God Protects the Caller

God Protects the Caller

1989 4 April 9 God Protects the Caller (173) The Prophet was resolved to communicate the word of God to mankind – come what may – and it was this determination on his part which elicited God’s protection at every stage in his life. He followed to the letter the Quranic injunction: “Apostle, proclaim what is revealed to you from your Lord: if you do not you will surely fail to convey His message. God will protect you from all men” (5:67).

For example, in the twelfth year of his prophethood, the antagonism of the people of Mecca became so intense that it seemed as if the history of Islam was doomed to end where it had started – in Mecca. Then, when all appeared to be lost, new avenues opened to the Prophet’s mission in Medina, whereupon he emigrated to that town and set about establishing a new religious base there. Such was the power of dawah, that, within a very short time, “there was not a house belonging to the Ansar (inhabitants of Medina) in which there were not Muslim men and women.”