Part 6 - Stories of Those Who Heard The Quran
Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu, All praise is due to Allah, you are joining me for the Proof that Islam is the Truth. And today I'm going to be talking to you about the stories about those people who heard the Quran. The age of Muhammad may God's peace & blessings be upon him was a time when Arabs were at the peak of their linguistic abilities. Indeed one of the finest poems ever composed in the Arabic language was done at the time of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam by a man who was conteprorious to the Prophet. His name was Labeid ibn Rabia. And his poem when it was recited at the market place at wuhaz caused the Arabs to prostrate before him in admiration. And when the same Labeid began to hear the verses of the Quran he embraced Islam & gave up poetry altogether. When he was once asked to recite some poetry he said: "What? Poetry? After the Quran?" Indeed many of the Arabs entered Islam just from hearing the Quran because they knew that it was conclusive proof of its divine origin. They knew no man could produce the like of the Quran & its eloquence.
You see the challenge of the Quran was not to produce, as some people might suppose an amazing piece of literature like Shakespeare or Shelly or Keats or Homer or any of these great literists. No. The challenge of the Quran was something much more fundamental. Because the Quran differed in its very structure. The very structure of the Quran was different from anything that had preceded it before it in the Arabic language.
You see, in the Arabic language poetry falls into 16 different beharr. The word "beharr" means "sea". Why? Because each poem moves according to a different rhythmic pattern. And then of course they have the speech of the Sufi sayers, & they have prose & they have rhymed prose & normal speech. So these are the forms of the Arabic language. Yet the Quran although it seemed to reflect some of those forms it was none of them, it was unique. It was not like anything the Arabs had ever heard before, it did not fit into any of those categories, yet at the same time it made sense, more than sense, it was the peak of eloquence. And this is what made the Quran inimitable.
And so the Arabs, the pagan Arabs who, when they heard this message of the Prophet Muhammad may God's peace & blessings be upon him, the message that they should give up the worship of all the created things. They should not worship idols, they should not worship people, they should not worship each other, rather they should pray to & worship only the one God. This was the message of Muhammad & this was the message of all of the Prophets.
When they heard this message many of them did not like what they were hearing. They started to rebel, mostly the rich & the powerful people, because in their mind it was challenging their self interest. The Kaaba was the centre of pilgrimage for all the people in Arabia. They used to come to the Kaaba & the tribe that was in charge of the sacred precincts around the masjid al Haraa, the sacred Mosque, the Kaaba, & its surroundings was known as Quraish. And they were the most respected tribe in Arabia at the time.
Indeed the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam, may God's peace & blessings be upon him himself was from the Quraish. The Quraish was a large tribe & the Prophet Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam was from beni Hashem which was a sub-tribe of the tribe of Quraish. However the Quraish collectively were in a state of despair about this message of the Prophet Muhammad. How can he make all the idols into one God? How can he make all of these into the worship of one God. They imagined that if this happen & the idols were removed & the Kaaba was only to worship one God who would come to the Kaaba? Who would come to Mecca? Who would perform pilgrimage? Actually really what they had in their mind was their own material self-interest, not truth, not the reality of whether Muhammad was a Prophet or not. This was not what they were interested in.
In fact one of the uncles of the Prophet Muhammad, he said: "Look, your tribe has looked after the pilgrims & our tribe looked after the pilgrims. Your tribe did this good action & our tribe did this good action. Now you say you are a Prophet, how can we compete with this? In other words he was admitting that his refusal to follow Islam was based purely upon his tribal allegiance. What a stumbling block to truth, what a disastrous path they were following. So, they got together: "What are we going to do? How are we going to combat this Quran, this amazing speech, that enticed, that enchanted its listeners?" So, Alkamar Ibn Abdul Manaf, he said in the gathering of the Quraish leaders: "Oh, Quraish, a new calamity has befall on you. When Muhammad was a young man, he was the most liked among you, the most truthful in speech & the most trustworthy, until when you saw the grey hairs on his temple.
