5. Would you like to meet him outside the institution? (cont.)

However, he was not able to fulfil his request as there was the pact between him and the people of Makkah. However, the Prophet still wanted to respond to him in kindness and to help him by his speech if he could not do so in any other way. He turned to his Companions and said in praise of Abu Baseer, "Woe be to his mother! He is a warrior, if only he had men!' These words also constituted a type of consent that he gave to Abu Baseer. Abu Baseer stayed at the door of the Mosque waiting for the Prophet to grant him permission to stay in Madinah. However, he recalled his pledge with the Quraysh and ordered him to leave Madinah. Abu Baseer heard and obeyed. Yes, he did not hold any grudge in his heart against the religion, and nor did he turn to the Muslims in enmity. He was hoping for a reward from the Most Generous, for whom he had left Help by your speech if you cannot do so in any other way his family and had exhausted himself and placed his body under great stress. Abu Baseer left Madinah and wondered where he should go. In Makkah there would await him torture and chains, and in Madinah there are pacts and pledges that the Muslims had to uphold. He thus went off to the shores of the Red Sea and stayed over there without a friend or companion. When the Muslims in Makkah heard about him, they realised that the doors to relief were opened up to them as the Muslims in Madinah were not able to accept them and the disbelievers in Makkah were torturing them. Abu Jandal then managed to escape and caught up with Abu Baseer. Thereafter, many Muslims began to join up with him until they became great in number and powerful. Not a single Qurayshi caravan would pass them except that they would attack it. When the Quraysh became fed up of this, they sent a message to the Prophet urging him in the name of Allah to allow Abu Baseer to join the Muslims in Madinah. Thus, the Prophet sent them a message ordering them to join him in Madinah. When the message reached them they were overjoyed. However, Abu Baseer by then had become critically ill and was close to death. He kept saying, "My Lord, most High − the Greatest! Whoever aids Allah is aided!" When people visited him and informed him that the Prophet had allowed them to go and live in Madinah, that their estrangement had finally ended and that they had been given security, Abu Baseer became overjoyed. He said as he was fighting death, "Show me the letter from the Messenger of Allah ." The Help by your speech if you cannot do so in any other way letter was thus given to him. He took the letter, kissed it, placed it upon his chest and said, "I bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah! I bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah!" He then breathed his last breath and passed away. May Allah have mercy on you, O Abu Baseer! May Allah's prayers be upon you, O Prophet! To help someone with enchanting words indicates that you consider his feelings and show him kindness. It is said that once, a poor woman laid next to her husband on an old bed in an old cottage. Its walls were patchy and the roof was made from the trunks of palm-trees. Her eyes started to wander about as she looked at the walls and the roof and she drifted away, deep in thought. She then said, "Do you know what I wish?" The man said, "What do you wish?" She said, "I wish that one day you own a huge house wherein you would live with your children happily and to which you could call your friends over. I also wish that we own a nice car which you would drive comfortably, and that your income multiplies so that you could pay off all your debts, etc." She continued to eagerly mention all the different types of happiness that she wished for him. The man was, however, sunk in his thoughts about his failures. He had lost all hope of bettering his situation, and he was not very skilful in speech either. Help by your speech if you cannot do so in any other way When the woman became tired of speaking, she said to him, "What do you wish for?" The man looked at the roof for a while and said, "I wish that a part of the trunk falls off from this roof onto your head and splits it into two!" A Hadith...