There was hardly a family of the Quraish which did not lose a son, a son-in-law, a daughter, a brother or a sister. There was a great hue and cry in Makkah after this Migration, for every family of the Quraish was adversely affected by this. After this, only forty persons were left with the Holy Prophet at Makkah.
Then after a few months, other people migrated to Habash and their number rose to eighty-three men and eleven women of the Quraish and seven non-Quraish. The Quraish pursued them up to the coast but fortunately they got a timely boat for Habash at the sea-port of Shu’aibah, and they escaped attest. You should remain there till the time that Allah provides a remedy for your affliction”.Īccordingly, at first, eleven men and four women left for Habash. When the conditions became unbearable, the Holy Prophet, in the month of Rajab of the fifth year of Prophethood, gave advice to his Companions to this effect: “You may well migrate to Habash, for there is a king, who does not allow any kind of injustice to anyone, and there is good in his land. But you people have already become impatient’.” ( Bukhari ) I assure you that Allah will fulfill this Mission, and there will come a period of such peace that one would travel from Sanna to Hadramaut, and he will have no fear from anyone, save Allah. Their bones were scraped with combs of iron and their heads were cut with saws, but still they did not give up their Faith. He said, ‘The believers before you were persecuted much more than you. I went to him and said, ‘0 Messenger of Allah, now persecution has gone to its extreme why do you not pray to Allah (for relief)?’ At this the Holy Prophet was greatly moved. In the same connection Hadrat Khabbab says, “One day the Holy Prophet was sitting in the shadow of the Ka’abah. When I went to ask for my wages, he said, ‘I will not pay your wages unless you disown Muhammad’.” “I used to work as a blacksmith in Makkah. As an instance we give below the story of Hadrat Khabbab bin Arat, which is given in Bukhari and Muslim :
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The people would get work from the professional laborers but would not pay them their wages. They were beaten black and blue, were imprisoned and kept thirsty and hungry and were dragged on the burning sands of Makkah. The most pitiful victims of their persecution were the poor people and the slaves and the proteges of the Quraish. They would catch hold of the new Muslims of their clans and persecute them, starve them and would even inflict physical torture on them in order to coerce them to give up Islam. When the chiefs of the Quraish felt that they had failed to suppress the Islamic movement by ridicule, sarcasm, and by holding out promises and threats and by making false accusations, they resorted to persecution, beating and economic pressure.
Here we shall give rather fuller details of the same conditions, which will be helpful in grasping the meaning of this Surah and the other Surahs of the period. We have already briefly referred to the conditions of that period in the introduction to Surah Al-Kahf. 1-40 of this Surah in the court of Negus when he called the migrants to his court.
We learn from authentic Traditions that Hadrat Ja’afar recited vv. It was revealed before the Migration to Habash.