He brought you this message. You said: "He is a sorcerer, he is a magician." But he is not. For we have seen such people & their spitting & their knots. You said: He was a suff sayer." But we have seen those people & their behaviour. And we have heard their rhymes. And you said: "He is a poet." But he is not a poet, for oh, we know every type of poetry. You said: "He was possessed." No but he is not possessed. We've seen the possessed people. And he shows no signs of their gasping & whispering & delirium. Oh men of Quraish, look to your affairs, for by Allah a serious thing has befall on you." Well the Quraish didn't know what to say. They tried all types of different things. They called the Prophet a suff sayer, they called him a magician, they called him a poet, they called him possessed. But none of these things was sticking. People didn't believe it because when they met the Prophet Muhammad they knew that he wasn't like any of those things. So what they decided was that they were going to tell the people: "The magic of his speech turned a man away from his father, wife, brother, family & tribe." This is what the said. And of course in a sense that was true.
In a sense the message that there is nothing worthy of worship except the one God was something very revolutionary, very different. It was something that separated the people who worshiped the one God from the people who worshiped others than the one God. So this is their claim, this is what they decided to say: "The magic of his speech turned a man away from his father, his brother, his wife, his family." And then Abu Lahab, Abu Lahab was one of the uncles of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam, & Abu Lahab would wait on the roadways into Mekka in the Hajj season. Now the Hajj is the pilgrimage, the annual pilgrimage & that Hajj is going on for thousands of years, even before the time of the Prophet Muhammad the Arabs used to make the Hajj to Mecca. But the Hajj, it became corrupted with idol worship over the years. But the people still used to come from all over Arabia for the Hajj & this was the source of the wealth of the Quraish that of course they were so frightened that the Message of Islam was going to destroy it. I mean as a side point look how many people are going to Mecca today, they didn't suffer because of it, did they? Anyway, he went, Abu Lahab & he used to go & warn people, he used to say: "Watch out. Be careful of this man Muhammad. Well, he is my nephew, I know, don't listen to him. He's got this speech that if you listen to it, if you, even if you listen to it you'll be fallen under its spell."
Now there was a man. His name was Tufayl ibn Amr. Now Tufayl was the chief of the Douse tribe. He was the chief of the whole tribe. And he himself was a very distinguished poet. So he was an important man in society, the chief of this tribe, he was a poet & he was on his way to Hajj & as he arrived in Mecca he was accosted by one of these Meccans telling him all these stories, warning him, said: "Muhammad this, Muhammad that. Watch out for this man! He is so dangerous. You have to watch out for him." So this is what they were saying.
As I mentioned earlier, today we are talking about the stories of those people who heard the Quran & how it influenced them & affected them. And today we are talking about Tufayl ibn Amr, the chief of the Douse tribe. He was on his way to make Hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca & the Quraish, the leaders of the Quraish were waiting for him. They were waiting telling the people: "Don't listen to Muhammad. His magic of his speech is going to make you go mad & turn you away from everything that you know & you love. So this is his story. He says: "I approach Mecca." As soon as the Quraish leaders saw me they came up to me & gave me a most hearty welcome & accommodated me in a grand house, sure knew how to look after people. The leaders & notables then gathered & said: "Oh, Tufayl, you have come to our town & this man - he claims he is a Prophet - has ruined our authority." Notice: "He's ruined our authority". "And shattered our community. We are afraid that he would succeed in undermining you & your authority & your community just as he has done with us. Don't speak to the man. On no account listen to anything he has to say. He has the speech of a wizard causing division between father & son, between brother & brother, between husband & wife. And they kept on telling me the most fantastic stories & scared me by recounting tales of his incredible deeds.
I made up my mind then not to approach this man or speak to him or listen to anything he had to say. The following morning I went to the place of worship, I went to the Kaaba & made Towaf around the Kaaba as an act of worship to the idols that we made pilgrimage to & glorified. I put cotton in my ears out of fear that something of the speech of Muhammad might affect me. As soon as I entered the place of worship I saw him standing near the Kaaba." He saw the Prophet Muhammad standing near the Kaaba. "He was praying in a fashion which was different from our prayer. His whole manner of worship was different. The scene captivated me. His worship made me tremble & I felt drawn to him despite myself until I was quite close to him. Not withstanding the precaution I had taken God willed that some of what he was saying reached my hearing & I said to myself: "What are you doing to fail? You are a perceptive poet. You can distinguish between the good & the bad in the poetry. What prevents you from listening to what this man is saying? If what comes from him is good - accept it. And if it's bad - reject it."
