“ Certainly did Allah confer favor upon the believers when He sent among them a Messenger from themselves, reciting to them His verses and purifying them and teaching them the Book and wisdom, although they had been before in manifest error.” Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): Peace and blessings be upon him, his family and friends.Allah has honored us by sending the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and has favored us by making known his message. Three months after the farewell pilgrimage, the last messenger sent by Allah said goodbye to this world. The first and last pilgrimage service of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was visually recorded in the minds of 120 thousand people, which was then was written down on books and forwarded to future generations never to be forgotten or damaged. Hearing this news, 120,000 people attended this blessed journey. Within a few years, the Arabian Peninsula was almost entirely Muslim.ġ0 years after the Hegira, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) stated that he wanted to do a pilgrimage and told those who wanted to join him to get prepared. Those who learned the religion of Islam from the messenger of Allah went to the neighboring cities to explain the religion of Allah, and thus the number of those who accepted Islam increased rapidly. The Prophet accepted the peace agreement and returned without carrying out the Umrah that year. Although the pagans in Mecca first tried to stop them in different ways, they feared the situation when they saw the devotion of Muslims to their cause and wanted to make a peace agreement. They only took enough arms to protect themselves, and they set out on their way the way to Mecca, with Ihram (no armor).
Six years after the Hegira, the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), gathered the Muslims for Umrah, as an obligation of religion. There were wars between Muslims and the pagans. The pagans of Mecca continued to increase their attacks. As a result of this sharing and unity, the Islamic State was established in Medina. The people of Medina had accepted Islam before they came, so they treated the Prophet (PBUH) and those close to him very well and expressed their loyalty to him. The pagans of Mecca, who did not feel threatened at the beginning, after seeing that this religion was spreading rapidly, and people were leaving the handmade idols, saw this as a danger and in no time began the verbal and physical attacks.Īpproximately 10 years later, Muslims could no longer live in Mecca because of the persecution that they were facing so after the permission of Allah to migrate, they migrated first to the lands now where Ethiopia is and then to Medina.
His family and some of his friends accepted this message immediately, and this new religion soon began to spread. The Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) was sent as a messenger of the supreme creator Allah and would tell people only to believe in Allah and to worship him and not people or idols. Hearing the situation, he said that Mohammad was the expected prophet and that if he could, he would help him, but he passed away shortly after. Waraka was a Christian who knew the previous celestial religions but was now blind due to old age. When the first revelation came, he and his wife went to Waraka for consultation. This was a rare tradition carried out by those who followed the religion of the Prophet Abraham (Hanifs)ĭuring the month of Ramadan, he received the first revelation from the angel Gabriel and that was “read”. Their sons passed away at a young age.Īt the age of 35, he took food and something to drink during Ramadan and started to retreat himself in a nearby cave. Their marriage lasted for 25 years until the death of Khadija. Having lost his mother when he was six years old, the messenger of Allah grew up under the protection of first his grandfather and then his uncle. Since his father had died before he was born, he never saw him. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born in Mecca, 571 years after the birth of Prophet Jesus.