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A bounty was placed on his head. His own people plotted to kill him in his sleep. He was left starving for months. He buried his children with his own hands. And yet — fourteen centuries later — over two billion people follow the path he walked. This is Episode 1 of our Islamic History Series on HISTORVA. The life of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ — told in a way you have never heard before.
In this episode:
• The night Muhammad ﷺ was born — and why his grandfather wept at the Kaaba
• The wet nurse who almost did not take him — and what happened to her family when she did
• The six year old boy who buried his mother in the desert
• The man every enemy in Mecca still trusted — even after they called him a liar
• The marriage that became the foundation of everything
• The Night of Power — 610 CE — and the moment that changed human history forever
• The first words of Revelation — and the terrifying run down the mountain
• How Abu Bakr became Muslim without a single moment of hesitation
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He started with nothing. No army. No wealth. No political power. Just a message — and an unbreakable character built through a lifetime of loss. This series will not just show you the events. It will show you the meaning behind them. Every hardship. Every loss. Every moment of grace. Nothing in his life was a coincidence.
This is a 15 episode series based on authentic Islamic sources. New episodes every week on HISTORVA.
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In this episode:
• The night Muhammad ﷺ was born — and why his grandfather wept at the Kaaba
• The wet nurse who almost did not take him — and what happened to her family when she did
• The six year old boy who buried his mother in the desert
• The man every enemy in Mecca still trusted — even after they called him a liar
• The marriage that became the foundation of everything
• The Night of Power — 610 CE — and the moment that changed human history forever
• The first words of Revelation — and the terrifying run down the mountain
• How Abu Bakr became Muslim without a single moment of hesitation
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He started with nothing. No army. No wealth. No political power. Just a message — and an unbreakable character built through a lifetime of loss. This series will not just show you the events. It will show you the meaning behind them. Every hardship. Every loss. Every moment of grace. Nothing in his life was a coincidence.
This is a 15 episode series based on authentic Islamic sources. New episodes every week on HISTORVA.
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🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode 👍 Like if this moved you 💬 Comment — which part of Episode 1 hit you the hardest?
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00:00A bounty was placed on his head.
00:02One hundred camels, red and black, for whoever brought him dead.
00:07The most powerful city in Arabia wanted him gone.
00:10His own neighbors threw garbage at his door.
00:13His own people hurled stones at his body.
00:16His own relatives plotted to kill him in his sleep.
00:19He was left starving for months at a time.
00:22He buried his children with his own hands.
00:25He stood completely alone against an entire world that wanted to destroy him.
00:31And yet, 14 centuries later, over 2 billion people followed the path he walked.
00:37This is not just a history.
00:39This is the story of the most remarkable life ever recorded on this earth.
00:44The life of Prophet Muhammad.
00:47Peace and blessings be upon him.
00:49We are going back 1,400 years.
00:52To the Arabian Peninsula.
00:55To a world drowning in darkness.
00:57Waiting for a light it did not yet know it needed.
01:01This is episode 1.
01:03And what you are about to hear will change how you see everything.
01:07The night air over Mecca had finally cooled.
01:10The streets were quiet.
01:12The date palms stood still.
01:14And somewhere in a modest home in the heart of this ancient city,
01:18a woman named Amina was about to give birth.
01:21Her name means trustworthy.
01:23Her pain that night was immeasurable.
01:26Because she was doing this alone.
01:28The man she had loved, Abdullah, had died before he could hold his child.
01:33Before he could whisper a name.
01:35Before he could place his hand on his son's forehead and make a promise.
01:39He never got the chance.
01:42Amina gave birth alone.
01:44And the child she held was an orphan before he drew his first breath.
01:49Meanwhile, across the city, an old man was waiting.
01:53Abdul Mudalib.
01:54The grandfather.
01:55The leader of the Quraysh tribe.
01:57The most respected man in Mecca.
02:00When the news reached him, a boy.
02:03His legs carried him faster than his age should have allowed.
02:06He held the infant in his trembling arms.
02:09Walked straight to the Kaaba.
