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  2. Dawah - Wikipedia

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    After Muhammad's death in 632, from the available historical evidence, it appears that after Muhammad's death Muslims did not immediately embark upon daʿwah activities—during and after the rapid conquests of the Byzantine and Persian lands, they ventured little if at all to preach to local non-Muslims. Daʿwah came into wider usage almost a ...

  3. Farewell Sermon - Wikipedia

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    The Farewell Sermon (Arabic: خطبة الوداع, Khuṭbatu l-Widāʿ) also known as Muhammad's Final Sermon or the Last Sermon, is a religious speech, delivered by the Islamic prophet Muhammad on Friday the 9th of Dhu al-Hijjah, 10 AH (6 March 632 [1]) in the Uranah valley of Mount Arafat, during the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj.

  4. Islamic missionary activity - Wikipedia

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    Islamic missionary work or dawah means to "invite" (in Arabic, literally "invitation") to Islam. After the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , from the 7th century onwards, Islam spread rapidly from the Arabian Peninsula to then rest of the world through either trade, missionaries, exploration or gradual conversions after conquests.

  5. Hadith of the warning - Wikipedia

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    Verse 26:214 of the Quran, known also as the verse of ashira (lit. ' family '), [2] is directed at Muhammad, "And warn your nearest relations." [3] The verse of the ashira thus commanded Muhammad to make his prophetic mission public by inviting his relatives to Islam around 613 or 617 CE, [2] [4] some three years after the first divine revelation, according to the early historians Ibn Sa'd (d.

  6. Conversion to Islam - Wikipedia

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    Conversion requires a formal statement of the shahādah, the credo of Islam, whereby the prospective convert must state that "there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." Proselytism of the faith is referred to as "dawah," and missionary efforts have been promoted since the dawn of the religion in the 7th century ...

  7. First Islamic State - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad responded by calling upon the pilgrims to make a pledge not to flee (or to stick with Muhammad, whatever decision he made) if the situation descended into war with Mecca. This pledge became known as the "Pledge of Good Pleasure" ( Arabic : بيعة الرضوان , bay'at al-ridhwān ) or the " Pledge of the Tree ."

  8. Muhammad's visit to Ta'if - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad then rested for the night in a valley called Nakhla, where he was reported to have won converts from some jinns who heard him recite the Qur'an. [ 17 ] When Muhammad approached Mecca, realizing that he was not allowed to enter, he asked a passing horseman to send a message to Akhnas ibn Shariq , who was a clansman from his mother's ...

  9. Historiography of early Islam - Wikipedia

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    The historiography of early Islam is the secular scholarly literature on the early history of Islam during the 7th century, from Muhammad's first purported revelations in 610 until the disintegration of the Rashidun Caliphate in 661, and arguably throughout the 8th century and the duration of the Umayyad Caliphate, terminating in the incipient Islamic Golden Age around the beginning of the 9th ...