Postby SoMaLiSiZz » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:56 pm
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Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) had among his closest Companions Salman the Persian, Suhaib the Roman, and Bilal the Ethiopian. Two of the three Companions were ex-slaves who were liberated after embracing Islam, namely Salman and Bilal. Despite this, and in spite of the black complexion of Bilal, he was chosen by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as the first muezzin to prayer, a position coveted by many. As a matter of fact, senior Companions like Abu Bakr and `Umar used to call Bilal 'our master', and the Prophet himself used to say: 'Salman is a member of our family.'
the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to give the Muslims an important lesson. Thus when his Arab Companion Abu Dharr called Bilal 'son of the black woman', the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) got angry and told him: 'You are a man who has ignorance in him.' Abu Dharr felt such a great remorse that he put his cheek on the ground and asked Bilal to tread on his other cheek if he’d like to.
Time and again the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to stress the unity of the human race in Islam. Suffice it to mention one hadith. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) once said: 'Listen and obey even if your ruler was an Ethiopian slave whose head looks like a raisin.' On another occasion when al-Aws and al-Khazraj, the two main Muslim tribes of Madinah were about to fight each other as they used to do before Islam, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) rebuked them saying: 'Do you still cultivate the call to ignorance even though I am in your midst?' Hearing this, they restored their solid unity and fraternity.
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