Omar

Move. Move!

God's messenger urges you to take good care of the captives.

my father, my uncle and my brother! my father, my uncle and my brother!

Woe to Muhammad; what he has done to them!

My father, my uncle and my brother!

Who will quench Hind's thirst for vengeance and take everything Hind has...

Enough, Hind. You have cried too long, and your eyes are all sore. Enough.

Let women wail for Utbah Ibn Rabeeah.

Let women wail for Utbah Ibn Rabeeah.

We will avenge ourselves, Hind. You will quench your thirst for revenge.

Hamzah!

Hamzah! He is my enemy.

By God, if we get him,

I will cut him up and will bite his liver.

Nothing else will quench my burning thirst.

My father and Ali, my brother, as well as my close friend and cousin

Umair Ibn Wahb and his son. They have left me with everlasting sorrow.

And the burden of revenge. Revenge, Safwan.

By God, we will not taste happiness until we have taken our revenge.

Life is a series of turns, and victory in war changes hands.

Yes, life brings turns,

but I thought it is the honourable tribes that take turns.

It is no disgrace that a man is killed by his equal.

But for my father to be killed by that Abyssinian

who was our slave, carrying our goods, bringing buckets of water

and milking our sheep! Oh, a killing and a disgrace, Abu Sufyan?

The same applies to my father, Safwan.

He was put to death by that little shepherd, son of Su'ad, Umm Abd.

The one who killed both your fathers

is the one who put swords in the hands of the slave and the little shepherd,

making them leaders. Let all our anger be focused on Muhammad.

Does Muhammad hope that we will believe in him after he has killed our fathers?

To do so is to kill them again with our own hands.

No. By Al-Lat, we will honour our fathers and follow in their footsteps,

opposing Muhammad and fighting him for the rest of our lives,

or else we die like them. - All of us are agreed on this.

Yes. Yes.

They haven't tasted your might, Abu Sulaiman.

Had you been with them, they could not have leveled such a blow at us.

We sent them our elders after they have weakened,

while they sent us their young, including our own sons.

It is now your time. Muhammad will know tomorrow our prowess,

when we have Khalid, Ikrimah, Safwan and Amr.

Would that your brother, Al-Waleed, was like you, Khalid.

They sensed that he was no hard fighter.

He soon threw his sword and sought to be taken captive.

Cowardly, are you?

Is it to be said that Al-Waleed Ibn Al-Waleed is a coward?

That will be a lasting stigma you give to your people.

My father ruled over me when alive. Is he to rule me after his death?

Enough argument. I swear that you must go with the army. I am warning you.

I shall honour your oath and join the army; but by God you will regret that I do.

My father is captive, handcuffed and chained!

I used to disappoint him because of my weakness, compared to his strength,

and my weak resolve compared to his.

Now, Suhail Ibn Amr, you certainly disappoint me.

Safwan! - You'll be all right,

but do not tire yourself.

If it were not for my grief for my father and brother,

I would be the happiest of people for your safe arrival.

We had lost hope and thought that you were killed.

And so thought Muhammad's companions.

When I escaped their attention, I crawled until I was out of their sight.

But... My son.

His strength was of little benefit to him. He was soon taken captive.

That is better than the fate of my father.

He was killed by an Abyssinian slave who is not worth the strap of his shoe.

Yet, all in time. We will see about your son. So, be content.

Won't you mourn your brother Abu Al-Hakam? What are you?

We are your uncles, Ikrimah. - The one who lets his brother down...

and gives allegiance to the killer of his brother is not an uncle of anyone.

Our brother, Abu Al-Hakam, was a man who made his choice.

He met his fate without hesitation or fear.

If we grieve for him, it is because he died as an unbeliever.

The only thing that consoles us in this respect is what God says:

"you cannot guide aright everyone whom you love,"

and "do not waste yourself sorrowing for them."

Your father has put our legs in chains,

using his power as our elder brother and his position in the Makhzoom clan.

What are you now, Ikrimah? If we are your uncles,

then it does not behoove a nephew to exercise power over his uncles.

If, on the other hand, you discard our relationship, as you have just said,

then you have no business keeping us in chains.

I heed my father's word and the word of our people. Whatever my opinion of you,

you still belong to the Makhzoom clan.

You bear what is borne by everyone who deserted the religion of our forefathers.

I honour my father's action towards you, now that I have replaced him.

You delude yourself, Ikrimah.

Peace be upon you. - Peace be upon you.

God's messenger (peace be upon him) is willing to accept ransom from you...

each according to his means.

Anyone who has no money, but can read and right,

may teach a Muslim reading and writing. This will be accepted as his ransom.

