Revolution Methodology of Prophet Mohammad PBUH: Conflict

 Eight Expeditions before Battle of Badar

It was not only the joint defence pact as stated earlier, but, also these eight expeditions before the skirmish of Badr, in four of them, Prophet did not participate, but in the remaining four he did. 

The very objective was to keep an eye on the moment of Meccans and gather intelligence for Muslims in Madina.

Further, because the Meccans had been very cruel to the Muslims, so this was the time for Muslims to act intelligently. Two main aims therein were, to politically isolate Mecca and pose and economic blockade on Mecca as well. 

This was to weaken them if they had any subtle plan to fight the Muslims, which they did. It is vital to mention here that Muslim scholars and historians are very apologetic in this regard and never explicitly mentioned these tactics of the Muslims. 

It was because in the recent history, west had blamed Islam that it spread on the edge of the sword.

During these ventures, unfortunately, something happened this was neither planned nor strategized as a move. The surveillance groups had hand to hand fight with some travelers near Mecca: In it, one of the Meccans was killed and another injured. This was the point which made the opinion of Hawks dominate the opinion of Doves. Otba was among doves, he was not in favour of battles. 

He was thinking like a statesman, asserting that ‘if Mohammad conquers in Madina, then, he is one of our Meccans. If he fails to establish his foot-hold, we have already won the situation, as this is what Meccans wanted’. 

But since the pre-Badr surveillance troops placed on the critical spots intersecting the trade routes of Meccans, both Hawks and Doves infered that their Caravans might just be attacked and looted which actually did not happen especially with the Caravan of the Abu Sufyan.

But because suspicion was there, and the surveillance groups on one or two points had altercations with the travellers and on top of that when one man was killed, it raised the suspicion to its peak and Meccans finally decided to attack Muslims. 

This is what potentially led to the skirmish of Badr. These crusades started somewhere in second Hijri and continued up until eight Hijri.

Armed Conflict

This is sixth stage of Prophet Revolution, broke out in second Hijri. It continued for years in the form of battles, skirmishes and the mopping operations. 

In Badr, fourteen companions of the Prophet were martyred. In Uhad, seventy companions lost their lives, and obvious victory turned in to a temporary defeat. There were many more and finally, Mecca was conquered and taken by Muslims after which the prophet declared total forgiveness.

Exporting the Revolution

It is to be kept in mind that Holy prophet did not start the process of exporting the revolution until an Islamic society was established in terms of the state of Madina. It was after the pact of Hudabia, that the Holy Prophet PBUH, started sending his message outside the peninsula of Arabia, starting from edges of Arabia peninsula. 

The pact of Hudebia was declared as open victory by Quran for the Muslims. An important point has to be kept in mind that just preaching spreads but revolution takes time as it strengthens its roots at its origin in the beginning. 

The message sent to the Heads of the states received different response. Some were not violent or aggressive and some were as nasty as killing the ambassador, which was declaration of war at that time; Battle of Mo’ta resulted from one of such occurrences and later Battle of Tabuk. 

The point to be learned here is that, not only the Holy Prophet completed the first six stages of the revolution in his own life but also started the seventh stage which was exporting the revolution after its establishment in its epi-center.

In the opinion of revolutionary Muslim scholars like Dr. Israr Ahmad, Molana Abul Ala Modudi and Dr. Mohammad Iqbal, it is now the country of Pakistan which has to get house in order first and then act as the ambassador of Islamic system termed as Caliphate in the final crusades which have started from destruction of Iraq. Destruction of Afghanistan was also a part and parcel of the same world order plan of the Zionist Jewish Christian alliance. However, Eastern Orthodox Church is supposed to be an ally of Muslims in this scheme. In the clash of systems, communism had to bend its knees to capitalism earlier, but equilibrium is shifting now.