Alnajashiy the Christian King of Abyssinia, supports Vulnerable Muslims

Alnajashiy the Christian King of Abyssinia, supports Vulnerable Muslims 

 

Written by Dr. Seham AbdelBaqi Mohammad

Anthropological researcher                      

 Faculty of Higher African Studies - Cairo University

 

In the middle of a tribal society that worships idols and brings various evils, the message of Islam came to restore that society to its nature and to reconnect it with a heavenly belief that complements the heavenly messages that preceded it, such as Judaism and Christianity. and when the Prophet Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, launched his call and the weak began to gather around him because they found equality, mercy, justice and breaking the bonds of servitude and servitude that held them down for decades, many of them converted to Islam, and the Islamic call at that time was still a secret, then the circle of converts expanded with the entry of a group belonging to the class of masters And the supervision of the Quraish, so the da’wah changed from secret to puplic in the fourth year of the Prophet Muhammad’s mission. The Quraish’s torture intensified against the Muslims from their first relatives and their servants from the slave class, so the Prophet did not find any escape from the migration of his companions to a safe place to seek protection. He delivered the emigration to Abyssinia, saying: “Go out to Abyssinia, for there is a king in him who does not oppress anyone, and it is a land of sincerity - until God makes you a relief from what you are in” in reference to King “Sahmah bin Abjar”, the emperor of Abyssinia,  Some may mistakenly think that Alnajashiy is his name, while it is an Abyssinian word, and a title given to the kings of the kingdom of Aksum, east of Abyssinia and Eritrea today, parallel to the title of Caesar in the Romans. Indeed, the land of Abyssinia received the delegations of those fleeing with their religion from religious persecution to the land of justice and security, in the first case of political asylum in Islam, and their number at that time was about eighty people other than children. Meanwhile, the Quraish learned of the emigration of their relatives, so they pursued them and sent to them one of the chiefs of the Quraish, Amr ibn al-Aas, who had good relations and commercial dealings with Alnajashiy. The land is just for what is not, and he is from the People of the Book. The Negus listened to the two groups, compared and refuted the evidence, and said his word recorded in history with letters of light: “By God, I will not hand you these two mountains of gold. The Muslims rejoiced in their victory at the hands of Alnajashiy. and they secured themselves and lived in his Christian kingdom practicing their faith and worship without persecution or harm, and they were treated with great tolerance. Muslims bow to him when entering it as a kind of greeting and reverence for him He asked about that, an, the official spokesman for the Muslims, replied that this contradicts their religious values, so he respected this and did not force them to do what contradicts their belief. Alnajashiy is religiosity and justice the greatest verses of impartiality, and respect for the other. He died in the ninth year of the Hijrah, and the Prophet prayed for him. When the hypocrites denounced the Prophet’s prayer for Alnajashiy.when he did not meet him and he was not on his religion, God Almighty revealed this verse]”And among the People of the Book is he who believes in God and what was revealed to you and what was revealed to them.” [Al Imran: 199]. Muslims lived in Abyssinia in safety and harmony that reflects the complementarity and harmony of the heavenly laws. Why not God created man and left him the freedom of belief without coercion or discrimination, we command peaceful coexistence and bloodshed in his laws, and every religious person who adheres to the teachings of his religion must respect this difference and strive to achieve peaceful coexistence in the spirit of citizenship and human brotherhood. God created people on it, for the earth accommodates all creation, from the first Adam of God’s creation and the first of his prophets to the advent of the Hour, it accommodates all thoughts and beliefs. Without coercion for anyone and without preference for anyone over anyone, whoever reads the heavenly laws and navigates in them will realize that injustice and aggression, killing and persecuting religious men, and harassing those who disagree with faith are not from God's command, but from Satan's deception. All mankind was created from one soul and has one Lord.