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Prepare your mounts, and get ready to plunder,
and attack Al-Rabab. They are vulnerable.
Would that Abu Bakr had instructed me to fight them
before they attacked Al-Rabab people,
most of whom remained Muslims.
Al-Rabab have now made peace with them.
Driven to it by necessity.
They have to protect themselves and their families
until God gives them a way out.
By God, if I get hold of Malik,
I will deal with him and those with him very severely.
I will punish him for those whom he killed of the Al-Rabab Muslims.
I will not apply to him the rules of a fighter, but the rules of a murderer.
A murderer is punished by death in war and peace.
We must not proceed to them until we receive the Caliph's instructions.
Abu Bakr has been right about them.
They will fight each other.
Let us see what will those people of Sajah and Malik do
against Musailamah and his people.
They are heading towards him.
Head on to Yamamah;
fast and quick like pigeons.
It is a decisive expedition,
from which you will emerge blameless.
Yamamah Lands
No. We shall not fight her.
It has been revealed to me to make peace with her
so that she will leave us alone.
I am instructed to give her what ensures that she leaves and spares us a battle.
It may be that she returns to the Island.
And you thought that your fort will give you protection.
Come down and fight, or give in.
Had I wished, I would have fought you,
and I am able to do so.
But why should I fight you when I better fight others.
Let us agree on some accommodation that will satisfy you and us.
What do you offer?
This cannot be settled except in a meeting between you and me.
Come down then.
I said: you and me alone.
I pledge your safety and you pledge my safety.
We then erect a tent that is neither within my army nor within yours.
Unless you fear me more than I fear you.
I fear no one. - So it be, then.
Does it immensely worry you that they are alone together?
Stop these thoughts. I only fear...
What do you fear?
I have become her partner in this endeavour;
yet she is now with Musailamah discussing and deciding
and I don't know...
You do not know what they will agree together,
and whether you will have a share that satisfies you or not.
You are a partner in effort and responsibility, but not in gains.
You will soon see that I am right.
She will take from him every advantage for herself and her people.
When she goes back to Taghlib's area,
she abandons you to God's Messenger's successor
and God's sword, Khalid Ibn Al-Waleed.
God's Messenger's successor! God's sword!
Are you siding against me, Laila, when I am your husband?
You are no longer my husband. To you, I am only a slave.
Tell me: what do you have for me?
I will tell you what I have when I know what you are asking about.
Let us start with revelations which you allege.
Tell me something of it.
Have you not seen what your Lord has done with the pregnant one?
He brings a living soul out of her, through insertion and retention.
Sajah is not taken in by that.
Sajah takes but is never taken in.
Take, then. I will give you one year's yield of Yamamah.
You take half of it now
and you leave with me some people to bring you the other half.
You go back to your place. Why fight Arabs?
Huh! Am I fair?
This is merely an offering. We haven't finished.
What else?
You marry me and stay with me three days.
Thus we are together and our agreement is better sealed.
Then we go our separate ways.
We are thus happy together and happy going apart.
I have made an agreement with Musailamah to give us the yield of Yamamah for a year.
Pull down the tents and get ready to leave for home.
We have finished our business in Najd.
What about us? Tameem?
This is your country where you can do what you please.
What about the commitments we made to each other.
These are over.
We fought Al-Rabab with you until they made peace with you.
If you have something you need from Musailamah,
you can ask him that.
Get going. Pull down the tents and prepare the mounts.
We have got the plunder,
and no blame can be attached to us.
What shall we do now, Malik?
We split ourselves in small groups
so that Khalid will not find us all in one place.
This is against the Caliph's instructions.
He has ordered us to stay at Buzakhah until he writes to us.
He has given me the command of this army,
and that commanders of the other armies should refer to me when they need help.
When I see a good opportunity
I cannot just let it go while I write to him and await his reply.
The chance that has presented itself to us is something that we must never miss.
I shall not force any of you.
