If you kill him...

If you kill him, the Ghifar swords will take out their revenge against your caravans!” They must decide between their religion and their world, deity or goods? A qiblah of love or caravan of money. Which? They pulled back without hesitation. Abu Dharr, like a statue, polluted with blood and broken, in the center of a circle of a crowd which, frightened, look at their only captive, with difficulty, tries to arise. The diameter of the circle grows larger. He arises.

He supports himself on his own two feet. The crowd becomes denser; it is as if they seek refuge in each other. It is here that coercion fears faith. He is one visage and they are visageless, personality-less, all alone and all without identity, an abundance of herds and confronting them, a human being, a person; a person who faith gave meaning, substance, ideals, orientation, attack and a wonderful, miracle-like, defeatless power which martyrdom grants to a believer. He took off.

He pulled himself to the Zamzam well. He washed his injuries. He cleansed away his blood. On the morrow he returned to the scene and once again he went to the edge of death. 'Abbas came and introduced him, “He is from the Ghifar tribe ...” and again on the morrow. Until the Prophet, not this time to preserve the life of Abu Dharr, but with a command, moved this restless rebel from the city of suffocation and danger and assigned him the task of inviting the Ghifar tribe [to Islam].

Abu Dharr brought his family and, little by little, all of his tribe to Islam. He was with the Ghifar when the Muslims passed through the difficulties of the struggle in Makkah, when they undertook the migration and, when in Madinah, they moved from the stage of individualization to the stage of founding a social system and, as a consequence, wars began.

It is here that Abu Dharr senses that he should be on the scene, goes to Madinah and there, as he has no place or work, he makes the Prophet's mosque his home, which at that time was the home of the people and he joins the Safah . He sacrifices living for ideology. In serving the movement, in times of peace, thought, knowledge and prayer and, in times of war, wars.