful while Bilaal was calling the Adhaan wept as they never did before, and Umar </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the most strongly. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Bilaal died in Syria, fighting in the cause of Allah just as he had wanted. Beneath the dust of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Damascus, today therlies the body of one of the greatest men of humankind in standing up for the creed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of Islam with conviction. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174474199517824808.post-258480813764214582011-06-10T07:40:00.000-07:002011-06-11T06:35:24.225-07:00<div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-size:16px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/6-bin-abi-waqqash-yang-menyembunyikan.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">6) SA'AD BIN ABI WAQQASH</span></a></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sirah-60-para-sahabat-rasulullah-saw.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">PARA SAHABAT/COMPANIONS</span></a></span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/4-bilal-bin-rabah-rasulullah.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">4) BILAL BIN RABAH</span></a></span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">(5) </span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#38761d;">ABDULLAH BIN UMAR </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><b>Tekun beribadah dan mendekatkan diri kepada Allah. </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sewaktu telah berada di puncak usianya yang tinggi, ia berbicara:Saya telah bai’at kepada Rasulullah saw Maka sampai saat ini, saya tak pernahbelot atau mungkir janji . . . . Dan saya tak pernah bai’at kepada pengobar fitnah …. Tidak pula membangunkan orang Mu’min dari tidurnya….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dalam kalimat-kalimat di atas tersimpul secara ringkas tapi padat kehidupan seorang laki-laki shalih yang lanjut usia, melebihi usia 80 tahun, dan telah memulai hubungannya dengan Rasulullah dan Agama Islam semenjak berusia 13 tahun, yaitu ketika ia ingin menyertai ayahandanya dalam Perang Badar, dengan harapan akan beroleh tempat dalam deretan para pejuang, kalau tidak ditolak oleh Rasulullah disebabkan usianya yang masih terlalu muda ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">semenjak saat itu bahkan sebelumnya lagi, yakni ketika ia menyertai ayahandanya dalam hijrahnya ke Madinah, hubungan anak yang cepat matang kepribadiannya itu dengan Rasulullah dan Agama Islam, telah mulai terjalin ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan semenjak hari itu,<sub> </sub>sampai saat ia menemui Allah, yakni setelah ia mencapai usia 85 tahun, akan kita dapati ia sebagaimana adanya; seorang yang tekun beribadat dan mendekatkan diri kepada Allah, dan tak hendak bergeser dari pendiriannya walau agak seujung rambut, serta tak hendak menyimpang dari bai’at yang telah diikrarkannya atau melanggar janji yang telah diperbuatnya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Keistimewaan-keistimewaan yang memikat perhatian kita terhadap Abdullah bin Umar ini tidak sedikit. Ilmunya, kerendahan hatinya, kebulatan tekad dan keteguhan pendirian, kedermawanan keshalihan dan ketekunannya dalam beribadah serta berpegang teguhnya kepada contoh yang diberikan oleh Rasulullah. Semua sifat dan keutamaan itu telah berjasa dalam menempa kepribadiannya yang luar biasa dan kehidupannya yang suci lagi benar ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dipelajarinya dari bapaknya — Umar bin Khatthab — berbagai macam kebaikan; dan bersama bapaknya itu, dipelajarinya pula dari Rasulullah semua macam kebaikan dan semua macam kebesaran . . . . Sebagaimana bapaknya, ia pun telah berhasil mencapai keimanan yang baik terhadap Allah dan Rasul-Nya. Dan oleh karena itu, kesetiaannya mengikuti jejak langkah Rasulullah, merupakan suatu hal yang amat mena’jubkan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Diperhatikannya apa kiranya yang dilakukan oleh Rasulullah mengenai sesuatu urusan, maka ditirunya secara cermat dan teliti . . . . Misalnya Rasulullah saw pernah melakukan shalat di suatu tempat, maka Ibnu Umar melakukannya pula di tempat itu. Di tempat lain umpamanya Rasulullah saw. pernah berdu’a sambil berdiri, maka Ibnu Umar berdu’a di tempat itu sambil berdiri pula. Di sana Rasulullah pernah berdu’a sambil duduk, maka Ibnu Umar berdu’a di sana sambil duduk pula. Di sini — di jalan ini — Rasulullah pernah turun dari punggung untanya pada suatu hari dan melakukan shalat dua raka’at, maka Ibnu Umar tak hendak ketinggalan melakukannya, jika dalam perjalanannya ia kebetulan lewat di daerah itu dan tempat itu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bahkan ia takkan lupa bahwa unta tunggangan Rasulullah berputar dua kali di suatu tempat di kota Mekah sebelum Rasulullah turun dari atasnya untuk melakukan shalat dua raka’at, walaupun barangkali unta itu berkeliling dengan suatu maksud untuk mencari tempat baginya yang cocok untuk bersimpuh nanti. Tapi Abdullah ibnu Umar baru saja sampai di tempat itu, ia segera membawa untanya berputar dua kali kemudian baru bersimpuh, dan setelah itu ia shalat dua raka’at, sehingga persis sesuai dengan perbuatan Rasulullah yang telah disaksikannya … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kesetiaannya yang amat sangat dalam mengikuti jejak langkah Rasulullah ini, telah mengundang pujian dari Ummul Mu’- minin ‘Aisyah r.a. sampai ia mengatakan:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Tak seorang pun mengikuti jejak langkah Rasulullah saw. di tempat-tempat pemberhentiannya, sebagai dilakukan oleh Ibnu Umar …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sungguh, usia lanjutnya yang dipenuhi barkah itu telah dijalaninya untuk membuktikan kecintaannya yang mendalam terhadap Rasulullah, hingga pernah terjadi suatu masa, Kaum Muslimin yang shalihnya berdu’a: “Ya Allah, lanjutkanlah kiranya usia Ibnu Umar sebagai Allah melanjutkan usiaku, agar aku dapat mengikuti jejak langkahnya, karena aku tidak mengetahui seorang pun yang menghirup dari sumber pertama selain Abdullah bin Umar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan karena kegemarannya yang kuat tak pernah luntur dalam mengikuti sunnah dan jejak langkah Rasulullah, maka Ibnu Umar bersikap amat hati-hati dalam penyampaian Hadits dari Rasulullah. la tak hendak menyampaikan sesuatu Hadits daripadanya, kecuali jika ia ingat seluruh kata-kata Rasulullah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Orang-orang yang semasa dengannya mengatakan: “Tak seorang pun di antara shahabat -shah abat Rasulullah yang lebih berhati-hati agar tidak terselip atau terkurangi sehuruh pun dalam menyampaikan Hadits Rasulullah sebagai halnya Ibnu Umar!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikian pula dalam berfatwa, ia amat berhati-hati dan lebih suka menjaga diri . . . . Pada suatu hari seorang penanya datang kepadanya untuk meminta fatwa. Dan setelah orang itu memajukan pertanyaan, Ibnu Umar menjawab “Saya tak tahu tentang masalah yang anda tanyakan itu . . .” Orang itu pun berlalulah, dan baru beberapa langkah ia meninggalkannya, Ibnu Umar bertepuk tangan seraya berkata dalam hatinya: “Ibnu Umar ditanyai orang tentang yang tidak diketahuinya, maka dijawabnya bahwa ia tidak tahu . . .”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ia tidak hendak berijtihad untuk memberikan fatwa, karena takut akan berbuat kesalahan. Dan walaupun pola hidupnya mengikuti ajaran dari suatu Agama besar, yang menyediakan satu pahala bagi orang-orang yang tersalah dan dua pahala bagi yang benar hasil ijtihadnya, tetapi demi menghindari berbuat dosa menyebabkannya tidak berani untuk berfatwa ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Juga ia menghindarkan diri dari jabatan qadli atau kehakiman, padahal jabatan ini merupakan jabatan tertinggi di antara jabatan kenegaraan dan kemasyarakatan; di samping menjamin pemasukan keuangan, diperolehnya pengaruh dan kemuliaan. Apa perlunya kekayaan, pengaruh dan kemuliaan itu bagi Ibnu Umar… !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari Khalifah Utsman r.a. memanggilnya dan meminta kesediaannya untuk memegang jabatan kehakiman itu, tetapi ditolaknya. Utsman mendesaknya juga, tetapi Ibnu Umar bersikeras pula atas penolakannya. “Apakah anda tak hendak menta’ati perintahku?” tanya Utsman. Jawab Ibnu Umar:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Sama sekali tidak . . . , hanya saya dengar para hakim itu ada tiga macam:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pertama hakim yang mengadili tanpa ilmu, maka ia dalam neraka. Kedua yang mengadili berdasarkan nafsu, maka ia juga dalam neraka. Dan ketiga yang berijtihad sedang hasil ijtihadnya betul, maka ia dalam keadaan berimbang, tidak berdosa tapi tidak pula beroleh pahala. Dan saya atas nama Allah memohon kepada anda agar dibebaskan dari jabatan itu . .</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Khalifah Utsman menerima keberatan itu setelah mendapat jaminan bahwa ia tidak akan menyampaikan hal itu kepada siapa pun juga. Sebabnya ialah karena Utsman menyadari sepenuhnya kedudukan Ibnu Umar dalam hati masyarakat, karena jika orang-orang yang taqwa lagi shalih mengetahui keberatan Ibnu Umar menerima jabatan tersebut pastilah mereka akan mengikuti langkahnya, sehingga khalifah takkan menemukan seorang taqwa yang bersedia menjadi qadli atau hakim.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mungkin pendirian Abdullah bin Umar ini tampaknya sebagai suatu hal negatif yang terdapat pada dirinya. Tetapi tidaklah demikian halnya! Ibnu Umar tidak akan menolak jabatan tersebut apabila tidak ada lagi orang lain yang pantas menduduki jabatan itu, karena masih banyak di antara shahabat-shahabat Rasulullah yang shalih dan wara’ yang juga pantas memegang jabatan kehakiman dan mampu memberikan fatwa secara praktis maka ia menolaknya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka dengan penolakannya itu tidaklah akan menyebabkan lowongnya kursi jabatan tersebut atau mengakibatkannya jatuh ke tangan orang-orang yang tidak berwenang. Telah tertanam dalam kehidupan pribadi Ibnu Umar untuk selalu membina dan meningkatkan diri agar lebih sempurna ketaatan dan ibadahnya kepada Allah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apalagi bila dikaji kehidupan Agama Islam di waktu itu, ternyata bahwa dunia telah terbuka pintunya bagi Kaum Muslimin, harta kekayaan melimpah ruah, pangkat dan kedudukan bertambah-tambah. Daya tarik harta dan kedudukan itu telah merangsang dan mempesona hati orang-orang beriman, menyebabkan bangkitnya sebagian shahabat Rasulullah — di antaranya Ibnu Umar — mengibarkan bendera perlawanan terhadap rangsangan dan godaan itu. Caranya ialah dengan menyediakan diri mereka sebagai contoh teladan dalam yuhud dan keshalihan, menjauhi kedudukan-kedudukan tinggi, mengatasi fitnah dan godaannya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Boleh dikata bahwa Ibnu Umar adalah “Penyerta malam” yang biasa diisinya dengan melakukan shalat …. atau “kawan dinihari” yang dipakainya untuk menangis dan memohon diampuni. Di waktu remajanya ia pernah bermimpi yang oleh Rasulullah dita’birkan bahwa qiyamul lail itu nantinya akan menjadi campuran tumpuan cita Ibnu Umar, tempat tersangkut‑ nya kesenangan dan kebahagiaannya. Nah, marilah kita dengar ceritera tentang mimpinya itu:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Di masa Rasulullah saw. saya bermimpi seolah-olah di tanganku ada selembar kain beludru. Tempat mana saja yang saya ingini di surga, maka beludru itu akan menerbangkanku ke sana…</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Lalu tampak pula dua orang yang mendatangiku dan ingin membawaku ke neraka. Tetapi seorang Malaikat menghadang mereka, katanya: Jangan ganggu! Maka kedua orang itu pun meluangkan jalan bagiku ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Oleh Hafshah, yaitu saudaraku, mimpi itu diceriterakannya kepada Rasulullah saw. Maka sabda Rasulullah saw.:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Akan menjadi laki-laki paling utamalah Abdullah itu, andainya ia sering shalat malam dan banyak melakukannya! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka semenjak itu sampai ia pulang dipanggil Allah, Ibnu Umar tidak pernah meninggalkan qiyamul lail baik di waktu ia mukim atau musafir. Yang dilakukannya ialah shalat, membaca al-Quran dan banyak berdzikir menyebut nama Allah . . . , dan yang sangat menyerupai ayahnya ialah airmatanya bercucuran bila mendengar ayat-ayat peringatan dari al-Quran .</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berkata ‘Ubeid bin ‘Umeir: “Pada suatu hari saya bacakan ayat berikut ini kepada Abdullah bin Umar:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Betapakah bila Kami hadapkan dari setiap ummat seorang saksi, dan Kami hadapkan pula kamu sebagai saksi atas mereka semua . . . ? Padahari itu orang-orang kafir dan yang mendurhakai Rasul berharap kiranya mereka ditelan bumi, dan tiada pula suatu pembicaraan pun yang dapat mereka sembunyikan dari Allah … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(Q.S. 4 an-Nisa: 41 — 42)</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka Ibnu Umar pun menangis, hingga janggutnya basah oleh airmata. Pada suatu hari ketika ia duduk di antara kawan-kawannya, lalu membaca:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka celakalah orang-orang yang berlaku curang dalam takaran! Yakni orang-orang yang apabila menerima takaran dari orang lain meminta dipenuhi, tetapi mengurangkannya bila mereka yang menakar atau menimbang untuk orang lain. Makkah mereka merasa bahwa mereka akan dibangkitkan nanti menghadapi suatu hari yang dahsyat… , yaitu ketika manusia sama berdiri di hadapan Tuhan Rabbul ‘alamin … (Q.S. 83 at-Tathfif: 1— 6).</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Terus saja ia mengulang-ulang ayat:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika manusia sama berdiri di hadapan Rabbul ‘alamin</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sedang airmatanya mengucur bagai hujan …. hingga akhirnya ia jatuh disebabkan duka dan banyak menangis itu ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemurahan, sifat zuhud dan wara’ bekerja sama pada dirinya dalam suatu paduan seni yang agung membentuk corak kepribadian mengagumkan dari manusia besar ini . . . . Ia banyak memberi karena ia seorang pemurah . . . . Yang diberikannya ialah barang halal karena ia seorang yang wara’ atau shalih . . . . Dan ia tidak peduli, apakah kemurahannya itu akan menyebabkannya miskin karena ia zahid, tidak ada minat terhadap dunia….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ibnu Umar termasuk orang yang hidup ma’mur dan berpenghasilan banyak. Ia adalah seorang saudagar yang jujur dan berhasil dalam sebagian benar dari kehidupannya. Di samping itu gajinya dari Baitulmal tidak sedikit pula: Tetapi tunjangan itu tidak sedikit pun disimpannya untuk dirinya pribadi, tetapi dibagi-bagikan sebanyak-banyaknya kepada orang-orang miskin, yang kemalangan dan peminta-minta.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ayub bin Wa-il ar-Rasibi pernah menceriterakan kepada kita salah satu contoh kedermawanannya. Pada suatu hari Ibnu Umar menerima uang sebanyak empat ribu dirham dan sehelai baju dingin. Pada hari berikutnya Ibnu Wa-il melihatnya di pasar sedang membeli makanan untuk hewan tunggangannya secara berutang. Maka pergilah Ibnu Wa-il mendapatkan keluarganya, tanyanya: Bukankah kemarin Abu Abdurrahman — maksudnya Ibnu Umar — menerima kiriman empat ribu dirham dan sehelai baju dingin? ” “Benar”, ujar mereka.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kata Ibnu Wa-il: “Saya lihat ia tadi di pasar membeli makanan untuk hewan tunggangannya dan tidak punya uang untuk membayarnya . . . “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ujar mereka: “Tidak sampai malam hari, uang itu telah habis dibagi-bagikannya. Mengenai baju dingin, mula-mula dipakainya, lalu ia pergi ke luar. Tapi ketika kembali, baju itu tidak kelihatan lagi; dan ketika kami tanyakan, jawabnya bahwa baju itu telah diberikannya kepada seorang miskin . ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka Ibnu Wa-il pun pergilah sambil menghempas-hempaskan kedua belah telapak tangannya satu sama lain, dan pergi menuju pasar. Di sana ia naik ke suatu tempat yang tinggi dan berseru kepada orang-orang pasar, katanya: “Hai kaum pedagang …! Apa yang tuan-tuan lakukan terhadap dunia . . . .? Lihat Ibnu Umar, datang kiriman kepadanya sebanyak empat ribu dirham, lalu dibagi-bagikannya hingga esok pagi ia membelikan hewan tunggangannya makanan secara utang . . .! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang, seorang yang gurunya Muhammad saw. dan bapaknya Umar, adalah seorang yang luar biasa dan cocok untuk hal-hal istimewa . . A Sungguh, kedermawanan, sifat zuhud dan wara’, ketika unsur ini membuktikan secara gamblang, bagaimana Abdullah bin Umar menjadi seorang pengikut terpercaya dan seorang putera teladan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bagi orang yang ingin melihat kesetiaannya mengikuti jejak langkah Rasulullah, cukuplah bila diketahuinya bahwa Ibnu Umar akan berhenti dengan untanya di suatu tempat itu, karena pada suatu hari dilihatnya Rasulullah berhenti dengan untanya di tempat itu, seraya katanya: “Semoga setiap jejak akan menimpa di atas jejak sebelumnya … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Begitu pula dalam baktinya kepada orang tua, penghormatan dan kekagumannya, Ibnu Umar mencapai suatu taraf yang mengharuskan agar kepribadian Umar itu diteladani oleh pihak musuh, apatah lagi oleh kaum kerabat, dan kononlah oleh putera-putera kandungnya sendiri … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Terlintas pada kita: Tiada masuk akal, orang yang mengaku sebagai pengikut Rasul ini dan penganut ayah yang terkenal al-Faruk . . . , akan menjadi budak atau hamba harta . . . . Memang harta itu datang kepadanya secara berlimpah ruah . . . , tetapi ia hanya sekedar lewat, atau mampir ke rumahnya sebentar saj a … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan kedermawanan ini, baginya bukanlah sebagai alat untuk mencari nama, atau agar dirinya menjadi buah bibir dan sebutan orang. Oleh sebab itu pemberiannya hanya ditujukannya kepada fakir miskin dan yang benar-benar membutuhkan. Jarang sekali makan seorang diri, karena pasti disertai oleh anak-anak yatim dan golongan melarat. Sebaliknya ia seringkali memarahi dan menyalahkan sebagian putera-puteranya, ketika mereka menyediakan jamuan untuk orang-orang hartawan, dan tidak mengundang fakir miskin, katanya: “Kalian mengundang orangorang yang dalam kekenyangan, dan kalian biarkan orang-orang yang kelaparan!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan fakir miskin itu kenal benar siapa Ibnu Umar, mengetahui sifat santunnya dan merasakan akibat kedermawanan dan budi baiknya. Sering mereka duduk di jalan yang akan dilaluinya pulang, dengan maksud semoga tampak olehnya hingga dibawanya ke rumahnya. Pendeknya mereka berkumpul sekelilingnya tak ubah bagai kawanan lebah yang berhimpun mengerumuni kembang demi untuk menghisap sari madunya … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bagi Ibnu Umar harta itu adalah sebagai pelayan, dan bukan sebagai tuan atau majikan! Harta hanyalah alat untuk mencukupi keperluan hidup dan bukan untuk bermewah-mewahan. Dan hartanya itu bukanlah miliknya semata, tapi padanya ada bagian tertentu haq fakir miskin, jadi merupakan hak yang serupa tak ada hak istimewa bagi dirinya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kedermawanan yang tidak terbatas ini disokong oleh sifat zuhudnya. Ibnu Umar tak hendak membanting tulang dalam mencari dan mengusahakan dunia. Harapan dari dunia itu hanyalah hendak mendapatkan pakaian sekedar penutup tubuhnya dan makanan sekedar penunjang hidup.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salah seorang shahabatnya yang baru pulang dari Khurasan menghadiahkan sehelai baju halus yang indah kepadanya, serta katanya: “Saya bawa baju ini dari Khurasan untukmu! Dan alangkah senangnya hatiku melihat kamu menanggalkan pakaianmu yang kasar ini, lalu menggantinya dengan baju baru yang indah ini!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Coba lihat dulu”, jawab Ibnu Umar. Lalu dirabanya baju itu dan tanyanya: “Apakah ini sutera?” “Bukan”, ujar kawannya itu, “itu hanya katun”. Ibnu Umar mengusap-usap baju itu sebentar, kemudian diserahkannya kembali, katanya: “Tidak, saya khawatir terhadap diriku … ! Saya takut ia akan menjadikan diriku sombong dan megah, sedang Allah tidak menyukai orang-orang sombong dan bermegah diri … <sup>I </sup>“</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari, seorang shahabat memberinya pula sebuah kotak yang berisi penuh.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Apa isinya ini … ?”, tanya Ibnu Umar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Jawab shahabatnya: “Suatu obat istimewa, saya bawa untukmu dari Irak!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Obat untuk penyakit apa”, tanya Ibnu Umar pula.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Obat penghancur makanan untuk membantu pencernaan”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ibnu Umar tersenyum, katanya kepada shahabat itu: “Obat penghancur makanan . . . ? Selama empat puluh tahun ini saya tak pernah memakan sesuatu makanan sampai kenyang … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, seseorang yang tak pernah makan sampai kenyang selama 40 tahun bukanlah maksudnya hendak menjauhi ke kenyangan itu semata, tetapi pastilah karena zuhud dan wara’- nya, serta usahanya hendak mengikuti jejak langkah Rasulullah dan bapaknya! Ia cemas akan dihadapkan pada hari qiamat dengan pertanyaan sebagai berikut: Telah kamu habiskan segala keni’matan di waktu hidupmu di dunia, kamu bersenang-senang dengannya! Ia menyadari bahwa di dunia ini ia hanyalah tamu atau seorang musafir lalu . . . Dan pernah ia berceritera tentang dirinya, katanya: “Tak pernah saya membuat tembok dan tidak pula menanam sebatang kurma semenjak wafatnya Rasulullah saw.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berkata Maimun bin Mahran: “Saya masuk ke rumah Ibnu Umar dan menaksir harga barang-barang yang terdapat di sana berupa ranjang, selimut, tikar . . . , pendeknya apa juga yang terdapat di sana, maka saya dapati harganya tidak sampai seratus dirham . . . !” Dan demikian itu bukanlah karena kemiskinan, karena Ibnu Umar adalah seorang kaya … ! Bukan pula karena kebakhilan, karena ia seorang pemurah dan dermawan . . .! Sebabnya tidak lain hanyalah karena ia seorang zahid tidak terpikat oleh dunia, tidak suka hidup mewah dan tak senang menyimpang dari kebenaran dan keshalihan dalam menempuh hidup ini.