Hajj: A Commitment to Ultimate Sacrifice

is to believe in one God, who has no partner, and that Muhammad is His worshipper and Messenger, and to abandon the worship of stones that neither hear nor see nor can they bring benefit or harm. ‘And they do not know who worships them and who does not worship them.’ Upon hearing this, Khalid said, “I bear witness that there is no deity but God, and I bear witness that you are the Messenger of God.” When Khalid’s father, who was a polytheist, learned that his son had embraced Islam, he caught him and began to beat him. He struck him so fiercely that the stick he was using broke. Despite this severe punishment, when Khalid refused to renounce Islam, his father threatened him by saying, “I will stop your food and drink, and I will throw you out of the house.” Khalid responded, ‘By God, he has spoken the truth, and I follow him.’ (Mustadrak Al-Hakim, Hadith No. 5082).” In other words, he meant that when Muhammad was speaking the truth, how could I possibly not accept it? 2. The second example is Suhail bin Amr. During the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, he was the representative of the opponents of Islam. After lengthy discussions, when the treaty was about to be written, the Messenger of God dictated these words: “These are the terms on which Muhammad, the Messenger of God, has made peace with the people of Quraysh: ‘This is what Muhammad, the Messenger of God, has agreed upon.” Suhail bin Amr strongly objected to these words, saying, “By God, if we knew that you were the Messenger of