Innocent Poet killed during the Fatah Makkah
Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
upon all of you)
One of our brothers/sisters
has asked this question:
Dear Brother Burhan,
Many anti-Islam
elements portray the image of a so called "innocent"
poet who was killed after the Muslims conquered Makkah.
Could you please describe the whole event behind the killing of this poet.
Thank you
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Answer:
Poet killed during the “Fatah Makkah”
In the name of Allah,
We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides
none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them
aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person,
no grave, no prophet, no
imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone,
and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of
His Messengers.
The conquest of Makkah by the muslims
under the leadership of the Messenger of Allah (saws) was bloodless; whereby
the Quraish simply surrendered the city without
putting up a fight or battle. Although
the disbelievers of Quraish had viciously opposed the
Mission of the Prophet (saws) from its inception, and had tortured, killed,
and oppressed the believers to such an extent that they had to migrate
from their city; when the Quraish surrendered the city to the believers, the Messenger of Allah (saws) magnanimously
declared a general amnesty to all the citizens of the city of Makkah, except about
seven or eight people who had committed such crimes and tyranny against the
believers, that he ordered that wherever
they are found, they should be put to
death.
Among them were people like Safwan bin Umayyah, Ikramah
ibn Abi Jahl, Abdullah bin Abi-Sarh, etc.
But in due course, before they
could be found and put to death, their
family members came and asked forgiveness for them, and out of these eight people all were
forgiven by the Messenger of Allah (saws),
except two, who were eventually
put to death because of the nature of their crimes against the believers.
To the best of our knowledge,
none of these two were poets…. Thus, if
you could give us the name of the poet, we could look into the Books of History, and give you a
detailed account of the person, and the
incidents that transpired.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,
Burhan