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Wakifi. These two people I knew to be good, they had been among
those who fought at Badr, so I knew I had done the right thing by
sticking to the truth.

People we had known for a long time, even those whom we had
grown up with, avoided us as if we were strangers in a foreign land.
Our guilt for disobeying the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be
upon him, lay heavily upon us. And so the circumstances continued
like this for fifty days.

Murarah and Hilal shut themselves away in their homes in their
misery and wept bitterly. As for myself, I was younger than both of
them and would go to the Mosque to offer my prayers even though
everyone avoided me.

In my anxiousness to receive even the remotest amount of
acknowledgment from the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, I
would wait until everyone had left the Mosque after the prayer had
ended and then go to greet him. I hoped that perhaps I might see his