ACTS OF APOSTLE

chapter 16

*God's Protection*

Abu Talib immediately did as Buhaira suggested, because the warning was well-founded.

Soon after Abu Talib and Muhammad left Buhaira's house, 3 scribes named Zurair, Daris, and Tammam came to Buhaira. He had a gun on his waist. They asked Buhaira if she also saw a child with characteristics like this and that.

Buhaira knew that they were looking for Muhammad. Apparently, these three men had also heard of Muhammad. Buhaira looked at the weapon2 they were carrying with horror.

Buhaira knew they were looking for Muhammad with the intention of killing him. Therefore, Buhaira tried to give protection to Muhammad.

Unceasingly Buhaira advised his three guests of the power of God. He was reminded that no matter what their efforts were, they would not be able to approach Muhammad to kill him.

Finally, they saw the truth in the words of Buhaira. Abolish their intention to pursue and kill Muhammad, then proceed from before Buhaira.

Allah kept Muhammad from evil and the filth of the Jahiliyah. Allah guided Muhammad to grow up to be the most knightly, the kindest, the noblest of his origins, the best of his associations, the greatest of his manners, the purest of his honesty, the furthest from the ugliness and morals that defile men so that everyone calls them *"Al Amin"* because Allah collected those qualities in Muhammad.

*Now after becoming an Apostle,*Muhammad told him about Allah's protection from childhood from all forms of ignorance. The apostle said,

"In my childhood, I was with the little children of Quraysh transporting stones for a game that children used to do. All of us took off the clothes for the pedestal on the shoulder (as a wedge) to carry the stone.

"I went forward and back with them. Suddenly, someone I had never seen before slapped me with a very painful slap. He said, Put on your clothes!' Then, I took my clothes and put them on. After that, I carried the stone on my shoulder while still wearing clothes and not like my friend."

*Help Uncle*

Muhammad was also a hired shepherd, to help Abu Talib who lived in poverty

*Fijar War*

As a teenager growing up in the Arabian Peninsula. Muhammad also had a war. This war is called the Fijar War.

The war itself was caused by murder.

Barradz ibn Qois of the Banu Kinanah killed Urwa Ar-Rahhal ibn Utba of the House of Hawazin, only because Barradz was exasperated when Urwa was chosen to lead the rich trading caravan of Nu'man ibn Mundhir.

Silent, Barradz followed Urwa's caravan from behind and killed Urwa.

When it was a holy month, it was not allowed for anyone to shed blood.

Because of the Quraysh protector of Barradz, the Children of Hawazin declared war on the Quraysh to avenge Urwa's death. War broke out on the holy month. For four consecutive years, the two sides attacked each other.

In the battle, Muhammad was initially tasked with picking up the arrows of fallen opponents and giving them to his uncles. However, in the years that followed, he also launched arrows at the opponent to protect his uncles.

The war ended in an inland peace: the party who suffered less human casualties had to pay compensation to the other party a certain amount of excess casualties. In this case, the Quraysh who suffered less had to pay the excess of twenty Hawazins.

*Barradz bin Qois*

Barradz bin Qois, the cause of the Fijar War, was a drunkard.

For ruining the image of his tribe, he was expelled and got the shade of another tribe. But there, he was also drunk heavily and made a troublemaker and then expelled again.

Eventually, Harb ibn Muawiyah, Abu Sofyan's father, took him in, although Barradz ibn Qois was almost expelled again, for continuing to cause trouble.

Because of Harb's protection from Quraysh, the Children of Hawazin attacked Quraysh when Barradz ibn Qois killed Urwa ibn Utba.

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