Moutasem al-Hameedy – Unshakable Faith – The Firm Belief of the Sahabah RA – Islamic History & Lessons
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The transcript describes a person who died while pursuing Islam, but is not related to any specific religion or culture. The person died because they pursue a secretive religion that they believe in. They also experienced painful and painful death while pursuing their religion.
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Bilal radiallahu anhu was taken by Umayyah ibn
Khalaf and he was tortured, he was stripped
naked, and he was dragged in the heat,
in the scorching heat of the summer in
Mecca.
Ubaid ibn Adi says, I just want to
pray two rak'ah before I die.
So they allow him to make wudu and
pray two rak'ah and guess what?
He makes wudu quickly and he prays his
two rak'ah very swiftly.
And he turns to them, he says, Wallahi,
I would love to extend my prayer and
enjoy it.
But I don't want you to think that
I fear death or that I fear you.
And he dies with dignity.
They even tell him as they were cutting
at his body, Would you wish that you
were safe and intact with your family and
Muhammad was in your place?
So you can't help Islam with deception.
You can't help Islam with lying.
You can't help Islam or help the cause
of Islam with cheating.
You can't support Islam with the morality of
the foolish and the hypocrites, with backbiting, with
slandering.
You can't do that.
You can't do this.
So Ubaid ibn Adi being mentored by Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ, he has this boy, you know,
this is an innocent child.
And I'm not going to do that.
And no Muslim who truly believes in Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala does this.
But you know, the disbelievers, the devils among
humanity, they lie against the believers.
And they accuse them of these things falsely.
And it's merely an act of projection.
It's an act of deflecting attention from their
history, from their atrocities, from their evil by
turning the attention and the spotlight to the
believers by creating lies about them.
And they still do it until today.
So Ubaid ibn Adi doesn't do any harm
to the child.
He lets the child go.
And then they take him outside of Mecca
because it's the haram.
So the sacred months are over, but the
sacred place, al-haram of Mecca, they don't
kill people there.
So their tradition is that they would take
him outside of the boundaries of Mecca and
kill him there.
So they crucify him, they tie him up
to a pole.
And before they do this, he says, I
just want to pray two rak'ah before
I die.
So they allow him to make wudu and
pray two rak'ah.
And guess what?
He makes wudu quickly and he prays his
two rak'ah very swiftly.
And he turns to them, he says, I
would love to extend my prayer and enjoy
it.
But I don't want you to think that
I fear death or that I fear you.
So he cuts it short.
Then they crucify him.
And then they start cutting his body one
piece at a time to give him a
painful death.
And he starts reciting some lines of poetry
that he speaks, that he says on the
spot.
And they became famous.
And the gist of them is that he
says that these people have gathered against me
because I follow Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and I obey the command of his Prophet
ﷺ.
And he says, I don't care.
Then he says, وَلَسْتُ أُبَالِ حِينَ أُقْتَلُ مُسْلِمًا
عَلَىٰ أَيِّ وَجْهٍ كَانَ فِي اللَّهِ مَصْرَعٍ I
don't care if I die as a Muslim.
How I die, in what manner I die,
it doesn't make a difference as long as
I die as someone who believes in Allah.
وَلَسْتُ بِمُقْدٍ لِلْعَدُوِّ تَخَشُعِي وَلَسْتُ بِمُقْدٍ لِلْعَدُوِّ تَخَشُعَي
وَلَا جَزَعًا إِنِّي إِلَىٰ اللَّهِ مَرْجِعٍ And he
says, I'm not going to show or display
to my enemies any sign of weakness or
fear.
I am returning to my Lord and he
dies with dignity.
They even tell him as they were cutting
at his body, would you wish that you
were safe and intact with your family and
Muhammad was in your place.
Would you be happy by that?
He says, I would put my life for
the sake of the Prophet ﷺ to protect
him even from the poke of a thorn
or the pain of a thorn poking him.
He dies with dignity.
He doesn't beg for his safety.
He doesn't beg for his life.
He doesn't beg for a quick death.
He turns himself to Allah.
Why?
Because he knows his life and his death
is in the hands of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
That's what Iman offers the believers.
That's what reading the Qur'an, living the
Qur'an, that's what praying, this is what
fasting, this is what truly engaging with Islam
does when a person engages fully in this
religion.
That's what it offers them.
And we know in Mecca before that, Bilal
radiallahu anhu was taken by Umayyah ibn Khalaf
and he was tortured.
He was stripped naked and he was dragged
in the heat, in the scorching heat of
the summer in Mecca.
And he was dragged throughout the streets of
Mecca and he would say, I worship Allah
alone.
He never begged for his life.
He never begged for mercy.
The same thing, he never begged for mercy.
Ammar ibn Yasir never begged for mercy.
The Muslims face their predicaments and their trials
with dignity and with their heads up because
they know their life and their death is
in the hands of Allah.
And if something is written for them, it
would come to them.