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No, by Al-Lat and Al-Uzza.
"All that lives on it perishes;"
"but forever will remain the face of your Lord, full of majesty, granting grace."
"Which, then, of your Lord's blessings do you both deny?"
"Everyone in heaven and earth entreats Him."
"Every day He manifests Himself in some wonderful way."
"Which, then, of your Lord's blessings do you both deny?"
This is what we feared for you.
Those enemies of God never seemed so weak in my eyes.
If you like, I will do the same tomorrow.
No. You have done enough.
What troubles you today?
The people have lost their manners.
Which of them?
There are two peoples nowadays in Makkah.
I wish I could fault Muhammad's companions
in the same way as I fault our people.
When they are beaten up, they are patient.
When they are abused and reviled, they only reply with a greeting of peace.
The weak among them has become strong,
and the strong compassionate.
As for us, the strong among us are unjust to the weak,
and the weak scheme against the strong,
or flatter them to spare themselves harm or to gain something.
They are compassionate to one another,
and their rich help their poor.
Abu Bakr, Uthman, Musab Ibn Umair and Abu Hudhaifah Ibn Utbah
are equal to Bilal, Suhaib, and Salim, Abu Hudhaifah's former slave.
We, on the other hand, are classes: noble and low.
Even our nobility are of different classes.
How can such people be successful?
Today, I saw them severely beating up Ibn Umm Abd,
who has no clan to protect him,
because he recited a passage of the Qur'an in front of them.
And did you hear his recitation, brother?
I left them. I won't join them in such a thing.
But you beat people up, as they do.
If I do, then I only beat up those of my people over whom I have an authority.
I do not choose only the weaker elements,
or show my strength to one who has no support.
What has Muhammad done to us?
That's Muhammad.
It is all his doing, all these troubles he has caused us.
Would that I go and kill him with my sword,
then go to the Hashimites and surrender myself to them to kill me.
Just a man for a man.
Then Makkah will revert to its previous life.
This is not something you do, brother.
You will shed pure blood for no offence.
He has not thrown a small pebble at you,
nor waved a stick to your face,
nor said a word of abuse to you.
Shedding the blood of two people is much better than the killing of many.
I save my people with such an act.
Put such thoughts out of your mind, Umar.
By God, I never allowed my being older than you affect the way I look at you.
I let you have precedence over me, and you are worthy of that.
I am not flattering you, so listen to me.
Only now I say that I am older, and that certain rights are due to me.
God forbid that you should listen to such black thoughts.
You will then be the most wretched person.
You have just mentioned how Muhammad and his companions have morals.
You were both right and fair.
Follow, then, your good nature,
because it will lead you to the right way.
He gets close, but then moves away. Till when?
Muhammad is at the Kaabah performing his prayer in front of you,
and Abu Bakr is standing beside him while you are sitting here uninterested!
Go back! Go back in peace.
Will you assault a man for merely saying: My Lord is God?
The Hashimites will soon hear of what you are doing
and this could lead to many killings.
True. Therefore, tell your friend to leave and not to affront us with this sight.
I am not one to order him when he is God's messenger.
He informs us of what God wants
and we say: We listen and we obey.
Then you will be first.
No one has spoilt our sons and our slaves as you did.
Call against us Taim, your clan.
What have these idiots done to my son?
By God, he is the refuge of orphans, widows and the poor.
Taim has never known a man who is kinder and more dutiful than him.
How could they do this to him?
We will do to them what is worse.
Say something, son.
He hasn't spoken since they brought him.
It is evening now and I fear...
He is moving his lips. Say something, son. Say...
What happened to God's messenger?
We are here to look after you and you ask about Muhammad.
What is he to us?
We support you because you are our blood relation.
Leave me alone.
Try to give him something to eat or drink.
What happened to God's messenger?
By God, I have no knowledge of your friend.
Go to Umm Jameel Bint Al-Khattab.
Why should I?
My son, Abu Bakr, sent me to ask you about Muhammad Ibn Abdullah.