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ibnu Umar dikaruniai umur panjang dan mengalami masa Bani Umaiyah, di mana harta melimpah ruah, tanah tersebar luas dan kemewahan meraja-lela di kebanyakan rumah, bahkan katakanlah di mahligai-mahligai dan istana-istana . . .! Tapi walau demikian, namun gunung yang mulia ini tetap tegak dan tak tergoyahkan, tak hendak beranjak dari tempatnya dan tak hendak bergeser dari sifat wara’ dan zuhudnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan bila disebut orang kebahagiaan dunia dan kesenangannya yang dihindarinya itu, ia berkata: “Saya bersama shahabat-shahabatku telah sama sepakat atas suatu perkara, dan saya khawatir jika menyalahi mereka, takkan bertemu lagi dengan mereka untuk selama-lamanya</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan kepada yang lain diberitahukannya bahwa ia meninggalkan dunia itu bukanlah disebabkan ketidak mampuan; ditadahkannya kedua tangannya ke langit, katanya; “Ya Allah, Engkaumengetahui bahwa kalau tidaklah karena takut kepada-Mu, tentulah kami akan ikut berdesakan dengan bangsa kami Quraisy memperebutkan dunia ini. .</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Benar … ! Seandainya ia tidak takut kepada Allah, tentulah ia akan ikut merebut dunia dan tentulah ia akan berhasil. Tetapi ia tidak perlu berebutan, karena dunia datang sendiri kepadanya, merayunya dengan berbagai kesenangan dan daya perangsangnya….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Adakah lagi yang lebih menarik dari jabatan khalifah? Berkali-kali jabatan itu ditawarkan kepada Ibnu Umar, tetapi ia tetap menolak. Bahkan ia pernah diancam jika tak mau menerimanya, tetapi pendiriannya semakin teguh dan penolakannya semakin kerns lagi …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berceritakan Hasan r.a.:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Tatkala Utsman bin Affan dibunuh orang, ummat mengatakan kepada Abdullah bin Umar: “Anda adalah seorang pemimpin, keluarlah, agar kami minta orang-orang bai’at pada anda!’ Ujarnya: ‘Demi Allah? seandainya dapat, janganlah ada walau setetes darah pun yang tertumpah disebabkan daku!’ Kata mereka pula: ‘Anda harus keluar! Kalau tidak akan kami bunuh di tempat tidurmu!’ Tetapi jawaban Ibnu Umar tidak berbeda dengan yang pertama. Demikianlah mereka membujuk dan mengancamnya, tetapi tak satu pun hasil yang mereka peroleh . . . .!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan setelah itu, ketika masa telah berganti masa dan fitnah telah menjadi-jadi, Ibnu Umar tetap merupakan satu-satunya harapan. Orang-orang mendesaknya agar sedia menerima jabatan khalifah dan mereka akan bai’at kepadanya, tetapi ia selalu menolak. Penolakan ini menyebabkan timbulnya masalah yang ditujukan kepada Ibnu Umar. Tetapi ia mempunyai logika dan alasan pula.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebagai dimaklumi setelah terbunuhnya Utsman r.a. keadaan tambah memburuk dan berlarut-larut yang akan membawa bencana dan malapetaka. Dan walaupun ia tidak mempunyai ambisi untuk jabatan khalifah tersebut, tetapi Ibnu Umar bersedia memikul tanggung jawab dan menanggung resikonya dengan syarat ia dipilih oleh seluruh Kaum Muslimin dengan kemauan sendiri tanpa dipaksa. Adapun jika bai’at itu dipaksakan oleh sebagian atas lainnya di bawah ancaman pedang, maka inilah yang tidak disetujui oleh Ibnu Umar, dan la menolak jabatan khalifah yang dicapai dengan cara seperti itu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan ketika itu, syarat tersebut tidaklah mungkin. Bagaimanapun kebaikan Ibnu Umar dan kekompakan Kaum Muslimin dalam mencintai dan menghormatinya, tetapi luasnya daerah dan letaknya yang berjauhan, di samping pertikaian yang sedang berkecamuk di antara Kaum Muslimin, menyebabkan mereka terpecah-pecah kepada beberapa golongan yang saling berperang dan mengangkat senjata, maka suasana tidaklah memungkinkan tercapainya konsensus atau persesuaian yang diharapkan oleh Ibnu Umar itu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Seorang laki-laki mendatanginya pada suatu hari, katanya: “Tak seorang pun yang lebih buruk perlakuannya terhadap ummat manusia daripadamu !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Kenapa ? , ujar Ibnu Umar;”demi Allah, tak pernah saya menumpahkan darah mereka, tidak pula berpisah dengan jama’ah mereka apalagi memecah-belah kesatuan mereka!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kata laki-laki itu pula: “Andainya kamu mau, tak seorang pun yang akan menentang … !13</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Jawab Ibnu Umar: “Saga tak suka kalau dalam hal ini seorang mengatakan setuju, sedang lainnya tidak!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bahkan setelah peristiwa berkembang sedemikian rupa, dan kedudukan Muawiyah telah kokoh, dan setelah itu beralih pula kepada puteranya Yazid . . . , lalu Muawiyah II putera Yazid setelah beberapa hari menduduki jabatan khalifah meninggalkannya karena tidak menyukainya. Sampai saat itu Ibnu Umar telah menjadi seorang tun berusia lanjut, ia masih menjadi harapan ummat untuk jabatan tersebut. Marwan datang kepadanya, katanya: “Ulurkanlah tangan anda agar kami bai’at! Anda adalah pemimpin Islam dan putera dari pemimpinnya!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ujar Ibnu Umar: “Apa yang kita lakukan terhadap orang-orang masyriq?”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Kita gempur mereka sampai mau bai’at!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Demi Allah,”ujar Ibnu Umar Pula: “saya tak sudi dalam umur saya yang tujuh puluh tahun ini, ada seorang manusia yang terbunuh disebabkan saya …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Marwanpun pergi berlalu sambil berdendang:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Api fitnah berkobar sepeninggal Abu Laila,</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan kerajaan akan berada di tangan yang kuat lagi perkasa”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Yang dimaksud dengan Abu Laila ialah Muawiyah bin Yazid.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Penolakan untuk menggunakan kekerasan dan alat senjata inilah yang menyebabkan Ibnu Umar tak hendak campur tangan dan bersikap netral dalam kekalutan bersenjata yang terjadi di antara pengikut Ali dan penyokong Muawiyah dengan mengambil kalimat-kalimat berikut sebagai semboyan dan prinsipnya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“siapa yang berkata: ‘Marilah shalat!’ akan saya penuhi….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan siapa yang berkata: ‘Marilah menuju kebahagiaan!’ akan saya turuti pula ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi siapa yang mengatakan: ‘Marilah membunuh saudaramu seagama dan merampas hartanya!’ maka saya akan katakan tidak . . . .”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hanya dalam sikap netral dan tak hendak campur tangan ini, Ibnu Umar tak mau membiarkan kebathilan. Telah lama sekali Mu’awiyah yang ketika itu berada di puneak kejayaannya melakukan tindakan-tindakan yang menyakitkan dan membingungkannya, sampai-sampai Mu’awiyah mengancam akan membunuhnya. Padahal dia selalu bersemboyan: “Seandainya di antaraku dengan seseorang ada hubungan walau agak sebesar rambut, tidaklah ia akan putus … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan pada suatu hari Hajjaj’) tampil berpidato, katanya: “Ibnu Zubair telah merubah Kitabullah!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka berserulah Ibnu Umar menentangnya: “Bohong bohong . . . . , kamu bohong . ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hajjaj yang selama ini ditakuti oleh siapa pun juga, merasa terpukul mendapat serangan tiba-tiba ….Tetapi kemudian dia melanjutkan pembicaraan dengan mengancamnya akan memberi balasan yang seburuk-buruknya. Ibnu Umar mengacungkan tangannya ke muka Hajjaj, dan di hadapan orang-orang yang sama terpesona dijawabnya: “Jika ancamanmu itu kamu laksanakan, maka sungguh tak usah heran, kamu adalah seorang diktator yang biadab!” Tetapi bagaimana juga keras dan beraninya, sampai akhir hayatnya Ibnu Umar selalu ingin agar tidak terlibat dalam fitnah bersenjata itu dan menolak untuk berpihak kepada salah satu golongan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berkatalah Abul ‘Aliyah al-Barra:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Pada suatu hari saya berjalan di belakang Ibnu Umar tanpa diketahuinya. Maka saya dengar ia berbicara kepada dirinya: ‘Mereka letakkan pedang-pedang mereka di atas pundak-pundak lainnya, mereka berbunuhan lalu berkata: “Hai Abdullah bin Umar ikutlah dan berikan bantuan . sungguh sangat menyedihkan.”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">la amat menyesal dan duka melihat darah Kaum Muslimin tertumpah oleh sesamanya. Dan sebagai kita baca dalam kata pengantar mengenai riwayatnya. ini, “tiadalah ia hendak mernbangunkan orang Muslimin yang sedang tertidur”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan sekiranya ia mampu menghentikan peperangan dan menjaga darah tertumpah pastilah akan dilakukannya, tetapi suasana ternyata tidak mengidzinkan, oleh sebab itu dijauhinya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebetulnya hati kecilnya berpihak kepada Ali r.a., bahkan pada lahirnya Ibnu Umar yakin bahwa Ali r.a. di pihak yang benar, hingga diriwayatkan bahwa setelah ia menganalisa semua peristiwa dan situasi pada akhir hidupnya itu ia berkata: “Tiada sesuatu pun yang saya sesalkan karena tidak kuperoleh, kecuali suatu hal, aku sangat menyesal tidak mendampingi Ali dalam memerangi golongan pendurhaka . . .!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Penolakannya berperang di pihak Ali yang sebenarnya mempertahankan haq dan berada di pihak yang benar, dilakukannya bukan dengan maksud hendak lari atau menyelamatkan diri,</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tetapi adalah karena tidak setuju dengan semua perselisihan dan fitnah itu, serta menghindari peperangan yang terjadi bukan di antara Muslim dengan musyrik, tetapi antara sesama Muslimin yang saling menerkam saudaranya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hal itu dijelaskannya dengan gamblang ketika ia ditanyai oleh Nafi’: “Hai Abu Abdurrahman, anda adalah putera Umar dan shahabat Rasulullah saw., dan anda adalah serta<br />anda . . .! Tetapi apa yang menghalangi anda bertindak?” — maksudnya membela Ali. Maka ujarnya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Sebabnya ialah karena Allah Ta’ala telah mengharamkan atasku menumpahkan darah Muslim! Firman-Nya ‘Azza wa Jalla:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Perangilah mereka itu hingga tak ada lagi fitnah dan hingga orang-orang beragama itu semata ikhlas karena Allah. (Q.S. 2 al-Baqarah: 193).</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, kita telah melakukan itu dan memerangi orang-orang musyrik, hingga agama itu semata bagi Allah! Tetapi sekarang apa tujuan kita berperang . . .? Saya telah mulai berperang semenjak berhala-berhala masih memenuhi Masjidil Haram dari pintu sampai ke sudut-sudutnya, hingga akhirnya semua itu dibasmi Allah dari bumi Arab … ! Sekarang, apakah saya akan memerangi orang yang mengucapkan “Lah ilaaha illallaah”, tiada Tuhan yang haq diibadahi melainkan Allah?”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah logika dan alasan dari Ibnu Umar, dan demikianlah pula keyakinan dan pendiriannya! Jadi ia menghindari peperangan dan tak hendak turut mengambil bahagian padanya, bukanlah karena takut atau hal-hal negatif lainnya, tetapi adalah karena tak menyetujui perang saudara antara sesama ummat beriman, dan menentang tindakan seorang Muslim yang menghunus pedang terhadap Muslim lainnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ibnu Umar menjalani usia lanjut dan mengalami saat-saat dibukakannya pintu keduniaan bagi Kaum Muslimin. Harta melimpah ruah,. jabatan beraneka ragam dan kehendak serta keinginan berkobar-kobar. Tetapi kemampuan mentalnya yang</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">luar biasa, telah merubah khasiat zamannya!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Masa yang penuh dengan segala macam keinginan, dengan fitnah dan harta benda itu, dirubahnyalah bagi dirinya menjadi suatu masa yang diliputi oleh zuhud dan keshalihan, kedamaian dan kesejahteraan yang dijalani oleh pribadi; tekun dan melindungkan diri ini dengan segala keyakinan, telah dibentuk dan ditempa oleh Agama Islam di masa-masa pertamanya yang gemilang dan tinggi menjulang itu, tidak tergoyahkan sedikit pun juga.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dengan bermulanya masa Bani Umayah, corak kehidupan mengalami perubahan, suatu perubahan yang tak dapat dielakkan. Masa itu boleh disebut sebagai masa kelonggaran dalam segala hal, kelonggaran yang tidak Baja sesuai dengan keinginan keinginan pemerintah, tetapi juga dengan keinginan-keinginan pribadi dan golongan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan di tengah badai rangsangan masa yang terpukau oleh kelonggaran-kelonggaran itu, oleh hasil perolehan dan kemegahannya, Ibnu Umar tetap bertahan dengan segala keutamaannya, tidak menghiraukan semuanya itu, dengan melanjutkan pengembangan jiwanya yang besar. Sungguh, ia telah berhasil menjaga tujuan mulia dari kehidupannya sebagai diharapkannya, hingga orang-orang yang semata dengannya melukiskannya sebagai berikut: “Ibnu Umar telah meninggal dunia, dan dalam keutamaan tak ubahnya ia dengan Umar”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bahkan ketika menyaksikan sifat dan akhlaqnya yang mengagumkan itu, mereka membandingkannya dengan Umar, yaitu bapaknya yang berpribadi besar, kata mereka:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Umar hidup di suatu masa di mana banyak tokoh-tokoh yang menjadi saingannya, tetapi Ibnu Umar hidup di suatu zaman, di mana tidak ditemui yang menjadi tolak bandingannya … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Perbandingan itu terlalu berlebihan, tetapi dapat dima’afkan terhadap orang seperti Ibnu Umar . . . . Adapun Umar, tak seorang pun dapat disejajarkan dengannya. Tak mungkin ada bandingannya di setiap masa dari kaum mana pun juga!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suatu hari dari tahun 73 H . . . , ketika sang surya telah condong ke Barat hendak memasuki peraduannya, salah sebuah kapal keabadian telah mengangkat jangkar dan mulai berlayar, bertolak menuju rafiqul a’la di alam barzakh, dengan membawa suatu sosok tubuh salah seorang tokoh teladan terakhir mewakili zaman wahyu di Mekah dan Madinah, yaitu jasad Abdullah bin Umar bin Khatthab -</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">`ABD ALLAH IBN `UMAR </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">The Persistent and Repentant to Allah </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When he was at the peak of his long life he said, " I swore the oath of allegiance to the Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH). I never broke my oath, nor have I turned to something else to this day. I never swore allegiance </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to those in civil strife, nor did I awake a sleeping Muslim." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> These words are a summary of the life of that virtuous man who lived past the age of 80. His </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">relationship with Islam and the Prophet began when he was only 13 years old, when he accompanied his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">father to the battle of Badr, hoping to have a place among the Mujaahiduun, but he was sent back by the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet due to his young age. Since that day - and even before that when he accompanied his father on </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his Hijrah to Al-Madiinah - that young boy who possessed premature manly merits began his relation </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">with the Prophet of Islam (PBUH). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> From that day till the day he passed away at the age of 85, we will always find him persistent, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">repentant, never deviating from his path, not even by a hairbreadth, never breaking the oath of allegiance </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">which he had sworn, nor breaking a pledge he had made. The merits of `Abd Allah Ibn `Umar, which </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dazzle people's vision, are abundant. Among these are his knowledge, modesty, the straightness of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">conscience and path, his generosity, piety, persistence in worship, and his sincere adherence to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet's model. By means of all these merits and qualities did Ibn `Umar shape his unique personality, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his sincere and truthful life. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He learned a lot of good manners from his father, `Umar Ibn Al khattaab, and together with him, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">they learned from the Prophet (PBUH) all the good manners and all that can be described as noble </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">virtues. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Like his father, his belief in Allah and His Prophet was perfect; therefore, the way he pursued the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet's steps was admirable. He was always looking at what the Prophet was doing in every matter and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">then humbly imitating his deeds to the finest detail. For example, wherever the Prophet prayed, there also </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">would lbn `Umar pray, and on the same spot. If the Prophet invoked Allah while standing, then lbn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">'Umar would invoke Allan while standing. If the Prophet invoked Allah while sitting, so also would lbn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Umar invoke Allah while sitting. On the same particular route where the Prophet once dismounted from </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his camel and prayed two rak'ahs, so would lbn `Umar do the same while traveling to the same place. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Moreover, he remembered that the Prophet's camel turned twice at a certain spot in Makkah before </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Prophet dismounted and before his two rak'ahs of prayer. The camel may have done that </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">spontaneously to prepare itself a suitable halting place, but lbn `Umar would reach that spot, turn his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">camel in a circle, then allow it to kneel down. After that he would pray two rak'ahs in exactly the same </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">manner he had seen the Prophet (PBUH) do. Such exaggerated imitation once provoked the Mother of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Believers `Aa'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) to say, "No one followed the Prophet's steps in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his coming and going as lbn `Umar did." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He spent his long, blessed life and his firm loyalty adhering to the Prophet's Sunnah to the extent </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that a time came when the virtuous Muslims were asking Allan, "O Allah, save lbn `Umar as long as I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">live so that I can follow him. I don't know anyone still adhering to the early traditions except him." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Similar to that strong and firm adherence to each of the Prophet's steps and practice (Sunnah) was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lbn `Umar's respect for the Prophetic traditions (Hadith). He never related a hadith unless he remembered </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">it to the letter. His contemporaries said, "None of the Companions of the Prophet was more cautious not to add or subtract something from a hadith than `Abd Allah lbn `Umar." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">In the same way he was very cautious when giving a fatwah (legal formal opinion in Islamic law). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">One day somebody came to ask him a fatwah . When he put forward his question, lbn `Umar answered, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">"I have no knowledge concerning what you are asking about." The man went his way. He had hardly left </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the place when Ibn `Umar rubbed his hands happily saying to himself, "Ibn `Umar has been asked about </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">what he doesn't know, so he said, ` I don't know!'" He was very much afraid to perform ijtihaad </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(independent judgment in a legal question) in his fatwah, although he was living according to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">instructions of a great religion, a religion which grants a reward to the one who makes a mistake and two </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">rewards to the one who comes out with a correct righteous fatwah. However, lbn `Umar's piety deprived </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him of the courage to make any fatwahs. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> In the same way he refrained from the post of judge. The position of a judge was one of the highest </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">positions of state and society, guaranteeing the one engaged in it wealth, prestige, and glory. But why </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">should the pious Ibn `Umar need money, prestige, and glory? The Caliph `Uthmaan once sent for him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and asked him to hold the postion of judge but he apologized. `Uthmaan asked him, "Do you disobey </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">me?" Ibn `Umar answered, "No, but it came to my knowledge that judges are of three kinds one who </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">judges ignorantly: he is in hell; one who judges according to his desire: he is in hell; one who involves </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">himself in making ijtihaad and is unerring in his judgment. That one will turn empty-handed, no sin </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">committed and no reward to be granted. I ask you by Allah to exempt me." `Uthmaan exempted him after </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he pledged him never to tell anyone about that, for `Uthmaan knew Ibn `Umar's place in people's hearts </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and he was afraid that if the pious and virtuous knew his refraining from holding the position of judge, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">they would follow him and do the same, and then the Caliph would not find a pious person to be judge. