The Call of the Quran
5. The call of da‘wah in the modern age
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way for its global leadership.
The above example was a worldly one, but the same
holds true for those brave people who forged the
history of Islam. On the occasion of the second oath
of Aqbah, the representatives of the Medinan
Muslims came to meet the Prophet. The following
conversation which they had with him is a fine
example of the courage and sense of self-sacrifice,
which brought ultimate success to Islam. Here we
reproduce a part of this conversation as recorded by
Ibn Hisham:
Ka’b says that we (the Medinan neo-Muslims)
went to perform pilgrimage, and we fixed in
advance a meeting with the Prophet at Al-
Aqbah during the night on the second day
following the pilgrimage. When we had
performed the pilgrimage, and the night came
when the meeting with the Prophet was fixed,
so we left with our companions; when one
third of the night had passed, we set off on
our mounts quietly leaving under the cover of
night. We had kept this appointment secret
and had not informed the unbelievers among
