Messenger of Allah Muhammad (s). When Mecca was conquered, all of the Prophets direct opponents were brought before him. They were war criminals, in every sense of the word. But the Prophet did not order to kill them. He simply said: Go, you are free. The result of this kind behaviour was miraculous. They immediately accepted Islam. Hudaibiyya pact:. that time, the unbelievers were determined to engage Muslims in fighting, because obviously they were in an advantageous position. But the Prophet, by accepting their conditions unilaterally, entered into a pact. It was a ten-year peace treaty. Until then, the meeting ground between Muslims and non- Muslims had been on the battlefield. Now the area of conflict became that of ideological debate. Within two years, Islam emerged as victorious because of the simple reason of its ideological superiority. After the Battle of Badr, about 70 of the unbelievers were taken as the prisoners of war. They were educated people. The Prophet announced that if anyone of them would teach ten Muslim children how to read and write he would be freed. This was the first school in the history of Islam in which all of the students were Muslims, and all of the teachers were from the enemy rank. Here I shall quote a British Orientalist who remarked about the Prophet of Islam: He faced adversity with the determination to wring success out of failure. Hijrah: Hijrah was not just a migration from Mecca to Medina. It was to find a more suitable place for Islamic . Aishah(r): She said: Whenever the Prophet had to choose between two options, he always opted for the easier choice. (Al¬ Bukhari) To choose the easiest option means to begin from the possible, and one who begins from the possible will surely reach his goal. In the early days of Mecca, there were many problems and difficulties. At that time, a guiding verse in the Quran was revealed. It said: With every hardship there is ease, with every hardship there is ease. (94:5-6). This means that if there are some problems, there are also opportunities at the same time. And the way to success is to ignore the problems and avail the opportunities. By studying the life of the Prophet we can derive those important principles which were followed by the Prophet. In short, the Prophet of Islam was a positive thinker in the full sense of the word. All his activities were result- ¬oriented. He completely refrained from all such steps as may prove counter- productive. He always followed positive methods to achieve his goal.
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