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> It may seem as if Ibn `Umar's stance was a passive one. However, it was not so. Ibn `Umar did not </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">abstain from accepting the post when there was no one more suitable to hold it than himself. In fact a lot </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of the Prophet's pious and virtuous Companions were actually occupied with fatwah and judgment. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His restraint and abstention would not paralyze the function of jurisdiction, nor would it cause it to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">be held by unqualified ones, so Ibn `Umar preferred to devote his time to purifying his soul with more </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">worship and more obedience. Furthermore, in that stage of Islamic history, life became more comfortable </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and luxurious, money more abundant, positions and authoritative ranks more available. The temptation </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of money and authoritative ranks began to enter the hearts of the pious and faithful , which made some of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Prophet's Companions - Ibn `Umar among them - to lift the banner of resistance to that temptation by </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">means of making themselves models and examples of worship, piety, and abstention, refraining from </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">high ranks in order to defeat their temptation. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Ibn `Umar made himself a "friend of the night", praying at night, crying, and asking forgiveness </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">during its latter hours before daybreak. He had once, during his youth, seen a dream. The Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">interpreted it in a way which made the night prayer `Abd Allah's utmost hope and a means of his delight </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and joy. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Let us listen to him, while he narrates the story of his dream: During the Prophetic era, I saw a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dream in which I was riding a piece of brocade which let me fly to any place in Paradise I wished. Then I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">saw two approaching me, intending to take me to hell, but an angel met them saying, "Don't be afraid," </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">so they left me. My sister Hafsah narrated the dream to the Prophet (PBUH), who said, "What an </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">excellent man `Abd Allah is. If he is praying at night, then let him pray more." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> From that day until he met with Allah, he never stopped performing his night prayer, neither while </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">staying in one place nor while traveling. He was frequently praying, reciting the Qur'aan, and praising </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah. Like his father, his tears rolled down abundantly whenever he heard a warning verse in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Qur'aan. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Ubaid lbn `Umar said: I was once reading to `Abd Allah lbn `Umar this verse: "How will it be for </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">them when We bring from every nation a witness, and bring you to witness over them all? On that day </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">those who disbelieved and disobeyed the Messenger will wish the earth to be split open and swallow </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">them, but they will never conceal GOD any of their saying " (4:41-42) Ibn `Umar began to cry till his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">beard was wet from his tears. One day he was sitting among his brothers reading "Woe to those who give </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">insufficient measure, who when others measure for them they make full measure, but when they measure </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">out, or weigh out for others, they give less than due. Do such not think that they shall be raised up on a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mighty Day? The Day when all mankind shall stand before the Lord of the Worlds" (83:1-6). Then he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">repeated again and again "The Day when all mankind shall stand before the Lord of the Worlds" while </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his tears were rolling down like heavy rain falls from the sky until he fell down because of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">tremendous sorrow and crying. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His generosity, asceticism and piety all worked together in complete harmony to shape the most </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">magnificent merits of that great man. He gave out abundantly because he was generous. He granted the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fine halaal things because he was pious, never caring if his generosity left him poor because he was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ascetic. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> lbn `Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) was one of those who had high incomes. He was a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">successful, honest merchant for a greater part of his life, and his income from the treasury (Bait Al-Maal) </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was abundant. However, he never saved that money for himself, but always spent it copiously on the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">poor, the needy, and beggars. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Ayub Ibn Waa'il Ar-Rassiby tells us about one of his generous acts: One day lbn `Umar was granted </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">4,000 dirhams and a piece of velvet. The next day Ayub Ibn Waa'il saw him in the market buying his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">camel some fodder on credit. lbn Waa'il went to his house asking his close relatives, "Wasn't Abu `Abd </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ar-Rahman (i.e. `Abd Allah Ibn `Umar granted 4,000 dirhams and a piece of velvet yesterday?" They </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said, "Yes." He then told them that he had seen him in the market buying fodder for his camel and could </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">not find money for it. They told him, "He didn't go to sleep before distributing all of it, then he carried </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the velvet on his back and went out. When he returned it wasn't with him. We asked him about it, and he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said, `I gave it to a poor person. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> lbn Waa'il went out shaking his head until he entered the market. There he climbed to a higher </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ground and shouted to the people, "O merchants, what do you do with your life? Here is Ibn `Umar who's </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">been granted 4,000 dirhams, so he distributes them, then the next morning he buys fodder for his camel </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">on credit?!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The one to whom Muhammad (PBUH) was tutor and `Umar his father must be a great man, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">deserving all that is great. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Ibn `Umar's generosity, asceticism, and piety, these three qualities demonstrate how sincere his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">imitation of the Prophetic model was and how sincere his worship. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He imitated the Prophet (PBUH) to the extent that he stood with his camel, where the Prophet had </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">once stood saying, "A camel foot may stand over a camel foot." His respect, good behavior, and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">admiration towards his father reached also to a far extent. `Umar's personality forced his foes, his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">relatives, and, above all, his sons to pay him respect. I say, the one who belongs to that Prophet and that </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">kind of father should never be a slave of money. Large amounts of money came to him but soon passed, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">just crossing his house at that moment. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His generosity was never a means of arrogance. He always dedicated himself to the poor and needy, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">rarely eating his meal alone: orphans and poor people were always present. He often blamed some of his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sons when they invited the rich, and not the poor ones, to their banquets, thereupon saying, "You leave </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the hungry behind and invite the sated ones." The poor knew his tenderness, felt his kindness and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sympathy, so they sat down across his path for him to take them to his house. When he saw them he was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">like a sweet scented flower surrounded by a drove of bees to suck its nectar. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Money in his hands was a slave, not a master, a means for necessities and not luxury. Money was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">not his alone. The poor had a right to it, a mutually corresponding right, with no privilege kept to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">himself. His self-denial helped him to reach such great generosity that he never stored, endeavored, or </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">had a vivid interest toward the worldly life. On the contrary, he never wished to possess more than a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">gown to cover his body and just enough food to keep him alive. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Once a friend coming from khurasan presented him with a fine, delicate, handsome, embellished </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and decorated gown, saying to him, "I've brought you this gown from khurasan. I would be pleased to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">see you take off this rough gown and wear this nice one." lbn `Umar said, "Show it to me then. " He </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">touched it asking, "Is it silk?" His friend said, "No, it's cotton." `Abd Allah looked at it for a while then </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pushed it away with his right hand saying, "No, I'm afraid to tempt myself. I'm afraid it would turn me </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">into an arrogant, proud man. Allah dislikes the arrogant, proud ones." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> On another day, a friend presented him with a container filled with something. Ibn `Umar asked </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him, "What's that?" He said, "Excellent medicine, which I brought you from Iraq!" lbn `Umar said, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`What does it cure?" He said, "It digests food." Ibn `Umar smiled and said to his friend, "Digests food? I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">haven't satisfied my appetite for 40 years." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He who has not satisfied his appetite for 40 years has not curbed his appetite due to need or poverty, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">but rather due to self- denial and piety, and a trial to imitate the Prophet and his father. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He was afraid to hear on the Day of Judgment:"You have wasted all your good deeds for the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">enjoyment in the life of this world" (46:20). He realized that he was in this life just as a visitor or a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">passer-by. He described himself saying, "I haven't put a stone upon another (i.e. I haven't built anything) </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nor planted a palm tree since the Prophet's death." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Maimuun Ibn Muhraan once said, "I entered Ibn `Umar's house and tried to evaluate all that was </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">inside such as the bed, the blanket, the mat and so on. Indeed, everything. I didn't find it worth even 100 </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dirhams." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> That was not due to selfishness; he was very generous. But it was due to his asceticism, his disdain </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of luxury, and his adherence to his attitude of sincerity and piety. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Ibn `Umar lived long enough to witness the Umayyid period, when money became abundant, and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">land and estates spread, and a luxurious life was to be found in most dwellings, let alone most castles. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Despite all that, he stayed like a firm-rooted mountain, persistent and great, not slipping away from </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his paths and not abandoning his piety and asceticism. If life with its pleasure and prosperity - which he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">always escaped from - was mentioned, he said, "I've agreed with my companions upon a matter. I'm </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">afraid if I change my stance I won't meet them again." Then he let the others know that he did not turn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his back to the worldly life owing to inability, so he lifted his hands to the sky saying, "O Allah, You </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">know that if it weren't for fear of You, we would have emulated our clan in the Quraish in this life." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Indeed, if it were not for his God-fearing self, he would have rivaled people in this life, and he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">would have been triumphant. He did not have to rival people. Life was striving towards him and chasing </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him with its tempting pleasure. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Is there any position more tempting than the caliph's? It was offered to Ibn `Umar several times, but </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he refused. He was threatened with death if he refused, but he continued his refusal and his shunning. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Al Hassan (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: When `Uthmaan Ibn `Affaan was killed it </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was said to `Abd Allah Ibn `Umar, "You are the people's master and the son of the people's master. Go </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">out so that people swear to you the oath of allegiance." He said, "By Allah, if I could, I would never </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">allow a drop of blood to be shed because of me." They said, You will either go out or we will kill you in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">your bed." He repeated his first statement. They tried to tempt him by frightening him, but all in vain! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> After that, when time passed and civil strife became rampant, Ibn `Umar was always the hope of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">people who urged him to accept the caliph's position. They were ready to swear to him the oath of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">allegiance, but he always and constantly refused. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">His refusal may be seen as a reprehensible act. However, he had his logic and argument. After the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">murder of `Uthmaan (May Allah be pleased with him) the situation got worse and aggravated in a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dangerous and alarming way. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Although he was very humble towards the position of the caliph, he was ready to accept its </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">responsibilities and face its dangers, but only on the condition that he be voluntarily and willingly chosen </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">by all Muslims. However, to force one single Muslim to swear the oath of allegiance by sword was what </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he opposed, and so he refused the post of caliph. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> At that time, however, this was impossible. Despite his merits and the public consensus of love and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">respect for him, the expansion into the different regions, the long distances between them, and the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">disputes which furiously set fire between the Muslims and divided them into sects fighting each other </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">made it impossible to reach such a consensus set by Ibn `Umar as a condition for his acceptance of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">caliphate. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> A man once met him and said, "No one is more evil in the whole Muslim community than you!" lbn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Umar said, `Why? By Allah, I've never shed their blood, or divided their community, or sowed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dissension." The man replied, "If you had wished it, every single one would have agreed upon you." Ibn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Umar said, "I don't like to see it (the caliphate) being offered to me while one man says no and another </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">one says yes. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The people still loved him even after events changed and the caliphate went to Mu'aawiyah, then to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his son Yaziid, then to Mu'aawiyah II, son of Yaziid, who stepped down renouncing its pleasure after a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">couple of days in office. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Even on that day, when lbn `Umar was an old man, he was still the people's hope and the hope of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the caliphate. Thus Marwaan went to him saying, "Give me your hand to swear to you the oath of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">allegiance. You're the master of the Arabs, and the son of their master. " Ibn `Umar asked, `What are we </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">going to do with the people of the east?" Marwaan said, "Beat them until they swear the oath." lbn `Umar </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">replied, "I don't like to be 70 years old and a man gets killed because of me." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Marwaan went away singing: I can see civil strife boiling in its pots and the kingdom after Abi Laila </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(i.e. Mu'aawiyah Ibn Yaziid) will end in the hands of the victorious. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> This refusal to use force and the sword is what made lbn `Umar hold a position of neutrality and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">isolation during the armed civil strife between the parties of `Ally and Mu'aawiyah, reciting these solemn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">words: </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> To the one who says, !Come to prayer," I will respond. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> And to the one who says, "Come to success," I will respond. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> But to the one who says, "Come to kill your Muslim brother" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> to take his money," I will say, "No." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> But while remaining neutral and isolated he never turned to hypocrisy. How often did he confront </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mu'aawiyah - while the latter was at the summit of his authority - with challenges which confused and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hurt him till he threatened to kill him! and he was the one who said, "if there is only a tiny hair between </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">me and the people it won't be torn." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> One day Al-Hajaaj stood preaching and said, "lbn Az-Zubair has distorted the Book of Allah!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hereupon Ibn Umar shouted in his face, "You are lying! You are lying! You are lying!" Al-Hajaaj was at </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">a loss, struck by surprise. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Everything and everyone was terrified even by the mention of his name. He promised lbn `Umar the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">worst punishment, but Ibn `Umar waved his hand in A'-Hajaaj's face and replied, while people were </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dazzled, "If you do what you just promised, there is no wonder about it, for you are a foolish imposed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ruler." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> However, despite his strength and bravery, he remained cautious until his last days, never playing a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">role in the armed civil strife and refusing to lean towards either of the parties. