al-Mundhir ibn Sāwā al-ʿAbdī, the ruler of Hajar—a village in Bahrain—with a letter from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, inviting him to embrace Islam.

Al-ʿAlāʾ said:

When I entered upon him I said, “O Mundhir, you are a man of great intelligence in worldly affairs, so do not belittle yourself when it comes to the Hereafter. This Magian religion is the worst of faiths: it contains neither the noble virtues of the Arabs nor the revealed knowledge of the People of the Book. Its adherents contract marriages that one would be ashamed to contract, consume food from which a person of honor would refrain, and worship in this life a fire that will consume them on the Day of Resurrection. You are not devoid of reason or good judgment, so reflect: is it not fitting that you believe the one who never lies, feel secure with the one who never betrays, and trust the one who never breaks his word? If matters are truly thus, then this is he