After the verse was revealed (O you who are covered, rise and warn)
The Messenger of God began secretly calling everyone who trusted him to worship God for the first three years, the invitation took the character of secrecy in order to preserve it.
He was the first woman to embrace Islam
his wife Khadija, who stood beside him, believed him, believed in him, and eased people's affairs for him.
The first of the boys whose embrace Islam
was Ali bin Abi Talib
Among the loyalists
Zaid bin Haritha
Among the men
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq: In which the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: “I did not invite anyone to Islam except that there was a setback in him except for Abu Bakr.”
Abu Bakr's individual invitation
Abu Bakr began to invite those he trusted to Islam, and many free men and slaves embraced Islam on his hands
Othman Bin-Affan
and Zubair bin Al-Awwam
and Abdul Rahman bin Auf
And Saad bin Abi Waqas
and Talha bin Obaidullah
Is everyone who entered Islam in the beginning slaves and the poor?
Muslims began to include individuals in the religion of God, and it is pleasant for many historians to say that Islam in its infancy did not attract to it except the slaves, the poor, and those who have nothing to do with the Quraysh. Ten loyalists and allies out of fifty-three people, as for they are poor and have nothing to do with the Quraysh, so write down some of the names of those who preceded you in Islam, and judge you according to the amount of influence and wealth they had.
Khadija bint Khuwaylid, may God be pleased with her
The first to ever embrace Islam had money and trade, which makes her compete with the largest trade of the Quraish, and it is sufficient to mention her name to indicate the greatness of her wealth
As for Abu Bakr
He was the first man to convert to Islam, and he was the owner of a wide trade and a lot of money, and he was one of the leaders of Quraysh in the pre-Islamic era and the people who gave their advice, His wealth, during the pre-Islamic era, amounted to forty thousand dirhams, which he spent all of it on freeing the necks of Muslim slaves
As for Othman bin Affan
He was the most wealthy of Quraysh and the largest of them in trade, and his trade to the Levant carried more than a hundred camels, and he had the guardianship of the orphans of his family and the aid of their poor.
As for Talha bin Ubaidullah
He was in a profitable trade and a lot of money, and his trade was going out to the markets of Levant and Iraq, and from those who preceded him to Islam
Zubair bin Al-Awwam
And Saad bin Abi Waqas
Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah
Abu Salamah Makhzoumi
Al-Arqam bin Abi Al-Arqam
And Suhaib Al-Rumi
and Khaled bin Said
And Salit bin Omar
and Amir Abi Waqas
Many others were in vast wealth, or at least they lived a decent life in their society. These historians wished to understand the nature of the Islamic call, which, if it touches the heart, becomes attached to its owner, there is no difference between rich and poor or free and slave, and the previous ones received the teachings of their religion, secretly from their Prophet, and if they wanted to practice their rituals, they went out to the reefs of Mecca far from the eyes of the Quraysh, And when their number increased, the Messenger of God chose for them the House of Al-Arqam Ibn Abi Al-Arqam,To meet with it, the secret invitation remained for about three years, during which, according to Ibn Hisham's narration, fifty-three people embraced Islam, among them are ten women. It is a good fortune for Muslims in this period that Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, uncle of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, embraced Islam, He was the dearest boy in the Quraish, and the toughest of them all, and he was called the Lion of Quraish.
The reason why Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib - may God be pleased with him - was called the Lion of Quraish, one day he came back from his hunting and learned that Abu Jahl had objected to Muhammad his nephew, had hurt him, insulted him, and insulted his religion, He got angry and went to Abu Jahl and hit him with his bow so hard that it shook his head. He said: do you insult him while I am on his religion and I say what he says? He replied: they called Abu 'Amara (meaning Hamza), because by God I had caused his nephew to be an ugly curse, and Hamza hurried to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and said: I bear witness that you are the truthful, so show, my nephew, your religion, for by God, I do not like that I have what the sky has shaded and that I follow my first religion, And Hamza’s conversion to Islam was a good opening for the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, when the Quraysh knew that Muhammad had honored and refused to embrace Hamza’s Islam, so they stopped insulting him, and Hamza was among those whom God honored Islam with.
We make use of the following
1 - The Messenger - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - says (Convey from me, even if it is a verse) and our numbers as Muslims are approximately one and a half billion and the number is increasing. For the hearts that are in the chests and does not care about our shapes, Or our images or what changed us in our religion and our intentions or whatever we turned to doctrines and formalities, he cares about what we really are, and God - the Most High - does not favor anyone from His creation, for we are not the children of God nor His loved ones, but rather the one who sins bears the burdens of his sin, like his brother in humanity.
2 - The individual invitation: In short, it says to you: You and your position in society, and what does this mean? Do people love you? Do they listen to you? Do they accept what they hear from you? And the more your social position and acceptance among the people increases, the more prominent people will follow you, and this is what the article before us shows us. Look how many of the wealthy and notable of Quraysh converted to Islam only at the hands of the newly Muslim wealthy merchant (Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq - may God be pleased with him and his approval).
3 - The Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - when the number of Muslims increased, chose one house of dignitaries (Al-Arqam Ibn Abi Al-Arqam) and this is an indication that the Prophet was the first to start in the pre-Islamic era what we now call the cultural salon - if so to speak - where the Arabs were in an applied ignorance and most of them did not know how to read and write, and those who knew how to read and write did not exceed the number of fingers on one hand, so the first words (Read) will be revealed to them, and the Qur’an is not a word that tickles the feelings at all, especially the entire Meccan Qur’an addresses the mind and reason only, and look at everyone who used to go to the numbers in his house, Is he only characterized by reason and rationality at this time by the recognition of society and not by the recognition of the people of Islam?
4 - Bait Al-Arqam: The title of the religious salon that takes place in many Muslim countries thanks to God - the Almighty - but do you know that in some countries this is forbidden even if the number is only 3 individuals including the preacher and not only on Muslims but on Christians and any kind of religion, and whoever does that offends his citizenship and may be subjected to severe torture, so if you are one of those whom fate has blessed him by opening a religious salon in your home, in accordance with the Almighty’s saying (and make your homes a compass) that you should remember your Muslim brothers in such countries and give them charity, or at least make doaa for them, because they cannot do what you can do.
5- Is Islam considered ideological (intellectual method)? No, of course. It is a divine approach: religion, but if you thought, you would find that the West today worships the idea, and the more creative the idea is and brings benefit to it, the more reliable it is, especially if the idea is given and not taken, as for Islam, it takes more from you than it gives you. Perhaps that took your whole life. It gives you a blessing. It may give you success in life. Perhaps a good life is nothing more. As for living in true Islam, the life of the Hereafter, therefore, whoever enters the Islamic religion enters it with his mind before his heart, and he enters it voluntarily, not by order or even begging for anyone. Praise be to God for a religion that does not take our minds away from us.
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