Monday, January 2, 2012

The history of Islam

The history of Islam is during about the year 570CE (Christian Era) the child who would be named Muhammad (saw) and who would become the Prophet of one of the world’s grand religions Islam. He was born into a family belonging to a tribe of Quraish, the ruling tribe of Mecca, a city of Hijaz in Saudi Arabia.
In the history of Islam beginning the site of the Kaabah becomes an important center of sixth-century do business with such powers as the Sassanians, Byzantines, and Ethiopians.  As a consequence, the city was dominated by powerful merchant families, among whom the men of Quraish were preeminent.
Muhammad (saw) father, Abdullah ibn Abdual-Muttalib, died before the boy was born, his mother, Aminah, died when he was only six years. The orphan was consigned to the care of mothered Bibi Halima (a.s) and his grandfather Abdul Muttalib, the chief of the clan of Hashim. After the death of his grandfather, Muhammad (saw) was raised by his uncle, Abu Talib.  As was customary, the child Muhammad (saw) was sent to live for a year or two with a Bedouin family.  This tradition, followed until recently by noble families of Mecca, Medina, Taif, and other towns of the Hijaz, had important implications for Muhammad (saw).  In addition to stable the hardships of desert life, he acquired a experience for the rich language so loved by the Arabs, whose speech was their proudest art, and also learned the patience and forbearance of the herdsmen, whose life of solitude he first shared, and then came to understand and appreciate. At the age of nine or ten Muhammad (saw) called Al-Amin (trustworthy).
On the history of Islam year 590CE, Muhammad (saw), at that time in his twenty-five years of old, entered the service of a merchant widow named Khadijah (r.ah) who was forty, as her factor, actively engaged with trading caravans to the north. For a time later he married her, and had two sons, neither of whom survived, and four daughters by her.
In his forties years of old, he began to retire to meditate in a Cave in Mount Hira, just outside Mecca, where the first of the large events of Islam took place.  One day, as he was sating in the Cave, he heard a voice, later recognized as that of the Angel Jibraeel (aws), which ordered him to:
“Recite: within the name of Allah (Lord) who created, Created man from a clot of blood.” (Quran 96:1-2)
Three times Muhammad (saw) pleaded his inability to do so, but each time the command was repeated.  Finally, Muhammad (saw) recited the words of what are now the opening five verses of the 96th chapter of   the Quran - words which proclaim Allah to be the creator of man and the source of all knowledge.
On the history of Islam first Muhammad divulged his experience only to his wife and his immediate circle.  But, the same as more revelations enjoined him to proclaim the oneness of God generally, his following grew, at first along with the poor and the slaves, but later, also among the most prominent men of Mecca.  The revelations he acknowledged at this time, and those he did later, are all included in the Quran, the Scripture of Islam.
When he received revolution from Allah through the Angel Jibraeel (aws), not everyone accepted God’s message transmitted through him. Even in his own clan, there were those who rejected his teachings, and many merchants actively opposed the message.  The opposition, however, merely served to sharpen Muhammad’s (saw) sense of mission, and his understanding of precisely how Islam differed from paganism.  The belief in the Oneness of Allah was supreme in Islam; from this all else follows.
After Muhammad (saw) had preached publicly for more than a decade, some became Muslims and others turned agonist him. Undaunted, he continued to preach as the messenger of Allah and gradually of his followers increased. He and the early Muslims under went terrible sufferings, facing stiff opposition the idolaters. In the twelve years of his prophethood, in 622CE, Muhammad (saw) with his closest friend, Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq (r.a) migrated form Macca to Madina. Wherever there were already many new Muslims. The people of Madina welcomed him as their leader and he established the first Islamic state there. This was the Hijrah means migration.
Muhammad (saw) was well acquainted with the situation in Medina.  Earlier, before the Hijrah (migration), different of its inhabitants came to Mecca to offer the annual pilgrimage, and as the Prophet would take this opportunity to call visiting pilgrims to Islam, the group who came from Medina heard his call and accepted Islam. They also invited Muhammad (saw) to settle in Medina.  After the Hijrah, Muhammad’s (saw) exceptional qualities so impressed the Medinans that the rival tribes and their allies temporarily closed ranks as, on 624 CE, Muhammad (saw) and his supporters moved beside the pagans of Mecca.
The first battle, which took position near Badr, now a small town southwest of Medina. Mohammed (saw) proclaimed his victory was a sign from Allah and his position in Medina was magnified. But had then proved lukewarm when the fighting started, was barred from Medina one month after the battle.  Those who claimed to be associates of the Muslims, but tacitly opposed them, were thus served warning: connection in the community imposed the obligation of total support.
After one year later the Meccans struck back. Assembling armed forces of three thousand men, they met the Muslims at Uhud, a ridge outside Medina. Later than an initial success the Muslims were driven back and the Prophet himself was wounded. Since the Muslims were not completely defeated, the Meccans, with armed forces of ten thousand, attacked Medina again two years later but with quite different results. On the Battle of the Trench, also known as the fight of the Confederates, the Muslims scored a signal victory by introducing a new defense. Taking place the side of Medina from which attack was expected they dug a channel too deep for the Meccan cavalry to plain without exposing itself to the archers posted behind earthworks on the Medina side. Later than an inconclusive siege, the Meccans were forced to retire. After that Medina was entirely in the hands of the Muslims.
Within ten years Muhammad (saw) had gained so many followers that he was able to return and conquer Mecca. After this time on he was generally accepted by the faithful as the true final Prophet of God. The Prophet (saw) continued to lead his community both morally and in earthly matters until his death in 632.
Mohammed (saw) made his final Hajj in 632 and died unexpectedly 3 months later. His friend and father in law Hazrat Abu Bakr (r.a) succeeded him as leader of the Muslims. He was the first man the Prophet (saw) gave invite of Islam.
The history of  Islam is Prophet (saw) life history.
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