Among the émigrés who traversed their way from Makkah to their sweet haven; the noble city of Madinah, was a blind man. Yet, blindness or being handicapped in no way diminished the status of Abdullah ibn Umm Makhtum, on the contrary he, to date, is quite well known.
Sitting in our history classes, it was so easy for us to frown and move our head disapprovingly thinking of what an evil and cruel ruler Aurangzeb was.
An epoch, expanding from the 5th century CE to the 16th century CE, where literacy in the European world was yet scanty, an eon labelled by historians as the ‘Dark Ages’ however astoundingly, this time was nowhere near dark in the Muslim world, on the contrary the Muslim civilisations were blooming and flourishing as a rainforest of fragrant flowers.
“Traversing across the Arabian sands,
the banner of war is raised high,
the stamping of hooves reverberate
Across the oceans wide, in the eastern Mediterranean, in the land of Cyprus, lies the grave of one of the noble companions of the Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), Umm Haram (May Allah be pleased with her).
