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on him. The wicked unbeliever Ibni Kâmia set upon Mus’ab
‘radiy-Allâhu anh’. For Mus’ab ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ was shielding
Rasûlullah with his body. With one stroke of his sword, Ibni
Kâmia cut off Mus’ab’s ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ right arm. So he held
the banner with his left hand. In the meantime he was
soliloquizing and saying the fourteenth âyat-i-kerîma of Âl-i-
’Imrân sûra, which purported: “Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah alone.” A second stroke, and this time his left arm was cut
off. Upon this he pressed the banner on his chest, using what
remained of his mutilated arms and at the same time reiterating
the same âyat-i-kerîma. He did not let go the Banner of Islam. At
last he succumbed to a spear that was thrust into his chest, and
attained martyrdom. Yet he was still in possession of the Islamic
Banner.
Hubeyb bin Adiy and Zayd bin Desinna ‘radiy-Allâhu
anhumâ’ had been entrapped, enslaved, and then sold to the
polytheists of Qoureish by the sons of Lihyan, who were
polytheists, too. Before martyring Hubeyb, they told him that they
would set him free if he abandoned his religious faith. He replied,
“I swear by the name of Allah that I shall not abandon my
religious faith! I would not abandon Islam even if the entire world
were given to me in return.” Upon this the polytheists asked,
“Would you rather put Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ in your place
and have him killed, so that you may go home and live
comfortably?” Hubeyb ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ answered, “I would
sacrifice my life even to prevent a thorn from stinging the blessed
foot of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ in Medina. The unbelievers
marvelled at this excessive love of Hubeyb’s. Then they martyred
him.
These events and hundreds of other examples that could be
written here bear witness to the fact that all the As-hâb-i-kirâm
and all the other Muslims that have come to the earth for
fourteen hundred years were and have been willing to sacrifice
their lives for the sake of Rasûlullah and for attaining love of
Allâhu ta’âlâ. The Apostles, on the other hand, who are accepted
as Messengers by Christians, not only deserted Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’
and ran away at his most grievous time, but also swore afterwards
that they did not know him. These cases are written in today’s
Gospels.]
Every truth is fully known only by Allâhu ta’âlâ; our Prophet’s
‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wasallam’ enjoining this sacrificial act on Alî
‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ in the night of Hegira was intended to answer
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