You choose whether to march with me or stay behind.
God is Supreme;
God is Supreme.
I bear witness that there is no deity other than God...
I bear witness that there is no deity other than God...
The call to prayer, Malik.
These people have caught up with us.
What concern to me is their call to prayer?
I bear witness that Muhammad is God's Messenger.
Are we to fight them?
We neither fight nor say the call to prayer.
Shall we flee, then?
Where can we flee from them?
What shall we do, then?
We wait until they come and we surrender.
We then give Khalid the tribute they impose on us
which they call zakat.
God is Supreme.
There is no deity other than God.
We do not hear anything of the Athan.
It is sometime since we have finished ours.
Listen carefully. It sounds like the Athan.
I cannot determine what I hear.
It may not be easy to hear it clearly with this wind blowing.
What do we do?
I think we better move on towards them.
If they fight, we will fight them. Otherwise, we take them captive.
I personally did not hear their call to prayer.
I heard some noises and I listened carefully, but I could not identify the call to prayer.
I think that I heard their call to prayer.
You think?
I do not claim that it was clear. There was a strong wind, but I surmise.
Surmise can never take the place of truth.
Abu Sulaiman! This Qur'anic verse is not to be applied in this way.
In judgement, doubt and surmise are interpreted in favour of the accused.
When we surrounded them,
they all laid down their arms and gave themselves up.
Had they not replied to our call to prayer by a call from their side,
that would have been a signal indicating war.
I feel that you are only apologizing for him because he is the chief of his tribe,
and he has his standing among the Arabs.
By God, I do not distinguish between master and slave.
Abu Sulaiman! This is not our aim.
We only want to be extra careful so that we do not shed blood without justification.
What justification is greater than that he first stopped the payment of zakat,
then he followed that cursed soothsayer, Sajah.
He also fought alongside her against the Al-Rabab clan
who included many Muslims from his own people.
He has thus disbelieved in what Muhammad (peace be upon him) preached
and he killed Muslims.
Then send him over to the Caliph for judgement.
Every time I am about to take some action you tell me to go back to the Caliph first,
when there is several days distance between us.
He has put me in charge of what he has assigned to me.
I judge it according to circumstances at the time and place it occurs.
Otherwise, the enemy would be able to steal a march against us
while we remain confused.
That is true, Abu Sulaiman.
Yet you captured the man
when you sent out detachments of your forces
seeking him and the apostates from Tameem.
That was before you received the Caliph's letter.
We have gone along with you in all this.
Now that the man is in your hand,
send him captive to Abu Bakr for judgement,
as you did with Uyaynah Ibn Hisn, the chief of Ghatafan.
You have mentioned one thing and forgotten another.
What were the Caliph's orders to me concerning the people of Buzakhah
when we defeated them?
He said: Do not accept anything from them
until they bring you those of them who killed the Muslims among their people.
When you have taken these, kill them for their crime of killing Muslims.
These were in the same position as Malik Ibn Nuwairah.
A killer must be killed, even if he is a Muslim.
Stop this arrogance and look at me.
What were you after, doing what you did?
Answer.
If you are Khalid Ibn Al-Waleed, I am Malik Ibn Nuwairah.
Captivity has not changed you.
A lion does not change his skin in captivity,
while a weasel remains a weasel when free.
What I was after is what the lion seeks by nature.
He is created as the king of beasts,
so he does not accept anything less.
When he is challenged in his domain or over his prey,
he fights hard or kills.
In my view, the evidence against you is solid.
When you stopped the payment of zakat, you disbelieved altogether,
following that woman soothsayer who claimed she was a prophet.
Then with her, you fought the Muslims of Al-Rabab clan and killed many of them.
You are responsible for their blood.
Nevertheless, what do you say about zakat?
As for prayer, I will do that for you if you want.
If I want? Or as ordered by God? Won't you do it for God?
If I offer it to God, then God alone knows that of me.
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