1 00:02:35,381 --> 00:02:37,541 No, by Al-Lat and Al-Uzza. 2 00:02:37,981 --> 00:02:39,861 "All that lives on it perishes;" 3 00:02:39,981 --> 00:02:43,181 "but forever will remain the face of your Lord, full of majesty, granting grace." 4 00:02:43,261 --> 00:02:46,901 "Which, then, of your Lord's blessings do you both deny?" 5 00:02:46,981 --> 00:02:50,301 "Everyone in heaven and earth entreats Him." 6 00:02:50,581 --> 00:02:52,701 "Every day He manifests Himself in some wonderful way." 7 00:02:52,781 --> 00:02:56,261 "Which, then, of your Lord's blessings do you both deny?" 8 00:03:01,861 --> 00:03:03,701 This is what we feared for you. 9 00:03:04,461 --> 00:03:07,741 Those enemies of God never seemed so weak in my eyes. 10 00:03:07,821 --> 00:03:10,181 If you like, I will do the same tomorrow. 11 00:03:10,261 --> 00:03:12,221 No. You have done enough. 12 00:03:17,701 --> 00:03:19,341 What troubles you today? 13 00:03:19,781 --> 00:03:21,741 The people have lost their manners. 14 00:03:21,821 --> 00:03:23,301 Which of them? 15 00:03:23,381 --> 00:03:25,461 There are two peoples nowadays in Makkah. 16 00:03:26,181 --> 00:03:29,141 I wish I could fault Muhammad's companions 17 00:03:29,621 --> 00:03:31,781 in the same way as I fault our people. 18 00:03:32,541 --> 00:03:34,661 When they are beaten up, they are patient. 19 00:03:35,101 --> 00:03:39,101 When they are abused and reviled, they only reply with a greeting of peace. 20 00:03:39,541 --> 00:03:41,501 The weak among them has become strong, 21 00:03:41,581 --> 00:03:43,861 and the strong compassionate. 22 00:03:48,781 --> 00:03:53,541 As for us, the strong among us are unjust to the weak, 23 00:03:53,981 --> 00:03:57,021 and the weak scheme against the strong, 24 00:03:57,101 --> 00:04:01,581 or flatter them to spare themselves harm or to gain something. 25 00:04:02,021 --> 00:04:05,261 They are compassionate to one another, 26 00:04:05,341 --> 00:04:07,621 and their rich help their poor. 27 00:04:08,021 --> 00:04:15,861 Abu Bakr, Uthman, Musab Ibn Umair and Abu Hudhaifah Ibn Utbah 28 00:04:15,941 --> 00:04:21,301 are equal to Bilal, Suhaib, and Salim, Abu Hudhaifah's former slave. 29 00:04:21,381 --> 00:04:26,061 We, on the other hand, are classes: noble and low. 30 00:04:26,141 --> 00:04:29,741 Even our nobility are of different classes. 31 00:04:29,821 --> 00:04:31,701 How can such people be successful? 32 00:04:33,901 --> 00:04:38,981 Today, I saw them severely beating up Ibn Umm Abd, 33 00:04:39,581 --> 00:04:43,421 who has no clan to protect him, 34 00:04:43,941 --> 00:04:46,261 because he recited a passage of the Qur'an in front of them. 35 00:04:46,341 --> 00:04:48,381 And did you hear his recitation, brother? 36 00:04:48,461 --> 00:04:52,741 I left them. I won't join them in such a thing. 37 00:04:53,181 --> 00:04:55,581 But you beat people up, as they do. 38 00:04:55,661 --> 00:05:00,261 If I do, then I only beat up those of my people over whom I have an authority. 39 00:05:00,341 --> 00:05:02,621 I do not choose only the weaker elements, 40 00:05:02,701 --> 00:05:06,101 or show my strength to one who has no support. 41 00:05:07,941 --> 00:05:10,341 What has Muhammad done to us? 42 00:05:13,701 --> 00:05:17,141 That's Muhammad. 43 00:05:17,581 --> 00:05:22,221 It is all his doing, all these troubles he has caused us. 44 00:05:23,501 --> 00:05:28,021 Would that I go and kill him with my sword, 45 00:05:29,021 --> 00:05:34,221 then go to the Hashimites and surrender myself to them to kill me. 46 00:05:34,301 --> 00:05:36,101 Just a man for a man. 47 00:05:36,701 --> 00:05:39,421 Then Makkah will revert to its previous life. 48 00:05:40,261 --> 00:05:43,021 This is not something you do, brother. 49 00:05:43,101 --> 00:05:45,781 You will shed pure blood for no offence. 50 00:05:45,861 --> 00:05:47,621 He has not thrown a small pebble at you, 51 00:05:47,701 --> 00:05:49,621 nor waved a stick to your face, 52 00:05:49,701 --> 00:05:51,501 nor said a word of abuse to you. 53 00:05:51,581 --> 00:05:55,781 Shedding the blood of two people is much better than the killing of many. 54 00:05:57,821 --> 00:05:59,421 I save my people with such an act. 55 00:05:59,501 --> 00:06:01,941 Put such thoughts out of your mind, Umar. 56 00:06:02,501 --> 00:06:04,941 By God, I never allowed my being older than you affect the way I look at you. 57 00:06:05,021 --> 00:06:07,541 I let you have precedence over me, and you are worthy of that. 58 00:06:07,621 --> 00:06:10,021 I am not flattering you, so listen to me. 59 00:06:10,981 --> 00:06:15,501 Only now I say that I am older, and that certain rights are due to me. 60 00:06:16,541 --> 00:06:21,341 God forbid that you should listen to such black thoughts. 61 00:06:21,421 --> 00:06:23,341 You will then be the most wretched person. 62 00:06:23,861 --> 00:06:26,021 You have just mentioned how Muhammad and his companions have morals. 63 00:06:26,101 --> 00:06:28,181 You were both right and fair. 64 00:06:28,261 --> 00:06:30,181 Follow, then, your good nature, 65 00:06:30,261 --> 00:06:32,261 because it will lead you to the right way. 66 00:06:39,021 --> 00:06:43,621 He gets close, but then moves away. Till when? 67 00:07:17,101 --> 00:07:20,981 Muhammad is at the Kaabah performing his prayer in front of you, 68 00:07:21,061 --> 00:07:24,541 and Abu Bakr is standing beside him while you are sitting here uninterested! 