The Messenger: Prophet Muhammad and His Life of Compassion by Resit Haylamaz & Y. A. Aslandogan

Author:Resit Haylamaz & Y. A. Aslandogan [Haylamaz, Resit & Aslandogan, Y. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Religious, Religion, islam, history, Sunni
ISBN: 9781597849326
Google: 6n4HtwEACAAJ
Publisher: Tughra Books
Published: 2018-11-15T23:42:47.986520+00:00

Seeking peace and honoring treaties

Throughout his life, the Messenger of God was always the representative of peace. He concluded agreements with all the diverse groups with which he made contact, and most scrupulously honored these agreements to the end. Hudaybiya generally comes to mind at the mention of peace and was a process characterized by the pursuit of peace. When the life of God’s Messenger is examined from a more universal standpoint, it becomes clear that he led it, from beginning to end, as the Prophet of Peace. Even during the Meccan period when a new conflict occurred every day, he was always party to peace, never condoned tension, and he sat and conversed with even the most intractable of people. Even at times where the doors were shut on his face, he bided his time until he could sit down with them in conversation, extended hospitality to them, invited them to meals, organized feasts for them, and called upon them at their homes at the risk of being turned away. And through all this, for every door that was shut, he aimed to open new doors that would allow him to reach them.

With his Migration to Medina, he immediately signed agreements with two different communities with whom he dealt, earned the trust and support of both the Arabs and the Jews despite having come from outside Medina, and established a state on the foundation of peace. This state that was founded on rule of law, embraced and addressed itself to all the subjects, and took it as a duty to ensure that they could all practice their beliefs freely and openly.

God’s Messenger’s arrival in Medina spelled the end of an ongoing war of 120 years, and a surprise peace was effected between the parties. Even in the conditions of the day, blood feuds that people had thought would never end came to a halt, arbitrary killings were put to an end, and Medina became acquainted with all the seriousness of a state on the path of peace.

Immediately after the establishment of the Medinan State, contact was made with surrounding tribes and towns. While security was ensured via patrols, agreements were made and treaties signed with all the tribes visited, thus expanding the security cordon, until ultimately, a peace that no one could even have imagined was established in the Hijaz. In a region where no one had been able to travel alone between cities, within a very short time a climate of peace formed, where women could travel on their own. And all this was realized with 19 military campaigns and 36 expeditions.

An era when no one trusted the other, those with power acted as they pleased, and the weak had no recourse to any authority if their rights were violated, when perpetrators got off scot-free, and when arbitrary rule was the order of the day436 was transformed into an extraordinary age centered on justice, and where rule of law defined human affairs.

Reaching this point was, of course, no easy task.

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