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Whoever God blinds his heart and seals his hearing and sight, then he will not benefit from being forced to embrace Islam." It was reported that; the Ansar were the reason behind revealing this Ayah, although its indication is general in meaning. Ibn Jarir recorded that Ibn Abbas said (that before Islam), "When (an Ansar) woman would not bear ...
From Muhammad, servant of God and His apostle to al-Muqawqis, premier of Egypt: Peace unto whoever followeth the guided path! And thereafter, I verily call thee to the call of Submission [to God] ("Islam"). Submit (i.e., embrace Islam) and be safe [from perdition, as] God shall compensate thy reward two-folds.
All of Hamdan embraced Islam in one day, and he wrote to the Messenger of God about it. When the Prophet read 'Ali's letter he fell down, prostrating himself to God. Then he sat up and said, 'Peace be upon Hamdan, Peace be upon Hamdan' [After the conversion of Hamdan] the people of the Yemen followed in succession with their acceptance of Islam.
Adi embraced Islam and the Apostle of Allah appointed him the collector of sadaqat of his people. [ Kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir , by Ibn Sa'd, Volume 2, p. 380] [ 7 ] The Muslim scholar, Saifur Rahman al Mubarakpuri, referenced a Hadith from Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal (a Hadith collection) in his biography of Muhammad the " Sealed Nectar ".
Purported letter sent by Muhammad to the Byzantine emperor Heraclius. Aslim Taslam (Arabic: أسلم تسلم) is a phrase meaning "submit (to God, i.e., by accepting Islam) and you will get salvation", [1] taken from the letters sent by the Islamic prophet Muhammad to various rulers in which he urged them to convert to Islam.
Allāh is the Arabic word referring to God in Abrahamic religions. [25] [26] [27] In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam.The Arabic word Allāh is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ʾilāh, which means "the god", [1] (i.e., the only god) and is related to El and Elah, the Hebrew and Aramaic words for God.
In the Quran piety is defined as: . 2:177 True piety does not consist in turning your faces towards the east or the west - but truly pious is he who believes in God, and the Last Day; and the angels, and revelation, and the prophets; and spends his substance - however much he himself may cherish it - upon his near of kin, and the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and the beggars, and ...
Over time, in his hometown of Mecca, Muhammad gathered a small following of those who embraced his message of Islam (lit. ' submission ' to God) and became Muslims. This increasingly drew the ire of the Meccan elite, who persecuted the early converts, especially the slaves and social outcasts. [1]