DA'WAH (THE PREACH)
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Allah's
command came to the Prophet to engage in Da’wah: "O you
enveloped
(in garments)! Arise and warn!”
[Surah
Al-Muddathir (74), Ayat 1-2.]
The
Prophet obeyed the command and began to call people to his Lord,
secretly
for three years until Allah (SWT) revealed the verse (which means) :
"Therefore
proclaim openly that which you are commanded, and turn
away
from those who join false gods with Allah."
[Surah
Al-Hijr (15), Ayah 94.]
It
was then that the Prophet Muhammad ascended Mount As-Safaa and
collected
upon the clans of Qur'aish: "I have come to you with a warning against
a
severe
punishment." 53 For the
following twenty-three years, Da’wah became the
preoccupation
of the Prophet and the pivot of his life until his death.
The
Messenger of Allah called the people of Makkah, freemen and slaves,
young
and old, to the worship of Allah. He extended the Da’wah to visitors who
came
to
Makkah on pilgrimage or for trade. He went to Taa'if to deliver Da'wah to
the tribe
of
Thaqeef. Following the pledge of allegiance at al-'Aqabah, he sent Musa'b bin
`Umair
to Madeenah in order to call its people to the worship of Allah. Later, he
himself
emigrated to Madeenah and set up his mosque where he preached to the
newly
formed community "as a witness, a bearer of glad tidings, a warner,
and
as
one who invites to Allah by His leave.".
He frequented the assemblies of the
Ansaar
tribe, preaching and teaching. He sent his preachers throughout the Arabian
Peninsula:
Mu'adh bin Jabal went to Yemen to call upon the 'People of the Book'
there
to Islam; 'Urwah bin Mas'ood went to Thaqeef to call his own people to the new
religion;
`Alaa' bin al-Hadhramee was sent to Bahrain. Even the Prophet himself
stood
by the gate of Ka'bah after the Conquest of f Makkah, calling the Makkans to
Islam.
On his return to Madeenah, tribal delegations flocked to him from all over
Arabia
(in a year that came to be known as the ‘Year of Delegations'), whereupon
they
responded to his call by embracing the new religion and returning to their
homes
to call upon their tribes and kin to follow in their footsteps.
With
the entire land of Arabia now entered into the Islamic faith, the Prophet
now
sent his emissaries with the message of Islam to the kings and emperors
around
the Arabian Peninsula:
"In
the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. From Muhammad,
the
Messenger of Allah, to Heraclius, the Emperor of the Romans. Peace be upon him
who
follows the true guidance. To proceed, I extend to you the invitation to accept
Islam.
Embrace Islam and you will be safe. Accept Islam and Allah will give you a
double
reward. And if you turn away, upon you will be the sins of your subjects:
“Say:
‘O People of the Book, come to the word that is just between us
and
you, that we worship none but Allah, and we associate no partners with Him, and
that none of us take others as lords besides Allah.' Then, if they
turn
away, say: ’Bear witness that we are Muslims.’ ”
53 Bukhari and Muslim.
54 Surah Al-Ahzaab (33), Ayat
45-46.
And in the farewell pilgrimage (Hajjatul-Wadaa'), thousands upon
thousands of
Muslims stood listening to the call
of the Prophet :
"Verily,
everything related to Jahiliyyah is now under my feet..." and "I have
left
you with something which, if you hold on to, You will never go astray: the Book
of
Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger.”
During his last illness which led
to his demise, the Prophet entered the
mosque with his head bandaged, and
sat on his mimbar and said, "...By
Allah, I have
no
fear that you might revert to polytheism after my death. What I fear for you is
the
life of this world and your rivalry therein."
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