Hadhrat Salman and the
Prophets
There are astounding parallels between
the life of Salman and the lives of three great prophets, viz., Abraham,
Joseph son of Jacob, and Muhammed Mustafa the son of Abdullah, may Allah
bless them all.
Abraham defied his father who was an
idolater; Salman defied his father who was a fire-worshipper; and
Muhammed Mustafa defied the Quraysh of Makkah who were polytheists. The
reason for this defiance by all three of them was the same, viz., their
faith in the Oneness of their Creator. Their pure faith as monotheists
made conflict with the polytheists inevitable.
To all three of them, the lands of
their birth proved to be inhospitable because of their faith, and all
three of them had to forsake them. Abraham migrated from Iraq to Canaan
(Palestine) and to Makkah; Salman migrated from Persia to Syria and to
Yathrib; and Muhammed Mustafa migrated from Makkah to Medina. Each of
them found his destiny in the land of his adoption.
Salman arrived in Yathrib many years
before the arrival of Muhammed Mustafa in that city. For all those
years, he was harassed, tormented and overworked by a pitiless, wanton
and sadistic master, and he did not know a day of peace.
During the ten years before his
migration to Yathrib, Muhammed Mustafa was also subject to harassment
and persecution in Makkah by the pagans, and he too did not know a day
of peace.
Thus, in the time-frame, the period of
the persecution of Muhammed Mustafa by the Quraysh coincided with the
period of the persecution of Salman by a Jew. They were both being
persecuted at the same time. |