How come you give us the better food, the bread and you eat the dates?

God's messenger wants us to look after you.

Your messenger has told you so, and he is indeed the most compassionate of people.

But he did not ask you to prefer us to yourselves.

We do ourselves a good turn by obeying our Prophet.

If it must be so.

Yathrib dates are good enough.

Why are you doing this? - The ransom, Abu Jandal.

What ransom? - Well, man!

Have you forgotten that your father is in captivity?

You take his money and pay his ransom.

Four thousand dirhams; that is the sum Muhammad wants for him.

I would rather obey my father and honour his pledge.

What are you saying?

All Quraysh are aware that no one obeys his father better than me,

even though I follow a different religion.

Had it not been so, I would have done like my brother.

He stopped me from immigrating with God's messenger and his companions,

and made an oath to this effect. Now I will honour his word...

in his absence as if he is present.

Moreover, I hate to see him captive.

Nor do I like to be seen by the Prophet bringing his ransom,

when I have not been with him in what is better than that.

By God, I don't know where my father has put his money.

Here is my leg. Put it in the chain and honour my father's promise

Do you know that your brother has cheated your father

and joined Muhammad and fought with him?

He is now with him in Yathrib, looking at his father in captivity.

By God, you were aware of his plan before he left,

but you concealed it from your father. What bad sons you both are!

No, I haven't stolen it. - As if I would care if you did.

Since they have taken our skins,

their property is open for us if we can take it.

Sometimes my master appears to be a kindly person, except when he is angry.

He does not dislike my cooking. I have made this myself.

I am indeed a good cook.

When we are married, I will not leave this big tummy of yours empty at any time.

What will you fill it with?

With the meat of the camels you and I inherited from our fathers?

How pessimistic!

Don't you know that God provides even for the birds as they fly?

They start in the morning with empty bellies, and come back full in the evening.

Where did you hear these words?

What is troubling you?

As if you share our people's mourning for those killed at Badr.

I am neither affected by their killing nor pleased with Muhammad's victory.

Have you heard that Bilal.. - Yes,

I heard that he killed his master, Umayyah.

How, man! He has not been his master for a long time.

Time has changed so as to allow the former slave, who is now a master, to kill...

his old master who is now in his grave. Isn't that amazing?

Peace be upon you.

Peace be upon you.

Mikriz! My friend and brother!

Suhail.

What brings you from Makkah?

Will someone tell me what is happening?

This friend of yours, Mikriz Ibn Hafs, has seen the Prophet about your ransom.

As you know, he has not got the money.

He offered to replace you in captivity

until you go back to Makkah and come back with the ransom.

The Prophet has accepted his offer.

Why have you done this, brother?

Because I know that you would have done the same for me.

So, don't delay your departure, so that I will not stay long in captivity.

Mikriz is such a good man. - Yes, by God, he is.

I feel that a man with such fine values, integrity and benevolence

should never be an idolater.

May God reward him for his kindly act by bringing him into Islam.

Such a person is worthy of that.

As for you Suhail, I did not wish you to return safely to Makkah,

because of all the things you said about God's messenger.

You made yourself Satan's mouthpiece.

I requested his permission to pull out your front teeth,

so that your tongue would drop through it,

and you would never make a speech against him.

That is typical of you, Umar.

Don't you want to know what answer he gave me?

He said: I shall not disfigure him, for fear that God may disfigure me,

even though I am a Prophet.

Did he say that?

He said something else that I have kept thinking about.

You better learn it and think about it as you please.

He said: leave him, Umar.

You may still see him in a position that you cannot criticize.

now, you go ahead. I have prepared a camel for you to travel.

For its price! - Where is the price?

I will bring it with the ransom.

As for the cash, we are willing to pay as ransom for our brother,

but why does he ask for my father's body armour?

Umar, you know that it is part of our inheritance, and that it is unique.

The Arabs have not seen its like. It is the emblem of our household.

All protestations are of no use, Khalid.

There can be no bargaining in what God's messenger has ordered.

Go and bring the body armour with the money

if you want to get your brother released and take him home to Makkah.

Wouldn't you intercede with Muhammad, since you are his closest companion?

No, Khalid. I will do nothing of the sort.

Had I had any say in the matter,

I would have asked much more in ransom for your brother.

I am well aware of the wealth your father left behind.

Wouldn't you consider your maternal relation with us, or our old friendship?

Abu Jahl was my maternal uncle. I was his worst enemy before he died.

Do what you have to do without delay.

I won't give away my father's body armour.

Is it because Al-Waleed was not born to your mother?

My father's body armour! I am upset about it.