Yasir Qadhi – The Incredible Saga of Salman Al Farsi – From Slave to Believer
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The Sira culture in India is the oldest Christian faith system in India and the conversion of the Sira to the church of Jesus Christ is the oldest Christian faith system in the world. The importance of religion in achieving goals is discussed, including the use of religion as a means of achieving their goals and the importance of trusting Islam in achieving their goals. The discussion also touches on the history of the conflict between the royal family and the military community, as well as the importance of planting 300 date palms for free.
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One of the most
interesting
stories of the sahaba, in my estimation, it's
all relative obviously, Some people find different things
interesting. Out of the stories of the sahaba,
one of the sahaba that really resonates with
me, a very intriguing story,
is the story of Salman al Farisi. Now,
obviously, most of us have heard his story.
I wanna just bring about certain aspects of
it that I find very
powerful, very intriguing.
Salman al Farisi, as you all know, Farisi
from Persia.
And we don't know much about his early
life because nobody was a Sahabi in Persia.
In fact, Salman al Farisi is the only
convert who was Farisi, the only Sahabi that
we know of who was Persian,
and also the only convert from the religion
of the Majus, you know, Zoroastrianism.
None of the Sahaba that we know of,
and not a single one of them. We
have Christian converts, we have Jewish converts, you
know, 4, 5, 6, 7 Christian converts, 2
or 3 famous Jewish converts. But as for
Majus or Zoroastrian,
only one. Only one companion who is from
the,
Zoroastrianism. And of course, I don't want to
go into but it is one of the
most ancient religions in the world,
meaning it is around, what, 4000 years old?
And it is also one of the smallest.
There's only
1,100,000 people left. That's it. Very small faith
tradition left. It's very ancient and very, small.
And the, the Zoroastrians, the Arabic word majus,
it comes from what we call in English
the the Magi. The same thing we call
in Magi,
this Magus, because the priests of the Zoroastrians,
they're called Magis. And so the Arabs called
the religion after their priests, the Magus.
And, of course, very briefly, Zoroastrians are the
only religion in the whole world that actually
believe in 2 eternal gods. It's the only
religion. There's only one faith that actually believes
in 2, even, believe it or not, Hinduism
actually believes in 1 supreme God, and then
many many gods, one ultimate.
As for Zoroastrianism, they're the only faith that
actually has 2 gods, the God of good,
the God of light. Right? And so they
have Ahura Mazda, they have Ahriman, and there's
a constant battle between them. So God creates,
Ahura Mazda creates us, and Ahariman
creates evil, darkness,
scorpions,
lizards. Ahariman creates. I'm not even joking. And
Ahura Mazda creates good. Anyway, so Samad al
Farsi is born
in this Oh, by the way, of course,
for India and Pakistan, you know what the
Russians are called in our language. What do
we call them?
Why do we call them Farsis for Persians?
Because when the Muslims came to Iran, when
the Muslims conquered Iran,
100 of 1000 of Zoroastrians
fled.
And they fled not to Christian lands who
had persecuted them, they fled to the closest
polytheistic
nation, which is India.
So they fled to India when the Muslims
conquered Iran. And when they came to India,
the Indians called them Persians,
Parsis.
And so because of this, we still know
them as Parsis.
And obviously,
those of us from India, Pakistan, we know
their most strange habit when it comes to
burial.
You know this?
Yes, you know. Right? Those that are it's
one of the most bizarre rituals in the
whole world.
They believe when a person is alive, he's
good, he's pure. When he dies, he converts
from the God of good to the God
of evil. His body becomes filthy. When he
dies, he cannot be buried because his body
is so evil, the physical body, because the
soul is gonna go back to God, the
body cannot be touched or buried,
and so they are not allowed
to have the earth touch the body. So
what do they do? They have special towers
all high up, and they put the body
on top of the tower,
and they allow vultures to go and eat
from the body until there is no more
body. SubhanAllah. This is one of the more
bizarre things. Anyway, I didn't want to talk
about Zoroastrianism. So, mala al Farsi. The only
convert that's born in
Persia, and he's raised up as an Austrian.
