{"id":12816,"date":"2018-10-14T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T04:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2021-09-20T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:45:49","slug":"the-very-first-people-to-accept-islam-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=12816","title":{"rendered":"The Very First People to Accept Islam \u2013 Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?attachment_id=12346\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12346\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12346\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Kaaba-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Kaaba-1.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Kaaba-1-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>On the day after Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) was blessed with prophethood, he was performing salaah with Hazrat Khadijah (radhiyallahu \u2018anha) when Hazrat \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) saw them and asked, \u201cWhat is this?\u201d Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) replied, \u201cThis is the deen of Allah Ta\u2018ala. The prophets of Allah Ta\u2018ala brought this very same deen to the world. I am inviting you to Allah Ta\u2018ala; to worship Him alone and renounce (the idols of) Laat and \u2018Uzza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazrat \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) replied, \u201cThis is something utterly new which I have never heard before. Until I do not mention this to my father, Abu Taalib, I cannot make any decision.\u201d Since Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) was reluctant for his secret to be revealed to anyone, he said, \u201cO \u2018Ali! If you do not wish to embrace Islam, don\u2019t mention it to anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>Not even a night had passed when the desire to accept Islam entered the heart of Hazrat \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu). The next morning, he presented himself before Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) saying, \u201cWhat are you inviting towards?\u201d Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) replied, \u201cBear testimony that Allah Ta\u2018ala is the only deity worthy of worship. Renounce Laat and \u2018Uzza and express your aversion and disassociation from idolatry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazrat \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) then embraced Islam. For quite some time thereafter (some narrations mention that it was for one year), he concealed his Islam from his father, Abu Taalib.<\/p>\n<p>After Hazrat \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu), the freed slave of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam), Hazrat Zaid bin Haarithah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu), embraced Islam and performed salaah with him.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Extracted from Seeratul Mustafa 1\/155-156)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day after Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) was blessed with prophethood, he was performing salaah with Hazrat Khadijah (radhiyallahu \u2018anha) when Hazrat \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) saw them and asked, \u201cWhat is this?\u201d Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) replied, \u201cThis is the deen of Allah Ta\u2018ala. The prophets of Allah Ta\u2018ala brought this very same deen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[796,62,721],"tags":[155,421],"class_list":["post-12816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-history","category-seerah","category-the-first-people-to-accept-islam","tag-islam","tag-seerah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12817,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions\/12817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}