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Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest

I bear witness that there is no god but Allah

I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah

Come to Prayer

Come to Success

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest

There is no god but Allah

Fighting broke out between the Muslims and the army of the Quraish who came to invade Al-

Madiinah. The war raged fiercely and terribly while Bilaal was there attacking and moving about in the

first battle. Islam was plunged into the Battle of Badr, whose motto the Messenger (PBUH) ordered to

be, "One... One."

In this battle, the Quraish sacrificed their youth and all their noblemen to their destruction. Umayah

Ibn khalaf, who had been Bilaal's master and who used to torture him with deadly brutality, was about to

retreat from fighting. But his friend Uqbah Ibn Abu Mu`iit went to him when he heard the news of his

withdrawal, carrying a censer in his right hand. When he arrived he was sitting among his people. He

threw the censer between his hands and said to him, "O Abu `Ally, use this. You are one of the women."

But Umayah shouted at him saying, "May Allah make you and what you came with ugly!" And he did

not find a way out, so he went out to fight.

What other secrets does destiny conceal and unfold? `Uqbah Ibn Abu Mu'iit had been the greatest

supporter of Umayah in the torture of Bilaal and other weak Muslims. And on that day, he himself was

the one who urged him to go to the Battle of Badr where he would die, just as it would be the place

where Uqbah would die! Umayah had been one of the shirkers from war. Had it not been for what Uqbah

did to him, he would not have gone out fighting.

But Allah executes His command. So let Umayah go out, because there was an old account between

him and one of the slaves of Allah. It was time to settle it. The Judge never dies. As you owe, you shall

be owed to.

Indeed destiny would be very much pleased to mock the tyrants. Uqbah, whose provocations

Umayah used to listen to and follow his desire to torture the innocent believers, was the same person who

would lead Umayah to his death. By the hand of whom? By the hand of Bilaal himself and Bilaal alone!

The same hands that Umayah used to chain and whose owner he beat and tortured. Those very hands

were on that day, in the Battle of Badr, on a rendezvous that destiny had set the best time for, with the

torture of the Quraish who had humiliated the believers unjustly and aggressively. That is what really

happened.