And then as you know the story, he
was from a noble family. I'll not go
over the whole story. It's a very I'm
sure sure everybody has heard of this. It's
one of the most famous stories of the
Sira,
of the conversion of Samal al Fassi, that
he saw a Christian, heard a Christian, and
the Christian
was from another sect of Christianity called Nestorianism,
all of Allah's Qadr. Nestorianism
is also going to a bit of a
tangent here. It is the oldest sect of
Christianity that is still around. It's only in
Iraq, 50,000 people as well. And when the
emperor Constantine
became
Christian, he adopted a version of Christianity that
is trinitarianism.
3 gods, 31, 3 equals 1. One version,
Nestorianism
said, no, Jesus was human, and then he
became God, or he was adopted by God.
I have a bizarre belief that Jesus was
human and then God adopted him. He's not
the actual son, whatever. So it's a strange
movement now, but it is the oldest sect
of Christianity. And Allah's qadr, that when Constantine
banned all other versions,
Nestorians fled to Persia.
And so the only version of Christianity
in Persia was closer to Tawhid,
because they believed in one ultimate God and
Jesus was born human, and then he's adopted.
He's it's a different belief here. So Salman
al Farsi, again, Allah's Qadr, when Allah chooses
you cannot, Salman al Farsi then passes by
one of these Nestorian monks.
And the story, as you're all aware, he
is attracted to tawhid. He leaves the nobility
of his father. He gives up his life
and his wealth, and he joins, you know,
Christianity, but his father wants to kill him.
And so he flees
Persia,
going wherever the Christians can take him. He
gave up his wealth and his fame. And
this is what we see here. I'm gonna
come back to this point here. When you
give up something for Allah, Allah blesses you
with more than what you gave up. He
left his land with nothing,
and he gave up everything he had, his
nobility, his status, and he traveled to the
closest
land in the lands of the Christians, and
he went up to the priest, the highest
priest, and that priest adopted him because he
was an exotic Persian convert. The priest adopted
him. The story is very long. I'm not
gonna go there. He goes over a series
of 5, 6, 7, some reports say 12
priests, one after the other. He goes
over wanting to study and search for the
truth, wanting to be a scholar and a
worshiper of Allah. And he meets good priests
and bad priests, but, subhanAllah,
even when he meets corrupt priests, his iman
in Allah is never shaken, which shows you
how strong. You know, usually when a convert,
you know, when they have a Muslim who
does bad to them, understandably,
they feel what type of religion is this,
and they leave the faith because of the
actions of a Muslim, astaghfirullah, be careful, all
Muslim, especially when you do with converts.
Salman al Farsi, the priest who adopted him
turned out to be an evil and corrupt
man, but it only increased his iman and
Allah. He could understand the difference between the
priest and between Allah and religion. And when
he exposed the priest, the Christians admired and
respected him, and so Allah blessed an outsider
to become an esteemed insider because Salman was
true, and Salman lived up to the ideals.
And he asked
one of his mentors of the historians, who
can I go to to study with? I
don't want to study this Trinitarian Christianity. I
want the real teaching. So the mentor said,
there's one person I know you can go
to him. And the story goes on, every
person he was with 2, 3, 4 years,
when he's about to die, he sends him
to one person. But, subhanAllah, when you look
at the map, and I did this when
I was doing the longer series I did
a few years ago,
literally from Persia,
he goes from city to city to city
to city, and Allah's Qadr, he makes his
way to the borders of Arabia. Wallahi, this
is all yaani Allah's Qadr. How? From where
to where? Slowly but surely, every priest that
sends him forward, he sends him closer to
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, not even
knowing that that is going there. Until the
final priest that he studies with, the final
priest says, I don't know anybody who is
remaining upon our version of Christianity. They're all
gone.
But
you are now at a time when the
one whom our teachers told us about when
Jesus predicted,
the one that we predicted is gonna come,
we feel I feel he's gonna come. And
I will tell you the signs we know.
By the way, these signs are not found
in the other version of Christianity. So we
know that Isa alayhis salaam taught his followers
certain signs, and some sects of Christianity preserved
those signs. He said, I'm gonna teach you
three things. Number
1, one of the signs of this prophet,
he will not accept charity.
He doesn't accept charity.
Number 2, he will accept a gift.
And number 3, there is a special seal
on his body, that when you see it,
you will recognize he is
khatamun.
