Pengumuman Islam Secara Terbuka

After approximately three years of private invitation to Islam, the divine command came to go public: "So declare openly what you are commanded, and turn away from the polytheists." (Surah al-Hijr, 15:94) With this command, the period of careful secret dawah ended and the far more dangerous phase of open proclamation began. The Prophet ﷺ climbed Mount Safa — one of the two sacred hills between which Hajar had run in her search for water, now used as a public vantage point — and called out "Ya sabahah!" — the traditional alarm cry that summoned people to an emergency. The Quraysh gathered, wondering what emergency had brought him there. He addressed them with a rhetorical question: "If I told you that a cavalry was coming from behind this mountain to attack you, would you believe me?" They said yes — acknowledging his unbroken reputation as al-Amin, the Trustworthy. He said: "Then I am a warner to you of severe punishment ahead." His uncle Abu Lahab replied immediately in fury: "Tabban lak! Ruin to you! Is this why you gathered us?" — and walked away, most of the crowd dispersing with him. The Quran responded with Surah al-Masad (Chapter 111), predicting Abu Lahab's destruction and specifically condemning his wife who would carry thorns to place in the Prophet's path. The public rejection was swift and emphatic. The Prophet ﷺ followed this first public announcement with direct appeals to each clan of Quraysh — gathering the Banu Abd al-Muttalib, the Banu Makhzum, and others separately to present the message and ask for their support. Only his young cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib stood when he asked who would help him, and the assembled elders mocked Abu Talib for having a teenager appointed as his brother's vicegerent. From that point, the Prophet ﷺ preached openly in the Ka'bah's courtyard and in the markets of Mecca — reciting Quran, condemning polytheism, and calling people to tawhid in full public view of those who had the most to lose from his message succeeding. The Quranic response to the rejection at Safa was not discouragement but clarification: Surah al-Masad was a direct divine condemnation of Abu Lahab and his wife by name — an extraordinary act that committed the Quran permanently to a specific factual prediction (that Abu Lahab would never accept Islam) which was fulfilled completely. Abu Lahab lived for years after this surah was revealed, had opportunities to convert and thereby disprove the Quran, yet never did — a fact that Islamic scholars have noted as one of the embedded proofs of the Quran's divine origin, since no human author would risk making such a specific prediction about a living person unless divinely assured of the outcome.