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Muslims, then they performed ritual
prayers with two rakahs together with our Prophet.
....Then others became Muslim. These
were Abu Ubayda, Abu Salama, Habbāb, Sa'd b. Zayd and his wife
Fātima, Arkam b. Arkam, Qudāma, Uthmān b. Maz'ūn, Ubayda b. Hārith,
Abdullah b. Mas'ūd, Bilāl Habashī, Suhayb Rūmī, Yāsir, his wife
Sumayya, and his son Ammār. Thus, the number of Muslims began
to increase.
....May Allah be pleased with them
all.
....Hazrat Muhammad used to secretly
communicate the message of Islam to people. Allah Almighty commanded:
...."So proclaim that which thou
art commanded." (Hijr, 94)
....Thus Hazrat Muhammad began summoning
people to Islam publicly, and this public summoning caused Muslims
to undergo difficult times.
....When our beloved Prophet went
to places where the polytheists gathered and summoned them to
Islam, announcing to them that the idols they had made with their
hands and erected in various places were no different from any
other stone, and that therefore they should not revere them by
prostration or respectful postures, that they should not associate
them with God, and that they should be servants of only one God,
these polytheists, who could not accept that there is no deity
other than God and that their idols were useless, began to insult
the Prophet and react aggressively.
....Their primary targets of the
unbelievers were slaves, and poor, defenseless people. They aimed
to change their religious conviction through force and thus frighten
the others who were inclined to welcome Islam.
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