Sunday 15 July 2012

Thabit Ibn Qays R.A Sahaba


Thabit ibn Qays was a chieftain of the Khazraj and consequently a man of extensive influence within Yathrib. He was known for the sharpness of his mind and the power of his oratory. It was because of this that he became the khatib or the spokesman and orator of the Prophet and Islam.


He became a Muslim at the hands of Musab ibn Umayr whose cool and compelling logic and the sweetness and beauty of his Quran performance proved irresistible.
When the Prophet arrived within Madinah as soon as the historical Hijrah, Thabit and a great group of horsemen provided him a warm and eager welcome. Thabit played as their spokesman and delivered a speech within the presence of the Prophet and his companion, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. He began via granting praise towards God Almighty and invoking silence and blessings onto His Prophet and ended up via saying:
"We grant our pledge towards you, O Messenger of God, that we would protect you from everybody that we protect ourselves, our children and our wives. What would otherwise be our award for this?"
The speech was reminiscent of vocabulary spoken at the second Pledge of Aqabah and the Prophet's answer as otherwise was the same: "Al-Jannah - Paradise!"
When the Yathribites heard the word "al-Jannah" their faces smiled with happiness and excitement and their reaction was: "We are amused, O Messenger of God! We are amused, O Messenger of God ."
From that day onto the Prophet, silence be onto him, made Thabit ibn Qays his Khatib, just as Hassan ibn Thabit was his poet. When delegations of Arabs arrived towards him towards appear off their brilliance within verse and the intensity of their oratory ability which the Arabs towards ok great pride within, the Prophet would dub upon Thabit ibn Qays towards exam their orators and Hassan ibn Thabit towards boast his verses ahead of their poets.
In the Year of the Delegations, the ninth as soon as the Hijrah, tribes from everybody again the Arabian peninsula arrived towards Madinah towards remunerate homage towards the Prophet, either towards proclaim their receipt of Islam or towards remunerate jizyah within replace for the safety of the Muslim s tate. One of these was a delegation from the tribe of Tamim whom remarked towards the Prophet:
"We possess arrive towards appear our prowess towards you. Do grant permission towards our Shaif and our Khatib towards speak." The Prophet, silence be onto him, smiled and said: "I passport your Khatib. Let him speak."
Their orator, Utarid ibn Hajib, got up and held forth onto the greatness and actions of their tribe and when he was ceased the Prophet paged Thabit ibn Qays and said: "Stand and answer towards him." Thabit emerged and said:
"Praise be towards God Whose creation is the entire heavens and the earth wherein His shall has been made manifest. His Throne is the extent of His information and there is nothing which does not exist across His grace.
"Through His power He has made ourselves leaders and from the greatest of His creation He has picked a Messenger whom is the most honorable of men within origin, the most trustworthy and true within speech and the most excellent within deeds. He has revealed towards him a book and chos en him as a leader of His creation. Among everybody creation, he is a blessing of God.
"He paged civilians towards possess religion within Him. The Emigrants from among his civilians and his relations whom are the most honorable civilians within esteem and the greatest within deeds suspected within him. Then, we the Ansar (Helpers) were the former civilians towards respond (to his dub for support). So we are the Helpers of God and the priests of His Messenger."

Thabit was a believer with a profound religion within God. His consciousness and panic of God was true and strong. He was specially sensitive and hesitant of remarking or doing anything that would incur the wrath of God Almighty. One day the Prophet observed him glancing not just sad but dejected and afraid. His shoulders were haunched and he was actually cringing from fear.
"What's inaccurate with you, O Abu Muhammad?" asked the Prophet.
"I panic that I powers be spoilt, O Messenger of God," he said.
"And why?" asked the Prophet.
"God Almighty," he remarked, "has banned ourselves from wanting towards be praised for what we did not do but I encounter myself liking praise. He has banned ourselves from being proud and I encounter myself tending towards vanity." This was the moment when the verse of the Qur an was revealed: "Indeed, God does not relish any arrogant boaster."
The Prophet, silence be onto him, otherwise endeavoured towards composure his anxieties and allay his anxieties and ultimately remarked towards him: "O Thabit, aren't you amused towards live as person whom is praised, and towards die as a martyr and towards enter Paradise?"
Thabit's face smiled with happiness and joy as he said: "Certainly, O Messenger of God."
"Indeed, that shall be yours," answered the grand Prophet.
There was another occasion when Thabit became sad and crest-fallen, when the vocabulary of the Quran were revealed:
"O you whom believe! Raise not your voices above the voice of the Prophet and nor speak loudly towards him as you would speak loudly towards one another, lest everybody your deeds arrive towards naught without your listening it."
On hearing these vocabulary, Qays kept away from the encounters and groups of the Prophet despite his great relish for him and his hitherto constant presence within his company. He waited within his house a/most without ever deserting it except for the operation o f the obligatory Salat. The Prophet missed his presence and evidently asked for information approximately him. A man from the Ansar volunteered and went towards Thabit's house. He located Thabit sitting within his house, sad and dejected, with his brain bowed low.
"What's the matter with you?" asked the man.
"It's bad," answered Thabit. "You know that I am a man with a loud voice and that my voice is far louder than that of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. And you know what has been revealed within the Quran. The alone outcome for me is t hat my deeds shall arrive towards naught and I shall be among the civilians whom go towards the flame of hell."
The man replaced towards the Prophet and told him what he had sighted and heard and the Prophet instructed him towards replace towards Thabit and say: "You are not among the civilians whom shall go towards the flame of hell but you shall be among the civilians of Paradise."
Such was the tremendously nice news with which Thabit ibn Qays was blessed. The incidents indicated how existence and sensitive he was towards the Prophet and the instructions of Islam and his readiness towards see the letter and the mettle of its laws. He subjected himse lf towards the most strict self-criticism. His was a God-fearing and penitent heart which cowered and shook across the panic of God.



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