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Pictures from the lives of the Companions - Episode (54) - Fayrouz Al-Dailami, may God be pleased with him
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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The Mawaddah Association is pleased
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to present to you portraits from the lives of the Companions.
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By Abd al-Rahman Ra'fat al-Basha,
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may Allah have mercy upon him.
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Fayruz al-Daylami, may Allah be pleased with him.
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When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, fell ill after returning from the Farewell Pilgrimage,
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and news of his illness spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula,
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al-Aswad al-'Ansi apostatized from Islam in Yemen,
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as did Musaylimah the Liar in al-Yamamah,
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and Tulayhah al-Asadi in the lands of Banu Asad.
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The three liars claimed that they were prophets,
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each of them sent to his people just as Muhammad ibn 'Abdullah was sent to Quraysh.
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Al-Aswad al-'Ansi was a sorcerer and a charlatan,
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black-hearted and of immense wickedness,
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of great strength and a massive frame.
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Furthermore, he was eloquent, captivating minds with his rhetoric,
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a cunning man capable of playing with the minds of the masses through his falsehoods,
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and enticing the elite with wealth, status, and positions of power.
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He would never appear to the people except while veiled,
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to surround himself with an aura of mystery and awe.
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At that time, influence in Yemen lay with the Abna',
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led by Fayruz al-Daylami,
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a Companion of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him.
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"The Abna'" is a name given to a group of people
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whose fathers were Persians who had migrated from their lands to Yemen,
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and whose mothers were Arabs.
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Their leader, Badhan, at the time of the emergence of Islam,
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was the ruler of Yemen on behalf of Kisra, the Great King of Persia.
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When the truth of the Prophet and the nobility of his message became clear to him,
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he renounced his allegiance to Kisra and entered the religion of Allah along with his people.
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The Prophet confirmed him in his rule,
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and he remained in that position until he died
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shortly before the emergence of al-Aswad al-'Ansi.
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The first to respond to the call of al-Aswad al-'Ansi
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were his own people, the Madhhij.
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With them, he launched an assault on Sana'a,
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and killed its governor, Shahr ibn Badhan,
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and married his wife, Azad.
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Then he struck from Sana'a at other regions,
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which began to fall under his blows with astonishing speed,
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until the lands stretching from Hadramawt to Ta'if submitted to him,
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as well as those between Bahrain, al-Ahsa', and Aden.
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Among the factors that helped al-Aswad al-'Ansi deceive the people
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and win them over was his boundless cunning.
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He claimed to his followers that he had an angel who brought him revelation,
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and informed him of the unseen.
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He would reinforce this claim through his spies, whom he had scattered everywhere
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to keep track of people's news, penetrate their secrets,
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learn their problems, and uncover the hopes and aspirations stirring in their hearts.
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Then they would bring this to him in secret,
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so he would confront every person in need with their specific need,
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and address every person with a problem by mentioning the problem itself.
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He would present to his followers such wonders and strange feats
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that it stunned their minds and bewildered their understanding,
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until his influence grew great,
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and his movement spread like a raging fire in dry brushwood.
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No sooner had the news of the apostasy of al-Aswad al-'Ansi
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and his assault on Yemen
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reached the Prophet, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him,
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than he dispatched about ten of his Companions with letters to those he deemed righteous
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among the early believers in Yemen,
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urging them to confront this blind tribulation with faith and resolve,
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and commanding them to get rid of al-Aswad al-'Ansi by any means necessary.
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There was no one who received the Prophet's letter
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who did not answer his call and hasten to carry out his command.
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The swiftest of all to respond to his call
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was the hero of our story, Fayruz al-Daylami,
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and those with him from the Abna'.
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Let us leave the speech to him to narrate to us his unique and wonderful story.
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Fayruz said:
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"I and those with me from the Abna' did not doubt for a moment in the religion of Allah,
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nor did any of us harbor any belief in the enemy of Allah.
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We were waiting for the opportunity to strike at him
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and get rid of him by any means.
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When the letters of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, reached us
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and the early believers,
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we strengthened one another,
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and each of us began working in his own sphere.
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Al-Aswad al-'Ansi had become filled with arrogance and pride due to the success he had achieved,
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so he acted haughtily toward his army commander, Qays ibn 'Abd Yaghuth,
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and became tyrannical,
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and changed his treatment of him,
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until Qays no longer felt safe from his brutality.
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So I went to him with my cousin, Dadhwayh,
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and we conveyed to him the message of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,
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and invited him to 'eat the man before he eats him.'
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His heart opened to our invitation,
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and he revealed his secret to us,
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and he looked at us as if we had descended upon him from the sky.
