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....They
tortured Hazrat Habbab by making him lie down on a fire. And they
had Hazrat Bilal run through the streets of Mecca with a rope
around his neck, after they had tortured him for many days.
....The polytheists, who took Hazrat
Yâsir and his wife Hazrat Sumayya out of Mecca to the desert,
tortured them for many days, and then martyred them brutally.
....They also tortured their son
Hazrat Ammâr by burying him naked in the hot sand of the desert.
....When some Muslims, exhausted
from the tortures of the polytheists, asked the Prophet for permission
to emigrate, our beloved Prophet indicated the direction of Abyssinia
with his sacred finger and said, "Go there, the king of that country
(Ashame) is just." The first emigration in Muslim history was
to Abyssinia.
....While those Muslims, who had
left their country for Abyssinia to enjoy freedom of life, experienced
homesickness in a foreign land and the lack of the blessing of
the Prophet's conversation, those Muslims, who stayed in Mecca,
endured various kinds of oppression and tortures at the hands
of the polytheists. They did not compromise their beliefs and
carried out their ritual prayers in secret.
....Yet, just as any person who was
been saved from under the debris and who is relieved to experience
air and light does not want to find themselves under the debris
again, so being saved from a morass of association and unbelief,
the Muslims, who had received Islam and its spiritual enlightenment,
refused to go back to the swamp of association and unbelief. This
attitude, however, enraged the polytheists.
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