69 00:07:34,981 --> 00:07:37,941 Go back! Go back in peace. 70 00:07:38,021 --> 00:07:40,821 Will you assault a man for merely saying: My Lord is God? 71 00:07:40,941 --> 00:07:44,061 The Hashimites will soon hear of what you are doing 72 00:07:44,141 --> 00:07:45,341 and this could lead to many killings. 73 00:07:45,421 --> 00:07:50,741 True. Therefore, tell your friend to leave and not to affront us with this sight. 74 00:07:52,661 --> 00:07:55,261 I am not one to order him when he is God's messenger. 75 00:07:55,341 --> 00:07:57,141 He informs us of what God wants 76 00:07:57,221 --> 00:07:59,141 and we say: We listen and we obey. 77 00:07:59,221 --> 00:08:01,541 Then you will be first. 78 00:08:02,061 --> 00:08:07,381 No one has spoilt our sons and our slaves as you did. 79 00:08:07,461 --> 00:08:10,381 Call against us Taim, your clan. 80 00:08:32,261 --> 00:08:34,741 What have these idiots done to my son? 81 00:08:34,861 --> 00:08:39,101 By God, he is the refuge of orphans, widows and the poor. 82 00:08:39,621 --> 00:08:43,541 Taim has never known a man who is kinder and more dutiful than him. 83 00:08:44,061 --> 00:08:47,501 How could they do this to him? 84 00:08:47,581 --> 00:08:51,421 We will do to them what is worse. 85 00:08:52,181 --> 00:08:55,301 Say something, son. 86 00:08:55,381 --> 00:09:00,781 He hasn't spoken since they brought him. 87 00:09:01,341 --> 00:09:05,701 It is evening now and I fear... 88 00:09:05,781 --> 00:09:10,941 He is moving his lips. Say something, son. Say... 89 00:09:17,021 --> 00:09:19,341 What happened to God's messenger? 90 00:09:19,421 --> 00:09:22,301 We are here to look after you and you ask about Muhammad. 91 00:09:22,381 --> 00:09:23,861 What is he to us? 92 00:09:23,941 --> 00:09:27,581 We support you because you are our blood relation. 93 00:09:28,701 --> 00:09:31,221 Leave me alone. 94 00:09:35,541 --> 00:09:41,221 Try to give him something to eat or drink. 95 00:09:50,381 --> 00:09:52,381 What happened to God's messenger? 96 00:09:52,461 --> 00:09:55,421 By God, I have no knowledge of your friend. 97 00:09:56,421 --> 00:09:59,541 Go to Umm Jameel Bint Al-Khattab. 98 00:09:59,621 --> 00:10:00,941 Why should I? 99 00:10:04,901 --> 00:10:09,381 My son, Abu Bakr, sent me to ask you about Muhammad Ibn Abdullah. 100 00:10:09,861 --> 00:10:12,741 I know neither Abu Bakr nor Muhammad Ibn Abdullah. 101 00:10:18,061 --> 00:10:22,461 If you like, I could come with you to see your son. 102 00:10:30,661 --> 00:10:34,781 By God, the people who did this to you are wicked unbelievers. 103 00:10:34,861 --> 00:10:37,701 I hope that God will punish them for what they did. 104 00:10:37,781 --> 00:10:39,901 And you too follow Muhammad's religion? 105 00:10:40,341 --> 00:10:42,181 What happened to God's messenger? 106 00:10:43,661 --> 00:10:45,421 Here is your mother listening. 107 00:10:45,861 --> 00:10:47,501 You need not worry about her. 108 00:10:48,901 --> 00:10:51,661 God's messenger is safe and sound. 109 00:10:53,461 --> 00:10:56,621 - Where is he? - At Al-Arqam's home. 110 00:10:58,221 --> 00:11:05,261 By God, I won't eat or drink anything until I have seen God's messenger. 111 00:11:05,341 --> 00:11:07,981 Be patient, Abu Bakr, until things are quiet 112 00:11:08,061 --> 00:11:09,461 and people's movement has calmed down. 113 00:11:09,541 --> 00:11:10,661 We can then take you to him. 114 00:11:10,741 --> 00:11:13,541 Your pain will probably have abated a little. 115 00:12:08,821 --> 00:12:10,661 - Who is it? - It's Abu Bakr. 116 00:12:16,781 --> 00:12:19,341 Everything may be sacrificed for your sake. 117 00:12:19,981 --> 00:12:21,501 Nothing is wrong with me, 118 00:12:21,821 --> 00:12:24,981 except for what the wicked man, Utbah, has done to my face... 119 00:12:25,421 --> 00:12:30,101 Here is my mother who is taking good care of her son. 120 00:12:30,781 --> 00:12:32,261 You are certainly blessed. 121 00:12:33,221 --> 00:12:37,021 So, call on her to believe and pray God for her. 122 00:12:37,661 --> 00:12:40,221 May be with your prayer God will save her from hell. 123 00:12:43,941 --> 00:12:45,941 Come in, mother. 124 00:12:53,341 --> 00:12:56,301 I bear witness that there is no deity other than God, 125 00:12:57,781 --> 00:12:59,941 and I bear witness that you are God's messenger. 126 00:13:16,861 --> 00:13:18,701 And you have done it, father, 127 00:13:18,781 --> 00:13:21,541 when you are the wisest of all those people? 128 00:13:21,621 --> 00:13:24,461 Or did the evil man, Abu Jahl, goad you and you wanted to match him? 129 00:13:24,541 --> 00:13:26,981 Enough. Don't speak to your father in such a way, you deserter. 130 00:13:27,061 --> 00:13:29,061 I am more dutiful to my father than you. 131 00:13:29,141 --> 00:13:31,181 I call on him to follow divine guidance 132 00:13:31,261 --> 00:13:34,741 and you want him to persist with falsehood and with what is contrary to integrity. 133 00:13:35,741 --> 00:13:39,061 Abu Bakr? Abu Bakr, father? 134 00:13:39,141 --> 00:13:43,701 He is the most polite, the best mannered and the kindest of people, 135 00:13:44,261 --> 00:13:47,581 and you hit him with your shoes on his face until it is unrecognizable? 