{"id":17449,"date":"2021-03-21T07:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T05:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=17449"},"modified":"2021-09-20T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:45:48","slug":"the-spread-of-islam-and-the-quraish-of-makkah-mukarramah-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=17449","title":{"rendered":"The Spread of Islam and the Quraish of Makkah Mukarramah &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17450 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/aayah2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/aayah2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/aayah2-190x127.jpg 190w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/aayah2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/aayah2-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the Quraish saw that Hazrat Hamzah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) had also embraced Islam, and with every passing day, the number of the Muslims was increasing, Abu Jahal, \u2018Utbah, Shaibah, Waleed bin Mugheerah, Umayyah bin Khalaf, Aswad bin Muttalib and other leaders of the Quraish held a meeting in which they appointed \u2018Utbah bin Rabee\u2018ah as their spokesman to Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam). He was a man unrivalled by any of his contemporaries in sorcery, soothsaying and poetry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>\u2018Utbah came to Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) and said, \u201cO Muhammed (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam)! There is no doubt about your distinguished lineage and superior status, but alas you are guilty of creating disunity among the people. You speak ill of our idols and proclaim our forefathers as fools. This is why I wish to make a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) replied, \u201cGo ahead, Abul Waleed, I am listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>(To be continued)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Extracted from Seeratul Mustafa 1\/185-186)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Quraish saw that Hazrat Hamzah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) had also embraced Islam, and with every passing day, the number of the Muslims was increasing, Abu Jahal, \u2018Utbah, Shaibah, Waleed bin Mugheerah, Umayyah bin Khalaf, Aswad bin Muttalib and other leaders of the Quraish held a meeting in which they appointed \u2018Utbah bin Rabee\u2018ah as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[739,796,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-inviting-to-islam","category-islamic-history","category-seerah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17451,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449\/revisions\/17451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}