The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Sunnah Hudaybiya
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commanded to perform
dawah
alone, and he used to
engage himself day and night in discharging the
duty assigned to him. At this stage the Prophet was
enjoined in the Qur’an not to “yield to unbelievers,
but strive against them with it (the Qur’an) with the
utmost strenuousness. (25:52).
The Qur’an does not consist of bombs and bullets.
Therefore it is clear that these verses do not speak of
armed struggle but of peaceful ideological struggle.
This means that
dawah
work is to be performed with
the help of the teachings of Islam. We must make
the Qur’an understandable to people by exploiting
all kinds of peaceful means. People’s hearts and
minds have to be conquered by the veracity of the
Qur’an.
This verse evidently indicates the superiority of
dawah
as compared to armed
jihad.
According to it
there are two kinds of
jihad-
minor
jihad
and major
jihad,
armed struggle being the minor
jihad
and
peaceful struggle being the major
jihad.
Hudaybiyah provides a great example of this great
jihad
in the history of Islam: After migration the
Muslims faced an armed on-slaught from their
