QURAN CHAPTER - 48
Al-Fath - The Victory
Revealed - Madinan
Ruku - 4
Ayat - 29
Theme - The Truce of Hudaibiyah.
Terms of Hudaibiyah:
(1) War would remain suspended for 10 years, and no party would indulge in any hostility, open or secret, against the other.
(2) If any one during that period from among the Quraish went over to Muhammad (SWS), without his guardian's permission, he would return him to them, but if a Companion of Muhammad came over to the Quraish, they would not return him to him.
(3) Every Arab tribe would have the option to join either side as its ally and enter the treaty.
(4) Muhammad and his men would go back that year and could come the following year for umrah and stay in Makkah for 3 days, provided that they brought only one sheathed sword each, and no other weapon of war. In those 3 days the Makkans would vacate the city for them (so that there was no chance of a clash), but they would not be allowed to take along any Makkan on return.
- When the conditions of the treaty were being settled, the whole of the Muslim army was feeling greatly upset.
- No one understood the expedience because of which the Holy Prophet was accepting the conditions. No one was far sighted enough to foresee the great benefit that was to result from this treaty.
Advantages of Hudaibiyah treaty:
- In it for the first time the existence of the Islamic State in Arabia was duly recognized.
- By admitting the right of pilgrimage to the House of Allah for the Muslims, the Quraish also admitted that Islam was not an anti-religious creed.
- The signing of a no-war pact for 10 years provided full peace to the Muslims, and spreading to every nook and corner of Arabia they preached Islam with such spirit and speed that within 2 years after Hudaibiyah the number of the people who embraced Islam far exceeded those who had embraced it during the past 19 year.
- After the suspension of hostilities by the Quraish the Holy Prophet had the opportunity to establish and strengthen Islamic rule in the territories under him and to turn the Islamic society into a full-fledged civilization and way of life by the enforcement of Islamic law.
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