136 00:13:47,661 --> 00:13:49,381 And then I hear my companions saying: 137 00:13:49,461 --> 00:13:50,981 What has the transgressor, Utbah, done to him? 138 00:13:51,061 --> 00:13:55,301 May God cut their tongues, and take away your hearing 139 00:13:55,381 --> 00:13:57,901 so that you won't hear them speaking ill of your father 140 00:13:58,741 --> 00:14:00,741 without shutting them up. 141 00:14:01,301 --> 00:14:03,061 Have you lost all care for your father? 142 00:14:03,141 --> 00:14:06,421 By God, I was vacillating between care for my father, 143 00:14:06,501 --> 00:14:10,261 hating that he should do an evil act to invite criticism, 144 00:14:10,341 --> 00:14:14,181 and caring for our most respected brother and companion, Abu Bakr, 145 00:14:14,261 --> 00:14:17,261 who has been badly wronged by my father. 146 00:14:17,341 --> 00:14:18,741 You have gone too far you deserter... 147 00:14:18,821 --> 00:14:20,261 Enough! 148 00:14:21,621 --> 00:14:27,421 I did what I did. I neither take pride in it nor regret it. 149 00:14:29,181 --> 00:14:32,181 I had advised my people to leave Muhammad alone 150 00:14:32,261 --> 00:14:33,901 and to let him advocate his message. 151 00:14:34,421 --> 00:14:37,941 If the Arabs kill him, they would have done the job for us, 152 00:14:38,341 --> 00:14:41,861 and if he wins, his glory will rub on us. 153 00:14:41,941 --> 00:14:43,741 They took no heed of my advice. 154 00:14:45,581 --> 00:14:48,061 Ultimately, I am one of my people. 155 00:14:48,141 --> 00:14:50,181 Even though they may be in error. 156 00:14:50,261 --> 00:14:53,061 To me, the biggest error is to desert the community, 157 00:14:53,141 --> 00:14:55,941 just like a camel moving away from his flock. 158 00:14:56,541 --> 00:14:59,821 You... You, Abu Hudhaifah, 159 00:14:59,901 --> 00:15:02,061 have deserted your father's community. 160 00:15:02,141 --> 00:15:07,181 It behoved me to do to you what others have done to their sons 161 00:15:07,261 --> 00:15:09,901 who deserted their fathers' religion: 162 00:15:10,501 --> 00:15:13,981 they imprisoned and starved them and they beat them up. 163 00:15:14,061 --> 00:15:15,741 You had better done the same! 164 00:15:16,301 --> 00:15:19,861 Yet I have spared you that, until people shamed me. 165 00:15:19,941 --> 00:15:22,661 I heard what I disliked on your account. 166 00:15:22,741 --> 00:15:25,501 Abu Jahl! Lost are the people who follow his lead. 167 00:15:25,581 --> 00:15:28,261 Now you want to judge your father? 168 00:15:28,581 --> 00:15:31,021 God will judge between us in our quarrel. 169 00:15:32,261 --> 00:15:34,221 No power operates except by His will. 170 00:15:48,701 --> 00:15:51,021 Why do you go to this trouble for us, Al-Waleed? 171 00:15:51,541 --> 00:15:54,301 I don't know... perhaps because we are all relatives! 172 00:15:55,261 --> 00:15:57,261 But blood relation has not stopped our brother, Abu Al-Hakam, 173 00:15:57,341 --> 00:15:59,221 from doing to us what you see. 174 00:16:28,581 --> 00:16:31,061 Just because I took pity on them, considering that they are my relatives? 175 00:16:31,141 --> 00:16:34,501 - Is it only taking pity? - What else? 176 00:16:34,581 --> 00:16:37,541 You can't be more compassionate to them than their brother. 177 00:16:37,621 --> 00:16:38,421 Abu Al-Hakam? 178 00:16:38,501 --> 00:16:41,021 But he gives them food and drink. 179 00:16:41,101 --> 00:16:43,821 Only enough to keep them alive, and prolong their suffering. 180 00:16:43,901 --> 00:16:46,901 Why do you get yourself involved in their business? 181 00:16:46,981 --> 00:16:48,221 Stop it, Khalid. 182 00:16:48,301 --> 00:16:50,061 You cannot order me about when our father is alive. 183 00:16:50,141 --> 00:16:54,741 Al-Waleed, you've done badly although you wished to do well. 184 00:16:54,821 --> 00:16:57,261 Kindness to undeserving people is foolish. 185 00:16:57,341 --> 00:17:00,341 These two men have abandoned our religion. 186 00:17:00,421 --> 00:17:02,861 But they continue to belong to us. 187 00:17:02,941 --> 00:17:05,741 They don't see themselves as such. 188 00:17:05,861 --> 00:17:10,021 When asked, they will say that they belong to Islam. 189 00:17:10,101 --> 00:17:12,661 They say the same as all Muhammad's companions say: 190 00:17:12,741 --> 00:17:16,741 that God has replaced their jahiliyyah affiliation with the bond of Islam. 191 00:17:16,822 --> 00:17:22,662 They disown their fathers, brothers and clans who don't follow their religion, 192 00:17:22,741 --> 00:17:26,861 placing before them people like Suhaib, Bilal and Salim. 193 00:17:26,941 --> 00:17:31,101 They say these are their brothers. 194 00:17:31,181 --> 00:17:35,181 Father, they don't disown their families and clans; 195 00:17:35,261 --> 00:17:38,061 they only disown their religion and actions. 196 00:17:38,141 --> 00:17:41,501 They discard tribal bigotry and acclaim kindness to kinsfolk. 197 00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:45,021 You speak like them... You say jahiliyyah. 198 00:17:46,381 --> 00:17:49,261 I am only quoting their words and meanings. 199 00:17:49,341 --> 00:17:52,461 They do acclaim rightful kindness to kindred. 200 00:17:52,541 --> 00:17:55,381 They started advocating their religion within their clans 201 00:17:55,461 --> 00:17:57,421 only because they have a stronger claim to their kindness. 