n the following story, ‘Sa ‘d bin Abi Waqqas – The Lion in the Den ’, the life of one of the greatest heroes of Islam is reviewed. He was among the great warriors of Islam and one of the ten people whom the Prophet M promised their entry into Paradise. He was the Prophet’s uncle and the great commander who led the Muslim army
Our hero Sa‘d bin Abi Waqqas lived in these A dark days. He was one of those few people who A discovered that the gods whom people used to worship were false. He realized through deep thinking that these deities were not the true creators of this universe. Therefore, when Sa‘d received the news of Prophets call to a new religion following the steps of the Prophet M who came before him, he took it as his cause to support it to the last minute of his life. He never hesitated to sacrifice all worldly pleasures and even his own life to
spread the new light of Islam and to change the long established ways of thinking. Sa‘d was challenged even by the closest people to him. He was harshly and constantly ^ pressed to revert to the false deities of his
forefathers; but he vigorously and diligently kept his stance. He felt from the first moment that he was commissioned to raise the new flag of Islam high and to take it to the four comers of the world.
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