02:11Stood beneath the open sky.
02:13And gave thanks to his lord.
02:15Then he gave the child a name.
02:17Muhammad.
02:19Someone asked him later.
02:20Why that name?
02:21It was unusual.
02:23Almost unheard of.
02:25He answered simply.
02:27I want Allah to praise him.
02:29And I want the people to praise him.
02:31He did not know.
02:32In that moment.
02:34Standing under the stars with a newborn in his arms.
02:37How completely that prayer would be answered.
02:40But there was something else that night.
02:42Something Amina had kept quiet.
02:44A dream she had been given months before the birth.
02:48In that dream, she had been told the name.
02:51Muhammad.
02:52The grandfather and the mother had received the same name.
02:56Through completely different paths.
02:58That was not a coincidence.
03:01Nothing about this child's life would ever be a coincidence.
03:04In Arabia at that time, sending a newborn to a wet nurse was not unusual.
03:10It was considered wisdom.
03:12Two reasons drove the tradition.
03:14The first was health.
03:17Mecca's climate.
03:18Dusty.
03:19Scorching.
03:19Unforgiving.
03:20Was harsh on newborn lungs.
03:23The open desert plains were cleaner.
03:25Freer.
03:26More forgiving.
03:27The second reason was language.
03:29In Arab culture, words were everything.
03:32Poetry was power.
03:34Eloquence was nobility.
03:36The purest Arabic was spoken not in the cities, but in the open land.
03:41Among the tribe of Banu Saad.
03:44And so mothers sent their children.
03:46There.
03:46To absorb a language in its most beautiful form.
03:50Before the city could corrupt it.
03:52But there was a problem.
03:54Wet nurses from Banu Saad were not coming to Mecca out of generosity.
03:58They came for payment.
04:00For connection.
04:01For the ongoing support of a living father who could provide for them.
04:06Muhammad had no living father.
04:07One by one.
04:09The wet nurses arrived.
04:11One by one.
04:12They assessed the babies.
04:14One by one.
04:15They chose the children of wealthy families.
04:18With fathers still alive.
04:20And left Mecca with them.
04:21Amina stood and washed.
04:23Arms empty.
04:25Heartbreaking.
04:26Was no one going to take her son?
04:31They had traveled slowly because their animal was old and weak.
04:36They had to take turns walking just to spare it.
04:39By the time Halima searched Mecca, every baby had been taken.
04:43She was about to return home empty handed.
04:46In the middle of a famine.
04:48With nothing to show for the difficult journey she had made.
04:51And then she met Abdul Madalib.
04:54They spoke briefly.
04:55He told her about his orphan grandson.
04:58Halima found her husband.
05:00She said.
05:01I found nothing.
05:02But there is an orphan boy.
05:04I do not want to go back empty handed.
05:07There may be blessings in him.
05:09Her husband agreed.
05:10She had no idea what she was actually saying yes to.
05:14Because the moment Muhammad came into Halima's home.
05:17Everything changed.
05:19Their old animal.
05:20Suddenly strong.
05:22And fast.
05:23Halima's milk.
05:24Suddenly flowing where it had barely trickled.
05:26A restless infant son.
05:29Suddenly calm beside the prophet.
05:32Their animals.
05:33Finding grazing and land that others found barren.
05:36Their neighbors would return from the same fields with nothing.
05:40Halima's family came back full.
05:42Four years passed.
05:44Four years of barakah.
05:46Of blessing.
05:47That Halima had never known before.
05:50And would never fully know again.
05:51And then the time came to return him.
05:54She held him.
05:55She kissed him over and over.
05:57She wept openly.
05:59She did not want to let go.
06:01But she had no choice.
06:03What she carried back to Mecca that day.
06:05She would spend the rest of her life trying to understand.
06:10Amina had waited six years to hold her son properly.
06:13Now finally.
06:14He was beside her every day.
06:16She could reach for his hand.
06:18She could hear his voice.
06:20She could watch him grow.
06:22After a year and a half together.
06:24She decided to take him north.
