Dear Reader: Our plea with you is to stand And will make him a messenger unto the Children of in front of God to give you Israel, saying: “Lo! I come to you with a sign from your Lord. Lo! I fashion for you out of clay the sight as he did to Ubayd likeness of a bird, and I breathe into it and it is a Allah, now pray to him and bird, by Allah's leave. I heal him who was born say: blind, and the leper, and I raise the dead, by Allah's leave. And I announce unto you what ye eat and what “Beloved Father, you are the ye store up in your houses. Lo! Herein is a portent greatest lord, kindest father, I for you, if ye are to be believers.” Also in (Surah Al-Maeda 5:110) come to you now, touch my When Allah said: O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember heart now, to create for me My favour to you and to your mother; how I strengthened you with the holy Spirit, so that you sight and enlightenment, as I spoke to mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and am born as blind, the devil how I taught you the Scripture and Wisdom and the has blinded my mind. Torah and the Gospel; and how you shaped of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, I have no one but you. and blew upon it and it was a bird by My permission, I come to you now. I give you and you healed him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how you raised the my heart in the name of the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting in Children of Israel from harming you when you came unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who your life. disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than Amen.” evident magic; Saint Ubayd Allah Ibn Jahsh Ibn Ubayd-Allah a rebel against the Ubayd Allah becomes an evangelist Saint Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh carried the good news of Salvation to his Muslim companions at the very beginning Riyab Al-Asadi pagan worship of Quraysh and witness to the companions of prophet Mohammed of Islam, saying “‘We see, but you are only trying to see In the fifth year after Muhammad first claimed to be Sirat Ibn Ishaq describes Ubayd Allah as one of and cannot see yet.” We plead with you today to accept his invitation to stand in front of the only One who can open a prophet of God (AD 616), he went out with 38 four who refused the pagan worship of Quraysh. About that we find in Ibn Ishaq the following: Those four agreed to worship but one God. Their Muhammad b. Ja`far b. Al-Zubayr told me that your vision and sight, the one that he said concerning men and 18 women to for the send Hijra himself in Luke 4:18-19: (emigration) to Ethiopia to avoid persecution from names are Waraqah b. Nawfal, Uthman b. when he had become a Christian `Ubaydullah as he the Quraysh. One of those men was Ubayd Allah b. Huwarith, Zayd b. Amr and Ubayd Allah. Those passed the prophet's companions who were there The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has Jahsh. He is the cousin of Muhammad and his wife were also called monotheistic hanifs. used to say: ‘We see clearly, but your eyes are only anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has is Umm Habibah bent Aby Sofian. Also he is the According to Ibn Ishaq, Waraqah ibn Nawfal settled half open,’ i.e. ‘We see, but you are only trying to sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach brother of Zainab bint Jahsh who became the wife in his faith as Christian following the books of the see and cannot see yet.’ He used the word sa'sa' deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to of the prophet Mohammed after divorcing her first people of that faith, until he became one of the because when a puppy tries to open his eyes to see, the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To husband Zaid b. Harith under the pretext of scholars of the people of the book. it only half sees. The other faqqaha means to open preach the acceptable year of the Lord. abolishing of the adoption system, meaning that Ibn Ishaq also mentions about Ubayd Allah that he the eyes. After his death the Apostle married his Mohammed married both the wife and sister of went on searching until Islam came. Then, he widow Umm Habiba. (Ibn Ishaq, The Life of He is Jesus Christ whom the Author of the Quran said in (Surah Al-E-Imran 3:49) Ubayd Allah. Ubayd Allah is also the brother of the migrated with the Muslims to Abyssinia, taking Muhammad, tr. Guillaume, 1967, p. 99) Sahabi (companion of Mohammed) Abd Allah b. with him his wife who was a Muslim. Umm Habiba We see here that the main reason for Ubyad Allah’s Jahsh, who was the first to attack the Quraysh bint Abu Sufyan. When he arrived there he adopted conversion to Christianity was that the Lord caravans during the sacred months, where in order Christianity, departed from Islam, and died a revealed himself to him and had indeed opened his "I shall restore the to allow fighting Mohammed gave the Quranic Christian in Abyssinia. eyes to the truth to see clearly that Jesus Christ is revelation in (Surah Al-Baqara 2:217) “They the Risen lord and he is only way to be with God. sight of the man who is question thee (O Muhammad) with regard to So when Ubayd Allah converted to Christianity in So as we clearly see not only has his eyes opened warfare in the sacred month. Say: Warfare therein is Ethopia, his wife Umm Habibah refused to do the to the truth but he became the first known Christian a great (transgression) ..”. So Ubayd Allah is the same and decided to leave him and migrated back believer who witnessed to Muslims and not any congenitally blind," first apostate of Islam and the first evangelist to to Madina, and then the prophet Mohammed Muslims but the companions of the prophet (AL–‘IMRAN 3 : 49) witness to Muslims regarding the good news of the decided to take her as his wife. himself Lord Jesus Christ at the beginning of Islam.