Muhammad: Seal of the Prophets — Page 373
MUHAMMAD : SEAL OF THE PROPHETS 373 him to Medina, accompanied by a mounted guard, with a letter addressed to the Holy Prophet requiring him to accompany the two emissaries who would produce him before the Chosroes. When they arrived in Medina, they presented Badhan’s letter to the Holy Prop het and counselled him to accompany them as directed in the letter, failing which the mighty Chosroes would ruin his country and his people. The Holy Prophet smiled, and then invited them, in a brief address, to embrace Islam and told them that they should stop for the night and that he would give his reply to the letter the next day. On their presenting themselves the next day, he told them, ‘Convey to your master that my Master has slain his master last night. ’ Banweh and his companion returned to Yemen and conveyed the message of the Holy Prophet to Badhan, who, on hearing it, exclaimed, ‘If what he says comes about, he would indeed be a Prophet of God. ’ Not long after Badhan received a dispatch from Sherweh, so n of Chosroes Parvez, which contained the intimation that Sherweh had slain his father in the public interest on account of his tyranny and his merciless killing of the nobles of the empire. Badhan was instructed to obtain the allegiance of the people of Y emen to Sherweh, and was told that the directions sent by his father concerning an Arab personage were cancelled. On receipt of the dispatch, Badhan involuntarily exclaimed, ‘Muhammad’s words have been proved true; it seems that he is a true Prophet of God and I believe in him. ’ He immediately wrote to the Holy Prophet conveying to him his adhesion to Islam. The Holy Prophet’s letter addressed to Muqauqis, the Viceroy of Egypt, subordinate to the Emperor of Byzantine,