Tag: Makkah

Analysing The Incident Of Sa’d b. Abi Waqqas Shedding The First Blood

Kaleef K. Karim The Muslims in Makkah lived in harsh times. Apostating from the religion of their forefathers was a taboo in the 7th-century Arabia. Prophet Muhammad’s (p) following increased day by day. The Quraysh seen this as a threat. Instead of challenging Prophet Muhammed’s beliefs, they were busy persecuting his people. The early converts… Read More ›

The Persecution, Torture And Murder Of Muslims In The Makkan Period

Kaleef K. Karim For far too long critics and those have hatred towards Muslims generally have down-played the history around the Muslims who suffered persecution and murder in the early period of Makkah (Mecca). Modern critics of Islam have down-played or falsified that part of history in order to make the Muslims in Madinan period… Read More ›

Ammar Ibn Yasir Persecution And Torture By The Quraysh Polytheists

Kaleef K. Karim Ammar Ibn Yasir was a close companion of the Prophet Muhammed (p). He was one of the first group of people to accept the message the Prophet (p) came with. He accepted Islam in early stages of Makkah. Just like the other close companions of the Prophet (p), he endured a lot… Read More ›

The First Martyrs Of Islam: Sumayya Bint Khubat And Yasir

Kaleef K. Karim The early converts to Islam faced a lot of persecution as a result of them abandoning their polytheistic beliefs. The tortures they went through at the hands of the Quraysh polytheists was relentless. The first Muslims to be murdered for merely converting to the new faith of Islam, was Ammar Ibn Yasir’s… Read More ›

Bilal Ibn Rabah: Tortured By The Polytheists Of Quraysh

Kaleef K. Karim Bilal Ibn Rabah, also known among the early Muslims as Bilal al-Habashi was a close companion of the Prophet Muhammed (p). Bilal was one of the first people who had embraced Islam during the early Makkan period. He was also one of the first people to get persecuted. He was relentlessly tortured… Read More ›

Uqba Ibn Abi Mu’ait Attempted To Murder Prophet Muhammed

Kaleef K. Karim Uqba bin Abi Muayt is portrayed by critics as an innocent Qurayshi polytheist who did not deserve to be dealt with in the battle of Badr. In the following historical sources, we provide dozen or more historical reports where Uqba attempted to murder the Prophet Muhammed (p). Other times where he didn’t… Read More ›

Abu Dharr al-Ghifari’s Persecution In The Hands Of Quraysh

Kaleef K. Karim Abu Dharr was a close companion of Prophet Muhammed (p). In the early days of Makkah the Muslims were forbidden from declaring or talk about their new faith  of Islam, to the idolaters. The idolaters hated those who believed in One God and Muhammed being His Messenger. As such, anyone who were… Read More ›

Unnamed Muslim Woman Tortured By Quraysh Idolaters

Kaleef K. Karim In Makkah, a unnamed Muslim woman was tortured  for being accused of stealing. The polytheists even touched and searched her private parts: Narrated `Aisha: A black lady slave of some of the Arabs embraced Islam and she had a hut in the mosque. She used to visit us and talk to us,… Read More ›

Umar Ibn Al-Khattab Attacked For Publicly Declaring That He Became A Muslim

Kaleef K. Karim In the early Makkan period, Umar Ibn Al-Khattab got attacked for publicly declaring that he believed in Islam. This incident is recorded by the early biographer, Ibn Ishaq (704 – 768 AD): “Nafi freedman of Abdullah b. Umar on the authority of Ibn Umar said: ‘When my father Umar became a Muslim… Read More ›

Suhaib Ibn Sinan Endures Persecution

Kaleef K. Karim The following is a report on the Sahabi (companion) of the Prophet Muhammed (p), Suhaib Ibn Sinan who was persecuted by the idolaters in Makkah after his conversion to Islam. Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir – Ibn Sa’d (784 – 845 AD) reports: “Umar Ibn Hakam relates ‘The polytheists of Makkah would torment Ammar,… Read More ›

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