06:26To Medina.
06:28To visit relatives.
06:29To show him the grave of the father he never met.
06:32But they stood at Abdullah's grave together.
06:36Amina wept the way people weep when the wound has never fully closed.
06:40And beside her.
06:41A six-year-old boy reached toward a grave with small hands that had nowhere to land.
06:47He had never known what a father felt like.
06:50That absence.
06:51Invisible to others.
06:53Had always been there.
06:54At that grave.
06:55He felt it fully for the first time.
06:57They comforted each other.
06:59Then they turned back toward Mecca.
07:01But somewhere on that road.
07:03On a stretch of desert called Abwa.
07:06Amina fell ill.
07:07Quickly.
07:09Devastatingly.
07:10She could feel what was coming.
07:12And the thing that hurt her most was not the pain in her body.
07:15It was the knowledge that this six-year-old child.
07:19Who had already lost a father.
07:21Was about to lose his mother too.
07:23In her final moments.
07:25She looked at her son with eyes that held an entire lifetime of love in them.
07:29And she spoke her last words.
07:32Every living being will die.
07:34Every new thing will age.
07:36Everything that ages will reach its end.
07:38I too will die.
07:40But my name.
07:41My name will live.
07:43Because I gave birth to someone pure.
07:45Someone who will always remember me well.
07:48A few breaths later.
07:49The only sound in that desert was a child crying over his mother as body.
07:54He was six years old.
07:56He had no father.
07:58He had no mother.
07:59He was alone.
08:00And he had no idea yet.
08:02That Allah was preparing him for something that would require him to understand every kind of human pain from the
08:09inside.
08:10He was going to need all of it.
08:12Abdul Madalib brought the boy home.
08:14And from that moment, the child wanted for nothing in terms of love.
08:19The grandfather carried him everywhere.
08:22His own cushion placed in front of the Kaaba.
08:25The seat of honor that not even his own censer permitted to share.
08:29He let Muhammad sit there.
08:31When others tried to move the child, Abdul Madalib would stop them with these words.
08:37Leave my son.
08:38I swear by Allah, one day this child will carry a great name.
08:43He gave him responsibilities.
08:45He took him to meetings where Mecca was governed.
08:48He treated him not like a grandchild, but like a successor.
08:52The boy watched everything.
08:55Absorbed everything.
08:57Learned how a leader speaks.
08:58How decisions are made.
09:00Our city is held together.
09:02For two years, this was his world.
09:05Then, Allah took Abdul Madalib, too.
09:09The boy was eight years old.
09:11And here is the truth that makes this life impossible to dismiss.
09:15Everyone he loved, Allah removed.
09:18His father, before he was born.
09:21His mother, at age six.
09:24His grandfather, at age eight.
09:26Not by accident.
09:27Not by cruelty.
09:29But because the man being shaped in that grief
09:31was going to stand before millions of people had lost everything.
09:36He needed to know what loss felt like from the deepest possible place.
09:40He needed to understand where he could guide.
09:43He needed to grieve before he could heal others.
09:47And he was not finished learning yet.
09:49His uncle, Abu Talib, took him in.
09:52A good man.
09:53A kind man.
09:54A man who loved this nephew the way a father loves a son.
09:58But Abu Talib was not wealthy.
10:00There were nights the family rose from the dinner table still hungry.
10:05Muhammad understood quickly that he was a guest in someone else's home.
10:09You cannot ask as freely.
10:11You think twice before reaching.
10:13You notice when resources are limited and you hold yourself back out of respect.
10:19From an early age, he learned what it felt like to have less.
10:23But despite all of this, Abu Talib would not let him out of his sight.
10:28Where is my Muhammad?
10:29He would ask at Miltimes if the boy was absent.
10:33Go and find him.
10:34Bring him here.
10:35And the boy, watching his uncle struggle, made a decision that surprised everyone around him.
10:41He went to Abu Talib and said,
10:43Let me be the shepherd for your animals.
10:46You will not need to pay anyone else.
10:49I will do it.