Khatamurusrul,
there's gonna be a khatam, a physical seal
that's gonna be on his body. And he
said, The only thing I know, he shall
be in a land of date palms. That's
what we know, that he's gonna come in
that land. I don't know what city it
is, in a land of date palms. So
Salman al Farsi then decided, at this time
he has wealth, he has crops, he has,
you know, he decided to sell everything
and go to the land of date palms.
He asked, where is the closest land of
date palms? He was told Tabuk
because he was close to probably in around
Jerusalem area. So Tabuk is the closest date
palms. So he sold everything,
he found an Arab tribe, he goes, I'm
gonna pay you money, can you take me
to Tabuk? They said, Sure, no problem. They
took his money. Soon as they left the
Roman Empire, khalas. They captured him and they
sold him into slavery. You know, this is
what happens when you didn't have civilization,
when you didn't have a global world. There
is no police to call. What's he gonna
do? He doesn't have a passport. Right? This
is the dangers of traveling back in the
day. They literally
betrayed the trust and captured him and sold
him to into,
being a slave. By this time, he's probably
around 40, 50 years old. We don't know
his exact age, but he's probably like already,
you know, in a you know, past the
prime of his life because he's been with
10 different priests going up his way. And
then
Allah's qadr, the one He sells him to
happens to be
a yahudi
from yathrib.
He sells him to yahudi from yathrib. All
of this is Allah's qadr. And so he
comes back all the way to yathrib, and
he is now he has no option, he
has nowhere to go, he cannot flee, because
again, in this world, can you imagine? If
you run away as a slave, you will
be executed. Right? So what can you do?
So he becomes working. And when he says,
the report goes, When I saw yathrib, when
I saw the date palms,
it came in my heart that
Allah has sent me to this place. Look
again,
he gave up everything. He becomes a slave.
His iman is still strong. Look, subhanAllah, this
is just mind boggling. He says, soon as
soon as I saw yathrib, I realized this
is where. And this is one of the
main benefits of the story of Salman.
When you desire Allah's blessings, you will get
Allah's blessings. When you are sincere to Allah,
Allah will be sincere to you. When you
put your trust in Allah, Allah will do
whatever needs to be done. Even as a
slave, he didn't lose his iman in Allah.
And he's he was hopeful, I'm gonna meet
the prophet. As you know, eventually, you know,
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam came to
Yathrib, and he wanted to test him as
a slave. So he said that,
I took some of the dates he's a
date he's, you know, the slave in the
date palm,
you know,
the date palms that were there, he would
be harvesting the dates. He said, I took
some of the dates and I presented it
to the prophet and I said, this is
sadaqa. This is charity for the poor. This
is charity. And I put it in front
of him. So the Prophet asallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said to the people around him, Come,
eat from the charity. And Salman said, I
saw his hand did not touch a single
date. So I said to myself, this is
one of the three signs. Okay? Then I
worked more and more because he has to
work his own money, and then I presented
another date a few days later, I said,
this is hadiyah.
This is a gift to you. And he
said to the people, come eat, and he
ate as well. So Salman said, this is
the second. But then he goes, how am
I gonna see the third? How am I
gonna get the this seal over here? So
he said, I kept on being in the
company of the process of every occasion to
see, and once he went to the Baqir
al garka, the the graveyard. And there was
a burial taking place, and he was gonna
go inside the the the cupboard to put
the body, and he was wearing an izaar.
You know, an izaar is basically 2, you
know, the ihram type of garment. He's wearing
a upper and top garment. So I realized
this is my opportunity.
I walk behind him, but he had the
izaar on, the ridaar on very tightly, and
he's not. I wasn't able to see. So
I'm saying, what can I do now? I'm
walking behind, what can I do now? And
the Prophet saw me behind, and so he
lowered,
he lowered the
rida so that he can show me. By
the way, what is the khatam? The khatam
is a
special outgrowth of hair
that is small like a pigeon's egg, right
in the center of the back. Right in
the center of the back, and they say
that it is like multicolored.
So, it's different colors that are, you know,
not normal
on most people. This is a special sign
that right over here, there's just a small
outgrowth of hair that is different colors and
is shaped like a pigeon's egg. It's a
physical sign.
