Yes, O ‘Aaishah! That day was tougher than the day of the Battle of Uhud when I called the chief ‘Ibn ‘Abd Yaaleel’ to Islam. He rejected it with disdain, and the people of Taif stoned me. Filled with this grief, I kept walking until I reached a place called ‘Qarn al-Tha’aalib’ and gathered myself. Having arrived there, when I raised my head, I saw a cloud with its shadow over me.

(Sayyiduna) Jibra`eel عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام called out to me from the cloud and said, “Allah Almighty has heard the saying and answer of your nation, and now the angel of the mountains is present before you to obey your command.” The Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said that after greeting him with salaam, the angel of the mountains said, “O Muhammad ( صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم )! If you want me to overturn both the mountains ‘Akhshabayn’ (Abu Qubays and Qu’ayqi’aan) over these non-believers, I will do so.”

Having heard this, the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم replied, “No, but rather I hope that Allah Almighty will bring forth such people from their offspring who will only worship Allah Almighty and will not commit shirk (attribute partners to Allah Almighty).”^[1]

Go! You are all free

Dear Islamic brothers, did you hear how after experiencing such cruelty, the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم did not take revenge, nor did he صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم supplicate against them. In a similar fashion, the whole blessed life of the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is adorned with such matchless accounts. However, the most distinctive forbearance and gentleness showed by the beloved Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is on the occasion of the Conquest of Makkah, which is truly beyond imagination, and no such example can ever be found in history.