202 00:17:57,501 --> 00:17:59,821 They discard the principle advocated by our poet who says: 203 00:17:59,901 --> 00:18:01,181 "I am only one of the tribe of Ghuzayyah:" 204 00:18:01,261 --> 00:18:04,741 "if my tribe err, I err with them; and if they do right, I likewise do right." 205 00:18:04,821 --> 00:18:07,701 According to their religion, this principle is based on ignorance. 206 00:18:08,181 --> 00:18:11,061 What should bring people together are right and justice. 207 00:18:11,141 --> 00:18:14,381 I even heard some of them say that God's messenger has ordered them 208 00:18:14,461 --> 00:18:17,101 to support their brethren whether they are oppressors or oppressed. 209 00:18:17,181 --> 00:18:19,261 Supporting the oppressed is well known, 210 00:18:19,341 --> 00:18:22,861 but supporting the oppressor means to stop him from doing injustice. 211 00:18:22,941 --> 00:18:29,021 Now you, wise men, tell me: which principle is better? 212 00:18:29,101 --> 00:18:32,101 Have you heard all this from Salamah and Ayyash? 213 00:18:32,181 --> 00:18:34,541 By God, you speak just like them. 214 00:18:34,621 --> 00:18:37,901 I fear that similarity of speech heralds similarity of minds. 215 00:18:38,301 --> 00:18:40,141 Al-Waleed, have you become a Muslim? 216 00:18:40,421 --> 00:18:43,221 I haven't, but I am being fair. 217 00:18:43,301 --> 00:18:46,461 I admire their wisdom and morality, as well as justice and kindness. 218 00:18:46,861 --> 00:18:48,981 As for a world beyond, heaven and hell... 219 00:18:49,061 --> 00:18:50,861 I am still not convinced. 220 00:18:50,941 --> 00:18:54,661 Make sure to remain unconvinced. 221 00:18:55,141 --> 00:18:58,981 Now, go to Abu Al-Hakam and apologize. 222 00:18:59,261 --> 00:19:01,341 Would I apologize for feeding his two brothers, 223 00:19:01,421 --> 00:19:03,381 and taking pity on them after what he did to them? 224 00:19:03,461 --> 00:19:06,221 By God, I will not. I will never do. 225 00:19:07,781 --> 00:19:09,261 Leave him alone, Khalid. 226 00:19:10,221 --> 00:19:11,581 Don't make him more stubborn, 227 00:19:11,661 --> 00:19:14,261 for you will then make him lean more towards his two friends. 228 00:19:45,981 --> 00:19:47,381 Abdullah Ibn Suhail? 229 00:19:49,541 --> 00:19:53,461 What brings you out here alone in the middle of the night? 230 00:19:53,541 --> 00:19:54,901 Why are you out yourself? 231 00:19:58,621 --> 00:20:00,141 I had some unpleasant feelings, 232 00:20:02,021 --> 00:20:05,221 and I thought I would relax by looking at the sky and the stars. 233 00:20:06,821 --> 00:20:08,541 So, we came out for the same reason. 234 00:20:11,461 --> 00:20:12,821 Are you worried? 235 00:20:15,061 --> 00:20:16,341 What worries you? 236 00:20:18,141 --> 00:20:20,741 Umar, can anyone live with two hearts: 237 00:20:20,821 --> 00:20:23,381 one for himself and one for others? 238 00:20:23,821 --> 00:20:26,621 Should we obey our fathers and disobey our hearts? 239 00:20:27,941 --> 00:20:31,621 Wow! Are you thinking about Islam? 240 00:20:38,301 --> 00:20:41,421 If it is Islam that you are thinking about, 241 00:20:42,181 --> 00:20:43,861 and you follow your mind, declare yourself a Muslim 242 00:20:43,941 --> 00:20:45,621 and withstand the consequences, 243 00:20:46,621 --> 00:20:49,781 you will be my opponent who wins my respect and admiration. 244 00:20:51,581 --> 00:20:55,461 If you prefer cowardice and safety to what you believe in, 245 00:20:55,941 --> 00:20:59,101 you will be my ally but I look at you with contempt. 246 00:21:01,381 --> 00:21:03,261 Therefore, I don't know what advice to give you. 247 00:21:03,781 --> 00:21:06,661 Yes, Ibn Al-Khattab. You have indeed. 248 00:21:28,221 --> 00:21:31,421 "Umar Recalling Events" 249 00:21:34,541 --> 00:21:37,701 I appeal to you by God, Abdullah... not now. 250 00:21:38,341 --> 00:21:40,341 What secret is between you two? 251 00:21:42,981 --> 00:21:45,421 - Abdullah! - What's the matter? 252 00:21:48,541 --> 00:21:50,741 Father, would it please you to discover that your son 253 00:21:50,821 --> 00:21:54,861 - is a double-faced lackey? - No, by Al-Lat and Al-Uzza. 254 00:21:54,941 --> 00:21:57,021 Would it please you if he is a coward 255 00:21:57,101 --> 00:21:59,541 putting up an appearance that is different from what he believes? 256 00:22:00,221 --> 00:22:01,621 No, by Al-Lat and Al-Uzza. 257 00:22:01,741 --> 00:22:03,621 Who is better in your view: 258 00:22:03,701 --> 00:22:06,341 a brave opponent who is a man of honour and integrity, 259 00:22:06,741 --> 00:22:09,821 or a cowardly follower who is devoid of integrity? 260 00:22:09,901 --> 00:22:11,301 Definitely the first, 261 00:22:11,661 --> 00:22:16,301 but better than both is a brave ally of integrity. 262 00:22:17,621 --> 00:22:19,541 What makes you ask such questions? 263 00:22:20,021 --> 00:22:23,061 Then I would like you to know, father, that I am a Muslim. 264 00:22:23,141 --> 00:22:25,981 I follow Muhammad and I disbelieve in Al-Lat and Al-Uzza. 265 00:22:27,581 --> 00:22:29,861 Have you done that, Abdullah? 266 00:22:32,581 --> 00:22:34,101 I will kill you. 267 00:22:34,581 --> 00:22:36,181 No, you won't, father. 268 00:22:36,741 --> 00:22:40,341 If you do, you won't get a penny from me. 269 00:22:41,061 --> 00:22:43,461 What is with God is better and longer lasting. 270 00:22:43,541 --> 00:22:46,301 I will put your legs in chains; I will indeed. 271 00:22:46,381 --> 00:22:47,861 Don't try, father. 