10:50For a child his age, this was not a normal request.
10:55Abu Talib and his wife hesitated.
10:58They did not want him working under the burning Arabian sun.
11:01But he insisted.
11:03And somehow, he always found a way to be convincing without being demanding.
11:08So he became a shepherd.
11:10And in the silence of the open desert, away from the noise of Mecca,
11:15he found something most people never find in a lifetime.
11:19Stillness.
11:20He would lie under the night sky and study the stars.
11:24Watch the patterns of creation.
11:26Ask questions no one around him was asking.
11:29Who made this?
11:30What does it mean?
11:32What is the purpose of all of it?
11:33He was 12 years old when Abu Talib and instead needed to join a trade caravan to Damascus.
11:40The boy's heart sank.
11:42The one person who had protected him, who had made him feel like he belonged, was leaving.
11:48Everyone agreed the journey was too dangerous for a 12-year-old.
11:52Everyone said he should stay.
11:55After days of silent sadness, he approached his uncle.
11:59His voice was soft.
12:01His eyes were full.
12:02He said,
12:03Uncle, where are you leaving me?
12:06With whom are you leaving me?
12:07I have no mother here.
12:09I have no father here.
12:12Abu Talib's resolve dissolved instantly.
12:15He changed his mind on the spot.
12:17The caravan set off and Muhammad was on it.
12:21He was entering a new chapter.
12:23The beginning of a life in trade.
12:25A world that would teach him exactly what he needed to know for what was coming.
12:30Stop for a moment.
12:32Before we go further, you need to understand the world this man was living in.
12:37Because without understanding the darkness, you cannot understand the light.
12:42A little girl is in the desert with her father.
12:48But today, for the first time, they are doing something together.
12:53Just the two of them.
12:55A father is digging a hole.
12:57She does not understand why.
12:59She tries to help him dig.
13:01When the hole is deep enough, he pushes her in.
13:04Then, without a word, he begins to cover her with dirt.
13:08She screams.
13:09She struggles.
13:11She reaches up with small hands.
13:13He does not stop.
13:15This was Arabia in the Age of Ignorance.
13:18Jahiliya.
13:19The time before Islam.
13:21Daughters were considered a source of shame.
13:24Some fathers buried their newborn girls alive before they could draw their second breath.
13:29The lucky ones survived only to spend their lives invisible, voiceless, without rights, without inheritance, without protection.
13:39If a woman's husband died, a stranger could walk into her home and claim everything.
13:45Her property.
13:46Her children.
13:47Her future.
13:48She had no recourse.
13:50No one to stand for her.
13:52No law to protect her.
13:54Tribal blood feuds ran for generations.
13:56If one man from a tribe was killed, any member of the rival tribe could be murdered in retaliation.
14:03Innocent children grew up fatherless, consumed by inherited hatred,
14:07prepared, preparing to kill people they had never met in vengeance for acts they never,
14:12witnessed, drinking, gambling, oppression, every form of corruption, openly celebrated.
14:20The Kaaba, built by the prophet Abraham, peace be upon Haim as a house of pure worship for one.
14:27God was now surrounded by 360 idols.
14:30People circled it without clothes.
14:33They clapped and danced around it.
14:35They had kept the rituals and lost every meaning behind them.
14:39The sun shone brightly over Arabia.
14:42But spiritually, the land was in complete darkness.
14:46Into this world, a man was being quietly prepared.
14:50A man who had lost everything and been given wisdom in return.
14:55A man who had been protected without ever knowing why.
14:58By the time he was 25, his reputation had spread through every corner of Mecca.
15:04Not through power.
15:06Not through wealth.
15:08Not through family connections.
15:10Through one thing only.
15:12Honesty.
15:13People called him Alamin.
15:15The trustworthy.
15:16It was not a title anyone gave him.
15:18It was simply what people called him.
15:21Naturally.
15:22The way you call something by what it obviously is.
15:25Merchants handed him their money for safekeeping.
15:29Strangers trusted him with their most valuable possessions.
15:32Oh, Muhammad.