I remained there until the Prophet left for his home. I followed him & he entered his home & I entered also. And I said: "Oh, Muhammad, your people have said certain things about you to me. By God they kept frightening me with these things & keeping away from your message until I blocked my ears to keep out your words. Despite this God caused me to hear something of it & I found it good. So tell me more about your mission." The Prophet Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam told Tufayl about the mission & Tufayl said: "And then he recited to me sura Al Falaq." And he said: "I swear by God I have never heard such beautiful words before. I had never heard such beautiful words before. Neither was a more noble mission ever described to me. Thereupon I stretched out my hand to him in allegiance & testified that there was none worthy of worship except the one God & that Muhammad was truly the Messenger of God. And that's how I enetered the religion of Islam."
Even the leaders of Quraish were unable to desist themselves from hearing the Quran. Tufayl heard the Quran & as I said: he heard it & he became a Muslim. But actually even the leaders of Quraish, they were unable to desist & to resist, in fact according to the Syra or the biography of ibn Isha. He mentions one incident when Abu Sufia was one of the leaders of the Quraish, & Abu Jahal & Abu Ahnas, they sneaked out of their houses in the night to listen to the Prophet reciting the Quran, hiding in their places until dawn. They sneaked out of them & they stayed listening to the Quran until the dawn, hiding. And on the way home they bumped into each other & they reproached one another saying: "Don't you ever do that again. For if one of the weak-minded fools sees you it would arouse suspicion in their minds. So they all promised. But this happened three nights in a row. Three nights in a row they snuck out to listen to the Prophet reciting the Quran, & again they bumped into each other. Until they took a totally solemn oath, they swore that they would never do it again.
This is the question, my dear listeners, that I want you to put to yourself: How is it possible from unlettered & unlearned man, not versed in poetry to be able to produce a work of unrivalled eloquence & perfect rhetoric so that even the assembled experts & masters of all the forms of poetry & the Arabic language were unable to produce the like of its smallest chapter? Indeed they chose to fight the Prophet rather than meet this challenge. The flower of the nobility were killed, the trade & reputation destroyed. How could they chose this than count the verses of the Quran? Let us look at another story.
This is the story of Omar ibn Al Hattab. He became one of the strongest defenders of Islam, but before that he was one of the most violent enemies against the Muslims. He tool it upon himself to physically abuse & attack the Muslims. And things became so bad for the Muslims that they were forced to flee. And this was something unheard of. That people should flee their own tribes, that they should flee their own people because the Arabian society was held together by tribalism. But the Muslims were fleeing their own tribes. And they fled to go & live in Abyssinia.
When this happened Omar really began to think about things, & he was really unhappy about it. And the more he thought about it - the more unhappy he got. Until one day he decided: I'm going to kill Muhammad. I've had enough. He took his sword & he was on his way to kill the Prophet Muhammad. But on the way he met one of the people who had become Muslim secretly. And he said: "Where are you going Omar with your sword drawn like that?" He said: "I'm on my way to kill Muhammad." So he started to think: "What can I do. And then he remembered that in fact the sister of Omar had already become Muslim. He said: "You know what, before you deal with Muhammad, may be you should deal with your own family first?" He said: "What do you mean?" He said: "Your sister. She has become Muslim." So Omar was so infuriated, he was so mad! He changed direction, still with his sword drawn he headed off to his sister's house.
He arrived. And when he got to the door, he heard a noise he had not heard before. He smashed down the door & there he found his sister & her husband reading something. She jumped up & he hit his sister & she fell on the floor & started to bleed. The sister of Omar said: "Ok. I have become Muslim. Do what you like with me. Kill me. I don't care. I have become Muslim, so what?" And when Omar saw his sister lying there, bleeding & so vigorous & defending herself & not even afraid to die he became, he calmed down. He said: "My sister, what is that that you are reading?" She said: "They are the verses of the Quran. The speech of God. The words of Allah." He said: "Let me see it." She said: "No. Not until you wash yourself first." So she made Omar wash his hands, so he could not touch the paper of the Quran without washing himself. And then he sat down & he began to read. And as he read, & as he read & as he read the Quran began to enter his heart. He put the Quran down & then he went off.
