Uhud, 7 Shawwal, 3 AH
God's messenger commands you to stay in position
and not to move from it,
even if you see us snatched away by birds of prey.
Who wants a duel?
By Him who holds my soul in His hand,
I will not leave you until I have sent you by my sword to hell,
or you send me with your sword to heaven.
Cousin, I appeal to you by God and by our kinship.
Shouldn't you have killed him?
My cousin appealed to me by our kinship when his private parts were exposed.
I felt it a shame to continue.
This is your day, the clansmen of Abd Al-Dar;
This is your day, you protectors of our rear;
Strike hard with every sharp cutting edge.
If you advance and are brave we will hug you,
and lay cushions for you;
but if you are cowardly and move back, we will abandon you
entertaining no grain of love for you.
Back to the battle! Back to the battle!
The booty; the booty.
Do not move away. Stay where you are.
Hamzah!
Hamzah was killed.
All of you Muslims, come and join the Prophet.
Hamzah! Hamzah!
We have given you a day like you gave us in Badr;
One battle rages on after another.
Nothing could condole me for the loss of Utbah,
nor for my brother and uncle and my first son.
I have taken my revenge and fulfilled my vows.
Wahshi, you have quenched the fire burning in my chest.
Wahshi, I thank you for the rest of my life,
until my bones are wasted in my grave.
Here you are, Abu Dusmah.
You have quenched my thirst and put out my fire.
It is time to honour our promises.
Glory to Hubal. Glory to Hubal.
Glory to Hubal.
I am free! Free... free... free.
Free... free... free.
Who gave you permission?
What's wrong with you? What have I done?
Don't touch anything without my permission.
What's the matter, man? I only placed it around my neck.
Who has a stronger claim to it? Or, do you want to wear it yourself?
How lovely?
Do you want to be seen wearing Hind Bint Utbah's jewellery?
Who said I wanted to wear it in public?
What people are here?
Has Hind stipulated any conditions on what you do with it?
It is yours to do with it what you like.
If you do not sell it, who will wear it other than me when we marry soon?
What is the matter with you? Why don't you answer?
Aren't you free now
and you have your choice in what you do with yourself?
Isn't this your promise?
Yes, I gained my freedom. But what about you?
Are you ashamed of me now when you have been the same?
No, not like that.
How do I marry you when you are a slave of your master?
Or do you think that he will set you free for Wahshi's sake?
You have this.
You can buy me off him with this.
I don't think he will refuse when these came from Hind.
Besides, I am only a slave for service, not for bed.
Are you mad? Will I give this away?
It is very precious.
Every noble woman in Quraysh would love to have something like it.
Yes. It is more valuable than me.
By God, Wahshi, you haven't become truly free.
You will soon know.
May God preserve your hand, Khalid.
You have healed our wounds and enabled us to take our revenge.
Every household in Makkah is talking about you.
They cannot stop praising you.
Why, then, I am not delighted like them?
What revenge are they talking about?
Yes, we know for whom we are taking revenge,
but we do not know from whom.
We have made an alliance with yesterday's enemies, the Kinanah,
and fought with them our own cousins.
We took with us our slaves to kill the best people in Quraysh.
The Arabs used always to take revenge for their own people from others.
Now we are avenging ourselves against ourselves.
We are seeking the support of past enemies and slaves.
We must not let them feel secure in Yathrib.
Arabs are still going to Muhammad after Uhud,
as though he was not defeated there.
What's the matter, Wahshi?
Nothing, mas... Nothing
Wahshi, you said that nothing was the matter.
So, what sits you here?
Don't you see us meeting and discussing our people's business?
If you have no work, then you can attend to my camels
and I will pay you for your work.
Has it come to that a slave would come to our meetings
and hope to mix with us?
He was nothing other than a piece of armament we used.
Woe to us! What has Muhammad done to us!
My father was killed by his slave,
but we find no way of taking revenge for him and his likes other than using this slave.
Now he takes airs in public and says "I have killed Hamzah".
By God, the slippers of the victim are better than the killer.
Look where you are going, slave.
Wait a moment, Raihanah.
Go away so that people won't see us.
Let them all see us.
What harm is there if two free people propose to each other to get married.
Yes, I have made up my mind.
I will go to your master to buy you with Hind's jewellery.
We will then get married.
It is too late now. Move aside now.
What have you said, woman? Isn't that what you were after?
I am not lawful for you to marry now, Wahshi.
I've become a Muslim. I follow the Prophet.
You've done that!
You can, if you wish, give me away and tell my master.
By God, I am not better than Sumayyah Bint Khayat or Bilal Ibn Rabah.
Remember Bilal Ibn Rabah, Wahshi!
O' people of Quraysh, it is true that we follow different religions,
but we have a common enemy: Muhammad and his companions.
They are competing with us in business.
It was all ours, with no competitors.
It enabled us to control the people of Yathrib,
until Muhammad and his companions arrived there.
We have now come to you with a plan of total extermination.
Together we enter Yathrib from all directions.
We have made an alliance with the Ghatafan tribe: they will provide six thousand fighters,
and we will give them all the date fruits of Khaibar for one year.
We have said what we have. Let us hear your views.
How about the Quraizah?
Their forts protect Yathrib from the south east.
We know that they have a treaty with Muhammad
which binds them not to support any side against him.
Yes, they do. We also had one similar to that.
They follow our religion.
When they see our numbers and are reassured of our superior power,
they will join us and break their pledges to him.
I guarantee that.
Besides, there is a section of the people of Yathrib
who are opposed to him,
although they pretend not to in order to spare themselves trouble.
They call them the hypocrites,
but they are the best people among the Aws and the Khazraj.
They are our allies, and we scheme together.
Let us now make our vows and pledges.
Hold to the coverings of the Kaabah.