272 00:22:47,941 --> 00:22:50,661 You won't succeed. You will have to bear its stigma. 273 00:22:51,301 --> 00:22:58,181 Be gone with you, deserter. I disown you. 274 00:22:58,301 --> 00:23:01,541 You are no longer my son. Get out! 275 00:23:02,381 --> 00:23:03,941 Abu Jandal! 276 00:23:05,741 --> 00:23:11,621 If you have disowned him, I haven't. He is my brother. 277 00:23:11,741 --> 00:23:13,141 How about you? 278 00:23:13,541 --> 00:23:16,061 Has he tricked you to join him in his religion? 279 00:23:17,541 --> 00:23:18,941 You haven't answered. 280 00:23:19,461 --> 00:23:21,021 Father, wouldn't it have been better that you ask me 281 00:23:21,101 --> 00:23:23,741 whether I accepted his religion by personal choice, 282 00:23:23,821 --> 00:23:26,221 instead of saying that he tricked me to join him. 283 00:23:26,301 --> 00:23:28,221 Am I a lackey who has no opinion? 284 00:23:28,301 --> 00:23:31,101 Had I been, I would rather obey my father. 285 00:23:31,541 --> 00:23:34,261 True. It is better that you obey your father. 286 00:23:34,341 --> 00:23:36,981 Do I have to obey one of you? What about myself? 287 00:23:37,061 --> 00:23:40,021 Yes, where do you stand? 288 00:23:41,061 --> 00:23:43,661 I haven't become a Muslim; yet! 289 00:23:44,261 --> 00:23:47,741 What have you said? Not yet? 290 00:23:49,781 --> 00:23:52,421 Who can vow for the future, father? 291 00:23:52,901 --> 00:23:56,941 Who knows; you may change your mind one day and accept Islam. 292 00:23:57,341 --> 00:23:59,861 Do not say today what you may regret tomorrow. 293 00:23:59,941 --> 00:24:03,181 I won't change, even if the whole of Quraysh changes. 294 00:24:04,461 --> 00:24:07,261 If I have nothing other than tree branches, 295 00:24:07,581 --> 00:24:10,181 I will still use that to fight Muhammad and his companions, 296 00:24:10,261 --> 00:24:12,541 in defence of my religion and my gods. 297 00:24:17,221 --> 00:24:19,341 Good morning, Abu Al-Waleed. 298 00:24:19,981 --> 00:24:22,101 Good morning to you, Umar. 299 00:24:22,181 --> 00:24:23,781 What makes you in haste? 300 00:24:25,261 --> 00:24:28,941 Have you heard that Muhammad has permitted his companions 301 00:24:29,021 --> 00:24:30,981 to immigrate to Abyssinia? 302 00:24:33,181 --> 00:24:35,221 What could he be after? 303 00:24:42,821 --> 00:24:44,701 Won't you get fed up, woman? 304 00:24:44,781 --> 00:24:45,741 How many times have I said to you... 305 00:24:45,821 --> 00:24:48,261 Yes, until you get your freedom. 306 00:24:50,341 --> 00:24:53,021 Have you never thought of me, Wahshi? 307 00:24:53,781 --> 00:24:55,461 What about me? Huh! 308 00:24:56,101 --> 00:25:01,221 Suppose you won't get your freedom for ten years, or twenty: 309 00:25:02,341 --> 00:25:04,141 where will I be then? 310 00:25:05,861 --> 00:25:08,141 Nay, suppose you get it within a year. 311 00:25:09,461 --> 00:25:10,781 What about me? 312 00:25:12,301 --> 00:25:14,621 Will my master free me for your sake? 313 00:25:14,701 --> 00:25:16,421 We take things as they come. 314 00:25:18,061 --> 00:25:22,221 All I know now is that a person who doesn't own his soul 315 00:25:22,301 --> 00:25:24,501 cannot give it to another. 316 00:25:24,941 --> 00:25:29,301 As for me, I am happy to have you in whichever state you are. 317 00:25:34,261 --> 00:25:40,461 Wahshi, here is something which is the sole property of its bearer. 318 00:25:40,981 --> 00:25:42,941 He does with it whatever he wants: 319 00:25:43,941 --> 00:25:48,461 he loves whomever he wants and hates whomever he wants. 320 00:25:49,661 --> 00:25:51,381 Look at you: 321 00:25:52,181 --> 00:25:54,941 isn't it by your heart that you hate your slavery? 322 00:25:55,501 --> 00:25:57,701 Did you take your master's permission? 323 00:26:07,981 --> 00:26:11,461 If you can hate your lot with your heart, 324 00:26:12,461 --> 00:26:15,301 you can love whomever you want with it. 325 00:26:16,141 --> 00:26:20,221 This is what Bilal understood while you still can't. 326 00:26:20,301 --> 00:26:21,861 Don't mention him to me. 327 00:26:54,901 --> 00:26:56,781 It is then as people say: 328 00:26:56,861 --> 00:26:59,621 Muhammad has grieved for what is happening to his companions 329 00:26:59,701 --> 00:27:01,741 and the suffering of those who are vulnerable, 330 00:27:01,821 --> 00:27:05,181 while he is spared, protected by the Hashimite clan. 331 00:27:05,261 --> 00:27:08,221 He, therefore, has permitted anyone who so wishes to immigrate to Abyssinia. 332 00:27:08,301 --> 00:27:10,701 Well, what makes you leave, 333 00:27:10,781 --> 00:27:12,661 when your father is the chief of his people 334 00:27:12,741 --> 00:27:15,021 and he has protected you, sparing you all harm? 335 00:27:15,101 --> 00:27:17,141 It is harmful, father, that I see my companions suffering 336 00:27:17,221 --> 00:27:19,261 and I cannot do anything to defend them. 337 00:27:20,461 --> 00:27:24,181 It is harmful, father, to live with you with mutual dislike. 338 00:27:24,661 --> 00:27:26,621 We are among you but don't belong to you. 339 00:27:27,581 --> 00:27:30,461 It is harmful, father, that I see my father heading for hell 340 00:27:30,821 --> 00:27:32,981 and cannot do anything to save him from it. 341 00:27:34,021 --> 00:27:36,941 Besides, I do not wish to embarrass you further among your people 342 00:27:37,021 --> 00:27:39,101 who shame you for protecting me. 343 00:27:39,181 --> 00:27:41,981 Just as they shame me when you are with us, 344 00:27:42,061 --> 00:27:44,661 they will still shame me after your departure. 