15:34Will you hold my wealth?
15:35Will you look after what I have?
15:38I trust no one else.
15:39And here is what makes this extraordinary.
15:41Even after he declared his prophethood.
15:45Even after the Quraysh opposed him fiercely.
15:48Even after they called him a liar.
15:50They still did not take back what they had entrusted to him.
15:53They rejected his message.
15:55But they could not reject his character.
15:58Even his enemies trusted him with their valuable shwile publicly claiming he could not be believed.
16:03That contradiction told the whole truth.
16:06Around this time, the most successful businesswoman in Mecca was looking for someone to lead her trade caravan.
16:14Her name was Khadijah bin Kualid.
16:16She was known throughout Arabia, not just for her wealth, but for her character, her dignity, her discernment.
16:24She had been married twice.
16:26Both husbands had passed away.
16:28Many powerful men had sought her hand.
16:31She had turned every one of them down.
16:34She heard about Muhammad.
16:36She hired him to lead her caravan north.
16:38And she sent her most trusted servant, a man named Mysara, to observe him quietly and report back everything.
16:47Mysara watched.
16:48He took note.
16:49He could not stop watching.
16:51The care.
16:52The honesty.
16:54The dignity.
16:55The way he treated every person, stranger or companion, with equal respect.
17:01When the caravan returned, Mysara stood before Khadijah and said simply,
17:07I have never seen a man like him.
17:09Everywhere we went, people trusted him before he even spoke.
17:14Something shifted in Khadijah.
17:16For a woman who had refused every proposal, who had decided she was done with marriage, she found herself reconsidering.
17:23There was a 15-year age gap.
17:26She was 40.
17:28He was 25.
17:29Would he even consider it?
17:31She decided, unusually for that time, to find out.
17:35She sent her closest friend, Nafisa, to speak to him privately.
17:40Nafisa asked,
17:41Muhammad, what is holding you back from marriage?
17:44He said,
17:45I do not have enough wealth.
17:48She said,
17:48What if wealth was not the obstacle?
17:51If you were offered beauty, nobility, dignity, and a suitable match, would you accept?
17:57He asked,
17:58Who?
17:59She said,
18:00Khadijah.
18:01He was quiet for a moment.
18:03Then he said,
18:05How would that even be possible?
18:06She said,
18:08Leave that to me.
18:09And he said,
18:11In that case, yes.
18:12The wedding took place with a mar of 20 camels.
18:15And what was built in that home, in that marriage, was unlike anything Mecca had ever seen.
18:22Two souls so completely aligned, that years later he would say of her,
18:26Allah never gave me anyone better than her.
18:29When everyone denied me, she believed.
18:32When people called me a liar, she affirmed my truth.
18:36When others withheld, she gave everything she had.
18:40And Allah blessed me with children through her.
18:42Even Jibril, the angel of revelation, would one day send her salam.
18:48A greeting from her lord, and from the angel himself.
18:52That is the kind of woman Khadijah was.
18:55That is the home that was being built.
18:57The foundation being laid for the greatest weight any human being has ever been asked to carry.
19:03He was 35 years old when Mecca nearly tore itself apered over a stone.
19:08The Kaaba had deteriorated over the years.
19:11The elders of Mecca, Gatheredin, agreed it needed to be rebuilt completely.
19:16They pooled their resources, refusing to include a single coin earned through unjust means.
19:22Even in their ignorance, some instinct told them,
19:25this place deserves clean hands.
19:27The reconstruction went smoothly, until one moment stopped everything.
19:32The black stone, Hajar al-Aswad, placed in the corner of the Kaaba centuries, earlier by the prophet Ibrahim.
19:41Every tribe wanted the honor of lifting it back into position.
19:45The argument ignited instantly.
19:48This belongs to us.
19:50No, to us.
19:51Oaths were sworn.
19:53Threats were made.
19:54Some men swore they would fight to the death before surrendering this honor.
19:59For four to five days, no resolution came.
20:02Then the eldest among them stood and said,
20:05Let the first person who enters throughout that gate-team the one to decide.