We swear by God that we will not let each other down.
And that we will all be together against Muhammad to our last man.
Messenger of God, I do not think that we should go out to meet them;
now that the Arabs have colluded against us
Back in Persia, when we feared attacking armies,
we dug moats to separate us from them.
Thus, they could not reach us, but we could bombard them with arrows.
Yes, Messenger of God.
Salamn has given us a very sound solution.
The Arabs have never experienced anything of the sort.
Our opponents will not figure out what to do.
Madinah is well fortified in all directions, except the north.
To the east there is Harrat Waqim, and to the west Harrat Al-Wabarah.
Both are areas of volcanic rocks where horses cannot walk through.
To the south, the buildings are high and next to each other,
forming something like a wall.
Behind them there are date trees which will impede any army.
Beyond them to the east there are the forts of Quraizah.
They are bound by their treaty with us
stipulating that they will never support any enemy against us.
So we need only to dig the moat in the north close to Mount Sala'.
This rock has troubled me. The axe cannot dent it.
The Prophet has heard you, Salman.
Expect a happy event and be patient.
By God, those people will gain nothing from us.
The Prophet hit at a very hard rock three times,
and there was a flash of light with each strike.
He smiled every time.
When we asked him, he said:
With the first one, God has granted me Syria.
By God I can see its red palaces now.
With the second, I have been given the keys to Persia.
By God, I can see the white palace of Al-Mada'in.
With the third I have been given the keys to Yemen.
By God I can now see the gates of Sanaa from my place here.
If you truly believe, and if you sincerely obey God's Messenger,
let not what you are facing today trouble you,
since you now know for certain what God will give you in future.
What Umar said is correct.
By God, all that has taken place and I saw it.
May God bless you Salman.
Without God's grace, and then your sound advice,
we would not have thought of digging this moat
to protect the Prophet's city.
That is only by God's grace.
Salman belongs to us, the Muhajireen.
No, he belongs to us, the Ansar.
God's messenger has heard what you said about Salman,
and he says: "Salman belongs to us, the Prophet's household".
God is supreme. Salman has won.
What a great honour! Congratulations to Salman.
Were I not one of the Muhajireen, I would have loved to be in his place.
Huh! The palaces of Syria, Persia and Yemen!
These people have been deluded by their religion.
Al-Khandaq (The Trench), Shawwal, 5 AH
Retreat. Retreat.
Retreat.
Salman Al-Farisi! He is a man from Persia
who was taken prisoner and brought to Yathrib.
He was a slave belonging to a man here.
When Muhammad arrived, he embraced his religion.
He was the one who suggested this trick to them.
They could not have known anything of the sort.
We are as much surprised by it as you are.
While they are able to prevent us from crossing over to them,
they are restricting themselves behind the moat.
Let us see how long they can persevere without their supplies of food.
We shall not depart until hunger has bitten hard among them
and they are forced to come over to us.
How about the Quraizah Jews?
Their forts protect Yathrib from the south east.
Come on, Kaab. Open the door for us.
Go away, Huyay. You are a man of bad omen.
I have a treaty with Muhammad and I am not going to violate it.
I have experienced nothing but faithful honouring of commitments from him.
Open the door, I want to speak to you.
I shall not.
By the Lord of Moses, you have only closed the door
so that I would not share your food.
Open the door.
Kaab, can you not see that I have come to bring you the glory of all time.
I am giving you a sea of goodness.
I have brought you Quraysh, with all its chiefs and leaders,
and Ghatafan, with all their chiefs and leaders.
Both have given me their most solemn pledges
that they will not depart until we have annihilated Muhammad and all his followers.
You have indeed come to me with an everlasting shame:
a cloud which has no rain.
It may produce lightning and thunder, but it has nothing good to offer.
Had your scheming been of any good,
it would have benefited you and your Nadeer tribe,
instead of your expulsion to Khaibar.
That was when I precipitated things, going alone with my people.
Now, it is different.
Have a look at the confederate forces
and how they fill the open space at Uhud.
Then, what are Al-Nadeer or Quraizah?
Aren't we all Jews? This is our day, when we set Arabs against Arabs.
You and your tribe, Al-Nadeer,
were evacuated from Yathrib to the forts of Khaibar,
while my tribe, Quraizah, and I are still in Yathrib,
close to Muhammad and his companions.
Should the confederates leave without defeating Muhammad,
you will go back to Khaibar and seek safety there.
We will be left at the mercy of Muhammad's companions
if we join you now against them.
The confederates will not leave until they have attained their goal.
You yourself are the one to guarantee that.
It is true that Muhammad has set up a barrier by digging the moat in the north,
and has secured his back by the forts of Quraizah in the south east of Yathrib.
If you join the confederates against him, abrogating your treaty with him,
the Muslims will be vulnerable in the rear.
They will find themselves facing a pincer attack.
Where can they go?
I pledge my word to you: if Quraysh and Ghatafan go back
without defeating Muhammad,
I will come here and join you in your fort
so that I will face the same fate as you.
Messenger of God, I saw Quraizah repairing their fortifications,
paving their roads and gathering their cattle.
I think they may be on the verge of treachery.
Quraizah. Quraizah.
Is what we have heard true?
Are you really abrogating your treaty with God's messenger?
Who is God's messenger?
We have neither treaty nor agreement with Muhammad.
May God kill you. Wasn't I and the Aws your allies,
defending you and honouring our pledges to you?
That was before this stranger whom we do not know came here
to assume authority over us and you.
Where are you heading?
You are heading with these to the confederates
so that they are well supplied against us.
Is this how you, people of Quraizah, honour your treaty with God's messenger?
Go back before we strike you with our swords.
As for the camels and their loads,
they are war booty God has given us.
You better be content with your safety.
Go away, may God kill you. �