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Abu Al-'Aaliyah Al Barraa' related: I was once walking behind Ibn `Umar without his realizing it. I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">heard him saying to himself, "They are holding their swords, raising them high, killing each other, and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">saying, `O Ibn `Umar, give us a hand!'?" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He was filled with sorrow and pain seeing Muslims blood shed by their own hands. As mentioned at the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">very beginning, he never awoke a sleeping Muslim. If he could have stopped the fight and saved the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">blood he would have done that, but the events were too powerful; therefore he kept to his house. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His heart was with `Ally (may Allah be pleased with him), and not only his heart but it seems his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">firm belief, based on a narration of what he said in his last days: "I never felt sorry about something that I </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">missed except that I didn't fight on the side of `Ally against the unjust party." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> However, when he refused to fight with Imam Ally, on whose side truth was, it was not because he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sought a safe position, but rather because he refused the whole matter of the dispute and civil strife and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">refrained from a fight not one in which Muslims fight disbelievers, but one between Muslims who cut </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">each other into pieces. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He clarified this when Naafi' asked him, "O Abu `Abd Rahman, you are the son of `Umar and the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companion of the Prophet (PBUH) and you are who you are. What hinders you from that matter?" He </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">meant fighting on Ally's side. He replied, "What hinders me is that Allah has forbidden us to shed the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">blood of a Muslim. Allah the Mighty and Powerful said: "and continue fighting them until there is no </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">more persecutions and GOD's Religion prevails "(2:193) and we did that. We fought the disbelievers </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">until Allah's religion prevailed, but now, what is it we are fighting for? I fought when the idols were all </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">over the Sacred House, from the corner to the door, until Allah cleared the land of the Arabs from it </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(idolatry). Should I now fight those who say, There is no god but Allah?" That was his logic, argument, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and conviction. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Thus he did not refrain from fighting, nor abstain from taking part in battle to escape fighting, nor </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">did he passively refuse to determine the outcome of the civil war within the Ummah of the faithful rather </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he refused to hold a sword in the face of a Muslim brother. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> `Abd Allah lbn `Umar lived long and witnessed the days in which life "opened its gates to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muslims." Money became more abundant, high positions more available, while ambition and desires </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">spread. But his magnificent psychological capacities changed the rules of his time. He changed the era of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ambition, money, and civil strife into an era of asceticism, humility, piety, and peace. He turned </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">persistently to Allah and lived according to his worship, firm belief, and humbleness. Nothing </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">whatsoever could affect his virtuous nature shaped and modeled by Islam during his early years. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The nature of life changed within the beginning of the Umayyid period. This change was inevitable. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">It was a period of expansion in every aspect of life, in the ambition of the state as well as the ambitions </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of individuals. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> In the midst of the excitement of temptation and the agitation of an era lured by the idea of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">expansion with its pleasure and booty, stood Ibn `Umar with his merits, occupying himself with his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">excellent spiritual progress. He gained from his great excellent life all that he desired, so that his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">contemporaries described him by saying, "Ibn Umar died while being like Umar in his merit." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Moreover, dazzled by the glitter of his merits, his contemporaries liked to compare him with his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">father `Umar saying, "`Umar lived in a time when similar ones could be found, and Ibn `Umar lived in a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">time when there was no one similar to him." It is an exaggeration which may be forgiveable because Ibn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Umar deserved it. But as for `Umar, no one can be compared to him. It is absolutely out of the question </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that a similar one is to be found in any period of time. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> In the year A.H. 73, the sun sank and the ship of eternity hoisted its sail towards the next life </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">carrying the body of the last representative of the first days of the Revelation in Makkah and Al </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Madiinah: `Abd Allan Ibn `Umar Ibn Al-Khattab. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174474199517824808.post-22674989614125371192011-06-10T07:36:00.000-07:002011-06-11T06:38:12.892-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/7-shuhaib-bin-sinan-abu-yahya-yang.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">7) SHUHAIB BIN SINAN</span></a></span></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sirah-60-para-sahabat-rasulullah-saw.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">PARA SAHABAT/COMPANIONS</span></a></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/5-abdullah-bin-umar-tekun-beribadah-dan.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">5) ABDULLAH BIN UMAR</span></a></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Abadi MT Condensed Light';font-size:180%;color:#0000FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#177733;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">(6)</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#38761d;"> SA'AD BIN ABI WAQQASH </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"> Singa yang menyembunyikan kukunya. </span></b></span></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Berita yang datang secara beruntun menyatakan serangan licik yang dilancarkan oleh angkatan bersenjata Persi terhadap Kaum Muslimin, amat menggelisahkan hati Amirul Mu’minin Umar bin Khatthab …. Disusul kemudian dengan berita tentang pertempuran Jembatan, di mana empat ribu orang pihak-Kaum Muslimin gugur sebagai syuhada dalam waktu sehari, begitu pun pelanggaran-pelanggaran yang dilakukan oleh orang-orang Irak terhadap perjanjian-perjanjian yang mereka perbuat, Berta ikrar Yang telah mereka akui . . . , menyebabkan khalifah mengambil keputusan untuk pergi dan memimpin sendiri tentara Islam dalam perjuangan bersenjata yang menentukan, melawan Persi.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bersama beberapa orang shahabat dan dengan menunggang kendaraan, berangkatlah ia dengan meninggalkan Ali karamallahu wajhah di Madinah sebagai wakilnya. Tetapi belum berapa jauh dari kota, sebagian anggota rombongan berpendapat dan mengusulkan agar ia kembali dan memilih salah seorang di antara Para shahabat untuk melakukan tugas tersebut.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Usul ini diprakarsai oleh Abdurrahman bin ‘Auf yang men<sup>y</sup>atakan bahwa menyia-nyiakan nyawa Amirul Mu’minin dengan cara seperti ini, sementara. Islam sedang menghadapi hari-harinya Yang menentukan, adalah perbuatan yang keliru.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Umar pun menyuruh Kaum Muslimin berkumpul untuk bermusyawarah dan diserukanlah “Asshalata jami’ah “; sementara Ali dipanggil datang, yang bersama beberapa orang penduduk</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Madinah berangkat menuju tempat perhentian Amirul Mu’minin. Akhirnya tercapailah persetujuan sesuai dengan apa yang diusulkan oleh Abdurrahman bin ‘Auf, dan peserta musyawarah memutuskan agar Umar kembali ke Madinah dan memilih seorang panglima lain yang akan memimpin peperangan menghadapi Persi.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Amirul Mu’minin tunduk pada keputusan ini, lalu menanyakan kepada para shahabat, siapa kiranya orang yang akan dikirim ke Irak itu. Mereka sama tertegun dan berfikir. Tiba-tiba berserulah Abdurrahman bin ‘Auf: “Saya telah menemukannya …!””Siapa dia?” tanya Umar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ujar Abdurrahman: “Singa yang menyembunyikan kukunya, yaitu Saad bin Malik az-Zuhri!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pendapat ini disokong sepenuhnya oleh Kaum Muslimin, dan Amirul Mu’minin meminta datang Sa’ad bin Malik az-Zuhri yang tiada lain Sa’ad bin Abi Waqqash. Lalu diangkatnya sebagai Amir atau gubernur militer di Irak yang bertugas mengatur pemerintahan dan sebagai panglima tentara.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, siapakah dia singa yang menyembunyikan kukunya itu, dan siapakah dia yang bila datang kepada Rasulullah ketika berada di antara shahabat-shahabatnya, akan disambutnya dengan ucapan selamat datang sambil bergurau, sabdanya: “Ini dia pamanku … ! Siapa orang yang punya paman seperti pamanku ini … ?” Itulah dia Sa’ad bin Abi Waqqash! Kakeknya ialah Uhaib, putera dari Manaf yang menjadi paman dari Aminah ibunda dari Rasulullah saw.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad masuk Islam selagi berusia 17 tahun, dan keislamannya termasuk yang terdahulu di antara para shahabat. Hal ini pernah diceritakannya sendiri, katanya: “Pada suatu saat saya beroleh kesempatan termasuk tiga orang pertama yang masuk Islam”. Maksudnya bahwa ia adalah salah seorang di antara tiga orang yang paling dahulu masuk Islam.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka pada hari-hari pertama Rasulullah menjelaskan tentang Allah Yang Esa dan tentang Agama baru yang dibawanya, dan sebelum beliau mengambil rumah al-Arqam untuk tempat pertemuan dengan shahabat-shahabatnya yang telah mulai beriman, Sa’ad bin Abi Waqqash telah mengulurkan tangan kanannya untuk bai’at kepada Rasulullah saw.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sementara itu buku-buku tarikh dan riwayat menceritakan kepada kita bahwa ia termasuk salah seorang yang masuk Islam bersama dan atas hasil usaha Abu Bakar. Boleh jadi ia menyatakan keislamannya secara terang-terangan bersama orang-orang yang dapat diyakinkan oleh Abu Bakar, yaitu Utsman bin ‘Affan, Zubair bin Awwam, Abdurrahman bin ‘Auf dan Thalhah bin ‘Ubaidillah. Dan ini tidak menutup kemungkinan bahwa ia lebih dulu masuk Islam secara sembunyi-sembunyi.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Banyak sekali keistimewaan yang dimiliki oleh Sa’ad ini, yang dapat ditonjolkan dan dibanggakannya. Tetapi di antara semua itu dua hal penting yang selalu menjadi dendang dan senandungnya. Pertama: bahwa dialah yang mula-mula melepaskan anak panah dalam membela Agama Allah, dan juga orang yang mula-mula terkena anak panah. Dan kedua: bahwa dia merupakan satu-satunya orang yang dijamin oleh Rasulullah dengan jaminan kedua orang tua beliau. Bersabdalah Rasulullah saw. di waktu perang Uhud:<br />“Panahlah hai Sa’ad! Ibu bapakku menjadi jaminan bagimu. . ..I”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang! Kedua ni’mat besar ini selalu menjadi dendangan Sa’ad buah syukurnya kepada Allah, katanya: “Demi Allah, sayalah orang pertama yang melepaskan anak panah di jalan Allah … !” Dan berkata pula Ali bin Abi Thalib: “Tidak pernah saya dengar Rasulullah menyediakan ibu bapaknya sebagai jaminan seseorang, kecuali bagi Sa’ad . . . Saya dengar beliau bersabda waktu Perang Uhud:<br />“Panahlah, hai Sa’ad! Ibu bapakku menjadi jaminan bagimu. . ..I”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad termasuk seorang kesatria berkuda Arab dan Muslimin yang paling berani. la mempunyai dua macam senjata yang amat ampuh: panahnya dan do’anya. Jika ia memanah musuh dalam peperangan, pastilah akan mengenai sasarannya . . . , dan jika ia menyampaikan suatu permohonan kepada Allah pastilah dikabulkan-Nya . . .! Menurut Sa’ad sendiri dan juga pars shahabatnya, hal itu adalah disebabkan do’a Rasulullah juga bagi pribadinya. Pada suatu hari ketika Rasulullah menyaksikan dari Sa’ad sesuatu yang menyenangkan dan berkenan di hati beliau, diajukannyalah do’a yang maqbul ini:<br />“Ya Allah, tepatkanlah bidikan panahnya dan kabulkanlah do’anya … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah ia terkenal di kalangan saudara-saudara dan handai tolannya bahwa do’anya tak ubah bagai pedang yang tajam. Hal ini juga disadari sepenuhnya oleh Sa’ad sendiri, hingga ia tak hendak berdo’a bagi kerugian seseorang, kecuali dengan menyerahkan urusannya kepada Allah Ta’ala. Sebagai contoh ialah peristiwa yang diriwayatkan oleh ‘Amir bin Sa’ad:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Sa’ad mendengar seorang laki-laki memaki ‘Ali, Thalhah dan Zubair. Ketika dilarangnya, orang itu tak hendak menurut, maka katanya: Walau begitu saya do’akan kamu kepada Allah “. Ujar laki-laki itu: “Rupanya kamu hendak menakut-nakuti aku, seolah-olah kamu seorang Nabi . . . ‘Maka Sa’ad pun pergi wudlu dan shalat dua raka’at. Lalu diangkatlah kedua tangannya, katanya: ‘Ya Allah, kiranya menurut ilmu-Mu laki-laki ini telah memaki segolongan orang yang telah beroleh kebaikan dari-Mu, dan tindakan mereka itu mengundang amarah murka-Mu, maka mohon dijadikan hal itu sebagai pertanda dan suatu pelajaran … ! ” Tidak lama kemudian, tiba-tiba dari salah satu pekarangan rumah, muncul seekor unta liar dan tanpa dapat dibendung masuk ke dalam lingkungan orang banyak seolah-olah ada yang dicarinya. Lalu diterjangnya laki-laki tadi dan dibawanya ke bawah kakinya, serta beberapa lama menjadi bulan-bulanan injakan dan sepakannya hingga akhirnya tewas menemui ajalnya … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kenyataan ini pertama kali mengungkapkan kebeningan jiwa, kebenaran iman dan keikhlasannya yang mendalam. Begitu pula Sa’ad, jiwanya adalah jiwa merdeka, keyakinannya keras</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">membaja serta keikhlasannya dalam dan tidak bernoda. Dan untuk menopang ketaqwaannya ia selalu memakan yang halal, dan menolak dengan keras setiap dirham yang mengandung syubhat.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dalam kehidupan akhirnya Sa’ad termasuk Kaum Muslimin yang kaya dan berharta. Waktu wafat, ia meninggalkan kekayaan yang tidak sedikit. Tapi kalau biasanya harta banyak dan harta halal jarang sekali dapat terhimpun, maka di tangan Sa’ad hal itu telah terjadi. Ia dilimpahi harta yang banyak, yang baik dan yang halal sekaligus.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di samping itu ia dapat dijadikan seorang mahaguru pula dalam coal membersihkan harta. Dan kemampuannya dalam mengumpulkan harta dari barang bersih lagi halal, diimbangi — bahkan mungkin diatasi — oleh kesanggupan menafqahkannya di jalan Allah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika Hajji Wada’, Sa’ad ikut bersama Rasulullah saw. Kebetulan ia jatuh sakit, maka Rasulullah datang menengoknya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tanya Sa’ad: “Wahai Rasulullah, saya punya harta dan ahli warisku hanya seorang puteri saja. Bolehkah saya shadaqahkan dua pertiga hartaku?” “Tidak “jawab Nabi. “Kalau begitu, separohnya?”tanya Sa’ad pula. “Jangan”, ujar Nabi. “Jadi, sepertiganya?” “Benar” ujar Nabi; dan sepertiga itu pun sudah banyak . .. , lebih baik anda meninggalkan ahli waris dalam keadaan mampu daripada membiarkannya dalam keadaan miskin dan menadahkan tangannya kepada orang lain. Dan setiap nafqah yang anda keluarkan dengan mengharap keridlaan Allah, pastilah akan diberi ganjaran,bahkan walau sesuap makanan yang ands taruh di mulut isteri ands!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Beberapa lama Sa’ad hanya mempunyai seorang puteri. Tetapi setelah peristiwa di atas, ia beroleh lagi beberapa orang putera. Karena takutnya kepada Allah, Sa’ad sering menangis. Jika didengarnya Rasulullah berpidato dan menasihati ummat, air matanya bercucuran hingga membasahi haribaannya. la adalah seorang shahabat yang diberi ni’mat taufiq dan diterima ‘ibadahnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari ketika Rasulullah sedang duduk-duduk bersama para shahabat, tiba-tiba beliau menatap dan menajamkan pandangannya ke arah ufuk bagai seseorang yang sedang menunggu bisikan atau kata-kata rahasia. Kemudian beliau menoleh kepada para shahabat, sabdanya:<br />“Sekarang akan muncul di hadapan tuan-tuan seorang lakilaki penduduk surga “.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Para shahabat pun nengok kiri kanan dan ke setiap arah untuk melihat siapakah kiranya orang berbahagia yang beruntung beroleh taufiq dan karunia itu. Dan tidak lama antaranya muncullah di hadapan mereka Sa’ad bin Abi Waqqash ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Selang beberapa lama, Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin ‘Ash datang kepadanya meminta jasa baiknya dan mendesak agar menunjukkan kepadanya jenis ibadat dan amalan untuk mendekatkan diri kepada Allah, yang menyebabkannya berhak menerima ganjaran tersebut yang telah diberitakan sehingga menjadi daya tarik untuk mengerjakannya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka ujar Sa’ad: “Tak lebih dari amal ibadat yang biasa kita kerjakan, hanya saja saya tak pernah menaruh dendam atau niat jahat terhadap seorang pun di antara Kaum Muslimin!”<br />Nah, itulah dia “singa yang selalu menyembunyikan kukunya” yang diungkapkan oleh Abdurrahman bin ‘Auf.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan inilah tokoh yang dipilih Umar untuk memimpin pertempuran Qadisiyah yang dahsyat itu! Kenapa memilihnya untuk melaksanakan tugas yang paling rumit yang sedang dihadapi Islam dan Kaum Muslimin, karena keistimewaannya terpampang jelas di hadapan Amirul Mu’minin:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">— Ia adalah orang yang maqbul do’anya … ; jika ia memohon diberi kemenangan oleh Allah, pastilah akan dikabulkan-Nya!<br />— la seorang yang hati-hati dalam makan, terpelihara lisan dan suci hatinya.<br />— Salah seorang anggota pasukan berkuda di perang Badar, di perang Uhud, pendeknya di setiap perjuangan bersenjata yang diikutinya bersama Rasulullah saw….<br />— Dan satu lagi yang tak dapat dilupakan oleh Umar, suatu keistimewaan yang tak dapat diabaikan harga, nilai dan kepentingannya, serta harus dimiliki oleh orang yang hendak melakukan tugas penting, yaitu kekuatan dan ketebalan iman.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Umar tidak lupa akan kisah Sa’ad dengan ibunya sewaktu ia masuk Islam dan mengikuti Rasulullah ….Ketika itu segala usaha ibunya untuk membendung dan menghalangi puteranya dari Agama Allah mengalami kegagalan. Maka ditempuhnya segala jalan yang tak dapat tidak, pasti akan melemahkan semangat Sa’ad dan akan membawanya kembali ke pangkuan agama berhala dan kepada kaum kerabatnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Wanita itu menyatakan akan mogok makan dan minum, sampai Sa’ad bersedia kembali ke agama nenek moyang dan kaumnya. Rencana itu dilaksanakannya dengan tekad yang luar biasa, ia tak hendak menjamah makanan atau minuman hingga hampir menemui ajalnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi Sa’ad tidak terpengaruh oleh hal tersebut, bahkan ia tetap pada pendiriannya, ia tak hendak menjual Agama dan keimanannya dengan sesuatu pun, bahkan walau dengan nyawa ibunya sekalipun.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika keadaan ibunya telah demikian gawat, beberapa orang keluarganya membawa Sa’ad kepadanya untuk menyaksikannya kali yang terakhir, dengan hadapan hatinya akan menjadi lunak jika melihat ibunya dalam sekarat. Sesampainya di sana, Sa’ad menyaksikan suatu pemandangan yang amat menghancurkan hatinya yang bagaikan dapat menghancurkan baja dan meluluhkan batu karang ….<br />Tapi keimanannya terhadap Allah dan Rasul mengatasi baja dan batu karang mana pun juga. Didekatkan wajahnya ke wajah ibunya, dan dikatakannya dengan suara kerns agar kedengaran olehnya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Demi Allah, ketahuilah wahai ibunda seandainya bunda mempunyai seratus nyawa, lalu ia keluar satu per satu, tidaklah anakanda akan meninggalkan Agama ini walau ditebus dengan apa pun juga . . .! Maka terserahlah kepada bunda, apakah bunda akan makan atau tidak … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Akhirnya ibunya mundur teratur, dan turunlah wahyu menyokong pendirian Sa’ad serta mengucapkan selamat kepadanya, sebagai berikut:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan seandainya kedua orang tun memaksamu untuh mempersehutukan Ahu, padahal itu tidak sesuai dengan pendapatmu, maka janganlah kamu mengikuti kedua‑<br />(Q.S.<sup> </sup>31 Luqman: 15)</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, tidakkah ini betul-betul singa yang menyembunyikan kukunya … ?