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Masjid e Nabawi
Sunset Scene
Province	Al Madinah Province
Government
- Mayor	Abdulaziz Bin Majid (عبدالعزيز بن ماجد)
Area
- Total	173,000 km2 (66,795.7 sq mi)
Elevation	608 m (1,995 ft)
Population (2006)
- Total	1,300,000
Time zone	Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3)

 

THE YEAR 8 A H

Saryah Muta
Muta is the name of a place some miles from Bait-ul-Maqdas in the suburbs of Balqa, a city of Syria. At this Muslims because Amr bin Sharjeel, Governor of the Emperor of Rome, had killed Harith bin Umair, a messenger sent by the Holy Prophet SAW. The Prophet despatched an army of three thousand Sahaba by the middle of 8 A .H. When this army reached near Muta, the Romans, on receiving this information, despatched a strong army consisting of one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers. After fighting for a few days, the Romans' huge army was overawed by further fight.

Conquest of Mecca
The Muslims, according to their tradition, were abiding by the conditions of the Treaty of Hudaibiya, but the Quraish committed breach of the covenant in 8 A .H. The Holy Prophet SAW sent a messenger to them with certain conditions for the revival of the Treaty and conveyed to the Quarish that if they did not agree with those conditions, the treat of Hudaibiya would be considered as cancelled. The Quraish preferred the repeal of the Treaty.
 Consequently the Holy Prophet SAW started preparations foe Jihad and on 10th Ramadan-ul-Mubarik of 8 A .H. advanced from Medina, after Asr prayer of Wednesday, with a force of ten thousand Suhabah under his command. By the time they reached Kadidyah it was evening and they broke their fast just before offering Maghrib prayer. As soon as the Islamic Force reached the suburbs of Mecca, the Holy Prophet SAW despatched a part of the army under the command of Khaild bin Waleed to enter Mecca from its upper side. Hadrat Khalid was instructed by the Prophet not fight against anyone who not take initiative in fighting against them.
The Holy Prophet SAW himself advanced from the other side and announced that any person who would enter the Mosque would be safe, and who enter the house of Abu Sufyan would be safe, and whosoever shut the door of his own house and remained in would be safe. However he allowed the murder of eleven men and four women who had been deeply involved in mischief against the Muslims all along. But these mischievous persons scattered and most of them embraced Islam on reaching Medina after the conquest of Mecca.
On Friday, the 20th of Ramadan the Holy Prophet SAW circumambulated round the Ka'bah as a ritual. By that time there were 360 idols placed in the vicinity of Ka'bah. The Holy Prophet SAW had a stick in hand. As Prophet passed by each idol an pointed to it fall, it fell headlong. And the Holy Prophet SAW recited the following Quranic of the Holy Quran: "Truth has come and falsehood vanished away. Lo ! falsehood is ever bound to vanish." (17.81)
After circumambulation of the Ka'bah the Holy Prophet SAW took the key of the Ka'bah from Uthman bin Talha Shaibi, the custodian of Ka'bah, and went in. When he come out, the Holy Prophet SAW offered prayer at 'Muqam-e-Ibraheem'. After the prayer Prophet went towards the Mosque, where people were waiting for him, to know the Prophet's announcement the mercy of the words, addressing the Quraish said: " You are absolutely free and safe." Then he returned them the Key of Ka'bah.
Excellent Conduct of the Holy Prophet and Embracement of Islam by Abu Sufyan
Up till now Abu Sufyan was the arch-enemy of the Holy Prophet SAW and in almost all the battles against the Muslims, he used to be the Commander of the Quraish's army. Before the conquest of Mecca he went out of the city enslave the Islamic army and some Sahabah arrested him. But when he was brought before the Prophet, the mercy of the worlds, Abu Sufyan was forgiven. He was so much impressed by the magnanimity of the Holy Prophet SAW that he (Abu Syfyan) at once embraced Islam. Now onward he was know as Hdart Abu Sufyan (Allah be pleased with him).
On the day of conquest, a man come in the presence of the Holy Prophet SAW while trembling and heaving heavily out of fear. The mercy of the worlds asked him not to worry least as he was not a king but the son of an ordinary woman.
The Holy Prophet SAW stayed in Mecca for fifteen days. At this situation, the Ansar of Medina, Apprehending that the Holy Prophet SAW might settle in Mecca, were feeling depressed, and were thinking that in that case they would be deprived of his company. But as soon as the Holy Prophet SAW came to know about their apprehension. Prophet told them that in future his life and death would be with them, and then he appointed Hadrat Atab ibne Asid as the Governor of Mecca and himself accompanied the Ansar for Medina.
Ghazwah Hunain
After the conquest of Mecca almost the whole of Arabia embraced Islam, because most of the people, who were hesitating to become Muslims due to the awe of the Quraish's might, and were waiting for the conquest of Mecca, had now entered the fold of Islam in large number. The rest of the pagan Arabs were hardly in a position to confront the Muslims. However, the vanity of two tribes, Hawazan and Saqeef, incited them to advance toward Mecca to fight against the Muslims. The Messenger of Allah SAW organized an army of twelve thousand strong, comprising ten thousand Ansar, who accompanied the Prophet from Medina and two thousand new Muslims. who were the converts after the conquest of Mecca. And now this was the largest Islamic army since the beginning of Jihad. On the 6th of Shawwal in 8 A .H. this Hizb Allah (Divine Force) advanced and when it reached Hunain, a valley, the enemies hiding in the surrounding hills suddenly fell on the Muslims. Since the Islamic Army had not yet been properly arrayed, its fighters in the front suffered a lot and had to retreat.
The apparent cause of this was their lack of array, but, as the Holy Qur'an has pointed out, its real cause was that the Muslims had become proud of their majority in number and superiority in the armaments. Moreover, some of the Sahabah, including Hadrat Siddiq-e-Akbar had uttered: " Today we cannot gain dominance." The Lord, Almighty Allah, therefore, created this situation in order to reprimand them, and let the Muslims understand that victory or defeat did not depend on their bravery or the masterly use of their swords and arrows.
Victory in the battle of Badr without adequate resources and retreat form Hunain in a defeated manner betrayed the same secret. (i.e. no success without Allah's Grace). The Holy Prophet SAW was wearing two armours at that time riding on a mule called  " Duldul". When he noticed the tribes retreating, he gave some instructions to Hadrat Abbas, who called back the Muslim fighters in a courageous manner. This call boosted up the stumbling Muslim fighters. They regained firmness and a pitched battle started between the two parties.
A Great Miracle, a Handful dust Caused Enemy's Defeat
meanwhile, the Holy Prophet SAW threw a handful of dust towards the enemy's force, which, by the will of Almighty Allah, spread and entered each and every eye of the enemy soldiers. Consequently, the enemy force was struck with awe, overcome and fled away. Four Muslims were martyred and seventy pagans were killed in this battle. When the Muslims tried to harm the children and women of the enemy in a rage of retaliation, the Holy Prophet SAW prohibited them.
Ghazwah Ta'if
Thereafter, the Holy Prophet SAW advanced towards Ta'if, which was the Headquarters of Banu Saqeef and Hawazan. But in spite of eighteen days' siege, it was not yet conquered. When the Holy Prophet SAW reached there, a delegate of the Hawazan tribe of Ta'if sought this audience at jer'anah, nearby Ta'if. This delegate requested him the  return of their men arrested during the battle of Hunain. The Holy Prophet SAW agreed to it returned their men. When the Holy Prophet SAW came back to Medina, a delegate from Ta'if met him and embraced Islam at their own request.
Umrah from Jer'anah
The Holy Prophet SAW had made up his mind at Jer'anah for Umrah. Therefore, Prophet put on the Ihram from there and went to Mecca to perform Umarh. After performing Umarah, the Holy Prophet SAW returned to Medina and i-Qa'd . 8 A .H.

