Camb l Islamiyat.ppt

Online Islamiyat Classes
Sir Khurram Hussain
Revision Classes

Life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)
• (a) Give an account of the hijra of the Prophet
from Makka to Madina.
• (b) What is the significance of the Prophet
establishing mosques as a first task after the
hijra?

• For this answer an account should be given about the
events of the actual journey; only brief mention should
be made about events before the Prophet left Makka and
his arrival in Madina.
• Year is 622; in Makka there was a plot to assassinate the
Prophet; Quraysh met at Dar al- Nadwa; a man from
ach tribe was sent to kill the Prophet; Jibril came giving
the Prophet God’s permission to migrate; Muslims had
started to migrate; Abu Bakr, ‘Ali and the Prophet were
left; the Quraysh came to the Prophet’s house to kill him
at night, v8.30; the Prophet told ‘Ali to sleep in his bed;
the Prophet came out of his house and threw dust at the
assassins, v36.9; Abu Bakr went with him; they took
refuge in Cave Thawr;

• Abu Bakr went in to make sure it was clean and safe; Abu Bakr’s foot
was stung by an insect; they stayed in the cave three nights; Abu
Bakr’s son and daughter visited them; the Quraysh set a price of 100
camels for their capture; some reached the mouth of the cave; the
Prophet reassured Abu Bakr; Suraqa almost caught up with them but
his horse kept stumbling; they stopped in Quba; stayed there for four
days; they established a mosque; ‘Ali caught up with them here; they
arrived in Madina and the people welcomed the Prophet; he stayed
with Ayyub al- Ansari; his camel showed them the place to build his
mosque. The best answers will be able to expand and give depth to
these events, and whilst not all of the above needs to be mentioned,
highest level answers will describe and elaborate on most of these
details.

• Mosques are the centre of a community; they
allow people to meet and to worship God; the
Prophet established a mosque in Quba to
emphasise this; it was also because they were
now free to worship together and in the open,
unlike in Makka; establishing a mosque in
Madina provided a focal point for the Muslims.

(a) Describe the events of the Prophet’s
visit to Ta’if. [10]
(b) How can Muslims apply in practice the
lessons learnt from the Prophet’s
behaviour in this situation?

The Prophet had been preaching to the people of
Makka for ten years and they had faced many
hardships; the number of Muslims was relatively
small; his greatest supporters Khadija and Abu Talib
had passed away; he looked out of Makka to preach
his message and went to Ta’if with Zaid bin Haritha;
he thought people would be favourable to his
message but they were hostile towards him; he
stayed ten days there delivering the message to the
people, but he was abused and jeered; they were
chased out by being pelted with stones til blood
flowed down the Prophet’s legs; Zaid was injured too;
they took refuge in an orchard a few miles away;

seeing his condition, Rabi’a’s two sons sent
their servant with a tray of grapes; Jibril later
appeared with another angel and asked the
Prophet for permission to bury the city; the
Prophet refused and instead prayed for
believers to be born from their progeny.
The best answers will be able to expand and
give depth to these events, and whilst not all of
the above needs to be mentioned, highest level
answers will describe and elaborate on most of
these details.

Candidates can present any lesson that’s relevant to
the events of Ta’if, but thoughtful answers will present
the lesson within the context of a situation.
Examples could be, that the Prophet did not give up
his faith in times of difficulty, despite few conversions
and losing his wife and uncle, but rather he
persevered. Muslims should learn to persevere in
times of difficulty, when they have lost family members
or they are living in difficult circumstances in their
community; the Prophet did not curse or wish the
worst for those people who had treated him so badly,
but rather prayed for them.
So Muslims now should not get angry and wish bad
things towards those who insult Islam or the Prophet,
but should try to do or say good things for them

1. Write about the changes in the relationship
between the Prophet(pbuh) and the Quraysh in
the years between his marriage to Khadija and
the death of Abu Talib. [10]
2. Why is it significant that the Quraysh were still
willing to keep their belongings with the Prophet
after he started to preach Islam? [4]

• Candidates should talk about the Prophet’s status
in the community prior to him becoming a prophet.
He was known as ‘Al-Amin’ or the trustworthy.
Candidates should mention, using examples, that
prior to his prophethood, the Quraysh used to
consult him in important matters, trust him with
their goods, and look to him for advice. For
example they could mention that when the Prophet
was younger he was chosen by the Quraysh to
settle the dispute of who should replace the sacred
black stone to its position at the Ka’ba.

• Answers should also mention that after revelation, the
Prophet Muhammad was rejected when he invited the
Quraysh to Islam. They still trusted him but did not want
to believe in his message. He was taunted, mocked and
openly humiliated by different members of the Quraysh.
The best answers will include details of events before
the period of revelation and after revelation.
• Candidates should not mention only one or two events,
such as the boycott, but give a wider narrative of events
before and after prophethood. Details about the events
themselves should be credited.