<br />Jika demikian halnya, pantaslah Amirul Mu’minin dengan hati tenang memancangkan panji-panji Qadisiyah di tangan kanannya, dan mengirimnya untuk menghalau pasukan Persi yang tidak kuiang jumlahnya dari seratus ribu prajurit yang terlatih dan diperlengkapi dengan senjata dan alat pertahanan yang paling ditakuti dunia waktu itu, dipimpin oleh otak-otak perang yang paling jempol, dan ahli-ahli siasatnya yang paling cerdik dan licik … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang, kepada tentara musuh yang menakutkan inilah Sa’ad datang dengan membawa tigapuluh ribu mujahid, tidak lebih . . .; di tangan masing-masing tergenggam panah dan tumbak. Hanya sernata-mata panah dan tombak . . . tetapi dalam dada menyala kemauan dari Agama baru, yang membuktikan keimanan, kehangatan, serta kerinduan yang luar biasa terhadap maut dan mati syahid …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan kedua pasukan itu pun bertemulah. Tetapi belum, mereka belum lagi bertempur. Di sana Sa’ad masih menunggu bimbingan dan pengarahan dari Amirul Mu’minin Umar . . . . Di bawah ini tertera surat Umar yang memerintahkannya segera berangkat ke Qadisiyah, yang merupakan pintu gerbang memasuki Persi, ditancapkannya dalam hatinya kalimat berharga yang semuanya merupakan petunjuk dan cahaya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Wahai Sa’ad bin Wuhaib! Janganlah anda terpedaya di hadapan Allah, mentang-mentang dikatakan bahwa anda adalah paman dan shahabat Rasulullah! Sungguh, tak ada hubungan keluarga antara seseorang dengan Allah kecuali dengan mentaati-Nya! Semua manusia baik yang mulia maupun yang hina, pada pandangan Allah serupa tidak berbeda . . . . Allah Tuhan mereka, sedang mereka hambaNya . .. Mereka berlebih berkurang dalam kesehatan, dan akan beroleh karunia yang tersedia di sisi Allah dengan ketaatan. Maka perhatikanlah segala sesuatu yang pernah anda lihat pada Rasulullah saw. semenjak ia diutus sampai meninggalkan kita dan pegang teguhlah, karena itulah yang harus diikuti … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kemudian katanya pula:<br />“Tulislah kepadaku segala hal ikhwal tuan-tuan bagaimana kedudukan tuan-tuan, dan di mana pula posisi musuh terhadap tuan-tuan . .. , terangkan sejelas-jelasnya, hingga seolah-olah aku menyaksikan sendiri keadaan tuan-tuan … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad pun menulis surat kepada Amirul Mu’minin dan menuliskan segala sesuatu, hingga hampir saja diterangkannya tempat dan posisi setiap prajurit secara terperinci.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad telah sampai di Qadisiyah, sementara seluruh tentara dan rakyat Persia berhimpun, sesuatu hal yang tak pernah mereka lakukan selama ini. Kendali pimpinannya dipegang oleh panglimanya yang ulung dan paling terkenal, yaitu Rustum.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebagai balasan surat dari Sa’ad yang baru dikirimnya, Amirul Mu’minin menulis:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Sekali-kali janganlah anda gentar mendengar berita dan persiapan mereka! Bermohonlah kepada Allah dan tawakkallah kepada-Nya! Dan kirimlah sebagai utusan, orang-orang yang cerdas dan tabah untuk menyeru mereka ke jalan Allah . . .! Dan tulislah surat kepadaku setiap hari … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kembali Sa’ad mengirim surat kepada Amirul Mu’minin, menyampaikan bahwa Rustum telah menduduki Sabath dengan mengerahkan pasukan gajah dan berkudanya, dan mulai bergerak menuju Kaum Muslimin . . . . Balasan dari Umar datang yang isinya memberi petunjuk dan menabahkan hati Sa’ad.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad bin Abi Waqqash seorang anggota pasukan berkuda yang ulung dan gagah berani, paman Rasulullah dan termasuk golongan yang mula pertama masuk Islam, pahlawan dari berbagai perjuangan bersenjata, pancungan dan panahnya yang tak pernah meleset, sekarang tampil mengepalai tentaranya dalam menghadapi salah satu peperangan terbesar dalam sejarah, tak ubahnya bagi seorang prajurit biasa … ! Baik kekuatan maupun kedudukannya sebagai pemimpin, tidak mampu mempengaruhi dan memperdayakan dirinya untuk mengandalkan pendapatnya semata. Tetapi ia selalu menghubungi Amirul Mu’minin di Madinah yang jaraknya demikian jauh, dengan mengirimnya sepucuk surat tiap hari untuk bermusyawarah dan bertukar pendapat, padahal pertempuran besar itu telah hampir berkecamuk ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebabnya tidak lain, ialah karena Sa’ad ma’lum bahwa di Madinah, Umar tidaklah mengemukakan pendapatnya semata atau mengambil keputusan seorang diri . . . , tetapi tentulah ia akan bermusyawarah dengan orang-orang di sekelilingnya dan dengan shahabat-shahabat utama Rasulullah. Dan bagaimana juga gawatnya suasana perang, Sa’ad tak hendak kehilangan</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">barqah dan manfa’atnya musyawarah, baik bagi dirinya maupun bagi tentaranya, apalagi ia tabu benar bahwa di pusat komando itu pimpinannya langsung dipegang Umar al-Faruk, pembangkit ilham atau inspirasi agung ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pesan dari Umar dilaksanakan oleh Sa’ad. Dikirimnya serombongan di antara shahabat-shahabatnya sebagai utusan kepada Rustum panglima tentara Persia untuk menyerunya iman kepada Allah dan Agama Islam.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Soal jawab di antara mereka dengan Panglima Persi itu berlangsung lama, dan akhirnya mereka tidak diperbolehkan lagi berbicara, karena salah seorang di antara mereka mengatakan:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Sesungguhnya Allah telah memilih kami untuk membebas kan hamba-hamba-Nya yang dikehendaki-Nya dari pemujaan berhala kepada pengabdian terhadap Allah Yang Maha Esa, dari kesempitan dunia kepada keluasaannya, dan dari kedhaliman pihak penguasa kepada keadilan Islam …. Maka siapa-siapa yang bersedia menerima itu dari kami, kami terima pula kesediaannya dan kami biarkan mereka. Tetapi siapa yang memerangi kami, kami perangi pula mereka hingga kami mencapai apa yang telah dijanjikan Allah … ! ” “Apa janji yang telah dijanjikan Allah itu?” tanya Rustum. Jawab pembicara: “Surga bagi kami yang mati syahid, dan kemenangan bagi yang masih hidup . . .! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Para utusan kembali kepada panglima pasukan Islam Sa’ad dan menyampaikan bahwa tak ada pilihan lain daripada perang. Dan airmata Sa’ad berlinang-linang …. la berharap seandainya saat pertempuran itu dapat diundurkan atau dimajukan sedikit waktu. Ketika itu ia sedang sakit parah hingga ia sulit untuk bergerak. Bisul-bisul bertonjolan di sekujur tubuhnya hingga ia tak dapat duduk, apalagi akan menaiki punggung kudanya dan menerjuni pertempuran yang sengit berkuah darah!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Seandainya saat pecah perang itu terjadi sebelum ia jatuh ia akan menunjukkan prestasi tinggi . . . . Adapun sekarang ini . . *. Tetapi tidak, Rasulullah saw. telah mengajarkan kepada mereka supaya tidak mengatakan “seandainya”, karena kata-kata itu menunjukkan kelemahan, sedang orang Mu’min yang kuat tidak kehabisan akal dan tidak pernah lemah!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika itu bangkitlah “singa yang menyembunyikan kukunya” itu, lalu berdiri di hadapan tentara menyampaikan pidato dengan tak lupa mengutip ayat mulia berikut ini:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bis millahirrah ma nirrahim<br />Telah Kami cantumhan dalam Zabur setelah sebelumnya Kami catat dalam (Lauh Mahfudh) peringatan bahwa: Bumi itu diwarisi oleh hamba-hamba-Ku yang shalih – . – .<br />(Q.S. 21 al-Ambiya:105)</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Setelah menyampaikan pidatonya Sa’ad melakukan shalat dhuhur bersama tentaranya, kemudian sambil menghadap kepada mereka, ia mengucapkan takbir empat kali: Allaahu Akbar<br />, Allaahu Akbar . . . , Allaahu Akbar. . . , Allaahu Akbar ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Alam pun gemuruh dan bergema dengan suara takbir, dan sambil mengulurkan tangannya kemuka bagai anak panah yang sedang melepas laju menunjuk ke arah musuh, Sa’ad berseru kepada anak buahnya: “Ayohlah maju dengan barkat dari Allah … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dengan menabahkan diri menanggung sakit yang dideritanya, Sa’ad naik ke anjung rumah yang ditinggalinya dan yang diambilnya sebagai markas komandonya. Sambil telungkup di atas dadanya yang dialasi bantal sementara pintu anjung itu terbuka lebar . . . . Sedikit saja serangan dari orang-orang Persi ke rumah itu, akan menyebabkan panglima Muslimin jatuh ke tangan mereka, hidup atau mati Tetapi ia tidak gentar dan tidak merasa takut ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bisul-bisul pecah berletusan, tetapi ia tidak perduli, hanya terus berseru dan bertakbir serta mengeluarkan perintah kepada anak buahnya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Majulah ke kanan . . .”., dan kepada yang lain: “Tutup pertahanan sebelah kiri awas di depanmu hai Mughirah ke belakang mereka hai Jarir pukul hai Nu’man …. serbu hai Asy’ats . . , hantam hai Qa’qa’ majulah semua hai shahabat-shahabat Muhammad saw …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suaranya yang berwibawa, penuh dengan kemauan dan semangat baja, menyebabkan masing-masing prajurit itu berubah menjadi kesatuan yang utuh. Maka berjatuhanlah tentara Persi, tak ubah bagai lalat-lalat yang berkaparan, dan rubuhlah bersama mereka keberhalaan dan pemujaan api!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan setelah melihat tewasnya panglima bestir dan prajurit prajurit pilihan mereka, sisa-sisa musuh tunggang-langgang melarikan diri. Mereka dikejar dan dihalau oleh tentara Islam sampai ke Nahawand lalu ke Mada-in. Ibu kota itu mereka masuki untuk merampas kursi singgasana dan mahkota Kisra yang menjadi lambang keberhalaan.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Di pertempuran Mada-in Sa’ad mencapai prestasi tinggi . . . . Pertempuran ini terjadi kira-kira dua setengah tahun setelah pertempuran Qadisiyah, sementara perang berlangsung secara keeil-keeilan antara Persi dan Kaum Muslimin. Akhirnya semua sisa tentara Persi ini berhimpun di kota-kota Mada-in saja, bersiap-siap untuk menghadapi pertempuran terakhir dan menentukan….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad menyadari bahwa situasi medan dan musim menguntungkan pihak penentang Islam, karena antara pasukannya dan Madain terbentang sungai Tigris yang lebar, alirannya sangat deras karena sedang banjir meluap-luap.Walaupun demikian dengan teguh hati ia tetap memutuskan untuk memulai serangan umum itu pada waktu itu juga, dengan perhitungan bahwa mental pasukan musuh sedang menurun.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, di antaranya peristiwa inilah yang membuktikan bahwa Sa’ad betul-betul sebagai dilukiskan oleh Abdurrahman bin ‘Auf, “singa yang menyembunyikan kukunya”. Keimanan sa’ad dan kepekatan hatinya akan tampak menonjol ketika menghadapi bahaya, hingga dapat mengatasi barang mustahil berkat keberanian yang luar biasa!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah Sa’ad mengeluarkan perintah kepada pasukannya untuk menyeberangi sungai Tigris, dan disuruhnya menyelidiki yang dangkal dari sungai yang dapat dijadikan tempat penyeberangan ini. Dan akhirnya mereka menemukan tempat tersebut, walaupun untuk menyeberanginya tidak luput dari bahaya yang mengancam.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebelum tentara memulai penyeberangan, panglima besar Sa’ad menyadari pentingnya pengamanan pinggiran seberang sungai yang hendak dicapai, yakni daerah yang ada dalam kekuasaan dan pengawasan musuh.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika itu disiapkannya dua kompi tentara: Pertama yang dinamakannya “kompi sapu jagat”, sebagai komandannya diangkatnya “Ashim bin ‘Amr. Dan yang kedua disebutnya “kompi gerak cepat”, sebagai pemimpinnya diangkatnya Qa’qa bin ‘Amr.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Adapun tugas dari kedua kompi ini ialah menerjuni bahaya dan menetas jalan yang aman menuju pinggir sebelah musuh dan melindungi induk pasukan yang akan mengiringi mereka dari belakang. Dan mereka telah menunaikan tugas itu dengan kemahiran yang mena’jubkan .. .</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hingga siasat yang dilakukan Sa’ad ketika itu mencapai hasil yang mengagumkan bagi para ahli sejarah, bahkan bagi diri Sa’ad bin Abi Waqqash sendiri ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salman al-Farisi, yakni teman dan kawan seperjuangannya dalam pertempuran itu, juga hampir-hampir tak percaya akan hasil yang telah dicapai. la menepukkan kedua belah tangannya karena ta’jub dan bangga, katanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Agama Islam masih baru ….<br />Tetapi lautan telah dapat mereka taklukkan,<br />sebagai halnya daratan telah mereka kuasai ….<br />Demi Allah yang nyawa Salman berada dalam tangan Nya, pastilah mereka akan dapat keluar dengan selamat daripadanya berbondong-bondong, sebagaimana mereka telah memasukinya berbondon<sup>g </sup>bondong … !”<br />Dan benarlah apa yang dikatakannya itu ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sebagaimana mereka telah terjun ke dalam sungai gelombang demi gelombang, demikianlah pula mereka keluar dari dalamnya dan mencapai seberang sana gelombang demi gelombang pula. Tak seorang pun dari mereka kehilangan prajurit, bahkan tak sedikit pun tentara Persi yang mampu mengunjukkan giginya<sup> </sup>.<sup> </sup>.!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mangkok tempat minumannya seorang prajurit jatuh ke dalam air. Maka ia tak ingin jadi satu-satunya orang yang kehilangan barang waktu penyeberangan itu. Kepada teman-temannya diserukannya agar menolongnya untuk menclapatkan barang itu kembali. Kebetulan suatu ombak besar melemparkan mangkok itu ke dekat rombongan hingga dapat mereka pungut ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salah satu riwayat tentang sejarah melukiskan bagaimana dahsyatnya suasana ketika penyeberangan sungai Tigris itu, katanya:<br />“Sa’ad memerintahkan Kaum Muslimin agar membaca: Hasbunallaahu wa ni’mal wakiil — cukuplah bagi kita Allah, dan Dialah sebaik-baik pemimpin — Lalu dikerahkanlah kudanya menerjuni sungai yang diikuti oleh orang-orangnya, hingga tak seorang pun di antara anggota pasukan yang tinggal di belakang.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka berjalanlah mereka dalam air, tak ubah bagai berjalan di darat juga, hingga dari pinggir yang satu ke pinggir lainnya telah dipenuhi oleh prajurit, dan permukaan air tak kelihatan lagi disebabkan amat banyaknya anggota angkatan berkuda serta pasukan pejalan kaki. Orang-orang bercakap-cakap sesamanya ketika berada dalam air, seolah-olah mereka sedang bercakap-cakap di darat. Sebabnya tidak lain karena mereka merasa aman tenteram, serta percaya akan ketentuan Allah dan pertolongan-Nya, akan janji dan bantuan-Nya … ! “<br />Tatkala Sa’ad diangkat Umar sebagai amir wilayah Irak, ia mulai melakukan pembangunan dan perluasan kota. Kota Kufah diperbesar, dan diumumkanlah hukum Islam serta dilaksanakan di daerah yang luas dan lebar itu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu hari rakyat Kufah mengadukan Sa’ad sebagai wali negerinya kepada Amirul Mu’minin, rupanya mereka sedang dipengaruhi oleh tabi’at yang mudah dihasut, cepat resah, gelisah dan suka memberontak, hingga mereka mengemukakan tuduhan yang bukan-bukan dan mentertawakan. Kata mereka: “Sa’ad tidak baik shalatnya … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mendengar itu Sa’ad hanya tertawa terbahak-bahak, ujarnya:<br />“Demi Allah, yang saya lakukan hanyalah mengerjakan shalat bersama mereka sebagai shalat Rasulullah, yaitu memanjangkan dua raka’at yang mula-mula dan memendekkan dua raka’at yang akhir”.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad dipanggil Umar ke Madinah untuk menghadap. Sa’ad tidak marah, bahkan segera dipenuhi panggilan itu secepatnya. Setelah beberapa lama, Umar bermaksud untuk mengembalikannya ke Kufah, tapi sambil tertawa Sa’ad menjawab:<br />‘Apakah anda hendak mengembalikan saya kepada kaum yang menuduh bahwa shalat saya tidak baik … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Demikianlah ia memilih tinggal di Madinah.<br />Ketika Amirul Mu’minin dicederai orang, dipilihnyalah enam orang di antara shahabat-shahabat Rasulullah saw. yang akan mengurus soal pemilihan khalifah baru, dengan mengemukakan alasan bahwa keenam orang yang dipilihnya itu adalah terdiri dari orang-orang yang diridlai Rasulullah saw. sewaktu beliau hendak berpulang ke rahmatullah. Maka di antara shahabat yang berenam itu terdapatlah Sa’ad bin Abi Waqqash. Bahkan dari kalimat-kalimat Umar yang akhir terdapat kesan bahwa seandainya ia hendak memilih salah seorang di antara mereka, maka pilihannya akan jatuh pada Sa’ad ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sewaktu memberi wasiat dan mengucapkan selamat perpisahan dengan shahabat-shahabatnya, Umar berkata: “Jika khalifah dijabat oleh Sa’ad, demikianlah sebaiknya . . .! Dan seandainya dijabat oleh lainnya, hendaklah ia menjadikan Sa’ad sebagai pendampingnya … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad mencapai usia lanjut . . . dan tibalah saat terjadinya fitnah besar, dan Sa’ad tak hendak mencampurinya, bahkan kepada keluarga dan putera-puteranya dipesankan agar tidak menyampaikan suatu berita pun mengenai hal itu kepadanya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu ketika perhatian orang sama-sama tertuju kepadanya, dan anak saudaranya yang bernama Hasyim bin ‘Utbah bin Abi Waqqash datang mendapatkannya, seraya berkata: “Paman, di sini telah siap seratus ribu bilah pedang, yang menganggap bahwa pamanlah yang lebih berhak mengenai urusan khilafah ini!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ujar Sa’ad:<br />“Dari seratus ribu bilah pedang itu saya inginkan sebilah pedang saja . I . , jika saya tebaskan kepada orang Mu’min maka takkan mempan sedikit pun juga, tetapi bila saya pancungkan kepada orang kafir pastilah putus batang lehernya … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mendengar jawaban itu anak saudaranya maklum akan maksudnya dan membiarkannya dalam sikap damai dan tak hendak bercampur tangan.<br />Dan tatkala akhirnya khilafah itu jatuh ke tangan Mu’awiyah dan kendali kekuasaan tergenggam dalam tangannya, ditanyakan kepada Sa’ad:<br />“Kenapa anda tidak ikut berperang di pihak kami?”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ujarnya: “Saya sedang lewat di suatu tempat yang dilanda taufan berkabut gelap. Maka kataku: Hai saudara …. hai saudaraku! Lalu saya hentikan kendaraan menunggu jalan terang kembali …”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kata Mu’awiyah: “Bukankah dalam al-Quran tak ada: Hai saudara, hai saudara! Hanya firman Allah Ta’ala:<br />Jika di antara orang-orang Mu’min ada dua golongan yang berbunuhan, maka damaikanlah mereka! Seandainya salah satu di antara kedua golongan itu berbuat aniaya kepada yang lain, maka perangilah yang berbuat aniaya itu sampai mereka kembali kepada perintah Allah. . .!<br />(Q.S.49 al-Hujurat:9)</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka anda bukanlah di pihak yang aniaya terhadap pihak yang benar, dan bukan pula di pihak yang benar terhadap golongan yang aniaya … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa’ad menjawab sebagai berikut:<br />“Saya tak hendak memerangi seorang laki-laki — maksudnya Ali — yang mengenai dirinya Rasulullah pernah bersabda:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Engkau di sampingku, tak ubahnya seperti kedudukan Harun di samping Musa, tetapi (engkau bukan Nabi) tak ada lagi Nabi sesudahku!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suatu hari pada tahun 54 H, yakni ketika usia Sa’ad telah lebih dari 80 tahun . . . , ia sedang berada di rumahnya di ‘Aqiq, sedang bersiap-siap hendak menemui Allah Ta’ala ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Saatnya yang akhir itu diceritakan puteranya kepada kita sebagai berikut:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Kepala bapakku berada di pangkuanku ketika ia hendak meninggal itu. Aku menangis, maka katanya: Kenapa kamu menangis wahai anakku . . . ? Sungguh Allah tiada akan menghukumku . . . , dan sesungguhnya aku termasuk salah seorang penduduk surga … !”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kekebalan imannya tak tergoyahkan oleh apapun juga, bahkan tidak oleh goncangan maut dan kengeriannya! Bukankah Rasulullah saw. telah menyampaikan kabar gembira kepadanya sedang ia iman dan percaya penuh akan kebenaran Rasulullah saw. itu! Jadi apa yang akan ditakutkannya lagi … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Sungguh, Allah tiada akan menyiksaku dan Sungguh aku termasuk penduduk surga …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hanya ia hendak menemui Allah dengan membawa kenang-kenangan yang paling manis dan mengharukan, yang telah menghubungkan dengan Agamanya dan mempertemukan dengan Rasul-Nya …. Itulah sebabnya ia memberi isyarat ke arah peti simpanannya, yang ketika mereka buka dan keluarkan isinya, ternyata sehelai kain tua yang telah usang dan lapuk. Disuruhlah keluarganya mengafani mayatnya nanti dengan kain itu, katanya:<br />“Telah kuhadapi orang-orang musyrik waktu perang Badar dengan memakai kain itu dan telah kusimpan ia sekian lama untuk keperluan seperti pada hari ini … ! “<br />Memang, kain usang yang telah lapuk itu tak dapat dianggap sebagai kain biasa! Ia adalah panji-panji yang senantiasa berkibar di puncak kehidupan tinggi dan panjang yang dilalui pemiliknya dengan Lulus dan bariman serta gagah berani … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan sosok tubuh dari salah seorang yang terakhir meninggal di antara orang-orang Muhajirin ini dipikul di atas pundak orangorang yang membawanya ke Madinah, untuk ditempatkan dengan aman di dekat sekelompok tokoh-tokoh suci dari pars shahabat yang telah mendahuluinya menemui Allah, dan jasadjasad mereka yang dipenuhi rasa rindu itu mendapatkan tempatnya di bumi dan tanah Baqi’.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Selamat jalan wahai Sa’ad …<br />Selamat jalan wahai pahlawan Qadisiyah, pembebas Madain dan pemadam api pujaan di Persi untuk selama-lamanya … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">SA'D IBN ABI WAQQAAS </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">The Lion's Claws! </span></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> A continuous stream of incoming news worried the Commander of the Faithful `Umar lbn Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">khattab. This news was about the deceitful attacks launched by the Persian forces against the Muslims at </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Battle of Al-Jisr which cost the Muslims 4,000 lives in a single day and, moreover, about the Iraqis' </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">renouncement of allegiance and their violation of agreed-upon convenants. Therefore, he decided to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">personally lead the Muslim troops in a decisive fight against Persia. In fact, he set out accompanied by </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">some of his companions, leaving `Aliy lbn Abi Taalib (May Allah be pleased with him) behind to act as </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his deputy over Al-Madiinah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> However, he had hardly left Al-Madiinah when some of his companions found it wiser to ask him to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">return and appoint someone else for this task. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> This view was adopted by `Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn `Awf, who saw it unwise to risk the caliph's life in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">such a way while Islam was going through its most decisive days. