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The leeway to start negotiating and writing letters to other rulers.

And so after the sixth year of the Hijrah, he began writing to the leaders of the Roman

Empire and of the Sassanid or the Persian Empire.

And as you're all aware, he wrote to both Khusra, which is the leader of the Sassanid Empire

and to the Byzantine Empire in Rome.

And so one of the letters he sent was to Kisra.

And he sent Abdallah bin Houdafah to deliver the letter to the Emperor of the Sassanid

Empire.

Abdallah bin Houdafah traveled all the way to Iran to the capital Tessiphon.

And of course the capital itself is still preserved to this day.

It is one of the UN World Heritage sites.

It's a very magnificent structure still preserved to this day.

So he traveled to Tessiphon and he hand delivered the letter to Kisra after a long negotiation

because Kisra refused to see him first.

And then he insisted that there's a new ruler in Arabia and he's sending you a letter.

He's a prophet of Allah, he's sending you a letter.

So then he said to his dignitary or his minister, you take the letter.

And Abdallah bin Houdafah said, my prophet, salallahu wa sallam, is commanded that I hand

this to your hand.

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