Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
12. Emigration—From Makkah to Madinah
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people with the Prophet had risen from 1,500 to
10,000. Along with them, the Prophet secretly set
out for Makkah. So wise and diplomatic was his
strategy that Makkah was conquered with next to
no bloodshed:
God has promised you many gains, which
you will acquire, and thus He has given you
this beforehand, and He has restrained the
hands of men from you.
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When the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah was signed, the
Prophet had been preaching for twenty years. The
message of Islam had spread throughout the
Arabian Peninsula. There were people in every tribe
in whose hearts the Prophet’s religion had found a
place. But they still looked up to the Quraysh as
their leaders. Many who realized the truth of Islam
were unable to proclaim their faith out of fear of the
Quraysh. They knew that declaration of Islam
amounted to a declaration of war against the
mightiest tribe in Arabia. Now they heard that the
Muslims and the Quraysh had agreed to curtail
hostilities for ten years. The Quraysh would no
longer be able to take reprisals against people