20:10Whatever he says, we accept.
20:13Everyone fell silent.
20:14Everyone turned toward the gate, and then a figure appeared.
20:18The moment they saw him, the tension dissolved.
20:21It is Alamin.
20:22It is Muhammad.
20:23Whatever.
20:24He decides.
20:26We will accept it.
20:27He listened to the dispute.
20:29He said nothing for a moment.
20:31Then he said,
20:32Bring me a cloth.
20:34He placed the black stone eye in the center of the cloth himself.
20:38Then he called one representative, Ram, each tribe,
20:41and had them each take hold of a corner.
20:44Together, all tribes together,
20:46they carried the stone to the Kaaba,
20:48and with his own hands,
20:50he placed it back in its position.
20:51No blood was shed.
20:53No oath was broken.
20:55No tribe was humiliated.
20:57Everyone had the honor.
20:59Everyone went home with their dignity.
21:02A crisis that could have split,
21:04Mecawa solved in minutes,
21:06by a man who had never studied conflict resolution,
21:09but somehow already knew that the deepest human need us,
21:13to be seen and included.
21:14Not long after this,
21:16something began to shift inside him.
21:19Meca had begun to suffocate him.
21:21The idols.
21:22The injustice.
21:23The noise of a city that had forgotten what it was built for.
21:27He began to withdraw.
21:28To seek silence.
21:30He started climbing a mountain just outside Meca,
21:34Mount Nor,
21:34to a cave near its peak.
21:36The Cave of Hura.
21:38621 meters up a steep, narrow path.
21:42He would climb alone and sit in silence for days at a time.
21:46Khadija never questioned him.
21:48Never doubted him.
21:50She sent food with him.
21:51She supported what she did not yet fully understand.
21:55He was approaching 40.
21:56And the universe,
21:58which had been waiting,
21:59was almost ready.
22:01The year was 610.
22:03The month was Ramadan.
22:04The night was Leiladul Kadra,
22:07the night of power.
22:09He was 40 years old.
22:11Inside the Cave of Hura,
22:13alone as he always was,
22:14he sat in the complete dark with,
22:16nothing but moonlight reaching through the narrow opening.
22:19Deep reflection.
22:21Deep stillness.
22:23Deep quiet.
22:24He had no idea.
22:26No warning.
22:27No preparation.
22:28No voice telling him what was about to happen.
22:31And then,
22:32the cave filled with light.
22:34A light so intense it was blinding.
22:37And from within that light,
22:39a presence.
22:40The angel Jibril,
22:42Gabriel in the form of a man,
22:44filling the entire cave.
22:46A command came.
22:48One word.
22:49Ikra.
22:50Read.
22:51He said,
22:51I am not someone who can read.
22:54The angel embraced him,
22:55and squeezed,
22:56until he felt every ounce of breath leave his body.
23:00Then released him.
23:02Read.
23:03I cannot read.
23:04Another embrace.
23:05Tighter.
23:06More complete.
23:08Released again.
23:09Read.
23:10I cannot read.
23:11A third time.
23:13So tight.
23:14He thought something inside him will break.
23:17Released.
23:18And in that moment,
23:19completely emptied of himself,
23:21he said,
23:22What should I read?
23:24And then,
23:25the first words of the Quran descended into the world.
23:28Ikra.
23:29Bizmi.
23:29Rebika.
23:30Alladi.
23:30Kalak.
23:31Read in the name of your lord who created.
23:34Kalakal.
23:36He created the human being from a clinging clod.
23:40Ikra.
23:40Warabukal Akram.
23:41Read.
23:42And your lord is the most generous.
23:45Alladi.
23:45Allama.
23:46Bill Callum.
23:47Who taught by the pen.
23:48Allama.
23:49Allama.
23:50Allama.
24:03Allama.
24:03Means to read.
24:04He stepped outside the cave.
24:06The night air hit him.
24:08His heart was hammering.
24:10His body was shaking.
24:12He knew only one thing.
