Surprised by the 10,000 strong, disciplined Muslims army, Abu Sufyan rushed back to Makkah’s
precincts and called out loud, “O Makkans! Muhammad has arrived with his army
and you have no power to oppose him. Those who enter my house will be safe from harm, and now only
unconditional surrender can save you from massacre.” On February 11, 630 A.D., The Noble Prophet
(s.a.w.a.s.) victoriously entered Makkah shedding almost any blood. He declared
a general amnesty in that whoever remains in his house with closed doors, or
enters Abu Sufyan’s house or enters the Masjid al-Haram, will be safe. After
entering the House of Allah (Ka’abah) and demolishing every statue inside
Ka’abah, he addressed the people asking them what treatment they expect from him.
People expressed their hope that he will be generous and forgiving.
Sir John Glubb
writes, “Majority of Quraish accepted Islam because there was very little to
choose from. They also sensed that it was not such a bad bargain after all to
declare themselves Muslims, and they did, with what reservations, was a
question to be answered by the future alone.” All members of the clan of Banu
Umaiyya, including Hinda, the wife of Abu Sufyan, and the cannibal of Uhad,
also ‘accepted’ Islam.”
Surah Yaseen, Ayah 7,
“(I swear) that most of them are doomed to be punished. They will not accept
the faith.” Surah Yaseen was revealed in Makkah and Allah is advising His
Messenger that most of them will not accept the faith.
Surah al-Hujuraat, Ayah
14, “The Bedouin Arabs have said, “We are believers.” Tell them, “You did not
believe, but you should say that you have submitted (by the word only). In
fact, belief has not entered your hearts…”
After the sad demise
of the Noble Prophet (s.a.w.a.s.), the Banu Umaiyya openly started the
operation of dismantling the structure of Islam. First Muawiya rebelled against
the divinely appointed Infallible Imam Ali (a.s.), then after weakening the
caliphate of the Infallible Imam Hasan (a.s.), ultimately had him poisoned by
his wife. Lastly, against the Agreement with Imam Hasan (a.s.) appointed Yazid,
the son of his Christian wife Maysun. Yazid mercilessly killed the Infallible
Imam Husayn (a.s.) along with his family and friends, had the daughters and
family members of the Noble Prophet (s.a.w.a.s.) desecrated by sending them
without head-covers in the streets of Kufa and Damascus after burning their
shelters in Karbala. Yazid disclosed his religion when respectable prisoners
were standing in his court and said, “If my forefathers slain in Badr (by
Muslims) were alive they would have been happy that I have taken their revenge.
There was no revelation from God, Banu Hashim only wanted power!”
On the eve of victory of Makkah, the Noble Prophet
(s.a.w.a.s.), who was tortured by these very Quraish, could have killed them,
but he favored them with the amnesty and the light of Islam. Surah al-Rahman Ayah 60; “Can anything else
be a response to a favor but a favor?”
Surah al-Shurah Ayah
23: “(Muhammad), say, “I do not ask you for any payment for my preaching to you
except (your) love of (my near) relatives.” No Messenger of Allah asked for
any compensation for his preaching from his Ummah. It was the Divine Order only
for the Noble Prophet (s.a.w.a.s.). “The
compensation for his preaching” may be seen in Karbala. The family of Imam
Husayn (a.s.) was deprived of water for three days, the so called Muslims
killed Imam Husayn and the male members of his family even 6 months old infant,
Ali al-Asghar, was slaughtered by a 3 stage arrow used for slaughtering camel. Imam
Husayn (a.s.) had buried his 6 month old baby at the back of the encampment.
At the end of this
slaughter at Karbala, Yazid army went round the battle field and the tent where
Imam Husayn (a.s.) used to bring the bodies of the martyrs and keep in the
tent. When they counted the heads of martyrs, the tiny head of 6 months old Ali
Asghar was not found. One can imagine the brutality of Yazid’s forces that
assigned horsemen to find the tiny body by piercing spears on the earth at the
back of the camps and ultimately one of the spears penetrated the body of Ali
Asghar!
They set on fire the
encampments of Imam Husayn (a.s.), snatched the head-covers of the women, made them
to sit on camels without seats and paraded along the route to Kufa and Damascus!
Source
used: The Glorious Qur’an
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