Torturing against Muslims Also another very bad guy was Abu Jahl.
One day Muhammad(s) was praying next to the Kabah.
Abu Jahl told another bad guy to bring some animal nasty parts.
When Muhammad (s) bowed down during his prayer, they threw all that nasty things on him and
started to laugh.
Then Muhammad (s)'s youngest daughter Fatima (pbuh) came to help him.
Abu Jahl could never stand it when the prophet would come to the kabbah to pray and would
always get very angry.
One day he decided to hold Muhammad (s)'s face on the ground during his prayer.
Some of his bad friends were waiting to see his evil action.
But after taking few steps he saw a big fire in front of him.
Abu Jahl became very scared and stepped back right away.
That miracle fire protected Muhammad (s) from the humiliation in front of the people.
Animal: What Abu Jahl used to do when someone became Muslim?
Abu Jahl was so bad, that if any powerful people accepted Islam, he became very mad
and used very bad words to insult them.
But if any poor people accepted Islam, he gave them a very bad physical punishment.
Another bad Quraish was Umaya.
Whenever he saw Muhammad (s), he started to say bad words to the prophet.
One day one of Umaya's friends was talking to Muhammad (s).
Umaya became very upset at his friend and ordered him to go to Muhammad (s) and spit
on the prophet’s face.
And they were so bad that his friend actually went up to the prophet and spat on the holy
prophet's face!
The bad people hurt the Muslims at that time mentally and physically.
At that time a black slave named Bilal (pbuh) accepted Islam with his whole heart but his
owner, Umayya, did not like that.
So he started to give a big punishment to Bilal (pbuh).
At first the bad Umayya tied a rope around Bilal (pbuh)'s neck and dragged him outside
with some help of bad street youngsters.
Then they took him to a sandy area on very hot sunny day.
The reason for that is because he wanted Bilal to suffer in the burning sun, and in the desert
it’s extremely hot.
They threw him to that very hot sand and put a very big rock on his chest.
All that time Bilal (pbuh) was saying again and again that, God is One, God is One.
With that terrible punishment he never lost his faith from Allah (swt).
So as a reward Allah (swt) sent Abu Bakr (pbuh) to save him.
At that time the rich Abu Bakr (pbuh) bought him from Umayya and let him go as a free man.
Animal: It was very sad that non believer used to punish the Muslim for their faith
to Islam.
Yes, it was very sad situation.
At that time, many new Muslims were terribly punished by the nonbelievers.
One a Sahaba of the prophet got a terrible punishment by his own uncle.
That bad uncle rolled up that Sahaba with a mat, and hung him over the fire.
Another Sahaba, Mus'ab (pbuh) was punished by his own mother.
That Sahaba came from a very rich family.
After Mus'ab became Muslim, his mom became very angry and stopped giving any food or
water to his own son.
Soon after a while she threw him out from the house, which made it very hard for him
to survive.
There was another Sahaba named Ammar, and his parents (pbut) were slaved.
They all accepted Islam but their owner was very bad and he did not like that they converted.
Since their owner was very bad, he teamed up with the bad Abu Jahl and bad up an evil
plan.
During the extreme hot and sunny day, their owner tied them up outside and placed a heavy
stone on top of them.
Every day, Abu Jahl forced them to say bad things about prophet Muhammad (s) and say
good things about their idols.
But they refused to say anything bad about Muhammad (s).
One day Ammar (pbuh)'s father died because of the extreme punishments that they were
giving him.
At the same time Ammar (pbuh)'s mother was very old.
One day Abu Jahl became very angry for her strong faith in Allah (swt).
So the bad Abu Jahl killed her with extreme pain.
Her name was Sumaya (pbuh) and she was the first Muslim women killed for Islam.
Animal: So, was she the first Muslim who was killed for Islam?
Yes and also she was a very good black women.
Then Abu Jahl started to give more painful punishments to Ammar (pbuh) day and night.
With the extreme pain that he was going through, one day during a horrible punishment, Ammar
(pbuh) accepted Abu Jahl order but in heart he had a very strong faith in Allah (swt)
and he did not mean what he said.
There was another rich women who also tortured her Muslim slave as well.
His name was Khabbab (pbuh), and since his faith in Islam was so strong, his owner decided
to punish him with a burning iron.
One day the bad people forced him to lie down in the burning coal.
In another situation, some of the non believers were extremely bad that one time they punished
a slave women by blinding her because of her faith to Allah (swt).
Later as a miracle Allah (swt) healed her eyes, so that she could see again.
Seeing that, the bad people started to say that it was magic done by Muhammad (s), which
was not true.
Another bad non believer tied his Muslim slave, Abu Fukaihah, and took off all his clothes.
Then they dragged him on a very rough rocky pathway, which took him from one place to
another.
Then the bad guys placed a big stone on that sahaba so he could not move at all.
After that horrible punishment, he became unconscious and lost all of his sense.
The non believers gave him that daily punishment, but he did not lose his faith in Allah (swt).
After seeing many of these sufferings, that the Muslim slaves at that time had to go through,
the prophet Muhammad became very sad.
Some of the rich Muslims decided to buy those Muslim slaves so that they could set them
free.
In that case, since Abu Bakar was very rich, he did a very good job of turning those Muslim
slaves free.
Animal: Where Muhammad (s) used to meet with other Muslims?
In those terrible times, Muslims needed a secret place for their meetings.
One of the great Sahaba Al-Arqam gave up his house for the Muslims.
It was next to as Safa Hill and it was very easy to enter or exit secretly because of
the narrow street by his house.
This was known as the house of AlArqam.
It became the first house of Islam and the first Islamic school with Muhammad (s)'s teachings.