Hazrat Salman Al Farsi (RA)
Channel: Islamic Light
Date: 2022-06-08

This is a story of Salman Al Farsi the Persian or Salman Al-Farsi, who was a companion of the Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W.) and the first Persian who converted to Islam. He was the one who suggested that Muslims should dig a trench around Madinah when it was attacked by the disbelievers of Makkah in the Battle of the Trench. 
He was a seeker of Truth, the story of Salman the Persian, gleaned, to begin with, from his own words:
"I grew up in the town of Isfahan in Persia in the village of Jayyan. My father was the Dihqan or chief of the village. He was the richest person there and had the biggest house.
Since I was a child, my father loved me, more than he loved any other. As time went by his love for me became so strong and overpowering that he feared to lose me or have anything happen to me. So he kept me at home, a veritable prisoner, in the same way that young girls were kept.
I became devoted to the Magian religion so much so that I attained the position of custodian of the fire which we worshipped. My duty was to see that the flames of the fire remained burning and that it did not go out for a single hour, day or night."