• Candidates can offer a variety of answers, but they
should try to explain their answers with reasoning.
• They could say that despite the message he was
preaching, they still knew that his character would not
have changed because they had never found any
discrepancies in his character. Despite not liking what
the Prophet was saying they still valued their belongings
and wanted to keep them where they knew they would
get them back. The reasons the Quraysh changed were
political and social, not because the Prophet had
changed, or because they felt he was lying/spreading
falsehood.

(a) Write about the Prophet’s activities in
spreading Islam outside Makka, before the
migration to Madina.
(b) Choose one quality shown by the Prophet in
these activities and explain how Muslims today
can learn from it.

The two main events related to this are the visit to Ta’if and the
Pledges of Aqaba. Candidates should write about both events to
reach higher levels.
As the number of converts to Islam was not increasing, and due
to the persecution by the Quraysh, the Prophet turned his
attention to communities outside Makka. He first went to Ta’if,
where he called the people to Islam for ten days. The people of
the city chased the Prophet and Zaid bin Harith out, pelting them
with stones. Blood flowed down his legs and Zaid was injured
too. They took refuge in an orchard. God sent the Angel Jibril,
with the angel of the mountain, to crush the town and its
inhabitants with the mountains surrounding it, with the Prophet’s
permission. The Prophet instead prayed for them that they would
become Muslim.

The Prophet then focused on preaching to pilgrims coming to
Makka for the pilgrimage. In the eleventh year of prophethood, six
men from Yathrib listened to the Prophet’s message. They
accepted Islam and went back to Yathrib and preached the
message of Islam. The following year, twelve men came to offer
their allegiance to the Prophet. They pledged to worship one God,
not steal or commit adultery, nor kill their children. The Prophet sent
Musab bin ‘Umair to teach the people of Yathrib. In the following
year, over 70 pilgrims came to Makka from Yathrib and swore
allegiance to the Prophet. In this pledge they agreed to listen and
obey the Prophet, to spend when they had lots and when they had
less, to enjoin good and forbid evil, to fear no one, and to defend
the Prophet.
After this, the Prophet gave the Muslims permission to start
migrating to Madina.

Candidates could, for example, write about the
forgiveness shown by the Prophet. He had an
opportunity to have revenge on those who had harmed
him, but instead he chose to pray for them. Muslims
can learn that prayer can be more powerful than
retaliation. That it is not necessary to fight violence with
violence. In difficult circumstances, such as oppression,
or when people are harming you, forgiveness can be a
powerful tool. Muslims should learn to be more
forgiving in all circumstances, for example, if someone
has stolen from them or has called them names.
Candidates can choose to write about other qualities,
but they need to justify their answer with an example.

(a) Outline the Prophet’s experiences in the
caves of Hira and Thawr.
(b) In what respects were the Prophet’s
experiences in the cave of Thawr important for
his prophethood?

Candidates have to write about both caves, and the
answers should generally be of equal volume.
Cave Hira is where the Prophet received the first
revelation, when he was 40. He had been spending
longer periods of time there. One night, an angel
appeared in the form of a man and said “Iqra”
(read/recite). The Prophet replied, I cannot recite. This
happened three times. The third time, the Angel Jibril
squeezed the Prophet and recited the words of surah
Alaq, verses 1-5. The Prophet felt the words were
imprinted on his heart. He ran out of the cave and
could see the Angel on the horizon. He ran home and
asked his wife to cover him and narrated what had
happened.

Cave Thawr is where the Prophet hid with his companion
Abu Bakr when they left Makka on the migration to Madina.
They were followed by men hired by the Quraysh to kill the
Prophet. They stayed in the cave for three days. Abu Bakr
entered to clear the cave for the Prophet; while the Prophet
slept on his lap, something stung Abu Bakr but he did not
cry out. A spider wove its web at the entrance, and birds
made a nest, so when the Quraysh got to the cave they did
not go in. Abu Bakr was scared and the Prophet reassured
him that God was with them (9.40). After three days they left
the cave for Madina. Abu Bakr’s son would come to give
them news of Makka and his daughter brought them food
for their journey.
Candidates should expand on these details to gain the
highest level.

The events in the cave of Thawr were important to the
Prophet because they gave him the reassurance that
God was looking after him; as the web that was spun
in the cave saved his life, so Islam was spread. It also
confirmed the loyalty of Abu Bakr to the Prophet, as
Abu Bakr was afraid but did not give himself or the
Prophet away to the Quraysh.
These are not the only valid answers, and candidates
should be credited where they give reasons for their
answer.

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