Omar

Is this how you, people of Quraizah, honour your treaty with God's Messenger?

Go back before we strike you with our swords. Come on.

As for the camels and their loads,

they are war booty God has given us.

You better be content with your safety.

Go away, may God kill you.

God is supreme.

God is supreme.

People of Quraizah, here we are to keep you company

and watch what you do.

God is supreme.

God is supreme. God is supreme.

Muhammad promised us

that we shall take the treasures of the Byzantine and Persian Emperors.

Yet here we are, feeling unsafe even to go to the toilet.

You have no position to stay here.

Go back to your homes.

Beware! Beware!

Stop them before they reach the moat. Come on

Take it from me; I am Ibn Al-Araqah.

May God burn your forehead in hell.

The accursed one has hit the main artery!

My Lord, if we are to fight the Quraysh again, spare me now for that fight.

God's Messenger has ordered that he should be nursed here in your tent.

Rufaidah, no man among the Aws is dearer to God's messenger than Saad.

He commends him to you. Spare no effort.

I will do, God willing.

Let me see your arm, brother.

Who are you?

Nu'aim Ibn Massoud, from Ghatafan.

What brings you here, man,

when your people have done to us what you know?

Aren't you Umar Ibn Al-Khattab?

Take me to God's Messenger, (peace be upon him).

What have you said? Are you a Muslim?

Messenger of God, I am a Muslim,

but my people do not know that.

Give me your orders.

I hope God will bring some good results through me.

People of Quraizah,

you know that I love you truly and that I am a friend of yours.

Your friendship to us is undoubted.

Because of our friendship, I am giving you good advice,

even though it may be against my own people.

Quraysh and Ghatafan are not in the same position as you.

This city is your home city,

where you live with your women and children.

You can't move elsewhere.

Quraysh and Ghatafan have come to attack Muhammad and his companions,

and you have now joined them.

But their city, property, women and children are somewhere else.

Their position is unlike yours.

If they have an opportunity to seize, they will not fail to seize it.

But if things turn sour for them, they will certainly depart

and leave you alone to face Muhammad in your own home town.

If you are to face him alone, you are certainly no match for him.

My advice to you is that you must not fight alongside them

unless you take some hostages from among their leaders

so that you may be absolutely sure

that they will fight with you until Muhammad is defeated.

Your advice is certainly sound.

Beware! Beware! - Attack!

Anyone for a duel?

Amr, you have made a pledge to God

that if any man from Quraysh gives you a choice between two options,

you will accept one. - I have, indeed.

Then I call on you to believe in God, His messenger and Islam.

I have no need for that.

Then I offer you the option of a duel.

Why, my nephew? By God, I don't like to kill you.

But I do like to kill you.

God is supreme.

Retreat. Retreat.

You know me to be your friend and that I am no follower of Muhammad.

I have come to know something

which I feel I must convey to you as a piece of advice,

but let no one know that I am your informer.

We promise you that.

I would like you to know that the Jews

have repented their breach of their treaty with Muhammad.

They sent him messengers telling him of their change of heart.

They asked whether he would be satisfied if they were to give him a number of men

from among the nobility of Quraysh and Ghatafan to kill.

They also promised that they would fight with him against you

until you have been exterminated.

He accepted their offer.

People of Quraizah. People of Quraizah.

Our position is not one for a long stay.

We are exhausted by the siege.

Let us all attack Muhammad and finish him off.

It is our Sabbath day, when we do nothing.

This point apart, we cannot fight Muhammad alongside you

unless you give us some of your own people to stay with us

as a guarantee that we will all fight Muhammad to the bitter end.

We fear that if you find the going hard, and if the fighting goes against you,

you will depart and go home.

Nu'aim's report is certainly true.

By God, we will not give them a single man.

Now we are certain that what Nu'aim Ibn Massoud has told us is true.

By God, we shall not fight with them unless they give us sureties.

People of the Quraysh,

you realize that we cannot stay much longer.

Our horses and camels are perishing

and the Jews of the Qurayzah have not fulfilled their promises to us.

Indeed, we have received highly disturbing reports about their attitude.

You see what these strong winds are doing to us.

We cannot even cook or light a fire.

Nothing stays upright.

My advice to you is to go back home where I am going.

Messenger of God, Messenger of God.

The enemy are departing.

O' you Muslims,

O' you Muslims,

God has commanded His Prophet not to lay down arms

until he has marched to the Quraizah.

Therefore, whoever is an obedient Muslim

must pray Asr at the Quraizah quarters.

People of Quraizah.

You have deceived me, but I am to blame.

I have pledged to you that if the confederates go back

without defeating Muhammad

that I will come and join you in your fort

so that I will share your fate.

Here I am.

What benefit is it to me that you die with me?

May God grant you good health, Saad.

I pray it is a way to recovery and earning reward, God willing.

But I hope it is martyrdom.

I prayed to God to spare me if there remains more war against Quraysh,

but if He has willed that war against them is ended

to grant me martyrdom.

When the affair against the confederates and Quraizah has been over,

I heard God's Messenger (peace be upon him) saying

that they will not attack us again.

I am well content.

I know that Islam will be the winner from now on.

The idolaters will head on for more failures.

I pray that God will answer my prayers.

May God bestow His mercy on Saad Ibn Mu'adh.

He fulfilled his pledges and discharged all his duties to God.

He died enjoying God's messenger's pleasure.

We believe that God will count him among the martyrs.

Whatever we have is from God...

Woe is Umm Saad's for Saad: - and whatever God takes is His.

a man of resolve, glory and earned acclaim;

No wailing, Umm Saad.

Patience should be your resort, as well as submission to God's will.

May God console you.

Leave her alone, Bilal.

Every wailing woman is a liar except one who wails for Saad Ibn Mu'adh.

What's next?

What's next

Something is preoccupying you since the morning, but you are reluctant to express it.

The situation is too obvious to need my words.

People have gone.

They either died or went to join Muhammad and his companions.

It is as if it all happened yesterday...

We used to sit there, and the elders inside

debating the question of Muhammad and his new religion,

and how to kill it in the bud.

This yesterday has been going on for 19 years.

It is not in the nature of things that the present situation remains long.

If we cannot stop him talking to other people,

then there will be only two possibilities:

either some other Arabs will defeat him,

or he will be the winner and they will flock to his faith individually and in groups.

If this happens, then it will not be long

before you see him and his companions performing the tawaf at the Kaabah

where there will be none of these idols.

What are you planning?

To immigrate. - To join him?

No, to somewhere away from him, Quraysh and the Arabs.

Oh! What are you saying, man?

I do not want to have any part

in what takes place between Muhammad, Quraysh and the Arabs

until the matter is finally settled.

If opposing him is foul, I have taken my share of it,

and if it is good, I am happy with my lot of it.

Terrible is what Amr has done;

abandoning his people when they are most in need of his opinion.

That is letting us down.

He has weakened and acted in a cowardly way

as he saw that Muhammad is getting stronger.

He must have felt that Muhammad will attack us after we had been on the offensive.

Do not speak ill of your friend in his absence.

He is no friend of mine.

Men are tested when things get tough.

I never knew him to be a coward.

Therefore, you better think that he had his reasons.

I cannot see a reason for his action.

It is like what Ikrimah has said.

He wants to hear how we fare with Muhammad while he is away.

If we win, he comes back to us and says: I am the friend you have known.

If Muhammad is the winner,

his departure now will be the defence he presents to him.

You look delighted, Umar, and your face is beaming.

Why wouldn't I be when God's Messenger

has decided to take us to Makkah for Umrah?

Did he say that? - Indeed. I was with him,

and he ordered an announcement to be made.