Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 103
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 103 drenched the walls of the Ka‘bah with blood! What had happened? There was a sacred stone called H ajarul- Aswad (the Black Stone) which was fixed in the wall of the Ka‘bah. When it was time to put it back in its original place, the chief of every tribe declared that he alone would fix the sacred stone in its place and none dare take away the honour from him. What would have happened after that? Within moments, all of Makkah was engulfed in the dispute! Like angry lions, each tribe was enraged beyond control. Throwing aside the bricks, cement, and stones with which they had been working thus far, they took out their swords and got ready to kill or be killed. They filled bowls with human blood and took oaths, dipping their fingers into it, to either get what was rightfully theirs or to continue fighting until the last child of their tribe was dead! Such a frightful incident had never taken place before in the history of the Ka‘bah. Every person of the city could foresee streams of blood flowing in the streets of Makkah with dead bodies floating in them. Had a single sword been raised, the entire country would have become engulfed in war and the whole population of Makkah would have been completely wiped out. Sensing the dangerous situation, some older men tried to