On
the 6th day of the ongoing Ashura gathering in Zaria, the Leader of the
Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibraheem continued with his lecture.
He went on to explain that when the persectutions of the prophet and
his followers intensified as well as varoius plans to kill the Prophet,
he was orderd by Allah to migrate.
Before
the Hijra the people in Madina used to visit to Prophet to accept Islam
secretly. Revisiting the history is necessary because it was distorted.
Before
the Hijrah he stayed in cave. Ali(AS) used to take food to him. One of
the companions begged Imam Ali to show him the cave, and he took him to
the cave.
While
on his way to Madina the Prophet stayed for a while in Quba before
Madina. The First Friday prayer was held in Quba with 25 people. The
prophet waited until the arrival of his family members whereupon they
entered Madina leaving behind the rest..
In
Makka search for the Prophet intensified. Though the prophet was in the
cave,cobweb showed that it would be unnatural for people to be in the
cave. Thus, the searcers left the place.The Prophet reached in Madina as
a leader not as asylum seeker. Madina's name was Yathrib but with
coming of the Prophet it was named Madinatun Nabiy (the city of the
Prophet). Leaving in Makka by the Muslims became difficult and Madina,
being a safe place, made the them to go to Madina secretly leaving
behind their belongings and wealth. They found safety of their lives
there in Madina.
The
religon flourshed in Madina, this made the unbelievers in Makka to
deveop further enemity and plans to destroy the new religion. Oneday the
Makkan caravans were coming back from thier normal business trip. So,
The Muslims tried to get back thier wealth they left behind in Makka by
collecting them from thier respective relatives.
The
Badr was aimed at stopping the makkan's caravan of Abu Sufyan to get
back thier wealth which was shared by their respectives relatives in
Makka. The Caravans manourved and escaped to Makka, however, the Quraish
have already prepared for war, they insisted that they would not go
back, despite the fact that they caravans arrived Makka safe, until
they stopped further threat by killings the Muslims. This led the battle
of badr in which about 300 Muslims faced over 1000 well armed.
One
of the Quraish Leaders even talked to Quraish not to fight the
believers since thier wealth was safe as fighting the Muslims would be a
wrong decison. However, Abu Jahl opposed him and called Utbah a
coward.
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generals of Quraish were killed majority of them by Ali(AS). Abu Jahl,
full of pride, went ahead to lead the battle, however , they were
deciminated. Many of them run away including Mu'awiyyah Bn Aby Sufyan.
Badr
was aimed at killing the Propeht and bringing to the end of Islam. The
day is called the day of seperation between the truth and falsehood. A
day when well armed 1000 men were defeated with help of Allah.
Abu
Jahl was found is his blood among the dead still alive by Ibn Mas'ud.
Abu Jahl clearly stated that the Prophet was right but they would not
believe in him, they should rather fight to finish the prophet for the
status of Propethood which none can reach such status. Abu jahl chose to
die as defender of idols than submitting to islam, as he stated prior
to his death at the hand of ibn Masud.
The
death of Abu Jahl and big Quraish Leaders at Badr reached Makka in
which the people of Makka burst into cry for long as none of the
Quraish houses was not affected; all thier warrior were killed. Only
very low ranking foot soldiers returned to Makka. This paved way for Abu
Sufayn to be seen as leader with death of Abu Jahl and other generals.
Then
came the battle of Uhud with sole aim of killing the Prophet and some
of his family members as organised by Hind for revenge. in Makka, the
prophet prepred for war but Abdullah bn Salul withdrew from joining the
Prophet together with his men who were over 300. Hind in Makka connived
with a slave, Wahshiy, to kill the Prophet and Hamzah, thought the
slave declined to target the holy Propeht when fighting start. Wahshiy
succeeded in killing Hamzah, as he threw a spake at Hamzah from the
back, contratry to law of battle. Not satisfied with the killing, Hind
mutilated Hamzah's body and removed some organs from it. She used it to
make necklace and even organised a party.
Abu
Sufyan expressed happiness with klliing of hamzah. The aim of badr is
to kill the holy prophet, they rather killed Hamzah(AS). Not satisfied
with this, they organised the battle of Handak with the support of
Jewish settlers. jewish settled in Madina waiting for the last prophet.
Realising that the last from prophet is from the Arabs whom they looked
low, the Jewish refused to submit, while, the people of Madina, who
heard about the prophet's coming, beleived in him, while the jews saw it
wrong to have a Prophet(SAWA) not among them. They didnt believe the
last prophet out of envy and hatrage despite all the signs they saw with
the prophet as mentioned in Torah. They even atmepted to kill the
Propeht when they invited him to their area by attempting to throw a
stone at him from the top of the building by Huyain. The same Huyain
connived with Quraish to organised fight and kill the Prophet(AS). Thus a
large army of about 10,000 men were organised by inviting fighters from
all over. This led to battle of handak. The prophet had about 700 men.
The
news of the plan reached the holy prophet in Madina. Salman the Persian
advised to dig a ditch between the hills arround Madina as they used to
do in Persia. The situation was very cold. The ditch could not be
crossed, however, Amr bn abd wood jumped it where he met with with
Ali(AS). Ali killed him to save Islam. the reward of the encunter is
equivallent to rewards of the worship of men and jinn, according to
hadeeth of Prophet. In Handak, Abu sufyan led the Quraish battalion, and
all of them, togethere with other tribes, were dispersed by God by
sending a severe cold wind. This was how God save the believers. The aim
of visiting history is to arrive at the motive of Asura. to be
continued.
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