*THE ULTIMATE HONOUR AND INFINITE GENEROSITY*
*"And stay in your houses..." [Qur'an 33:33]*
By Byzantines captured some of the Muslim women, and al-Mansūr ibn 'Ammār heard the news. They said t to him: "Why don't you go and sit near the caliph and urge the people to attack?" So he went and sat near the caliph, Harūn ar-Rashīd, in ar-Raqqah, near Damascus.
Whilst Shaykh Mansūr was urging people to fight in jihād (fighting for the sake of Allāh), a tied-up bundle with a letter attached was thrown to him. Mansūr opened the letter and in it he read: "I am a woman from among the Arab clans. I heard what the Byzantines did to the Muslim women, and I heard that you are urging the people to attack. I looked for the most honourable thing on my body, and it was my two braids, so I cut them off and wrapped them in this bundle. I urge you by Almighty Allāh to make them into a bridle for the horse of a warrior fighting for the sake of Allāh. Perhaps Allāh will look upon me and have mercy on me because of them."
Mansūr could not control his feelings when he read these noble words. He wept and made the P people weep with him. Then Harūn ar-Rashīd launched a general mobilisation, and he himself fought alongside the Mujāhidun (fighters for the sake of Allāh); and Allāh, the Exalted, granted them victory.
*"Do not weep for the past and do not shed tears for no reason, for you cannot bring back the past."*
*"And stay in your houses..." [Qur'an 33:33]*
By Byzantines captured some of the Muslim women, and al-Mansūr ibn 'Ammār heard the news. They said t to him: "Why don't you go and sit near the caliph and urge the people to attack?" So he went and sat near the caliph, Harūn ar-Rashīd, in ar-Raqqah, near Damascus.
Whilst Shaykh Mansūr was urging people to fight in jihād (fighting for the sake of Allāh), a tied-up bundle with a letter attached was thrown to him. Mansūr opened the letter and in it he read: "I am a woman from among the Arab clans. I heard what the Byzantines did to the Muslim women, and I heard that you are urging the people to attack. I looked for the most honourable thing on my body, and it was my two braids, so I cut them off and wrapped them in this bundle. I urge you by Almighty Allāh to make them into a bridle for the horse of a warrior fighting for the sake of Allāh. Perhaps Allāh will look upon me and have mercy on me because of them."
Mansūr could not control his feelings when he read these noble words. He wept and made the P people weep with him. Then Harūn ar-Rashīd launched a general mobilisation, and he himself fought alongside the Mujāhidun (fighters for the sake of Allāh); and Allāh, the Exalted, granted them victory.
*"Do not weep for the past and do not shed tears for no reason, for you cannot bring back the past."*
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