Sayyedna Bilal — Page 12
12. SAYYEDNA BILAL after a moment when he recovered his senses he saw. Ammaar standing in front of him motionless. At that very moment a change came over Bilal. Ummayya. Bin Khalf now remained the Master of his body alone; Bilal's soul had been sold to Muhammad and he was proud of becoming his slave. As all eyes watched him, the whip fell down from Bilal's hand. . They could not believe what Bilal had done. He had defied his master. Ammaar took the whip and gave it to Bilal and asked him to whip him or Ummayya would kill him, but Bilal threw the whip down and there was peace and tranquility on his face. He calmly looked at Abu Sufyan, and for the first time dared to look at Abu Sufyan's wife Hinda who gave a cynical smile. Ummayya was dumbfounded with anger. Nothing could be more shocking to him than the fact that his own slave should go over to the new faith. Recovering from the shock Ummayya retorted at Bilal that his home was only for his idols and there was no place in it for any other God. He looked at the setting sun and told him that he would sort him out the next day in the blazing sun. Bilal's hands were then tied, and a rope put round his neck and he was put in a room where he awaited his death. . As he lay there he remembered his father who worked laboriously for a dyer, and due to constant hardwork he had aged much before his time. He also remembered his mother who died of some illness. . His parents were brought from Habsha, situated across the Red Sea. They never told him how they became slaves. His mother had once told him that they were free when she conceived him, by the time. Bilal was born they had become slaves.