64 results for “community”
Clear filter... his father became the spiritual father of a billion-strong ummah — demonstrating through his life the Quranic promise of Sur...
...oice that said: "You have given birth to the master of this ummah. Name him Muhammad." Abd al-Muttalib carried the newborn to...
...ds the exalted distinction of being the first of the entire ummah to believe in the Prophet ﷺ — preceding all men, all childr...
...ersonal invitation in the mission's earliest weeks. As the community grew to approximately thirty to forty believers, a need aro...
...Arqam — was the primary gathering place of the early Muslim community in Mecca during the secret period of the dawah and continui...
...e Quraysh leadership moved swiftly against the early Muslim community. Those who had converted without the protection of powerful...
...nsmission channel of prophetic tradition entered the Muslim ummah. His conversion and subsequent return to his people establi...
...red sustained pressure and ostracism. The Prophet ﷺ saw his community being broken one person at a time and gave them a direction...
...sion of Umar, together with that of Hamza, meant the Muslim community in Mecca was no longer a group that could be persecuted wit...
...men, constituting a substantial portion of the early Muslim community, crossed to Abyssinia in the sixth or seventh year of proph...
When individual persecution failed to break the Muslim community, the Quraysh escalated to collective punishment at the clan...
...t the remainder of her accumulated wealth providing for the community — a sacrifice that contributed directly to her physical det...
...established the principle that good deeds toward the Muslim community carry weight before Allah regardless of the faith of the pe...
...wn terms but to those whose hearts are ready — and that the community the Prophet ﷺ would build was prepared in a city he had not...
...th the Yathrib delegation to teach and establish the Muslim community in the city: Musab ibn Umayr. Before his conversion, Musab ...
...irst Islamic state — possible, and transformed Islam from a community of believers into a political entity with a territorial bas...
...servance but because it marked the transition of the Muslim community from persecuted minority to governing entity with a territo...
...pproximately a year before the Hijra, gathering the nascent community at Asad ibn Zurara's house. The Prophet's ﷺ first Jumu'ah a...
...ter the Hijra — it served as the nerve center of the entire community: the Prophet ﷺ led five daily prayers, delivered khutbahs, ...
...s were not political — they expressed a personal love for a community that had made everything possible. The brotherhood's model ...
...from other people. The Jewish tribes were acknowledged as a community alongside the Muslims — they had their own religion, their ...
...irst year after the Hijra through a mechanism that combined community deliberation, divine communication through a dream, and pro...
...reat statement in the Quran of what it means to be a Muslim community rather than merely a Muslim individual — its legislative sw...
...rophets and creating a point of commonality with the Jewish community of Medina. The change to Mecca had multiple dimensions of m...
...he establishment of Ramadan was the beginning of the Muslim community's annual return to its most fundamental relationship with A...
...conditions in which recipients were difficult to find — the community's economic floor had been raised by the obligatory annual t...
... of illness, not in battle — the first death of the Medinan community before the era of the battles had properly begun. The Prop...
...e Day of Criterion. Before Badr, the Muslims were a migrant community in Medina, outnumbered and militarily untested. After Badr,...
... of spite against the Prophet ﷺ before the marriage was consummated. She was then given in marriage to Uthman ibn Affan, one...
...tution of Medina, they were formally allied with the Muslim community under a covenant that obligated mutual defense and required...
... through him.' The year became Aam al-Jama'ah — the Year of Community. Hasan's birth was the beginning of a lineage the Prophet ﷺ...
...orth of Medina — the second major battle between the Muslim community and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Quraysh came seeking revenge ...
...logical: to demonstrate that Uhud had not broken the Muslim community's capacity for action. An army that could take the field th...
...the seerah not only as a family event but as the moment the community received the full set of birth Sunnah practices — the compl...
...hards, houses, stored grain, weapons — passed to the Muslim community. Surah al-Hashr (59) is the Quran's direct commentary on th...
...al verse was recited in Medina in approximately 4-5 AH, the community's response was immediate and complete. Companions poured th...
...n Safar 4 AH was the single largest loss of life the Muslim community sustained outside of a formal battle. Abu Bara' Amir ibn Ma...
...mor. He and others spread the accusation through the Muslim community, and some sincere companions who failed to verify transmitt...
...slim women's dress and for gender interaction in the Muslim community. The ayat al-hijab (Surah al-Ahzab 33:53), revealed in 5 AH...
...had been expelled from Medina the previous year. The Muslim community fielded approximately 3,000 fighters — outnumbered more tha...
...bes still in the city, broke their covenant with the Muslim community during the Battle of the Trench (5 AH) by negotiating with ...
...ity he had helped defend would, within two years, produce a community that conquered Mecca without a siege.
... decade. Tribes that had been unable to approach the Muslim community without triggering Qurayshi opposition could now engage fre...
...sh opposition north of Medina — primarily the Banu al-Nadir community expelled from Medina in 4 AH, who had settled at Khaybar's ...
...e Christian king who granted them sanctuary when the Muslim community had no power and no territory. Two waves of emigration had ...
... The Quraysh who watched from the hills observed the Muslim community at prayer, at tawaf, in the state of ihram — a direct, visu...
...ns died. He was the most dangerous military mind the Muslim community had faced. In Safar 8 AH — barely eight months before the ...
... the first direct military confrontation between the Muslim community and Byzantine-aligned forces. It was triggered by the execu...
...ybiyyah had established a ten-year truce between the Muslim community and the Quraysh, with a clause protecting the security of e...
...ent of the seerah — the city that had persecuted the Muslim community for twenty-one years entered without significant violence a...
...a was conquered on the twentieth of Ramadan; by Shawwal the community was being tested again. Victory was not a permanent conditi...
...n Islamic education as the definitive statement on what the community was ultimately fighting for.
...embling an army at the Syrian frontier to strike the Muslim community. The timing could not have been more difficult: peak summer...
...ne to the Byzantines seeking an alliance against the Muslim community and had intended to use the mosque as his base upon return....
...the Prophet's ﷺ prayer for the man who had given the Muslim community its first sanctuary in exile. The absent funeral prayer the...
...ions as among the deepest personal connections of the early community.
...ion, and whose grief itself was a form of teaching that the community preserved. The dual lesson of Ibrahim's death — that grief ...
...ah 10 AH that the Prophet ﷺ would lead the Hajj, the Muslim community gathered in numbers that the sources describe as between 90...
... would prove to be his final comprehensive statement to his community. The sermon's core themes were those the Prophet ﷺ regarde...
...mained to be added, and the divine favor upon the believing community had reached its completion. Umar ibn al-Khattab, asked abou...
...ran had placed on him — to convey — to the scholars and the community who would carry the Quran and the Sunnah into every era, th...
...next. His hand went limp. He was sixty-three years old. The community that heard the news was shattered. Umar drew his sword and ...
...rmon at Arafat; this was a personal farewell to the Medinan community, delivered while gravely ill. The Prophet ﷺ offered public...
...h them. His hand went limp in hers. The news shattered the community. Umar ibn al-Khattab drew his sword and refused to believe ...