24:14He needed to get to Khadija.
24:15He ran.
24:17Down the mountain.
24:18Through the dark.
24:20Faster than the fear could catch him.
24:22He burst through the door of his home drenched in sweat.
24:25Barely able to speak,
24:27with only one sentence left in him.
24:29Cover me.
24:31Cover me.
24:32Khadija did not panic.
24:33She did not ask questions.
24:36She did not add to the fear already in the room.
24:39She helped him lie down.
24:41She wrapped him gently.
24:42She sat beside him and stayed.
24:44When his breathing slowed,
24:46when he could finally speak,
24:48he told her everything.
24:49I am afraid, Khadija.
24:51I am afraid something terrible is happening to me.
24:54She looked at Hyman.
24:55She said something that silenced every fear in that room.
24:59Never.
25:00By Allah.
25:01Allah will never cause you harm.
25:03You maintain your family ties.
25:06You carry the burden of others.
25:08You give to those who have nothing.
25:10You honor your guests.
25:12You stand by the truth in every difficulty.
25:16Allah would never abandon someone like you.
25:18Every word landed precisely where he needed it to.
25:21That is what the right person at the right moment can do for a human soul.
25:26She did not stop there.
25:27She took him to her cousin.
25:29An elderly Christian scholar named Waraka ibn Nafal.
25:33A man over 80 years old.
25:36A man who had spent his life studying earlier scriptures.
25:40The Torah.
25:41The gospel.
25:42Searching for what was coming.
25:43They told him everything.
25:46He said the words quietly at first.
25:50Then louder.
25:51Kudus.
25:52Kudus.
25:53Holy.
25:54Holy.
25:55Then he spoke clearly.
25:56The being who came to you is the same angel that came to Musa to Moses.
26:02He is Namas al-Akbar.
26:04The great angel.
26:06And you are the prophet of this nation.
26:08There was a pause.
26:10Then Waraka said something else.
26:12Something that shook the room.
26:14I wish I could be young and be.
26:16Alive.
26:17When your own people drive you from your land.
26:20He stopped.
26:21Muhammad asked quietly.
26:23My own people will expel me?
26:25He was stunned.
26:26He had not a single enemy in Mecca.
26:29Not one person who doubted him.
26:32Not one conflict in forty years.
26:35Waraka said.
26:36No one has ever carried a message like yours without his own people turning against him.
26:41And if I live to see that day, I will stand beside you.
26:45That night ended.
26:47They returned home.
26:48The next morning, Jibril appeared again.
26:51This time in a valley outside Mecca.
26:54He struck the earth with his heel.
26:56Water flowed.
26:58He showed Muhammad how to make wadu.
27:00Ritual purification.
27:02Then he showed him salah.
27:04The prayer.
27:05Two yurts.
27:06Together.
27:07In that valley.
27:08The first prayer in the history of Islam was performed in a quiet valley outside Mecca
27:13by a man who had just received.
27:16Heaviest responsibility any human being had ever been given.
27:20He returned home.
27:22He taught cottage everything Jibril had shown him.
27:24He led her in prayer.
27:26She stood behind him.
27:28Then their children joined.
27:30That household, the most peaceful home in all of Mecca, became the first congregation
27:35in the history of the world's final religion.
27:39They did not yet know what that meant.
27:41They only knew something had begun.
27:44Something enormous.
27:46Something that would never stop.
27:48In those early days, he told almost no one.
27:51The message was too new.
27:53Too sacred.
27:55Too fragile.
27:56He shared it only with those in him most deeply.
27:59And then, a ten-year-old child saw something from the doorway.
28:03His name was Ali, son of Abu Talib.
28:06The nephew who had grown up watching this man from close.
28:10He watched the prayer.
28:12He did not fully understand it.
28:14But something in it reached a place inside him that nothing else had ever reached.
28:20After the prayer ended, he approached.
28:22What is this?
28:24The Prophet invited him to Islam.
28:26Ali did not answer immediately.
28:28He said he needed to speak to his father first.
28:32But that night, he thought it over.
