THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH BY A MAN KNOWN AS

THE PERSIAN SALMAN

-البحث عن الحقيقة

إسلام سلمان الفارسي

English – إنجليزي

Number of Pages: 25

Salman the Persian or Salman al-Farsi (Arabic: سَلْمَان ٱلْفَارِسِيّ‎, Salmān al-Fārisīy), born Roozbeh (Persian: روزبه‎, “good day”), was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the first Persian who converted to Islam. During some of his later meetings with the other Sahabah, he was referred to by the kunya Abu Abdullah (“Father of Abdullah”). He is credited with the suggestion of digging a trench around Medina, a Sasanian military technique, when it was attacked by Mecca in the Battle of the Trench. He was raised as a Zoroastrian, then attracted to Christianity, and then converted to Islam after meeting Prophet Muhammad in the city of Yathrib, which later became Medina