for an essay i am working on and i need a little more then i have. it is that basic question. When he lived there, what did he face?
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for an essay i am working on and i need a little more then i have. it is that basic question. When he lived there, what did he face?
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Erectile dysfunction mostly.
He had believers and opponents. It is natural that a Prphet of God will have both. Most of those powerful ones, who had everything to lose if they believe in the Message of God, oppose and attack the Prophets and their followers by all means. Makkans did the same, that included his own relatives. Their argument was that Muhammad causes division within the families and shun their deities they and their forefathers worshipped. Initially, when the believers were few in number and weak, they suffered the persecution with forbearance. Even in the middle of this persecution, many came to know about the Message and voluntarily accept the faith. At a stage when the perseution was at its peak level, God ordered them to migrate to Madina where the people of Madina welcomed them and formed a state under Prophet Muhammad's leadership. Makkans did not stop, they wanted to Chase them in Madina also. Muslims, though still a small in number compared to the Makkans were given permission by God to retalliate. They retalliated and defeated the large army of Makkans in their first encounter. This was the beginning and Islam grew fast form this stage as many were eager to know about the ideology behind the new power. Many groups came forward voluntarily to accept the faith and many still conspired against the new power, the main conspirators being Jews and pagans, and all of them were humbled. The Muslims finally made a bloodless conquest of Makkah from where they were originally expelled and by this conquest, almost all Arabia was brought under Islam.
The situation in median was very different from Mecca. In mecca, he had open enmity but in madina, maximum people had embraced Islam after Muhammad brokered a peace treaty between the feuding tribes. Amongst these were those who proclaimed to be muslims but they were not muslims. These are called Munafiqs (hypocrites) in the Qur'an. It is like having an enemy you cannot know. There was also opposition from the Jews.
Medina is the Arabic word for city. Medina used to be called Yathrib but it was named after the prophet The City of the Prophet so in short people call it Medina.
He was invited there by the leaders of Medina to unite them and rule them which was a opening for the prophet as the Maccans were touturing the Muslims and gave them a hard time for 13 years and when most of the Muslims emigrated to Medina the prophet left Macca too but the Maccans were persuing him to kill him. This is called hijra and the most important period in Islam so the Islamic calender starts from this date. But the Maccans weren't happy now the Muslims have their own state!! so they went to attack the Muslims in Medina several times and permission was finally given by God to defend themselves. The Muslims were very small in numbers but because of their strong faith they won. Even when they were battling the Romans and the Persians combined where the army was about 200,000 strong and the Muslims army was only about 40,000 they won because of their absolute faithin God though they were not as strong phisically like the Romans or Persians.
The people in Medina were paired up with the Muslims of Macca as brothers so amily in Medina would give half their wealth to their brother from Macca who was paired up. People fought against their own families who were disbelievers in battles who has come to attack them and only had loyalty to Islam.
You can read or listen
http://www.kalamullah.com/muhammad.html
http://www.kalamullah.com/anwar-alawlaki.html - Medina and Maccan period
http://www.kalamullah.com/umar-ibn-alkhattab.html
Muhammad's religious career is often divided into two periods: the Meccan Period which lasted for thirteen years, from the start of his revelations to his emigration to Medina; and the Medinan period, which lasted the remaining ten years of his life.
The Meccan Period is characterized by the more elliptical and otherworldly portions of the Qur'an, and by the story of the rejected and persecuted prophet. Had the assassination plot against him in 621 succeeded, his religious career would have been similar in broad outline to that of Jesus.
However, Muhammad escaped the trap set for him and went to live in the oasis of Medina. There he evolved from the charismatic head of a small group to the political and spiritual director of a large community. For the first time he had to wrestle with the challenges of creating a new society. The Qur'an continued to be revealed to him, but the focus of the message broadened now from the purely spiritual to include the more temporal issues of community building, lawmaking, and social institutions. Muhammad also came under formal military attack for the first time in Medina. Consequently, the Qur'an and Muhammad's teaching also focused on delineating the concept of the just war. Formal permission to fight is first applied in the Medinan Period:
"They will question you concerning the holy month, and fighting in it. Say: 'Fighting in it is a heinous thing, but to bar people from God's way, to disbelieve in Him and the Holy Mosque and to expel its people from it - that is more heinous in God's sight; and persecution is more heinous than fighting." (Qur'an 2:217)
Through most of the Medina period, the Muslim community was in mortal danger and surviving in a defensive mode. Between 624 and 627 especially, the Muslim community was often quite literally fighting for its life. It is no accident that the concepts of jihad and martyrdom were developed at this time.
Though the Qur'an takes on more temporal issues in the Medinan Period, it does not abandon the notions of spiritual striving and God consciousness that were hallmarks of the Meccan Period. Even the concept of defensive warfare is placed within the larger concept of jihad as striving for what is right. Though jihad might involve bloodshed, it has the broader meaning of exerting an effort for improvement, not only in the political or military realm, but also in the moral, spiritual, and intellectual realms. Muhammad is often cited in Islamic tradition for calling the militant aspect of jihad the "minor" or "little" jihad, while referring to the improvement of one's self as the "greater" jihad.
Other revelations and rulings during this period concerned the proper treatment of prisoners of war and non-combatants, the sanction against killing innocent civilians, and the respectful treatment of enemy corpses (in contrast to the custom of the time, which was mutilation.) The wanton destruction of property or agricultural resources was put off limits too. Even words of consolation for prisoners of war are found in the Qur'an:
"Prophet, tell the captives you have taken: 'If God finds some good in your hearts, He will reward you with something better than was taken away from you, and forgive your sins, for God is forgiving and kind." (Qur'an 8:70)
Victoria - DOES - not 'did'.
Thankyou God for King Henry 8th. 'eOO' - you ignorant moo's. You should be into the SON not the Mother.
Muhammads main problem was/is He spoke Arabic, and Jews still want a Hebrew speaker. (why some wanted Jesus to be married). - With His 'future' who would let Him.?
Nash. - Try the early Surah's (at the end of the Glorious Qur'an) - Warnings Galore.
NO DEPORTATION OF MUSLIMS TO THE PAGAN U.S.A.
Principally, the jewish tribes who had already settled there. They rejected him as a prophet and some ridiculed his revelations. Luckily he was able to get a couple of non-jewish tribes there (Khazraj and Ansar) to join with him in his ambitions and protect him and his companions who moved to medina from mecca with him
He soon got rid of all the jewish tribes by either threatening and evicting or killing/massacring them with the help of his locally recruited thugs and companions.
John
while receiving communication from god and teaching his devotees, he had to protect Islam from opposition and find a peaceful solution to the local feuds
they teach this crap at school!
A person can avoid many problems in life if he or she says the rosary carefully every day with love and trust.
http://www.sancta.org/rosary/how.html
The fifteen promises of Mary to Christians who recite the rosary:
1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against Hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities and will lead them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in Paradise.
9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.
14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
7 yr old girls werent as easy as 9 yr olds they fought to much