We will make you the wealthiest of all of us.
We will make you the wealthiest of all of us. If it is chieftainship that you desire we are ready to make you our paramount chief, so that we will never decide on matter without you. If you desire rulership, we will make you our ruler. And if this condition that you call revelation is a jinn that you cannot escape from his grip, we are ready to call the most distinguished physicians of out time to examine you, and spend generously, till you are completely cured.
For, sometimes, the jinn seizes hold of victim totally till the latter is exorcised." "Is that all, O Abu al-Walid?," the Prophet asked. "Yes" , he replied. "Then, listen to me," the Prophet said to him. "I will," agreed Utba. The Prophet (s.a.w.) recited the chapter (surah) of Fussilat: "Ha Mim! A revelation from the Beneficent, the Merciful God.
A Book of which the verses are made plain, an Arabic Qur'an for a people who know: A herald of good news and a warner, but most of them turn aside so they hear not. And they say: Our hearts are made under coverings from that to which you call us, and there is a heaviness in our ears, and a veil hangs between us and you, so work, we too are working.
Say: I am only a mortal like you; it is revealed to me that your God is one God, therefore follow the right way to Him and ask His forgiveness; and woe to the polytheists. (To) those who do not give poor-rates and they are unbelievers in the hereafter.
(As for) those who believe and do good, they shall surely have a reward never to be cut off...", Holy Qur'an (41:1-8) Till he recited the verse where prostration is obligatory on whoever recites or hears it, and the Prophet (s.a.w.) prostrated himself while Utba was still listening to him. Then he said to Utba, "O Abu al-Walid! You have heard what I have just recited. You can now decide." Utba got to his feet.
He was bewildered so much so that his companions said, "We swear by Allah that Abu al-Walid has returned in a different mood." He had hardly took his place among them when he said to them, "By Allah, I have heard something I have never heard before. By Allah, it is neither poetry, sorcery nor soothsaying. "O son of the Quraish! Listen me and leave it me. Leave the man to himself. Boycott him. By Allah, he will be widely known. Should Arabs kill him then you are spared the task of checking him.
And if he reigns over them, his rulership is yours and his power is yours.