Terroism

[Muslimah]

Insh a Allah I need to remind my brothers and sisters with a number of incidents and let us examine together their implication.


When the Messenger (Sallah Allah a`alyhee wa sallam) went with the group of Muslims on their first Omra, what instructions did he give to the men?? He told them to rap themselves up in the Ehram cloth from top leaving one shoulder exposed. He also told them, while doing the shuttling between Safa and Marwa to start running at a certain point. What was the objective? He wanted to send a message to Quraish, a threatening message, telling them how strong the Muslims are. He wanted to tell them that regardless of all the difficulties they went through they are still in an excellent health condition that makes them qualified enough to go into war when necessary..


When he was preparing to open Mecca, he commanded the army to stand at the borders for one whole day and night. But at night they were commanded that each one of them light a torch. The objective was to display the large number of the army as well as their strength. The message was well received by Quraish who were terrorized by the scene.


Do u all know O`bada IbneSamet?? Well he is one of the men described by Omar that he equals 1000 men. We need people like him these days.


When Omar sent Amr Ibn El A`as to open Egypt (by the way a historical fact that not many know about it so that those who scream that Islam spread by the sword, Omar was invited to rescue the Egyptian Christians who followed the Orthodox sect rather than Catholicism. At that time Egypt was under the Roman Catholic who seriously tortured and oppressed the Egyptian Copt. The Copts refused to leave their sect and follow Catholicism, while the Romans were putting pressure for this. The Copts sought Omar’s help, they knew that Muslims never force their religion on any one. That is how Omar prepared an army to open Egypt, Insh a Allah I will post more details on this issue). So Amr Ibn El A`as encountered difficulty with Egypt. He sent to Omar for support. Omar sent him an extra army led by Obada. Omar wrote to Amr telling him I sent u an army of so and so led by a man who equals a 1000 men Mash a Allah.


Obada was a dark black man. He followed Omar’s instructions of not initiating the first attack, he had to seek negotiations first. Mo`qawqas, the leader of Copt, offered to talk to the Muslims and asked them to sent a delegation. They selected a number of people and assigned O`bada to do the talking. The minute O`bada came in to Mo`qwqas, the latter was terrified by his appearance. He told the group take this black man off my face. The delegation told him, he is our leader and he is assigned to do the talking. M`oqwqas said how can u accept a black man to lead u. They answered we don’t go by this rule. The end result is that O`bada started talking. He told him, u became scared just by looking at me. Well rest assured that I left behind me a 1000 men who are just exactly like me. They fear nothing, they are not even keen on going back to their wives and children. If we win the battle then Alhamdulelah we are taking u as spoils, if we are defeated then we die and win martyrdom. He spoke with a firm courageous tone that sent a chilling, threatening message which obviously affected the moral of the Egyptian army standing to fight. Of course Allah granted them victory.


I don’t think I need to comment the sense is so clear…..