Omar Bin Khattab ( Series ) Full

Yes, I am now a Muslim,

but I continue to struggle against what I used to love over many, many years.

What has passed of my life is longer than what remains.

I look around me in Makkah...

and I see shadows of the past days coming out at me from every corner.

I see life as it used to be,

and I see the people: Utbah Ibn Rabeeah, Abu Al-Hakam,

Al-Waleed Ibn Al-Mugheerah,

Umayyah Ibn Khalaf, Al-Aas Ibn Wail, Abu Talib.

I see Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, Quraysh's ambassador, champion and defender.

I see Bilal carrying buckets of water and lighting the fire for his master.

I see Khalid Ibn al-Waleed, Quraysh's military commander,

and Amr Abn Al-Aas, its mastermind. I see myself

Abu Sufyan Sakhr Ibn Harb Ibn Umayyah Ibn Abd Shams Ibn Abd Manaaf...

assuming the overall leadership of Quraysh.

Where have those days of old gone?

Then I see the present when everything has changed.

It is a totally different epoch now.

Hence, I wonder:

should I reject what I see around me...

or should I reject myself?

And you!

Won't you say something?

Won't you give me some advice?

You did not protect me. Now defend yourselves against me.

Utbah Ibn Rabeeah, where have you gone?

If I do not cry for your revenge today,

should I now cry for you being in the fire?

Do you think that now that God has given His messenger his hometown,

he will live here? - Do not worry, people of the Ansar.

Other people from the Ansar said the same as you have just said,

and the Prophet was informed of it. He said:

''By no means, my people of the Ansar.

My life is with you and my death is with you.''

My brother, Abu Hudhaifah! - How are you, sister?

I have given my pledge, Abu Hudhaifah. - I know.

I pray to God to make you firm in your belief in Islam

and to purge your heart of the traces of jahiliyyah.

Both Abu Sufyan and myself need this prayer.

This is my brother, Salim. Do you remember him?

How could I forget him when you have made him your son?

God has abrogated that. He says: "Call them by their fathers names".

He is my brother in Islam. I am his ally and he is mine, and God is our master.

Only death will separate us.

Or we are together as martyrs for God's cause.

Salim is a good scholar of the Qur'an.

Who is it? - Open the door, father?

Abu Jandal!

Is that how a father meets his son after such a long absence?

How will I meet one of Muhammad's companions...

after what I had done? Now I am wanted.

Come with us, father, to meet God's messenger.

What? You will take me to him to kill me after what I have done?

God's messenger has declared safety for you. You have nothing to fear.

Has he really? You have taken from him a safety order for me?

Has Abdullah taken from him a safety order for me?

Do not worry, father. God's messenger (PBUH)...

spoke to his companion when he gave a declaration of safety in your favour.

He said ''whoever meets Suhail Ibn Amr should not look hard at him.

By God, Suhail is a man of wisdom and integrity.

A person like Suhail cannot but appreciate Islam.

How much?

Safwan; Abu Wahb; Wait a minute.

Safwan! - Go away from me.

Have you come to take me and hand me over to your friend?

I have come to you from the kindest, most forbearing and most generous of people.

His glory is your glory and his kingdom is your kingdom.

I have requested him to grant your safety and he has declared it.

Come back with me to meet him, may God guide you aright.

How can I tell that what you are saying is true? You may be trying to deceive me.

You did it before.

This is the Prophet's turban which he was wearing when he entered Makkah.

He gave it to me as a mark of my sincerity.

Do not lead yourself to ruin.

I think what has brought you here is that you fear that the Prophet...

will kill you in revenge for his uncle.

Leave me alone.

Where can you flee? Some men who fled like you have come back.

They went to God's messenger seeking safety. He granted them their safety

and accepted them as Muslims.

I think this is your only option.

How can I be like them? I have killed Hamzah, Muhammad's own uncle.

I have no family or clan to protect me.

God's messenger has abrogated all that is related to the pride of jahiliyyah,

and the glory of ancestry.

That you have killed Hamzah, well, remember that he is a Prophet

who seeks neither revenge nor retribution. He only aims to provide guidance for people.

He has pardoned Hind Bint Utbah, despite what she did to his uncle.

Go to him before it is too late.

I have given you sincere advice, and it is after all up to you.

