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After three years, when people started embracing Islam in large number. The Lord of the worlds commanded the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) to openly invited the people towards Islam. Prophet's immediately complied with the divine orders, climbed the top of Mount Safa in Mecca and called Quraish by name of their each clan. When they all gathered there, Prophet's enquired from all of them.

" If I inform you that an aggressor's army behind this mountain in advancing toward you and is ready to attack you, will you confirm me?"

Having listened to him, all said with one voice, "Surely, we shell consider your news absolutely correct, because we have never seen you telling lies. "Thereafter, prophet's said, Well, I inform you that if you did not forsake your false creed, Allah's torment is quite near to you."  " So far as I know, not a single person in this world has brought for his nation a gift like the one I have brought for you. The gift I have brought for you is your welfare and success in both the world. And I have been commanded by the Lord of the worlds to invite you towards it. By God, if at all I had told lies to the people of the whole worlds, I would not had done so at least with you. Had I cheated you at least. I swear by the Holy One, unto Whom no one is comparable or His associate. that I am the messenger and prophet of Allah sent to you in particular and the rest of the world in general. 

Opposition and Enmity of the whole Arabia and Steadfastness of the Prophet
  The programme of dissemination of and invitation toward Islam continued, but when the Arabs become aware of the fact that in his revelations the reality of their idols and the stupid ness of their worshippers was exposed, they girded their loins against the Prophet and delegation representing them come to his uncle Abu Talib to ask him either he should stop the Prophet from such objectionable utterance or alienate himself from his support. Abu Talib nicely quibbled them and the prophet (peace be upon him) carried on his mission of the propagation of the truth and prohibiting the people from the worship of the idols. When the Arabs could no more tolerate it, they again went to Abu Talib and emphatically told him to better control his nephew otherwise they would all fight against him till one of the opponent groups is perished.

Reaction of the Prophet against Arabs Tribes
  Now Abu Talib also got worried and talked to the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) in this connection, who replied, " My respected uncle, by God, if they could bring and place the sun on my right hand and the moon on my left hand and then ask me to stop conveying the message of God to the humanity, I would never be prepared to do like that, till the true religion spreads among the people or at least I lay down my life in this struggle.
             When Abu Talib was this determined attitude of the prophet, he said,
      " Very well; you go and continue your mission, I shall also never give up my support and help to you."

Spreading of Hatred Among people and its Reverse Effect
  When the Quraish noticed that Banu Hashim and banu Muttalib were on his side and the Hajj season was approaching fast, they apprehended that he would make enthusiastic efforts in the propagation of Islam and they were also aware of the magnetic attraction in his truthful words, and as such his religion might spread all over the world. Therefore, they met together and decided that their own men be posted on all the paths leading to Mecca so that people coming for Hajj from different places might be informed at a far distance that there existed a magician in Mecca, who by the force of his speech, was creating differences between the father and the son, the husband and the wife and among all relation. they should better not meet him. 
     As if it was providential, their this step, on the contrary, served the Holy Prophet's purpose of the dissemination of Islam. Had they not done so, it was very likely that many people might not have heard about him, but this sort of struggle on the part of the enemies of Islam made every one fond of him.

Persecution by the Quraish and Perseverance of the Prophet
   When the Quraish failed in all their plots against him and was that his invitation toward Islam was gaining popularity day by day, and people were embracing Islam in large number, they started persecution of every type. They called some vagabonds and persuaded them to ridicule him in every meeting and persecute him in every possible way.

A Murder-plan Against the Prophet and is Obvious Miracle

Once it so happened that the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) was offering his prayer near the sacred Ka`bah. When he assumed the position of Sahdah Abu Jehl, presuming it a golden opportunity , made up his mind to crush his sacred head. But: " If the enemy is strong, the Guardian is stronger."  When he come near to the Prophet with a stone, his hands started trembling. The stone feel down, his face turned pale and rushed to his own people to tell the that, as soon as he intended to raise his hands toward him (the Prophet), a curious type of camel pounced upon him with his mouth open and it was just to devour him. He also told them that he had never seen such a dreadful camel.
          This is the event which occurred in the presence of a gathering of the infidels and Abu jehl himself acknowledge it.  Abu Jehl, Aqbah bin Abi Moheet, Abu Lahab, Aas bin Vaeil, Aswad bin Yaghus, Aswad bin Abdul Muttalib, Waleed bin Mugheerah and Nadar bin Harith, all these persond kept torturing the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). None of them had the guts of embracing Islam; rather, all of them died most disgracefully. Some of them were killed in the battle of Badr and the others died of most abominable diseases.

Attractive Inducements by Quraish and his Response
   When the Quraish was that their coercive methods did not work, they collectively decided after  mutual consultation, that they should send to him their cleverest chief, Utbah bin Rahiyah, to induce the the Prophet with every worldly attraction, which might dissuade him from him mission. Utbah come in when he was his prayers in the Mosque. Getting closer to him, he said, 'O Nephew, in order of precedence, according to our ancestral lineage, you are superior to all of us. And in spite of that, you have wedged a differentia in the community. You condemned them and their idols. You dunned them and their ancestors as ignorants. Today, you better express what is in your heart. By all these activities, if your object is to gather much wealth. We are prepared to gather for you so much wealth that would be the wealthiest man among the people of Mecca. If you desire to become a chief, we shall agree to make you the chief of all the Quraish and shall do nothing but with  your permission; if your object is become a king, we can select you as a king of all us, and if, (God forbid) your are possessed by any jinn and this is his word (revelation) that you convey to the people, and you feel that you are unable to get rid of it, we shall search  for a doctor for you treatment".

 When Utbah had finished his talk, the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) recited, in reply to his whole story, only one Surah of the Qur'an, which stunned Utbah. He returned to his people and said, "By God, To day I have hard such a discourse as I have never heard in my life. By God, it is neither poetry, nor sooth-saying  and nor magic. In my opinion you better give up persecution  against this man (the Prophet), because the discourse I have heard from him is definitely going to be known in a glorious manner. I am your well-wisher. You accept my advice and  at least wait for a few days. If the Arabs prevailed upon him, you will would deliverance from this trial, and if he prevailed upon the Arabs then his honour would be our honour because he belonged to our tribe.

 The Quraish were surprised to listen all this from their most adroit chief, and they relieved themselves by saying that Muhammad (peace be upon him) has cast a spell upon him.

Having failed in all their tactics, the Quraish restarted teasing and persecuting the Prophet (peace be upon him) his Companions, the associates and the relatives. The Companions like Hazrat Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) were severely persecuted. On this very account, the mother of Ammar bin Yasir was martyred  in the most grievous manner. And this was the very first incident of martyrdom in Islam.

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