5.5 The Second Stage of the Da’awah: The Interaction Stage (Dawr al-Tafa’ul) - Th Method to Re-establish the Khilafah | System Of Islam

5.5 The Second Stage of the Da’awah: The Interaction Stage (Dawr al-Tafa’ul) - Th Method to Re-establish the Khilafah | System Of Islam

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5.5 The Second Stage of the Da’awah: The Interaction Stage (Dawr al-Tafa’ul)

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Imam Abu Ja’far At-Tabari (ra) states, “After three years of his Prophethood Allah (swt) commanded His Messenger (saw) to go out and proclaim the Message to the people publicly (enter the society) and summon them to it. Allah (swt) said to him,

“So proclaim what you have been commanded and tun away from the Polytheists”(TMQ al-Hijr, verse 94) (at-Tareekh at-Tabari Vol. 6 Par 1170).

It was in this phase of the Da’awah that the Prophet (saw) interacted with the society. He (saw) carried Islam to the people, in order to be established in authority. He (saw) challenged the authority of the Quraysh. He(saw) challenged the corrupt way they were running the affairs in their society i.e. the existing relationships. He (saw) also exposed their practices, facing with his Sahabah (ra) all types of persecution, boycotts and slander as a result. He (saw) rejected all attempts of the Quraysh and their leaders to be pliant and compromise on any aspect whatsoever. He carried Islam as the only leadership for the Arabs and the whole of humanity.

Hence the Da’awah took the way of an intellectual and political struggle in order to change every aspect of the system to establish the Deen of Allah, to uproot Kufr from its very basis and replace it with Islam.

This has all been narrated in the books of Sunnah and Seerah regarding the revelation of the verses of the Qur’an, the incidents surrounding them and the way in which the Prophet (saw) carried them to the people through the struggle.

The addressing of the relationships in the society Allah (swt) in the various ayaat of the Qur’an addressed the various relationships and practices in the society. An example is when the Qur’an posed the question “When the infant child asks, for what crime was she killed” ()

There were many attempts that were made by the Quraysh through Abu Talib the uncle of the Prophet (saw) at pliancy and compromise with the Qurayshi rulers but the Prophet (saw) rejected them all, stating that he was prepared to die carrying his Da’awah. They offered him kingship, money, women and a share in the rule. They stated that they would consult the Prophet (saw) in all matters but the he(saw) was clear in his response, “...by Allah, if they were to put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left, on condition that I relinquish this matter, I would not relinquish it until Allah has made it dominant or I perish therein” (Imam al-Tabari in his Tareekh Vol. 6 par. 1179). In another instance he responded to them with a political vision under his leadership although he knew they would refuse. Imam Abu Ja’far at-Tabari narrates, (Abu Talib said to the Prophet (saw)) “Nephew here are the Shaykhs and the nobles of your tribe. They have asked for justice against you that you desist in reviling their gods and they will leave you to your god’. ‘Uncle’ he (saw) said, ‘Shall I not summon them to something, which is better than their gods?’ ‘What do you summon them to?’ he asked. The Prophet (saw) replied, ‘I summon them to utter a saying through which the Arabs will submit to them and they will rule over the non-Arabs.” Abu Jahl from among the gathering then said, ‘What is it by your father? We will give you ten the like of it!’ He (saw) said ‘That you should say, la ilaha ill Allah”. They took fright and said ‘Ask for anything other than this”. (Tareekh al-Tabari Vol. 6 Par 1177.)

Hence, the Prophet (saw) was by no means a compromiser, he(saw) insisted upon only Islam being dominant, with absolutely no Kufr sharing with it, or he’d die in the attempt at this. He(saw) was working for the radical political change of the whole of the system not merely a part of the system i.e. a partial change. He(saw) was working for a radical and comprehensive change from the basis upwards in every aspect of life.He(saw) was seeking to establish the authority for Islam that would be able to carry this Deen to the rest of the world. He was seeking to remove from the authority the Kufr and its rulers. Hence, the obligatory elements of this second phase of the Da’awah were the intellectual and political struggle against the Quraysh through highlighting the corruption of Kufr and the vision of the authority of Islam. He (saw) persisted in this despite the torture, persecution and the attempts of compromise.

He (saw) was prepared to die rather than compromise any element of his Da’awah and bore the hardships in this path. All these are clear Qara’in (indications) of the obligatory element of the political and intellectual struggle.