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So the three of us made a pact
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to confront the apostate liar from within,
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while our other brothers confronted him from the outside.
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We decided to involve the cousin of Azad,
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whom al-Aswad al-'Ansi had married
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after killing her husband, Shahr ibn Badhan.
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I went to the palace of al-Aswad al-'Ansi,
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met with the cousin of Azad,
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and said to her, 'O cousin,
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you know the evil and harm this man has brought upon you and us.
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He killed your husband, disgraced the women of your people,
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destroyed many of their men,
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and seized power from their hands.
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This is the letter of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,
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to us specifically,
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and to the people of Yemen generally,
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calling upon us to put an end to this tribulation.
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Will you help us against him?'
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She said,
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'Help you with what?'
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I said, 'To remove him.'
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She said, 'Rather, to kill him.'
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I said, 'By Allah, I intended nothing else,
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but I feared to confront you with it.'
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She said, 'By the One who sent Muhammad with the truth as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner,
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I have not doubted my religion for the blinking of an eye,
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and Allah has not created a man more hateful to me than this devil.
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By Allah, I have known him since I saw him
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only as a wicked sinner,
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who respects no right and does not refrain from any evil.'
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I said, 'And how can we kill him?'
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She said, 'He is extremely cautious for his own safety,
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and there is no place in the palace
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that is not surrounded by guards,
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except for this remote, abandoned room,
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for its back faces such-and-such a place on the wilderness.
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When evening comes, dig through it in the darkness of the night,
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and you will find inside it weapons and a lamp,
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and you will find me waiting for you.'
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Then they entered upon him and killed him.
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I said, 'But digging a hole in a room in a palace like this
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is not an easy matter,
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for someone might pass by us, shout, and call for the guards,
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and then the consequences would be dire.'
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She said, 'You speak the truth,
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and I have a suggestion for you.'
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I said, 'What is it?'
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She said, 'Tomorrow, send a man you trust disguised as a worker,
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and I will order him to dig the room from the inside
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until only a small amount remains of the hole,
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then you can finish it at night from the outside with minimal effort.'
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I said, 'What a great suggestion you have.'
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Then I left and informed my companions of what we had agreed upon,
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and they blessed it.
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We set out immediately to prepare for the matter,
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then we shared the password with the elite believers among our supporters,
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and called them to be ready.
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We set our meeting with them for the dawn of the following day.
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When night fell upon us,
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and the appointed time approached,
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I went with my companions to the site of the hole,
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and we uncovered it.
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We entered the room,
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took the weapons, and lit the lamp,
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and proceeded toward the private quarters of the enemy of Allah.
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My cousin was standing at his door,
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so she signaled to me, and I entered upon him.
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He was asleep, snoring in his sleep,
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so I struck his neck with the blade.
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He let out a sound like the bellowing of a bull,
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and the sound of a slaughtered camel.
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When the guards heard his bellowing,
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they came to the quarters and said,
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'What is this?'
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My cousin said to them,
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'Go away in peace,
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for the Prophet of Allah is receiving revelation.'
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So they left.
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We remained in the palace until dawn broke,
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then I stood on one of its walls and called out,
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'Allah is the Greatest,
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Allah is the Greatest.'
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I continued the call to prayer until I said,
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'I bear witness that there is no god but Allah,
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I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,
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and I bear witness that al-Aswad al-'Ansi is a liar.'
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This was the password.
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The Muslims rushed to the palace from every side,
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and the guards were terrified when they heard the call to prayer.
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The two parties clashed with one another,
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and I threw the head of al-Aswad to them
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from over the palace walls.
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When his supporters saw it,
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they became weak and their spirit was broken.
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And when the believers saw it,
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they shouted 'Allahu Akbar' and charged at their enemy.
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The matter was settled before sunrise.
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When the day broke,
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we sent a letter to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,
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bringing him the good news of the death of the enemy of Allah.
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When the messengers reached Medina,
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they found the Prophet, may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him,
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had passed away that very night.
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However, they soon learned
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that the revelation had informed him of the killing of al-Aswad al-'Ansi
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on the very night he was killed.
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For the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had said to his Companions,
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'Al-Aswad al-'Ansi was killed last night;
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He was killed by a blessed man,
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from a blessed household.
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It was said to him,
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"Who is he, O Messenger of Allah?"
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He replied, "Fairuz."
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"Fairuz has succeeded."
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Fairuz,
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a blessed man,
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from a blessed household.
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Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
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O poetry, compose a tribute to them,
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and let the virtuous be praised,
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for in their praise, is there any greater merit?