He went to the place where the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam was. "Where is Muhammad?" - he said. The people were saying: "Muhammad, it is Omar, he has come." the Prophet said: "Let him in." Omar came. He said: "Oh, Muhammad, I testify & bear witness that there is nothing worthy of worship except the one God Allah & I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah." And this is how one of the strongest & most vigorous opponents of Islam, Omar, became one of the most strongest & vigorous defenders of Islam. And he is famous until today for his justice & for his piety & for his standing up for the truth. It's another story of another person who embraced Islam just from hearing the beautiful words of the Quran. How much more do you need in order to be convinced that Islam is the truth? You need to hear more stuff? Well there is more. Join us in our next episode for more amazing evidences of the divine origin of the Quran & for the proof that Islam is the truth. Until then, Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu.
You see the challenge of the Quran was not to produce, as some people might suppose an amazing piece of literature like Shakespeare or Shelly or Keats or Homer or any of these great literists. No. The challenge of the Quran was something much more fundamental. Because the Quran differed in its very structure. The very structure of the Quran was different from anything that had preceded it before it in the Arabic language.
You see, in the Arabic language poetry falls into 16 different beharr. The word "beharr" means "sea". Why? Because each poem moves according to a different rhythmic pattern. And then of course they have the speech of the Sufi sayers, & they have prose & they have rhymed prose & normal speech. So these are the forms of the Arabic language. Yet the Quran although it seemed to reflect some of those forms it was none of them, it was unique. It was not like anything the Arabs had ever heard before, it did not fit into any of those categories, yet at the same time it made sense, more than sense, it was the peak of eloquence. And this is what made the Quran inimitable.
And so the Arabs, the pagan Arabs who, when they heard this message of the Prophet Muhammad may God's peace & blessings be upon him, the message that they should give up the worship of all the created things. They should not worship idols, they should not worship people, they should not worship each other, rather they should pray to & worship only the one God. This was the message of Muhammad & this was the message of all of the Prophets.
When they heard this message many of them did not like what they were hearing. They started to rebel, mostly the rich & the powerful people, because in their mind it was challenging their self interest. The Kaaba was the centre of pilgrimage for all the people in Arabia. They used to come to the Kaaba & the tribe that was in charge of the sacred precincts around the masjid al Haraa, the sacred Mosque, the Kaaba, & its surroundings was known as Quraish. And they were the most respected tribe in Arabia at the time.
Indeed the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam, may God's peace & blessings be upon him himself was from the Quraish. The Quraish was a large tribe & the Prophet Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam was from beni Hashem which was a sub-tribe of the tribe of Quraish. However the Quraish collectively were in a state of despair about this message of the Prophet Muhammad. How can he make all the idols into one God? How can he make all of these into the worship of one God. They imagined that if this happen & the idols were removed & the Kaaba was only to worship one God who would come to the Kaaba? Who would come to Mecca? Who would perform pilgrimage? Actually really what they had in their mind was their own material self-interest, not truth, not the reality of whether Muhammad was a Prophet or not. This was not what they were interested in.
In fact one of the uncles of the Prophet Muhammad, he said: "Look, your tribe has looked after the pilgrims & our tribe looked after the pilgrims. Your tribe did this good action & our tribe did this good action. Now you say you are a Prophet, how can we compete with this? In other words he was admitting that his refusal to follow Islam was based purely upon his tribal allegiance. What a stumbling block to truth, what a disastrous path they were following. So, they got together: "What are we going to do? How are we going to combat this Quran, this amazing speech, that enticed, that enchanted its listeners?" So, Alkamar Ibn Abdul Manaf, he said in the gathering of the Quraish leaders: "Oh, Quraish, a new calamity has befall on you. When Muhammad was a young man, he was the most liked among you, the most truthful in speech & the most trustworthy, until when you saw the grey hairs on his temple.
He brought you this message. You said: "He is a sorcerer, he is a magician." But he is not. For we have seen such people & their spitting & their knots. You said: He was a suff sayer." But we have seen those people & their behaviour. And we have heard their rhymes. And you said: "He is a poet." But he is not a poet, for oh, we know every type of poetry. You said: "He was possessed." No but he is not possessed. We've seen the possessed people. And he shows no signs of their gasping & whispering & delirium. Oh men of Quraish, look to your affairs, for by Allah a serious thing has befall on you." Well the Quraish didn't know what to say. They tried all types of different things. They called the Prophet a suff sayer, they called him a magician, they called him a poet, they called him possessed. But none of these things was sticking. People didn't believe it because when they met the Prophet Muhammad they knew that he wasn't like any of those things. So what they decided was that they were going to tell the people: "The magic of his speech turned a man away from his father, wife, brother, family & tribe." This is what the said. And of course in a sense that was true.