I know neither Abu Bakr nor Muhammad Ibn Abdullah.
If you like, I could come with you to see your son.
By God, the people who did this to you are wicked unbelievers.
I hope that God will punish them for what they did.
And you too follow Muhammad's religion?
What happened to God's messenger?
Here is your mother listening.
You need not worry about her.
God's messenger is safe and sound.
Where is he? - At Al-Arqam's home.
By God, I won't eat or drink anything until I have seen God's messenger.
Be patient, Abu Bakr, until things are quiet
and people's movement has calmed down.
We can then take you to him.
Your pain will probably have abated a little.
Who is it? - It's Abu Bakr.
Everything may be sacrificed for your sake.
Nothing is wrong with me,
except for what the wicked man, Utbah, has done to my face...
Here is my mother who is taking good care of her son.
You are certainly blessed.
So, call on her to believe and pray God for her.
May be with your prayer God will save her from hell.
Come in, mother.
I bear witness that there is no deity other than God,
and I bear witness that you are God's messenger.
And you have done it, father,
when you are the wisest of all those people?
Or did the evil man, Abu Jahl, goad you and you wanted to match him?
Enough. Don't speak to your father in such a way, you deserter.
I am more dutiful to my father than you.
I call on him to follow divine guidance
and you want him to persist with falsehood and with what is contrary to integrity.
Abu Bakr? Abu Bakr, father?
He is the most polite, the best mannered and the kindest of people,
and you hit him with your shoes on his face until it is unrecognizable?
And then I hear my companions saying:
What has the transgressor, Utbah, done to him?
May God cut their tongues, and take away your hearing
so that you won't hear them speaking ill of your father
without shutting them up.
Have you lost all care for your father?
By God, I was vacillating between care for my father,
hating that he should do an evil act to invite criticism,
and caring for our most respected brother and companion, Abu Bakr,
who has been badly wronged by my father.
You have gone too far you deserter...
Enough!
I did what I did. I neither take pride in it nor regret it.
I had advised my people to leave Muhammad alone
and to let him advocate his message.
If the Arabs kill him, they would have done the job for us,
and if he wins, his glory will rub on us.
They took no heed of my advice.
Ultimately, I am one of my people.
Even though they may be in error.
To me, the biggest error is to desert the community,
just like a camel moving away from his flock.
You... You, Abu Hudhaifah,
have deserted your father's community.
It behoved me to do to you what others have done to their sons
who deserted their fathers' religion:
they imprisoned and starved them and they beat them up.
You had better done the same!
Yet I have spared you that, until people shamed me.
I heard what I disliked on your account.
Abu Jahl! Lost are the people who follow his lead.
Now you want to judge your father?
God will judge between us in our quarrel.
No power operates except by His will.
Why do you go to this trouble for us, Al-Waleed?
I don't know... perhaps because we are all relatives!
But blood relation has not stopped our brother, Abu Al-Hakam,
from doing to us what you see.
Just because I took pity on them, considering that they are my relatives?
Is it only taking pity? - What else?
You can't be more compassionate to them than their brother.
Abu Al-Hakam?
But he gives them food and drink.
Only enough to keep them alive, and prolong their suffering.
Why do you get yourself involved in their business?
Stop it, Khalid.
You cannot order me about when our father is alive.
Al-Waleed, you've done badly although you wished to do well.
Kindness to undeserving people is foolish.
These two men have abandoned our religion.
But they continue to belong to us.
They don't see themselves as such.
When asked, they will say that they belong to Islam.
They say the same as all Muhammad's companions say:
that God has replaced their jahiliyyah affiliation with the bond of Islam.
They disown their fathers, brothers and clans who don't follow their religion,
placing before them people like Suhaib, Bilal and Salim.
They say these are their brothers.
Father, they don't disown their families and clans;
they only disown their religion and actions.
They discard tribal bigotry and acclaim kindness to kinsfolk.
You speak like them... You say jahiliyyah.
I am only quoting their words and meanings.
They do acclaim rightful kindness to kindred.
They started advocating their religion within their clans
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