All power belongs to God
Al-Risala (English), July 1986, p. 21
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
All power belongs to God
1986 7 July 21 All power belongs to God (127) The Prophet sent Dhammam ibn Thaalaba to preach the message of monotheism to the Banu Saad ibn Bakr tribe. He came before them and urged them to forsake idolatry. “What terrible gods – Lat and Uzza – you have chosen,” he said. “Don’t say such things,” they warned him. “Aren’t you afraid of being stricken by leucoderma, leprosy or madness?” Lat and ‘Uzza were the idols that these people worshipped. They feared that, by condemning them, Dhammam was exposing himself to insanity, or illnesses such as leucoderma or leprosy. “Woe betide you,” Dhammam replied. “Lat and ‘Uzza can do one neither harm nor good.”
1. The compiler of the Kitabus Sunan or “Book of Traditions,” This work is counted one of the six Sahihs, or authentic collections of Hadith.
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