And the fact that the prophet shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam lowers his garment, this is not
the only time in the seerah.
Multiple times he has noticed people walk right
behind him, wanting to see something. And so
he himself is
is aware that this is a sign that
some people have been told, because he did
not preach this sign.
He did not tell sahaba about it. Rather,
this was a sign that Musa and Isa
had told their followers.
And so multiple times, for example, in the
Battle of Tabuk,
one of the priests came from Roman Empire,
and they call him a tanuki. And the
same thing, that he wanted to see the
sign, and in the conversation he literally stands
up and walks behind the prophet alaihi wasalam.
Nobody does that. Right? Because he doesn't know
what else to do. And the prophet alaihi
wasalam realizes it, and he does the same
thing to him as well. Right? So Salman
al Fasi as well, he does this. And
when Salman al Fasi saw this, he burst
into tears, and he crushed to kiss the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he rushed
to hug him. And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam understood,
this man's story is not typical,
because nobody knows this sign except the sil
silah from Jesus Christ. Nobody knows this sign
except So he says, What is your story,
O Salman?
Right? So by the way, every time somebody
converts, and we say, What is your story?
We're following the sunnah, guys. Okay? Don't worry
about it. Because we love to hear convert
stories. We love to. It makes our own
iman strong. So the prophet himself said, What
is your kisas? You must have a kisas.
This is a deeper story. So Salman tells
the entire story from the beginning to which
I'm summarizing. And the prophet said, come to
the masjid, you will tell your story to
everybody. And so he literally had Salman
narrate the whole story. And so when Ustad
stands up and says, how? Why did you
convert to Islam? He's following the sunnah. He
wants everybody to get the story because it
validates our iman. We like to hear, you
know, what was the story of your conversion?
And so
Salman gives the whole story. And then the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says to him,
Oh, Salman,
ask your master for a price, we will
help you pay it.
We will help for you. Ask your master
for a price. Then when he went to
his master, the master said, I don't want
to sell you. But he insisted, so the
master gave an exorbitant price, exorbitant. He said,
you must plant
300
date palms
for free, and
you must wait until those 300 are now
able to give
their own dates, which is gonna take 5,
10 years. Right? And on top of that,
give me 40 uqiyyah of silver, 40 grams
of silver. Like, that is a phenomenal price.
Like, very expensive,
far above the average price. But what can
you do? So he went back to the
Prophetess and I'm sad. Said, You Rasulullah, my
master is not budging. 300
date palms,
not even just planting, until they are able
to be now, you know, harvested or you
know they're gonna become trees, then you can
leave along with that 40. So he said,
don't worry. And then he stood up and
he gave a fundraiser for Salman. This is
one of the few times the prophet himself
does the fundraiser. And he says, O people
of Madira,
bring your date palms
to Salman. Whoever is able to give sadaqa,
the sadaqa wasn't even money, it was date
palms. And it was to the farmers of
Madinah that donate
not the seed, but dig up an already
planted,
you know, what do you call it? Sapling.
Right? Dig up those seeds that are already
sprouting, those small baby ones, so that we
already expedite the process. Right? Don't just plant
it, dig them, and whoever wants to give
sadaqa, give sadaqa to Salman. And so, 1
by 1, you know, people, the farmers began
coming until they had 300, you know, saplings
in the masjid of the prophet shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Then he he said to Salman,
Okay You Salman, go and dig 300 holes.
That's on you. You have to do the
physical labor. You do the 300 holes, but
don't plant them. I will plant them. So
Salman went and he spent the whole few
days digging 300 holes, then the Prophet shalallahu
alaihi wa sallam took a team of people.
SubhanAllah. Willa, amazing how much work to free
Salman. Right? The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam went
with a group of people. They're all carrying,
you know, the 300. And then he, with
his own hands, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, planted
300
date palms. Can you imagine? It's gonna take
at least 4, 5 hours minimum, bare minimum
of manual labor. He did it himself, and
he made dua every time when he planted.