By God, this is Wahshi who killed Hamzah.

You, enemy of God, where will you go?

Come with us to God's messenger to pass against you the judgement you deserve.

He is under my care, may God bless you all. I will take him to God's messenger.

Will you not welcome your cousin, Ikrimah?

You are most welcome, Abu Sulaiman.

Welcome to the immigrant rider,

as God's messenger said when he saw you approaching him.

Had he said the 'fleeing rider', he would have stated the truth.

God's messenger is not one to rebuke or humiliate anyone.

You have seen how pleased he was to see you embracing Islam.

Welcome to God's sword.

Is that how they call you now - I pray to God to deserve this title.

Will this bondage never end? - Haven't you become a Muslim?

Hasn't God's messenger pardoned you for what you had done?

Yes, but he then asked me to describe to him how I killed Hamzah.

Did you not see how his face changed? He then told me

to keep my face away from him if I can.

That is all over now. We are all brothers in Islam. Do not look to the past.

Look only to what you will do in the rest of your life.

I need to look back so as to know how hard I should work

in order to compensate for what I have missed.

Then you are a true Muslim.

You have to thank Umm Hakeem for seeking your safety from God's messenger.

Otherwise, you would have perished.

Perhaps I have known the truth for some time.

Two things stopped me from acting on that: pride and honouring my father.

I felt that if I were to become a Muslim I would testify that he was Abu Jahl.

I had the same feeling with regard to my father, Al-Mugheerah,

and the Qur'anic verses speaking about him. Yet maintaining our stand

in support of falsehood does not save our fathers from the fire.

It only puts us with them when all people are on their own.

I killed Hamzah to win my freedom.

Yet Quraysh continued ever since to look at me as a slave.

I am not allowed to sit with them, share an opinion with them,

or eat with them in the same plate. I would even hear them referring to me

as Jubair Ibn Mut im's slave.

When they and I have embraced Islam, I hear them referring to me

as Hamzah's killer.

One fetter is broken only to be replaced by another. Until when? Until when?

Am I to remain an outcast for the rest of time, just like a camel with scabies,

or a sheep isolated from its flock?

When will I be just one among ordinary people?

What an accursed spear you are!

You brought me to this end.

Can you now release me of it?

As you consider our meeting here now, with all of you being Muslims,

you may remember your previous meeting here when you were idolaters.

Then you split, with some embracing Islam and some rejecting it.

You then flocked to Islam, one after the other, some early and some late,

until now that you are together again, under the banner of the religion of the truth.

You should thank God for having guided you.

The early ones cannot be the same as the latecomers, Umar.

Do not grieve for the past except to do better in your coming days.

Many a person may do something good and be pleased with himself,

only to go the wrong track afterwards, and the end result would be his ruin.

On the other hand, a person may commit something evil, then he regrets it

and turns to God in repentance, keen to do well in future. He ends up a winner.

You have given us hope, Umar. How good you all are as an advance party!

We now know that you were fighting us for your and our sake,

but we fought you only for our own interest.

All praise be to God that he gave you victory over us when we were idolaters.

That is a victory for us now that we are Muslims.

This matter of Islam is coming close to perfection.

All Arabs are close to accepting it, as they still follow Quraysh.

What makes you cry, Umar, when things are coming perfectly well for Islam,

as Salim has rightly stated?

I only feared that when things seem perfect,

they soon start to take a downward trend.

It will be a short illness, by God's will.

God's messenger fell ill in the past and recovered.

Why are you exceedingly distressed?

The religion is complete now, as God has said:

"This day I have perfected your religion for you and have bestowed on you

the full measure of My blessings and have chosen Islam as a religion for you."

Quraysh has accepted Islam,

then Taif accepted it after the Battle of Hunain.

Then we had all those delegations from the Arabian tribes, coming from all corners,

to pledge loyalty to Islam.

God revealed the surah that says: "When God's help and victory come,

and you see people embracing God's religion in large numbers,

then extol your Lord's limitless glory, and praise Him, and seek His forgiveness.

He is the One who accepts repentance."

When the religion is complete, the message is perfected and revelations cease,

then it is as though the Prophet is given notice that his time is up.

On top of all this comes what his servant, Abu Muwaihibah,

told me of what he said at Al-Baqee' graveyard.