Ahad Ahad!

man praying inside a mosque

A companion of our Prophet, Bilal, was his name.A Black by race, poor and a slave. The more they ridiculed him, the more he rose to fame.Superiority over the oppressors, to him Allah gave. Spreadeagled under the Sun, extremely hot.The lashes that went whipping through the air,All in vain, couldn’t strike his heart,His Lord continued …