‘The Polytheists said to each other, ‘The matter of Muhammad -saww has grown strong, and his sermons (have become) great. Come, let us censure him -saww , and reproach him -saww , and rebuke him -saww , and argue against him -saww , and invalidate whatever he -saww has come with – in order to humiliate his -saww sermons upon his -saww companions, and belittle his -saww worth in their presence.
Perhaps, he -saww would be removed from what he -saww is (indulging) in, from his -saww error and his -saww falsehood, and his -saww rebellion and his -saww tyranny. So, either it ends, or else we shall work with the sharp sword’.
قَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ: فَمَنْ [ذَا] الَّذِي يَلِي كَلَامَهُ وَ مُجَادَلَتَهُ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ: أَنَا إِلَى ذَلِكَ، أَ فَمَا تَرْضَانِي لَهُ قِرْناً حَسِيباً، وَ مُجَادِلًا كَفِيّاً قَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ: بَلَى ‘Abu Jahl -la said: ‘So who is that who would follow his -saww speech and contest it?’ Abdullah Bin Abu Amayya Al-Makhzoumy said, ‘I am for that.
Are you not pleased with me for as a counterpart to reckon with, a sufficing debater?’ Abu Jahl -la said, ‘Yes’. فَأَتَوْهُ بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ، فَابْتَدَأَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ فَقَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ، لَقَدِ ادَّعَيْتَ دَعْوَى عَظِيمَةً، وَ قُلْتَ مَقَالًا هَائِلًا، زَعَمْتَ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ، وَ مَا يَنْبَغِي لِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ خَالِقِ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ- أَنْ يَكُونَ مِثْلُكَ رَسُولًا لَهُ!
‘They came altogether, and Abdullah Bin Abu Amayya initiated, and he said, ‘O Muhammad -saww ! You -saww have claimed a great claim, and you -saww said a speech which boggles (the mind). You -saww claimed that you -saww are a Rasool -saww of the Lord -azwj of the worlds, and it is not befitting for the Lord -azwj of the worlds and Creator of the entire creatures that the likes of you -saww should become a Rasool -as for Him -azwj .
بَشَرٌ مِثْلُنَا، تَأْكُلُ كَمَا نَأْكُلُ، وَ تَمْشِي فِي الْأَسْوَاقِ كَمَا نَمْشِي، فَهَذَا مَلِكُ الرُّومِ، وَ هَذَا مَلِكُ الْفُرْسِ لَا يَبْعَثَانِ رَسُولًا إِلَّا كَثِيرَ الْمَالِ، عَظِيمَ الْحَالِ، لَهُ قُصُورٌ وَ دُورٌ [وَ بَسَاتِينُ] وَ فَسَاطِيطُ وَ خِيَامٌ وَ عَبِيدٌ وَ خُدَّامٌ، وَ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ فَوْقَ هَؤُلَاءِ كُلِّهِمْ أَجْمَعِينَ، فَهُمْ عَبِيدُهُ، وَ لَوْ كُنْتَ نَبِيّاً لَكَانَ مَعَكَ مَلَكٌ يُصَدِّقُكَ وَ نُشَاهِدُهُ، ‘(You -saww are) a person, like us, eating just as we eat, and walking through the markets just as we walk.