During the time of the great Prophet\u2019s\nappointment only one sixth of the population in Arabian Peninsula lived in the\ncities; the majority of people were Bedouins who lived in tents out in the\ndeserts. Their teamwork was to murder and usurp; their friends was their sword\nand camel. One of the poets of that time1 recited: Our work is to loot and\nattack on the neighbor and seldom if we don\u2019t find one other than our own\nbrother, then we shall loot him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each tribe was an independent unit who\nconsidered other tribes as strangers. Murder was a common practice in both\ncities and out in the desert. When Shanfari -a well-known poet of that era- was\ndisrespected, he killed ninety-nine citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tribes worshiped idols as their\nreligion. They made idols as that looked like humans, animals, trees and\nworshiped them. Often, they would\nworship a water well or a cave. Not only they had none-conditional women but\nalso treated women as a commodity and trading item. Girls were considered as\ndishonored creatures and they were buried alive2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poetry and poems were very common\namong the Arabs. But their poems did not pertain deep meanings; except a\nhandful of poets who were exceptional intellectuals. The majority of Arab\npoetry pertained to motivations for wars or honoring previous mass murders and\nlooting3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The source of income for the tribes\n(in addition to desert based activities & income) was limited trading with\nsome of neighboring countries; not so often with Yemen and Far East. Amongst\nthis situation the house of Ka\u2019ba was a primary source of income for the tribe\nof Quraish. All tribes respected this house both due to its history and also\nthe fact that between 300 to 360 exclusive idols resided in this house was each\nrepresented a specific tribe4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other countries in the world had a\nsimilar level of civilization and did not consider humane values in the\nsocieties far different than what the Arabs had. The other countries in the\nworld were also occupied with wars for power and territorial expansions and further\nfilled with inequalities and tyrannies, which are well addressed in World\nhistory references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In such times, a man who worshiped the\nglorious Lord in the mountains of Mekka, thought of the destiny of history and\nmankind. Mohammad (Peace be upon him and his progeny) was near forty years of\nage. He had learned life in every aspect. He had been an orphan, a shepherd, a\nyoung tradesman, a worshiper, an intellectual in the desert, a judge and\ntrustworthy of people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He had spent forty years of his life\nin an era full of ignorance, among brutal and culture-less tribes; he had been\ntitled the trustworthy and now had found himself in the beginning of an\nextraordinary responsibility. In the years that followed his appointment as a\nmessenger, he spent most of his time far away from the crowd of the city. Each\nyear he would spent a month of worship on the mountain of Hera. During that\nmonth, he would feed any poor who came close to him for help. After the month,\nhe would return to Makka and circled around the Ka\u2019ba before returning home.\nThe year of Appointment, Mohammad(PBUH&HP) went to mount Hera. At the time of Appointment Gabriel (Jibra\u2019il)\n-the angel of Revelation- came to him and said: O Mohammad (PBUH&HP) You\nare the Messenger of Allah (SWT) and I am Jibra\u2019il.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After returning from the mount Hera\nand invitation of his close relatives to Islam, his wife Khadija (PBUH) and his\ncousin Ali Ibn Abitalib (PBUH) were the first two to accept his invitation to\nIslam. The Prophet\u2019s invitation was held in private for the first three years.\nAfter that it became a public invitation and announcement. The Messenger of\nAllah\u2019s (PBUH&HP) motto was \u201cSay there is no God but Allah and become\nprosperous\u201d. He invited people to monotheism and worshiping the only God. He\nannounced all other religions as expelled and expired. The Messenger of Allah\n(PBUH&HP) announced the principle of Equality [for the first time] by \u201cthe\nmost honorable of you with Allah is the one among you most careful (of his\nduty)\u201d caused a blow to Slavery of that time. He valued Women and gave them\nsocial and legal rights; he avoided them from shamelessness and presentation of\ntheir body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further, he removed the social\nhierarchy and scores. He placed the poorest of people beside the wealthy and\nelite of that time in one place, ordered everyone to learn knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When he had impacted and shaken the\nfoundation of the largest imperial powers of that time, he would sit on the\nfloor and close a stone on his belt so that he does not feel hunger and he can\ncontinue to fight like a soldier for Islam. Eventually the Messenger of Allah\nwith his persistence and hard work, successfully nurtured men and women who\nwere pure, pious and champion of their time from tribes that had cruelty as\ntheir law and were simply scattered all over the peninsula. These men and women\nlearned to have sacrifice for one another, put their hates away and construct a\nbetter society and shed light upon the path of human evolution for the next\ngenerations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Selection from\nthe book \u201cBi\u2019that, Ghadir Ashura, Mahdi\u201d by Reza Hakimi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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