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Abu Bakr Passes Away

After an illness of two weeks, Abu Bakr passed away. Born into the noble Quraysh tribe in Mecca, he was distinguished from an early age for his honesty, intelligence, and sense of justice. THye are Your servants.

He would strip Bilal of all clothes, make him lie on the burning sand at mid-day and then lash him mercilessly. He also commanded the initial incursions into the neighbouring Sassanian and Byzantine empires, which in the years following his death, would eventually result in the Muslim conquests of Persia and the Levant.

He rather chose other people who were more fit for public service. The mighty empires of Iran and Byzantium were based upon naked force.

Abu Bakr is remembered as the first of four rightly guided Caliphs (Al-Khulafa-ur-Rashidun).

Fighting unto Death

Ikrama bin Abu Jahl was fighting at Yarmuk. That exhausted the patience of young Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr stood unequalled in his love for Allah and His Apostle. From an early age, he displayed remarkable qualities of honesty, kindness, and reliability, earning the trust and respect of his peers long before the advent of Islam.

He wanted to make sure that nothing would go wrong with the affairs of Muslims, after he was no more. Some hadith list the first four in order of merit, which makes Abu Bakr the most worthy Muslim after the Prophet himself. Sunnis argue that Muhammad endorsed the traditional Arabian method of shura or consultation, as the way for the community to choose leaders.

My parting advice is that you fear Allah and work for the well-being of the Muslims. Ali ibn Abi Talib was the first child to embrace Islam, for he has not even reached the age of puberty at that time, while Abu Bakr was the first free man to embrace Islam.^[16]

Subsequent life in Mecca

His wife Qutaylah bint Abd-al-Uzza did not accept Islam and he divorced her.

He was everything to them. You will come across people who have give up the world and are sitting in monasteries. He hit back so hard that the enemy fled back headlong. One type challenged the political power of the nascent caliphate as well as the religious authority of Islam with the acclamation of rival ideologies, headed by political leaders who claimed the mantle of prophethood in the manner that Muhammad had done.