to Islam. Just as God is alone in His being, so is He alone in His attributes. In recognition of His uniqueness, the Quran opens with the following invocation: “Praise be to God, Lord of the universe,

to Islam. Just as God is alone in His being, so is He alone in His attributes. In recognition of His uniqueness, the Quran opens with the following invocation: “Praise be to God, Lord of the universe,

Sa’ib has thus recorded his commendation of the Prophet; ‘In the period of Ignorance (i.e. before Islam) when you were my partner in business, you were the finest of all partners. You never deceived me

prior to his coming to the town, Islam had already entered Madinah. After his arrival, the dawah process was intensified and the majority of the Madinan people accepted Islam, becoming his supporters. This

to devote oneself to constructive activity to the fullest extent. The mission of the prophet of Islam was to establish monotheism (Tawheed). When he received his prophethood, the situation in Makkah was

fold. It was these people, who, by giving their full support to the Prophet, brought the history of Islam into existence. At the end of the Makkan period the Prophet’s uncle Abu Talib died. As he had been

he found idolaters and Jews living alongside Muslims. But in order to establish a system based on Islamic teachings, the Prophet did not immediately attempt to launch a movement to expel Jews and idolaters

solar calendar. The idolaters subsequently adjusted the calendar to the solar system. The Prophet of Islam was then entrusted by God with changing back to the lunar calendar. But the Prophet neither attempted

target could not be realized by all these wars. Ultimately, in the 6th year of hijrah, the Prophet of Islam finalized the Hudaybiya peace treaty between the believers and unbelievers. This treaty sought to

faced with the same state of affairs as prevailed at the time of Hudaybiya in the first phase of the Islamic revolution. Here the Prophet’s sunnah shows us the way to follow this prophetic policy in today’s

of later Islamic history. For basic teachings are eternal in their nature, whereas history shapes itself around social or human circumstances. For instance, there are certain people who hold that the

migration, then perform jihad in the sense of doing battle, and then in the fourth stage establish the Islamic state. This order has been derived from a historical sequence of events as they unfolded, rather

conclusive evidence that there is only defensive war in Islam. It is absolutely unlawful for the believers to wage an offensive war. The Islamic method is entirely

provide a strong guarantee of the preservation of the book of God. But the case of the Prophet of Islam is distinctly different from that of the other prophets. On the occasion of Hajjatul wida, the last

today. After the death of the Prophet this number went on increasing as nation after nation embraced Islam. In this way a vast human group came into being as had never previously existed for the guarding of