Chapter 33 : The Battle Of Hunayn
Chapter 33 : The Battle of Hunayn The conquest of Makkah triggered the mass conversion of the Arabs to Islam in many parts of the country. But there were some tribes living in the east...
Islamic Books
Chapter 35 : The Proclamation Of Surah Bara'ah Or Al Tawbah
Chapter 35 : The Proclamation of Surah Bara'ah or Al Tawbah When the pilgrimage season of 9 A.H. arrived, Muhammad, the Messenger of God, had myriads of pressing duties demanding his...
Chapter 38 : The Coronation Of Ali Ibn Abi Talib As The Future Sovereign Of The Muslims And As Head Of The Islamic State
Chapter 38 : The Coronation of Ali ibn Abi Talib as the Future Sovereign of the Muslims and as Head of the Islamic State The Farewell Pilgrimage was over, and Muhammad Mustafa, the Messenger...
Chapter 39 : Usama's Expedition
Chapter 39 : Usama's Expedition Zayd bin Haritha was the freedman and friend of Muhammad Mustafa. He was killed in the battle of Mootah in A.D. 629 in which he had led the Muslims against...
Chapter 41 : The Unwritten Testament Of The Messenger Of God
Chapter 41 : The Unwritten Testament of the Messenger of God Islam was the whole raison d’être of Muhammad Mustafa, the blessed Messenger of God. He was sent into this world to promulgate...
Chapter 43 : The Death Of Muhammad, The Messenger Of God
Chapter 43 : The Death of Muhammad, the Messenger of God The aims of the life of Muhammad Mustafa, as the Last Messenger of God on this earth, were : to destroy idolatry and polytheism; to...
Chapter 45 : Muhammad Mustafa And His Succession
Chapter 45 : Muhammad Mustafa and his Succession As a statesman, Muhammad ranks among the greatest in the whole world. He was endowed with amazing perspicacity, vision and political genius....
Chapter 47 : The Struggle For Power I
Chapter 47 : The Struggle for Power I The Sunni Muslims assert that all companions of Muhammad Mustafa, the blessed Messenger of God, were models of exemplary deportment, and that they...
Chapter 49 : The Struggle For Power Iii
Chapter 49 : The Struggle for Power III Saqifa Banu Sa'eda Bukhari has quoted Umar bin al-Khattab as saying : "When he (the Apostle) died, the Ansar opposed us. They gathered in...
Chapter 51 : A Critique Of Saqifa
Chapter 51 : A Critique of Saqifa Muhammad ibn Ishaq, the biographer of the Prophet of Islam, writes in his Seera (Life of the Messenger of God) : Umar said: "And lo, they (the Ansar)...
Chapter 52 : Saqifa And The Logic Of History
Chapter 52 : Saqifa and the Logic of History In the Introduction to this book, I had called attention of the reader to the tendency and the readiness of most of the Orientalists, to accept,...
Chapter 53 : Saad Ibn Ubada, The Ansari Candidate For Caliphate
Chapter 53 : Saad ibn Ubada, the Ansari Candidate for Caliphate Saad ibn Ubada was the Leader of the Khazraj Tribe of Medina. The Khazraj and the Aus, the two tribes of the Ansar, had...