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> `Umar ordered the Muslims to gather for public consultation. Congregational prayer was then </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">announced and `Aliy Ibn Abi Taalib was sent for. He went with some Madinites to where `Umar and his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">companions were waiting. At last, they accepted `Abd Ar-Rahman lbn `Awfs opinion. The assembly </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">decided that `Umar was to go back to Al-Madiinah and another Muslim leader be chosen to combat the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Persians. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> `Umar agreed to their decision, then asked his companions, "Whom do you see fit to be sent to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Iraq?" They thought silently for a while. Then `Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn `Awf shouted, "I've found him!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Umar said, "Who is it?" `Abd Ar-Rahman said, "The Lion's Claws: Sa'd Ibn Maalik Az-Zuhariy." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Muslims supported his choice. `Umar then sent for Sa'd Ibn Maalik Az-Zuhariy, also known as </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa'd Ibn Abi Waqqaas and appointed him governor of Iraq and Commander of the Army. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Who is that "Lion's Claws"? It is he who, whenever he turned to the Prophet while sitting among his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions, was greeted cheerfully by the Prophet saying, "He's my maternal uncle." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Can anyone tell me who his uncle was? He was Sa'd Ibn Abi Waqqaas His grandfather was Uhaib </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ibn Manaaf, the paternal uncle of Aaminah, the mother of the Prophet (PBUH). He accepted Islam when </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he was 17 years old. He embraced Islam very early. When he talked about himself, he said, "I witnessed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">a day in which I was third in Islam," which means that he was the third to embrace Islam. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When the Prophet (PBUH) spoke about the One God and about the new religion whose teachings he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was to spread all around, and before using Daar Al-Arqam as a refuge for himself and the Companions in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">those early days, Sa'd Ibn Abi Waqqaas had already sworn the oath of allegiance to the Prophet (PBUH). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Historical and biographical sources inform us that the conversion of Abu Bakr was the reason for </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa'd's embracing Islam. He may have been one of those who announced their belief in Islam after Abu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Bakr convinced them. This group included Uthmaan lbn `Afaan, Az-Zubair Ibn Al-'Awaam, Abd Ar- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rahman Ibn `Awf and Allah Ibn Ubaid Allah. However, that does not omit the possibility that his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">conversion had taken place secretly and he had believed even earlier. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd lbn Abi Waqqaas had many noble qualities which he could be proud of. However, he never </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">arrogantly mentioned any of these merits, except for two great privileges. First, he was the first to throw </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">a spear in the cause of Allah and the first to be struck by one. Second, he was the only one for whom the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet (PBUH) hoped his parents might be his ransom. That happened when the Prophet (PBUH) said </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to him on the day of Uhud, `Throw, Sa'd. May my father and mother be your ransom." Yes, indeed, he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">always mentioned proudly these two noble blessings. Thanking Allah, he always said, "By Allah, I am </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the first Arab to throw a spear in the cause of Allah." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Aliy lbn Abi Taalib said, "I have never heard the Prophet (PBUH) hoping that his parents may be </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">made someone's ranson except Sa'd. On the day of Uhud I heard the Prophet (PBUH) say, "Throw Sa'd. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">May my father and mother be your ransom." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd was considered to be one of the most courageous Arab and Muslim horsemen. He possessed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">two weapons, his lance and his prayer. Whenever he pierced an enemy with his lance he hurt him; </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">whenever he invoked Allah He answered. He and the Companions always saw that this was due to the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet's prayer in favor of him. One day, when the Prophet saw him doing something which made him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">glad and delighted, he made the following plea: "O Allah, make his spear hit unerringly and answer his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">prayer." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> It was in this way that he became famous among his companions for his prayer, which was like a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sharp sword. He knew that about himself; therefore, he never cursed a person. Sa'd would just trust Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to do with him as He liked. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> An example of that is what `Aamir Ibn Sa'd once narrated: Sa'd once saw a man insulting `Aliy, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Talhah and Az-Zubair. He forbade him, but he didn't stop. Sa'd then said, " Then I will invoke Allah </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">against you." The man said, "You're threatening me as if you were a Prophet." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd went away, performed his ablution and prayed two rak'ahs. Then he lifted his hands up and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said, "O Allah, if You know that that man has insulted people who have already been granted by You </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that which is the best and his cursing of them has annoyed You, then make an example out of him." Only </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">a short while had passed, when a stray camel went out of a house. Nothing could stay it till it entered a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">crowd as if searching for something. Then it attacked the man, and he fell between its legs. It continued </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to kick the man down till he died. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> If this phenomenon was to prove something, then it proved primarily the purity of his soul, the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">honesty of his faith, and the depth of his sincerity. He always sought to support his piety by halaal food; </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">with great insistence he always refused to take doubtful money. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd lived until he became one of the wealthiest Muslims. When he died, he left a great fortune </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">behind. Although the abundance of money and its legitimacy are rarely to be found together, they </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">certainly were combined in the hands of Sa'd. Thus Allah granted him a great amount of halaal money. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He (may Allah be pleased with him) was a great figure in the act of charity, as much as he was a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">great figure in the act of righteously choosing the sources of his money. His ability to collect purely </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">halaal money was equal to, if not second to, his ability to donate it in the cause of Allah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He became ill during the Farewell Pilgrimage, when he was accompanying the Prophet (PBUH), </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">who visited him. Sa`d asked him (PBUH), "O Messenger of Allah, I own a lot of money and there is </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">nobody to inherit from me except one daughter. May I contribute two thirds of my money as alms?" The </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet (PBUH) said, "No." Then he said, "Then half of it?" The Prophet (PBUH) said, "No." Then he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said, "Then a third?" The Prophet (PBUH) said, "Yes, and the third is too much. To leave your heirs </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">wealthy is better than to leave them having to be dependent on someone. If you spend any money in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">cause of Allah you'll be rewarded for it, even the bite you put in your wife's mouth." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd did not remain the father of one daughter because he was later on blessed with other children. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd used to cry a lot out of piety. Whenever he listened to the Prophet (PBUH) preaching or </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">advising, his tears rolled down abundantly, so that his tears nearly filled his lap. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">He was blessed with success and accomplishment. Once the Prophet (PBUH) was sitting with the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions when his eyes gazed on the horizon while listening to what was being revealed secretly and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">whisperingly. Then he looked at his Companions' faces and said, "A man who belongs to Paradise will </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">soon appear." The Companions turned in all directions trying to learn, who this successful person may </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">be. After a while, Sa'd arrived. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Later on, Abd Allah Ibn Amr Ibn Al-'Aas asked him persistently to tell him the worship or deed </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">which made him eligible for such a reward. Sa'd told him, "Nothing more than what we all do or </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">worship, except that I don't carry any spite or hatred towards any Muslim." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> This is the "Lion's Claws" as `Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn Awf had described him. This is the man whom </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Umar chose for the great day of the Battle of Al- Qaadisiyah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Commander of the Faithful had insight into all his glittering merits when he chose him for the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">most difficult task confronting Islam and the Muslims: </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> - His prayers were heard and answered; if he asked Allah for victory, he would be granted it. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> - His food was pure, his tongue was pure, his conscience was pure. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> - He was a man who belonged to Paradise, as the Messenger (PBUH) prophesied. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> - He was the horseman on the Day of Badr, the horseman on the Day of Uhud and in every battle he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">experienced with the Prophet (PBUH). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> - And another thing, which `Umar would not forget nor underestimate the value and importance </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">among the characteristics which should be present in anyone facing major tasks, was the strength and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">firmness of his faith. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> -`Umar did not forget what happened between Sa'd and his mother when he converted to Islam and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">followed the Prophet (PBUH). At that time, all attempts to hinder and obstruct him from the cause of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah had failed. His mother used a device which none doubted would conquer Sa'd's soul and drive him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">back to his people's idols. She announced her abstention from food and drink until Sa'd returned to his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ancestors' and kin's religion. She actually carried on her hunger strike with death defying determination </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and had almost approached death. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Despite all that, Sa'd did not care. He would not sell his faith and religion for anything, even if it </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">were his mother's life. Hoping that his heart would yield upon seeing her, some relatives took Sa'd to his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">mother, who was almost dying. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd went to her. The scene was so impressive, even mountain rocks would yield and melt. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">However, his belief in Allah and His Messenger proved to be stronger than rocks and iron. He came with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his face nearer and shouted so that she could hear him. "You know, by Allah, mother, if you had 100 </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">souls coming out one after the other I wouldn't abandon my faith in return for anything. Then eat if you </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">like or don't eat!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His mother changed her mind. A divine revelation greeted Sa`d's position and supported it. "But if </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">they (both) strive with you to make you join in worship with Me others that of which you have no </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">knowledge, then obey them not..." (31 : 15). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Is he not, indeed, the Lion in his claws? Therefore the Commander of the Faithful should hand him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the standard of Al Qaadisiyah and throw him against the Persians, who recruited more than 100,000 </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">trained warriors equipped with the most dangerous weapons the earth had ever witnessed, led on that day </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">by the most intelligent and cunning warlords. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Indeed, all those horrible legions, will Sa'd meet with his mere 30,000 warriors, equipped only with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">spears, nothing more. However, their hearts were filled with the will of the new faith with all it </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">represents: belief, vigor, and a rare, dazzling, longing aspiration for death and martyrdom. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The two armies met in combat. No, they did not meet yet. Sa'd is still there waiting for the advice </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and instructions of the Commander of the Faithful. Finally `Umar's message arrives, ordering him to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">move towards Al-Qaadisiyah, the gate to Persia. `Umar's words represented light and guidance: O Sa'd </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lbn Wahiib, do not be deluded if it is said, You are the Prophet's uncle and his Companion. Know that </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">there is no relationship between Allah and anyone except through obedience to Him. All people, the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">noble ones as well as the lowly, all are equal in front of Allah. Allah is their God and they are His </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">servants. The relationship between them is one of rivalry for preference by means of their well being, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">whereas they can only get what is in Allah's hands by means of obedience to Him. Remember the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet's (PBUH) positions which he stuck to from the time he was sent to us until he left our world. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hold to them; it is an order. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Then he said to him, Send me information about all your circumstances. Where have you reached </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and how? What is your enemy's position in respect to yours? Let your messages make me as if I am </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">actually seeing you. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd wrote to the Commander of the Faithful describing everything. He almost showed him each </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">soldier's position and state. Sa'd reached Al-Qaadissiyah. The Persians gathered their army as they never </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">had before and appointed as their leader one of the most famous and dangerous commanders, Rustum. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd writes to Umar the Commander of the Faithful, who replies: Don't be upset by what you hear </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">from them, nor what they show you. Seek Allah's help and put your trust in Him. Send them people of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">insight, good judgment, and patience to call him to follow Allah's path, and write me every day. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd writes again to the Commander of the Faithful saying, Rustum camped with his troops at </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Saabaat. He has brought his horses and elephants and marched towards us. Umar replies to calm him. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd is a smart, brave horseman, the Prophet's uncle, one of the first converts, and hero of different </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">wars and raids. No sword or lance of his ever failed to reach its target. He stands at the head of his army </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">in one of the greatest historical battles as if he were an ordinary soldier, not deluded by power nor acting </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">arrogantly because of leadership. His self-esteem could tempt him to rely completely on his own </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">capacities; but despite that he always turns to the Commander of the Faithful in Al-Madiinah. Although </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">miles and miles separate them, he sends him a message each day, exchanging viewpoints, advice, and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">opinions while the great battle is still to come. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> That was because Sa'd knew that `Umar in Al-Madiinah never decided alone, but consulted the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muslims and the Prophet's Companions around him. Despite the war circumstances, Sa'd did not want to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">deprive himself or his army of the blessings and benefits of public consultation, especially if `Umar, a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">man with great inspiration, was among the consultants. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd carried out `Umar's will and sent Rustum, the Persian leader, a number of his companions to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">call him to follow Islam and Allah's path. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The conversation between them and the Persian leader lasted long. Finally they ended their talk by </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">telling him, "Allah has chosen us to turn whom He chooses of His creatures from paganism to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">monotheism, from the narrowness of life to its freedom, from ruler's injustice to Islam's fairness. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Whoever accepts our offer, we will leave him alone and will refrain from hurting him. Whoever fights </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">us, we will fight him until we fulfil Allan's promise." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Then Rustum asked, "What is Allah's promise which He made to you?" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Companion answered, "Paradise for our martyrs and victory for the living ones." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The delegation returned to Sa'd, leader of the Muslims, to tell him that it was war. Sa'd's eyes were </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hereby filled with tears. He had wished so much that the war would be delayed for some time. On that </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">day his illness became more severe, and he had to suffer its heavy burden. The abscesses spread all over </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his body, to the extent that he could not sit, let alone ride his horse to take part in an extremely fierce and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">violent battle. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> If the war had just been waged before his illness or had it been delayed till he was cured and healthy </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">again, then he would have proved himself brave. But now. . . No, the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) had </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">taught them never to say "If" because "If' means weakness. A strong believer is neither helpless nor </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">weak. Thereupon The Lion's Claws stood up to preach to his soldiers. He began his speech citing the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">following glorious verse: "And We have written in the Zaboor (given to David) after the Torahe (given </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to Moses): "My righteous servants shall inherit the earth" (21: 105). