abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass

of the Jahiliyya and its tyranny, Islam would not have been able to go beyond Batha’ [the old
part of Mecca were the Ka`ba is located] in Mecca and would not have gone beyond al-
Harura’ [a locality near Kufa in Iraq].
The finger of Bilal which pointed to the sky while he was in severe torment, repeating "one...
one" [i.e. God is One. This is a phrase that Bilal repeated over and over while his master
Umayya Ibn Khalaf tortured him for converting to Islam] was an earthquake for unbelief
which came from the depths of his heart, shaking the tree of the Jahiliyya from its roots.
The voice of reason said to Bilal: "Deceive Umayya Ibn Khalaf and say to him, ‘I follow the
religion of al-Lat and al-`Uza’ [two pre-Islamic Arab goddesses] and then at night go to
Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), your true leader, master, and exemplar and
say to him, ‘I laughed at Umayya and deceived him so that he considers me to be with him
and he leaves me alone.’” However, missionary activities do not triumph by means of this
cleverness and this policy. They relapse and fall to pieces if there are not those who nourish
it with blood and build it with skulls and corpses.
Long patience in the face of the oppression of the Jahiliyya, suppressing fervent breaths
from leaving the chests and sighs from escaping the bosoms—I say that some may think
that long patience is of benefit to missionary activities and they do not know that it is killing
the souls, especially if the one with long patience is extremely impatient. Extreme caution
reaches the point of madness, and wanton cowardice leads to a slow, incremental death.