 

Ghazwah Tabuk

After his return from Ta'if the Holy Prophet SAW was staying in Medina. When the first six month of 9 A .H. had passed, the Prophet received in information that the Romans who had been defeated in Ghazwah Muta, were making preparation for a war against the Muslim in Tabuk (about fourteen mails away from the Muslims' population) He also started necessary preparations for Jihad, although the Muslims were passing through hard times in those days due to famine. Besides, it was terribly hot weather. In spite of these adverse circumstances, the devoted Muslims continued their preparations for Jihad. While contribution was being collected, Hadrat Siddiq-e-Akbar  contributed all the belongings of his own house. Hadrat Uthman made a magnificent of war material which included nine hundred camels and horses. 

On the Thursday of Rajab, the Holy Prophet SAW advanced toward Tabuk with a force of thirty thousand Sahabah.

Some Miracles On their way to Tabuk, ABu Zar Ghafari was seen going all alone. Thereupon, the Holy Prophet SAW said: "He shall remain also aloof from the rest of the world, pass his life aloof and shall also die aloof." And it happened exactly the same way. During the same Ghazwah the dromedary of the Holy Prophet SAW was lost. He was informed
through revelation that its string had entangled with a tree. When traced out,
the dromedary was found in the same situation. 

When the Holy Prophet SAW reached Tabuk with his Islamic force, King Heraclius had left for Hams.The
Holy Prophet SAW sent Khalid bin Walid toward Akaidar at night while he would be hunting. When Khalid reached there, he saw the same situation and he arrested Akaidar and brought him alongwith him before the Holy Prophet
SAW.

The Holy Prophet SAW stayed there for about a fortnight but no one come to encounter the Islamic army. Therefore, the Holy Prophet SAW returned to Medina in Ramadan of 9 A .H. This was the last Ghazwah of Prophet.

