The Quraysh of Makkah saw Islam as a threat to their authority. In the Makkah of Rasool Allah (SAW) these men held all the wealth and power. They made the decisions and the rules. They were privileged with the license to exploit and oppress their people. When they heard what Mohammad (SAW) proclaimed they understood it announced the Lordship of Allah and the freedom of man from being subjugated by other men.
They had to stop this message from taking root in Makkah and worse yet spreading to the neighbouring Arab tribes. To combat the dawah of Rasool Allah (SAW), they launched a smear campaign hoping to destroy the Message and the Messenger.
A group of Quraysh met with al Walid bin al Mughirah, who was a senior among them, at the time of the Hajj season.
Walid bin al Mughira said to them, “O people of Quraysh, the Hajj season has arrived. Delegations of Arabs will come to you. They must have heard about this companion of yours (meaning the Prophet), so agree on one opinion regarding him. Let there be no contradiction or denial of one another’s statements.”
They said, “O Abu ‘Abd Shams, suggest and give us an opinion which we will say.”
He said, “No, you make the suggestions and I will listen.”
They said, “We will say he is a soothsayer.”
He said, “No, by Allah, he is not a soothsayer. We have seen soothsayers; his words are not the murmuring and rhyme of a soothsayer.”
They said, “We will say he is a madman.”
He said, “He is not a madman. We have seen madness and know it. He does not behave erratically, nor is his speech confused.”
They said, “We will say he is a poet.”
He said, “He is not a poet. We have known all forms of poetry, its chanting, hymning, lyrics, rhymed and unrhymed. It is not poetry.”
They said, “We will say he is a sorcerer.”
He said, “He is not a sorcerer. We have seen sorcerers and their sorcery. This is not their incantation and conjuration.”
They said, “What should we say, O Abd Shams?”
He said, “By Allah, his words have sweetness, with numerous roots strongly branching; their branches richly abounding in growth. Anything you say about them will be known to be falsehood. The closest thing you can say about him is that he is a magician, who came with words which are magic that separate man and his father, man and his brother, man and his wife, man and his clan. This way you will shun people away from him.”
This plot of al Walid’s to use propaganda to manipulate people away from the Truth is recorded in the Quran in Surah Al Muddathir,
18. Verily, he thought and plotted;
19. So let him be cursed! How he plotted!
20. And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted!
21. Then he thought;
22. Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way;
23. Then he turned back and was proud;
24. Then he said: “This is nothing but magic from that of old;
25. “This is nothing but the word of a human being!”
(74:18-25)
The Quraysh used deception, hoping to destroy the light of Islam and maintain their world order.
Today we have 9/11, 7/7, ISIS, and countless terrorist attacks across the Western world, all part of the West’s propaganda machine to give Islam a bad name. By equating Islam with terrorrism the West has an excuse to attack Islam ideologically and militarily so as to suppress the Islamic revival and maintain their world order.
SubhanAllah, what’s that expression in English… ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’?
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