28:34And he arrived at a conclusion that reveals the quality of the sulfid was being drawn to
28:40this message.
28:40When Allah created me, he did not ask Abu Talib as permission.
28:45So why would I ask my father's permission to worship Allah?
28:49He returned the next morning and declared his faith.
28:53Ali, ten years old, became the first child to embrace Islam.
28:57Shortly after, Abu Bakr returned from a trading journey in Yemen.
29:01One of the most respected men in Mecca.
29:04Successful.
29:05Wise.
29:06Trusted.
29:07A close friend of the Prophet for many years.
29:10The leaders of Quraysh went to him first.
29:13They told him.
29:15Your friend Muhammadus claimed to be a Prophet.
29:18Go to him.
29:19Speak sense to him.
29:20Bring him back.
29:22They thought Abu Bakr will talk him out of it.
29:24They did not know Abu Bakr.
29:27He already had his answer before.
29:29He knocked on the door.
29:30Because months earlier, a dream had been interpreted for him.
29:34A Prophet would emerge in Mecca.
29:36And he, Abu Bakr, would follow him.
29:40Everything was already in place.
29:42He went to the Prophet.
29:43He asked him directly.
29:45The Prophet invited him to Islam.
29:47And the Prophet would later describe this moment with these words.
29:51Every person I invited to faith had some hesitation at first.
29:55Except Abu Bakr.
29:57He did not hesitate for a single moment.
30:00Abu Bakr embraced Islam immediately, completely, without reservation.
30:04And from the very next day, he could not stay quiet.
30:08He went to his most trusted companions.
30:11He told them what he had found.
30:14He invited them to the same truth that had just changed his life.
30:17Through Abu Bakr alone, six of the most famous Namasin Islamic historian braced the faith.
30:24Uthman ibn Affin.
30:26Talha ibn Ubedur.
30:28Zubair ibn Awam.
30:30Abdur Rahman ibn Awaf.
30:33Saad ibn Abi Waqas.
30:35Uthman ibn Mezin.
30:37And the women, they too began to carry this light.
30:40Khadijah.
30:41Fatima.
30:42Ruqayya.
30:43Um, Kultham.
30:44Hmm, Faddle.
30:45Asma bent Abi Bakr.
30:47Each one carrying the message I in her own way, to the women around her.
30:52Knowing that this truth was not meant to stay in one house.
30:56It was meant for the world.
30:58But as the circle quietly grew, as the light began to spread, word was reaching places it was never supposed
31:05to reach.
31:06The leaders of Quraysh were beginning to hear things that made them deeply uncomfortable.
31:11And the price of carrying this message, which had not yet been paid, was about to come due.
31:17He started alone.
31:19One man.
31:20One message.
31:21One city that was about to turn against him with everything it had.
31:25The boycott was coming.
31:27The torture of the early Muslims was coming.
31:30The years of starvation were coming.
31:32The assassination attempts were coming.
31:35The heartbreak of Taif was coming.
31:37And through all of it, not for a single moment, would he consider stopping.
31:42Because he had been prepared for Thyssa's entire life.
31:46Every loss.
31:47Every hunger.
31:49Every night under the stars.
31:51Every silent hour in that cave.
31:53It was all preparation.
31:54For what was about to begin.
31:57In episode 2, you will see what happens in the most powerful city in Arabidestes to destroy a man it
32:03cannot corrupt.
32:05The persecution.
32:06The courage.
32:07The faith that held when everything else was burning.
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32:23This series, O Messenger, is our attempt to tell that story with the honesty, the depth, and the reverence it
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32:31Every event in this series is drawn from authentic Islamic sources.
32:36Every detail has been carefully researched, though.
32:39Honor the truth of what actually happened.
32:42We ask Allah to accept this work.
32:44To make it a source of benefit for every heart that watches it.
32:48And to forgive us for any shortcoming in how we tell it.
32:52Sally Ela Muhammad.
32:54Peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family, his companions, and all who follow his path until the
33:01last day.
33:02This is episode 1.
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