HIS REACTION TOWARDS APOSTASY
It was not long after the death of the Messenger of Allah (prayers and peace be upon him), when Islam became entangled in a grave struggle from two directions: first with paganism that was making a sudden comeback to the life and the second was with the crusade that was simmering in the northern boarder of the Arabian Peninsula; stifling the propagation of Islam and stalling the entrance of its people into Islam.
Imam Al-Dhahabi said: ‘When the news of the death of the Prophet spread, many groups of people among the Arabs apostatized from Islam. They objected to pay the almsgiving. Abu Bakr decided to fight them. Umar and others impressed upon him to refrain from fighting them, but Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) , said: ‘By Allah, if they refuse to pay a rope which they used to pay at the time of the Messenger of Allah, I will fight them for withholding it.’
Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) insisted: ‘How can you fight with these people although the Prophet (prayers and peace be upon him) said: “I have been ordered by Allah to fight the people till they say: None has the right to be worshiped but Allah, and whoever said it then he will save his life and property from me except on trespass the law, and his accounts will be with Allah.”
Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), reiterated: ‘By Allah! I will fight those who differentiate between the prayer and almsgiving, for almsgiving is a compulsory right to be taken from the property (according to Allah’s orders).’
Then Umar said: ‘By Allah, it was nothing, but Allah brought relief to Abu Bakr toward the decision (to fight) and I came to know that this decision was right.’ Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) raised the banner of war on all fronts. The desert never witnessed, even in the lifetime of the Prophet (prayers and peace be upon him) himself, such grinding battles as those that occurred. But the men that were trained by Muhammad (prayers and peace be upon him) upon the recognition of the truth and total submission to it were sincere to Allah in their deeds. They dealt idolatry a blow that broke its spine and squeezed its soul until it faded into oblivion. They equally drove away the Romans from the boarders. They broke the spine of the apostates. Some of them came back into the fold of Islam and others perished far estranged from it. In no more than a few years, Islam triumphed and was seen and heard (far and wide) while other religions were on the brink of extinction.
Source: ( The Series of: Men and Women Around Muhammad)
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