Masjid Darrar set on Fire

After the Holy Prophet SAW return to Medina Prophet ordered to set on fire the building which the hypocrites had erected commingly displaying it as a mosque with an evil design to hatch conspiracies against the Muslims. The event revealed Masid darrar was not Mosque in reality.

After the treaty of Hudaibiya, the desired peace and safety on the routes being available, publicity of Islam could be done at large scale. For this very reason the treaty was named as victory in the revealed scriptures. Still there were some people, who, being under the pressure of the Quraish  could not embrace Islam. The conquest Mecca had completely removed this hurdle. And now the miraculous dynamism of the Holy Qur'an had prevailed upon the hearts of the Arabs in every nook and corner of the country. Consequently the people, who resented Islam and the Muslims, voluntarily resented themselves before the Holy Prophet SAW after covering a long journey in the form of delegates and embraced Islam in large number with the pledge to make every sort of sacrifice form Islam, if and when required. Most of these delegates sought the Holy Prophet's SAW  audience in 9 A .H.

Delegations

Immediately after the Holy
Prophet's SAW return from Tabuk, the Saqeef delegation came in Medina and embraced Islam. Therefore, a number of delegations come one after the other which were more on less seventy as reported. A brief description of some of the is as follows:
Banu Fazarah: delegation had already embraced Islam and later on come to Medina to meet the Holy Prophet SAW .
Banu Temmem: delegation met the Holy Prophet SAW  and after some discussion all its members embraced Islam. 
Sa'd ibne Bakar:  delegation was conducted by Damam bin Tha'labah. Its members raised many questions and when replied to their satisfactions, they embraced Islam. They returned to their people, propagated Islam among them and as a result of it all the people of their community embraced Islam.
Kahdah: delegation as soon as they heard the opening verses of Surah saaffat of the Holy Qur'an, they felt so much impressed tat they embraced Islam form the core of their heart.
  anu Abdul Qais delegation these people were formerly Christians. They had an audience with the Holy Prophet SAW  and embraced Islam. The  Holy Prophet SAW gave them the essential instructions about Islam.
Banu Abdul Qais: delegation the members of this delegation embraced Islam after meeting the Holy Prophet SAW. Musailamah was also one of the members of this delegation but later on he himself claimed prophethood and for that false claim he was called Musailamah Kazzab (the biggest liar). 
   ( AN ANALYSIS) Even at the time of his claim for prophethood Musailamah had not denied the Prophethood of the Holy Prophet SAW nor had he denied the truth of the Holy Qur'an and Islam. In this respect.
And for this very reason he was killed alongwith his supporters during the caliphate of Siddiq-e-Akbar. Tafseer Sheikh Abu Jafar Tibri, while mentioning the false claim of Musailmah in his history book, writes: "Musailamah had instructed his Muzzin (one who calls for prayer) to regularly announces "Ash-hadu anna Muhammadar-Rasool Ullah" in his Azzan. But anyone's claim to be a prophet after he Holy Prophet SAW being disallowed in Islam, rather its very claim in any form being the denial of the faith in prophethood, the fundamentals of a Holy Qur'an and the authentic Ahadeeth, Musailamah's claim even of nominal prophethood was regarded as infidelity and apostasy by the Sahabah of he Holy Prophet SAW.
Banu Qahtan: Zaid-ul-Khali was leader of this delegation. All the members of this delegation embraced Islam after meeting the Holy Prophet SAW.
Banu Al-Hartih delegation : Khalid bin Waleed was also among the members of this delegation and he embraced Islam alongwith others.
Similarly other delegations viz. Banu Asad, Banu Maharib, Hamudan, Ghassan etc. etc. come. Some of them embraced Islam before meeting the Holy Prophet SAW and some afterwards. Several Chieftains of Humair, who considered kings of their respective communities, were reported through their messengers to have embraced Islam. In the same way many other delegations, walking on foot or riding in camels or horses, presented themselves to the Holy Prophet SAW and embraced Islam, And by the 10th A.H. more than on lac Msulims accompanied the Holy Prophet SAW for Hajj and those who could not accompany him their number was much larger.
Hadrat Siddiq-e-Akbar as Ameer-ul-Haj
After Ghazwah Tanuk, in Zi Qa'ad of 9 A.H., the Holy Prophet SAW appointed Hadrat Saddiq-e-Akbar RA as the Ameer-ul-Hajj and sew him off for Mecca, the Golrified.

 

 

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SPIRITUAL PRESENCE OF PROPHET SAW

By the God Blessing, all the souls remain alive after physical death of the individual. The successful souls are free in their movement and travel as per wish of Allah JSN. The souls of prophets are supreme souls. And what about the dignity of soul of head of Prophets! That exists all over the universe.