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Having finished his speech Sa'd led his troops in the Dhuhr Prayer, then turned towards his soldiers </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and proclaimed four times, "Allahu akbar (Allah is the Greatest)! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">akbar!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The echo was to be heard all over the universe. Then he stretched out his arm like an unerring arrow </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pointing to the enemy and shouted to his soldiers, "Let's start this battle accompanied by Allah's </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">blessings." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> With pains hard to bear, he ascended to the balcony of his residence, which he used as a dwelling </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and a headquarters. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> On the balcony he sat on a pillow and leaned upon his chest. His door was left open, which meant </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">that by the least Persian attack against his residence he would be captured, alive or dead, but he was far </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">from being afraid or terrified. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His abscesses were bleeding and hurting him severely, but he had something else to think about. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sitting on his balcony, he was shouting, calling, and commanding. First to those in one flank to step </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">forward towards the right, and then to those in another flank to fill out the empty spot on the left. . . </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mughiirah, look forward! Jurair follow them! Nu'maan, hit! Ash`ath attack and you also, Qa'qaa'. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Forward, forward, Prophet's Companions! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">His determined and hopeful sound turned each individual soldier into an army of its own. The Persian </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">soldiers fell like flies and with them fell the worship of fire and paganism. After seeing the death of their </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">commander and their best soldiers, the defeated, scattered remnants rapidly escaped. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The Muslim army pursued them until they reached Nahawind then Al-Madaa'in. There they fought to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">carry with them at the end the emperor's throne and crown as war booty. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> At the Battle of Al-Madaa'in, Sa'd could stand the test and prove himself brave. The Battle of Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Madaa'in took place two years after the Battle of Al-Qaadissiyah, a period during which a lot of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">continuous armed dashes took place between the Muslims and the Persians. Finally, the scattered </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">remnants of the Persian army gathered at Al-Madaa'in itself, ready for a decisive and final scene. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd realized that time was on his enemy's side; therefore, he decided to deprive them of this </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">advantage, but how could he do that? The Tigris River in its flood season stood in the middle between </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him and Al-Madaa'in. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Thereby, an event took place by which Sa'd succeeded to prove that he indeed deserved `Abd Ar- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Rahman lbn `Awfs description of him as the Lion's Claws. Sa'd's faith and determination stood glittering </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">in the face of danger, mocking and making fun of the impossible with admirable bravery. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa`d ordered his army to cross the Tigris River. He ordered them to search for a safe, secure ford in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the river which would enable their crossing. Finally they found a place, but the fording was not free of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">extreme risks. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Before the army started to cross, the leader Sa'd wisely realized the necessity to safeguard their </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">arrival spot on the opposite bank, where the enemy was camping. Therefore he prepared two </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">detachments, the first of which was called The Detachment of Terror. Its leader was `Aasim Ibn `Amr. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The second was called The Detachment of the Dumb, led by Al Qa'qaa' lbn `Amr. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The soldiers of these two detachments had to encounter many horrible situations to clear a safe </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">place on the opposite bank for the army which would subsequently cross. They fulfilled their task with </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">amazing skill. Sa'd's success on that day will always be a cause for the perplexity of historians. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd himself was amazed by his own success. It also amazed his companion and escort Salmaan Al- </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Faarisiy, who shook his head in astonishment and said, " Islam is indeed new. By Allah, seas have been </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">subdued by them and the land has been subdued by them. In the name of the One in Whose hands </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Salmaan's soul lies, they will leave it in a group, as they entered it in a group." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Indeed, that is exactly what happened. As they penetrated the Tigris River in a group, so they left it </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">in a group without losing one single soldier, nor annoying a single horse. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> It happened that a wooden cup fell from one of the warriors, who felt sorry to be the only one to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">lose something. He called his companions to help to get it out and a high wave pushed it to where </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">someone could pick it up! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Some historical sources described the magnificence of such a scene as the fording of the river: Sa'd </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ordered the Muslims to say, "Allah is enough for us and He is the best to trust in." Then he penetrated the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tigris with his horse, and the people penetrated behind him. No one stayed behind. They walked as if </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">they were walking on a land surface until they filled the whole area between the two banks. The water </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">surface could not seen due to the numerous troops of cavalry and infantry. People went on talking while </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">walking in the water as if they were on land, as a result of their feeling of security and tranquility, their </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">trust in Allah's judgment and His victory, His promise and His support. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When Umar appointed him to be Iraq's governor, he set out to build Kufa and established the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">foundations of Islam in wide broad lands. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> One day the inhabitants of Kufa complained to the Commander of the Faithful about Sa'd. They lost </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">control over their flimsy, restless temper and made a funny claim saying, "Sa'd can't pray well." Sa`d </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">laughed loudly and said, "By Allah, I prayed with them exactly as the Prophet's prayer was. I prolonged </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the first two rak`ahs and shortened the last two." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When `Umar ordered him back to Al-Madiinah, he did not get annoyed. On the contrary, he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">responded to `Umar's call immediately. After some time, `Umar determined to return him to Kufa, but </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa'd responded laughing, "Do You order me to return to people who claim that I don't perform my </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">prayers well?" He preferred to stay in Al-Madiinah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When the Commander of the Faithful `Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) was attacked, he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">chose six of the Prophet's Companions to be responsible for choosing the next caliph. `Umar said that he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">chose six of those with whom the Prophet was pleased before he died. Sa'd lbn Abi Waqqaas was one of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">them. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> But it seems from `Umar's last words that if he would have chosen one of the Companions for the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">caliphate, it would have been Sa'd. He said to his companions, advising and commending, "If Sa'd is to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">become caliph, that's good; but if someone else is to be caliph, then he has to seek Sa'd's help." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Sa'd lived long. He secluded himself during the period of civil strife following the death of the third </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Caliph, `Uthmaan. Furthermore, he ordered his whole family and children not to tell him any news about </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">what was happening. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Once, everyone was anxious to know his position, when his nephew Haashim Ibn `Utbah lbn Abi </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Waqqaas said to him, "O uncle, here are 100,000 swords which consider you the more entitled to that </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">matter (i.e. the caliphate)." Sa'd responded, "I want out of the 100,000 swords, just one sword that if it </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">hits a believer it won't do anything, but if it hits a disbeliever it cuts through." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His nephew realized what he meant and left him in his isolation and security. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When the dispute ended in favor of Mu'aawiyah, who took over the reins of government, he asked </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sa'd, `Why didn't you fight with us?" He answered, "A dark cloud passed over me. I told it, Shoo! Shoo! </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">I stopped my riding camel until it passed away." Mu'aawiyah said, "Shoo! Shoo can not be found in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">glorious Book of Allah, but Allah said "And if two parties or groups among the believers fall into </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">fighting, then make peace between them both, but if one of them rebels against the other, then fight you </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(all) against the one that which rebels till it complies with the Command of Allah" (49 : 9). And you did </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">not take anyone's side. You weren't with the unjust against the just, nor were you with the just against the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">unjust." Hereupon Sa'd responded, "I wouldn't have fought a man (he meant `Aliy Ibn Abi Taalib) to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">whom the Prophet (PBUH) said, "You have towards me the same position Haaruun (Aaron) had towards </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Muusaa (Moses), except that there isn't any Prophet coming after me." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> One day in A.H. 54, having exceeded the age of 80, he was at his house in Al-`Aqiiq preparing to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">meet Allah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His son spoke of his final moments: His head was upon my lap, he was passing away. I cried, but he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">said, "What makes You cry, my son? Allah will never torture me. I belong to Paradise!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The firmness of his faith could not be weakened even by the quaking fear of death. The Prophet </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH) had passed him the good news and he believed firmly in the Prophet's honesty; therefore what </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was there to be afraid of? "Allah will never torture me. I belong to Paradise!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> However, he wanted to meet Allah carrying the most magnificent and most wonderful memory, a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">memory which joined him with his religion and his Prophet (PBUH). Therefore, he pointed to his coffer. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">They opened it and got out an old, torn, threadbare gown. He ordered his kin to shroud him in that gown </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">saying, "I met the disbelievers at the Battle of Badr wearing it. I've saved it for this day." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Indeed, this threadbare gown was not just a gown. It was the banner waving over a long great life. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Our hero lived it honestly, bravely, and faithfully. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">The body of the last Muhaajiruun was buried in Al- Madiinah, safely laid beside a group of great </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions who preceded him to Allah. Their exhausted bodies had finally found a secure shelter in the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ground of Al-Baqii`. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Farewell, Sa'd. Farewell Sa'd, the hero of Al-Qaadissiyah, conquerer of Al-Madaa'in, extinguisher </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">forever of the worshipped fire of Persia! </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174474199517824808.post-67204922097552945442011-06-10T07:33:00.000-07:002011-06-11T06:40:25.100-07:00<div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/8-muadz-bin-jabal-muslim-yang-palin.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">8) MU'ADZ BIN JABAL</span></a></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/sirah-60-para-sahabat-rasulullah-saw.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">PARA SAHABAT/COMPANIONS</span></a></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://mygifgift.blogspot.com/2011/06/6-bin-abi-waqqash-yang-menyembunyikan.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">6) SA'AD BIN ABI WAQQASH</span></a></span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(23, 119, 51); font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; "></span>(7) </span></b></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#38761d;">SHUHAIB BIN SINAN </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">Abu Yahya yang selalu mendapat laba. </span></b></span></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ia dilahirkan dalam lingkungan kesenangan dan kemewahan . . . . Bapaknya menjadi hakim dan walikota “Ubullah” sebagai pejabat yang diangkat oleh Kisra atau maharaja Persi. Mereka adalah orang-orang Arab yang pindah ke Irak, jauh sebelum datangnya Agama Islam. Dan di istananya yang terletak di pinggir sungai Efrat ke arah hilir “Jazirah” dan “Mosul”, anak itu hidup dalam keadaan senang dan bahagia ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pada suatu ketika, negeri itu menjadi sasaran orang-orang Romawi yang datang menyerbu dan menawan sejumlah penduduk, termasuk di antaranya Shuhaib bin Sinan …. Ia diperjual belikan oleh saudagar-saudagar budak belian, dan perkelanaannya yang panjang berakhir di kota Mekah, yakni setelah menghabiskan masa kanak-kanak dan permulaan masa remajanya di negeri Romawi, hingga lidah dan dialeknya telah menjadi lidah dan dialek Romawi.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Majikannya tertarik akan kecerdasan, kerajinan dan kejujurannya, hingga Shuhaib dibebaskan dan dimerdekakannya, dan diberinya kesempatan untuk dapat berniaga bersamanya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka pada suatu hari . . . , yah, marilah kita dengarkan cerita kawannya yang bernama. ‘Ammar bin Yasir, mengisahkan peristiwa<sup> </sup>yang terjadi pada hari itu:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Saya berjumpa dengan Shuhaib bin Sinan di muka pintu rumah Arqam, yakni ketika Rasulullah saw. sedang berada di dalamnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">— Hendak ke mana kamu? tanya saya kepadanya.<br />— Dan, kamu hendak ke mana? jawabnya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Saya hendak menjumpai Muhammad saw. untuk menjelaskan tentang aqidah Agama Islam kepada kami, setelah kami meresapi apa yang dikemukakannya kami pun menja pemeluknya. Kami tinggal di sana sampai petang hari. Lalu dengan sembunyi-sembunyi kami keluar meninggalkannya…</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Jadi Shuhaib telah tabu jalan ke rumah Arqam …. Artinya ia telah mengetahui jalan menuju petunjuk dan cahaya, juga ke arah pengurbanan berat dan tebusan besar …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka melewati pintu kayu yang memisah bagian dalam rumah Arqam dari bagian luarnya, tidak hanya berarti melangkah bandul pintu semata …. tetapi hakikatnya adalah melangkah batas-batas alam secara keseluruhan … ! Yakni alam lama dengan segala apa yang diwakilinya baik berupa keagamaan dan akhlaq, maupun berupa peraturan yang harus dilangkahinya menuju alam baru dengan segala aspek dan persoalannya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Melangkahi bandul pintu rumah Arqam yang lebarnya tidak lebih dari satu kaki, pada hakekat dan kenyataannya adalah melangkahi bahaya besar luas dan lebar.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Maka menghampiri rintangan itu — maksud kita bandul tersebut,</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">— mema’lumkan datangnya suatu masa yang penuh dengan tanggung jawab yang tidak enteng … !<br />Apalagi bagi fakir miskin, budak belian dan orang peranta memasuki rumah Arqam itu artinya tidak lain dari suatu pengorbanan yang melampaui kemampuan yang lazim dari manusia.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Shahabat kita Shuhaib adalah anak pendatang atau orang perantau, sedang shahabat yang berjumpa dengannya di ambang pintu rumah tadi — yakni ‘Ammar bin Yasir — adalah seorang miskin . . . . Tetapi kenapa keduanya itu berani menghadapi bahaya, dan kenapa mereka bersiap sedia untuk menemuinya … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, itulah dia panggilan iman yang tak dapat dibendung … ! Dan itulah dia pengaruh kepribadian Muhammad saw., yang kesan-kesannya telah mengisi hati orang-orang baik dengan hidayah dan kasih sayang … ! Dan itulah dia daya pesona dari barang baru yang bersinar cemerlang, yang telah memukau akal fikiran yang muak melihat kebasian barang lama, bosan dengan kesesatan dan kepalsuannya . . .!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan di atas semua ini, itulah rahmat dari Allah Ta’ala yang dilimpahkan-N<sup>y</sup>a kepada siapa yang dikehendaki-Nya, serta petunjuk-Nya yang diberikan kepada orang yang kembali dan menyerahkan diri kepada-Nya.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Shuhaib telah menggabungkan dirinya dengan kafilah orangorang beriman. Bahkan ia telah membuat tempat yang luas dan tinggi dalam barisan orang-orang yang teraniaya dan tersiksa! Begitu pula dalam barisan para dermawan dan penanggung uang tebusan … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pernah diceritakan keadaan sebenarnya yang membuktikan rasa tanggung jawabnya yang besar sebagai seorang Muslim yang telah bai’at kepada Rasulullah dan bernaung di bawah panji-panji Agama Islam, katanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Tiada suatu perjuangan bersenjata yang diterjuni Rasulullah, kecuali pastilah aku menyertainya ….<br />Dan tiada suatu bai’at yang dijalaninya, kecuali tentulah aku menghadirinya ….<br />Dan tiada suatu pasukan bersenjata yang dikirimnya kecuali aku termasuk sebagai anggota rombongannya ….<br />Dan tidak pernah belian bertempur baik di masa-masa perrtama Islam atau di masa-masa akhir, kecuali aku berada di sebelah kanan atau di sebelah kirinya ….<br />Dan kalau ada sesuatu yang dikhawatirkan Kaum Muslimin di hadapan mereka pasti aku akan menyerbu paling depan, demikian Pula kalau ada yang dicemaskan di belakang mereka, pasti aku akan mundur ke belakang ….Serta aku tidak sudi sama sekali membiarkan Rasulullah saw. berada dalam jangkauan musuh sampai ia kembali menemui Allah . . ..”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suatu gambaran keimanan yang istimewa dan kecintaan yang luar biasa ….