In a sense the message that there is nothing worthy of worship except the one God was something very revolutionary, very different. It was something that separated the people who worshiped the one God from the people who worshiped others than the one God. So this is their claim, this is what they decided to say: "The magic of his speech turned a man away from his father, his brother, his wife, his family." And then Abu Lahab, Abu Lahab was one of the uncles of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam, & Abu Lahab would wait on the roadways into Mekka in the Hajj season. Now the Hajj is the pilgrimage, the annual pilgrimage & that Hajj is going on for thousands of years, even before the time of the Prophet Muhammad the Arabs used to make the Hajj to Mecca. But the Hajj, it became corrupted with idol worship over the years. But the people still used to come from all over Arabia for the Hajj & this was the source of the wealth of the Quraish that of course they were so frightened that the Message of Islam was going to destroy it. I mean as a side point look how many people are going to Mecca today, they didn't suffer because of it, did they? Anyway, he went, Abu Lahab & he used to go & warn people, he used to say: "Watch out. Be careful of this man Muhammad. Well, he is my nephew, I know, don't listen to him. He's got this speech that if you listen to it, if you, even if you listen to it you'll be fallen under its spell."
Now there was a man. His name was Tufayl ibn Amr. Now Tufayl was the chief of the Douse tribe. He was the chief of the whole tribe. And he himself was a very distinguished poet. So he was an important man in society, the chief of this tribe, he was a poet & he was on his way to Hajj & as he arrived in Mecca he was accosted by one of these Meccans telling him all these stories, warning him, said: "Muhammad this, Muhammad that. Watch out for this man! He is so dangerous. You have to watch out for him." So this is what they were saying.
As I mentioned earlier, today we are talking about the stories of those people who heard the Quran & how it influenced them & affected them. And today we are talking about Tufayl ibn Amr, the chief of the Douse tribe. He was on his way to make Hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca & the Quraish, the leaders of the Quraish were waiting for him. They were waiting telling the people: "Don't listen to Muhammad. His magic of his speech is going to make you go mad & turn you away from everything that you know & you love. So this is his story. He says: "I approach Mecca." As soon as the Quraish leaders saw me they came up to me & gave me a most hearty welcome & accommodated me in a grand house, sure knew how to look after people. The leaders & notables then gathered & said: "Oh, Tufayl, you have come to our town & this man - he claims he is a Prophet - has ruined our authority." Notice: "He's ruined our authority". "And shattered our community. We are afraid that he would succeed in undermining you & your authority & your community just as he has done with us. Don't speak to the man. On no account listen to anything he has to say. He has the speech of a wizard causing division between father & son, between brother & brother, between husband & wife. And they kept on telling me the most fantastic stories & scared me by recounting tales of his incredible deeds.
I made up my mind then not to approach this man or speak to him or listen to anything he had to say. The following morning I went to the place of worship, I went to the Kaaba & made Towaf around the Kaaba as an act of worship to the idols that we made pilgrimage to & glorified. I put cotton in my ears out of fear that something of the speech of Muhammad might affect me. As soon as I entered the place of worship I saw him standing near the Kaaba." He saw the Prophet Muhammad standing near the Kaaba. "He was praying in a fashion which was different from our prayer. His whole manner of worship was different. The scene captivated me. His worship made me tremble & I felt drawn to him despite myself until I was quite close to him. Not withstanding the precaution I had taken God willed that some of what he was saying reached my hearing & I said to myself: "What are you doing to fail? You are a perceptive poet. You can distinguish between the good & the bad in the poetry. What prevents you from listening to what this man is saying? If what comes from him is good - accept it. And if it's bad - reject it."
I remained there until the Prophet left for his home. I followed him & he entered his home & I entered also. And I said: "Oh, Muhammad, your people have said certain things about you to me. By God they kept frightening me with these things & keeping away from your message until I blocked my ears to keep out your words. Despite this God caused me to hear something of it & I found it good. So tell me more about your mission." The Prophet Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam told Tufayl about the mission & Tufayl said: "And then he recited to me sura Al Falaq." And he said: "I swear by God I have never heard such beautiful words before. I had never heard such beautiful words before. Neither was a more noble mission ever described to me. Thereupon I stretched out my hand to him in allegiance & testified that there was none worthy of worship except the one God & that Muhammad was truly the Messenger of God. And that's how I enetered the religion of Islam."
