Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 219
The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muḥammad Mustafa sa join the Muslims in Prayer and walked the streets but nobody would talk to me. I would attend upon the Holy Prophet" when he sat in the mosque after Prayer and would salute him and wonder whether he had moved his lips in returning my salutation. I would stand in Prayer near him and I noticed that he would look in my direction when I was occupied with the Prayer and would look away when I looked in his direction. Being oppressed by the hardness of the Muslims towards me I went one day and vaulted over the garden wall of my cousin Abū Qatādah of whom I was very fond, and saluted him, but he did not return my salutation. I said to him: 'O Abū Qatādah, I adjure you in the name of Allah! Do you not know that I love Allah and His Messenger?' But he said nothing. I repeated my adjuration. Still he did not reply. Then I asked him again. He said: 'Allāh and His Messenger know best. ' At this my eyes burst into tears and I returned and jumped over the wall. га. Ka'b added: 'One day I was sauntering in the market-place of Medina when I heard a peasant from Syria, who had brought a quantity of corn for sale, say: 'Would someone direct me to Ka'b bin Malik?' People pointed in my direction. He came to me and handed me a letter from the king of Ghassan. Being literate myself. I read it. Its message was: 'We have heard that your master has treated you harshly. God has not made you to be humiliated and mistreated. Come over to us and we shall receive you graciously. '. Having read it, I said to myself: 'This is another trial; and I went to the oven and threw my letter in it. ' sa. When forty days had elapsed without any indication in the revelation concerning us, a messenger of the Holy Prophet" came to me and said: 'The Messenger" of Allāh directs you to keep away from your wife. ' I inquired: 'Shall I divorce her or what?' He said: 'No. Only do not associate with her. ' I understood that my two companions had been directed likewise. So I told my wife: 'Go to your parents and remain with them till Allāh determines this matter. ' Hiläl bin Umayyah's wife went to the Holy Prophet" and sa 219