SPIRIT OF ISLAM AUGUST 2O13

19 Spirit of Islam Issue 8 August 2013 Present-day Muslims explain it differently, claiming that they have in the Prophet of God a great source of pride. According to the teachings of the Quran, what is most important for us is to find out the secret of the supreme success of the Prophet of Islam. Only by learning this secret can we take Islam once again to the position of supreme success. When we read the Quran with this question in mind, we first come across Chapter 48 ’Al-Fath’ (Victory). The first verse of this chapter reads: We have granted you a clear victory. THE QURAN 48: 1 What Dr. Hart called supreme success, the Quran calls a clear victory. How did the Prophet of Islam achieve this supreme success or clear victory? This verse of the Quran tells us that this extraordinary success was achieved through the Hudaybiya Peace Treaty. The Quran tells us that the secret of this success lay in the particular method that was employed—the ‘Hudaybiya Method’. The Prophet of Islam actually returned from Hudaybiya without achieving his objective. So when the chapter ‘Victory’ was revealed on his way from Hudaybiya to Medina, one of the companions remarked, “This is no victory. We were even stopped from entering the House of God.” The Prophet replied, “It is indeed the greatest victory.” Muslims have accorded the Prophet and his companions the status of heroes rather than taking them as examples to be followed in their lives. Albara ibn Aazib, a companion of the Prophet, said to Muslims of later times, “you regard the conquest of Makkah as a victory, but we (the companions of the Prophet) regard Hudaybiya as the real victory.” Ibn Shahaab Zuhri said that the Hudaybiya Agreement has the status of a great victory. ( As-Seerat an-Nabawiya, Ibn Kathir, 3/324 ) All of these accounts make it clear that the secret of great success achieved by the Prophet and his companions lay in the Hudaybiya Peace Treaty. The ’Hudaybiya Method’ is the only way for Muslims to attain supreme success or a great victory.