Persecution in Makkah
Description: The early days of the Prophet’s mission and persecution of the adherents of Islam.
First Converts
Persecution in Makkah
Description: The early days of the Prophet’s mission and persecution of the adherents of Islam.
First Converts
Description: The major events which led to the emigration of the Muslims to Madinah.
Men from Yathrib
The Hijrah of the Prophet r
Description: A detailed account of the migration of the Prophet r from Makkah to Madinah.
The Hijrah (23 September, 622 C.E.)
A New Stage in Madinah
Description: The challenges of establishing a new state in Madinah.
The Campaign of Badr
Description: One of the most decisive battles in human history changed the political balance of the Arabian Peninsula.
The Campaign of Badr
The Treason of Former Allies
Description: Mistakes at Uhud lead to heavy losses of life, and a new tactic reveals victory for the Muslims.
The Battle on Mount Uhud
In fact, in the following year, an army of three thousand men came from Makkah to destroy Madinah. The Prophet’s first idea was merely to defend the city, a plan of which Ibn Ubay, the leader of “the Hypocrites”, strongly approved. But the young men who had not fought at Badr, believing that God would help them against any odds and thought it a shame that they should linger behind walls.
The Treaty of Hudaibiyyah
Description: The hidden victory of a non-aggression treaty between the Muslims and the Makkans.
Hudaibiyyah
The Return to Makkah
Description: Events which led to the conquest of Makkah, and eventually to the end of idolatry in Arabia.
The Campaign of Khayber
Bidding Farewell
Description: The Pilgrimage of the Prophet r, and his death.
The Farewell Pilgrimage
The end, however, was drawing closer, and in the tenth year of the Hijrah he set off from Madinah with some 90,000 Muslims from every part of Arabia to perform Hajj, the pilgrimage. This triumphal journey of the aging man, worn by years of persecution and then by unceasing struggle, is surrounded by a kind of twilight splendour, as though a great ring of light had finally closed, encompassing the mortal world in its calm radiance.
by Abul hasan ‘Ali Nadwi