SHAMSHEER_BE_NEIYAAM Vol-1 (Part-V) By Anayat Ullah

 

SHAMSHEER_BE_NEIYAAM Vol-1 (Part-V) By Anayat Ullah

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The famous historian Ibn Hisham has written that the Holy Prophet (PBUH) himself challenged Rakana to wrestle, but the testimony given by another historian Ibn Al-Athir is correct that Rakana challenged the Messenger of God to wrestle and he said: my brother's son, you are a man of great heart and great courage. I also know that you hate lying but the courage and truthfulness of a man is known in the arena.

Come down to the arena against me. If you drop me, I will consider you a prophet sent by Allah. By Allah, I will accept your religion.  "But it will not be a wrestling match between a nephew and an uncle," the Prophet replied in response to Rakana's challenge. If you lose, don't forget your promise. "

The news spread like a desert wind in Makkah that Rakana would be the wrestler and Muhammad's wrestler and Johar would go and he would accept the religion of the winner. Children of Quraysh, men and women and Jews came in droves. The number of Muslims was very small. They came armed with swords and spears because they felt threatened that the Quraysh would kill the Messenger of God under the pretext of wrestling.

The most powerful and savage wrestler of Arabia, Rakana Abdizaid, came down against the Holy Prophet (PBUH). He looked at the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) sarcastically. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) kept his eyes fixed on Rakana with complete silence and contentment so that he would not play any game in ignorance. Rakana roamed around you as if a lion had roamed around its prey and now it will eat it. The crowd was making fun of Rasool Akram (S.A.W.W). The Muslims were silent. They were remembering Allah in their hearts. They were holding their swords in their hands.

What happened then? What did Rasool Akram (S.A.W.W) play? Now Al-Athir writes that he picked up Rakana and threw her on the ground. Rakana got up like a wounded lion and roared and attacked you. You played the same game again and beat him. When he got up, you hit him a third time. The heavy body cracked three times and the boat was unable to continue. Rakana bowed her head and left the arena.

The crowd was overwhelmed. Now the Muslims were shouting slogans with their swords and spears waving in the air. "Uncle Rakana!" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) shouted, "Fulfill your promise and declare here that you are a Muslim from today." Rakana flatly refused to accept Islam. "This power was not physical," Khalid said to himself while lying in the oasis. "It is a far cry to beat Rakana three times like this." No one could beat him.

The idea of ​​the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W) came to Khalid's mind. He knew the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) well, but now he felt as if he were someone else whom he had known since childhood. Khalid did not recognize you in the form you took after that. Khalid had stopped talking to you after claiming prophethood.

He wanted to join hands with you but he was not a wrestler like Rakana. He was a fighter who fought on the battlefield and led the fighters, but at that time the Muslims were not able to fight in the form of an army.

When the Muslims were able to fight in the form of an army and their first battle with the Quraysh took place, conditions arose for Khalid that he could not join the battle. He was very sorry for it. It was the battle of Badr in which 313 Mujahideen of Islam had defeated a thousand Quraysh. Khalid had lost his teeth but, on the day, when he was lying in an oasis, he realized that three How did one hundred and thirteen defeat a thousand? He asked the defeated Quraysh what was the virtue of the Muslims that had given them victory.

Khalid sat up and began to draw the positions of Badr's field on the sand with his finger, drawing the positions of the Quraysh and the Muslims and the tricks of both during the battle. His father had made him an expert in martial arts. As a child, he was taught horse riding. As a boy, he was able to control arrogant and stubborn horses. In his youth, he had become a prince.

He was also an expert in camel riding. Her father was her teacher. He made Khalid not only a soldier but also a ruler. Khalid liked war so much that he began to think of ways to fight and die and was able to lead the army in his youth.

He regretted not being able to join the battle of Badr and he kept thinking of ways to avenge, but now his thoughts were moving in another direction. A few days before his departure from Mecca, he was lost in the thought that the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W) Rakana had beaten the wrestler three times and in Badr he had defeated one thousand out of only three hundred and thirteen Mujahideen.

It was another force, but after the battle of Badr, the fire of revenge against the Muslims was burning in his heart.

Many Quraysh men were taken prisoner by the Muslims in the Battle of Badr. This was a shock to the Quraysh chiefs and it was Khalid who accepted its bad effect. He remembered that when the battle of Badr was being fought, no news was reaching Makkah that the battle had ended. The people of Makkah kept looking towards Badr that a rider would come running from there and announce the victory.

Finally, one day a camel rider was seen coming. People ran towards him. The rider tore his shirt according to Arab custom and was crying. This is what the messengers of bad news used to do. When he reached at the middle of peoples, he wept and said that the people of Quraysh had suffered a terrible defeat. The Quraysh were retreating.

Seventeen of those killed were from Khalid's tribe, the Banu Makhzoom, and Khalid had a close blood relationship with all of them. Abu Jahl was also killed. Khalid's brother, named Waleed, had become a prisoner of war. Abu Sufyan, the chief of the Quraysh chiefs, and his wife Hind were also present. "Tell me something about my father and my uncle, O Messenger!"

 Hind asked, "Your father has been killed by Utbah Ali and Hamza," said the messenger. "And your uncle Sheba has been killed by Hamza alone and your son has been killed by Hanzala Ali." “

Abu Sufyan's wife Hind first abused Ali and Hamza loudly and then said, "By Allah, I will avenge the blood of my father, my uncle and my son." There was silence on Abu Sufyan. Khalid's blood was flowing. Seventy Quraysh men were killed and the number of prisoners of war was the same.