<br />Sungguh, Shuhaib semoga Allah meridlainya dan meridlai</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">semua shahabatnya layak untuk mendapatkan keunggulan iman ini, semenjak ia menerima cahaya Ilahi dan menaruh tangan kanannya di tangan kanan Rasulullah saw. Mulai saat itu hubungannya dengan dunia dan sesama manusia, bahkan dengan dirinya pribadi mendapatkan corak baru. Jiwanya telah tertempa .menjadi keras dan ulet, zuhud tak kenal lelah, hingga dengan bekal tersebut ia berhasil mengatasi segala macam peristiwa dan menjinakkan marabahaya ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan sebagai telah kita kemukakan dulu, ia selalu menghadapi segala akibat dan risiko dengan keberanian luar biasa. la tak hendak mundur dari segala pertempuran atau mengucilkan diri dari bahaya, sedang kegemarannya dialihkannya dari menumpuk keuntungan kepada memikul tanggung jawab, dari meni’mati kehidupan kepada mengarungi bahaya dan mencintai maut ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Hari-hari perjuangannya yang mulia dan cintanya yang luhur itu diawali pada saat hijrahnya. Pada hari itu ditinggalkannya segala emas dan perak serta kekayaan yang diperolehnya sebagai hasil perniagaan selama berbilang tahun di Mekah. Semua kekayaan ini, yakni segala yang dimilikinya, dilepaskan dalam sekejap saat tanpa berfikir panjang atau mundur maju.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika Rasulullah hendak pergi hijrah, Shuhaib mengetahuinya, dan menurut rencana ia akan menjadi orang ketiga dalam hijrah tersebut, di samping Rasulullah dan Abu Bakar …. Tetapi orang-orang Quraisy telah mengatur persiapan di malam harinya untuk mencegah kepindahan Rasulullah.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Shuhaib terjebak dalam salah satu perangkap mereka, hingga terhalang untuk hijrah untuk sementara waktu, sementara Rasulullah dengan shahabatnya berhasil meloloskan diri atas barkah Allah Ta’ala.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Shuhaib berusaha menolak tuduhan Quraisy dengan jalan bersilat lidah, hingga ketika mereka lengah ia naik ke punggung untanya, lalu dipacunya hewan itu dengan sekencang-kencangnya menuju Sahara luas . . . . Tetapi Quraisy mengirim pemburu-pemburu mereka untuk menyusulnya dan usaha itu hampir berhasil. Tapi demi Shuhaib melihat dan berhadapan dengan mereka ia berseru katanya:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Hai orang-orang Quraisy!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kalian sama mengetahui bahwa saya adalah ahli panah yang paling mahir . . . . Demi Allah, kalian takkan berhasil mendekati diriku, sebelum saya lepaskan semua anak panah yang berada dalam kantong ini, dan setelah itu akan menggunakan pedang untuk menebas kalian, sampai senjata di tanganku habis semua!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Nah, majulah ke sini kalau kalian berani …</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tetapi kalau kalian setuju, saya akan tunjukkan tempat penyimpanan harta bendaku, asal saja kalian membiarkan daku … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Mereka sama tertarik dengan tawaran terakhir itu, dan setuju menerima hartanya sebagai imbalan dirinya, kata mereka: “Memang, dahulu waktu kamu datang kepada kami, kamu adalah seorang miskin lagi papa. Sekarang hartamu menjadi banyak di tengah-tengah kami hingga melimpah ruah. Lalu kami hendak membawa pergi bersamamu semua harta kekayaan itu … ? “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Shuhaib menunjukkan tempat disembunyikan hartanya itu, hingga mereka membiarkannya pergi sedang mereka kembali ke Mekah. Dan suatu hal yang aneh ialah bahwa mereka mempercayai ucapan Shuhaib tanpa bimbang atau bersikap waspada, hingga mereka tidak meminta suatu bukti, bahkan tidak meminta agar ia mengucapkan sumpah … !</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Kenyataan ini menunjukkan tingginya kedudukan Shuhaib di mata mereka, sebagai orang yang jujur dan dapat dipercaya</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Shuhaib melanjutkan lagi perjalanan hijrahnya seorang diri tetapi berbahagia, hingga akhirnya berhasil menyusul Rasulullah saw. di Quba. Waktu itu Rasulullah sedang duduk dikelilingi oleh beberapa orang shahabat, ketika dengan tidak diduga Shuhaib mengucapkan salamnya. Dan demi Rasulullah melihatnya, beliau berseru dengan gembira:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Beruntung perdaganganmu, hat Abu Yahya! Beruntung perdaganganmu, hai Abu Yahya!”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan letika itu juga turunlah ayat:<br />Dan di antara manusia ada yang sedia menebus dirinya demi mengharapkan keridlaan Allah, dan Allah Maha penyantun terhadap hamba-hambaNya!<br />(Q.S.2 al-Baqarah:207)</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Memang, Shuhaib telah menebus dirinya yang beriman itu dengan segala harta kekayaan, ia mengumpulkan harta kekayaan itu dengan menghabiskan masa mudanya, yakni seluruh usia mudanya …. dan sedikit pun ia tidak merasa dirinya rugi!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Apa artinya harta, emas, perak dan seluruh dunia ini, asal imannya tidak terganggu, hati nuraninya berkuasa dan kemauannya menjadi raja!</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">la amat disayangi oleh Rasulullah saw. Dan di samping keshalihan dan ketaqwaannya, Shuhaib adalah seorang periang dan jenaka. Pada suatu hari Rasulullah melihat Shuhaib sedang makan kurma dan salah satu matanya bengkak. Tanya Rasulullah kepadanya sambil tertawa:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Kenapa kamu makan kurma sedang sebelah matamu bengkak?”<br />“Apa salahnya?” ujar Shuhaib; saya memakannya dengan mata yang sebelah lagi … ?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Shuhaib adalah pula seorang pemurah dan dermawan. Tunjangan yang diperolehnya dari Baitul mal dibelanjakan semuanya di jalan Allah, yakni untuk membantu orang yang kemalangan dan menolong fakir miskin dalam kesengsaraan, memenuhi firman Allah Ta’ala:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan diberihannya makanan yang disukainva kepada orang miskin, anah yatim dan orang tawanan 11 .<br />(Q.S.76 ad-Dahr:8)</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sampai-sampai kemurahannya yang amat sangat itu mengundang peringatan dari Umar, katanya kepada Shuhaib:</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">“Saya lihat kamu banyak sekali mendermakan makanan hingga melewati batas … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Jawab Shuhaib: “Sebab saya pernah mendengar Rasulullah bersabda:<br />Sebaik-baik kaftan ialah yang sutra memberi makanan.”</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan setelah diketahui kehidupan Shuhaib berlimpah ruah dengan keutamaan dan kebesaran, maka dipilihnya oleh Umar bin Khatthab untuk menjadi imam bagi Kaum Muslimin dalam shalat mereka, merupakan suatu keistimewaan dan kecemerlangan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tatkala Amirul Mu’minin diserang orang sewaktu melakukan shalat shubuh bersama Kaum Muslimin . . . , maka disampaikannyalah pesan dan kata-kata akhirnya kepada para shahabat, katanya: “Hendaklah Shuhaib menjadi imam Kaum Muslimin dalam shalat … ! “</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ketika itu Umar telah memilih enam orang shahabat yang diberi tugas untuk mengurus pemilihan khalifah baru. Dan khalifah Kaum Musliminlah yang biasanya menjadi imam dalam shalat-shalat mereka. Maka siapakah yang akan bertindak sebagai imam dalam saat-saat vakum antara wafatnya Amirul Mu’minin dan terpilihnya khalifah baru itu?</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Tentulah Umar, apalagi dalam saat-saat seperti itu, ya’ni ketika ruhnya yang suci hendak berangkat menghadap Allah, akan berfikir seribu kah sebelum menjatuhkan pilihannya. Maka kalau ia telah memutuskan pilihannya, tentulah tak ada orang yang lebih beruntung dan memenuhi syarat dari orang yang dipilihnya itu.</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Dan Umar telah memilih Shuhaib ….<br />Dipilihnya untuk menjadi imam untuk Kaum Muslimin menunggu munculnya khalifah barn yang akan melaksanakan kewajiban-kewajibannya. Dan ketika ia memilihnya, bukan tidak tabu bahwa lidah Shuhaib adalah lidah asing. Maka peristiwa ini merupakan kesempurnaan karunia Allah terhadap hamba-Nya yang shalih, Shuhaib bin Sinan ….</div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #c1ffe5; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">SUHAIB IBN SINAAN </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:white;">O Abu Yahia! A Successful Purchase! </span></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He was born surrounded by comfort and luxury. His father was the governor of Al Uballah and its </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">ruler on behalf of the Persian king, and was one of the Arabs who emigrated to Iraq long before Islam. In </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his palace on the bank of Euphrates, next to Mosul, the child lived happily and comfortably. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> One day the country was attacked by the Romans (Byzantines) who captured a large number and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">enslaved the boy Suhaib lbn Sinaan. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He was taken by slave traders until finally his long journey ended in Makkah. There he was sold to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Abd Allah lbn Jud'aan, after having spent his childhood and most of his youth in Roman lands, where he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">adopted their language and dialect. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His master was so amazed by his intelligence, energy, and sincerity that he emancipated him and set </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">him free, giving him the privilege to trade with him. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> One day.. . let his friend `Ammaar Ibn Yaasir tell us what happened on that day: I met Suhaib lbn </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Sinaan in front of the door of Daar Al-Arqam when the Prophet (PBUH) was there. I asked, "What do </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">you want?" He answered, "And what do you want?" I said, "I want to meet Muhammad (PBUH) to hear </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">what he is saying." He said, "I want the same." We both entered and met the Prophet (PBUH), who </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">invited us to embrace Islam, and we converted. We stayed as we were till evening. Secretly he went out. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Thereupon, Suhaib got to know his path to Daar Al- Arqam. He got to know his path to guidance </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and light, but also to difficult sacrifice and great redemption. Entering through that wooden door, which </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">separated Daar Al-Arqam and what was inside from the outer world, was not just crossing a threshold, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">but crossing of a whole world of limitations. An old world, with all that represented it - religion, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">manners, customs and life - crossing it towards a new world with all that represented it - religion, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">manners, customs, and life. Crossing the threshold of Daar Al-Arqam, a threshold not wider than one </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">foot, meant, in reality, to cross an ocean of terror, wide and expanding. Stepping over such an obstacle, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">such a threshold, meant the beginning of an era full of great responsibilities. As for the poor, the stranger, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the enslaved, stepping over Daar Al-Arqam's threshold meant exceptional, extraordinary sacrifices. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suhaib, our hero, was a stranger; Ammar Ibn Yaasir, his friend whom he met in front of the door, was a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">poor man. Why did they go voluntarily to face terror and, moreover, do their best when they me with it in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">combat? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> It was the call of faith, which could not be resisted. It was the good character of Muhammad </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">(PBUH), the scent of which filled the hearts of the reverent with love and guidance. It was his new, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">shining magnificence. Dazzling minds were fed up with the old, its misguidance and bankruptcy. Above </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">all, it was Allah's mercy, bestowed upon whomever He wishes, His guidance and protection bestowed on </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">whomever turns to Him. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Suhaib holds a position in the ranks of the faithful. He held a great and high position among the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">persecuted and tortured. He held a high position among the generous and self -sacrificing. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He frankly described his great loyalty to his responsibilities as a Muslim who had pledged </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">allegiance to the Prophet (PBUH) and walked under Islam's standard: I was present in every situation </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">witnessed by the Prophet (PBUH). I was present at every pledge called by him. I was present in every </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">detachment organized by him. The Prophet (PBUH) never took part in a raid, at the beginning of the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">period or the end, without my being on his right or left. Whenever the Muslims feared a danger facing </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">them, I was there in the front, and whenever they feared it in the rear, I was there at the back. I never let </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Prophet (PBUH) stay in a position between me and the foe until he (PBUH) met Allah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> It was a dazzling image of extraordinary faith and great loyalty. Ever since the first day he received </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Allah's light and put his hand into the Prophet's, Suhaib (May Allah be pleased with him and with all his </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Companions) was imbued with such outstanding faith. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> From that day, his relationship towards people and the world, let alone himself, acquired a new </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">dimension. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> From that day, his character turned into a firm, humble and devoted one, subduing events and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">braving various types of horror. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He went on - as already mentioned - bravely and courageously shouldering all his responsibilities, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">never lagging behind, whenever there was danger or a situation to be encountered. His passionate love </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and ardent desire were not directed towards gains and spoils but rather towards sacrifice and ransom; not </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">towards the greed of life but rather towards the passion of danger and self- sacrifice. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He began the days of his noble redemption and great loyalty with the day of his Hijrah. On that day </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he abandoned all his wealth, all his gold which he had gained by successful trade during the long years </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">he lived in Makkah. He abandoned all his fortune, all that he owned in a split second, the glory of which </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">was never stained by doubt or retreat. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When the Prophet (PBUH) intended to emigrate, Suhaib knew that and he was supposed to be the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">third one of the three the Prophet, Abu Bakr, and Suhaib. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> However, the Quraish decided to prevent the Prophet's emigration. Suhaib fell into one of their traps </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">and was thereby hindered for some time from emigrating, while the Prophet (PBUH) and his companion </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">set out accompanied by Allah's blessing. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Suhaib disputed, talked, and argued until he got rid of his persecutors. He mounted his camel and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sped across the desert. However, the Quraish sent its hunters to follow him. When they reached him, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suhaib had hardly seen them before facing them and shouting from a near distance, "O people of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Quraish, you know that I am the best marksman. By Allah, you cannot reach me before I shoot each of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">my arrows with my bow, then I will strike you with my sword until it falls down. Come on, if you like to </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">try. Or if you like, I will tell you where my money is, and so leave me alone." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> They agreed to take his money saying, "You came to us as a poor wretch. Your money increased in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">our land and among us you claimed high rank and now you want to escape together with your money?" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He guided them to the place where he had hidden his fortune, then they left him alone and returned </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to Makkah. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Strangely enough, they believed his words without doubt, without precaution. They did not ask him </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">to prove his honesty, nor did they ask him to swear. This situation granted him a great honor, which he </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">deserves as an honest and truthful man. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Alone but happy, Suhaib continued his journey until he reached the Prophet (PBUH) at Qubaa'. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When Suhaib came into view, the Prophet (PBUH) was sitting surrounded by his Companions. As </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">soon as the Prophet (PBUH) saw him, he called to him cheerfully, "O Abu Yahia! A profitable sale! A </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">profitable sale!" </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Thereupon, the glorious verse was revealed: "And of mankind is he who sell himself, seeking the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">pleasure of Allah And Allah is full of kindness to (His) slaves "(2:201). </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> Indeed, Suhaib had paid all his fortune - the fortune he spent all his youth to gather - in return for </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his faithful soul. He never felt it was an unjust bargain. Money, gold, the whole world, nothing of that </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">sort was worthwhile as long as he kept his faith, the sovereignty of his conscience, and the determination </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">of his fate. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The Prophet loved him very much. Besides being pious and God-fearing, he was a cheerful and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">jovial person. The Prophet (PBUH) saw him once eating dates when there was an inflammation in one of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">his eyes. The Prophet (PBUH) asked him cheerfully, "Do you eat dates when there is inflammation in </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">one of your eyes?" He answered, "What's wrong with that? I eat them with the other eye!" He was a </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">generous donor, spending all his stipend from the treasury (Bait Al-Maal) in the cause of Allah, helping </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the needy, aiding the sorrowful, feeding the needy, the orphans, and the captives with the best food. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> His extreme generosity attracted the attention of `Umar, who said to him, "I can see you feeding </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">people too much, to the extent that you are spending lavishly." Suhaib answered him, "I've heard the </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Prophet (PBUH) say, "The best of you is the one who feeds (others)." </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> The life of Suhaib was filled with an abandance of merits and great situations. To be chosen by </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">`Umar lbn Al-khattab to lead the prayer was another merit to be added. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> When the Commander of the Faithful was attacked while leading the Muslims in Fajr Prayer and </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">felt his end was coming nearer and nearer, he began to advise his companions. His last words were, "Let </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Suhaib lead people in prayer". </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> On that day Umar chose six of the Companions and entrusted them with the choice of the new </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">caliph. The Caliph of the Muslims was the one who led the prayers. In those days following the death of </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">the Commander of the Faithful until the new caliph was chosen, who was to lead the Muslims in prayer? </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> `Umar would slow down a thousand times before choosing someone especially in these moments, </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">while his pure soul was passing away to meet Allah. If he chose, then there was no one more eligible </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">than the chosen. He chose Suhaib. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He chose him to lead the Muslims in prayer until the next caliph came to carry out his duties. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"> He chose him, despite the Roman accent obvious in his language. This choice was a divine blessing </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">upon the pious worshipper Suhaib Ibn Sinaan. </div><div style="color: #dafffe; font: 18.0px Abadi MT Condensed Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;"> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com