Khalid Bin Al-Waleed Sword Of Allah

Chapter 2
(The New Faith)
Page 1
"It is He who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, to
make it prevail over all religion,and Allah is sufficient as a witness."
[Quran 48:28]
A certain Arab would walk the streets of Makkah at night, lost in thought. He was a
member, no longer wealthy, of the noble clan of Bani Hashim. A strikingly handsome
man of medium height with broad, powerful shoulders, his hair ended in curls just below
his ears. His large, dark eyes, fringed with long lashes, seemed pensive and sad.
There was much in the way of life of the Arabs that caused him pain. Everywhere around
him he saw signs of decay-in the injustice done to the poor and helpless, in the
unnecessary bloodshed, in the treatment of women who were considered as no better than
domestic animals. He would be deeply anguished whenever he heard reports of the live
burial of unwanted female children.
Certain clans of the Arabs had made a horrible ritual of the killing of infant daughters.
The father would let the child grow up normally until she was five or six years old. He
would then tell her that he would take her for a walk and dress her up as if for a party. He
would take her out of the town or settlement to the site of a grave already dug for her. He
would make the child stand on the edge of this grave and the child, quite unaware of her
fate and believing that her father had brought her out for a picnic, would look eagerly at
him, wondering when the fun would start. The father would then push her into the grave,
and as the child cried to her father to help her out, he would hurl large stones at her,
crushing the life out of her tender body. When all movement had ceased in the bruised
and broken body of his poor victim, he would fill the grave with earth and return home.
Sometimes he would brag about what he had done.
This custom was not, of course, very widespread in Arabia. Among the famous families
of Makkah-the Bani Hashim, the Bani Umayyah and the Bani Makhzum-there is not a
single instance on record of a female child being killed. This happened only among some
desert tribes, and only in some clans. But even the exceptional occurrence of this
revolting practice was sufficient to horrify and sicken the more intelligent and virtuous
Arabs of the time.
Then there were the idols of Makkah. The Kabah had been built by the Prophet Ibrahim
as the House of God, but had been defiled with gods of wood and stone. The Arabs
would propitiate these gods with sacrificial offerings, believing that they would harm a
man when angered and be bountiful when pleased. In and around the Kabah there were
360 idols, the most worshipped of whom were Hubal, Uzza and Lat. Hubal, the pride of
the Arab pantheon, was the largest of these gods and was carved of red agate. When the
inhabitants of Makkah had imported this idol from Syria it was without a right hand; so
they fashioned a new hand of gold and stuck it on to its arm.
In the religion of the Arabs there was a curious mixture of polytheism and belief in Allahthe
true God. They believed that Allah was Lord and Creator, but they also believed in
the idols, regarding them as sons and daughters of Allah. The position of the deity in the