No sooner had the conditions
stabilized for the Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) as to his being a
political leader and a social reformer as well as his being a
Prophet for the guidance of the people towards their welfare and
goodness in this temporal world and in the Hereafter than he
initiated the formation of the features of his Muslim society or
perhaps the preparation of the nucleus of his "Islamic State,"
though the Islamic religion is not a political rationing nor a
party organization which aims at finding an access to the citadel
of government to rule a definite geographic area which is termed
as a "State" according to the political organization of the
modern States.
It is but a divine religion which
has nothing to do with this or that of the people nor does it
concern itself with issues relating to ethnic trends or a
community at the expense of another.
Its universality, world-wide
dissemination and suitability for all times and places is the
secret behind its durability along the ages.
Our description of the stage of
crystallizing and composing the first Islamic society which is
characterized by modern terms like: (leader, constitution,
government, sovereignty) have all come metaphorically especially
when we come to know that the society of the Arab Peninsula –
regarding it as the cradle of Islam – has been living in a state
of social anarchy and conflicts.
There has been no discipline to
overcome or control such conflicts but jungle law, survival is
for the most powerful by way of conquests and long struggles to
obtain their goals.
Eventually, Islamic society will be more
civil and more familiar than they used to be, Then, there will be
some sort of provocation for some prominent chieftains which have
been constituted, grown up under the shade of its authority over
the slaves.
Al-Madina Al-Munawarah
In order to organize the affairs
and distribute the roles for setting up the edifice of Islam, it
has urgently, become necessary for the Prophet, Muhammad
(P.B.U.H.) to choose a capital for establishing a new life
especially at a time when Islam has imposed itself as a human
option on the matter of constructing a capital for his country to
liberate people from the slavery of individuals and transferring
them to the slavery of the One God.
Such transference will have a
great impact on changing the life of the people into a life which
is safer, more secure, loftier and more cultured for society
bearing in mind that the choice of the capital stands as a the
most important feature of any civil organization and this factor
indeed made the Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) choose Yathrib a
capital for the State of justice and right and has rendered it,
after immigrating to it on account of Quraish's transgression, as
a starting-point for his move towards the whole regions of the
world after calling it "Al-Madina Al-Munawara- especially, when
we get to know that it has been a large and ancient broad city
and in hand it has got the instruments of understanding this new
religion.
In addition to all this, Allah, the Almighty,
has endowed it with a fertile land and sweet fresh water, with
the delightful openness of its society to the world at large
besides its permanent stability…contrary to the people of Macca
whose nomad style of life has been prevalent there and of less
agricultural products to a great extent where starvation is a
challenging factor there.
Geographically, Al-Madina
Al-Munawara which is sometimes called: the city of the Messenger,
and sometimes "Teeba" is situated to the northern east of Macca
Al- Mukarrama at approximately (440) kilometers.
It is a mountainous area and the most famous
mountain there is called: Mount Ahud which will record its name
as a historical battlefield that witnessed various crossroads
between the Muslims and their enemies. Among the villages of
Al-Madina Al-Munawara are: Al- Aqiq, Fadak, and Wadi el-Qura
whereas the most prominent and honorable mosque is the Prophet's
Mosque under which the noble Prophet was buried
(P.B.U.H.)
The Messenger's Mosque has been divided into
three mosques which are ever visited by people there when they go
to visit Al-Masjid Al-Haram and Al-Masjid Al- Aqsa. Amongst the
other prominent mosques is Masjid Qiba which is renowned for its
being built by an order of Allah's Messenger while on his way of
his migration from Macca to Madina.
It is the first mosque which
witnessed the first congregational prayer in its publicized
form. AL-Madina Al-Munawara also contains Masjid
Al-Qubbatain, Masjid Al-Musalla, Masjid Al-Fat –h and Masjid
Al-Ejaba.
But as for Baqi Al-Madina or the
so-called: Baqi Al-Gharqad is but regarded amongst the best spots
or corners of Al-Madina Al-Munawara as it contained the bodies of
the first Muslims in addition to the grave-yards of the Prophet's
uncles and aunts and his progenies and some of his household; all
this constituted the great visiting scene before the downfall of
its pillars at the corners and being levelled with the earth by
the extremists before about one thousand years ago.
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