Even the leaders of Quraish were unable to desist themselves from hearing the Quran. Tufayl heard the Quran & as I said: he heard it & he became a Muslim. But actually even the leaders of Quraish, they were unable to desist & to resist, in fact according to the Syra or the biography of ibn Isha. He mentions one incident when Abu Sufia was one of the leaders of the Quraish, & Abu Jahal & Abu Ahnas, they sneaked out of their houses in the night to listen to the Prophet reciting the Quran, hiding in their places until dawn. They sneaked out of them & they stayed listening to the Quran until the dawn, hiding. And on the way home they bumped into each other & they reproached one another saying: "Don't you ever do that again. For if one of the weak-minded fools sees you it would arouse suspicion in their minds. So they all promised. But this happened three nights in a row. Three nights in a row they snuck out to listen to the Prophet reciting the Quran, & again they bumped into each other. Until they took a totally solemn oath, they swore that they would never do it again.
This is the question, my dear listeners, that I want you to put to yourself: How is it possible from unlettered & unlearned man, not versed in poetry to be able to produce a work of unrivalled eloquence & perfect rhetoric so that even the assembled experts & masters of all the forms of poetry & the Arabic language were unable to produce the like of its smallest chapter? Indeed they chose to fight the Prophet rather than meet this challenge. The flower of the nobility were killed, the trade & reputation destroyed. How could they chose this than count the verses of the Quran? Let us look at another story.
This is the story of Omar ibn Al Hattab. He became one of the strongest defenders of Islam, but before that he was one of the most violent enemies against the Muslims. He tool it upon himself to physically abuse & attack the Muslims. And things became so bad for the Muslims that they were forced to flee. And this was something unheard of. That people should flee their own tribes, that they should flee their own people because the Arabian society was held together by tribalism. But the Muslims were fleeing their own tribes. And they fled to go & live in Abyssinia.
When this happened Omar really began to think about things, & he was really unhappy about it. And the more he thought about it - the more unhappy he got. Until one day he decided: I'm going to kill Muhammad. I've had enough. He took his sword & he was on his way to kill the Prophet Muhammad. But on the way he met one of the people who had become Muslim secretly. And he said: "Where are you going Omar with your sword drawn like that?" He said: "I'm on my way to kill Muhammad." So he started to think: "What can I do. And then he remembered that in fact the sister of Omar had already become Muslim. He said: "You know what, before you deal with Muhammad, may be you should deal with your own family first?" He said: "What do you mean?" He said: "Your sister. She has become Muslim." So Omar was so infuriated, he was so mad! He changed direction, still with his sword drawn he headed off to his sister's house.
He arrived. And when he got to the door, he heard a noise he had not heard before. He smashed down the door & there he found his sister & her husband reading something. She jumped up & he hit his sister & she fell on the floor & started to bleed. The sister of Omar said: "Ok. I have become Muslim. Do what you like with me. Kill me. I don't care. I have become Muslim, so what?" And when Omar saw his sister lying there, bleeding & so vigorous & defending herself & not even afraid to die he became, he calmed down. He said: "My sister, what is that that you are reading?" She said: "They are the verses of the Quran. The speech of God. The words of Allah." He said: "Let me see it." She said: "No. Not until you wash yourself first." So she made Omar wash his hands, so he could not touch the paper of the Quran without washing himself. And then he sat down & he began to read. And as he read, & as he read & as he read the Quran began to enter his heart. He put the Quran down & then he went off.
He went to the place where the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam was. "Where is Muhammad?" - he said. The people were saying: "Muhammad, it is Omar, he has come." the Prophet said: "Let him in." Omar came. He said: "Oh, Muhammad, I testify & bear witness that there is nothing worthy of worship except the one God Allah & I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah." And this is how one of the strongest & most vigorous opponents of Islam, Omar, became one of the most strongest & vigorous defenders of Islam. And he is famous until today for his justice & for his piety & for his standing up for the truth. It's another story of another person who embraced Islam just from hearing the beautiful words of the Quran. How much more do you need in order to be convinced that Islam is the truth? You need to hear more stuff? Well there is more. Join us in our next episode for more amazing evidences of the divine origin of the Quran & for the proof that Islam is the truth. Until then, Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu.