Balqa Governorate

Tayyib.

[clears throat] After that, fi s-sanah al-hadiah ashrah, on the eleventh year after the hijrah, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, sent Usama ibn Zayd ila al-Balqa.

Al-Balqa is on the way to, uh, uh, where Damascus is.

Not Damascus, afwan, Palestine.

There are no commas.

Okay.

Uh, wa amarahu an [clears throat] yuti' al-khayla-- al-, uh, yuti'a al-khayla al-Balqa' min ardi Filistin.

Fa qala lahu sir ila mawdi'i maqtali abika fa awti'hum al-khayl.

Who was Shurahbil ibn Amr? Shurahbil was a governor appointed by Heraclid.

The Roman Emperor had appointed Shurahbil to be the governor of an area called Balqa.

Balqa is where he was.

So he came across this Sahabi taking the letter of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

He asked him, "Where are you going?" And he also said, "Maybe you are an envoy of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam." He said, "Yes, I have a letter.

And he said that, well, you can take my camel, my horse.

You can ride on that and take it back to the people if I was to go and meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

So now the Islamic army reaches the outskirts of Balqa.