In pagan times the
Umayyads showed envy to the Banu Hashim
During the pagan times Umayyah
and his descendants were deeply envious of the greatness
and headship of Hashim and his descendants, and this
jealousy produced many unpleasant results. But before
the advent of Islam the opposition and hostility of
the Uniayyads were not so hard and acute. Time passed
and the grandson of 'Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim brought
Islam, the great religion of God, as souvenir to the
world of humanity. It was at this time that Abu Sufyan,
grandson of Umayyah assumed the leadership of Quraysh
combat against Islam, and directed most of the anti-Islamic
combats of the Meccan infidels. During the whole time
of the apparent weakness of Islam, Abu Sufyan imposed
severe and deadly tortures upon the weak and impotent
followers of this new religion and did his worst to
molest them.
Naturally the conditions could not remain such forever,
and eventually God Almighty helped His prophet and
opened the gates of Mecca for him and Muslim combatants
and brought them success and victory. Thenceforth
the Quraysh no longer dominated Arab tribes, and they
were given the epithet of "freed ones" and
a stain of disgrace on their character. Abu Sufyan
was vanquished in the same way that Arab idols had
been smashed and destroyed, and those same weak and
rejected individuals of pagan times such as 'Ammar,
Abu Dharr and