345 00:27:45,101 --> 00:27:46,421 How is that? 346 00:27:46,501 --> 00:27:52,541 They will say, Utbah Ibn Rabeeah, the chief of his people, 347 00:27:52,621 --> 00:27:54,261 has not been able to protect his son. 348 00:27:54,341 --> 00:27:57,581 He let him head to a country where he may well be lost and humiliated. 349 00:27:57,661 --> 00:27:59,861 Or, as God's messenger has described it: a land where truth prevails, 350 00:28:00,421 --> 00:28:02,501 ruled by a king who ensures justice to all. 351 00:28:04,061 --> 00:28:07,101 Has he truly said this of Abyssinia and Negus? 352 00:28:49,981 --> 00:28:52,861 Muhammad has taken a share of our own children. 353 00:28:53,381 --> 00:28:58,621 Yes, indeed, he has. In doing so, he has split our hearts 354 00:28:59,701 --> 00:29:01,821 so that we are compassionate to them with half our hearts 355 00:29:03,221 --> 00:29:05,501 and we quarrel with them with the other half. 356 00:29:20,341 --> 00:29:25,021 They have chosen to leave us, and this is certainly what we love. 357 00:29:25,101 --> 00:29:29,381 It is indeed "good riddance". 358 00:29:30,661 --> 00:29:33,901 I wish none of them would remain with us. 359 00:29:33,981 --> 00:29:36,941 If they do, they will spare us having to torture them and spare us their disgrace. 360 00:29:37,021 --> 00:29:39,741 They won't tempt away anyone who continues to follow our religion. 361 00:29:40,421 --> 00:29:42,261 Is there any more hateful sight 362 00:29:42,381 --> 00:29:47,061 than seeing them offering their prayers among us? 363 00:29:48,381 --> 00:29:50,501 Let them go to Abyssinia. 364 00:29:51,141 --> 00:29:54,181 By Al-Lat, they will go to their death, 365 00:29:54,261 --> 00:29:55,701 even though they don't perceive it. 366 00:29:56,861 --> 00:29:58,941 How is that, Abu Al-Hakam? 367 00:30:00,501 --> 00:30:03,261 The king and the people of Abyssinia 368 00:30:03,341 --> 00:30:05,621 have a religion which is different from that of Muhammad. 369 00:30:05,701 --> 00:30:08,781 They have a holy book, churches and cardinals. 370 00:30:09,181 --> 00:30:11,821 If we can't tolerate the religion of these people 371 00:30:11,901 --> 00:30:13,821 when they are our own blood relations, 372 00:30:13,901 --> 00:30:15,981 will the Abyssinians tolerate them? 373 00:30:16,061 --> 00:30:17,701 No, they will not 374 00:30:17,781 --> 00:30:19,461 Will you, Abu Al-Hakam, be pleased 375 00:30:19,541 --> 00:30:23,221 if your own people are killed by strangers in a far away land? 376 00:30:23,301 --> 00:30:29,861 Should this happen, it will be to our everlasting disgrace. 377 00:30:29,941 --> 00:30:33,301 There is nothing shameful when a person is killed by his own people, 378 00:30:33,381 --> 00:30:36,781 but when he is killed by strangers, then that is disgraceful. 379 00:30:36,861 --> 00:30:38,421 Even if they have deserted our religion? 380 00:30:38,501 --> 00:30:43,341 Even then. We better keep them, for better or worse. 381 00:30:49,901 --> 00:30:52,061 We heard nothing from you today. 382 00:30:52,141 --> 00:30:55,101 - I had nothing to say. - You are not your usual self. 383 00:30:55,181 --> 00:30:57,741 Have you known a situation like the one we are in? 384 00:30:57,821 --> 00:31:01,261 The best that can be said of us is that we know what we don't want. 385 00:31:01,341 --> 00:31:03,181 Muhammad, on the other hand, takes action 386 00:31:03,261 --> 00:31:06,061 and leaves us confused, disagreeing on what to do. 387 00:31:07,061 --> 00:31:09,781 We know that we don't want Muhammad's religion, 388 00:31:09,861 --> 00:31:11,941 but we don't know what to do. 389 00:31:12,381 --> 00:31:15,501 We increased the persecution of our people and their numbers increased. 390 00:31:15,581 --> 00:31:18,861 Their weak firmly resisted us and our strong ones weakened. 391 00:31:19,221 --> 00:31:22,061 Should we prevent them from immigrating to Abyssinia? 392 00:31:22,741 --> 00:31:25,341 Why, when we would love to see them disappear? 393 00:31:25,421 --> 00:31:27,101 Should we let them go? 394 00:31:27,821 --> 00:31:31,341 Then the Arabs will be sympathetic to them and shame us on their account. 395 00:31:32,301 --> 00:31:34,781 Do we wish them to perish in Abyssinia? 396 00:31:35,621 --> 00:31:39,701 Then people will say that we have sacrificed our own children, 397 00:31:39,781 --> 00:31:42,981 leaving them to die in a far away land where they were humiliated. 398 00:31:43,981 --> 00:31:46,541 Do we hope that Negus will be kind to them? 399 00:31:47,301 --> 00:31:50,901 Then the Arabs will say that we have terrified our own sons 400 00:31:50,981 --> 00:31:52,821 while strangers provided them with security. 401 00:31:52,901 --> 00:31:55,101 Besides, if they enjoy security there, 402 00:31:55,181 --> 00:31:57,661 they will have taken their faith to a peaceful place. 403 00:31:58,221 --> 00:32:01,501 They will advocate it so that it wins followers among Arabs and non-Arabs, 404 00:32:02,981 --> 00:32:09,221 while it used to be confined here in this city, between these two mountains. 405 00:32:10,301 --> 00:32:13,341 By Al-Lat, Muhammad has only sent them there for this purpose. 