The boy said “You will never be able to kill me until you do what I say.”
The king said “Ok, what do I do?” Notice the reversal of roles–who’s in control now?
So the boy said “gather the people, cruficy me on a tree trunk, put your arrow in the middle of the bow, say ‘in the name of Allah, Lord of the worlds’ and fire.” And the king did just that, so obsessed to kill the boy he didn’t realize what the effect would be. He plotted, and Allah planned, and Allah is the best of planners.
He shot the boy. The boy died. The people said “We believe in the Lord of the boy.” The whole city became Muslim.
But didn’t they believe in the boy before?
They believe in the one who is able. When they saw the king unable to kill the boy, powerless, then able to kill the boy in the name of Allah, they believed. The irony is that if the king left the boy alone, and Allah knows best, he would not have achieved such an effect so quickly on the people as his death caused.
Ibrahim Hindy. “People of the Ditch.” UTM MSA. University of Toronto At Mississauga, Mississauga.
can you post the actual hadith somewhere.. maybe at the bottom of each post
The hadith is very very very very long, so I only paraphrase relevant bits.
You can find the entire thing in the first post.
Asalam aleikum .who was the sahaba who was thrown into fire but the fire didnt burn like Ibrahim (A.S) ?? i saw it in the description of the site from google but cant find the name… please reply.// Barakallahu fiik
@Mohamed wa’alikum as-salaam; I don’t think he was a companion. There’s some information on him in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Muslim_al-Khawlani
Wallahu a’lam.