Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq — Page 16
16 HADRAT ABU BAKR ra the mercy of their masters and had no one to help them. The disbelievers would lash them with whips and break the bones in their hands and feet. During the hottest season of the year their masters would deny them food and water and leave them outside in extreme heat for days at a time, and then they would drag them across the burning hot ground. Hadrat Bil a l ra was tortured in the most horrible ways. His master, Umayyah bin Khalf, would make him lie down bare- backed, on hot stones in the noonday heat, and then would put heavy rocks on top of his chest so that he could not move. He would whip Hadrat Bil a l ra , urging him to deny the Oneness of God, but the only sound to be heard coming from the lips of Hadrat Bil a l ra was, “A h ad, A h ad (Allah is One, Allah is One). ” This would anger Umayyah so much that he would then tie a rope round his neck and hand him over to the troublemakers of Makkah who would drag him throughout the stony streets of the city. Similarly, Ab u Fukaih’s ra master, S afw a n bin Umayyah would force him to lie down on the burning ground and place such heavy stones upon him that his tongue would come out of his mouth. Ab u Jahl beat Hadrat Zunairah ra so mercilessly that she lost her sight. The master of Lubainah would continuously beat