406 00:32:13,821 --> 00:32:15,381 You are right, Umar... 407 00:32:16,381 --> 00:32:18,581 If they live in peace there and their numbers increase, 408 00:32:18,661 --> 00:32:21,181 they will be the reserves for his message. 409 00:32:21,981 --> 00:32:24,501 If he has to fight here against us or against other Arabs, 410 00:32:24,581 --> 00:32:26,661 and we kill many of his companions, 411 00:32:26,741 --> 00:32:30,421 the ones in Abyssinia will be safe, giving him support. 412 00:32:30,501 --> 00:32:32,301 His message will then move on. 413 00:32:33,421 --> 00:32:36,901 Just like a wise commander would hold back some of his troops in reserve. 414 00:32:36,981 --> 00:32:40,701 If the enemy puts a hard fight, tiring out his front forces, 415 00:32:40,781 --> 00:32:43,021 he can call on those in the back who have retained their strength. 416 00:32:43,901 --> 00:32:45,061 That's it. 417 00:32:45,141 --> 00:32:50,381 Do you see now how Muhammad is looking to the future and taking suitable measures, 418 00:32:50,861 --> 00:32:53,821 while our people don't look beyond their noses? 419 00:32:53,901 --> 00:32:56,101 They remain confused. 420 00:32:56,661 --> 00:32:58,261 I don't know what you are saying. 421 00:32:58,341 --> 00:33:00,221 Do you say all this about these people's immigration? 422 00:33:00,301 --> 00:33:03,701 All we know is that they are fleeing persecution. 423 00:33:03,781 --> 00:33:06,301 By Al-Lat, all you have done is to praise Muhammad's strategy 424 00:33:06,381 --> 00:33:08,141 and criticize your elders. 425 00:33:09,301 --> 00:33:10,941 You are half way to victory 426 00:33:11,021 --> 00:33:14,341 if you know your adversary better than you know yourself. 427 00:33:23,861 --> 00:33:25,221 Bilal! 428 00:33:31,381 --> 00:33:33,821 You have changed much, Bilal! 429 00:33:34,461 --> 00:33:37,101 - All praise is due to God. - Wait a moment! 430 00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:38,661 What's it? 431 00:33:40,741 --> 00:33:43,261 What's it with you, forgetting your friends. 432 00:33:43,981 --> 00:33:46,461 My friends are those who believe in God and His messenger. 433 00:33:50,221 --> 00:33:52,341 Your faith has benefited you, Bilal. 434 00:33:52,421 --> 00:33:54,781 From the very first moment. 435 00:33:55,221 --> 00:33:57,101 How does freedom feel, Bilal? 436 00:33:57,181 --> 00:33:59,941 Only a person who has faith can appreciate its sweet feeling. 437 00:34:00,301 --> 00:34:03,261 - This is not what I meant. - But it is what I mean. 438 00:34:03,341 --> 00:34:06,341 My feelings now are the same as when I first became a Muslim. 439 00:34:06,741 --> 00:34:08,661 It is something that starts here, Wahshi. 440 00:34:08,741 --> 00:34:10,541 It then travels to your organs. 441 00:34:10,621 --> 00:34:12,661 It is something that you choose by yourself. 442 00:34:12,741 --> 00:34:15,381 You make it yourself. No one else gives it to you. 443 00:34:15,461 --> 00:34:18,261 What brings you here now when you have no job on your hands? 444 00:34:18,341 --> 00:34:20,141 I call on anyone I meet to believe in God. 445 00:34:20,541 --> 00:34:22,941 You call on Arabs to believe in your religion? 446 00:34:23,021 --> 00:34:25,661 Isn't it enough for you to be safe from them, now that you are free? 447 00:34:25,741 --> 00:34:29,221 How would I show my gratitude to God for guiding me aright, 448 00:34:29,301 --> 00:34:31,941 unless I try to get others to have the same goodness I am enjoying? 449 00:34:32,861 --> 00:34:37,941 Bilal! This immigration to Abyssinia, the land of our forefathers: are... 450 00:34:38,021 --> 00:34:41,021 No, I am not immigrating. 451 00:34:41,101 --> 00:34:45,981 Why not? Arabs are immigrating, and you, an Abyssinian, stay here? 452 00:34:46,061 --> 00:34:49,501 No, I don't think you'll ever understand. 453 00:34:50,021 --> 00:34:53,061 My people are here... here, Wahshi. 454 00:34:54,261 --> 00:34:56,661 Islam has made me one of them: 455 00:34:56,741 --> 00:35:01,941 I share their faith, language, worries and aims. 456 00:35:02,021 --> 00:35:05,181 Here I live and here I die. 457 00:35:05,261 --> 00:35:08,861 Should Abyssinia try to invade the land of the Haram, the Arabs and the Muslims, 458 00:35:08,941 --> 00:35:12,181 I will be fighting alongside my Arab brothers as they never saw me fighting before. 459 00:35:13,901 --> 00:35:17,341 Perhaps it is as you say: I will never understand this. 460 00:35:28,621 --> 00:35:30,421 Is he intent on leaving? 461 00:35:31,141 --> 00:35:34,261 Why would he when I have neither beaten him up nor imprisoned him? 462 00:35:35,101 --> 00:35:36,781 I wish I had imprisoned him. 463 00:35:36,861 --> 00:35:39,781 He wouldn't have been able to immigrate. 464 00:35:40,341 --> 00:35:41,821 Let him go wherever he wants. 465 00:35:41,901 --> 00:35:46,381 I don't care if he is drowned or eaten by beasts. 466 00:35:48,821 --> 00:35:50,341 Abdullah! 467 00:35:55,581 --> 00:35:58,421 Do you really want to cross the desert on foot? 468 00:35:58,941 --> 00:36:01,861 I am meeting some of my brothers at Bani Amir's well. 469 00:36:01,941 --> 00:36:04,141 One of them will take me with him on his camel. 470 00:36:11,301 --> 00:36:14,501 - Take this. - I don't need it. 471 00:36:21,581 --> 00:36:22,981 Don't be silly! 472 00:36:24,901 --> 00:36:26,621 And how will you go back? 473 00:36:27,821 --> 00:36:29,581 I am not that weak. 474 00:36:30,541 --> 00:36:34,301 And then we are not yet out of the area of Makkah. 