The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Sunnah Hudaybiya
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of secret propagation, without waiting for any
social compulsion.
Similarly, when he gave the call of monotheism
publicly, it did not happen that the Prophet and the
idolaters of Makkah met and talked about it and
then arrived at the decision that the idols placed in
Kabah would not be harmed and that the Prophet
would disseminate his message by following the
peaceful
dawah
method. Rather what happened was
that the Prophet himself set this limit for his
dawah
activity. That is he gave the verbal call to abandon
the worship of anything other than God, but
refrained
completely
from
any
practical
confrontation with the worshippers of idols placed
in the House of God.
Similarly, when the Prophet of Islam reached
Madinah, he found Jews also settled there. But he
did not first have bilateral exchanges with the Jews
and then reach an agreement that the Muslims
(living in Madinah) would not force the Jews to
adopt their ideology but would permit them to
enjoy freedom of religion. Instead, after assessing
the situation prevailing in Madinah, the Prophet
