The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Sunnah Hudaybiya
~ 145 ~
helps him to understand that if he were to walk out
of the point of controversy he would find all other
paths open to him. The same was the case in
Hudaybiya. The Prophet of Islam wanted to enter
Makkah but the Quraysh did not allow him to do so.
Yet the Prophet did not let the obstructiveness of the
Quraysh
become a matter of prestige. His own
positive approach enabled him to lead Muslims
away from the field of war to the field of
dawah,
a far
vaster arena for their struggle in the cause of Islam.
By unilaterally accepting all the conditions of the
opponents of Islam, the Prophet of Islam made a
no-war pact called the Hudaybiya Peace Treaty in
6 A.H. On account of his unconditional acceptance
of the enemy’s terms, some Muslims held it to be a
humiliating pact
(Seerah ibn Hisham,
3/365). But
after this treaty was finalized, the chapter in the
Qur’an, called ‘Victory’ (Al-Fath) was revealed, in
which this peace treaty was called ‘a clear victory.’
(48:1)
The reason for this difference in assessment was
that human beings looked at it from the angle of the
present, while God looked at it from the angle of the
