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But Abbas Ibn Abdulmuttalib, the uncle of the Prophet, passing by, recognized me; he bent over and protected me from them. He told them: “Woe to you! Would you kill a man from the Ghifar tribe and your caravans must pass through their territory?” they then released me. I went back to the Prophet, upon whom be peace, and when he saw my condition, he said: “Didn't I tell you not to announce your acceptance of Islam?” “O Messenger of God”, I said: “It was a need I felt in my soul and I fulfilled it”,” “Go to your people!”, he commanded: “and tell them what you have seen and heard, Invite them to God, Maybe God will bring them good through you and reward you through them. And when you hear that I have come out in the open, then come to me”, “I left and went back to my people, my brother came up to me and asked: “What have you done?”, I told him that I had become a Muslim and that I believed in the truth of Muhammad's teachings”, and that I am not anymore linked to your religion, “In fact, I am also now a Muslim and a believer”, he said.
We both went to our mother then and invited her to Islam: “I do not have any dislike from your religion. I accept Islam also”, she said. From that day this family of believers went out tirelessly inviting the Ghifar to God and did not flinch from their purpose and eventually a large number became Muslims and the congregational Prayer was instituted among them;
Abu Dhar remained in his desert abode until after the Prophet had gone to Madinah and the battles of Badr, Uhud and Khandaq had been fought. At Madinah at last, he asked the Prophet to be in his personal service. The Prophet agreed and was pleased with his companionship and service. He sometimes showed preference to Abu Dharr above others and whenever he met him he would pat him and smile and show his happiness.
After the death of the Prophet, Abu Dhar could not bear to stay in Madinah because of both the sorrow and grief and the knowledge that there was to be no more of his guiding company, so he left for the Syrian desert and stayed there during the caliphate of Abu Bakr and Omar and during the caliphate of Othmane, he stayed in Damascus and saw the Muslims concern for the world and their consuming desire for luxury. He was saddened and repelled by this.
So he went to Madinah but unfortunately he was also critical of the people's pursuit of worldly goods and pleasures and they were critical in turn of his reviling them, Othmane therefore ordered that he should go to “Rabdhah”, a small village near Madinah. There he stayed far away from people, renouncing their preoccupation with worldly goods and holding on to the legacy of the Prophet and his companions in seeking the everlasting abode of the Hereafter in preference to this transitory world.
Once a man visited him and began looking at the contents of his house but found it quite bare. He asked Abu Dharr: “Where are your possessions?” “We have a house yonder (meaning the Hereafter),” said Abu Dhar, “to which we send the best of our possessions”, the man understood what he meant and said: “But you must have some possessions so long as you are in
this abode”, “The owner of this abode will not leave us in it,” replied Abu Dharr.
During the Caliphate of Othmane Ibn Affan, it was worth noting that the humiliated working masses and the helpless were suppressed under the heels of usurers, slave merchants, the wealthy, and aristocrats who were coming and going in the courts of Othman and Mu'awiyah the then ruler of Cham (Syria) as such, class differences and the concentration of wealth were revived during this reign.
As a matter of fact, the great Islam seemingly threatened with a great danger, was changed from the situation of the Prophet and the simplicity and unpretentiousness of both Caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar (R.A), who were living like average people or even like the poor and needy. Thousands of Dinars were spent to build a Green Palace for the Umayyad governor Mu’awiyah and a regime was established which was like a king's court.
Abu Dhar was an exceptional Companion of the Beloved Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) he was one of the most courageous and trustworthy Man that Islam had ever known it was him that gathered the humiliated and the needy around him, rallying them against usury, money-worshippers, gold gatherers and aristocrats, has now caused the Muslims of the world to listen to his heart-warming words and opinions; his fiery rhetoric and it was him that gathered the oppressed and wretched in the mosque, rightfully inciting them against the inhabitants of the Green Palace and against the regime of Mu’awiya loudly reciting the Quranic verse: “And there are those who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in the Way of God” Holy Quran (9:34), as well as warning the governor of Damascus against the blatant and extravagant public money expenditure regarding the green palace erection: “ O Mu’awiyah! If you are building this palace with your own money, it is extravagance, and if with the money of the people, it is treason”
Abu Dhar persisted in his simple and frugal life to the end, in the year 32 AH the self-denying and great Companion Abu Dhar passed away, no wonder that the Blessed Prophet, Peace and Blessing be upon him had said of him:
“The earth does not carry nor do the heavens cover a man more truthful and faithful than Abu Dhar”.
“Among the Believers are Men who have been true to their covenant with Allah, of them some have completed their vow to the extreme and some still wait, but they have never changed their determination in the least.”
Holy Quran 33-23.
