The Revolution of the Prophet

THE REVOLUTION OF THE PROPHET “Paradise,” the Prophet replied. “Give us your hand,” they said to the Prophet, “so we can swear allegiance to you.” The Ansar, en-masse, were giving their lives for a truth that was still disputed, for a reality that had found no place in the world of humanity. It was an act which no community had ever emulated before or after them. Avoiding Extraneous Issues It is generally the issues that are called nationalistic in modern terminology that capture the imagination of a people’s intelligentsia and lead to the establishment of popular movements. Issues of this nature faced the Prophet Muhammad also, but he scrupulously avoided them. The success of his mission depended upon his conforming to the scheme of God, which had been evolving over the last two and a half thousand years. If he had become involved in irrelevant side issues, all the opportunities, which had been created, could have been ruined. The Arab border territory of Yemen had come under Ethiopian rule in A.D. 525, and Abrahah was appointed governor. This audacious individual attacked the Holy Ka’bah, aiming to demolish it and end the central position it enjoyed because it was a pilgrimage place. The year of his attack on the Ka’bah, with an army of elephants, was also the year of the Prophet’s birth (A.D. 571): the year of the Sassanians’ attack on Yemen and its assimilation into the Persian Empire. Bazan became the new governor. When the Prophet Muhammad commenced his mission, the Persian