Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
10. The Prophet in Makkah
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When ‘Amr ibn Murrah al-Juhani preached Islam
among his own tribe, the Juhaynah, one of them
spoke up: “May God make you taste the bitterness
of life, ‘Amr. Do you want us to forsake our idols,
disunite our people, and contradict the religion of
our righteous ancestors? The religion that this
Quraysh from Tahamah preaches has no affection,
no graciousness to it.”
He then went on to recite three verses, the last of
which went like this:
He seeks to prove that our forefathers were
fools. One who acts thus can never prosper.
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Some people were prevented by jealousy from
accepting the message of Islam. The Prophet made
no secret of the fact that he was sent by God; he
proclaimed the fact to all and sundry. But people
always find it very difficult to accept the fact that
someone else has been given a knowledge of reality
that they themselves have been denied. Bayhaqi has
related, on the authority of Mughirah ibn Shu’bah,
how Abu Jahl once took the Prophet aside and said
to him, “By God, I know full well that what you say
is true, but one thing stops me from believing. The