He made du'a. Of course, the sahaba are
helping to get to him. You know, there's
a whole teamwork going on here, but each
one of them, he's making special du'a and
planting it. And, subhanAllah, of course, this is
the barakah. Then that seed comes out, and
within a few weeks or months, all of
these 300 have now gone, years, you know,
that all of this has happened. And so
that is done. How about the money? What's
gonna happen? That we don't have 40 grams
of silver. So once,
a man came and said, You Rasulullah, I
found some
little bit, you know, amount here, and, this
is fisabilillah,
sadaqa. This is I'm giving you, to give
to somebody. So the prophet got this small
amount
and he said, ein alfarisi. Where's the Farsi
guy? Ain al Farsi. Where's the Because there's
only 1 Persian in all of Bandina. So
he was a slave, they went and called
him. So the Prophet said, Here, this is
for your freedom. Salman said, You Rasulullah,
this is not gonna this is not he
wanted 40 grams, it's not gonna work. SubhanAllah,
listen to this. The Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
sallam took that silver,
he put it on his tongue,
and he went back and forth and he
said, Go tell your master to weigh this.
Go tell him to weigh it. And it's
a small amount. It's Allah's we don't see
how this is a different world. This is
not our world of ulmulghayb.
So He takes this small amount as if
it is a large amount, and he says
to the man, this is the amount you
wanted. The man just takes it, weighs it,
and turns out to be 40. Like in
his eyes or whatever, it is that amount.
Right? So he said, khalas, you are free
then. And this incident took place
a few weeks before the battle of khandaq.
So Salman, when he's narrating as a much
older man, he said, because of this, I
was not able to attend Badr and Uhud,
and that is my biggest regret. He regrets
that he was a slave, so he couldn't
participate in Badar Uhura, and he's making an
excuse. I'm sorry, guys. You know, I really
wanted to, but it's not my I couldn't
have done anything. So he's freed before the
baalal khandaq. You all know he was the
one who gave the advice for the khandaq
because he's bringing in new technology. And again,
this shows us the spirit of Islam. We
are always willing to take knowledge from people
outside of our faith that is not related
to Allah and His Messenger. This is one
of the characteristics of the Muslims from the
beginning of time. We're always willing to engage
with
outside technology, civilization,
fakafah. No problem. As long as it's not
about, you know, iman and what? Yes, we
can take from them. So Salman benefits in
this regard. Long story short, I don't go
over every single detail. There's one point that
is really so profound to me, and that
is, of course, there's many ahadith praising Salman,
many many blessings of Salman. By the way,
in the battle of khandaq, one other thing
before we get to the end, the ansar
and the wahajirun. Salman is neither muhajir nor
ansari. Right? He's neither muhajir nor ansari because
he's a slave that was freed in in
Medina. He's not Madani,
and he's not Maqih mahaaja. So, during the
battle of khandaq,
when the sahaba split into 2 teams to
dig, and they're, you know, digging for the
khandaq,
Each team said, Salman, just come join us.
We want you to come. Right? It's like
a competition. You're come on. You migrated your
Makkah. No, no. You were here in Madinah.
You're Ansari. So they're teasing each other in
a, you know, halal, gentle Islamic brotherhood competition.
Each one is praising Salman, join us. And
Salman stuck, which side do I go to
to help? And then the Prophet shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam came out. He held the hand
of Salman, and he said, Salman
is neither Muhajir nor Ansari, Salman minna Ahlalbayt.
He gave him a VIP upgrade, the only
sahabi that's not Ahlalbayt,
that was upgraded to Ahlalbayt status. That and
that's why Salman could never accept sadaqah till
he died, because the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam upgraded him to Ahlulbayt status. Like, he
is considered amongst us because he he doesn't
have anybody else, we will adopt him, and
he'll be considered from my Ahlulbayt, from the
Ahlulbayt. It's one of the blessings of Salman
that no other companion outside of the actual
Ahlulbayt
got. And so Salman was given a special
status in this regard. Anyway, long story short,
much can be said here. One of the
things that to me is the most mind
boggling and profound
is that after the prophet passed away, Salman
is now participating in the battles, and he
joins the battle of Qadisiyyah
with Khaled ibn al Walid and,
and, Sadame Broukha, sorry. And he joins the
battle of Qadisiyyah.
The battle of Qadisiyyah was against whom?
His own peoples.
It was against the Persians.