But Abbas Ibn Abdulmuttalib, the uncle of the Prophet, passing by, recognized me; he bent over and protected me from them. He told them: “Woe to you! Would you kill a man from the Ghifar tribe and your caravans must pass through their territory?” they then released me. I went back to the Prophet, upon whom be peace, and when he saw my condition, he said: “Didn't I tell you not to announce your acceptance of Islam?” “O Messenger of God”, I said: “It was a need I felt in my soul and I fulfilled it”,” “Go to your people!”, he commanded: “and tell them what you have seen and heard, Invite them to God, Maybe God will bring them good through you and reward you through them. And when you hear that I have come out in the open, then come to me”, “I left and went back to my people, my brother came up to me and asked: “What have you done?”, I told him that I had become a Muslim and that I believed in the truth of Muhammad's teachings”, and that I am not anymore linked to your religion, “In fact, I am also now a Muslim and a believer”, he said.
We both went to our mother then and invited her to Islam: “I do not have any dislike from your religion. I accept Islam also”, she said. From that day this family of believers went out tirelessly inviting the Ghifar to God and did not flinch from their purpose and eventually a large number became Muslims and the congregational Prayer was instituted among them;
Abu Dhar remained in his desert abode until after the Prophet had gone to Madinah and the battles of Badr, Uhud and Khandaq had been fought. At Madinah at last, he asked the Prophet to be in his personal service. The Prophet agreed and was pleased with his companionship and service. He sometimes showed preference to Abu Dharr above others and whenever he met him he would pat him and smile and show his happiness.
After the death of the Prophet, Abu Dhar could not bear to stay in Madinah because of both the sorrow and grief and the knowledge that there was to be no more of his guiding company, so he left for the Syrian desert and stayed there during the caliphate of Abu Bakr and Omar and during the caliphate of Othmane, he stayed in Damascus and saw the Muslims concern for the world and their consuming desire for luxury. He was saddened and repelled by this.
So he went to Madinah but unfortunately he was also critical of the people's pursuit of worldly goods and pleasures and they were critical in turn of his reviling them, Othmane therefore ordered that he should go to “Rabdhah”, a small village near Madinah. There he stayed far away from people, renouncing their preoccupation with worldly goods and holding on to the legacy of the Prophet and his companions in seeking the everlasting abode of the Hereafter in preference to this transitory world.
Once a man visited him and began looking at the contents of his house but found it quite bare. He asked Abu Dharr: “Where are your possessions?” “We have a house yonder (meaning the Hereafter),” said Abu Dhar, “to which we send the best of our possessions”, the man understood what he meant and said: “But you must have some possessions so long as you are in
this abode”, “The owner of this abode will not leave us in it,” replied Abu Dharr.
During the Caliphate of Othmane Ibn Affan, it was worth noting that the humiliated working masses and the helpless were suppressed under the heels of usurers, slave merchants, the wealthy, and aristocrats who were coming and going in the courts of Othman and Mu'awiyah the then ruler of Cham (Syria) as such, class differences and the concentration of wealth were revived during this reign.
As a matter of fact, the great Islam seemingly threatened with a great danger, was changed from the situation of the Prophet and the simplicity and unpretentiousness of both Caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar (R.A), who were living like average people or even like the poor and needy. Thousands of Dinars were spent to build a Green Palace for the Umayyad governor Mu’awiyah and a regime was established which was like a king's court.
Abu Dhar was an exceptional Companion of the Beloved Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) he was one of the most courageous and trustworthy Man that Islam had ever known it was him that gathered the humiliated and the needy around him, rallying them against usury, money-worshippers, gold gatherers and aristocrats, has now caused the Muslims of the world to listen to his heart-warming words and opinions; his fiery rhetoric and it was him that gathered the oppressed and wretched in the mosque, rightfully inciting them against the inhabitants of the Green Palace and against the regime of Mu’awiya loudly reciting the Quranic verse: “And there are those who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in the Way of God” Holy Quran (9:34), as well as warning the governor of Damascus against the blatant and extravagant public money expenditure regarding the green palace erection: “ O Mu’awiyah! If you are building this palace with your own money, it is extravagance, and if with the money of the people, it is treason”
Abu Dhar persisted in his simple and frugal life to the end, in the year 32 AH the self-denying and great Companion Abu Dhar passed away, no wonder that the Blessed Prophet, Peace and Blessing be upon him had said of him:
“The earth does not carry nor do the heavens cover a man more truthful and faithful than Abu Dhar”.
“Among the Believers are Men who have been true to their covenant with Allah, of them some have completed their vow to the extreme and some still wait, but they have never changed their determination in the least.”
Holy Quran 33-23.