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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)
then dragged him over the hot sand through the streets of Mecca.
(Zad al-Maad, 2/116; The Age of Felicity, 1/253)
They were at first unable to touch the person of our Prophet
(pbuh) since he was under the guardianship of his uncle Abu Talib
and since they feared the Hashemites. Gradually, however they
began slandering him, saying he was a "fortune teller, a poet, a magi-
cian, a conjuror." Eventually, they took every opportunity they could
find to insult and mistreat the Prophet (pbuh).
This mistreatment of Muslims all took place simply because
they had faith and preached Islam to others. Despite all that oppres-
sion, torture and violence, Muslims never harmed those who were
harming them, which is one of the requirements of Islam, and never
tried to defend themselves, which is their most basic human right.
The pagans of the time were unable to
harm Muslims from powerful and presti-
gious families, such as Hazrat Abu Bakr
and Hazrat Uthman. However, they bar-
barically mistreated and tortured poor
and helpless Muslims, in a
way never seen before.
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