And so now he is one of the
commanders
in the battle of Qadisiyyah
that is meant to free his own people
from the paganism
and to invite them to Islam. And he,
of course, is one of the main leaders
and generals. Qadisiyyah is a massive victory,
and the Persian Empire is conquered, and Salman
al Farisi is amongst the first of the
people who enter the very land that was
his once upon a time. He's the only
Persian Sahabi. Right? And now he enters
the very palaces
of the land that he could not go
in as a citizen.
You cannot walk into, you know, the powers,
the palaces of the people when you're a
citizen. Now he comes from a slave, from
leaving
as somebody that gave up everything, right? Now
Allah blessed him to walk into the most
magnificent
palace, you know, of,
the the the emperor of the Sassanid,
empire. By the way, the palace that, is
at Tessaf al Mada'in, it is still standing,
and it is considered to be one of
the wonders of the world. It is a
magnificent palace. It's like an arch that goes
up like this. The remnants are still there.
That very palace, Salman al Farsi, literally that
exact same palace is still there. Salman al
Farsi walked into it, and subhanAllah,
the amir said to Salman al Farsi,
you shall be the leader of or the
governor of your land here.
SubhanAllah,
to me, this is mind boggling.
Wallahi, look from where to where? Right? He
left his land
fleeing,
persecuted,
and he comes back more than 50, 60,
70 years later. We don't know exactly how
long. He comes back after all of these
years,
and he becomes
the, not the ruler, because obviously the ruler
is Abu Bakr as Sadia, but the governor.
He basically becomes the de facto ruler and
the governor of his own province and land,
subhanAllah.
This really shows us the blessings, and he
passes away there, and his kabr is over
there. SubhanAllah, he left the very land, and
now he comes back, and he becomes the
one in charge. What a what a beautiful
anecdote and story that shows us when you
put your trust in Allah, and when you
realize Allah will take care of me, indeed
Allah takes care of you. Salman got deen
and dunya. Salman By the way, he got
dunya, but he never ever lived
in a lavish way. In fact, it is
said he would not sleep in the palace.
He would sleep under a tree because he
didn't His whole life, he was monastery and
Christianity. His whole life was, you know, zuhd
and ibadah and whatnot. So he didn't like
the palace. So he went and slept on
a tree. The people would say to him,
You have the palace. He goes, This is
more beloved to me, just to sleep on
the ground and whatnot. Until finally somebody said,
I have to build you a house. He
came to Semayi, I beg you, let me
build you a house. Salman said, How large
is it gonna be? The man understood. So
he goes, it will be so large that
when you stand up, your head is gonna
head hit against the roof. And when you
put your feet out, you won't have
you know, the space to fully spread it.
He goes, okay, that's fine then. So he
built him a small little hut, and that
was his house. And it is said once
the books of history that Salman would dress
exactly the same, no entourage, once a merchant
came from another land
to sell his goods, and he needed help
transporting from the camel to the bazaar. He's
looking for some cheap laborer, right? And he
sees Salman, but he doesn't recognize him. So
he goes, Hey, you, enter. Can you help
me with my goods? He wants to find
somebody, you know, that you can find like
some comfort in. So Salman comes up, starts
helping the goods from the man's camel to
the bazaar. When the other people see, he
said, You Amir, you know, let us help
you. So the man said, Who is this
guy? He goes, This is the leader. This
is Salman al Farisi. He said, I'm so
sorry, I didn't recognize you. And Salman said,
So what? You asked me a favor, and
I'm doing it. What's the big deal? You
want me to be help? I'm helping you,
and I So he tried to insist, and
the man said, no. It was my niyyah
to take your goods from
your place to your bazaar, and I'm gonna
finish this. SubhanAllah, the humility of Salman al
Farsi. And of course, he passed away and
he's buried over there. Our Prophet shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam said that if Iman were in
one of the northern stars,
then this person from Persia would have gotten
it. This is a hadith. If Iman were
found way up there in the skies, then
the farisih would have found it up there.
His niyyah was so strong, he wanted hidayah
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allowed him to
go city by
city, mentor by mentor, until finally he meds
to the very city of the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam. Whoever puts his trust in Allah,
Allah will take care of him. May Allah
have
mercy on Salman al Farsi, and resurrect us
with him.