Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
10. The Prophet in Makkah
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the Quraysh, was in the right, and that he should
join forces with the Prophet of Islam. “I participated
in every battle against Muhammad,” he said. “But
there was not one battle from which I did not go
away with the feeling that I was fighting on the
wrong side.”
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Many people are reported to have had inclinations
towards Islam long before they accepted the faith.
Some even had dreams about Islam. One such
person was Khalid ibn Sa’id ibn al-’As. He saw
himself in a dream standing on the edge of an
enormous pit of fire. Someone was trying to push
him in. Then the Prophet Muhammad came and
rescued him from the pit of doom.
Difficult though it may be to see the economic
connection in missionary work, there is an indirect
link of the utmost significance. When a person
becomes Muslim, all his resources are automatically
put at the disposal of the Islamic cause. First it was
Khadijah, the Prophet’s wife, who provided the
Islamic movement with financial assistance. Then
Abu Bakr, who had accumulated 40,000 dirhams
from his trading, put all his capital into the service
