Categories : Muhammad (PBUH)’s Biography (Chronologically)

Meanwhile in Mecca, the Quraysh were doing everything they can to put the Messenger of Allah in difficult situations. One day the leading men of Mecca had come together in Mina and they had asked for a miracle from the Messenger of Allah who was there with his Companions. They had eve

The morning of the battle had come at last. Seven hundred Muslims were standing against a polytheist army of three thousand people. That morning, after the Prayer, the Messenger of Allah sat with his Companions and talked with them lengthily. He advised the believers to behave accordi

Three years had passed after the Emigration. The Quraysh, unable to forget the great blow that had struck them at Badr, had prepared a new army with help and support from the surrounding tribes. They had started out from Mecca towards Medina with the thought of taking revenge from the

First, the fact that both Hamza and Umar had become a Muslim meant two great defeats for the Quraysh. Second, the envoys they had sent to Abyssinia with great gifts had returned empty handed. Naturally, the Meccans had become enraged and the men were already sharpening their swords. O

After the victory of the Muslims at Badr, the Meccan nonbelievers had grown even more hateful and revengeful towards the believers. Tragedy had hit almost every home in Mecca after the great battle. Mecca was now after revenge. People were taking oath after oath for its sake. In fact,

The Muslims had endured many hardships and suffering in the fifteen-year period after the coming of the first revelation in the cave of Hira. Some had found themselves under great oppression and torture so that they would reject their new faith while others found no other choice than

After the Emigration, for a period of sixteen months, our Prophet and the Muslims prayed facing the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, which was also the qiblah, or direction to Prayer, for the Jews. When in Mecca, the Messenger of Allah had prayed facing Jerusalem and the Ka’ba would also

With the brotherhood that Allah’s Messenger established in Medina, the believers had promised to support each other with both their fortunes and their lives. Through this practice the Messenger of Allah had laid the foundation for a powerful Islamic society. However, at that time, Med

Although this period of inhumane treatment and the boycott had ended, there was still more sadness to be experienced. Maybe Allah the Almighty was turning His beloved servants’ eyes completely towards the Hereafter, directing their attention to their real “homeland” with various troub

The religion of Islam was now being taught to believers of all ages in the mosque of our Prophet. The Messenger of Allah would give daily lessons on the essentials of their religion to his Companions. Plus, there were about seventy young Muslims of limited means who lived in the court