Mishkat al-Masabih 5371 — (Ar-riqaq) Words that soften the heart

Iyad ibn Himar Mujashi'i Narrated from:

One day while delivering a sermon, Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "Know! My Lord has commanded me that I should teach you that which you do not know and what He has taught me this my day. (Allah says) 'Every property that I have given man is lawful (and people unjustly term them as unlawful). I have created all my slaves as hanifs (upright, on the true path) but the devils came to them and turned them away from their religion and made unlawful for them that which I have declared lawful and they commanded them to associate with Me others for which no authority has been sent down.'(He added), "Then Allah looked at the inhabitants of the earth and disliked them (for their disbelief and sin) – the Arabs among them and the non-Arabs among them, except the surviving among the people of the Book. He said, 'I have sent you (O Muhammad that I may try you and try other through you (whether you bear their persecution patiently and they believe in you or not). I have revealed to you a Book such that water cannot wash it off (it cannot manipulated by anyone). You recite it while sleeping and when awake.' (He said also.) "Allah has commanded me to eliminate the Quraysh. I submitted, 'My Lord, then they will break my Head and pulverize it like a tiny loaf.' He said, 'Exile them as they have exiled you. Fight them. We shall equip you (with arms and weapons and unseen help). If you dispatch an army, we shall dispatch five to match it (as was evidenced in the Battle of Badr). Get those who obey you and along with them fight those who disobey you.' [1]