What I set to accomplish through this series of posts inshaAllah is 1) to be consistent in watching The Firsts series by Omar Suleiman and 2) derive and share lessons that can help us understand the world today (at the moment, specifically in relation to the oppression of the ummah.) I don’t expect these posts to be lengthy as I’m not exactly sharing transcripts of the lectures, so these might end up being brief glimpses of a companion’s life through which we can extrapolate a lesson inshaAllah.
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
This week, we are focusing on Khabbab ibn Al Aratt رضي الله عنه. I’d like to start with his background because it adds to the dreariness of what his life might have been even before the torture he endured prior accepting Islam. He was a slave purchased from the marketplace when he wasn’t even a teenager yet, and being a slave in of itself is no success story.
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