475 00:37:20,461 --> 00:37:27,221 "Abyssinia" 476 00:37:34,781 --> 00:37:37,941 How are you settling in among our people? 477 00:37:38,781 --> 00:37:41,741 We find your country exactly as God's messenger has described: 478 00:37:42,101 --> 00:37:46,181 a land where truth prevails, ruled by a king who ensures justice to all. 479 00:37:46,821 --> 00:37:48,421 Is that what he said? 480 00:37:49,461 --> 00:37:51,141 Yes, indeed. 481 00:37:51,861 --> 00:37:53,661 By God, I will not disappoint him. 482 00:37:54,381 --> 00:37:57,501 If you are short of anything, you let me know. 483 00:37:57,581 --> 00:38:00,821 My door is always open to you, 484 00:38:00,901 --> 00:38:02,941 as a group or as individuals. 485 00:38:04,781 --> 00:38:08,901 We are short of nothing, Sire... except... 486 00:38:15,341 --> 00:38:17,501 Except that we miss Makkah. 487 00:38:19,581 --> 00:38:22,621 After all that you have suffered there? 488 00:38:22,701 --> 00:38:25,941 Homeland is dear to everyone's heart, Sire. 489 00:38:26,341 --> 00:38:31,421 We would have much preferred that our people would believe, 490 00:38:31,501 --> 00:38:34,581 or at least leave us alone, and we stay among them. 491 00:38:34,941 --> 00:38:38,061 God's messenger has been given a message in their tongue. 492 00:38:38,141 --> 00:38:42,261 By God, he loves nothing better than that they should respond to God's guidance, 493 00:38:42,341 --> 00:38:43,981 but they remain set against it. 494 00:38:46,621 --> 00:38:48,661 Such are God's messengers. 495 00:38:49,301 --> 00:38:54,381 Each one of them struggles against his people. 496 00:38:54,461 --> 00:38:57,061 If he triumphs, they end up winners, 497 00:38:57,741 --> 00:39:02,501 and if they overcome him, their loss is great indeed. 498 00:39:04,142 --> 00:39:06,622 How beautifully you've put it, Sire. 499 00:39:08,341 --> 00:39:12,061 I wish we could do something for you 500 00:39:12,741 --> 00:39:15,941 to ease your longing to your homeland. 501 00:39:16,421 --> 00:39:20,661 But all I say is: patience. 502 00:39:28,981 --> 00:39:32,581 You are Utbah's son, as I have been informed? 503 00:39:34,181 --> 00:39:36,421 Do you know my father, Sire? 504 00:39:37,381 --> 00:39:42,261 Your business people have always been coming to our land to buy and sell. 505 00:39:42,341 --> 00:39:45,061 Some of them have visited me. 506 00:39:45,141 --> 00:39:50,061 I know Abu Sufyan, Al-Aas Ibn Wail 507 00:39:50,621 --> 00:39:53,021 and his son Amr Ibn Al-Aas, 508 00:39:53,101 --> 00:39:57,941 who is a bright young man of insight. 509 00:39:58,021 --> 00:40:01,221 I liked him and his company. 510 00:40:02,301 --> 00:40:07,381 I hoped he would stay with me. How is he doing? 511 00:40:27,541 --> 00:40:34,821 Now Abu Al-Hakam; now Abu Ali; Now Abu Abd Shams... 512 00:40:35,021 --> 00:40:36,821 Now, people of Quraysh. 513 00:40:36,901 --> 00:40:40,821 You know now that you were wrong about those immigrants to Abyssinia. 514 00:40:40,901 --> 00:40:44,021 By God, I gave you sound advice. 515 00:40:44,701 --> 00:40:47,061 Don't be too hard to us, Abu Al-Waleed. 516 00:40:47,501 --> 00:40:51,061 We never thought that Negus would welcome them. 517 00:40:51,141 --> 00:40:54,301 We thought that it would be only a question of time before they came back to us, 518 00:40:54,381 --> 00:40:56,781 feeling that there was no welcoming place for them. 519 00:40:56,861 --> 00:41:00,021 You wanted something, but found the reverse. 520 00:41:00,101 --> 00:41:04,901 Wherever you look, you see what displeases you. 521 00:41:07,381 --> 00:41:10,781 You are business people, not farmers. 522 00:41:11,301 --> 00:41:14,541 When anyone of you became a Muslim, 523 00:41:14,621 --> 00:41:17,061 you used to refuse to sell him things, 524 00:41:17,141 --> 00:41:22,941 telling him that he had to either revert to your religion or starve. 525 00:41:24,021 --> 00:41:28,501 Now the scales are beginning to turn against you. 526 00:41:28,581 --> 00:41:34,381 How would you feel if Makkah loses a sizeable section of its population 527 00:41:34,461 --> 00:41:36,821 who used to buy your goods? 528 00:41:39,141 --> 00:41:41,661 What a tidy situation: 529 00:41:41,741 --> 00:41:44,821 you used to make things hard for them refusing to sell them, 530 00:41:44,901 --> 00:41:48,741 now they are about to make things hard for you by not buying from you. 531 00:41:48,821 --> 00:41:53,941 What is worse is that we have considerable business activity with Abyssinia. 532 00:41:54,861 --> 00:41:59,061 My worst worry is that the king of Abyssinia may lean towards them. 533 00:41:59,141 --> 00:42:00,981 If they encourage him to take a stand against us, 534 00:42:01,061 --> 00:42:04,181 where would our business with Abyssinia be in this case? 535 00:42:07,901 --> 00:42:10,541 We are not used to blame one another. 536 00:42:10,621 --> 00:42:12,541 Wouldn't it be better to agree on something? 537 00:42:12,621 --> 00:42:13,661 In my view, your only option 538 00:42:13,741 --> 00:42:17,421 is that you reduce the pressure on Muhammad's followers. 539 00:42:17,501 --> 00:42:21,901 When our traders go to Abyssinia, 540 00:42:21,981 --> 00:42:23,821 some of us should reassure the immigrants, 541 00:42:23,902 --> 00:42:28,262 giving them what may encourage them to come back.