the seerah of prophet sw.(part-7)

Dear brothers! It’s been couple of weeks since we were talking about the person whose teaching/guidance only can make us succeed in this world and save from the eternal hellfire. In the grave we will be asked about him and a practicing Muslim only can  reply to his third question that he will say he is the person I believe in him as a prophet what I knew by studying the Qur’an and what the Qur’an saying ‘’whatever my prophet brought for you from Allah swt. follow it, and whatever you have been prohibited, avoid it’’ so, knowing him and following his teaching is the way of Jannah.

Today in our bangle khutbah we discussed few most significant incidents of his Madani life. Before going through them again I should mention that i’m just talking the timeline of the prophet saw.

Dear brothers! The plotting against the Muslims is an ongoing process it was there and it is going on till the End of the Qiamah. Last week we talked until the battle of Badar. So, after the battle of Badar the Quraish they became furious and were determined to take revenge in order to restore their prestige and wounded pride at any cost. Which lead them to have another battle which is known battle of uhud.

In between the battle of uhud and Badar the makkan Quraysh and their Madani alliances like Jews and pagan they tried many ways to crush the new growing Islamic state and Muslims but, the prophet saw. he was very alert about them he made some treaty with some Madani tribes and  Jews. Also, he faced some small battles.
 Finally, after immediate the battle of Badar prophet saw had to face the battle of uhud. If we try to point out the reason of the battles against the Muslims what we find which are: 1. Religious animosity that Islam is becoming the most powerful and fast growing religion 2.Social reason that they have lost their pride at the battle of Badar and they highly embarrassed themselves. 3. Economical that Muslims will lead the business 4. Political that prophet saw. and Muslims are becoming strongest political threat to the Quraysh and all over the Arabian peninsula.

The battle of wahood (shawl, 3^rd hijrah): When the prophet saw. was informed that the Quraysh are marching towards madinah with 3000 well equipped army. Prophet sw. gathered the elders and youth in a shurah meeting to arrangements to be made. Following day After the Friday prayer prophets sw. marched out with 1000 men, including Abdullah ibn ubai the leaders of the hypocrites. However, later on he fled with his 300 followers.

When prophets saw. reached the mount of uhud he positioned them and one of the fifty skilful archers he issued to stay them where they were on a mount  at the place name Qanat al wadi under command of Abdullah ibn zubyr. Later on this group made a fatal mistake when they saw the Muslims are going to have absolute and clear victory. But this mistake cased Muslims in big loss even in this battle prophet sw himself got injured, his rubaee teeth fallen by the attack of enemy. In this war Muslims didn’t lose but, Muslims lost 70 of their brothers and most prominent warriors like the uncle of prophet sw Hamza ra and Abdullah ibn zubyr.
After this war the enemy of Islam thought Muslims are no able to fight back. So, they continued plotting against the Muslims and at the 4^th hijri the tribes adhal and qarah they  killed 10^th innocent sahaba, another most barbaric incident was the incident of bere ma’una this time they killed 70 most educated sahabah.

And again at the 5^th hijri the Quraysh marched towards madina to attack Muslim. This time they were 10thousands the figure of number which was more than the hole people of madinah. The Muslims had strengthened their defences by digging a huge trench that stopped the enemy in their tracks. The army tried its best to cross and attack Madina but the Muslims fought them off with their customary bravery. This war known the battle of trench/ khandaq. 

And then at the sixth hijri prophet saw. made the most significant treaty of Hudaybiah

After the treaty prophet sw conquest the Makkah:
About the end of the 8^th year of the hijrah, the prophet sw gained victory over his own beloved city makkah where he was expelled from. He entered makkah without any bloodshed as the makkans didn’t have any strength left against the Muslims. The prophet sw then forgave all the animosity against Islam and he proved that he came to establish the message of Allah but not to fight.

The last public sermon of prophet sw. in his last pilgrimage: in the 10^th year of hijrah when the message and the sovereignty of Allah swt had been established all over the Arab peninsula and there was no power remained to stand against the Deen of Allah swt. from every corner of the Arab tribes and people in many groups were coming towards Islam. On the 10^th of dhil hijjah after his last pilgrimage the prophet sw went to Arafat to deliver his last farewell speech and to summarise his mission and let the Muslims know from now that you have the responsibility to convey my message to the rest of the humanity. There was One million and 24 Thousand of people Men, women, children, the rich and the poor were all attentive and waiting to listen to the prophet.

The prophet sw started by saying:

O people! Listen to my words carefully, for I do not know whether I shall meet you again on such an occasion in the future.

O people! From now all the jahalia has been demolished. Killing, gambling, backbiting and interest has been prohibited. Fear Allah about the right of women over you. 

O people! Listen carefully. All believers are brothers. The Muslims constitute one brotherhood. None is higher than others unless he is higher in obedience to Allah.

O people! No prophet will come after me. Worship Allah and offer salah, observe sawn and pay zakat. Ponder over my words as i convey to you. I am leaving with you the book of Allah and the sunnah of his prophet, if you follow them you will never going to go astray. And he ended the speech by saying:

oh people when Allah will ask you about my responsibility towards you what will your response? They replied: Yes, you have conveyed the message of Allah then he said “O Allah be my witness that I have conveyed your message to your people’’
then Allah swt also declared that his messages has been reached to complete and  revealed the verse on him 5:3”this day, the disbelievers are in despair concerning your religion, so do not fear them and fear Me; this day I have perfected your religion for you* and completed My favour upon you, and have chosen Islam as your religion”
finally, the following year 29^th of safar 11^th hijri prophet first fell ill and few days later at 12^th of rabiul aowal Monday he passed away when he was 63 years 4days.

Dear brothers! In the first part of this series discussion I mentioned some of the reason that telling us why we have to know the seerah of prophet’s sw. one of the important one was its wajib/an obligation to show our love to our prophet saw. and the most effective and strong way to show our love to him which is following his sunnah by knowing the seerah/the biography of  prophet sw. Another important reason was Studying the seerah of prophet sw. life and time is studying our religion.