I am trying to revisit seerah half hour a day and I wanted …

I am going to present to you a scene after fath' Makkah [Conquest of Makkah]

During the conquest of Makkah at the entrance of the prophet ﷺ, thousands of people were coming to him to embrace Islam.

And amongst those thousands is Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه | May Allah be pleased with him). He comes with his father Abu Quhafa - an old man with a white beard and white hair, imagine the old man how he’s walking slowly with a limp and he’s walking to the prophet ﷺ.

Imagine the state of Abu Bakr's heart as he guides his father towards prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

Why?
To take shahada and to give Bayah to the prophet.

So when the prophet sees Abu Quhafa he tells, why didn’t you leave the old man in his home I would have come to him.

This is the Nabi of Allah, he just conquered Makkah and yet his priority is to ease an old man's hardship, he is saying to a non-Muslim, I will come to you if you want to accept Islam.

So when Abu Qahafa put his hands in the hands of the prophet ﷺ to give him Bayah - Abu Bakr began to cry.

Now why do you think Abu Bakr would cry?

Let's back track and learn a history lesson.

Abu Bakr gave dawah to his father for 21 years and his father rejected the message of Islam for 21 years. Right in this moment his father was accepting Islam. There is nothing more beloved to converts,

there is nothing more beloved to their heart and more dear to their soul than for their parents to accept Islam.

So as Abu Bakr sees his father's hands in the hand of the prophet ﷺ he began crying, so the prophet ﷺ asked him, oh Abu Bakr why are you crying?

Now this is where it gets real...

You know what he says, YA SALAAM!!

He says ya rasoolallah I am crying because when I see this scene I wish that the hand that’s in your hand right now giving you Bayah was the hands of your Uncle Abu Talib and that Allah honored you through his Islam that is more beloved to me than my own father accepting Islam.

Now why did he say this? Because he knew how much Abu Talib meant to the prophet and how much love the prophet ﷺ had for Abu Talib.

Be a friend like Abu Bakr Siddique! ❤
He embodied deep empathy, selflessness, love and true care and concern for rasoolAllah ﷺ.

❝None of you will believe until you love for your brother what you love for yourself.❞
[Bukhari & Muslim]

I am trying to revisit seerah half hour a day and I wanted to share something that makes me bawl like a baby. Here is the story of Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه | May Allah be pleased with him) and how he redefined what it means to be a true Friend 😇

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