The Call of the Quran
1. Divine Planning
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to avenge their defeat by destroying the might of
the Persians. That is how, when the Companions
rose unitedly under the guidance of the Prophet,
they rapidly conquered most of the inhabited part
of Asia and Africa, subjugating polytheism, and
securing for monotheism its rightful place.
To quote professor Philip K. Hitti:
The enfeebled condition of the rival
Byzantines and Sassanids who had conducted
internecine warfare against each other for
many generations, the heavy taxes consequent
upon these wars, imposed on the citizens of
both empires, and undermining their sense of
loyalty…all these paved the way for the
surprisingly rapid progress of Arabian arms.
(Philip K. Hitti, History of the Arabs,
London,
1970, pp. 142-143)
Historians in referring to this turning point have
generally represented the foregoing events as
having taken place in the natural course. Whereas
this extraordinary turn of events was the result of a
divine plan specially conceived of by God for the
support of the Final Prophet.
