Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 147
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 147 insist then I will write it, but on the condition that you give me your word that you will not tell a single soul that ‘Umar ra wrote this letter for you. If anyone hears that I did it, I will be ridiculed for no reason. ” The friend gave his solemn promise and swore by Hubul that he would not tell anyone that Hadrat ‘Umar ra wrote it. Only then did he write the letter. The wild behaviour of the Arabs was so audacious that they would rob during broad daylight and would steal from guests and then kill them. Most disturbing of all is that it did not bother them in the slightest to kill and shed blood at the slightest provocation. In fact they would proudly mention it in poetry. Before the bloodshed they would openly discuss where they should commit robbery, what tribe should be looted and by which means they steal the property and animals from others. Maul a na Ha l i wrote about them in the following words: The character of all of them was that of wild animals, and every person was just as one in robbing and killing All their time was spent in stirring trouble; there was no law and order They were so skilled at robbing and killing, like animals are fearless in the jungle.